skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. I might be able to build upon this.
earth.elf might be a spurious file?
Yep, the roots are remarkably good at staying in the ground. In the western (desert climate) US you pretty much have to carry a watering can if you want to harvest the roots. It takes minutes for the soil to moisturize and loosen up enough to get those roots out
I don't mean this to sound snarky. I'm genuinely curious where you think the water will go, if not to other places on earth.
That would be interesting but MS-DOS? Absolutely not.

I'm having much more fun tinkering in Linux on a 150 EUR Chinese laptop with a fairly anemic CPU.

If there's an itch for retro computing I'll just use an emulator.

The only thing I'd probably enjoy using old tech for would be stochastic super-optimization of programs i.e. to find the very best combination of machine code that executes a certain algorithm maximally fast or with minimum memory.
Smallpox was eradicated through strictly enforced compulsory vaccinations.
What bothered me most through the pandemic was how they treated us all as some homogenous group. It was obvious to me that some people I knew had a harder time with masking because of increased anxiety. And I linked this to the higher CO2.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0634-z#:~:text=As....

"As hypothesized, we found that compared with baseline and ‘normal’ air, inhalation of air enriched with 7.5% CO2 significantly increased negative affect, state anxiety/fear, symptoms of panic, and cardiovascular measures of systolic blood pressure and heart rate. Conversely and as expected, CO2 inhalation also significantly reduced state happiness. "
So 10 years ago this author manually examined all the photos and tagged them to find the conditional probabilities and all the neat stats-blog content.

I'd love to see a redo of this post using today's AI tools. Like, I know midjourney can spit out images "in the style of bob ross", but I mean how do you use these tools to analyze features across the bob ross corpus and ask "How many pictures contain happy little clouds?" And can these tools answer more abstract questions like "what kinds of bob ross paintings tend to have happy little clouds vs paintings with no clouds?"
I owned one. The combo was Ctrl-Alt-Minus.

There were a lot of DOS games that were designed to run at exactly 4.77Mhz. The gameplay and music would run at 2x if you enabled turbo mode.
It really depends on where you live of course. If you live on a farm, you can't expect to have a supermarket next door.

However, the number of shopping malls is irrelevant; most shops are not in malls. In cities, there's generally shopping streets that have a wide variety of all sorts of shops. In suburban areas, there's often a small shopping center with one or two supermarkets, a Chinese restaurant, a snackbar, and a couple of other shops. Big American-style malls are rare here.

And supermarkets are very common. Just Netherland alone has over 6000 of them, and at least 6 of those are within 1.5 km from my home. There's a shopping center 500 m from my house, and a major shopping steet 1 km in the other direction. Stuff is dense, exactly because it doesn't focus on massive malls.

And for anything they don't have in my neighbourhood, I take my bike.

Of course this is a city; in small villages you'll probably still need a car for anything beyond bread and basic groceries.
They used to be 2-strokes. Probably still are in many parts Asia and Africa.

But, in the US and EU, new scooters are (almost?) all 4-stroke today due to emissions regulations. Many are fuel injected for the same reason. I'm not sure if they're required to have catalysts - but that's a fairly simple fix (for new models).
The "solar roadways" nonsense from a few years ago was about putting solar panels in the road surface itself, which is a terrible idea for many reasons. Putting solar panels above the road is only a bad idea if the cost is prohibitive relative to putting them elsewhere.
I do agree that Microsoft won't be able to extinguish Linux, especially through something like WSL, but they are attempting to retain market share for Windows desktop usage with it, and that's actually anti-Linux.

The only reason I even consider Windows as my OS these days is because of WSL, but even then I realize I still run into a lot of nonsense that is absent on Linux. One that comes to mind is how PyCharm has to whitelist project files so that Microsoft Defender doesn't scan them, and that requires a UAC prompt for every project I create. Give me a break.
The issue is negligible with bicycles since they can generally avoid distracted pedestrians unlike cars, and even then they are equipped with bells for that specific purpose.
These seem power and density optimized. This sort of custom hardware is all about supply chains and getting a lot of them everywhere. This flavors the inference use-case.
For large training jobs it is more about turn around time; running hideously expensive GPUs sucking down huge amounts of power is fine.
Maybe this intervention wasn’t seen as “extreme” at the time?
London's hybrid buses are also pretty good for noise (not as good as electric, but a lot better than direct diesel propulsion). No loud bursts of noise when accelerating.
I would not describe it as popular these days
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but the bill of rights is specific to actions taken by the government. Of course individuals and corporations are free to censure individuals on their platforms as long as they are not doing so at the direction of the government.

