skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exact thing happened at a previous job of mine. All workers at a specific site were laid off and later management had to hire back some very important workers who had been working there.
Soybean production: https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/crop_production_maps/US/...

Corn production: https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/crop_production_maps/US/...
> if you want the greens or noone, you get exactly what you want

Except you don't get no-one, you get one of the two big parties. (Getting no-one would be like "none of the above" winning, which is a supported outcome in some election systems).

The best I can do to steelman your argument is to imagine you meant "the greens or anyone", because then, yes, the winner was "anyone", but that's not what a voter necessarily thought they were doing by being "loyal" to the green candidate.

Instant-runoff voting (used in practice for counting RCV ballots in the US) actually satisfies the "later-no-harm" criterion[0] of voting systems (unlike Approval Voting), so if a voter knows this fact, they may feel comfortable adding the extra signal of additional preferences to their vote, but otherwise they might be reluctant to, making their vote less effective due to lack of education or misplaced loyalty.

You're right that this is a minor problem compared to the extensive flaws in FPTP, but it is a new and avoidable flaw, and it will affect people who might have previously benefited from (the unfairness of) FPTP. I'm not "comparing to a parliamentary system", though, since both presidential and parliamentary systems are compatible with both RCV/IRV and FPTP, and I think everything we've mentioned is equally applicable to individual and non-partisan posts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later-no-harm_criterion
minor side effect
> I'm sure the offers of help from experienced cave divers, folk who could help with logistical support, etc. were appreciated. Even the SpaceX engineers and supplies Elon sent were probably appreciated (I could not find anything about them actually being used, although I did not search extensively).

Elon/SpaceX's offer to help _was_ in fact appreciated by the lead diver.
Ghidra 10.2 Released
50cc category is important in Japan because it's really easy and cheap to get license, and some high school students are allowed only to get 50cc license.
Especially since the usualy underseat storage is missing.

(Aside: Thanks for OverlordBot!)
Old timers were right. Salads before meals fight the buldge. I've lost 15 pounds in 2 months working a stand up job. It is easier than you think. But it is hard as hell to lose weight if you do no physical activity. Mastering my tounge will save my life. Working on a terminal all day does a number on us. Perhaps walking would help computer workers. At food retail I probably walk several miles a day. I've never felt better than I do now at 45.
Good morning from Singapore!

My side-project of the moment is to turn these amazing videos on how to setup a proper bitcoin node: https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/ubuntu-node-box-guide-202... into an Ansible script so that anyone can do all the steps shown in the videos in a matter of minutes.
In the US 360 people die each day from COVID, about three times more than a significant flu season. For them and their family it’s still a thing I suppose. But given the low vaccination rates in China and the low natural immunity it’s necessarily a thing.

I don’t know how they exit their zero COVID policy. Given how draconian they are in other respects I’m surprised it’s so hands off with respect to vaccination.
The claim on the site is that the heat exchanger base boosts efficiency up to 60%.

You still of course do have the problem that home rangehoods usually aren't powerful enough to create enough air-flow to properly deal with the NOx and SOx produced by burning gas, which turns out to be a big health risk...
Reminds me of the concept of Parallel Play in early childhood settings
Austin Has Been Invaded by Texas
> By looking at other code? Are you violating copyright when you are writing similar code yourself?

It's certainly possible. Back when Phoenix reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS using published sources with a restrictive license, they did it by having one team read the sources and write a very detailed specification of everything that happens there, and then another team used that spec to write new code from scratch. They did it that way because if the first team were to write the code themselves, it is quite likely that the result would be legally considered derived work.
Everywhere I worked getting a commercial license for software was only a matter of asking IT or filing an expense. OTOH from position of an employee getting the company to donate any amount of money was nearly impossible. There's no process for it. There's nobody responsible for doing it. Legal/Accounting will have a ton of questions about (why? is it taxable? where's the paper trail?). The quickest route may be through Marketing dept, but then it's viewed as an ad/sponsorship.
I love the rugged design of ubco, and I believe they are working on making a legal street version of it.

https://ubco.co.nz/

edit:

they already do have an on-road version of it :) https://ubco.co.nz/pages/rv
IIRC it's not that monospaced fonts have double-width emoji; monospaced fonts just tend to not define glyphs for emoji at all, and instead allow the renderer to fall back for rendering of those glyphs to a non-monospaced font in the stack. This may result in emoji taking up basically-arbitrary width in text edit fields, breaking the monospacing.

Terminal emulators, however, have a model on which glyphs are always placed onto a visual grid (the PTY render-model grid, emulating text-mode VRAM); so in a terminal emulator that supports rendering Unicode at all, any glyph will have its visual width "snapped" to an integer multiple of the grid spacing, and will be considered to take up that many grid cells. It is up to the particular terminal emulator where it places the glyph within that array of grid-cells; some left-align glyphs, others center-align.
Linux Distros are the only way to get an OS without advertising built in.
Buried Cheetos for future civilizations to find in 10k years
We use the recipe all the time too, but I can't understand it being given in 6oz proportions. None of the ingredients, except maybe some cheeses, come in 6oz sizes standard.

