skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advice is generally to MAKE it a gift - not secretly think of it as one. As you've experienced, the guilt can drive people apart from the borrower's side, even if you never ask for repayment, so you need to make it clear up from that none is expected.
More like one confirmed radiation death and around 2000 because of the tsunami and the displacement.
Robotic basketball hoop guarantees a basket every time [video]
3/12/98
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American McGee has been let go from Id.

His past contributions include work in three of the all time great games
(DOOM 2, Quake, Quake 2), but we were not seeing what we wanted.
I wonder how well a zstd dictionary will work against these kinds of data sets.
Weird, wonder why the deduper didn't catch it.

Thanks!
Seattle Schools sues social media firms over youth mental health crisis
The only problem with this is when you are actually at the bottom of the file. But great tip in general!
Chinese scientists scramble to wake Zhurong
Even if you already have a desktop for some reason adding a GPU is a much more significant expense these days and with greatly increased power requirements can potentially require a new PSU too. I can't see the market expanding a whole lot when a GPU to do PS5 level performance costs about the same as an entire PS5.
I don't have an answer but English LOVES preposition-attached verbs.

You can use lent and borrowed in both directions (I lent X to him; he lent X to me -- I borrowed X from him; he borrowed X from me) so the main difference is not in whether the verbs can be used bidirectionally, but in how you indicate the direction.

I suspect Spanish (and maybe Polish) disambiguate in different ways, but disambiguate I'm sure they do!
Well, there was also a time when "Macintosh" meant a raincoat to all but a handful of people, and another time 10 years later when "Amazon" was a forest or a river to all but a few weird nerds who were finding it cool to give out their credit card details "online" to order books, instead of just crossing the street to get them from the bookstore like every sane person did.
It's pretty common to do this using the URI fragment in a link.

For example: https://themeasureofaplan.com/market-timing/#initialContribu...

This shows the performance of a market timing strategy on the S&P500, where you invest $20,000 upfront and $1,000 per month thereafter, while only buying when the market is 25%+ away from the all-time high price (analysis from 1993 to 2023).

These user input variables are all directly encoded in the URL, after the # symbol.
This book is all you need
https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html
I find this very weird to speak about out loud/in public. Having advances is a personal thing and can be quite embarrassing to ask for - maybe after x years it's not as bad but still... Maybe a cultural thing?
Interesting take.

I always thought that the "colony life" parts of the special edition were completely unnecessary. The rest of the movie works really well as being told almost entirely from Ripley's viewpoint, so seeing the colony only when she does (as in the theatrical cut), torn apart and lifeless, I personally think works better.

I still prefer the director's cut because of the backstory about Ripley's daughter, and the deeper relationship she forms with Newt as a result. It gives so much more depth to why she goes back for her at the end. Also to the stand-off in the egg chamber with one mother against another, and the shared understanding there.

The sentry guns are pretty cool, too.
I agree. For nearly 10 years I've felt that we've continued to look to "new tools" to solve our problems, always hoping/expecting that the next tool will get it right!.

When it comes to internal ticket systems, but tracking systems, internal wikis or blogs, I've long felt that each one needs a "benevolent dictator", or as I prefer to call it, a "curator".

For example, if you have an internal bug tracking system, the curator should have a custom query set up where they sort by new and keep an eye on incoming things, or look for bugs that are missing certain fields (if your system isn't configured to require them), spot-checking for duplicates, poorly written and unclear, etc... Same thing with an internal Wiki. Then reaching out and coaching and providing polite guidance.

You'll have some users who do these things well, but you'll always have some users who don't. If it's left entirely to the users and there is no curator, then things always deteriorate. Cruft builds up, things become difficult to find, and folks abandon the system in favor of the next thing, and the cycle repeats.
Weirdly, with IEs it was exactly 2083 characters (1) not some base 2 number and MS never increased this number over all these years. This upper limit even included fragments. We tried to do something similar as described in the article and were surprised to learn about IEs limitation. In the end, we stored states on a JS object instead using their hash sum as keys and put that inside the fragment. Then fragment based navigation worked like charm across browsers.

(1) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/maximum-url-length...
I'm unfamiliar with the bioinformatics scene, but I can imagine there's a lot of "legacy" hardware and software lying around that can't easily be updated to support superior formats.

