skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suddenly I am wondering whether reports of "police have at times consulted with psychics" will enter in any way.

But did they consult with psychics, or a greek lady who took their money, lit a candle, and said some ambiguous woo woo bullshit that happened to be right by coincidence?

I've yet to meet the former.

(Also, I'm not a police officer.)
I'm not a cybersecurity expert, but i follow security news as i'm often working alongside secops teams.

When i read here about Log4J, is was a real "Holy shit moment". It was so easy to use, it could've been a nebula exercise.

I contacted my PO asap, we found out that we had no inventory of what our VM were and what java versions were installed (worked at a bank btw). We then contacted the secops team, who just found out, and triggered all alarms. It was all hands on deck time. Quite a fun two weeks tbh.
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When dealing with particularly toxic people I find the exponential backoff to be an excellent strategy.

In my case, I hate cutting people off because I know people can change. What I do to manage relationships is run a forgiving version of exponential backoff. Start off friendly and forgiving. If someone becomes transgressive, increase the latency between interactions. If the transgressions continue, double the latency. If bad interactions persist, the time latency can go on to months or even years which means you'll probably never interact with that person again. Conversely, if an interaction goes well, reduce the delay for when you're willing to meet again. E.g. say an irritating individual causes the latency to go to once a month. If you have an interaction that goes well then the latency drops to 2 weeks. If interactions continue to go well they drop further to say no latency, i.e. you're willing to meet this person whenever. Obviously it's not perfect but it suites my needs quite well.

I also found his chapter on "overfitting" excellent. I like to think of it as "smart person disease." Big idea is that having more data can actually hamper decision making instead of enhance it because you winde up solving the wrong problem.
Tesla won't dominate the auto industry, because no one will
I love this idea.

When I was an exchange student in Germany, I took civil engineering courses in German. Traditional dictionaries were not really useful for filling my gaps of technical vocabulary.

Instead, my approach was to have the German textbook (or course notes), a textbook on the topic in English and Wikipedia open. I would try to go through the German content as far as I could. Often I would be stuck because I did not know some terms, so I would search on Wikipedia and then change the language to English. If the wiki article wasn't enough then I would go to the English textbook and fill in the gaps.

I would have loved to have this then!
> And I really prefer absence of modern safety like ABS if the safety is controlled by software manufacturer only.

I'm really wondering where this mindset ends though. You're foregoing safety equipment which is proven to make you far safer on the roads because you can't access the firmware of the device. You're choosing a much older car with far worse safety designs because of this. How far would you take this idea? If you were seriously injured and in the hospital, would you refuse for the doctors to use machines which contain non-free software to save your life? Would you rather die than interface with non-free software?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a generally FOSS supporting person and agree with many of RMS' ideas surrounding software freedom. If there were two cars out there which were roughly the same, one with free software and one with closed, I'd pick the free software version. But in the end I value my family's safety far more than my opinion on free software, so it is an obvious choice to choose the safer car.
The survey foot is, from what I could tell in the article, already officially defined in meters. It seems that the real complaint about how the US is backward is that we use fractions of whole numbers. The horror!
This is why the U.S. government needs a dedicated digital team like the Obama administration had setup.

The entire government can be their clients, so they can efficiently reuse stuff they’ve developed.

The UK government has done this I believe (I’m not entirely sure how it’s setup, but I do remember them publishing a UI toolkit that didn’t just look good but covered accessibility properly), and I think every govt should be doing it going forward.
Art is often about constraint, and mastery of simple tools.

I identify with @antirez's sentiment. I know both C and C++ very well. I find C definitely more artistic. C++ is utilitarian.

Prolog is the other language I code in "artistically". It too is quite simple and constrained, though it is on the opposite end of the high/low-level spectrum as C.
In my opinion yes. It is not only twitter, too many aspects of his ventures are negative for human development standards.
Only for rational numbers. Decimal -> fraction is a surjection. Irractional numbers, notionally representable as decimals, are uncountably infinite, and do not map 1:1 to fractions.
“The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”

- Donald Knuth "The Art of Computer Programming"
No whining here. I just think you're thinking too small.

bash is usually convenient. When it's not convenient, it might be impossible. Shell scripts with long lives or broad usefulness should be portable.

POSIX sh is just not that scary. It just takes a little extra discipline. It's an appropriate choice, more often than not.
There's a massive hole in the methodology. If I tell you "do this complex mental task, oh by the way be conscious of your breathing the whole time," that is going to have impact on your capacity to focus on the task.
We were walking 700km through Norway and I created poems during the walk. About 5 each day. I remembered one word of each and told it myself the whole time, then wrote the poem down in the evening. In the end I wrote a poem book with all of them (most of them, some I forgot ;-)
If it's a really great idea, it will stick around in your head. If it needs to be written down, it's probably not a very good idea.