I do a 16oz box of pasta, 12 oz can of evaporated milk, and 16oz bag of shredded cheese. I put the milk and cheese in while there's a bit more water still in the pan, and have never missed the extra bit of evaporated milk.
Tim Cook was never the CFO.
I must be misunderstanding your meaning, what forms of writing don’t also require reading in the form of rereading?
People who hate on projects are those that have never attempted to create something on their own. It's kind of like how the easiest person to sell something to is a salesman. Most people's default reaction to anything is scepticism. People who have tried to create something on their own, and undoubtedly encountered other's scepticism, can skip the apprehensive stage and get to the meat of a project with an open mind.
I both use vim movement and a proportional font for coding.

1/ That’s already broken by line wrapping. gj is the command moving up in the grid not j. The fact you are confusing the two should tell you how little of a difference some sideway movement makes.

2/ Don’t use ASCII art in code. It’s annoying for people not using monospaced font and I’m not alone.
An additional role for "The Project Scapegoat" in Dilbert.

https://www.dilbert.com/strip/1999-03-15
This has always been the case on Twitter.

The fact you'd so rarely see parody accounts that looked too real shows they always enforced that. (TikTok could do this better)

Musk has clarified the rules now everyone can be a blue check. Obviously they can't verify someone that's ambiguous.

> This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue.

That fact most comments here can't think this through shows HN could do with some Blue Checks. (And since the comments are of so low quality, I'll clarify for them that was parody)

The fact HN defends an era where Julian Assange was not verified despite his requests and next week will support Wikileaks shows a real lowbrow IQ here. Remember the days it was frowned upon to be middlebrow?
HN likes beautiful code.
Blind people didn't ask to be blind, and they didn't ask for shitty screen-readers.

Maybe if more people prioritized accessibility over profits, it wouldn't be this way. Anyway, I have also worn a UI designer's hat and if toasts are the price we have to pay to support the blind, it's a price I'm personally willing to pay.
You do have to consider that the apprentice is making $30k out of high school. They will have 4-5 YoE before a college grad finishes college.

If you compare them in that light, the difference reduces quite significantly.
TIL "cucurbit"

For some reason I've never understood, it's a Thing to eat sunflower seeds while watching baseball, and spit out the shells. I see the shells near the local practice field, and I think you can see players & managers doing it in the dugouts in a TV game.
There's no such thing as dead sure error correction, and there cannot be.
Haven't used Ruby in years, the one thing I miss in Ruby is decorators.
Real programmers don’t need water.
Apple's Mysterious Third Co-Founder
This solution certainly appears to apply to healthcare, education and public infrastructure.

I believe the reason is that since we print the global reserve currency, we can always borrow money at the Federal level and spend more.
Good point, I wasn't really aware of that but it did seem to play a critical role in the post-Roman centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_science
I love Matthew Butterick's fonts (eg, Triplicate). The license for his fonts is perhaps the most generous I've seen when it comes to commercial fonts.
I think I see some suspension travel up front..

Think you could go mountain biking with it?
Check out the podcast Writing Excuses. Start from the beginning. There is some really helpful and blissfully actionable storytelling advice in there, much of it given by one of the most successful writers of Fantasy (Brandon Sanderson).

As for tips to get started, i’m partial to the following advice (paraphrasing Asimov): Everyone is capable of writing good books, but there’s a catch. The catch is that is that the first million words that anyone writes will be crap. Before one can write great prose, one must first get those million crappy words out of their system.

I personally find this to be extremely liberating. It allows me to just write and enjoy crafting sentences, characters and stories without torturing myself with premature expectations of greatness. Nobody sits down at a piano for the first time and expects to play something beautiful. Treat writing the same way. Play chopsticks, enjoy yourself, and rest assured that you’ll get better!
We (this community) probably have the power to stop it. We have money, we care. We won’t tolerate coil whine.
If you buy a laptop and it has coil whine and the manufacturer won’t replace it under warranty, come here, name and shame. We all stop buying manufacturers that do it. It quickly becomes worth the extra $5 to make it not happen.

Here I’ll start. I have a Dell xps 13 that does it. I bought it used so there’s no warranty. It’s useless and that manufacturer is dead to me.

Now you go.
I still can't believe personalization isn't more widespread in coding. For instance, it ought to be reasonably trivial to set up your formatting preferences in your editor, but have the file saved to disk be in a common format.

