skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Anki to learn languages with SRS for years. I keep running into the same problem, even with difficult languages: my knowledge of the language quickly outpaces the rate at which I can study new cards, and my ability to retain vocabulary doesn't really seem to fade. Once I learn words, I don't need to review them in x months or years. I just know them and, for the most part, won't forget.

I learned Hungarian (one of the more difficult languages to learn) by loading up a database of ~10k cards. While it worked great in the beginning, within a year, I was just constantly telling the algorithm that I didn't need to review cards for 3-5 years. But the thing is, with a language, I'm not going to forget all those words in 5 years. There will be no point in reviewing them. So I just started deleting cards if I knew them already. And eventually I was spending so much time deleting cards that I just gave up on SRS altogether.

It could be that I have some latent savant-like language learning abilities, though I doubt that. I think my experience is likely related to language learning itself. With a language, if you are immersed, you have constant daily repetition with or without the cards.

All that to say, I think SRS algorithms should have a language learning mode that automatically archives vocabulary cards once you've mastered them to a certain degree. I'm not sure what would work best. Maybe once you've crossed the 6 month threshold, it could just automatically archive the card.
I was absolutely a glass-half-full person when it came to FSD (the insane amount of downvotes I've gotten on Reddit on FSD-related posts can back me up on that) until three things happened:

- Elon and his team committed the purge over at Twitter (which made me re-think his leadership abilities and doubt the credibility of his vision-only approach),

- Andrej leaving (why would the head of Autonomy leave when they are supposedly on their way towards completely changing how we drive? Makes no sense to leave your life's work like that), and

- A non-engineer, non-Tesla owning friend of mine got a ride in a Waymo in San Francisco and described it as a smooth ride start to finish. (I cannot imagine FSD Beta being smooth in a city setting; it sure as hell isn't in Houston proper; and Waymo is completely driverless!)

Now I'm definitely going to try it again when FSD 11 drops, but I am a little scared of single-stack given how absolutely rock solid AP is.
Glad someone seems to have made a more presentable app for this. I'm barely capable when it comes to downloading Git files and running them (not a programmer).

The FAQ is pretty scarce, though, and I wonder if it will be able to be updated as the developers change the model.
Not much. rsnapshot is based on rsync and hardlinks. So, you'll get some whole-file deduplication for unmodified files. No compression, no encryption/authentication, no way to verify if a backup is still ok.

Also, if you rename a file or folder, that hardlink-based dedup will not work, because it is based on files having the same path. Also, if you change just 1 bit in a huge file, it will add the whole new file because the dedup only works on whole files.

borg does variable size chunk based deduplication. if a big file changed just a bit, your backup repo will also just grow a bit when backing up that file.

also you get compression, encryption, authentication and the ability to check backups if they are ok still.

also, borg won't create a gazillion of files/hardlinks in the destination filesystem, but way fewer files (each about 500MiB big by default).

borg also archives ACLs, xattrs, flags.
Buttigieg has gotten involved, and based on that, I sense a Congressional hearing is in the works. This debacle has affected way too many people at the worst time of year for it to escape public vivisection.
Budget has a different pricing scheme that is per day and depending on location, can also work.
Step back and ask yourself (objectively) how well you work with the team. I had a co-worker (really smart, but a bit of a narcissist and perhaps very mild asperger syndrome) that was a little too aggressive in telling everyone how smart he was. It did not go well, and in the end, people did not take the person seriously. It was sad and self-reenforcing, the more he told them how smart he was, the less they trusted him. Then we were at the point that people were afraid to give him anything as they thought his direction would be deliver something unexpected. (My observation)

I think a bit of a mystery is nice. You are a SW engineer, tell them you are a geek and will find yourself involved in the details of XXXX. If they probe, deliver, but keep a little mystery. When you surprise them, you will build a solid and well earned reputation.
Sure, there's many examples of many things, but that's not really significant. The point of being free to court, cohabit and have relations is that you're also free not to do those things. Why restrict other people from doing what they want in this context just because you don't want to?

Yeah but I'm OK with it, and I kept coming back because you never address the central issue. Why do other people have to moderate themselves because of your desires?

I doubt you'll read this but here's a simple thought experiment. If you went away on vacation and came back and found that everyone in your office had decided to work wearing only underwear, for how long exactly would this bother you and prevent work? I reckon I'd be distracted for maybe 5 minutes. I've seen all there is to see already, as has every other adult in the room. Desire should come from intimacy and possibility, not from seeing someone dressed in what is, in your opinion, provocative. What about the people who find moderate dress sexy and overtly sexy clothing a turn off, where do they exist in your world?
You can take words that aren’t naturally symmetric and draw them symmetrically. You get ambigrams, like this:

https://scottkim.com/2020/07/17/origami/
NAT traversal. Until IPV6 is universal one can't just point your browser to another persons computer that does not have a IPV4 network address.
Some stories and other elements in the canonical gospels clearly come from the general cultural landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean at that time, and specifically from the interplay between the Jewish and Greek traditions. Besides the Christmas narrative that I mentioned earlier, another clear example is how John identifies Jesus with the Logos, a Greek philosophical concept. Along the same line, many later practices in traditional Christianity came about as people from a Classical Roman or Greek background adapted the new religion to their pre-existing culture and expectations.

