skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did view "Threads", years ago. It was disturbing, yes.

When I was in school, the teachers all put out an advisory about "The Day After (1983)". It was a big deal; many families were planning to watch it, and it wasn't on cable, it was on broadcast OTA TV, so it was highly accessible, even to children.

The school administration decided they needed to get in front of the controversy and put out a Christian message about hope and trust in God, when it seemed like the world was panicking over the Cold War and mainstream media was egging us on. Ever since then, I have appreciated their candor and willingness to tell us the truth about this world and the next.

We had fire drills at school; we knew about "duck and cover" but we didn't practice any air-raid drills that I can recall. However, when my mother took me shopping at the JC Penney across town, there was prominent signage for their old-fashioned Fallout Shelter in the basement. I was really intrigued by the bold yellow lettering and symbology, and I sometimes wonder what it was like down there, because we've never seen the inside of any bomb shelter whatsoever.

My dad worked around hazardous materials on a regular basis, as a safety professional, and he was on the science end of things, and spent time in the office as much as the lab. He often brought home tools like a Geiger counter, film badges, a radio pager, and I think there were other chemical sensors ("sniffers"?) Learning at his feet, I picked up a lot of geology, so I could recognize isotopes and chemical symbols and count in rems, etc.

Earthquakes were the primary hazard for us, and I suppose that any nuclear explosion would've had earthquake-like effects, among other things, to put it blandly.
We celebrated our 15th anniversary with board games and silent disco. And people who don't like either of those can still have drinks, food and talk. It was a great combination I can strongly recommend.
The big affected third-party clients would gladly have incorporated the ads into the timeline, if only twitter actually included them in the api response.

Or they could have made a promoted tweets api and mandated in their terms of service that third party clients showing a timeline must include promoted tweets every now and then.
What do you mean? I use Transferwise all the time and it's within 1% of the cheapest options.
Vinyl also used to be called "black crack" :)
Thanks, I did not see the FAQ which was hidden underneath the cookie banner :)

You may be right. When looking at the side view, the rear of the 5008 seems a little higher, while the height of the front part is pretty similar in both cars.
Vomit draft can be great tool, but there's additional risk in science to keep in mind...

I've heard of a person who advocated this kind of draft, and then did a vomit draft themselves for a research project, with the draft including discussing stand-in results of an experiment that they planned to do.

Their colleague on the project saw the draft, and called out that the experiment had not been done. The writer said that they'd only written the draft to see what the paper might look like, once the experiment was done.

But the person who wrote the vomit draft had a problem doing the experiment...

Then that person submitted the paper anyway, with the vomit draft stand-in experiment results, and the paper got accepted. And without telling the other people on the project.

I understand that the story got a lot worse from there.

The vomit draft wasn't the only problem, but if you see someone vomiting drafts that are effectively scientific fabrication as they stand, I advise being uncomfortable with that, and emphasizing to the writer that this is a more dangerous practice than it might seem.
I just organised one for next week.

I tend to have to do it because a lot of my friends are poor and live in cramped living conditions.

The equivalent is going to the pub. That's what it's for.
Yup! Even when they could have fit it into a single slot, often they'll take two
Getting started with property-based testing in Python with hypothesis and Pytest
As a tangent, p-code is like an ancient version of wasm or java bytecodes, though its interpreter (the p-machine) was simple and compact enough to fit on 8-bit machines. Smalltalk also used bytecodes.

The nice bit is that once you implement a bytecode interpreter, everything just runs. It may be slower than native code, but no new code generators or compilers are required.
You're right here. I don't. And maybe my perception that everybody else seems to know everything that's going on around them is just biased by my own fears. I don't know...
Anecdotally the regular parties ended for me about 8 years ago (25 y/o). Since then my friends have been distributed around the country and all have houses / kids / professional work ect...

Recently we've tried organising two events. A get-well party for a friend and an in-person DnD session. Both are scheduled to happen soon but planning began back in October or November. When organising 6 people in to a room together takes three months notice i can see why people don't bother so much....
> I assume there's too much airflow to use a urea-based filter like adblue or something in a home stove.

Why, these can be manufactured at the scale you need, and a home stove isn't especially powerful compared to a car or truck engine so even such a filter made for cars would work.

> Though, if you could get the stove exhaust to pass through some liquid anyway (like the bubbler in a bong, but larger), wouldn't that deal with particulates effectively?

Not really, first of all you'd need your bubbles to be really small for that to work, and then you'd need something (a pump) to push the smoke through the water.
> It's slower to write in, maybe?

I doubt it. For decades C++ was mocked by Linus as unfit to write kernels in it.

But we saw resurgence with new OS like Haiku and Serenity.

