skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do some photography on the side.

I think the sentence describe it perfectly.

Gear won't take good photos. But it sure makes it easier if you know what you are doing. And it also opens new possibilities.

It is all good, IF you know how to use it. Probably the best advice I got when I started was to settle on a simple piece of gear, fairly constrained, and learn how to use it creatively. I settled on a Fuji X100s which is prime, non interchangeable lens. I learned everything about it for the next year and I am probably better photographer for it. When you learn everything about your fairly simple camera you can start learning how to use it creatively. The camera itself becomes your tool and you learn to predict what is going to happen and what is/not going to work in a particular situation. Those skills, for some reason, transfer when you change to other cameras.

Give my full frame with my expensive lenses to my wife and the pictures are worse than she would do on a phone. It is just too complicated for her to be thinking about the photo, not that she pays a lot of attention to the composition anyway.

So what is the application?

Whatever you do, try to understand different aspects of your craft and maybe figure out which of those aspects you are underutilising and how you could force yourself to learn them better.

For example, as a developer, decades ago, I was thrown on a project that required me to write a lot of code in a very constrained environment (embedded C, low memory, etc.) without being able to compile and run it. I was able to run my code once a week.

I probably learned more about programming working for 3 years on this project than I learned over the rest of my career before and after. I learned that compile/run/fix loop is a crutch that most people never wean themselves of because it is just so damn convenient. I learned that you can teach yourself to write code for days and then get it to work correctly on the first try (most of the time). I learned it gives you superpowers.

I can now barely stand watching people who can't predict what their code does, it feels so amateurish. I know I did the same and I know it was a chance that I learned it, but still.

It also makes your code much, much more bug free and reliable. Because QA/QC/code reviews, etc. only find certain types of problems that manifest themselves fairly easily. To reduce other types of bugs you have to create less bugs in your initial version because nobody will ever find them and fix them for you. Those bugs are still there and will manifest themselves in those rare occasions or when you refactor the software a bit. It also means when you are done coding the application is pretty much production ready -- there is no QA/QC phase where bugs are getting fixed.
The Mining Development Kit – Unlocking Innovation in Bitcoin Mining
All of this was a great explanation of some of the delays so far...nine years ago.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1646/root-cause-of-vogtle-a...
I was debugging a TI DSP based board that I designed. It would come up, execute some of my code, and die. It took 3 weeks and lots of back and forth with TIs tech support before I found out that some of the ground pins were left disconnected. The guy that laid out the PCB didn't connect them though they were connected in the schematic. We went back to the PCB editor, zoomed way in, and lo and behold there was this tiny unconnected segment.

I don't remember the details any more (this was like 30+ years ago) but I think TI's support was on the right track and I was convinced this can't be true because I had the connection in the schematic. If you probe this with a DVM or a scope it will look connected (because the pins are connected internally) and so it's really hard to find out.

This taught me a valuable lesson that anything can be debugged with enough time and persistence. Some things take longer and that's life.
> Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet.

Well it was expensive lesson but he finally gets it
They were just that, a tax to keep the government from defaulting.
I thought the chain reaction in Europe was mostly a consequence of Napoleon's conquest. Per Wikipedia,

> Napoleon had succeeded in bringing most of Western Europe under one rule. In most European countries, subjugation in the French Empire brought with it many liberal features of the French Revolution including democracy, due process in courts, abolition of serfdom, reduction of the power of the Catholic Church, and demand for constitutional limits on monarchs.

After Napoleon was defeated, the monarchs and aristocrats were never able to fully restore the status quo ante as everybody was used to modern administrative government. That sounds more like the Anglo evolution than the French revolution.
In 10 or 20 years when most of the leave voters die out and a new generation of politicians grows up

It will be interesting to see if that new generation stick to their current political beliefs in 10 or 20 years.

The older generation who were most heavily in favour of Brexit were the same younger generation who voted for the EU's predecessor at the previous referendum a few decades earlier. A person's political views can change over time. And of course so can both the UK and the EU.

On the other hand the traditional patterns of individual political evolution and voting behaviour in British politics haven't really held recently and no-one seems to know why yet. So we shouldn't assume that younger voters who skew pro-EU at present will turn into older voters who skew the other way in a decade or two.
Is this a serious question? Who is "someone"?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-debt-25-percent/ (25% of national debt was incurred during the last administration; half was COVID relief measures, the other half was tax cuts for the wealthy)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fiscal-deficit-idUSKB... (Republican tax cuts to fuel historic U.S. deficits: CBO)

Sources at bottom of the first link.

