skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blair had the support of the media (especially Murdoch, whose ring he kissed) and the career politicians and bureaucrats in his own party.

The career politicians, the party functionaries and virtually the entire media had their daggers out for Corbyn.

The 2017 election was a different story. The elites hadn't closed ranks at that point.
Its been way too long since I touched a breadboard, but what software was the post using to simulate this? I would expect that the requirement for ~ns precision (microwave frequencies) would involve a lot more tedious calculations for designing the circuit.
It was the initial incentive, but it's the only English speaking country in the eurozone (aside from Malta) and there's a huge number of companies who have massive capital investments (pharma/biomedical). Now there's a very active tech scene, it's tightly linked to the US so it actually feels quite sustainable.
I would accept this argument if the sample was unbiased but noisy. In this case it's extremely biased but (potentially) low in noise.

If people from Uganda aren't part of the target audience of this site, we won't get Ugandan user agents even if they happen to be a fair chunk of web users worldwide (certainly more than in my small but high-tech country.)
Show HN: Glue4 is a Redux extension that handles your back end concerns
We built Glue4 to scratch our own itch: whenever we start building an app, there’s all these different layers that need to be pieced together with subtle gotchas (auth, backend, DB, where to host, etc). The vast majority of the apps we build don’t really need anything beyond state persistence and authentication.

And that’s what Glue4 abstracts away: having to host our own backend, pick our own DB, figure out the querying language/ORM and then host & maintain them all somewhere “in the cloud”. All you need to do is run a single npm install command and you get Auth + state persistence in the backend out of the box.

Fire away with critiques/questions/anything really :)
Same with Akron U. (NE Ohio).

Snow melt is one of the first things I look for when visiting new campuses.
Why are you using PNGs as a texture format? Generally, you'll use BC textures for the most part, or barring that, your images will be compressed as part of your archive format with some sort of super-compression algorithm that compresses the pakfile block-by-block. Perhaps you're referring to your texture compression/conversion pipeline which ingests PNG from your DCC tool of choice?
I’ll just say that the same thing could be said (and was said, frequently and loudly) about HTTPS.
Democratically elected people can absolutely be a danger to democracy. I remember when Russia democratically elected Putin. In 5 years, all opposition TV channels were owned by the government and the oligarchs that chose subserviency over prison. In 10 years, elections were so blatantly fraudulent that voting became pointless.
I assume they're referring to Pierre-Loup Griffais, a Valve engineer dedicated to the Steam Deck and Proton.

https://twitter.com/Plagman2
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I think so, yes. I copy/pasted the title and it translated into a normal `i`.
I try hard to take notes, but usually end up with a line or two. Maybe this is me, maybe the noise/information ratio of the meetings I am in - I do not know.

I use and like Obsidian but do not have enough substance to make it big.

One thing that I really, really miss in Obsidian is the ability to tag blocks. Not only lines, but whole blocks. This would be a fantastic solution for my 2/3/4 lines of notes - I would just go for daily notes and tag the blocks, and automatically merge them in a single page (per tag). I so much would like that that I am considering trying to write a plugin myself.
"Burning through pages" is a great way to put it.
No need to worry about sheets of paper lying around or scanning and document what you do.
It's all there.
I especially like that, with the "fineliner," strokes are vector polylines (as opposed to shapes in other brushes) that can be used later to simplify, redraw, and animate documents.
People who were okay with updating to 8 were probably okay to keep updating, while 7 holdouts often think it's the last good version. It reminds me of the Smash Bros. series, where the most commonly played games are always Melee and whatever the new one is. People who played Smash 4 pretty much all moved on to Ultimate, but people who like Melee keep playing it.
Author could be from a non native english speaking country. It's disrespectful to attribute to AI without any benefit of doubt.
For a while Elden Ring ran better on Linux, due to game-specific patches on DXVK that fixed the stuttering seen on Windows.
I was reading this on my ipad, and it was a pain not to be able to see the output, would be great if the author just created a link to each of the section to godlbolt… https://godbolt.org/z/5cosP46TT >:D I know, how lazy we all are… my sample was just the fist section, I modded the code so I can see it all at once…
No; TM is finite control (i.e. DFA which already have a notion of looping) + unbounded storage.
This is one of those statements that are going to sound hilariously wrong in a few years, when third-party OEM will be able to put SteamOS on their custom hardware. The hard part was making Linux run games, and Valve has done it.

Xbox, PS and Nintendo won't die, but there will be a fourth player, and if anyone has to die first, it'll be Xbox, due to shrinking mind share and lack of third party titles.
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I'm wondering, does this example work as anti-euthanasia instead of pro-UBI to anyone reading it (or the rest of the article)?