Check out Stephen King's take on this: https://youtu.be/lwhOd65gGoY?t=30
How does it compare to https://neeva.com/ ?
I'm going to give an anti-recommendation to the Dell XPS 13 unless you buy their top tier support plan or are a business customer. I've had three of them in the past 5 years and all 3 had serious issues. Their customer service gives you the runaround and is a nightmare to deal with, even if it involves DOA hardware. All 3 arrived with one issue or another: 1 with a broken keyboard (9370), 1 with a power button that got stuck on the hinge and powered down randomly (9360), and the other had a battery swell up a few months into receiving it (but this was a work laptop). All three required a battery replacement. On the other hand, Linux support is quite excellent. But the hardware and customer service is pretty bad.
that still doesn't help a ton. Solar City/Tesla has backed out of a huge number of deals for solar installs unless the client pays more than the signed contracts. the 'solar roof' was YEARS late and way overpriced.

For Tesla, we still don't have fully self driving cars, but its always coming in Q4 of this year. Products are announced WAY too soon. Its been years since the cybertruck and new roadster were announced and demoed, and still none exist. This isn't their first new model, they should understand how the building of factories work, etc.
They are still not the same value.
But most importantly, what does doh mean? I'm just thinking of homer simpson.
> Without drastic changes to both policy and messaging, that could consign conservative parties to an increasingly distant second place.

According to civics classes, that is what conservative parties who believe in democracy would do. Will they?

(does someone in the US need to build some sort of escrow-as-a-service, where politicians on the left of the right and right of the left could register interest, but none give any outward signs of defecting until enough —or perhaps enough with a margin for cold-feeters— have registered, in order to directly form an electable centre party? In addition to the escrow, seniority might be a practical issue...)
It seems the people who complain most loudly about "cancel culture" are the ones who have never had this done to them historically and cannot imagine a life where you're constantly under real threat from social norms defined by others.

In other words, these complainers have never had to endure or think about:

- anti-black housing discrimination (e.g., redlining)
- misogynistic sidelining and glass ceilings
- anti-Jewish admissions policies at major universities

etc., etc.

Guess what, in all these cases, socially coordinated groups could cause you to lose your job, or not be able to buy a house, or lose your career, etc. It was never fair. Employers in the US could in general terminate you for no cause at all.

It's just that these people who complain about cancel culture now have never had to worry about this stuff before, and it seems like something new and pisses them off.
> One thing I've struggled with -- I have a lot of ideas. I write a lot of ideas down, but I do less well at capturing the level of detail that made the idea exciting at the time. That's what I'd like to develop further.

Reminds me ideas I get when smoking pot. Writing them down yields more regret than not to.
American here, what is that in football fields (the one true measurement)?
I would really like to have names of packages you use regularly and you think you will miss in any other system. I can think only of TikZ, and again, for targeted purposes like DSL you can always ask TeXmacs to run LaTeX and get the output. See e.g. https://twitter.com/gnu_texmacs/status/1605167149173153793
> On Monday I had in my hands a book bought in 1843 by an ancestor of mine,

Of course there will be exceptions, but the majority of paperbacks published today likely won't exist in 180 years.

> A backup copy is legal in my country, and IIRC it's the same in most countries.

This seems to be fuzzy in the U.S.? "if you are making a copy so that you may use a copyrighted product in case the original is stolen, damaged or destroyed, your conduct may fall within the doctrine of fair use." [1] Others seem more confident in a yes answer. [2]

re: the several advantages of physical books: yes, of course. My thought experiment was on the (slight, mostly long-term) impermanence of physical books compared to the potentially infinite, but perhaps revocable nature of digital books.

re: the distinction between the text as a concept and the medium in which it is stored: yes, that was the point I was thinking about: that each has drawbacks.

> The seller can't take it back from me

While true in general at the present, there have been many instances in the past where physical media were confiscated -- albeit generally by governments, and I'm not sure that digital copies would fare any better in that scenario.

1. https://legalbeagle.com/12719016-copyright-law-making-personal-copies.html
2. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-to-digitize-paper-version-books-I-bought-into-PDF-copies
This is circular.

Circular, subjective, I'm not sure what the argument here is. There's no disagreement these rules don't meet the standards of formal logic.

Anyone looking for something to nitpick and fight about will succeed. [...] I'm not really even convinced discussing defamation on a post about defamation should be considered a tangent

Isn't that a tautology? Wait, we're not doing that.