Ultimately, I’ve found that a person’s opinion on this tends to follow their preconceived ideas. Someone intending to dismiss Christianity altogether might conclude that since its supernatural claims are probably untrue then the whole thing should be thrown away. On the other hand, someone intending to take Christianity seriously might find that the combination of its founder’s teaching plus three thousand years of cultural development is something of extraordinary value in itself, regardless of any faith in the supernatural.
I was about to mention this. It’s hard for me to take any symmetric or password-based backup tools seriously. User chosen passwords are a disaster for offline encryption. Most tools also use related key input for (non-)authenticated encryption and decryption. A server shouldn’t be able to decrypt backups and authentically encrypt new backups.
People like challenges. It seems to be part of our human nature. Be it growing a mustache in November, running up a hill once a day in February, or not drinking in January.

Other people look at us and wonder why we bother uploading open source code to Github (doing work in our spare time).
There is also the problem with display settings. HiDPI option on higher resolutions is no longer available after upgrade.
Seriously, what was wrong with the old tried and true System Preferences? Everything had a recognizable icon, every icon arranged in simple rows, and every icon lay before me in a single window.

Now, I'm forced to scroll the pane on the left (unclear since scroll bars are invisible by default) to find the outermost setting, and then deal with nested navigation confined inside of the right pane. Also, gone are the recognizable icons, replaced with confusingly similar colored gradients and a hieroglyph icon that is unreadable because the contrast ratio terrible against the gradient. Also, the 'search' causes the entire left navigational pane to go blank and replace itself with search results, rather than 'show me the way' like it used to. Extremely disappointing!

Old: https://i.imgur.com/sZY9dUw.png

New: https://i.imgur.com/NGj7I69.jpg
Of course nobody got in trouble for that. They were rewarded handsomely.
how is this different than DiffusionBee?
Not to agree on blaming the victim like op, but they announce it over the PA system on many airports, not directly to each person.
Yeah, that makes sense. I'm not super familiar with the project, I just knew it was in progress.
I agree with the flip side point. I like to occasionally make a slide deck myself, or do little bit of computer graphics or audio processing, and I appreciate having the capability at my disposal.

But my point is slightly different. It's not that today, more people have cars, but are much more likely to drive themselves to a stupid place. It's that cars - particularly in the United States - very quickly stopped being a tool that empowers the owner, and became a necessity that's required to interact with the society: with cars being accessible enough, architecture and businesses evolved to compensate. For many, this just means they're forced to endure hours of traffic every day. Is this better than before cars were ubiquitous?

Also, the dream of self-driving cars isn't motivated just by the safety argument, but as much - if not more - because a self-driving car is a chauffeur for the masses. It won't let you skip the traffic, but at least it won't be a complete waste of life.

Another example: every self-service website or app - ticket purchase, food ordering, government form - is replacing what used to be a human interaction. In person, over the phone, or (for a brief period of time) over e-mail. This has some benefits, but one major loss is that you're now limited to a dumb (and often broken) form streamlined for machine processing, where previously you'd be interfacing with a person - so good luck if something breaks, or you have some custom need. Plus, self-service sites very quickly become time-negative: with a person on a phone, you can describe what you need in high-level terms. You don't have to search, explore, read FAQs, and type so much stuff.

What makes this into a problem is that you don't have a choice here - self-service systems are cheaper, they justify cutting human-level support to minimum. Most companies still offer you a phone number to call, but instead of quickly reaching a competent human, you're forced to endure an automated system designed to tire you out, increasingly often featuring a broken "AI" voice assistant, that is only ever good at one thing: keeping you from reaching a human. And then, half the time, the human consultant can't do anything because "the computer says 'no'".

(Note how the same companies that make you suffer through an hour of Muzak and "smart" "AI" "assistant" when you call them, will then have a nice, pleasant, real human cold-call you, to upsell you something that's usually a bad deal for you. It's clear what's driving all those "helpful" technologies: company operating expenses.)

