skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to remember when and infer why things got so consumer-y. Replaying it in my mind, there was Slashdot, Reddit which were fine. I think Digg was a downstep. Even Facebook was great at the start.

If I had to pick one thing, I'd say it's about shallow consumption/interactions that kill the signal/noise. Like posting a picture/video with a caption, having it go viral with upvotes/reposts.
I’m a very low skilled picker, but I did try racking and bumping my Encode Plus before installing it and didn’t get it open.

That said, I do intend to re-core and re-key it someday.
I lost my father to murder several years ago and have been waking up thinking of him a lot this week. Somehow I really found your post comforting. Thank you.
AI/ML in Music Generation: The Infinite Monkey of Unappealing Noise
Just wait until the journalists find out Trumps Truth Social is the biggest Mastodon server out there.
You could write the same approach in C as `(size_t)i+(size_t)j` without UB. The real reason it doesn't work in C is because a memory region can be large enough to still overflow in that case.
That’s assuming that we will ever see 0-2% interest rates again. Where we are right now is right in line with historic norms and they will probably hit a lot higher.

People are already getting squeezed in other areas I don’t see how they are going to be able to push rents much higher
What’s driving the rich world’s falling fertility?
> Do you work for Nestle, or Coca-Cola?

Of course not, they leave still water in freshly manufactured plastic bottles.. Heathens¹.

I don't see what's odd about considering water contamination the way I do using water flow as a measure for disgust in comparison to buying plastic bottles to have less regulated water in some misguided sanitary-sealing concept of disgust.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31878152/
I often fix things that are fixable, but sometimes I just outgrow the feature set or it becomes too difficult to fix, lacking parts or me lacking tools or time.
They live in a filter bubble of entitlement, so it’s easy to assume it’s valid everyone will be on board.

Surrounded by yes men, nothing is impossible!
>People leave furniture and other items on the sidewalk regularly and other people take them (oftentimes seemingly instantly!). Half of my furniture is from the street, some of it very nice

A bit of a tangent, but I was recently shocked to learn that there are places in the US where this is discouraged. I suggested leaving a couch out on the curb when the owner had the same reservations as you about FB/CL and I was told that the cops will come by and spraypaint "BEDBUGS" on any furniture in an attempt to curb the neighborhood/city/regional bedbug problem.

I was told that second hand stores are similarly cagey about taking any used furniture, so the options are FB/CL or a dumpster.
Too lazy to do buy nothing but I have a lot of friends that like surfing the page as a hobby. I just put stuff outside and list it on craigslist free. Usually gone in an hour but I'm in a city.
Which special was this from?
Just gonna leave this here: https://hwfo.substack.com/p/the-surprisingly-solid-mathemati...
Muttering under your breath, cursing, etc is a form of emotional regulation. That's why it helps you focus, which is very cool.

If you were hooked up to an MRI and asked to do a coding challenge, but were prohibited from talking/regulating, I'd bet your amygdala would be more engaged compared to your control.
Google, facebook, electronic arts and others would like to politely disagree. /s
Recently at an OSM meetup with the local government in Aachen (Germany), they mentioned that some imagery they shot was deemed too invasive and only used internally. I thought that was 10cm, but now checking what is available, looks like I was wrong! Probably it was 5-7cm then? Or maybe this was rather about the imagery available from different angles, so you can see into gardens from different directions?

In iD I see that indeed the PDOK imagery is now labeled 7.5cm, but checking that against the Belgian and German 10cm:

PDOK 7.5cm: https://snipboard.io/fbWqYM.jpg

AIV Flanders 10cm: https://snipboard.io/Ahn4lJ.jpg

NRW (Germany) 10cm: https://snipboard.io/RpT3vA.jpg

PDOK's looks awful, much worse than 10. Maybe some regions are available in a higher resolution?
The problem is that macOS killed off subpixel anti aliasing, which is important to making text look good on 110ppi displays. So 220+ ppi displays are the only real option here.
Only for people clueless enough to think that actual news can fit in a tweet.
Ah, then I was got by that fake twitter ban joke and didn't realize it till now. In my defense, it's a cute little meaningless stunt that I'd like to imagine myself doing in similar circumstances, though upon a bit of thought it seems unlikely since it could cost you a severance that might be pretty valuable - there a plenty of strings attached to those to keep the severees in line.
> It's a tool of measurement in the same manner in which an environmental simulation is.