Perhaps an interim solution would be something like "zstd+metadata", where the metadata is sufficient to transparently and efficiently reconstruct a gzip-compressed file on-demand. (similarly to how JPEG-XL allows oldschool JPEGs to be recompressed without losing any data)

This could have a bit of compute overhead, but since gzip decompression is so single-threaded I think you could do the conversion in parallel without actually slowing down the hot path. So, the performance would be approximately the same as using gzip (assuming decompression is compute-bound, not io-bound), but with all the storage benefits of using zstd.
Ok, so it's fascination. And a heavy dose of romanticization.

Yet McCandless was essentially reckless rather than heroic. It's not that hard to die if you put yourself in an extreme situation, without preparing yourself or having any safeguards. It's a form of Russian roulette rather than "rejecting society"; though, I suppose, suicide is the ultimate form of rejecting society.

I see that he liked Jack London. So do I! However, I must wonder how thoroughly he read London's work, especially his Klondike gold rush stories, because very often in the stories the main character ends up dead, defeated by bad luck and an unsympathetic wilderness which is hostile to clueless men. I mean, did he read "To Build a Fire"?
Yes, but mobility brings additional constraints on performance that desktop computer does not provide - simply because of focus on battery life and power performance.

Consoles are optimized for the job they are doing, so pick a PC that is optimized too.
Bing's weather report out of touch with reality
Bing's weather report is totally out of touch with reality, and not even vaguely close to the National Weather Service report.

Bing, today, for Silicon Valley: "Partly cloudy."

National Weather Service: "Rain, mainly before 11am. Steady temperature around 56. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible." Flood watch.

It's been like this for the last week. Whatever Bing uses to pick the weather icon for the day is out of touch with reality.
To add to the great recommendations on this thread, I really like Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht's "Patterns, Predictions, and Actions". It's published by Princeton University Press here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691233734/pa...

But is also available online as a preprint here: https://mlstory.org/
I had similar thoughts before submitting, but with Spring Framework in mind.

I agree that books like 'Spring in Action' are extremely beneficial, but I also think that the real benefit for me has been in understanding the nuance and context, not an exhaustive covering of details.

I've given up reading plenty of books that are really just reference manuals.
Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
These are FASTQ files[0], which are the actual raw bases read by the sequencer, and a quality score for each base. This is upstream of comparison to a known genome any other processing.

You're correct that there's a lot of redundancy in these files, not least because each area of the genome is generally covered several times over. Removing this redundancy (or using it for error correction) is a big part of the downstream processing of this file.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format
Yeah listen I'm glad it worked out for Carmack, but for everyone else

YMMV

Again

YMMV

A lot of good alternate perspectives here. Usually loaning money doesn't work out. There's a reason they're coming to you and not their local bank or using that line of credit on their credit card. You def don't want to be known as the person who helps people out, just makes you a magnet for grifters.

My personal experience. I overcame a lot to go from "lower middle class" to "upper middle class". So I'm great with money, save a lot, etc. But, given my history and where I come from, most of the people I know aren't good with money. I learned a lot of this the hard way - via loans.

I'm not "from the hood", but there's similarities. You sometimes have to cut ties to mature/grow in your personal life. I had to learn most of these people who "were" my friends really aren't my friends any more.

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"

Be smart people.
Ask HN: Acronyms and shorthand you’d like to see?
IHNRTB (I have never read this book): Used to indicate a book recommendation is made entirely on general reputation and not on the poster’s own reading and review of the material.
For a number of reasons. For a start, what does disabling the cache refresh imply? Does it come with a degradation of service for Go users? If not, then why is it there at all? And if so, why should we accept a service degradation when the problem is clearly in the proxy's poor engineering and design?

Furthermore, we try to look past the tip of our own nose when it comes to these kinds of problems. We often reject solutions which are offered to SourceHut and SourceHut alone. This isn't the first time this principle has run into problems with the Go team; to this day pkg.go.dev does not work properly with SourceHut instances hosted elsewhere than git.sr.ht, or even GitLab instances like salsa.debian.org, because they hard-code the list of domains rather than looking for better solutions -- even though they were advised of several.

The proxy has caused problems for many service providers, and agreeing to have SourceHut removed from the refresh would not solve the problem for anyone else, and thus would not solve the problem. Some of these providers have been able to get in touch with the Go team and received this offer, but the process is not easily discovered and is poorly defined, and, again, comes with these implied service considerations. In the spirit of the Debian free software guidelines, we don't accept these kinds of solutions:

> The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.

