skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to learn how to MIG weld, but I’m so far finding it difficult to find a good hobbyist class in Southern California.
I agree. Every night is potentially a new years eve.
Agreed. OP’s comment makes no sense in the suburb I live in now (built around 2000), and the suburb in which I grew up (built early 1970s). Both have nearby schools, supermarkets and plazas with retail businesses, working teenagers, playgrounds, parks, etc.
No, but only because gas station idea (drive through automated fuel retail) wasn't a thing.

However a human with a fuel reserve that could top you up was a thing before cars (a fuel retail). Before the dawn of the automobiles people were replacing steam engines with gas and liquid powered engines.
As a country with a strong economy of defining things of producing IP, it makes no sense to allow others to modify our definitions; they are immutable and sacrosanct. On the other hand, if we were a country with an economy producing tangible things like parts or assemblies that can be used to repair something, it would make sense to allow folks to repair things.

I am all for right to repair, but that is a pipe dream in our country, given our economic realities.
A recent article from the Austrian Federal Computing Centre, using Prolog to analyze eligibility criteria for grants:

https://www.brz.gv.at/en/BRZ-Tech-Blog/Tech-Blog-7-Symbolic-...

In this way, several interesting questions can be answered, such as: Are there grants that have the same prerequisites? How many companies are not eligible for any grant? Are there grants where eligibility also implies other grants? etc.

Prolog is becoming more interesting now that several conforming and free implementations with comprehensive features arise, notably Scryer, Tau and Trealla Prolog as the most recent systems, and interesting bindings for other languages such as ichiban/prolog for Go. On the Datalog side, Google have recently published a Datalog system called Mangle, which supports the Datalog subset of Prolog as a proper subset.
That would be impossible for me :-). Unless I sabotage other blogs
for a negative word count.
Nah, let's say there are 3 candidates: A, B and C.

A wins a plurality of first preference votes. Otherwise, voters are split between B and C. We assume that if a candidate places C as their first preference, they will place B as their second preference, and vice-versa.

In this scenario, whoever gets more first preference votes out of B and C will win the election since the other will place third and get knocked out of the race, so anybody who placed A as their first preference didn't get to express whether they'd prefer B or C.

If it wasn't obvious,

A: LNP

B/C: Labor/Greens

https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2022/guide/bri...
The Bible. I was just sitting reading the book of Revelation considering how many movies lift images directly from this book of the Bible. Then I read from Proverbs that charm is deceptive and beauty fades away. I regularly need reminded not to assign more value to good lookers. This being ironic, as I am no David Hasselhoff. The Bible has been shifting my paradigm for 30 of 50 years.
Putting this info all in one place is an excellent first step, but seems far from “simple”. What would it take to turn this list into a 1-click opt-out for all of these services?
> I mean, housing markets have ensured that they will live at home for longer periods of time and may never be able to own, or even rent a place by themselves.

That’s not an inevitability; it’s a policy choice. If zoning was less restrictive more housing could be built. The people are getting what they want, good and hard.
Should You Buy a New Car in 2023? (OT)
"It could also just be a glitch as it appears it is a script that generates the .txt (and fetching external text / news as content)."

I don't like this ...

If you're publishing a warrant canary, updating it should be a manual process that a human is involved in.

The whole point of the headlines and the baseball/basketball scores is to prove that the messaged weren't pre-generated and pre-signed in advance.

What's the difference between pre-signing a stack of future canaries vs. script-generating them as time goes by ? Either way, you're muddying the negative-statement aspect of it ...
Back when horse drawn carriages were the most common, EVs looked better than ICEs.

We had to find the petroleum reserves before diesel and petrol could get cheap enough for ICEs to fully dominate over that era's EVs.
I think there's actually a saying about this. Something like how people don't learn when they're told something, they have to experience it themselves.
I think that point is overstated. The EU universities provide housing to students too and it is not that massively different, except Greek life. And I swear overwhelming majority of these comics comes from frats who are in power play against university. Every time I dug into specific issues, it turns out being just a bunch of manipulative claims.
Imagine thinking parents being responsible for how their children turn out is a cop out

You think 15 years old are capable of being responsible for the level of responsibility they developed? Guess they should have made better decisions for their development when they were 10

The age-old shitting on new generations is also an age-old acknowledgement of one's own failures
In my experience, the biggest issue in numerical/scientific code is to get correct results, these cases will hardly every be caught by typing. Moreover in many scientific programs you deal with well defined inputs, i.e. the chances of e.g. calling a function with an incompatible type are quite low. The most common error I have encountered is a mismatch in dimensionality/shape of input arrays (which I believe isn't straight forward to type for either, in particular if you want the shapes to be flexible, but all inputs to have the same shape).
I like to work closely with the users of the software I’m working on. I volunteer to attend their meetings. I ask them how new features are working. I solicit feedback. It’s very rewarding even if sometimes it can be uncomfortable when things aren’t going well.
And people upvoting the one that called you an idiot and paying money to give them awards, to make things even worse.
Joe Rogan voiced automated podcast dialogue about ML papers
Looks like the code is not open source yet. I'll check this out once it is, not earlier.
You can drag-drop books in Kindle Format as Kindle doesn't support EPUB natively. But notetaking require conversion to KFX, which is not a trivial format to convert to without sending it via Amazon Server.