You need luck to be popular, but it's not enough.
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Writing an operating system is hard and laborious. There are many bugs beyond memory and there are already many tools the Linux team uses to make it safer. That you can make a better, more stable version of the Linux kernel with rust is still to be proven. Not arguing that the language is not better than C or that, if Linux was being started today, it wouldn't be a more sensible pick. But the language is just one component among many others that make such a projects successful.

I would actually be very surprised if there was anything nearly as good as Linux written in rust already. I'm not sure why a company would invest the huge amount of resources to get it done by now and, unless the language had some really unprecedented productivity, I don't think a community led protect would've had it finished by now.
I really want to see what horrible complexity they concocted to ruin the simple lightbulb (see https://twitter.com/internetofshit for more terrible 'IoT' ideas)
In case it helps:

In addition to "Geometric Algebra for Physicists" (whose first two chapters I'd recommend to get a nice overview), I found Hestenes' "New Foundations for Classical Mechanics" to be very good and readable.

Also, there are many good resources in https://bivector.net/ , including videos, papers, presentations and programs.

Finally, an interesting paper (that got me kickstarted) is "Imaginary Numbers Are Not Real—The Geometric Algebra of Spacetime" by Gull, Lasenby and Doran.
This is fundamentally why I'm so sceptical of putting "smart" control equipment into my home. It's very expesive to fit in the first place, and then there is the incredibly high chance it will become redundant or unmaintainable in the next 5 to 10 years. You just won't see the payoff in that time.

Much better to just turn the lights off when you leave a room, or turn the heating down and wear another layer.

We have Nest to control our heating, we have turned off all the "intelligent" features, they don't work. Now it's just a heating scheduler and thermostat that we can control when out of the house, which frankly is all we want.

But on this case specifically, I assume they had "smart" lighting control panels in each room, and these have failed. The idea of not having some sort of manual override in each room is nuts.
You have a limited view of what can be called a "party".
The guy is a woman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew
Surely there is a circuit breaker somewhere.
????? I just went through the entire table of suspended people and there were almost no far left groups besides Antifa. Most of the suspended were either far-right/alt-right, trump related, doxing related or spreading miss-information.
> I'll do this many times throughout my day if I don't already know the answer. If you are feeling afraid to feel "dumb", I don't know exactly how to force it, but you need to have a moment where you accept the fact you will not know things and will have to ask questions to get the answers you need. It becomes easy to ask questions once this moment happens.

I need to staple this (or maybe the whole answer) to my wall and read it many times a day. Thanks :)
Combination of all three. I'm about 20 years younger than you. When COVID was a thing, there were a few months to a year almost without parties. But it has ramped up again, I am invited and going to more events than in 2019. However, I made a deliberate effort to improve my social and professional network. I also started a local meetup, which is basically a cheat code to meeting new people and becoming more influential.

If I had to guess, COVID and aging weakened the bonds in your social circle. Just start to reach out to old friends again and try to find new ones. There are a lot of interesting people out there, probably eager to have a good party.
Except that if I open the Music app prior to plugging it in, then I almost always don't have this problem. The issue tends to occur only when iOS has closed the Music app at some point to free up resources.

It seems like my car instantly presses "Play" when plugged in, if the Music app was already loaded, then it continues where it left off, but if the Music app wasn't loaded, then iOS loads the music app but instead of making the iPod interface wait until it's loaded where I left off, it instead plays the default list of everything in your library alphabetically. It feels like a kind of race condition which was just never considered by Apple.

Then consider the problems with Spotify. If it was recently playing and I plug it in, then the radio uses Spotify, otherwise it uses the Music app and I need to switch to Spotify on the phone. If the Music app is uninstalled completely, then the iPod interface doesn't work properly, it doesn't show track names or the artwork. It seems highly unlikely to me that Spotify is using the wrong iOS APIs, so I expect the blame here also most lies with Apple.

I acknowledge that other cars may not have this problem, but I can't see why Apple couldn't make their software more robust here. Anyway, this is also why I stated my annoyance at the not having the option of CarPlay since it delegates more control to my iPhone, meaning I get innovation and bug fixes on the screen my car on Apple's timelines as opposed to "when I get a new car", and even then, the car companies have far fewer software development resources so can't possibly hope to keep up with the likes of Apple.
Just to note if you're using these certs for the web browsers won't trust long life certs nowadays: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/net/do...
We had a party this summer, my wife turned 50 and we wanted to host a party in our house for all our friends. We thought it would be a blast but there were problems.

First problem, we don't really have that many friends. Back in the day, it felt natural to invite anyone you remotely knew but today, not so much. So, only those that we had some kind of deeper relationship got on the list, in total maybe 30 people or so, almost all couples.

