skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a remarkable theorem but you can't take a snooker ball and turn it into two snooker balls without being Paul Daniels (UK magician).

This is an excellent example of language going astray and confusing mathematic rigour with some sort of "reality". You can loosely model a "sphere in R3" with a snooker ball in errr the universe thingie which is probably R3ish or perhaps R3T1 or whatevs. Besides someone has spilt a whole pint of Guinness on the table and the balls are chipped.

Even if we get our match balls out that are not chipped, and are jolly shiney, they are still subject to things like Mr Planck's constant and the fine structure of matter.

The point is quite literally in the title - don't balls it up!
> We will continue to take on a form not dissimilar to South Africa or many parts of South America

What does this mean?

> There will be islands of prosperity in an ocean of trash

My dude, you have described Singapore (GDP of ~70k USD) next to its neighbour Johor Bahru (GDP of ~33k USD). That's your model place! This is the ideal example you provided and it already fails your test, it is literally an island of prosperity!
Fun study, but is mindfulness really relevant to their endpoints of interest, e.g., anxiety?

Sure, mindfulness may help with anxiety in the long term, but during the first 30 days? Anecdotally, some folks I know felt overwhelming anxiety during their first few sessions.
I've always found it most painful trying to figuring out when to use verbs that translate to other verbs depending on context. It's just personal experience of course, so not sure if it really matters that much between all languages or types of learning.

Maybe a hint which one is intended in this case would be useful/possible or a hint that it could be ambiguous/other translation possible? I've built a couple of tiny tools for myself to learn languages and I've always run into the same issue with ambiguous translations. I usually ended up with adding some personal reminder or sometimes just (1)/(2) to resolve it, but I never found a consistent resolution for it.
I see, yes, if it is possible to make this binary-compatible in the JVM, that would work. One implication is that `new A()` wouldn't be guaranteed to return a new instance anymore (just as for a static method).

Personally I still prefer having the ability to name the constructors. I'd rather have "new" be the default constructor name, with the option of having it be something else (i.e. Path.new(...) vs. Path.somethingElse(...)).
I keep running into this in the US in large cities. Really well regarded restaurants or music venues do everything through FB and insta. I don't have either of those apps, and I don't remember my passwords from a decade ago. Isn't there a service somewhere, where you give someone some pictures of your food, and restaurant, and you get a container and credentials for a webpage that handles reservations, takes pickup or delivery orders, and lets you update the menu? Why do people do this?
Even with a hypothetical maximally decentralised system, there's always a centralised chokepoint where a specific organisation (including and perhaps especially, a state) that you wish to prove your identity to chooses to unconditionally accept records from the system.
The Elvis operator was proposed for Java 7 and hasn't made it back in since. I'm sure you can put in the effort to write a proposal again but I doubt it'd stay up for long. I'm not going to put in the effort of fighting a committee that has probably already made up its mind when I can write Kotlin or C# instead.

Maybe Manifold will add the operator somehow. That seems to be the place modern language features that the Java comities don't like end up.
FYI the 500 academic license is for institutions. You can buy a student license for yourself for less than that.
I have different take on this: even big American cities have this thing called "suburbs", which give them all a small town feel. Americans have an obsession with living in single family homes, apartment are considered the dwellings of the poor. The only real city in the US is New York :)
How will scraping rules be enforced just out of curiosity? It seems like that would be a very hard thing to prove in some cases.
Take a look at www.arlula.com that marketplace offers 1 kilometer minimum orders with many of their suppliers. It seems like this space is getting quite competitive.
Why developers never use state machines (2011)
It is certainly doable, there is a plug-in on the UE marketplace that meaningfully extends Unreal's movement replication to do nicer interpolation and extrapolation of movement, it is called SmoothSync. We used it in lieu of UE's character movement component on the vehicles in the game we shipped a couple years back. It is a bit heavier on bandwidth (to their credit, Unreal's movement component replication is VERY lean) but still well within budget.

The code is horribly ugly, but works well. The ugliness I think is less to do with integrating with Unreal and more to do with the author though. That said, it works.
There seems to be quite a lot of research in this area.

Another recent article, titled "What if Your Mood Depends on the Bacteria in Your Gut?":

https://lab.cccb.org/en/what-if-your-mood-depends-on-the-bac...

Excerpt:

"The first clue to the close relationship between mind and gut came half a century ago, when experiments on mice showed that any kind of stress, from hunger to sleep, loud noises or separating pups from their mothers, altered the composition of the animals’ gut microbiota, which was linked to an increased risk of health problems. Intestinal bacteria are able to influence levels of serotonin, one of the many biochemical messengers that regulate our mood and behaviour; they promote the metabolism of dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with joy, learning and reward; and they are involved in the release of GABA, an essential molecule in modulating behaviour."

