skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I applied to secondary school, I barely made the cut and was one of the lowest-scoring students to be accepted that year, only ranking around the 4th percentile of those accepted. Once I started attending, I performed exceptionally well, ranking around the 95th percentile, give or take 5. It was mainly due to the fact that a large minority of my primary school teachers had biased opinions about me and our personal differences affected my grades.
Except that your neighbor bought into the patented crop and nature pollinated your crops, cross contaminating your fields and placing you into patent infringement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-organic-lawsuit/...
"Russia only feel their borders are safe when there are Russian soldiers on both sides of them" is a saying I read recently.
Ships spend more fuel the more weight they ship. If you ship something unnecessary, you are wasting fuel for nothing.
I think it depends that you're reusing them for. I bought some of those "Stasher" branded reusable plastic bags for lunch things, they got gross pretty quickly, hard to wash, and then they started coming apart at the seems. Pretty dumb optimization, considering they cost $15 for three bags. My grocery bags, though, for loading up at the store are good, and last a long time.

As in all things, moderation, do the 80% etc...
> This is another DMCA take down, with lazy judges imposing their ignorance on those they can impose it on and not the criminals.

The court location has specifically been chosen because of its friendliness towards copyright holders.

Sony is not being lazy or stupid here, but malicious.
Also Safari iOS, so that won’t last very long.
but Microsoft should understand why this is an issue, they had to rename their windows from 9 to 10 because applications did check based on os name string and just exit after detecting it contains "windows 9" as it suppose to match windows 95 and windows 98
That sounds nice and all but the distribution of engineers doesn’t match population distributions.

This leads to organizational pressure to hire based on population distribution. Doing so inevitably means hiring based on attributes other than skill.
My guess is that they aren't using user agent detection, for reasons you mentioned.

It's unlikely they QA unstable browsers, but some in this thread are reporting the same on FF stable.
If it's real, you might as well tell everyone and I'll hear about it that way - I am certain you'll be very popular.
Squeaking Labyrinths (2022)
A fun post I wrote last year about an unexpected acoustic feature of those brick labyrinths you see in public parks.
NATO missile defences are present in the eastern block (Poland, Czech Republic, etc) and AFAIK those can be repurposed to launch offensive missiles as well. If having offensive missiles in a country takes 2 steps, where the first is gaining military access to said country and the second is to install offensive missiles, certainly the first step is the harder to accomplish.

Additionally, when it comes to geopolitical power things are much more complex than you make them to be. I suggest reading this publication[0] to understand better what's going on.

A few points:

> Moscow claims that missile defenses represent an American perception of threats from Russian nuclear missiles. Therefore these defenses aim to neutralize them in potential conflict. Either Russian missiles would be attacked by a conventional air and space first strike, possibly involving these networks in Europe, or else these missile defenses would frustrate a retaliatory second strike leaving Russia defenseless.

> While these missile defenses in and of themselves are no threat, they represent the first stage of a planned or potential U.S. buildup of a missile network in Europe that could then neutralize Russia's first and/or second strike capabilities as cited above and shift the burden of war to Europe.

> If missile defenses were stationed at these bases, it would create a pretext for stationing offensive missiles there. This would force Moscow to assume the worst case scenario and could cause Russia to attempt to shoot them down leading to a conflict with America.

> These defenses and whatever may follow them rupture the fabric of strategic stability where neither side has the freedom of action or margin of superiority that might encourage it to think it could employ coercive diplomacy or military force with impunity. That strategic stability equation is of critical importance to Russia because otherwise Washington might be tempted to think it could strike at Russia with relative impunity.

> Finally, there is a fifth, and always unstated but critical aspect here. These defenses entrench the United States in Europe's military defense and foreclose any prospect of Moscow's being able to intimidate or reestablish its hegemony over Eastern and Central Europe, and even possibly the CIS. If missile defenses exist in Europe, Russian missile threats are greatly diminished if not negated. Because empire and the creation of a fearsome domestic enemy are the justifications for and inextricable corollary of internal autocracy, the end of empire allegedly entails Russia's irrevocable decline as a great power and, (the crucial point) generates tremendous pressure for domestic reform.

.0: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/352-missile-defense...
> Because at my local grocery store for example, above the customer service area they have a whole wall of TV's showing the live camera feeds.

Right, but is it recording, and does the camera feed go anywhere other than just up to the little monitor showing you the video?

It's like the recording they play once in a while over the PA that says "security to section 3" or whatever. It's theater. Because actual security costs real money and grocery stores are tight margins.