Second problem, we have moved around so a fair number of those we wanted to invite do not live in the same city as us. This meant travelling for them but many were fine to do it, however it gave rise to two other problems.

Third problem. Back in the day when there were parties, people could drop by and so it didn't feel it had to be so ambitious, but now since people were travelling, we have to have a proper dinner party. Lots of cost, lots of arrangements, not something that I want to do very often.

Fourth problem. Back in the day, there wasn't a day tomorrow. At the age of 50. there's always a day tomorrow. We had bought alcohol as if we were 20 but with the economy of two DINKs (they've moved out). Maybe 20% was consumed because "there's a day tomorrow as well", and frankly quite a few were travelling so they did indeed have to be able to drive reasonably early.

It's just very different having parties at the age of 50 compared to 20, it can't be the same thing, at least not in our circle and I'm quite sad for it.
> I meant all documentation

OK I thought we were discussing code documentation. I think we see eye to eye on other types of docs.
There should be some culpability and at the very least reputational damage for whoever decided to install such a system in the first place. I’m guessing it was the architect.

The decision to layer in a system like this was clearly done without considering how it might fail, how it would be supported, and the strength of the vendor it was being bought from. These all strike me as 101 level procurement questions that were probably overlooked in favor of slapping a “green” label on the building.

And for what? LED lighting is pretty damned efficient, and there are plenty of approaches to curbing unnecessary lighting use that don’t introduce a massively complex system to the mix.
Will PhD training eventually scale to allow for more people to participate in research?
The US Constitution is so sclerotic it still doesn't have an Equal Rights Amendment; were the Old Country to turn into a de facto[0] dictatorship it would probably be by other means than constitutional amendment. Look at Imperial Rome: they kept the form of the Republican legislative body, yet demonstrated its value by appointing[1] an actual horse to it...

[0] if needed, de jure soon after merely by retroactive application of new law; cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives#After... and Ultima Ratio Regum.

[1] [Edit: Caligula only threatened to; never apparently did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitatus ]
Those are rookie numbers. I procrastinated on a research paper for 4 years. My brother now has a nearly finished bachelors thesis for 14 years. Granted, he has more important issues.
We have an environmental adaptation system which records state, replicates data with efficient parsing, integrity checking and hot / cool storage.

Even the behaviour that most people call 'evolution' relies on our genetic information system.

We have never in our history, ever, seen a system work with such and so many deliberate intentions in managing encoded information that wasn't the product of deliberate intention.

The burden of proof is on those who say that the work of all the software engineers on this website could all be done if you just leave a computer on for enough time. By this logic, the computer left alone will design its own hardware and supply chain, its own OS, its own backup system too, etc etc.

We create systems, we know enough about them to know how hard they are to maintain. And how much effort it takes to create a working system. Even a python hello world is built on >thousands of hours of software engineering. Why should something like the cell be considered any differently?
I think of the classic sci-fi depiction of "picture phones", and they are almost exclusively a device mounted on a wall, much like the original telephone. Maybe it's just a usability issue, in that holding a phone pointing at yourself is a bit annoying?
> Knock Knock

> Who's There?

> It's me, Bill Gates!

> "It" has a pretty clear meaning in English, and it is not as a pronoun for people. Therefore you're not Bill Gates or a person.
For all the money this system costs more than conventional off-the-shelf energy efficient bulbs, switches, and dimmers, you could hire a janitor's assistant to keep an eye out that the lights are off in the evening and turned on in the morning, and have a system that is maintainable with very little training, off-the-shelf replacement parts, and which will work for decades.

But the smart system they installed came with a contract that said it would be more efficient, show proof of green credentials, and that the responsibility for solving issues lies with the contractor, so in abstract business logic it made more sense.
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Leaving aside why someone is still using RSS in 2023, this is a pretty good user signup strategy. Reddit does it, Instagram does it, probably plenty others. If you block people from viewing stuff without an account... they're gonna make an account.
I was in a similar situation when I was doing my master thesis which took two years. The advisor was not helping much and I would disappear for a month after each meeting. I would sleep day in day out, go to the lab, open all my work stuff and then spend the day surfing the web. I couldn't look at my work and could not think properly. All this while being an international student in a country with totally different culture and paying $1000/mo for tuition fees. My visa was expiring and the tuition fee was due to be bumped up 20%. Accrued 7k in debt. Finances were hit hard and I was drowning in depression to the point that I did not leave the house for two months (other than the grocery store).

How did I get out? I knew for sure that if this ends, then everything turns for the better. So started to to think about the life after the thesis.

First went to the uni counsellor and sought therapy/help. Requested a refund due to mental health issues (luckily one year granted).

