skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably not the best thread for a political discussion, but I will take a shot. Nobody disputes that governments should be a force for good. Government's obviously can do both good and bad. Many reason atrocities like the cultural revolution came of under the pretext of trying to help. If you think the government has veered into doing bad, it is natural to want to reform it and make it stop doing that. the talking point and metaphor simply conveys a belief that some of the governments work is bad and should be stopped. It's a lot more complicated, but that's the 5-year-old explanation of it
Thanks for clarifying this. My dabbling in Rust a few years ago ended when I could not find a satisfying answer to the question "how do I prevent any unwanted dynamic allocations in this language?". At the time I found no good answers and gave up on trying to learn the language as that was not the kind of thing I was willing to relinquish to the wisdom of the compiler.
This page has a lot of information, and still doesn't define "gRPC" for people who aren't keeping up with all of the latest acronyms.
What I'm missing from this guide is what to do when your Mastodon instance suddenly goes offline, like with mastodon.technology for example.

Am I able to transfer my followers, follows, my "toots", my unique handle and restore it on another instance so that I can regain operations as if nothing happened?
With coding dead-sure correct isn't usually much different in capacity -- you usually don't need to sacrifice bandwidth completely to get reliability. In fact, a simple checksum with a good number of bits (e.g. CRC32) will pretty much give dead-sure accuracy (non-adversarial, you can hash e.g. SHA256 to get cryptographic certainty). If errors were evenly distributed (independent and identically distributed bit flips), it's generally very easy and well known how to obtain dead sure error correction, and the bandwidth you get is known as the channel capacity (C) of the medium (usually in bits/bit or bits/symbol) -- a "good code" operating at a rate R < C (under or equal to capacity) will give you this property; good codes, depending on the error rates, require moderately large block sizes (usually from 8b to 1-2kb in practice).

Real media like CDs usually have 'burst errors' like scratches that give a whole bunch of successive bit errors; however, there's an interleaving process to "spread" the errors across blocks, i.e. spread the information so it will resist a scratch. In an absolute way, indeed it's impossible to guarantee almost no errors (although you can guarantee almost no undetected errors) -- simply because your CD might be ruined in a way (which I guess isn't all too unlikely). By setting your rate R to a reasonable level above your drive error rates, you can get almost no errors (as few as you like) within those bounds (and fail above).

Here's a typical error rate curve for a moderately large (255b) code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
I'm not sure what the "free market" has to do with it. Capitalism, communism, feudalism, socialism, etc.. always end with the majority of money and power concentrated with the few.

It's just human behavior to be selfish.
It sounded like it was a real-time-clock chip, powered by the capacitor. So it's self-contained.
Adaptive Lighting is also a good option for Home Assistant: https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

I've automated all the lights in my house using Zigbee switch / dimmer modules behind the light switches on the wall. This was a very affordable option, but unfortunately I can't change the color. I can only turn lights on and off or change the brightness. I'll have to think about getting some ceiling lights with adjustable color temperature whenever I move to a new house.

One thing I really like about my current system is that it still works without any internet or network connection, or if my Home Assistant server is offline. The light switches just function normally. I think this would be a bit more complicated with controllable ceiling lights, but it could probably be done via Zigbee binding and a Zigbee wall switch.
Out of curiosity. What was your family like, stable nuclear family? Middle income, did you fully support yourself, on your own during your studies? Did you have any other work or responsibilities? Did you get cash or material gifts and support from family? etc etc.

You described almost a very insta perfect version of the experience which doesn't play out most of the time.
I anticipated the rhetorical trap you were laying, and simply cut to the chase.
If you pay market rate, then by definition it's symmetric. If you pay a managed rate, subsidized rate, flat rate, etc., then it probably won't be.

Which is the case for electricity and natural gas.

Consumer goods that are usually priced at market rate, such as clothing, regularly see deep discounts.
Elon and Rogan haven't changed and they are still mostly reasonable.
Signal on Android previously worked a lot like iMessage on iOS - you'd use it as your default messenger, it'd SMS if that was the lowest common denominator, or it'd seamlessly upgrade to Signal protocol if both sides had it.
Plot twist: Putin’s chef is from Malmo.
This is not a junk fee, it's a junk law. Stupid in, stupid out.
You don't have the right to register emails and publish users submissions.
Or it could be both.

Personally I struggled, had tons of stress, no time for relationships, and all that. But it was also an intense time of personal development. I learned a lot about myself and a lot about how to work hard and get stuff done.