The influence seems to go both says – psychological stress degrades the microbiota, and the microbiota influence psychological well-being: "studies have found that by transferring bacteria from children with autism spectrum disorder to healthy mice, the animals developed symptoms similar to those of the children, such as social aversion."
I explicitly said[0]:

"I'm not aware of any current practical use case for cryptocurrency, that government-backed currencies don't provide"

"that government-backed currencies don't provide." That's the important part which you ignored.

Sending money using established, government-backed currencies/ecosystems that you're not trying to hide from the government (for legal stuff, generally) is currently (note the adverb here) more secure and less risky than using cryptocurrencies to do so.

Is it poor reading comprehension your part, did you just not like what I said and so ignored it, or are you unable to process information if it contradicts your trained-in prejudices?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34470711

Edit: Fixed prose to say what I wanted to say, not the opposite.
Still, it’s much worse to catch the virus, especially before training one’s immune system through vaccination.
I have two issues with constructors.

1. They don't have a name. That's bad because names are important. It's OK if constructor is primitive and does not do anything but field assignment. But often constructors do something and naming might help.

2. There can't be two constructors with identical types (as a consequence that constructors don't have a name). This might be restricting in some cases.

Factory methods solve both issues.

If anything, I'd prefer to remove constructors completely and use factory methods for anything. Not realistic with Java, of course. But in my code I'm trying to follow this pattern. Constructors are absolutely minimal (usually just initializers for final fields) and any non-trivial code goes into factory method. Of course it causes issues with subclassing, so it's not a silver bullet.
It's because if you had

final Foo foo;
try {
foo = bar(baz);
otherFunction();
} catch (SomeException ex) {
foo = SOME_DEFAULT;
}

that'd truly be invalid - the first assignment could run, otherFunction errors, and foo gets reassigned. Even if SomeException is a checked exception that otherFunction doesn't declare in its throws, it's still possible to get the jvm to throw it, and things do rely on that - see Lombok @SneakyThrows.

So the only case that such final field assignment can work is if it's the last evaluated expression in the try case (plus some guaranteed non-throwing arithmetic or boring assignments), which is quite the weird thing to have as specified behavior in a language.
It's also perfectly reasonable for "Ok Go" the band to threaten to sue--especially if they were doing it quietly.

If you don't defend your trademark, you can lose it.

"Jack Daniel’s Cease-and-Desist Letter Goes Viral for Being Exceedingly Polite"

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/jack_daniels_cease-a...
The Christian sect known as "Shakers" illustrate what you describe: They had a rule of celibacy and as a result have essentially died out; their Wikipedia entry says that as of 2021 their total membership was three people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
https://archive.ph/r9sTs
There's a lot more evidence than covered in the linked article. I find it absolutely convincing. Here's a recap of most of it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_conf...
>We target the landscaping market, and most landscaping companies are either too small, or they don't have tech-savvy owners/staff who are motivated to learn and leverage a software solution effectively in order to grow their sales

This is interesting, I don't know anything about your business but I feel like it might be worth having a landing page that is focused on landscaping. I don't really understand what the business does or how it can be helpful to a landscaping company.
> ever be "replaced" by AI.

I believe you have a rude awakening ahead.. resolve the roles in court to authority roles, and yes, none of the professionals will give up any authority; but the "work" of law, that is to study, consider, refute and prescribe, especially with citations and written works.. absolutely yes they are top on the list to be replaced by AI.
This is another thing make me realized that Delphi was right and Java was wrong back then. (explicit "override" is another thing)
Its authors are (were, in Graeber's case) two academics.

1/3 of the pages are references and footnotes should you want to dig deeper.

Also, "academia" does not speak with one voice on the matters covered in the book.
No evidence that Ghislane Maxwell was a Reddit employee or moderator of any subreddits.

No evidence that /u/bardfinn was posting CSAM.

You may want to be careful because baseless accusations like this is libellous.
I'm reading* The Phoenix Project and the parallels it draws to factory manufacturing is inspiring.

The point being, imagine being a car manufacturer and using parts from an unvetted vendor, a vendor that has not passed some sort procurement criteria. That would never happen, eh.

Yet, software factories do it all the time.

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...

* Perhaps the best book - so far? - I've read via recommendations on HN.
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I'm considering buying a niche dating site right now (it's in my own niche, so I understand it fairly well).