A kid can't waive the constitution in their parent's face when they barge into their room without knocking, even though they have a right to privacy and protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
The current best practice is to use "em" measurements, where 1em is the size of the base font and zoom you've selected in your browser. Other measurements are scaled from there, so 2em is twice that size and .5em is half, etc.

In reality, the browser will use a variable number of pixels (and even device subpixels) to actually render the font or div -- but if you use all "em" measurements, all those sizes will have the same relationship to each other on the final device.

The 16px in the demo comes from the default base font size in the browser, which has 1em = 16px.
Out of curiosity and with zero background knowledge on what you have communicated here I have a question.

Was there a denial that there would be a problem from mainstream sources? If so, was the cat out of the bag moment followed by 'nuthin burger' from the same sources?

That's what seems to happen in Canada at least.
That's a hard way to make a dime...
But the air was measured to be generally 0.5% enriched in CO2 for FFP2/3 masks with peak of 2.5-3.2% in some (lower quality) N95, as they mention in their own. The conclusion thus does not follow, and the author is pushing some anti-masking agenda.

mmHg values are quite secondary.
Obviously someone so sensitive to CO2 would have to wear a portable powered respirator/oxygen concentrator with CO2 capture filter anyway, as the smoke from cars driving would wreck them.
It's more likely that this is the entire "upstream downstream" development model in action again.

There are vast numbers of improvements to softwares that never get sent to the places where they will do the most good (or at least have a proper record of why they were rejected by their authors). A quick perusal of the bug trackers of Debian or Ubuntu will reveal tonnes of local patches that the original authors of the softwares often never even hear about.

Things don't "stick" often times simply because they get lost.

I was looking at something like that just the other day. Here's a bug report that describes a problem with "doas" not opening the controlling terminal to do its authentication dialogue. This is actually a problem with a package named LinuxPAM, and doesn't occur when "doas" uses OpenPAM or BSD Auth. It's LinuxPAM that's where the code in question is. Fixing LinuxPAM would improve the lives of everyone that uses LinuxPAM, because the behaviour of not allowing standard input through in a command pipeline is not confined to "doas" but affects everything that uses LinuxPAM to do login authentication.

But time and again stuff like this languishes in the wrong place, for years and decades.

* https://github.com/slicer69/doas/issues/17
The authors on this sure are an interesting bunch.

> Independent Researcher, Surgeon, Private Practice, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany

> Non Clinical Expert, Veterinarian, Wagner MSL Management, 15831 Mahlow, Germany

> Department of Psychology, FOM University of Applied Sciences, 57078 Siegen, Germany

> Institute of Pathology, Dueren Hospital, 52351 Dueren, Germany

> Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy (MOCA), 52074 Aachen, Germany

Not a single expert in pulmonary medicine. I'm sure the psychologist and veterinarian with no clinical experience brought a lot of expertise on lung function in.
LangChain: The Missing Manual
It took WAY too many hops to figure out what this thing even is.

I assume that they're going for a very specific audience (i.e. people who regularly write SQLite extensions in C code). And don't have much interest in reading a broader audience, of people who don't currently write SQLite extensions but might find it valuable if made more accessible.

A tech tool should have SOME code snippet on the main page, giving some idea of context at an immediate glance. This isn't hard. Don't have your main page be a YouTube video introducing other YouTube videos, and your "Docs" section contain zero code because that's actually tucked away somewhere else.
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I use pv, Pipe view since forever:

pv largefile.sql > mysql -u root -psecret
Trusted platform related protections?
We lose atmosphere to space everyday.
Every C++ dev has their own C++ that is idiomatic. Good luck matching that up with reality.
In order to use OTP with google I had to setup a security key. and then every time I login it will ask for the key, I have to cancel the request in the browser, it will say something went wrong and then let me select the option to use my OTP.
Smallpox is not COVID and the smallpox vaccine is The vaccine against smallpox is a live-attenuated vaccine (a non-leaky vaccine) and the COVID vaccines are nucleic acid. There was no way to eliminate SARS2 with nucleic acid vaccines.
D1: Improvements to performance and scalability
> There is no conspiracy to steal people's wages?

How did you get that from what I wrote? I legitimately have no idea. Do you think that "The great replacement" is about wage suppression?
Secret chats would probably be subject to this, not the platform as a whole though, no
I wonder if that's inflation adjusted or not, because I can easily imagine that after factoring in inflation the depreciated value of a 30 year old weapon system is about the same as the new price 30 years ago.
What matters is that working in office helps develop meaningful relationships with people you work with.