I used to tell people that if you don’t regret starting your PhD when you’re halfway through, then you’re not doing it right. I’ve since moderated that stance - a lot - but there’s still something to be said for so-called “character building experiences” even though they suck at the time.
One problem with solar phones is people tend to put them in direct sunlight.

Parked in the sun for an hour, car seats reach an average of 123 degrees in the summer, according to a study by ASU and UC San Diego.

The steering wheel averaged 127 degrees.

In one of the cars studied, the dashboard reached 192 degrees, according to state climatologist Nancy Selover.
Click bait policy position
In what ways does poverty in the UK look worse than poverty in India?
The Indian attempt at Central planning was a disaster. We are here precisely because it was abolished

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj
> One of the first areas I worked on was improving the way our mobile apps uploaded logs. Twitter, like most mobile apps, logs everything* users do – every swipe, tap, edit, delay, etc… – for debugging, metrics, and experiments.*

A reminder: use the mobile web version of any services you use, not the app, and use NextDNS to block all the tracker hosts at DNS level.
One annoyance with ESP-IDF is its use of malloc internally, which means our firmware code which needs long uptimes has to be super careful about how we’re approaching things. Our code is in Nim, so it’s basically a matter of not using seq/string/ref T unless we absolutely need to (which is never, so far), but we’re still seeing some memory fragmentation and leaks with N days uptime on a busy system.

I think I need to go tweak LwIP and rip out esp_modem for a custom PPPoS implementation — as currently it leaks memory every socket creation (and we’re not the only ones to hit it)
The law is so broad, it’s not in anyone’s interest to make a narrowly scoped deal.

The prosecutors need the win. The smart move is to extract every bit of value.
That's not really true for India because unlike developed countries, the housing has a wide price range for any given area. Also it is actually preferable to rent in India because rent doesn't even cover half the emi. Overall, through a lot of measures like tax breaks and cheaper loans for housing developers building affordable housing, reduction in interest for low cost housing, free housing for poorer sections of the populace, government has made housing a non issue apart from a select set of cities like Mumbai where geographical constrains ensure higher prices and low availability.
It took me a moment - the LGP-30 is a computer that uses magnetic drum memory and is not a musical instrument from the 1980's.

I'm curious if the ferrous oxide is still attached to the drum. I would suspect the heads need cleaning - being clogged with magnetic particles that have flaked off the drum.
> We’ve tapped out our services potential. We now need large scale manufacturing.

Most "first world" economies are dominated by services, so I would be surprised if India has topped out in services. Do more of the high-level stuff, like design and independent, research and development. "Grunt" work, like churning out code generates, a certain level of wealth. The high-level stuff generates even more. As a crude measure, until India is winning 1.4/7.8 = 18% of Nobel prizes it has untapped potential. (This is not intended as disparagement of India's track record but to highlight the potential for India.)

In my mind the real value of a strong manufacturing industry is that it drives the development of high-level services associated with manufacturing (robotics, materials, science, ...). I'd rather have small highly developed manufacturing sector than a large "low-tech" manufacturing sector.
India has also hit replacement or below replacement level population in most of the country and it was done without invasively draconian policy setting. Just female literacy and access to healthcare.
I'm 1000% with you on this. If you're dealing with a bunch of operations that need to happen in a very specific order, there's really nothing else out there that comes close. I'm able to look at saga code I've written months (or years!) ago and figure out what's going on in a short amount of time without having to jump around.

I used sagas pretty heavily in an app I built to transfer data between Clockify and Toggl, which required that data be fetched/loaded into state in a very specific order[1]. You can't be sagas for clarity.

[1]: https://github.com/mikerourke/transfermyti.me/blob/main/src/...
In 1990 I bought a PDP 11/70 at a garage sale in AZ. It was big, heavy and sucked tons of power. I ALMOST got BSD to boot on it.
You won't freeze to death without heating
This is part of why ESP-IDF has the heap_caps_* (malloc, calloc, free, etc.) interfaces, but it’s some decent mental overhead to have to use a lot of it. Has meant a lot of planning and white boarding for the few places we haven’t been able to avoid it.
I think the other poster wants consciousness to stay mysterious and unrelated to pattern recognition. But I'm not sure where does it end up then given agreement about lack of Cartesian Theater.
Looks like it's available on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/countingfrominfinityyitangzhanga...
Thank you for posting that essay. Relevant para:

NOT… A way to make more money

While we haven't heard any statistics for the past couple of years, graduate students used to estimate the ``payoff'' using the starting salaries of Ph.D. and M.S. positions, the average time required to obtain a Ph.D., the value of stock options, and current return on investments. For a period of at least five years that we know, the payoff was clearly negative. Suffice it to say that one must choose research because one loves it; a Ph.D. is not the optimum road to wealth.
Subsidizing loans for whatever 18-year-olds want is a bad idea, news at five.
It's sad to see how many people in tech circles blindly bought into the "just wear a mask" bullying without ever considering that there are consequences for others.