I don't see how either is a "tool of measurement." A ruler, scale, thermometer... these are tools for measurement. A simulation doesn't measure anything. The purpose of the mechanism is not to measure, it is to predict. It calculates, and that makes it a computer.

> A reproduction of a thing for the purpose of study is a form of measurement enhancement.

The issue is not with the use of tool, but I don't see how measurement enters into it. Measurement enhancement is not a general form of anything. A simulation is not for measuring, but for evaluating the effect of changes, for evaluating models, for tuning performance or safety, or for testing. Though measurements may be taken within the simulation, the simulation itself does not measure anything.

> Special purpose computational tool, perhaps. A computer in the modern sense of the word, absolutely not. It is neither general purpose nor is it Turing complete.

There is not a modern definition so much as there is context. You're defining computer to mean a programmable electronic device, I think you mean Turing machine, but this is a very specific meaning for a very general term. A computer is simply anyone or anything that computes. In fact, a computer can be anything from an abacus to a slide rule to a calculator (analog or digital) to even an automatic transmission. "Computer" does not necessarily mean anything electronic unless context dictates that it does.

> Please note that my initial reply stressed the point of a modern understanding and use of the word computer.

There are plenty of computers still waking around today that are not digital, and many of them we call computer scientists.

> If people wish to call this a mechanical computer it is more similar to a differential analyzer and yet still less capable. As human beings alive after the Second World War, we have far more terms with which to accurately categorize mathematical tools.

An astrolabe is not a computer, it is an instrument for making astronomical measurements. Instead, a computer is anything (or anyone) that computes, calculates, or reckons. We can be more specific by qualifying analog computer, or mechanical computer, or microcomputer, or even an accountant, but they are all computers. The category error is not necessary; only context matters here.

> Calling something more similar to an astrolabe a computer is akin to considering a hand saw and a circular saw the same thing.

That they are both tools does not mean that a screwdriver is also a wrench. They are both within the category of tools, but not all within the same category are of the same type.

Here is another category error:

Socrates is a man.
I am a man.
Therefore, I am Socrates.

The issue is with your premise that all computers are Turing machines when, in fact, it is the opposite that is true. All sparrows are birds, not all birds are sparrows.
Makes sense! Thanks for the feedback!
"Guess what: in the fediverse, it would never have been possible to ban Trump in the first place. Sure, leftist servers could have stop syndicating his posts, but this would not have had much more of an effect than individuals blocking him on Twitter if he had never been banned there."

My observation is that the modern right wing social media user only thrives when there are 'liberal snowflakes' around that they can piss off. Hence Gab, Truth, Parler, etc. being largely failures. They all miss the key ingredient that the right wingers need to really get their endorphin hit: people to offend.
That almost came true, but ignores people’s decisions about which sources to attend to.

And with scarcity inverted from information supply to demand, each information source will spend more and more of their bandwidth declaring the other sources worthless and evil, and that only their source is worth attention.

This way people are driven to consume very few sources, whose content is inevitably impoverished.

How to break out of this dynamic?
I was hopping this would be about larger fields. For zero-knowledge proofs we need to handle 255-bit field and operations are quite slow due to that (https://o1-labs.github.io/proof-systems/specs/pasta.html#pal...)
1) low IQ 2) pushing garbage low value features that pile tech debt because their job is to push features.
I posted a double stroller (with 6 very clear pics and web links to the manufacturer's web site) on my local 'buy nothing' FB group a couple of days ago.

Three people replied saying they could pick up 'tomorrow' (i.e. yesterday).