If you think of work as purely transactional, then yeah work from home wins hands down.
My experience living in a relatively quiet area has been that the loudest vehicles, by far, are garbage trucks followed by other kinds of trucks. But it is much harder to do something about that because they serve an economic purpose and it would presumably be very expensive to make them quieter. It's a lot easier to blame people with gratuitously loud cars and motorcycles because they don't have a real excuse, even if they have less of an impact in absolute terms.
These spawned a whole new subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngineering/
If the top image of the article is real, then I guess illumination would'nt be a major problem, especially in the morning and evening when the sun is low.
The variation in display devices, environmental conditions, and quality of eyesight are large enough that that’s virtually impossible.
Julie! Are you even trying?
Ctrl-t works for me on DD on Linux.
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I’ve said this literally for a decade. I am a social person. I love working in person with people. But I hate the commute. So we have a fully remote company.

It’s never been as simple as remote or in office. It’s been about the wasted time on the commute.
I think, going off the auth log is better, or just logs in general. Build one script that matches regex patterns and sends alerts and you can monitor for a lot more than just logins.
"clouding morality" -> "revealing morality" or "confirming morality"? Or is "lack of" missing in the last sentence?
Oh that is pretty much their monetization strategy. They still on the hype step tho. As soon as they have enough mass, they will do exactly what you say.

For now they are just selling individually to CISO's, so they can pay a higher cost while looking savvy to the CEO.
I just wish they're release a card with mid-range compute but much higher memory to be honest. Would be cool to have an ML focussed series of cards with consumers in mind. But I guess it doesn't make financial sense to them.

Though I do find the binning interesting...I guess they bin on compute and then restrict the bus width of the memory controller based on that. Would be cool if they could also bin on memory controller/bus width, then just offer some average compute along with that. Means people go from being able to run smaller models faster (3090/4090) to being able to run larger models (where they couldn't before) just a little slower.

Gimme a 4060-4070 with like 24GB or vram, hell even 40-48GB.
Are you pushing a pro-masking agenda?

The level of enrichment does not matter if the sub-group is vulnerable enough.
It's SIGINFO, and this is a common thing on the BSDs.
Code-server for life, just one command to install & one file to config the auth/ports & boom after a service restart you are freed from your desk
https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/devastating-floods-pakist...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods

“in the recorded history [of the area] that we have since 1918, we have never had this much rain.”
Maybe if the question specified dimensions of each object, and it was clear that the 3x3 grid of eggs would take up the entire flat surface of either book or laptop, that would be a better test. That’s the only case I can think of where you’d need to put anything on top of the eggs…
Not sure I like the mixed push/pull approach. If you're already traversing the tree to mark nodes as possibly dirty, you might as well recompute the node's value and store it while you're there. Otherwise on pull/lazy update, you're traversing the tree all over again! Terrible for cache locality, particularly for large graphs.

You might be tempted to say that the lazy approach might avoid some recomputations, but if a node isn't actually going to be accessed then that node is effectively no longer live and should be disposed of/garbage collected, and so it will no longer be in the update path anyway!

The mixed push/pull approach has only once nice property: it avoids "glitches" when updating values that have complex dependencies. The pull-based evaluation implicitly encodes the correct dependency path, but a naive push-based approach can update some nodes multiple times in non-dependency order. Thus a node can take on multiple incorrect values while a reaction is ongoing, only eventually settling on the correct value once the reaction is complete.

In other push-based reactive approaches, you have to explicitly schedule the updates in dependency order to avoid such glitches, so perhaps this push/pull approach was picked to keep things simple.
Has there been any rumors or statements from Facebook on them eventually stepping into selling cloud compute? I'd be surprised if they are investing in building hardware accelerators just for their own services.
the universe continues, it seems
I actually believe it sends a SIGINFO, not a SIGUSR1. It's unfortunate that SIGINFO never made it to Linux, it's an incredibly useful feature.
I recall many years ago being a big Gentoo fan (around the time Ubuntu first launched). I fell out of love with it for one of the same reasons that the author said: upgrading dependencies breaking things that you usually never heard of.

The community support was hit and miss. Sometimes they'd be great, even when you were a bit salty. Sometimes, however, they were pretty hostile. The straw that broke the camel's back was being told it was my fault for upgrading packages without deep knowledge of the full implications of doing so.
> Everything is copied, end of the story, no modes [..] (copy on write) [..] something goes out of scope, it's freed.

this fundamentally doesn't work, in no language

Because there is a fundamental difference between something containing a owning a sub-resource and something being allowed to use a resource as a sub-resource without owning it. And copying implicitly turns a onwed reference in a shared on (and in some cases). And while not all languages do express this difference, it still matter in how you use things, which things are exposed in public APIs, which things are thread save etc.

For example on networks everything is _serialize_ which in rust term is more a clone then anything else (but actually more then just a clone in rust). While in the CPU things are normally "rust-Copy copied". But not always, hardware is complicated and trying to do "what hardware does" is basically never ever a good idea for high level abstractions (not doing so is somewhat the whole point of highlevel abstractions).