(I actually don't know if side-loaded KFX actually support notetaking on the Scribe)
They have a lot of examples in the appendix, just scroll to after the references.
This Time The World, by GLR.
I try to buy books from physical book stores. Often it takes a few days before it gets delivered.
Michael W Lucas has a great book about OpenBsd Jails, worth the read.
And in modern time, what ever datacentres you are using.
Ah, that most awkward of bugs — a logic error. Buried in the middle of the article:

If a voter didn’t select a first choice, then the second choice should have been counted as the first choice in the first round. The same would occur in subsequent rounds moving lower choices up into the empty slot. Instead, the erroneous algorithm didn’t count any vote in a round if a space was blank.

So effectively your choices are ranked based on the ordinals you chose, not on the absolute values of the ordinals.

I wonder what happens to ballots that use non-standard symbols whose intent is clear. I would guess that a non-zero number of people write “A, B, C” or “first, second, third”. (Or even, in the context of this ranking-gaps bug, ballots that just have “second, third” on them.)

Protocol implementations that are “liberal in what [they] accept” certainly make life overly complicated. Every new implementation of a DNS server or HTML renderer has to have all sorts of awful quirks because of a lack of strictness in historical (and now widely deployed) client implementations.

One translation of this principle to ranked choice voting is that if that a voter does not correctly fill in all the boxes and use “1, 2, 3” then their vote just doesn’t count — it would make the tally algorithm much simpler — but that also goes against the principle that a tally algorithm should go out of its way to scry as much into the intent of a voter as possible, and reject as few ballots as it possibly can.
Saw it mentioned by the author in this tweet:

I wrote a script that
- pulled @_akhaliq's last 7 days of tweets

- fished out the arxiv links

- downloaded raw paper .tex

- parsed out intros &amp; conclusions

- automated a podcast dialogue about the papers w/ web automation &amp; GPT

- generated a podcast

https://t.co/oEoNloBzms
I see you in a lot of threads and really appreciate sharing your experience in the comments / blog :)
Hope you get the chance. To me it’s like working part time: the income reduction is well worth it. Good luck
ReactJS: https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact

Also just started the free FastAI course, seems very good so far
I see this explanation a lot, but then I look at polls like this one:

https://reason.com/2014/08/19/august-2014-reason-rupe-nation...

Sprawl is just a scapegoat, the real reason is in the mindset.

In my corner of the world the idea that 12 year old teenagers should be, by law, supervised would be laughed at.

And mind you, I live in a country where 36% of the population doesn't have access to public transport due to how it was dismantled over the years in favour of cars and sprawl.
Who are "they"and why would "they" want to do that?

Asking because flying passengers on unsafe planes is already illegal.
And drunk driving accidents
"or maybe that regulation is there for a reason (most times to protect consumers)"

Erm, can you tell me in what way a cucumber is dangerous to consumers, if its shape is bend a little bit more or less, so they need to be protected of that threat?
It's all matter of mindset, changing work and challenges often, learning something new and stay away from all non-core discussions, specially politics.
That's a per search price on top of the $20 monthly price.
> Though he used a brown/red color scheme, the thought that Mars was red did not enter his mind.

Mars is visibly red in the sky with your naked eye...
In addition, should such a practice become normal, countless human beings entering the society will be damaged by being misled to believe that those entities are actually human, and would based their judgement of actual humans on what they learn right then
If they suddenly have way more safety issues, the logical next step would be to prevent them from operating an airline, right?

All this says to me is that the government does nothing to prevent hugely unsafe airlines from operating.

The cancellation loophole seems fine to me, it's the followthrough that's concerning. What am I missing here?
But that is the thing - in Germany or Switzerland 6 years old go to and from school unsupervised. The expectation is that they can in fact play alone on the street.
I love the books that Michael W Lucas has written.

I bought physical copies of several of them (the “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” book, “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems”, “FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS” and “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”) on FreeBSD Mall.

I finished reading the “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” book, and am currently reading the “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” book.

I also recently bought the Total Mastery eBook bundle of his from his Tilted Windmill website. It includes eBook versions of the above books that I already have in physical copies, along with a bunch of other eBooks.

In the future I might buy physical copies of more of his books. There is something special about physical books that makes them far more comfortable to read for me than to read eBooks even though I have a eBook reader with eInk. The ability to flip through a physical book, and to feel the physical dimensions of the book adds something for me that eBook readers cannot.