The fact my comment got voted down so quickly illustrates that.

communication is complicated and when you remove the ability for a neurodivergent person to effectively communicate, you really change their entire life.
We even had it long before that. It's called XMPP, it's the internet standard for instant messaging and modern clients implement Signal style encryption.
Could also be based on billing address, if required.
The idea is that government is inherently bad. But no government is worse.

People in government will abuse their positions as much as possible.

So limiting government as much as possible is the goal.

Good example is pandemic. Governments saved a small number of people by collapsing economies. Quit possibly killing more people then were saved.
There is a very good argument that the best thing governments could have done is “nothing”.
"Speech consists of a continuously-varying acoustic signal. Yet human listeners
experience it as sequences of discrete speech sounds, which are used to recognise discrete words. To examine how the human brain appropriately
sequences the speech signal, we recorded two-hour magnetoencephalograms
from 21 participants listening to short narratives. Our analyses show that the
brain continuously encodes the three most recently heard speech sounds in
parallel, and maintains this information long past its dissipation from the
sensory input. Each speech sound representation evolves over time, jointly
encoding both its phonetic features and the amount of time elapsed since
onset. As a result, this dynamic neural pattern encodes both the relative order
and phonetic content of the speech sequence. These representations are
active earlier when phonemes are more predictable, and are sustained longer
when lexical identity is uncertain. Our results show how phonetic sequences in
natural speech are represented at the level of populations of neurons, providing insight into what intermediary representations exist between the sensory input and sub-lexical units. The flexibility in the dynamics of these
representations paves the way for further understanding of how such
sequences may be used to interface with higher order structure such as lexical
identity."

Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content
and order | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34326-1
Those engines and the critical avionics are not Indian at all.
Pretty telling that they felt the need to make such a long prologue about why not to be offended

Is the Esperanto community better now?
WFH was gift for me!

In many ways the pandemic was the best thing that happened for me!

I got to work from home, and then transitioned to running my own consultancy from my home office!

I’m fortunate and have a nice home and work well with my wife.

At an office I used to find an empty meeting room and work on my own, and this was seen as anti social…

And I was like, so which is it?

Shut up and do you work, or chit chat in the office?

Apparently it all depends and the unspoken unwritten rules of social conduct in offices prove that companies are not families and culture is about who the majority like and nothing to do with do embracing diversity.

Anyway….
A bit too simple for my taste,but it looks like an educational game for Git beginners!
There is conclusive evidence that blue light does not affect sleep in any way as large as people expect. We're talking about 1 minute on average change in sleep duration.

Here is a simple search on real trials:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=blue+light+sleep...

In my opinion:

The f.lux guy is intellectually dishonest. He's been at it long enough. He's got a lot of axes to grind. I don't see any trials in https://justgetflux.com/research.html.

f.lux use by normal people and other similar stuff is a good canary for how sophisticated a person is.

Many, many adults suffer from going to bed too early, not too late, especially older adults, a huge number, millions. People have been trying blue light as an intervention for them, and it doesn't work.
That's only one example and he deleted it within hours.
At this point, would Twitter going offline really be that huge of a blow to the internet?

If it is, then maybe it's a wake up call that we all need to have.
>; and students’ experience of racism and discrimination

This is the main reason why I am extremely ambivalent about hiring anyone who hasn't quit university in disgust.

The other day I had someone try and call me out for saying "meager options" as the n-word options.

It was a bizarre half hour of being talked at which started with her proclaiming herself a person of colour who has had to deal with discrimination her whole life to get a PhD and went down hill from there.
The old adage that if your not paying, your definitely not the customer still holds true. If you are paying, but at an affordable consumer rate, your likely still not entirely the main customer, especially for anything as complex as search over the entire internet.
> The issue is so complicated that I don't even know where to begin to address it without sounding like a Kacyznski-nut.