I mostly ignore such things, but Home Depot annoys me. I guess they have a more significant problem with theft, because some aisles have cameras with monitors and a bell that goes DING-DONG when you walk by, just to remind you they think you're a criminal. A few miles away there's even a Home Depot that has a portable tower-of-cameras out in the parking lot with bright lights and flashing blue lights on it, so you can further feel like a criminal. Luckily my local location doesn't feel the need to do that.
We’ve been doing that at least since World War II in military intelligence, and they probably stole the idea from organized crime.
Developed countries have DMCA copycats. For Germany see 97a https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_ur...
That's the weird thing about Microsoft expanding marketshare.

If they'd actually succeed in capturing the majority of the market, there's a big chance Google would throw in the towel and then what??
You do not understand the issue.

European countries can compel me to share data, and in that case I can do it legally. However, under the current law if I share data to the US government without going through the process in my local courts, I am liable for massive fines.

This is even true if I am not the entity sharing the data, but I merely placed it in the care of an US company. The problem is not that American companies are arm in arm with the government, it's that they are incorporated in a jurisdiction where the US courts have power, and because of my local laws, I must consider those courts to be a hostile actor.
I think it's deliberately obtuse to claim to represent such an opinion. The people on "git blame" for this will end up being reprimanded in some way, in serious cases.

If we're chalking it up to "Microsoft sucks" then that's fine, but it'd be better imo to just say THAT, rather than sneak up to the point via this auxiliary issue of this user agent string. Someone has to answer for these individual fuck-ups, it's intentionally shitty behavior to be insinuating that someone did this maliciously under the guise of end users assuming innocence, thereby obscuring the responsibility for it.
Yep... Thanks for the advice!
It is a matter of configuration in their black box. I am using Librewolf and cannot login to Teams with that either. I have similar problem dropping links in Teams to URL's on my own server. MS blocks them, and I always have to tell people to copy the URL and paste it into a different browser such as Firefox.
> You are making an unfounded judgement call that grades and extra-curriculars adequately measure what the colleges want to measure

Unfounded? I don't think so. After all, I've gone through admission myself. Anyway, what do you think they want to measure?

> curriculums should be tailored to meet student ability

> having a unique curriculum apart from other students

I agree wholeheartedly. However, our school system doesn't provide that. Our system isn't even remotely in the vicinity of that. We still rely mostly on social promotion based on geography and age, with age groups sometimes divided into 2 or 3 rough subgroups. I'm not impressed. I think it's questionable how much if any value that provides. It's classism rather than individualism.

> the average admissions non-advantaged (no affirmative action, etc) successful Ivy candidate is likely 140 IQ+. With 150 not being uncommon.

"likely"? Is that just your speculation, or do you have empirical evidence? I know that IQ tests are not required for admission.

I'm not a fan of the notion of "IQ". I consider it a kind of pseudoscience. I don't think I've ever taken an IQ test myself, though I don't recall exactly the criteria for admission to the aforementioned gifted program.

> That's because you lack context on the history of living standards and poverty.

Mmmkay, thanks for playing. I'm done here now. Congrats on the smugness, hope you enjoy it.
If you're curious why the monks slip a picture of the Dalai Lama behind the Panchen Lama, it's because the Chinese government kidnapped and hid the Dalai Lama's selected successor and replaced him with a stooge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima
Really quite extraordinary.
It’s a little janky. My word was “temperature”. I got to “water” (no. 29) and then got stuck. Words leading up to it were rain, cloud, storm. Hard to take the leap from there to “temperature”
> There is this thing with getting old (I'm in late 40s now) where you think the world is going to hell, but really what is happening is that you are figuring out EXACTLY how fucked up everything is.

This is so true. When I was younger I thought "oh what a cynical thought, I should cheer up and be less gloomy". Now I realize I was right. The sheer amount of waste arising from badly managed orgs with wrong incentives is just enormous. This is why we don't have flying cars and teleporters.

If you consider that universities these days let in a lot more people, it's inevitable that the academic level is lower. Back in the day someone doing a phd had a reasonable chance of becoming a professor. Now there's so many people the university is not really for producing knowledge, that's just a side business to giving a stamp of approval to your average middle class kid who is not gonna be doing research.
I worked at 3dfx in their final months. I watched as workers from NVIDIA broke down and hauled off a large number of netapp shelves (seemingly without labeling them).

3dfx was run like a frat house. It was fun while I was there, but it wasn't a surprise when they announced they were shutting down.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them? (2012)
does that not seem at all contrived to you?

government is an organisation of humans within a geographical region that work for the benefit of all the other humans within that region. it's as simple as that. it's the exception not the rule for there to be no private competition; unless you live in Cuba, in which case you're describing communism, not government
You prefer to eat pets rather than cattle?