I also want to investigate whether it is possible to donate books to some libraries. I think as a community we could buy IT books that we particularly like, and donate them to libraries, to make them available to more people. It would be especially nice to help books about FreeBSD and OpenBSD reach more people.
Agreed, as I can’t see what this has to do with “hacking”. It fits the “news” part, but I am not here for this type of news.
Who is Nasir?
Yes, but substance abuse, ceiminality and mortality of factory kids were all huge by our standards. They were not really handling it.
1/7 can't be written as a decimal without adding extra notation: the “…” is as much a symbol as “/” or “√”
I can recommend to Op reading the book “If you want to write.” by Brenda Ueland.
The error is in trying to handle such a specific situation in the law. This should be sorted out using some form of court. If a customer is unhappy about any aspect of the service from any business, he can approach the court and the judge will decide what is appropriate. No super specific laws.
Like all US tax law?
Does anyone even do rough math when they propose these types of things?

Public transport funding tends to be in the billions of dollars.

The private jet market globally, including company jets (which I assume this wouldn’t include) is $30B.

I’m guessing some fraction is personal private jet use, maybe $5B.

So they’re going to impose a 50-100% tax?
They are the Canadian government and they want to do that because keeping their citizens alive is part of their job.
A fair enough point.
Note that in later life, Teitelman switched to dogs, who have historically been far far better at DWIM than machines.

(If I understand correctly, in the early days of time-sharing, as opposed to batch, there were great hopes for the "conversational interface")
Something like this (adjust the primary key name convention and schema as needed):

create procedure mandatory_ (_table_name "text", _mandatory_table_name "text") language plpgsql as $$
declare
_trigger_name "text";
begin
_trigger_name = _table_name || '_mandatory_' || _mandatory_table_name || '_trigger';
execute
'create function "' || _trigger_name || '_" () returns trigger language plpgsql as $' || '$ '
'begin '
'if not exists '
'( select 1 '
'from public."' || _mandatory_table_name || '" _mandatory '
'where _mandatory ."' || _table_name || '_id" = new ."id" ) '
'then '
'raise '
'''non-existent relation between "%" and "%" violates mandatory participation constraint'' '
', ' || quote_literal (_table_name) ||
', ' || quote_literal (_mandatory_table_name) || '; '
'end if;'
'return new; '
'end; '
'$' || '$ ';
execute
'create constraint trigger "' || _trigger_name || '" '
'after insert or update on "' || _table_name || '" '
'deferrable initially deferred '
'for each row execute function "' || _table_name || '_mandatory_' || _mandatory_table_name || '_trigger_" () ';
end;
$$;
"The Illuminatus! Triology" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
No amount of zoning reform can fix the fact that it's not safe for kids in America, because it's crawling with predators. Even if you have school, shop, friends, and all that, within four blocks of each other.
Who would be today's George Kennan in U.S. diplomacy, foreign policy?

From a distance you can only see war-loving naivetes.
> Your mom would get arrested now. Even if she wanted to let you.

Instead children's development is being arrested, apparently. Albeit in a different sense.
The trouble is fitting a big enough basin in a cramped camper, and yes, water access (much less pressure) in a place one can use it.
Hidden in the middle of the article is that these are false memories after the fact.
Attempting to solve problems with micro-targeted taxes is a rather unfair strategy that is also unlikely to work. This article claims that a private jet is <2 orders of magnitude worse than more conventional transport. That means their contribution contributes approximately 0% to the total pollution problem.

The UK has a much bigger threat from energy security than they do from climate change. I've been watching their energy numbers on trusty old Wikipedia. They are grim. The UK does not need a policy of trying to load their problems onto wealthy people. If they leave and the UK loses the ability to build up a financial edge and the country will have nothing left.
I'm looking at the USDA regulations and they seem reasonable to me. Looks like they're protecting consumers from being sold garbage labeled "cucumbers" instead of cucumbers labeled "cucumbers".
While it's not as robust as static-typing, compile-time type checking for Erlang has come a long way. Eqwalizer works pretty well, though but I may be biased since my employer sponsors the project.

1. https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer
Yeah, but they tend to get outraged over ridiculous stuff periodically. I stopped caring about that group for this reason.

I mean, there were articles and think pieces about complete nothing burgers. Like someone seen a mom put blanket on grass and cut cucumber and give it to kid. There was whole think piece about overprotection and fear and fatness, all of those purely projected on woman that just ... cut cucumber.
At least for designing APIs, I find pydantic + FastAPI (and now SQLAlchemy 2) to be an excellent platform to do the initial spec, and the beauty of it is that it automatically produces the swagger docs as well as a fully functioning API interface as well!
https://archive.ph/JR8Pd
You can always leave the secure area, but you can’t enter without a valid, current boarding pass.