It seems excessively cruel to me to try and force people to live in misery big enough to make the want to kill themselves instead of alleviating the misery. Like, the article seems to frame the argument that MAID can be used to lobby for better welfare as a ridiculous idea, but that's really it: if the only thing keeping people in your society from killing themselves that it's hard and scary, what the fuck is your society doing to these people.
Can you share the business name? That sounds very interesting.
> The role of technoscience – the fusion of scientific research and its technological applications – in driving social change, for good or ill, is central to thinking about the future.

This, to me, is the central issue with science, and also cuts to the core of why I have lost faith in its methodology and output.

Questions to consider:

Whose vision of the future?

Its not my vision. It is some sort of techno-governance monstrosity, which sounds hellish.

Who is funding the science?

Its not scientists, they undertake the work for which they can get funding. Ultimately, its bankers, via government and corporate institutions.

With that in mind, it is also possible for the individual to answer whether 'technoscience is driving social change for good or ill'.
How Jack Sweeney tracked Elon’s Jet (“public information?”)
Does it really have a ground plane directly under the antenna?
I’m unimpressed with an analysis that looks like a puff piece for British culture [...] I get the feeling reading this article that all I am supposed to do is feel good about Britain, and not ask any of these questions.

I think you've completely misread it, it was more about the transition of scientific mindset in the West generally from Victorian times.
No, because being in NP restricts computations to a polynomial number of (non-deterministic) steps.
> drug criminalisation makes recreational drug use a lot less safe than it could be were it legal and regulated

This is debatable. Here's a legal drug that kills 3 million people a year

https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/resources/medical-conditio...

Here's another that kills 7 million people per year

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...

Note that I'm mostly for legalized drugs. I just have heard this data and I don't have an answer to it. My impression is I just take it on faith that less criminalization will be a net positive but I don't know that's for sure.
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This list will be useful if it stays up-to-date. I find that on qutebrowser and sometimes IceCat that I've had to spoof my UA to get past the CloudFlare browser checks that are unfortunately on many sites these days (such as the GitLab login). Sometimes this workaround quits working and I suspect my old UA gets treated as more suspicious over time.
"Also HVDC power transmission is a thing now."

It has always been a thing, but it still means losses and expenses to build it. If you could have solar panels in the road, you could charge electric cars directly and efficently. But like I said, unlikely to happen.
I am around -5 and it is stable; I think this is not far from the limit where wearing glasses starts to be annoying (chromatic aberration, distortions, ...).

I could consider lenses but I am always wondering how air conditioning and the fact that I cover my eyes with some plastic works long term (well, I am 52 so it may not be that of a concern, finally :)).

At some point I considered lasic surgery but wearing glasses still trumps the risk for me (this is really a personal opinion, I know people who are really happy with the change)
There is no competition. Linux now runs 95% of games, macOS probably not even half that.
I remember visiting south east Asia at a time when my cousin was working there.

There were three distinct socioeconomic classes in evidence:

- the poorest shopped in open-air markets, where the local language was spoken

- the middle class shopped in air-conditioned malls, where english was spoken

- the richest "shopped" by having their driver take their cook to the open-air markets

Upon my return to the States, I started to notice the same phenomenon; it had just been disguised by the fact that there were no language changes involved.
Kindle Paperwhite 5th gen has both amber and white LEDs and its color temperature can be adjusted. I don't know exactly what light temperature range it has but it feels very "warm" on maximum setting.
Previously you couldn't tell Let's Encrypt "Just don't use the other challenges" and you couldn't tell them "Just don't let people use their own ACME account" and so even if you only ever do DNS challenges, and you have DNS integrity, bad guys who control one of your systems can run Certbot and get themselves a certificate via the http-01 challenge.

So yeah, it doesn't make the DNS challenges more secure, but in some cases it makes it possible to rule out lots of other risks outside DNS, narrowing your attack surface very considerably if you are able to do that.

This is about raising the low bar, not the high bar.
I want to be clear about the argument you're making, as I think this is where our difference arises.

You think Trump, Berlusconi, and so on are selfish grifters but do not believe they are truly destined for greatness?

And you think Cameron, Rees-Mogg, Johnson and Truss are _not_ selfish grifters but are in it for the "greatness"?

I think you should do more research on both groups. Trump and Berlusconi (and many others I mentioned), seem to choose their actions based on self-interest fiscally and for their ego. They are over-confident in their ability to make good decisions because they feel they have been "chosen", and are "special". Their distaste for due process and the rule of law is evidence of this, I feel.