You want 8-space tabs and braces on their own lines? Cool. We'll save the file with all the formatting defaults, but run a formatter tuned to your preferences before displaying.
What Is Pleroma? (2018)
Twitter Engineers Are Resigning
Alright! Every vote counts!

> is it legal to completely clone a curriculum?

Gray area. I'm no lawyer but AFAIK professor's syllabus/tests/etc. (being written documents) are subject to automatic copyright, I imagine the university is the holder of the copyright given that the prof is an employee. That being said, how many profs clone their syllabus/coursework directly from textbooks? The content of most online universities (Khan Academy, Coursera, etc.) is already superior to Ivy League based on first-hand experience of both.

The bigger problem IMHO is that very little of the overall $$$ and energy at Ivy League is actually spent on course content. For many profs, esp. in STEM, teaching undergrad courses is a "chore" / distraction from their research work. I think there is opportunity to make a "lean-and-mean" physical university (perhaps online hybrid) with minimal admin overhead, which a degree could be on-par with MIT in terms of prestige. Is anyone doing this?
> Verdana (as used on this very HN)

Hm. If Verdana is the render font for you here on HN, I believe that's that's all about your browser config, and nothing about HN.
This is very insightful.

After having gone through it all, do you think if it matters how many doors open for a person based on the college they went? I suppose if someone went to a highly ranked school, it might matter.

But being able to get into a highly ranked school is probably because of what the person had (money, life experiences) or what they did (crushed some standardized test).

So, in the end, does it actually matter?
I timed mine (1kW kettle vs glass topped electric stove, not induction) and the kettle was only a bit faster: https://www.jefftk.com/p/electric-kettle-vs-stove
That's just it, moderation hasn't changed yet. Musk has just spouted off generalities about what he claims he can and will do. No specifics on how, and no policy changes yet.

If he'd announced new policy, and then they headed for the hills, that's different than jumping the moment he owns it. One is about policy, and the other is about politics. They're leaving him, not Twitter.
It took many many years to get to the point the game got played out to the point people could feasibly streak 100 games in a row with random ships without pausing. People just got too good at exploiting game mechanics. People broke Issac long before they broke FTL and I never thought Isaac was a bad game.

I think that FTL has largely been abandoned because it has been played out but it did take quite a few years to get there. Designing a game that is consistently hard without just regularly throwing you seeds that are impossible to win is difficult to impossible and at some point I think you need to move onto a new game.
The data is digital but the reading is actually somewhat error-prone; even when the disc and drive are perfect, occasional correctable errors will appear. Also, in audio mode, the error correction is weaker than in data mode.
Maybe slowly becoming a buyers market .. prices drop and those buyers can refi .. in a few years when rates drop.
Nonsense. China has many of the exact same problems. Being a dictatorship doesnt actually change most of what he said.
> If x > TYPEOFX_MAX or y > TYPEOFY_MAX-2, then this can already happen with the more (maximally) vague "signed overflow is completely undefined" policy; wider intermediates just mean that code is not allowed to do other things, like crash or make demons fly out of your nose.

Yes, but saying "signed overflow is completely undefined" simply means that you are not allowed to do that, so this is a very well-defined policy and as an experienced programmer you know what to expect and what code patterns to avoid (hopefully).

If you say "signed overflow is allowed" but then your code behaves nondeterministically (i.e. giving different results when signed overflow happens, depending on which compiler and optimization level you're using or exact code you've written or slightly changed), I would argue that would actually be more surprising for an experienced programmer, not less!

It would make such signed overflow bugs even harder to detect and fix! As it would work just fine for some cases (or when certain optimizations are applied or not, or when you use a certain compiler version or Linux distro) but then it would completely break in a slightly different configuration or if you slightly changed the code.

And it would prevent tools like UBSan from working to detect such bugs because some code would actually be correct and rely on the signed overflow behavior that you've defined, so you couldn't just warn the programmer that a signed overflow happened, as that would generate a bunch of false alarms (especially when such signed-overflow-relying code was part of widely used libraries).

> More generally, retained overflow bits / wider intermediates (instead of undefined behaviour) mean that when you would have gotten undefined behaviour due to integer overflow, you instead get a partially-undefined value with a smaller blast radius (and hence less opprotunity for a technically-standards-conformant compiler to insert security vulnerabilities or other insidious bugs).