And over the past few years, and particularly in the past few weeks (i.e. since ChatGPT was released), people talk so much about using language model AIs to interface with services and technology - mostly without realizing that what they're asking for is a cheaper, inferior form of having a person on the other end of a phone/chat.
A lot of people start drinking more excessively around the end of the year, and it becomes a habit. Take a month off, no drinking, then start drinking in moderation. The short break does fix the problem.
This reminds me of the incident that led to me quitting Facebook:

There was an article[1] about Facebook manipulation of users news feeds, and I had just joined the company. So, I looked into it, and found without much effort the dataset and analysis of that experiment. One of the fields was "CauseOfDeath" and one of the analyses was that feeding a user all negative news created some whole-digit percentage increase in the suicide rate of users. This was presented matter-of-factly, and none of my coworkers seemed to see a problem with this.

Many of Facebook's experiments would never pass a IRB. Actually, that's not true at all: modern IRBs have been stacked with the same kind of monsters. Facebook would never pass a sane and functional IRB.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/... is the one I found with a quick search, though there were a few dozen in quick succession over that time period; I think by timing it was probably one of the articles written in response to their apology that actually came to my attention first.
https://archive.ph/VQh4h
Didn't he just throw his support behind the Republican party, the leader of which is Trump? How can you say Musk doesn't align with Trump when he is a supporter of Trump's political machine? It's not like Musk ever found the Republican party attractive before Trump turned it into what it is today. But post-insurrection, the GOP suddenly looks like a party worth supporting for Musk.
2022 EPA Automotive Trends Report [pdf]
Noticing it is the first step. Believing you can change it is the second.

It sounds so cheesy to say, but I really wish they would teach mindfulness in schools. It's such an important life skill, and it's one I had to realize on my own was important.
I’ve only started to notice this in the past year or so, it’s a bizarre feeling compared to just a normal hangover. Certainly dissuades me from drinking too much now.
A house, with a garage, starts at $450k where I live (Montana, FWIW). A BEV can be had for under $40k. Plus rebates.

And charging cable theft is like bike theft. Combine exceptionally low risk with a fairly high reward, and it will happen everywhere, no matter how “low” of a crime area you’re in. A quick application of bolt cutters nets them hundreds of dollars, and may cost the owner thousands, depending on the250 per battery. Now imagine this applied to charging cables with their excess of copper and data lines and occasionally cooling jackets.

Downplay the problems as you like, but they are problems.
Except that even if you only bring a carry on, it’s not guaranteed that you won’t be hit with the “we’ll have to check this bag free of charge for you”. I’ve been in my seat, the lady takes my bag down from
The storage to fit something else, can’t fit my bag back, and decides to check my bag without even talking to me. Other times it happens as you walk down the aisle and find no room, it’s very common.
Cue the usual HN comments where everyone who regularly consumes two drinks believes they are a full-blown alcoholic.
If you want to preserve it, buy it yourself and keep it that way. Don't force others to live in depressing brutalist blocks if they don't want to.
> I appreciate you sharing the Wikipedia article. I'll read through it so I can better understand you and people like you.

Read it because you want to understand what the evidence shows about the authorship of the Gospels and their historicity, even in general terms. But please don't be one of those Christians who sees non-believers as a puzzle-box to be solved, and read it because you want to find the one rhetorical trick or gotcha that will convert me. You can't understand anything about me, much less "people like me" based on a Wikipedia article. I am a whole-ass complex person with a unique personal history, circumstances and outlook, not the straw mass of generalities, biases and stereotypes you have labeled "non-believer" in your head.

If you want to be a witness, live as Jesus said, by example. "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Stop trying to score Jesus points on people.
> Norway was way ahead of the curve on EV adoption for a bunch of reasons

Ironic given how much they benefited from exporting pollution to the rest of the planet.
Yes, but I think the comment is being downvoted for tone, not accuracy. It’s not nice to lecture people when they’re down, even if they’ll never read it.
Some work better than others, but it’s also worth noting that paywalls make exceptions for some referrers to either bypass or reduce their defenses, and sometimes the exceptions include HN in the Referer header or certain URL parameters intended to extend access to share recipients.
The problem is I don't particularly want any media organisation controlling any media organisation either. I don't want Twitter, a private org, to be the public space.

Saying that, I don't use Twitter, I've never really seen the point of it. I agree with "if we're lucky", but in a different way - lucky for me would be that this causes a transformation whereby distributed services become popular enough to be self sustaining and interesting. I doubt they'll ever be dominant, that doesn't matter, I will use them (lightly).
> 401k as a sane guaranteed retirement plan

401k's do not have any guarantee, even in theory. You absolute should have some retirement plan outside of social security (which is, after all, just a backstop for that failing.)

> I am hesitant to believe social security will look the same way it does today when I am retirement age in ~35 years.