But so are the British leaders. Go do some digging, find out how they made their money and built their relationships in Parliament. Find out about the Bullingdon club, find out about Rees-Mogg's money, find out about the Institute of Economic Affairs, and more. You'll find every single one of the British leaders you named had the exact same profile of grifting and ego-driven self-belief that Berlusconi, Bolsonaro, Trump, W. Bush, and others have shown.

Your argument that there is something unique to Britain about this is weak to my mind. I can find identical behaviours of corruption, idiocy, grifting, ego and incompetence in recent history of every G20 country, every NATO member, every EU state, every democracy.

Writing this makes me feel cynical, but the good news is that there is plenty of evidence of competence and "greater good" style leaders around everywhere too - in Britain, as much as anywhere else.
the HN algorithm is a bigger mystery than the universe itself
The BASIC dialects that most of us cut out teeth on (ZX Spectrum user here) would indeed have made Dijkstra weep, but they all had a single cardinal virtue that is unmatched by any of its successors - it was trivial to do simple graphics in them using the facilities of the language itself. This was the 'hook' for most of us, as graphs, animations but most importantly games could be dreamed up and implemented so easily. Were these mostly garbage with terrible performance? You bet they were. Did that matter? Not one bit. And, with growing experience and some POKEing you could salt in a bit of hand-assembled machine code to jazz things up, even if you lacked the inline assembler the fancy BBC micro kids had.

This topic comes up on HN from time to time and people often cite Javascript, Processing, Pygame and others as counterexamples, but none of these are remotely as accessible nor as simple to get going on as these crude BASICs were.
There’s a pretty narrow range of climates that need this kind of thing. Coming from somewhere considerably colder, if you don’t have heat particularly bad things happen and people’s houses are much better insulated. (The UK will never hit -40 which happens here more years than not, more or less) some people still have problems paying their bills, but not to the extent that you need shelters where it’s warm all over the place. They don’t by law turn off people’s utilities for nonpayment for several months out of the year.

My apartment is insulated well enough that if I’m cooking or have too many computers on it will get uncomfortably hot even on the coldest days. Having windows open because you’re hot when it’s considerably colder than freezing outside is an experience.
Should be very straight forward with cold diffusion.
I always wondered if mass neutering of invasive species (such as a feral cat) are difficult, costly or morally objected to (or any combination of the three). And whether touching to the ecological balance is something we can control (assuming best intent)

I live in a cosy suburb of Paris and we have a large-ish population of feral cats. They are not actively fed (not to a large extent at least) but we also have quite a lot of birds these cats apparently eat. It seems to work as both the birds and the cats are still there.
A bank can lend out deposits, ie. client money, ie. someone else's money. A normal regulated entity, like say an exchange, cannot.

Can't comment re PayPal specifically.
"Honestly I wonder every time it comes up whether the solar road was a straightforward grift or something more nefarious like an attempt to make environmentalists look ridiculous."

It is easy to forget, but the majority of people hate math and are not scientists. The idea of solar panels sounds and feels good, so it must be good.

And I strongly feel and identify as a environmentalist, but sadly I have to state, that many fellow environmentalists are acting ridiculous, or rather naive.
As an aside, it makes me very uneasy to see grown adults be so infatuated with Disney IPs.

The quote from Alec Guinness about Star Wars in his autobiography:

“A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The first bad penny dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy's eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode.

'I would love you to do something for me,' I said.

'Anything! Anything!' the boy said rapturously.

'You won't like what I'm going to ask you to do,' I said.

'Anything, sir, anything!'

'Well,' I said, 'do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?'

He burst into tears. His mother drew herself up to an immense height. 'What a dreadful thing to say to a child!' she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.”

I think about that a lot when seeing the lengths many adults go to immersing themselves into these "cinematic universes"
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questionable pentesting firms use it on their reports for critical info
Can you access the URL from your browser? If not, you have network-related problem. Behind VPN? Proxy? Bad DNS?
Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion
Wonderful insight into that world.
Being able to shape the cognitive infrastructure is a critical part of social stability. The political polarisation we are seeing today is in large part because government has lost this control. Unless TikTok agrees to have national security agents inserted into the org chart, and overseeing amplification / suppression of content, it should be banned for the good of the people
Thank you, very useful!
I used Falstad curcuit simulator (https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html) to try out some subcircuits (monostable, for example) and then tried them out on a breadboard.
This is a weird article to me. It seems to criticize the program for not failing to adequately force people to live in a society that makes them want to die. It even quotes someone pointing out that a high usage rate by people driven to give up on life by out of control housing and cost of living prices without sufficient income, or those unable to afford other treatments could be a leverage for arguing for better designed welfare (UBI?) or markets - but it's framed as callous, ridiculous idea while we still make it "too easy to die"?