This doesn’t include healthcare cost inflation due to a grossly inefficient healthcare model.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...
A normie's guide that references subatomic particle mechanics...
Yikes that’s pretty frustrating!
On the site you link, 2020 and 2021 tell a different story, though only on the margin.
One of the most entertaining visual expositions of how magnetic core memory works is this little 14-min overview of the Saturn V memory system, "How did NASA steer the Saturn V":

https://youtu.be/dI-JW2UIAG0
The point is that it’s not like other national holidays. Stores are closed. You’ll manage.
At least you’re actually trying! :)
That's not how voting works.
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Yes, that's correct. Like some other things in PS/2 machines (such as the MCA bus), they weren't entirely closed to other vendors, and IBM was trying to push the 2.88s as the new floppy standard, but they never caught on like the other standards IBM pushed before then when IBM had more clout.
your post looks like it has been downvoted, so i guess no one was familiar with "Socratic questioning" and your post comes across as "anti-nuclear" without doing any research.

as a leanring oppertunity, this is what Socratic questioning looks like:

What is an example of Socratic questioning?

What do you mean when you say X? Could you explain that point further? Can you provide an example? Is there a different point of view?

you simply asked negative-framed questions : Why did the regulators approve fission reactors knowing our country has enemies..
The first thing that came to mind for slowly increasing worth looking into seemed like it might be the inverse ackermann function, which curiously I didn't find any OEIS entry for.
IC7+ was never frozen. Everything else is (at least for eng).
10Gtek has worked well for me. I have several transceivers and DAC cables from them. Fiber is awesome for distance and speed, but few devices can take SPF+ so I have a bunch of bulky thunderbolt to SPF+ dongles.

Hard-earned suggestion: LABEL your fiber cable on both ends with the LENGTH (and id while you are at it). Nothing worse than running the fiber only to have it a few feet too short in the end.
likely much more: scale with ssd speed and number of disks.

Also, I am not sure how it will stack up against some cloud instance with bunch of ssd under software raid.
If you plan to ask stores to close, they just won't. If you plan to require it, then the law won't pass.
Why would those things be mutually exclusive?
Have sympathy. The wall of monad is a hard one to get over.
Speaking of audio to text, how does one insert a full stop to separate sentences? I tried once to use Siri to voice-to-type - got stuck on this and never used it again.
FWIW, Bing, with it's access to the internet, has no trouble with this.

Precise Mode:

Canada Post commenced court proceedings in 2012 against Geolytica Inc. for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca1. The parties have now settled their dispute and Canada Post will discontinue the court proceedings

Creative Mode:

Hello, this is Bing. I can tell you that Canada Post filed a lawsuit against Geolytica Inc. in 2012 for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca1.

Canada Post claimed that Geolytica Inc. used a crowd-sourced database of postal codes mapped to geographic addresses that infringed Canada Post’s intellectual property rights in those postal codes21.

Geolytica Inc. was represented by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, a technology law, policy and advocacy group based at the University of Ottawa3.
The parties settled their dispute in 2016 and Canada Post agreed to discontinue the court proceedings.
Would love if the landing page had some screenshots, or if there were something in the navbar to link to a demo video. Looks cool though!
1. At least in the US, contributions to social security stop once you hit 160k, making it a regressive tax. Raise that cap and like magic, the system is solvent.
2. Growing home prices come from a lack of supply. And you’ve completely flattened an entire generation into one wealth class, which is a gross distortion of the facts.
and how does it work? Do they write drivers in some verifiable subset of C?
Are you trying to say US healthcare isn't expensive? What is the financial risk of having a child who needs insulin?
I literally never saw problems with floppies with the Apple ][ or other micros of the time, or even with MS-DOS, up until the 1.44 became king and then people started moving to CD-Rs and other things. At that point, the drives became cheap junk (there were large, noticeable differences in the internals between a late-90s floppy drive and an early-90s one: much bigger and nicer motors for instance) and the media was terrible.
There is a difference. But the more alike two processes are in their input-output behavior, the more likely it is those processes are alike on the inside as well. If process B matches the input-output behavior of process A, it's imitating process A. If it is following an equivalent sequence of steps in order to generate those outputs, it's simulating process A.

The harder it is to discriminate between A and B on a long series of diverse inputs, the more likely it is that A and B are internally equivalent, not just externally similar. The reason is that there's no better fit than B = A.