Or is it just the naming you object to?
I've struggled with this for most of my life, and recently went on sabbatical when I, too, saw myself no longer able to perform, and I took myself out of the game before my personal struggles had a chance to force me out.

I think the post is giving questionable advice about the role of willpower in making the right choices. I think it is advising the use of willpower for challenges that may be better addressed in other ways.

If "life is a game", and willpower is a jetpack with limited fuel, the piece reads like a strategy guide that tells you how to best use your jetpack to go about routine tasks, and focuses on preservation of fuel to ensure you can keep using the jetpack for those tasks. It fails to ask the question: is a jetpack the right tool in the first place? Is the preservation of fuel just sidestepping a deeper and more fundamental issue? Should you really be using a jetpack to ascend a few flights of stairs?

I see my collapse at work as partly due to a misapplication of willpower to surmount obstacles that could be best bypassed by navigating around or through those obstacles instead of assuming that the only option is up and over. This was a perspective that I could not see while I was in the situation, but as I've gained more critical distance, I've started to realize that lack of willpower was not the primary problem.

Everyone is different of course, but for me, establishing a mindfulness meditation habit in the morning and then building a solid core routine of daily habits around that and around tested cognitive approaches to reframing problems has been a much more sustainable path.

I think of it as priming my mind to make hard decisions with less effort, thus reducing the need for willpower in the first place. And the impact has really felt magical. Things I could hardly convince myself to do even after mustering every bit of willpower suddenly started to become automatic and effortless - no willpower required.

This started with the most basic of things: doing the dishes regularly, eating better foods, going to bed earlier, etc. This habit loop has a cascading positive effect. Better sleep led to better sessions of mindfulness and more moments of experiential insight. This in turn led to even more pronounced effects and less "limbic friction" for daily tasks. The effect doesn't seem to be that you gain more willpower, but that the willpower required to complete a task is reduced drastically, because your brain has seen more clearly the cost/benefit of each possible path.

I suddenly found myself digging in to some tasks and problems that I'd been avoiding for months/years. I suddenly found myself believing that this set of foundational habits would become the core of my next work endeavor.

I should disclaim that I'm still very much mid-journey, but I've done the willpower thing and failed. Cognitive approaches that change how your brain weighs decisions seems far more sustainable, and leaves the jetpack ready for when you really do need to scale the side of a cliff.
People can run whatever software they want. They don't need your permission, or to know how to file a bug report, or whatever other bullshit you've dreamed up. They're also allowed to complain when a site is broken in their browser.

If you don't want to see unsophisticated complaints and bug reports, then you need to stop looking at them. Perhaps find a different profession/hobby where your user-hostile attitude actually benefits someone.
Radical freedom a la Sarte
He was wrong. If you're on the go it is healthier to buy bottled water than buying soda, and the environmental impact is no different.
> Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
— Max Howell (@mxcl)

If inverting a binary tree means swapping the left and right subtrees of every node, I wouldn't want to work with someone who can't do that either and Google is definitely right to reject him.
Compared with C++ or C? No way. Rust is light years ahead of the curve in terms of usability.

Perhaps you're comparing with languages outside of the domain like node or python? In that case it's actually not that far off in terms of usability.
That's a tough problem when generating word embeddings. Bodies of text will rarely write "walking walk" or "the dancing dance" consequently leading naïve implementations to consider them unrelated.
If you are going to state something is fallacy then you might want to substantiate the fallacy. Instead all you provide is your opinion that the elimination of a class of jobs is for "the better."

What I have stated is that entry level positions are a means of advancement in retail environments. This based on empirical fact.

>"There is a reason why for example living human beings do not manually switch phone lines anymore when you make a phone call"

No, the reason "human beings do not manually switch phone lines anymore" is because the growth of subscriber lines exceeded the capacity for manual switching in Central Offices. It had nothing to do with nature of the job.
Worth noting that Herbert M Shelton was a smallpox anti-vaxxer: "The mortality from VACCINATION is much higher than that from smallpox" (from the same book quoted in the article) and generally a quack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_M._Shelton
This just reads as marketing prattle. Modern research [1][2] shows that our bodies will only prioritize loading up our muscles with carbs if we eat in the morning, as it is an energy-intense process which requires about 10% of the calories consumed and only really makes sense for our bodies to do if we eat at the start of a day.

1: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eat-more-calories-in-the-morning-than-the-evening/
2: https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/chronobiology/
Maybe I've been living in California for too long, but I'm kind of shocked/confused at how someone stealing from a Target would go all the way to a jury trial. Surely the amount stolen was less than the cost of the police's time, the legal system, judges, attorneys, clerks, jurors, and so on. It would be more cost effective to simply have the local government reimburse Target for the loss.
This one smells a bit like something I run into at work sometimes, where a non-technical person makes a technical decision and the technical people don't sufficiently challenge it.