Some airports have significantly different services airside vs landside - food, seating, etc.

Standby might be significantly easier from the airside - you can wander over to the gate vs getting a new boarding pass.
You don't have the right mindset for things like that...you can leave now ;)
Yes, in ordinal ranking schemes, there's a strategy that's individually rational:
Figure out who the two front runners are. Rate the better of them 100. Also, rate everyone else you like more than that front runner a 100.
> I see three comments saying it was there before 9/11, but really, the fear dial was amped to 11 then.

If you look for security reasons, you'll find security reasons, for everything. It's like like applying a caricature of scientific method to gaslight someone.
Asynchronous workloads using Springboot's TaskDecorator
Hey, just wanted to chime in that your post is nice.

Now, I wish substack had support for math. Adding formulas in images isn't that bad (and practically unavoidable if you want to draw functions - unless you write js), but, still.
This book turned me into a rabid RAW fan... which in turn lead me to Discordianism. That journey then led me to Rev. Ivan Stang and the Church of the Subgenius. So pretty much, RAW and Robert Shea directly made me the weirdo I am today.
But is it not common to force students, as a condition of attending lectures, to live in university housing, and to eat university provided meals?

And it is not the case that university housing comes with "advisers" who ensure you are living in an approved way? (And for some bizarre reason you cannot have your own bedroom, you have to share - a last ditch effort to obstruct pre-marital sex?)

In the EU anything not associated with studying for a degree is option, and if housing is provided it is just housing without any a special measures to supervise the tenants.

At least in Germany, housing, catering and sports facilities are usually in the hands of a seperate body so there is no incentive for the university to try to use their power over students to force their use.
The data plans in most developing countries are actually quite good.

For example, the best overall plan I've used anywhere in the world is in Thailand. You can get unlimited 10Mbit service for $5 a month. The coverage is extremely good even in the mountains or islands, latency is excellent, and I've used over 100 GB without hitting any additional throttles. And that's with AIS. There are cheaper companies and plans if you wanted.
You need to start somewhere. It is easier to start with the super-rich because average Joe has no problem with it. And then you can try to trickle down until average Joe is also affected with the reasoning that not only the super rich are a problem for the environment. But if you stsrt from the bottom the average Joe will pount at jets of the super rich people and fight such legislation very hard.
63% of residents of Scotland describe themselves as Scottish only - not British.

18% Scottish and British, 8% British only.

https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/tableView/tabl...

Results were similar in 2011 too.
I agree, but many of the people who are negatively affected by zoning restrictions were either children and not born yet when those restrictions were implemented. I wouldn't say they're getting what they want.
We accidentally dropped a screw in your pizza and had to cancel it as a safety issue. Sorry, no refunds. Brilliant!
Sure you can do that and I use things like this all the time in other languages, but the python example was very basic. There are other cases that are sometimes harder to reproduce e.g. when iterating over dictionaries to create a list, when you have tuples etc.
The customers who value their data not getting intercepted or modified by the state. (Including corrupt actors therein.)
Oh, you mean optimizing the SQL as SQL, not optimizing the query execution?

Well, some of these transformations are useful, like the one you presented. But any non-trivial transformation may be either beneficial or detrimental, depending on a myriad of factors including memory layout, compression, distribution of data, computing hardware etc.
I agree that embedding Prolog is a compelling use case. I ported Trealla Prolog to WASM to help the cause. It's super cool being able to store some business rules as a chunk of Prolog text and run them on both the backend and the frontend as-is.

Want to explore your code, maybe test out some quick changes? Prolog comes with a nice REPL. Want to modify the knowledgebase? Add some clauses with assertz/1 and dump out the full program code with listing/0; no need to wrangle the text yourself. Want to make a previously static relationship more dynamic? Just throw in a new rule: as far as Prolog is concerned rules and facts are equal citizens. It's like a database that lets you intermix static and dynamic row definitions anywhere you want. Testing it is easy: Prolog will happily give you every possible result for a general query. Want to generate error messages from chunks of code, or run your queries backwards? Just throw in a little metainterpreter[1].

I think Prolog is the perfect companion language to static and difficult-to-extend languages like Go. I think that if we want Prolog to become more popular, we should focus on a great embedding experience for developers. That's my current goal :)

[1]: https://www.metalevel.at/acomip/
Or if you're smart you won't reinvent the wheel. It's already been done. use one of them
I'm sympathetic to libertarianism, but I'm also in favor of targeted taxes on luxury goods. A lot of the reason people buy these goods is to signal wealthy anyways. They're "Veblen goods" where the demand doesn't necessarily go down as price increases -- it may even go up. They're also a deadweight loss for the economy. So taxing them doesn't just appease the masses. It's also good policy. Much better than taxing wealth or income, for instance.