I'm increasingly doubting whether my own brain might not, internally, use something that is architecturally similar to an LLM in order to compose comments like the one I'm writing now.
You've also got a sizable river on the eastern border that extends up into northern Minnesota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Nuclear_Generating_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Crosse_Boiling_Water_Reacto...
It does not break the Chloride atoms. Chloride can form many molecules:

One "family" is NaCl (table salt) , HCl (hydrochloric acid = muriatic acid), Cl-. They can kill bacterias when they are concentrated, but they are nor so powerful when diluted enough.

Another "family" is Cl2 (chloride gas), NaClO (bleach[1]), HClO , ClO-. All of them are "free chloride" because they are essentially equivalent. If you ignore the Cl2 and compare the other 3 with the ones in the other family, the difference is that they have and additional oxygen. This oxygen can go out and "burn" a part of a bacteria, and enough "burns" will kill the bacteria.

I'm not sure of the details, because I know chemistry but not too much, but from https://solar2000.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Solar2000... the idea is that there is always a small amount of innocuous contamination in water, and UV can make the bleach react with it. The reaction is

something-H + HOCl (bleach) -> something-Cl+ HOH (water)

The "contamination" exchanges one of it's hydrogens with a chlorine in the bleach, and the bleach is transformed into water.

So the chorine atoms don't disappear, but now they are in a molecules that will not cuse "burns" to the bacterias.

[1] It's more complicated, but let's call this bleach to simplify.
You can allow it as targeting, but disallow the word "Blender" in the ad copy, which is what these scams would use to misrepresent themselves and trick the user into downloading malware.
Time and time again it’s the same bullshit argument. I’ve grown tired of it. The price of goods and services has decoupled from the cost for a while now, and prices are rising at a staggering rate without salary increases.
I'm sure since this is new precedence space all lawers and litigation-income based "businesses" are just drooling at the potential for frivolous cases like this. But the people using chatgpt web interface are informed over and over that "as an ai language model I can't" this or that and that it doesn't know things and is not for those purposes. This screenshot is no doubt not showing all those disclaimers the very writer of this story has read by now.

This is why people hate lawyers. They ruin everything. They're why openai's gpt3.5-turbo model is qualitatively worse at everything than gpt3 davinci because of all the "As an AI language model I can't, but" and absolute refusal to answer anything that could possibly lead to legal troubles. It literally fails the turing test now because of the forced covering of it's butt.

chatgpt the web interface is a text based game. Come off it.
If you organize well, then you have a voting block you can influence. Historically, union leaders have been extremely powerful because of this because they made sure to strengthen union ties (hosting social events, disability benefits/aid could come from the labor union instead of your employer, etc). The strengthening of social ties within the union gives you a pulpit from which to influence (e.g. if you know your union leader and you like your union leader and they're making sure you get treated well and taking care of you, you might set aside any personal beliefs / things you hear on the news and vote the way your friend is asking you to). In fact, the largest union leaders were as powerful as being a leader of a religious organization (think Jimmy Hoffa). Think about how much leverage cop unions and the Fraternal Order of Police seem to wield about public policy regarding policing as an example of the ways in which unions can organize to be a bulwark against more popular policies.

So what a grad student union can do about inequality in the LA community at large is to organize their members to vote as a single block that politicians will want to court. And if they're too small on their own, they partner with other union leaders who share similar belief to recommend their members vote as one big block on specific issues. That's what community organizing means - organizing a block of votes for a shared purpose.
I wonder if this could be ameliorated through font choice and highlighting.
But a lot of times it's invested in the economy to the worker's detriment. Look at the huge investments into real estate recently. Are the new landlords going to price units at something remotely affordable for someone on part-time minimum wage to raise a family in like it's still the 50's, or are they going to charge an unaffordable market rate? Resulting in people living with roommates into their 30's and beyond. More active participation in the market by the government would do wonders - real estate developers are in business to make money, which is what's lead to so many luxury condos. The government is able to pay market rate to blue collar workers who actually do the construction while not taking any profit, and thus are about to build units that are affordable by plebeians.

Another example of socially irresponsible investing is in any company that hires minimum wage employees for 39.5 hours a week, just under what's needed to qualify for company-sponsored health insurance. The market's slowly changing, but you're deluded if you think that's not still happening and that corporations are just happen to make small accidental practices that result in wage theft from employees, especially those at the bottom rungs.

There are bourgeoisie who pride themselves on their philanthropic work, and socially responsible investing, but greed's a more reliable driver for how people invest.
There's no downside to losing trust as long as you have a monopoly and none of the alternatives are any better (and they are not - Bing, Yahoo, etc - all ad-funded search engines will have the exact same problem).