If I buy it, I'm wondering how to grow it though. How do you solve the chicken-egg problem?
This is a very shortsighted and short-lived idea - cyber criminals will find out the first digits of all these canary credit cards and never bother to test them. Even if multiple prefixes come into existence, unless they are mixed with normal credit cards, this won't ever make practical sense.
Ah, but you see: my edge case. I cannot live this mortal life without my edge case and taking a stance as hellish as firing a VM, or dual booting on an NVMe device where the operation takes less than a minute, is just unimaginable, unendurable pain. I'm afraid there's nothing to be done and Windows must always be a part of life and thus I shall contribute to perpetuate the circle rather than make the slightest effort to slowly erode it over time.
You can modify Unreal Engine as much as you like to ship a game and the engine changes remain your property, you just have to pay their royalties.

At least that is how it is in practice - the language in the license agreement is actually a little fuzzy, when our game was sold from one company to our current one, the lawyers had a bit of a frowning session over some of the language there, but ultimately decided it was okay. Maybe in the future it will be challenged, but for now, self-owned engine changes are the norm.
Valid. I will say the article states there were still hierarchical tendencies in the societies and leadership is mentioned in that society.

Other then that, How do we know that whether or not Aboriginals in Australia are the norm? Are they the norm or are they the exception. From my perspective the vast majority of societies have hierarchies and by virtue of being the majority it's strong evidence for hierarchies to be the more natural paradigm. Especially when paired with the biological evidence associated with serotonin and hierarchies.
https://pimbook.org is accessible, modular, and does a great job in advising how to read intimidating-looking equations and translate them to basic programming contexts.
Wow that was a hateful way to frame that, especially given your knowledge of me
That is what the perf review system is for, and one reason why as a lower level manager, your careful about who gets the good ratings vs. not.
Yeah, if I can't trust the intial answer, I also can't trust any of the refinements. It will be a long way before you can get a similar level of assurance by asking a number of different language models as you can get now by looking at various sources around the web.
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Seems more like they were "quietly threatening" because they realize "ok go" is such a generic term that following through is likely to fail.
Hum... Usually TDD is associated with unit tests and the article even mentions "unit tests" in its title...

What you describe however seems closer to integration/system testing which is one approach I and other people in this thread also tend to favor. But I've been writing UI code predominantly so I am biased here as unit testing has lower value.
> cosplaying as a sysadmin can waste your Friday evening

This is why I always look for the least "professional" way to do things. Instead of Linux, I'll use Windows. Instead of messing with BIND9 config files, I'll use something like TechnitiumDNS, which has GUI tools built-in. I lose flexibility, but usually don't need it.
You now insist that no hilltop pumped-hydro storage without a river exists?

It is an odd choice of falsehood to insist upon, when it may so easily be looked up.
To this day I have encountered several sites (sort of public, behind logins) that refuse to load if "Gecko" is in the user agent and display variations of "This site requires Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge to work. Please install one of these browsers and ensure it is up to date to proceed."

A user agent spoof extension solves the problem because there's actually nothing used that Firefox doesn't support. Maybe there was, one day, but someone forgot to keep up, or didn't want to.

This has happened for me within the last 3 months with both a widely known financial application provider rhyming with "I'm a twit" and an educational software provider rhyming vaguely with "Crack jorts"
I've been toying with SD for a while, and I do want to make a nice and clean business out of it. It's more of a side-projecty thing so to speak.

Our "cluster" is running on a ASUS ROG 2080Ti external GPU in the razer core-x housing, and that actually works just fine in my flat.

We went through several iterations of how this could work at scale. The initial premise was basically the google homepage, but for images.

That's when we realised that scaling this to serve the planet was going go be a hell of a lot more work. But not really, conceptualising the concurrent compute requirements as well as the ever-changing landscape and pace of innovation in this absolutely necessary.

The quick fix is to use a message queue (we're using Bull) and make everything asynchronous.

So essentially, we solved the scaling factor using just one GPU. You'll get your requested image, but it's in a queue, we'll let you know when it's done. With that compute model in place, we can just add more GPUs, and tickets will take less time to serve if the scale engineering is proper.

I'm no expert on GPU/Machine learning/GAN stuff but Stable Diffusion actually prompted me to imagine how to build and scale such a service, and I did so. It is not live yet, but when it does become so the name reserved is dreamcreator dot ai, and I can't say when it will be animated. Hopefully this year.
Just wanted to say thanks for your work on SuperFastPython - it helped me out a bunch at work recently (new to Python concurrency) - and also for your previous work at MachineLearningMastery (helped me out with a university project a few years back).
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For example Synthetix SNX is paying like 30% right now

https://staking.synthetix.io/

Then take the minted SUSD and put into Curve for 8%

https://optimism.curve.fi/factory/0

Then take the OP minted and put into XTK pool for another 60%

https://app.xtokenterminal.io/mining/pools/optimism/0xDa62d1...

This in general is known as yield farming
I've used state machines in the context of hardware design, particularly fpgas and asics. In hardware land, you use a state machine to implement something like software, where your circuit is able to remember what happened earlier so it can behave differently accordingly. It's very crude relative to their software counterparts.