Well, I’m old enough that I've been hearing that refrain for more than 35 years, and have seen the math on the necessary changes to bring revenue and benefits in to line even if no action is taken before trustnfund exhaustion, and I haven't seen any sign that the radical damages some people try to use the threat of trust fund depletion to gain support for will become politically viable, so I am relatively confident that SS will remain in a recognizable form well into the future.
After reading this I learned there is a 13.1 available that macOS has failed to install or even mention, despite automatic updates being enabled. Apparently it came out 2 weeks ago.
Man, as a Canadian, I hate being put in the position of defending our wireless monopolies. But here goes.

That website seems... not great?

I think you got a 50x ratio by dividing the average prices of $0.12 (Italy) and $5.94 (Canada).

That appears to be a median...but I'd like to know how they chose the plans they used for the calculation. For example, Canada's maximum price is given as $46.02/GB. Perhaps such a plan is technically available, but I really doubt someone is using it for data, so it seems bizarre to include it in this data set.

For cheapest prices, they cite $0.05/GB for Italy and $1.66/GB for Canada. But off the top of my head, Rogers, which is the #1 telco in Canada, offers $0.74/GB. Seems... odd that it didn't make it into this dataset.

(And hey, I would like to know where I can pay $0.05 to get a GB/data in Italy. Full speed? On a good network?)

I pay $29/mo for unlimited data in Canada. Granted - with caveats! It gets throttled after the first 6 GB. I wonder if this would be counted as $4.83/GB in this survey? Their methodology PDF is unclear.
Might want to check prices again.
Because 'cookie law' isn't just about cookies. This is an intentional confusion on behave of the advertisers. It's really about using cookies for the specific purpose of tracking. There's alotof uses for cookies and it's not obvious to users what cookies are for what.
I've had a Bolt for more than a year (it's a great car) and I don't know what Electrify America is. (Looked it up, it's a network of charging stations)
They get really mad at you when you tell them their acknowledgment of land / country to the Gadigal / other peoples is just a way to pay lip service and not actually do what’s required.

If they really actually cared, they would have protected these sites.
I’m in a similar situation and agree with everything you’ve said. Although I enjoy the ritual aspect of weed I’ve also found that I enjoy the actual effects far less than I used to, and when I take a few weeks off I don’t really miss it.

The worst part is the 3-4 days after quitting falling asleep becomes quite difficult so I need to make a point to go on long runs/bike rides to fall asleep easier
The other issue is having capacity in your panel. Most level 2 chargers are at least 50A and the average house has a 100A to 200A panel. Depending on your appliances, you may or may not have enough space left in your panel without doing at minimum a panel upgrade if not a service upgrade. Just adding an L2 charger is like $2000 or more depending on labor. Switching from 100A to 200A or 200A to a second 200A panel is about $5000 or more in parts and labor (this is on top of the parts and labor for the charger). If you also have to get the utility company to upgrade your service that’s another $5000 or more depending if you need to buy a new transformer for your pole.

This stuff can add up fast if you don’t already have capacity.
As I recall, Paaslow was developed after this and did quite well: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/publications/ai_pub... and https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

Problem now is it was, as I recall, 360 assembler which presents sort of a porting problem.
Teslas are still too expensive for most people and there's no sign of a cheaper model coming any time soon. The incumbent car companies are also gradually closing the gap between Tesla and their own EV offerings, there's simply no conceivable scenario where Tesla could eclipse half a dozen other companies combined.
More than half the people in the US can charge at home. We still have some time to work out good options for the remainder.
What do you mean "my claim".

My push is that people are characterizing statements made by government officials as lies, but they are more or less misunderstanding them to do so. There were a lot of statements that look bad in hindsight, but they were about the limited effectiveness of masks much more than they were about masks not working.

I'm also claiming that talk of the shortages was pretty much from the beginning, there was no attempt to hide the idea that they wanted to prioritize use of masks for healthcare providers.

It's not unreasonable for someone to talk about N95 masks not providing a lot of benefit for naive users when the full benefit of the mask only comes if it is worn properly and fits well. That people choose to a wear a mask when it is voluntary and then do a horrible job of it sort of backs up the reasoning. There's literally no reason to wear a procedure mask over your mouth and not your nose, and yet I regularly see it in my small town (which is probably net anti-mask in sentiment).
Decoherence of a system happens when the entropy of entanglement is maximal, so if you want a formula then it's S(Tr_a(p_ab)) -> N/e. In practice a complex system is probably never fully decoherent, but the separability is small enough to not matter; if we're being truly rigorous we work with it as a limit, similar to how we use the "classical limit" in other parts of QM or other contexts.

(Analogy: imagine saying "Relativity doesn't explain how we live in a Newtonian world. If relativity is valid, it should be able to say at exactly what speed motion becomes nonrelativistic. Provide a formula for it")