If you're trying to convert markdown documents into webpages, the most likely output format would surely be HTML, or perhaps something custom to the site like MediaWiki markup.

It's totally possible that a site would allow for new documents to be uploaded in a JSON format, but the format would have to be specified (e.g. which keys are used for the post body and subject) - so "whatever you deem best" is unlikely to work, it would need to be "whatever my webhost expects, which is documented -here-"

I'm happy to be wrong here, and zainhoda's markdown to JSONified HTML is interesting regardless - but I suspect you really wanted a markdown to HTML converter. ex: https://markdowntohtml.com/ or something more extreme like a static site generator: https://www.getzola.org/
Enable and enforce waste collection/disposal systems and plasma gasify all of it. Problem solved. The Rube Goldbergesq current state is annoying.
Regardless of whether or not its a good idea for general life, in terms of dieting/weight loss, going to 1 meal a day has made a huge difference for me. With one meal per day, it would be difficult to eat enough calories to gain and/or not lose weight. Also, after about 2 weeks your stomach capacity shrinks which makes it even easier to lose weight because you actually feel full/satisfied on meals that used to seem like snacks to me. Those first two weeks are hell though. These days, if I eat 3 meals in a day then I feel awful and bloated. To anyone who is struggling with giving up the food you love for weight loss: you don't need to be replacing your pizza with salad. Just eat less.
You can shortcut a lot of the steps in these various guides by using the Pytorch container from Nvidia[0].

It shouldn't be too hard for someone (me?) to create a Dockerfile and Docker hub container FROM this image to get it up and running easily.

[0] - https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/pytorc...
He has set, not functional. See his Twitter
“The site isn't working on FF nightly or Chrome Canary” is a perfectly valid bug report. It’s up to the dev if they want to investigate and fix or if they want to wait for more data/reports to come it.

You think I’m going to source dive your tens of thousands of lines of shitty hacked up react just because I’m a nightly user? Fuck no. Do your job clown.
But by default, training algos don't see the lower resolution, your gradient just doesn't work as well. There is a body of research on how to make training aware of / adapt to the lower precision.
WH Smith targeted by cyber attack
You do realize the "someone" in question is a mega corporation worth almost 2 TRILLION dollars with around 200K employees? One with a long history of anti-competitive behaviour and "mistakes"?
Building a (software) engineering organization one year in
Ah that makes sense. I recall the bags I purchased were marketed for home use, guess I got had.
> Will an attorney give you free legal advice until you decide they are fit to represent you

I agree with your point overall, but I do have to say that it is very common for lawyers to give free consultations with potential clients, often offering very useful advice. This is something I've benefited from more than once, actually.
It's an old convention that comes either from Fortran or math (sums/matrices). Depending on how long a for loop is, more descriptive names can make sense.
Just ask LeBron James how to get rich and he will have a different suggestion…
Good point. In this context, it wasn't even superior though, at least not in the long run. Memory got bigger so that storing more triangles wasn't a problem anymore, it's more about computational resources. There, NURBS are only clearly better for very smooth surfaces (like the mentioned sphere), which are rare in natural shapes. For everything else, you get more details per FLOP by just using more triangles, which is where the industry went.
What happened to plasma gasifiers? I kept reading about them years ago and I thought New York City had ordered some, but haven't seen them in the news since.
Didn’t paulsutter above suggest Singapore had replaced HK though?
> The bad news is that there will be a few people who reverse engineer the AI graders and get millions of readers despite not being all that good.

Don't disrespect the hustle grindset.
Dev for 16 years. The people who do the interviewing are themselves different now.

They have different values. Different expectations of what is normal or important. "Culture", "team fit" and other bs.

Everything changes. New people come who don't know the past.
If they already lock up regulated medicine, then it costs them next to nothing to add high-value items to it. They have the space and the staff to handle it already.
I tried to do "select * from ... limit 1" from a 1.7GB JSON file (array of objects), and I had to increase maximum_object_size to 1GB to make it not throw an error. But DuckDB then consumed 8GB of RAM and sat there consuming 100% CPU (1 core) for ever — I killed it after about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, doing the same with Jq ("jq '.[0]'") completed in 11 seconds and consumed about 2.8GB RAM.

I love DuckDB, but it does seem like something isn't right here.
You probably meant that as a joke...but suppose they made sure there was a trace of actual Fiji water in the bottle before they filled the bottle with local water could they legally get away with saying its from Fiji if they added "homeopathic" to the label?
True. Almost all talk of plastic packaging waste is a (deliberate?) distraction from larger issues. e.g. buying a new car will generate more plastic and other waste than a lifetime of plastic bags and utensils.