1st person: no reply to my DMs after 12 hours (even though I DM'd them a minute after they commented).

2nd person: wanted more info about the condition (which is clear in the pics) and needs to check with someone else before they commit.

I'm still hoping it will be taken by someone before the end of the weekend.
The options have decreased dramatically since 2008, since cheap money has pretty much caused all asset classes to have inflated prices.

The best course is/was to start your own business and sell it, since the investment market has/had deep pockets and is looking for alpha above a relatively low benchmark anywhere it can find it.

Real estate was really good for a while (until 2011-2012 or so), but that is back to not being so good today. Note that PE started getting into residential real estate, so that squeezed out a lot of opportunities in that market that used to be easier to access.

My tack has been:

1. Invest in things into which I have unique insights. These aren’t that common, and they are not always easy to access, but they exist.

2. I am holding a lot of cash and waiting for things to correct.

3. I am also building businesses and funding others to do so.

I am not a financial advisor, I am not your financial advisor, and this is not financial advice.
What does being 20-29 years old have to do with the convenience of recycling locations? The article didn't state or imply that this was a problem only for 20-somethings.
Advertising. Many billions are spent manipulating us into believing the perfectly usable things we have are inadequate and only the new and shiny version of it will make us feel whole and/or will attract attention from the opposite sex. Advertising works, hence why many of us SWEs have cushy high paid jobs at tech companies that sell ads.
My wife's ebike has two ABUS locks D locks that share the same key, very convenient.
Some are on managed hosting from companies like https://masto.host/
Well a mandatory cover charge would probably be effective, the same way that higher taxes on alcohol have been proven to be effective. Towns could make bars share IDs on one server, you have to check to see if a customer has already been served earlier in the night
I doubt a human could directly sense magnetic north, but with practice you could perhaps learn to integrate external cues (like sunrise/set) with your own movements to keep track of the cardinal directions.
How many of those who feel like this is a problem wants to do everything to live to 100? You can't encourage and support masses living for 3,4,5 decades past their economically productive years and not have a plan for supporting them. The first 20 or so years are spent growing up, then you work, with pay maybe maxing towards the end, until 60's, then get 30 more years. Cops, firefighters, military don't all get to work into later life.

If the only answer here is to run a population pyramid scheme, then so be it, but we all know the consequence of that. Cheek by jowl with very expensive water, food, and housing at some point.

All the retirees would have more to work with if they'd been able to save more of their own money along the way, instead of needing to plow it into other peoples' high profits and wasted government activities along the way. But spending 35 years repaying your childhood's costs and saving for 25-35 years more doesn't seem possible on an individual wage-earner level. There's a lot of money available in the economy, just not for people to actually live, eh?
Where did you find the group?
Reed-Solomon is the foundation of today's computing. It is used in data storage (hdd, ssd) and in data transfer protocols. It allows for building of a reliable system on top of an unreliable real life fenomens with desired level of certainty. This is so incredible tech that once implemented we can just forget about it in the higher level abstractions.
Why would you need to throw away a microwave less than a year old?

This example isn't even a problem of recycling, it's buying something you don't need.

How much energy went into that microwave that is now waiting with the rubbish. How many does it take before it's meaningful?
You could have a point there.

I think Musk is a bit of a dickwad. But a part of me has a grudging admiration for him. I think he epitomises the 'bit of a dickwad' inside all of us that [probably fortunately] most of us never get to indulge.

Who wouldn't want to have the wealth to fire cars into space, dig huge underground tunnels under cities and wreak our revenge on massive faceless companies that piss us off, by buying them and then sacking everyone?