They are not as common in software because software is one giant state machine already. Variables hold state, there is state within state (classes, composition etc). Sometimes entities in game design have explicit state machines for their behavior but that's to minimize complexity rather than due to absolute necessity
> One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

anyone have any other examples like this where a company avoided layoffs with temporary pay cuts?
Even if that were true, which I am kind of doubtful of, most applications of these tools are not going to be bleeding edge research and should not be treated as though they were.
Agreed, I think musl is the obvious choice actually: it may be newer (at least I think it's newer) but it's pretty solid, and it's use in Alpine Linux has probably helped it mature and gain ecosystem support, especially as Alpine gained popularity for Docker/OCI images due to its size efficiency.
>Have any YouTube recommendations?

Yes. Don't use YouTube.

Or if you feel you must, download (via yt-dlp[0] or similar) videos and watch them offline.

[0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Breathwork is such a powerful tool for psychological healing. I've seen it transform people's lives and allow for some intense emotional release and inner child work. One of my favorite parts is that everyone always walks out of it with an great afterglow.

Head's up: I'm actually starting up a Zoom breathwork circle in Feb that may expand to in-person in the SF bay area. If you're interested, here's more information :)

https://www.breathflow.club/interest
I've never seen the movie, but was curious about it regardless. This is what I found about it, maybe others are as clueless about it as me:

> Fox [Lucius Fox, played by Morgan Freeman] eventually learned that Bruce [Batman] had expanded on sonar technology and developed an advanced surveillance system that could listen in and track the movement of any of the thousands of cell phones in Gotham, but, to ensure that the system was not misused, Bruce designed it so that only Fox could control it. Since that essentially contradicted everything that Bruce believed in, Fox agreed to help but said that he would resign if the machine was not destroyed after The Joker was defeated and captured. After the Joker was apprehended, Fox entered a code (his own name) as instructed by Bruce, which activated a self-destruct function for the system, and Fox continued to work under Bruce.

From https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Lucius_Fox_(Nolanverse)#The_D...

Seems he never actually quit, but was fine pushing his own ethical concerns aside for a little while, and continued working with Batman afterwards.
This is why I avoid dreck like Velma, even to hatewatch or to see if "it's as bad as everyone says". A view is a view, and unlike terrestrial television (in the absence of a Nielsen People Meter), watching is no longer passive, it's a signal to the network who is watching back.

Remember the lyrics of the musician whose wisdom resonates to this day, "Weird Al" Yankovic: "But I only watched Will & Grace one time, one day... wish I hadn't 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay!"
Sleeping with GPT
"Commodore BASIC and Atari BASIC both had on screen editors where you could LIST your program on the screen and cursor up and down and change the code and when you pressed ENTER on a line, that line was re-entered into the program."

My first employer (now known as GE Aviation) back in the 80s had mainframes from Honeywell that worked the same way. GE Aviation had started with GE computers, had sold off its mainframe GE business to Honeywell in the early 60s and GE Aviation continued to use derivative models for decades later.

After listing a bunch of code (Fortran, of course) onto the screen, you'd cursor around making your changes, then hit the F1 key, which was programmed to send the screen one line at a time. God forbid that you'd spend a serious amount of time making those changes, because the modem (yep, we used a modem WITHIN the company) would time out, you'd disconnect and lose all your work.

I forget how we edited non-code files, but I guess that they must have had line numbers too.

Fortunately, we had systems other than the Honeywells that we could use (just about everything you could name), but most of the older internally developed software resided on the Honeywells.
But this isn’t true at all. Look at a movie like The Conversation. Or Mon Oncle. Or Pulp Fiction. The lighting when intended to look natural very much does, although the latter also makes intentional use of stylized lighting (such as the taxi ride scene).
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I expect zinc is still cheaper than magnesium.

The surprising figure I recall was that the weight of zinc in an offshore wind turbine installation was close to half the weight of iron in it.
Another study confirming (?) the gut brain connection. And it won't be the last. We might be the dominating host, but we'd be nothing without the armies in our gut.

They talk about the oceans being under-explored. Our guts are even more so.
super() was never forced to be placed at the start.

Every expression that you call in super was called before it, obviously.

So you always was writing code like

MyCtor() {
int arg1 = calcArg1();
int arg2 = calcArg2();
super(arg1, arg2);
}

And the fact that you wasn't able to write this code literally was confusing for every beginner.

Right now the rule is simple as it should be: you can't read `this`, explicitly or implicitly, before calling `super()`. Now it actually makes sense.

The only somewhat confusing thing about this JEP is that you can initialize fields before calling super. I don't see why this is needed and I'd treat it as code smell. I've read that example and I don't think that it's convincing. This code should be rewritten.