But even if we accept that there is a downside, it's clearly not enough because this problem keeps happening again and again. Whatever downside there is needs to be increased by a few orders of magnitude for them to take the problem seriously.
Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability
I felt the same after episode one. That changed by end of episode 2. I too am zombied out, but this show is fantastic.
I'm not trying to argue against inequality or even a wealth tax.

But France is in a demographic collapse the likes of which has never been seen before in the country. There simply not going to be enough working age adults to supply all of the goods and services the dependents of the state are going to need. Furthermore, major international trading partners are a) increasingly cutting them out of trade deals and b) waging wars amongst each other.

So while I think inequality is certainly something to deal with, it is not the sole boogeyman. The idea that wealth is just some sort of economic piggy-bank that can be raided for easy gains is vaporware.
It's perfectly fine when our understanding of something evolves and we discover that what seemed like a good idea with the information we had before looks like a bad idea with the more complete information we have now. There's nothing better than using the best evidence available at the time to draw conclusions.

Where there's a problem it's when corporations and industries manipulate research until they get favorable results, and bury any evidence unfavorable to their products or when even well-intentioned research is distorted by the media just for clicks.

We should expect science to change in the face of new information, that's a feature not a bug. We should be doing a lot more to hold people accountable for lying and misleading us though, including researchers and the media.
> the population doesn't care if porn is mixed in with everything else

Good luck bringing that up at the water cooler at work.
Open up their whole code base for research purposes?
Which, of the two, would be more accurate and relevant to users? Do users care about an estimated 27ms increment that they objectively cannot notice, or the overall measured response time?
They all like to say the free market is the optimal computer of value until you compare it to runaway AI
On macOS you could just never grant access to the mic when apps ask.
There’s sort of a thing where you can’t just have a sustainable company because if you don’t increase your profits you end up losing money, just like how not getting a pay raise is actually a pay cut.

Inflation seems often glossed over as no big deal in theory but in reality it doesn’t balance out cleanly at all. So basically cutting costs and finding ways to increase profit becomes more than just investor motivated and here we are in the future where labor is expensive (also due to regulatory/liability burden) and materials are cheap so things end up being increasingly boring and stripped away.

Just compare architecture from 200 years ago and today and it’s a visual economic metaphor for everything else, and the side-effect of vanishing elegance and culture is like a twisting of the economic dagger.
>The other point of view is that the industry would have been entirely off shored.

No, it wouldn't have. The ownership might have, but that's ok. Lots of great cars are built in the USA, by American workers, by companies like BMW and Honda and Toyota. If GM had been allowed to die, that would have simply meant more foreign-brand-owned factories in the US.

Why do you care so much about the nationality of the top execs?
> The fact that so many people choose to live in suburbs, or the "sticks", suggests that there is something desirable to _them_ about living there.

The fact that people dump their sewage into the creek instead of paying for proper sewage treatment/disposal suggests that there's something desirable to _them_ to do the easier and cheaper thing. Of course! The problem is externalities.
Solely because the French government hasn't decided to use force to disperse them.
As a French citizen, I find it unsurprising that the usual top comments here are all about numbers. Life expectancy going up, do your part, work work work.

That people are angry is not about the damn numbers. It's about the attitude of a political class that had private restaurant dinners behind closed doors during lockdown times where the population was fined for being out walking their dogs, it's about a president that's been deliberately calling left-leaning ideas of the younger generations about ecology and equality "extreme-left" while joyfully siding persistently with the actual parties created by fascists, it's about a reform that comes in with a justification of a deficit that was literally created by giving money to large companies and rich people in the form of tax deductions, it's about some of his ministers who take part in all sorts of horrible things and continue to go unpunished, it's about people asking for compassion towards difficult jobs more than for their own selves, and I could go on...
That's what Nix is for ;)
Just because that's not how this form of voting works, doesn't mean it not an interesting stat to look at.
iOS is still pretty far behind android, apart from being faster and looking nicer. Bad notification system, bad keyboard, no split screen mode, inability to turn off animations, no proper cellular data tracking.
Unknown and presumably mostly ambivalent?
> I wouldn't be surprised if they are ignoring those complaints because there's no one left to process them.

Maybe, but Facebook is arguing otherwise:

“ According to Meta, this isn’t just a case of another domain name registrar ignoring abuse complaints because it’s bad for business. The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Freenom “are part of a web of companies created to facilitate cybersquatting, all for the benefit of Freenom.””
Excellent product! I was a bit skeptical, but it worked on the first try on my Rails app and helped me discover a few issues!