Like, I don't think people need a lot of help convincing themselves of not wanting to die unless they are already desperate, and making access to death harder is like forcing the homeless to take a one way bus to another town - you are just hiding the problem. As long as nobody is pushed to use the program, the same arguments that say "well, nobody is forcing you to take that shitty job/pay that exorbitant rent" apply.

It's just that in this case, the signal sent by multiple people choosing death over life because the system isn't working for then is very clearly "what the fuck are you doing to poor people", which is an uncomfortable question, so the impulse is to make access to death harder - then you can again ignore the fact that these people might commit suicide anyway, or suffer immensely, because that will show up just as mental illness or personal failure in the statistics
I saved this quote, thanks (couldn't find an original reference as someone else notes). This resonated pretty well with the hours I've put into side projects, and the philosophy I try to maintain to keep moving forward.
I agree. Each frame is new information causing new quantisation decisions. Especially if there is a limited pool of potential people and you can get good photographs of them from various angles (which these days is virtually everyone if you have an agency budget), and you can estimate the head position from torso movement, then try out and see which match the best. TV programs love blurred faces and voices, and they should really use a stand-in for the actual person for interview shots.

I doubt the US TLAs have it, because the software they have is often rubbish generated by a cartel of low skill providers, and frequently 10 years behind the times. But I bet the Chinese Ministry of State Security has it. So so many dissidents to keep track of, to identify after they have moved overseas and apply pressure to.
People seem to forget that the entire point of shell structures is accounting tricks.

Sure FTX (the audited entity) really did have a piece of paper saying “magic beans company owes FTX $1bn in bitcoin” and all a GAAP audit would do is look at that paper and say “yep, this paper is worth $1bn (with maybe some repayment risk discount).” Maybe a good audit team tries to understand who really owns magic beans corp, but it’s easy to hide things like that.

FTX the audited entity could be totally fine, but then the shells are where the problem lies.
I’d rather write Java than be in parentheses hell any day of the week.
Many science words do not mean the same thing as common usage, that’s just the deal when some people need to be extremely precise and other people don’t while using the same language.

Scientific literature is written for a scientific audience, if the reader doesn’t understand something, that’s on them not the language of the writer. There needs to be space for scientific communication without worrying about the politics of who is going to misunderstand it.
It's almost the Noguchi filing system, in a way. Since you typically need to access things closer to the top/front which will be the most recent.
Muting channels is my trick. Then look at mentions. And poll it and don't worry about seeming unavailable - set expectations and reliably respond on a daily basis instead of moment to moment.
When was it ever different?
XML may have failed as a syntax for HTML, but it was enormously succesful in its own right.

W3C has lots of failures and bad standards. I don't think the base XML spec was one of them, even if i think JSON is better for most usecases.
What it is like to live in Malta
I have to say that there is a strong ngmi energy in this kind of obsession.
Use Logseq. it supports tagging blocks, and it also supports markdown or org formats.

I use org mode as my format and this has the added advantage of allowing all my source code blocks in my notes to be directly executable from emacs.

All my notes now also double as a Jupyter-like note books, but for any major language. I can even mix and match languages in a single note file.
“Medicine for” does not mean “absolute cure”. Exercising more than average doesn’t make you immune to cancer and people who exercise suffering from cancer doesn’t negate the evidence that it helps.
What return can insurers assume under the MA and how does that compare to government bonds?
I have heard Icelandic does the same, but much more.

I actually think it is good to replace old, weird words with newer, better and more precise ones. As long as the new ones are better that is.
What's SoA?
I use Obsidian with a few of the mentioned plugins but struggle to get more than a really well organized view of the various projects I work on. Obsidian is great for its flexible ways user can interact. And sometimes I wonder whether thinking too much in those various philosophies makes you think better thoughts, or just makes you bend your thoughts so to fit into the system.
> The first attempt at that "knowledge graph" thing was the "keywords" meta tag. Its failure should be taken as instructive regarding the difficulty level of the project as a whole.

Knowledge graphs are basically just semantic networks, which arguably date back to 1956 (or 300 depending on how you define things)
That doesn't really explain the code golf answer.
No, it is not more affordable. At least in France where assisted suicide is not an option (yes, we are a barbaric and coward country in some aspects).

As for the gift of happy, healthy and fulfilling life - you may want to have a word with my wife suffering from MS. It is fortunate that we have neighboring countries that are not as hypocrite as France is and where you can end your life when you want to.
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Does not matter. "Wifi needs an external antenna". And indeed there is typical Nokia antenna plug on top right.