C compilers are already allowed to do what you say, currently. But I'm not sure that relying on that behavior would be a good idea :)

I think it's preferable that the C standard says that you are not allowed to overflow signed integers, because otherwise the subtlety of what happens on signed overflow would be lost on most programmers and it would be very hard to catch such bugs, especially due to code behaving differently on slightly different configurations (hello, heisenbugs!) and also because bug-detection tools couldn't flag signed overflows as invalid anymore.
I enjoy in Source Code Pro that every character is unambiguous...
Exactly why I had to leave the field.
The search for a unified theory of physics was not unique to Einstein and thousands after him have continued to look for it still. The only "failures", so to speak, of his would arguably be the Cosmological Constant or his denial of the Quantum Mechanics. But, given how profoundly bizzarre these phenomena are, not even the greatest of Physicists can blame him for having doubts, much less you or I.
The solution to this is federalism - deconcentrated power at the state level - having one approach to lord over all - especially for a country as large and diverse as the US is asinine. The sooner we go back to federalism and neuter the federal government, the better.
> Similar to diamonds, which are neither precious nor rare

Well, there are many functions (mostly to do with abrading things) where diamonds are useful for the purpose and a substitute is much, much less so. If you're distinguishing "precious" from "rare", this would seem to be proof that they are precious.
A little bit?

It's hard to totally dissociate this from second-language issues, but I've noticed that international science grad students sometimes struggle to organize their writing, often in ways that go beyond grammar/vocab. I didn't realize this at the time, but writing essays on (e.g.,) feminism in The Canterbury Tales are really just exercises in putting together a cogent argument. Those skills transfer over to project proposals and design docs too.

In a similar vein, European PhDs are also laser-focused on one topic so that they can be finished in 3-4 years. I think there's a pretty widespread sense that many need to spend a little longer as a postdoc to "round" out vs. Americans with slower PhDs.
This is pretty much exactly it and I agree with you 100%. Most of the stuff I own works exactly as it should, but was someone else's junk.

I didn't want to call out consumerism too directly or by name, because people tend to take it badly. Even a lot of the comments here are quite defensive and I didn't even get into what I truly think about the situation.

There's no way this system is sustainable long term.
I love writing with monospaced fonts (just as the author of article says, they look "writerly"), but I detest the fonts in iA Writer. I just can't stand to look at them, so I don't use the software (which would be great if it allowed me to choose other fonts). I also hate Courier New, which is a weak and spindly font. My favorite is Courier Prime.
The fixed selection of games on them means that if your goal is to play the games legally, the cost is either very reasonable or effectively infinity, depending on what you want to play.

Post-composite and pre-cd hardware doesn't really need to be all that expensive, if you don't go wild with modding (and use something like a retrotink to upscale composite directly, regardless of console). But of course some games are quite expensive. CD consoles and games do fail a lot more, though.
Wouldn’t lower demand for housing be a good thing?
It would be nice to have a space character for the 50% or 150% width some of these letters use. That way you could still line things up if you chose to do so.
I just landed a $175k full time base gig that didn't ask about either of those, just terraform and kubernetes and AWS all day long. Also, my resume is riddled with nothing but short term stints since the start of the pandemic, but doesn't seem to have effected my prospects. Now to be fair, I do actually know both python and linux essentials, and can google and troubleshoot my way through most common infra issues. I would say I am at least mediocre enough to get most of the work done in a reasonable time frame at this point.
Further reading: Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han[1].

1. https://www.versobooks.com/books/2505-psychopolitics
> I wonder if it legal to completely clone a curriculum? Like could you clone an MIT EECS education?

MIT will do that for you themselves. https://ocw.mit.edu/

Schools don't compete on curriculum. Nobody pays for it. Nobody cares about it.

And in one particular case, I think the "conventional wisdom" has it right - the lectures don't really matter. You can record a lecture and then play it for any number of people, very cheaply. I recently watched a Chinese drama in which a minor plot element was a character (in the 80s) getting a degree from "the TV university", lectures available to the television-viewing public. (Having your own TV was out of the question, so she and her "classmates" would make long commutes to places that had a TV showing the lectures. This educational format has been very affordable for a very long time.)

That format is not as good as actually having a lecturer, or a TA, who you can ask questions of. If you lose track of a recorded lecture, it will not help you find the thread. All a recorded lecture can ever do is repeat itself. A lecturer versus a lecture is the difference between moving forward and getting stuck.
I believe it stems as an alternative to chewing tobacco usage, which for some reason is historically heavily used amongst baseball players: "Investigators have reported that 33% to 40% of professional baseball players and 45% to 55% of college baseball players use [smokeless tobacco] regularly." [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164901/
Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013)
> now am waiting for prices to fall

How are you planning to determine when the price drop has turned around so that you don’t miss out on a great deal?
> For example, the nuclear plants are forced to sell their energy to energy traders at unprofitable low rates but those traders are never required to buy the energy and if the price of energy drops below this rate (AFTER it was bought) then the traders can just "return" the energy and the operators have to eat it. This happened during covid when energy prices collapsed due to lack of demand. These middlemen profit off of cheap nuclear energy instead of rate payers.

Is this just nuclear or does it apply to other generation?

> In addition, the nuclear plants must pay a 23 euro per MWh tax that subsidizes the operation of renewable energy.

Source? One that isn't an hour long video and actually has a primary source.