Yes, being excluded from the refresh would reduce the traffic to our servers, likely with less impact for users. But it is clearly the wrong solution and we don't like wrong solutions. You would not be wrong to characterize this as somewhat ideologically motivated, but I think we've been very reasonable and the Go team has not -- at this point our move is, in my view, justified.
> If they can't get the information a very large portion of them will rubber stamp it

They'll just toss your application out without a human ever seeing it. You're clearly a noncompliant troublemaker and not worth hiring.
> … tricky when different people use different base-images…

Even back in 1984 pre-ENVY the explicit advice was —

"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager." (page 500)

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...

> When you depend on (specific facts about) your base-image you don't need to declare such dependencies anywhere.

Why would you do what you describe as "image-based" development when you had ENVY/Developer prerequisites "defining exactly which other code an application expects to access"?

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

Wouldn't that be like keeping code in your own personal folder hierarchy when the others were using git?
I recently went on a 60 mile gravel bike trip with a rather large group (50 riders) in the PNW. It was ~May of last year, and a freak storm came out of nowhere over the mountain, while we were in a large national forest. We were all wearing shorts (weather was in the 60s), and woefully unprepared as the temperature dropped into the 20s. I had thin gloves with holes in them. The storm dumped sleet on us and we had to descend a mountain in the snow for an hour in those temperatures, soaking wet. After 30 minutes I couldn't feel anything past my forearm, or below my ankle, and we had to bike about 2 hours in those conditions. The group got split up, and we all got hypothermia. it's a miracle no one died. I somehow got a flat tire and my sealant didn't fix it. Apparently I turned to my friend and asked if my rear tire was low and he lied and said it looked fine, knowing that if I stopped to try and fix it, I wouldn't have the coordination to actually repair the tire with how cold my hands were, and I would have really struggled to get going.

Entire thing could have been avoided if we had gone into it with the assumption of "When you enter the mountains, assume that any cold/wet weather is possible". Bring hand warmers and/or safety blankets, or even just a big roll of aluminum foil. Someone in the group had brought an amazon package specifically for that reason, and they shoved it in their jersey to block wind and keep their core body temperature up. They were fine, the rest of us were not.

EDIT: another storm I'm just remembering - not mine, but my dads. When he was 18 he was hiking on the side of a ravine in California with two friends. They were supposedly trying to find some caves in the side of the hilltop, and my dad grabbed some loose rock and fell - over 100ft straight down, another 200 tumbling at an angle. He spent 3 months in the hospital, mending a fractured skull and jaw, 2 broken vertebrae, and a whole lot of other injuries.
French bureaucracy is infamous for a reason and it's not just the state itself. A CDI is a certain type of employment contract, and a CDI is a CDI and everything else isn't, and a CDI is required for almost any significant loan. Workarounds are possible for smaller loans IF you have a personal relationship with the bank officer servicing that area. But if you didn't grow up there, or don't normally bank there, or they're suspicious of your race or tattoos, or were your bully in high school or or or. This sort of thing is more or less exactly what the credit reporting setup was meant to eliminate.

It doesn't matter what it "should be" proof of or what a reasonable person could infer from this income or documentation of it. If you don't have a CDI, which even many full-time employed people don't, you're in a hard spot.
I only drink 1-2 cups each morning, and I bargain-shop for k-cups that are 20-30 cents each.

I enjoy a nice cup of coffee, but I'll drink trash to get me going in the morning.
I was gifted a Bunn VPR a few years ago as well and love it. Nearly everything on it is made out of metal, very little plastic. Easily serviceable. Makes what I at least consider to be good coffee (I like a few cups each morning but I'm not really a connoisseur - but it's better than any drip machine I've had previously).

My only complaints:

1) No auto-shutoff on the hotplate, so if you forget you get a nice burned coffee smell to remind you.

2) Keeps a reservoir of hot water all the time which isn't very efficient. I plan to add a timer to only have it be hot in the mornings when I need it.

3) I miss the interrupting feature that my old coffee maker had where you could take the pot out from underneath while it was brewing and it would not drip all over. The Bunn brews fast so this isn't a huge problem, but sometimes as it's finishing and there's a few drips coming out you want to fill your cup and not have it drip on the hotplate.

It's not for everyone, but I'm happy with it and I'm confident this machine will last as long as I want it to.
The problem is that we allow information to be a proxy for turning up in person. Information that is either public record, or very likley to be available in one of the many known or unknown data breaches that occur regularly.