I've got a nasty feeling I might engage in similar dickwaddery, if I had that kind of money.
I was definitely handwaving when I said "in general", but I meant something like "in the absence of local laws to the contrary". And (without sufficiently specifying) I intended to limit my comment to Arizona because that was the focus of the article. Arizona is different than the other Southwestern states. Here's what seems like a more complete overview: https://groundwater.stanford.edu/dashboard/arizona.html

Note that unlike the other states you mentioned, the standard in Arizona is "reasonable use". Texas is the other big outlier. Do you have links (or good search terms) for the recent judgments you refer to? I know some things about this area (certainly enough to call it "complex"), but there is a lot I'm ignorant of.
I think there are different varieties of preppers, and some have communities.

Frankly, by some definitions, I'm a prepper which is rather surprising. I think if you live rural you tend to have a lot more supplies on hand. I used to keep 3 full days, but I now have a 7 day supply, and friends feel fairly justified in have a year's worth of goods. Heck, some of the base prepper playbook are rural hobbies (micro-farming) or just basic winter prep (generator).

Now, solar and wind have gotten a lot more convenient with people doing battery walls. I get the feeling that those folks just got tired of listening to the power company say wait.
Somebody should start a business collecting clothes made of wool that are worn out or have holes in it. Send people a prepaid shipping box. They put in their stuff. You clean and mend it at scale. And sell it. Yes, it’s work. But how many holes can a skilled person mend per hour? I think you could earn a programmer’s wage with that kind of labor, or maybe even better.
I suppose the next step is seeing if you can train bees to get the concept. May seem farfetched but I was recently reading how they can be taught to understand basic arithmetic and the concept of zero. [1]

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-scarlett-howard-learns-f...
Dipotassium Phosphate crystals have been used to frequency-shift IR to green light for lasers, IIRC. I don't know how well they would work for other frequencies but doing 1064 to 532nm is workable.
Because you clearly have no idea what you’re saying beyond the surface idea of “S0c1alizing L0s53s bAd”. Depth of knowledge is always and everywhere a good thing. Strive for it.
If we're going the pedantic route, note that you don't need (and in fact half the time cannot have) uniqueness in our case anyway. There isn't really a unique midpoint for {0, 1, 2, 3}; both 1 and 2 are valid midpoints, even for binary search. We just pick the first one arbitrarily and work with that.

But note that that sentence was just about calculating midpoints, not about the larger binary search algorithm. And in any case, I was just trying to convey layman intuition, not write a mathematically precise theorem.
Why baking damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again (2020)
Good advice to give.

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/21/a-survivalist-on-why-you-s... (Cory Doctorow: A survivalist on why you shouldn't bug out)

https://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/postapocalypse-witho.html (Cory Doctorow: Post-apocalypse without the militias: The Outquisition)
Haha. I wouldn't say that. I live in the same area.

But I think the light-rail was more of a symptom of the general funding problems being across state lines.
The iPhone 5s got a security update to Safari. Android phones get updates to Chrome and the WebView component for many years past EOL as well.
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I'm not suggesting that NATO will always exist. I am just saying if Putin was going to attack a country he likely wouldn't go after a country that has the most powerful military alliance backing it. There are other countries that don't have that sort of backing. I don't think Putin believed the west would support Ukraine which is why he chose it.
Bitcoin is a negative sum game. In an ideal world without a supply shortage of mining hardware and without regulations the Bitcoin price would match the production costs of a block. Next to all profits then go to electricity providers, thus leaving the game.
It doesn't federate though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman
Actually, if in a bright room/location if you tear up your eyes, lie on your back and adjust your eye lids you can see micro organisms with the naked. My feeling is that this phenomenon was the source of Leeuwenhoek's inspiration. Common sense (an unreliable guide at best) suggests that telescopes rather than microscopes ought to have been invented first.
I struggled with the exact same move in Cuphead training. I had the exact same reaction as the game journalist.
USians?
Batman stands in your presence, menacingly.
the right solution is to parametrize the search region as (offset, length) instead of (start, end).
then the midpoint is just offset+length/2.

you can also remove that unpredictable branch in the loop if you want.