It might not be a tangent, the tone and phrasing count too. For instance, people often write the good version of their comment after they get mod-berated, in defense of their originally iffy comment. Again, it's the effects that count. The poster could have easily written a less hackle-raising, summoning-reply-guys-to-the-reply-guy comment and we wouldn't need to define tangents from first principles to begin with.
What I don't understand is how Youtube allows channels to be created where they clearly contain trademarked terms - in this case, Tesla. It shouldn't be hard to have a watchlist of trademarks that flags any channel creation using those terms for manual review.
The sense I get from the person, what the cards say, and what my own predispositions say, all have a bearing on what I say during a reading. As for justifying the part determined by the cards, I can offer two:

-they might simply be a way of limiting what I can say since I'm not going to tell someone something completely counter to the traditional meaning. That limitation might force me to be more creative than if I was just going off my own predispositions alone.

-I also would hope tech and science oriented people wouldn't rule out that the question being asked has a bearing on what cards show up before running an experiment. I'm agnostic on that point myself, but I could expound at least two theories that would allow for that kind of foreshadowing without contradicting any beliefs that are held by at least a plurality of the HN crowd. What is contradicted by that belief is our instincts based on Newtonian physics, but those have already been proven incomplete.
Plutonium, duh
Has anyone actually received one yet, though? I can't seem to find any actual reviews.
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There's also the cost of the diesel fuel (or whatever fuel you burn) to consider. With no native hydrocarbons on the moon, extracting them would be impossible. So they would need to be launched from earth, at many tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram as an ongoing cost.

The biggest challenge to the obvious solutions - either solar plus lots of batteries, or nuclear - would be to crack water into oxygen and hydrogen, and then burn them during the night. The challenge there is storing the hydrogen. But if you do that, basically what you'd be doing is using hydrogen/oxygen as an energy storage mechanism, e.g. as a battery. You'd need to use solar during the day to crack the water.
Not to mention JavaScript, then :)
Without devising a research project with flawed methodology that nonetheless gets published, my wild-ass guess would be that conscious cognitive function is maximized by allowing breathing to be managed by the unconscious mind.

Maybe he opens his mouth because it's the most comfortable thing to do in the moment.
High volume of negative on Tesla articles posted lately.

Are these just a side effect if Elon pissing everyone off with his Twitter shenanigans? People motivated to talk about his companies and share negative comments? Is there any organized effort (bots) doing this?
Funding:
None.

Those are good people I guess.
I actually got shingles 2 days after flu vaccination in 2017. I had chicken pox twice as a kid and the common idea (old wives' tale?) at that time was if you got chicken pox you wouldn't get shingles. I don't know that the vaccine contributed or not, but it's an odd coincidence. Luckily it was a mild case handled by amoxicillin.
Mind palace + notes on iOS.

At work, I have a notepad in my desk with all the perl and python shit I always forget.
I’m not sure this is a pragmatic solution at all.

You’ve now raised the possibility that someone who starts being educated in the field a few years down the line, and never used the old foot at all, will look at old data with SFT measurements and assume they are IFT and introduce all sorts of errors in their analyses and calculations.

You’ve gone from 2 distinctly named standards with a 3x difference in value, which meansa mental sanity check should be sufficient to identify errors in most cases, to introducing a 3rd that is named very much like 1 of those and is close enough in value that a mental sanity check will not get you anywhere in most cases.
Being done with someone after too many shitshows implies no black or white worldviews.
Before I learned about SpaceX, I thought it was literally impossible to reuse rockets because they burned up in the atmosphere or something. After all, not a single space agency in the world was doing it. Surely the smart engineers working in those places had good reasons.

Watching SpaceX land rocket boosters on target again and again is kind of magical, like something out of Kerbal Space Program. I wonder how long it's gonna take to get a fully reusable rocket. They're working on the Starship and it's supposed to be fully reusable.
It is rational: 391/1250
Who has the kind of money to quibble over that fifth decimal place? Oh yeah, national governments.
I use the voice assistant on my watch to set a reminder to note the idea when I have access to a note taking device.
You can give a look at TeXmacs' twitter account for example of what it can do: https://twitter.com/gnu_texmacs
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It is literally a ratio of integers, therefore rational.
Tesla isn’t just about cars, it’s about making renewable energy useful.

Boring had little to do with Musk. It was an idea that seemed promising, and a Tesla manager volunteered to make it reality. Musk just provided some initial finding. It is completely unrelated to rail.

Not sure why you feel Twitter to be a “debacle”? I like diversity of though and open discourse. Also the scientific method is a good thing to save.
This is all pretty accurate. The only real surprise is that 40um tech and above are still running full steam and even the 20+ year old tech has only dropped a few percent for next year.
I thought so too. Clicking around, I had a hunch when I saw "lightseagreen" that these were the old X11 colors, and went looking for "lemonchiffon" to confirm it. (From the text though it sounds like there are other sources as well.)
> NOAA needs to justify why they're ADDING ift in 2023 rather than just scrapping sft?