Knowing my mother's maiden name, the history of addresses I've lived at, any of my various ID numbers, account numbers, etc. should not be sufficient to prove identity.

Yeah this is inconvenient for many things but the reality today is that all of this "identifying" information is (or should be) considered public. Stop accepting this, and most of the problems with data breaches and leaks go away.
I grind it in a basic cheap grinder. Studies in this stuff have shown that consistency in grind matters more than the amount of money spent on the grinder. I’m not sure what you mean by French presses being a pain to clean - you rinse out the pot, run the filter under hot water and you are good to go. Worried about coffee sludge build up on the filter? I guess you could soak it in some kind of cleaning product. I find the coffee residue comes right off with hot water.
> it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.

that doesn't change the argument being made by much. that is still pretty terrible for consistent temperature variations. an extremely long day-night cycle is just about as bad.
What is old is new again.

Back before websites were "Apps", you could often do exactly this (Including Authentication!) right from the url.
The context of where I assume you are making that conclusion from reads differently to me: they are saying they believe their security posture is excessive.

> But a year later, Kehoe said Thursday that the company added too much extra security in stores.

> “Probably we put in too much, and we might step back a little bit from that,” he said of security staffing. The company has found private security guards to be “largely ineffective” in deterring theft, so instead it’s putting in more police and law enforcement officers.
A much bigger problem than the compression format is the fact that biologists over-sequence. You don't need 500x coverage, trust me, please learn to design your experiments.
Curious, how long would Gzip take to uncompress? Is it faster since it is less compact / efficient on the compression side?
Weird take seeing as it's licensed under GPL.
Feds take steps to seize Rumby CEO's home amid fraud claim
Really? In my experience people pay back. When I was a student I and my friends ofent had to cover each other when buying tickets or whatever.
I used to have one of those (notably probably cheaper than yours) but the cleaning/maintenance was cumbersome and I never got around to spending the 2h/mo it would require.
This brings to mind the concept of continuation found in Seaside Smalltalk.

https://www.seaside.st
Yeah certainly a lot of privileged/tone-deaf attitudes in here. I feel like I'm at a conference for Effective Altruism or something.

They're insecure about being successful when others are less fortunate. Rather than admit they got where they are due to a combination of skill _and_ luck, it's decided that it was all skill and that it is the duty of the skilled elites to take care of the rest of us.

Unfortunately, these days you don't even need skill, just a splash of narcissism and good self-marketing.
The only way to write something super sensitive like this imo is to have the back-end API that retrieves full credit report be essentially hard-wired to a user access level of "FULLY_VALIDATED".

That way no developer can come along five years later and accidentally grant the wrong access level or show the report to a not fully validated user. Put the security check on or as close to the thing being accessed as possible.
IIRC these types of solar events can cause some turmoil and even change the size/shape of the atmosphere. That can change how long it takes the GPS signals to get to your phone, which can add noise to the trilateration calculations. Fancier receivers have some clever ways to mitigate that, but your average cell phone GPS chip may lose some accuracy.
If $7k destroys a friendship, it's not really that close of a friendship.

Sure, there should be some consequences for not paying it back, but incessant mockery and refusal to pay for McDonald's is probably a fair exchange.

"Give people lots of leeway, but only once" has worked out well so far. People can't fool you into making a big mistake twice, and once is just the cost of doing business^W^Wfriendship.

On the other hand, finding friends past age 30 is hard enough that paying random devs random sums of money isn't that bad of a deal.
Perhaps they could use a cryptocurrency for customers to be able to demonstrate that they were entitled to a beef croquette. Proof of Steak I think it's called.
If you don't consent to it then don't fill it out. Plus CAPTCHAs haven't been used for ML training for many years now.
> I don't see why we can't have a healthy mix of both.

That's what the old UI has. The new UI pursues minimalism for the sake of minimalism, and alienates a huge chunk of their user base in the process.
Does the order matter for Kochenderfer? Any one of those put more emphasis on controls than the others?
I had a friend who needed help once and was talking to my stepfather about it who had a successful business.

His thing was if a friend needs help and you can afford it then do it - and it’s not a loan. Making it a loan makes it a bad business transaction.

I took that to heart with that friend and later my daughter’s nanny needed help and asked for an advance and we gave her the money she needed.

Both amounts were significant but we could afford it and I’ve never regretted either.