whatever_t *bisect(whatever_t *offset, size_t length, whatever_t x) {
while(size_t midpoint = length / 2) {
bool side = x < offset[midpoint];
midpoint &= side - 1;
length >>= side;
offset += midpoint;
length -= midpoint;
}
return offset;
}
I like to say 'When people drink they relax, and when they relax, I relax. It works out fine." It does depend on the group.
Waking Up app helped me in these regards
>Arial is designed with the same metrics as Helvetica

Mostly true, as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Metric-compatible_fonts but Arimo is designed to have the exact same metrics as Arial, which is important for situations where one is testing a web page/app and can only avoid testing a different font if it’s guaranteed to act in the very same manner. I don’t think Apple guarantees that their Helvetica is compatible with Arial to that degree. Using Helvetica in a font stack on a web page[1] isn’t practical unless one discards that 1-2% of Linux desktop users out there, since they will often get Nimbus Sans which has a different vertical alignment.

In terms of the power users with custom CSS which replaces all instances of Arial with Apple’s Helvetica, they are probably clued enough to understand it might screw up the alignment of an element tied to a font’s exact metrics on a web page. I agree it’s unlikely, but I also remember when clients insisted on “pixel perfect” HTML/CSS renderings of their Photoshop-generated layout template.

[1] If they have a Helvetica implementation as a .woff/.woff2 web font, this doesn’t apply. I’m assuming that this is a web page which doesn’t have any downloaded fonts.
Interesting.

My buddy and his wife took some disaster survival training. He said it was very eye-opening.

TLDR: We're all on our own for 72+ hours. Getting to know your neighbors beforehand is a good precaution.

Per your comment, I wonder if prepper training could be a way to build communities, to replace those first lost to the automobile and now to social media.
I can pretty easily add any StackExchange sites I left out, or anything that comes as a Zim file (e.g. from https://farm.openzim.org/recipes or the like). If it’d be appropriate for https://devdocs.io (official docs with suitable licensing), you can contribute a crawler to them and it’ll flow downstream to me.

I also have plans to do proper web crawling, though it’ll take me a while to get there: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-08-10-crawling-roadma...
"We thought of people were free to share ideas, they'd just share ideas that we agree with." Well, yes, if you did think that, you were probably stupid.
Yep, although I think the spirit of that point is that surviving the apocalypse may not be all that desirable.
wow, I have a clock radio and it never occurred to me to use it that way. good idea.
I run little snitch and block all outgoing connections from my mail client except the imap/smtp ones. It shocked me that my company’s HR emails included tracking to see if I opened them!

Just playing dumb might not be enough of a reason if you actually open it.
I think Bill seriously underestimates the value of defensive fire. Or, most people actually prepping will also think of defense.
That's not true. The two instances (and potentially their admins, though there isn't a UI for it) see the DMs, but the connection between instances is HTTPS.
Right. I'm on the mathematics server https://mathstodon.xyz/ and it's already feeling like a big community.
That is correct. A serious mistake in C.

Go was designed by (among others) the father of Unix Ken Thompson, with an understanding of the mistakes of C and C++.

Another example is that Go requires explicit integer casts (disallowing implicit integer casts) to avoid what is now understood to be an enormous source of confusion and bugs in C.

You can understand Go as an improved C, designed for a world where parallel computing (e.g., dozens of CPU cores) is commonplace.
> also one study I saw that attributed an 8-10 point IQ drop with long-term weed use.

Cite? I definitely have not seen long-term effects from consumption starting in adulthood as the consensus/proven in the literature.

IIRC the only smoking gun effect of consumption starting in adulthood is a significantly higher risk of developing schizophrenia.
Why do police, soldiers, etc. arm themselves if it is of such little use defensively?
Coincidentally most preppers are American.
Ask HN: Who is handling pending Twitter trademark cases now?
With half the staff laid off, who is handling pending Twitter trademark cases now? We have a pending case to get our trademarked handle made available, which no one has answered for over 2 months. Is that normal? Should I @elonmusk for help?

Case number 0288425629
Maybe it's just me but I almost always take apart a failed item. To see if it's fixable, and also to see how it works.