I knew I needed one final leg of work to be done to finish. Tried to write a few words every day and possibly created the worst draft of a thesis. Sent it to the supervisor and convinced them to set a date for the defence. The date was two days before my visa expired.

Did a terrible defence which they reluctantly agreed to give me the accepting grade. Tried to finalise the graduation stuff that day to make it to visa appointment the next day. Missed that so had to postpone but eventually turned out fine.

Directly went to a company I used to work part-time and asked them to hire me full-time. Requested a month of salary in advance to be able to pay the rent.

Started working immediately and paying off my debt. Life started to get better. Moved out of that town after a year and didn't step on the campus for the next 7 years.

Not sure if there's much for you in this story. But the only thing that kept me going was the certainty I had that once this thesis is over, my life will change for the better. Crawl your way out of it whatever it takes. Quitting was not an option for me (legal/visa reasons). I understand you might not want to quit a PhD as well. So just try to finish it with bare minimum quality. Don't shoot for the stars and if you're high on some achievement one day don't let that change the goal of only finishing it.

Wishing you the best and rest assured, better days come after this.
Presumably the same place they would park the Mercedes Sprinter that they would have otherwise that is about the same size. The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter.
Puppet scripts for kids.

Clarifying, explaining, and converting bash scripts to other languages.
The issue with linking to Twitter, is I have no idea:

1. What does Genesis do (a crypto exchange?)?

2. Is it in any way important?

3. Is this an unusual level level of bankruptcies happening in Crypto?

As far as I can tell this is just a crypto company going bankrupt. The US (the world!) is in an unprecedented post-COVID-shutdown amount of turmoil. The economy is roiling. NASDAQ is down 23% over 12 months. There is even war on the border of the world's largest nuclear power and everyone is still escalating it even after 12 months.

Unless we're drawing a pattern that bankruptcies in crypto are unusually high (which this twitter thread does not seem to be), it doesn't make sense to focus on Genesis. There are bigger issues out there.
I think you'll find that's google's services, not Apple's....
It sounds pretty clear to me that characters don’t have cars because in the state controlled world of the book everyone is poor just like in a Communist country today or during the Cold War.
This site is old school but a bit more informative and fast (from a UX perspective):

https://www.automobiledimension.com/car-comparison.php

One thing missing is rear leg room (which is critical for me right now with a family of 4)
The question was not 'what do you do if you need the toilet?' but 'what do you do about people who haven't got anywhere to go to the toilet?'

By definition, if there is a public toilet accessible to you, or you are welcome in a restaurant toilet without paying, you have somewhere to go to the toilet.
There is a slight of hand that goes on. The QC solutions are touted in comparison to the challenge of generating an optimal/exact solution. In reality there are many heuristic algorithms that generate solutions that are with 1% of the optimum 99% of the time (choose your numbers - could be 0.1/99.9) It's also important to realise that the process of reading the solution out of a QC is probabilistic, so although the solution might be exact, the noise in the bits you are reading from means that you might have some error there...

It's exciting, people have a job doing it, they are trying to do science... marketing people try and market it as valuable and no one wants to rock the boat as they will be pushed out and the science will stop.
> We believe in freedom of speech

That just isn't possible. If you try and "oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform" you'll just be arrested on terrorism charges and face 25 years in jail unless you take your site down or give backdoor access.[0]

I fucking HATE these people with zero experience coming along and saying "oh we're free speech", you can bet your ass they'll cave on the first DMCA/GDPR/takedown/door kicked in notice they get.

Note. I'm not in anyway condoning "hate speech" or any other abuses of free speech, but I'm just annoyed that these kind of people shit out these meaningless words without any understanding of what "true" free speech entails. And there's a lot more bad than good in actually supporting it.

[0] personal experience
Bummer that the front/rear view isn't superimposed, pillars angle and position is a major factor in internal space
GAS may have come from guitars (I don't know really) but is now commonly referred for any hobby as Gear Acquisition Syndrome
I'm really excited to see another link to The Gutenberg Project. They do amazing work. And if their download stats are accurate, they must be one of the largest libraries of PDFs on the public Internet.
No, not really. Yes, for some as it's been mentioned.

Not really because there are true tools with very real productive capabilities which are just being lightly showed in the "trendy" generative apps you've heard of.

One incredible thing is whisper, a model that you can download and use in a laptop with a GPU probably, and it can be ran from a simple command line.

The model could be used to "hear" ambiental voices and transcribe them to text in realtime, or to convert to text the voices in thousands of videos (and you could use the output directly, as subtitles, or you could throw it into a database to allow string search into thousands of videos, etc.). You probably could do it in a matter of hours. This was probably impossible just a year ago.
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