I don't find it complicated at all. The root issue is that there is too much supply and too little demand. There are too many people willing to work in the academia, while the rest of the world is only willing to feed far fewer academics. Everything else is just symptoms. This was already clear when I did my PhD 10-15 years ago. In the past couple of years, the job market finally reached some kind of breaking point and started to rebalance itself.
Their behaviour of... not being able to change the hardware that's currently in your laptop?
sqlx is awesome but I'd add the small caveat that it has an annoying sharp edge with sqlite where it relies on sqlite's loose typing, but if you want to use the recent strict feature[1] (which enforces type & check constraints), you need to use the specific underlying types (eg, you need to specify INTEGER, not DATETIME). In which case, I'd recommend the excellent rusqlite. You'll also be able to use all sorts of advanced sqlite features that way, like writing functions in Rust that you can call from your queries[2].

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

[2] https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/functions/index.htm...
Divorce doesn't seem to be discussed (caveat paywalled).

That's a big hit to net worth what with legal fees and maintaining two households.
I didn’t know there were programs that payed that well. What field did you study?
Did you try punching in your folk wisdom into clinicaltrials.gov?

Here's "blue light sleep":

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=blue+light+sleep...

Do you see any affect of blue light on sleep? Or do you see conclusive evidence that blue light does not affect sleep?
I believe the paper handles this case with the LastUsed offset in the implementation of cons.

> During the consing of (9) the pointer offset
is compared with the last used offset, LastUsed. If it is the same and less than the block size then it is simply incremented, the new entry made and LastUsed updated. This would have occurred as the integers (6), (7), (8) were added. If on the other-hand the pointer offset is less than the LastUsed a cons is being applied to the tail of a longer list, as is the case with the (9). In this case a new list block must be allocated and its Base-Offset pointer set to the tail contained in the original list.

If I'm understanding correctly, cells are only mutated in place if they are not the tails of other lists (meaning they aren't shared). If the cell is already the tail of another list, the consing is accomplished by creating a new cell to avoid modifying the other list.
You truly switched to Linux to avoid iCloud ads?
Signal has done a lot of nice work on building a UI that conveys what nerds/paranoid people want to know for private messaging (e.g. "Your safety numbers with so-and-so have changed") while still providing a usable app. But for the most part, the threat model of "private messaging" is one that software can defend against pretty well; everybody understands that when Signal provides "privacy," they don't mean in the face of an adversarial receiver who wants to share the message with the whole world.

For a service like "messages that the receiver can read offline but the sender can later delete [or that auto-delete after 24 hours]," I'm curious to see how they handle the UI when the threat model is harder to defend against cryptographically, because it depends on software that isn't acting as a user-agent. Are they worried about people running rogue clients that save every message (or about screenshots?)? If so, how do you do a good job communicating to the nerdy/paranoid user that deletion is not guaranteed? Or does everybody already understand that auto-deletion is best-effort and shouldn't be treated as on par with the strength of assurance that Signal provides for privacy?
You might want to read Justin B. Rye's "Learn Not to Speak Esperanto" for way more detail on all of this: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/

Edit: also, as to this

> > Reality: Esperanto is overwhelmingly European in design, content and aspiration, and has nothing in common with most non-European languages - such as Arabic and Swahili, two other languages which are widely used as linguae francae in other parts of the world.

> Sounds plausible, but I'll need to verify.

Like, just given the history of Esperanto's construction -- it was built from European languages -- this should be no surprise. How is it going to end up reflecting non-European languages, which vary heavily and include all sorts of features that are entirely absent in European languages, when it was built exclusively from European languages? I mean I suppose notionally it could happen, but it would be very surprising.
Also, remember the survivorship bias inherent in surveys like this. They rarely capture the very large portion of graduate students who leave their program without a degree.

I was one of those, and it’s really difficult for me to look back and see anything positive in the experience. I’m sure if the opinions of dropouts were included, you’d get an even bleaker view of the value of going to graduate school.
> I think it is a bit scary if we get a result from a system, and nobody can tell you why or how it was computed.

You don't need ML for that. That's Wednesday in any corporation.
>f.lux use by normal people and other similar stuff is a good canary for how sophisticated a person is.

What do you mean by this?

Personally I find warmer colours easier on the eyes, especially in dark rooms. Nothing to do with sleep.
Those C code bases all get used and many have lives depending on them. Generally the really bad disasters are almost always narrowly avoided before they come to public attention.

Why would your experience there make you think the good nuclear plants are any different?
And here's a link to Story of Mel, for anyone who doesn't know who "Mel" is :)

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html