The reason is well known.

American exceptionalism.

Personally I've just given up on the USA dropping anything legacy for international standards.

Things will only get worse, as this example clearly shows.
My daily driver for the past couple of years has been Thinkpad T480s running Debian/XFCE. However I recently acquired a Framework Chromebook for my partner, and now I'm sorely tempted to get one for myself too.

Perhaps my favourite thing about the Framework is the 3:2 aspect ratio screen. That is, aside from the flagship characteristics of running Linux well and being user-serviceable. ChromeOS is really great at keeping itself stable and updated with minimal fuss.

The Linux dev mode runs Bullseye by default and is surprisingly well-integrated with the host OS given that fact that it runs in a VM. For example, after I apt installed GIMP in the dev VM, the launcher icon showed up in the ChromeOS launcher menu automatically, and it mostly "just works." You have to use the "Linux" folder from ChromeOS to transfer files between the host and guest, which is a little wonky, and things like screen capture from GIMP don't work by default. But for my partner, they are willing to put up with things like that to have a bulletproof host OS that seamlessly auto-updates.
Wizard's Bane is the first book of the Wizardary Compiled series by Rick Cook.

At one time, it was in the Baen Free Library ( https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2012 ) but it appears to have gone back to a regular "you buy it book". https://www.baen.com/wizard-s-bane.html

However, if you dig in Wayback, you can find the Free Library of old - https://web.archive.org/web/20050828182931/http://www.baen.c... and the first two (IMHO the best two) books. Its old school frame stuff to get it to the screen (which works) and linkable via going to the frameless version ( https://web.archive.org/web/20050903172506fw_/http://www.bae... )

The first 3 books can be found as one volume on Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Wiz-Wizardry-combo-volumes-Book-ebook...

As to recommending the book (and series)? Yes. The first three are good. Book 4 is... getting weird and 5 is weird.
They declined to hire the homebrew guy because he sucked at whiteboarding. Apple is terrible for FOSS. I like their phones but I’d never write for them or use/support their machines.

Edit: I was wrong, twas the Goog, in fact.
It's still around: https://www.usds.gov/, and similar to the UK system, there's a US Gov equivalent: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

The UK one: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...
> could easily have asked instead, where do you draw the line?

The commenter made that quite clear. Using a computational model that's not complete can not be called "programming" in any real-world context.

Which is weird. This kinda implies that, whenever I forbid myself to write my Python-Code without While-loops or recursion, I'm not programming.

The traditional definitions of programming are often along the lines of instructing a machine to perform certain tasks.
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What I’m saying is the plans have a tiny budget devoted to their optimisation. For something like a view, I would happily let the optimiser run for hours finding a speedup if it were then reliably delivered. As it is, none of that happens and you often have to rewrite to a functionally identical but faster query. The furthest you can go on something like Postgres is tweaking some config and turning off stuff like GEQO in favour of brute force etc.
Funny this shows up today - literally yesterday, during the shower, I've got two candidates for a solution to a technical problem I'm trying to fix for a couple of months!

They didn't turn up as great as I initially though, but this lead to some interesting ideas. And to me writing this answer. :)

This shower thing happens from time to time - but only if I actively think about the problem - and I never go to the bathroom with a goal of solving anything. It's more like something is bothering me and it just happens that it's this time of the day.

Walks are also moments where ideas pops up - again, if I actively think about the problem. Always have a phone with me, so typically I just write down some short note to be able to come back to it later.

My more conscious approach is writing outline of the problem down, together with currently know solutions. Often times imagining I'm doing this for someone else than me. This tends to flush some interesting issues. Also, returning to such note after a day or to, when I try to understand it just from its content, somewhat pretending I know nothing about the issue, can also be fruitful.
How much more dangerous would that be compared to space normally?
2020, and it looks like a course in accepting orthodoxy more than anything about free inquiry
> I’ve spent about 3 months on a new product, i spent all day yesterday trying to figure out how to sell it effectively.

If it's one thing I've learned from following bootstrappers and trying to start my own SaaS - it's that you should spend 3 months selling and 1 day building.
i got it back
C++ is not a superset of C, there are plenty of legal C constructs that will trigger errors when compiled with a C++ compiler.
Yes and other people don't know about the Rapid test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_influenza_diagnostic_tes...
Much more financial in nature than computational in nature. Though one could make the case for banning people from computers for financial crimes too.
For example? Who did he “destroy for the lolz”?
Now we need the corrupt, entrenched, fossilized, competition to catch up. It's clearly not a tech problem but a business one.
+1 for vanilla js