As a side note: The fundamental abstraction of Rust is ownership (split into: owning, lend exclusively, lend shared) + scoped lifetimes (things get destructed when they go out of scope). Combined with semi-manual memory management.

Scoped lifetimes is needed to archive a semi-manual memory management which was a must have design decision for the goals rust tried to archive. And move semantics are a direct consequence of this choices.

The first is fundamental to pretty much any programming but not explicitly expressed in most.

The difference between Copy and Clone is also not very rust specific, in many other languages (including GCed ones) it would be the distinction between a flat and a deep clone. There is pretty much no way to get ride of the abstraction (due to ownership of nested resources) but I agree that it could have been done a bit better the in rust, not that it's poorly designed IMHO, just not perfect.

No one thing which is a sub-optimal decisions (and was known as such since they where done) are the specific traits signatures used for some of this mechanics. Through the problem is the "better" designs need features rust doesn't even fully have today and they where needed to be stabilized ~8 years ago.

This is also where I see a potential rust 2.0 (in many years), the same core compiler but a changed standard library and a automatic transpiration step which allows you to use most of the rust 1.x crates without any changes to them (i.e. like a rust edition, but with a much larger change and just mostly backward compatible).
I got along well with my dad but not with my mom. Thanks, that approach seems the best course of action.
Who else has figured out that you can expand the orb into a square?
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Update of the RDF and SPARQL (RDF star) families of specifications
Yeah it just looks messy and harder to read when it’s inconsistent
New AWS Documentation Center
Hyundai and Kia agree to $200M settlement over TikTok car theft challenge
> False dichotomy! There can be structural explanations for sociological phenomena that don't put things down to aggregates of individual preferences and also don't resort to blaming an imagined cabal of lizard-men.

What dichotomy am I proposing? I simply said that there is not one evil group conspiring against white people. It's possible that there are multiple groups with nefarious intent (e.g. to suppress wages, or to extract more money from the population), but surely we can all agree that the idea of "The great replacement" is ludicrous? Did this site drift so far to the right that even this statement is now controversial?!
That discourse is overrun by crazy trolls; you can do better at SO.
That's interesting. What was the use case? (why extracting colors?)
The whole point is if we prioritize transport other than cars, we don't have to sit for hours in 90 degree heat. We walk, take the bus/subway, or bike, scooter, etc.

This doesn't even require everybody to live in a city... I'm outside DC and just moment from my front door, I see plenty of opportunities to make transit better and reduce car usage... I'm 1.5 miles from a subway station, but it's impossible to walk to without crossing 1 or more 6 lane roads. There are bike lanes that lead nowhere (literally end a few blocks before the local school then start a few blocks after, then stop before the local shopping center, then start again after). They just built an expensive bike path/running trail as part of an interstate project but they put it right beside the highway - who wants to walk/run/bike 4' from trucks belching diesel fumes and with dangerous sound levels? They could have built the bike path on the other side of the sound wall, but didn't.
High-efficiency stretchable light-emitting polymers
That's interesting, since Dandelions are wild plants. Basically every vegetable or fruit we eat today (carrots would be pretty close I guess) are cultivated. Usually they hardly resemble their wild ancestor.

I'm surprised Dandelions didn't get cultivated to have much larger roots.
I mean it's the Register, they're a tabloid. Their articles are interesting sometimes but I'm just exhausted by the tone at this point.
American Food Will Never Look Natural Again
I believe this doesn't prohibit users from setting their phone/App Store locations to another country and downloading it.
I agree that if you have the opportunity you should do the degree. I don't think it's necessarily true that you won't be able to troubleshoot things otherwise, but there are other reasons.

It's hard to explain why theoretical knowledge is important. It's one of those things you appreciate when you have it, and don't know what you're missing when you don't. I'm a self taught developer with a decade and a half of experience and I wish I had done a CS or Mathematics degree when I was younger.
> The things you actually need are generally enforced by the tools (compiler errors in this case?).

No. This is specifically C++ which has IFNDR ("Ill-formed, No Diagnostic Required") which means the ISO document says there are things (a lot of things it turns out, WG21 appears to have given up even trying to enumerate them) which aren't valid C++ - and so you mustn't do them because the resulting program is meaningless - and yet the compiler isn't expected to detect them and reject your program.

Henry Gordon Rice wrote an important PhD thesis about computation in like 1951. Rice's Theorem says that all non-trivial semantic properties are Undecidable. But we want semantic properties! So, if your programming language is going to have non-trivial semantic properties then you have two practical options:

1. Accept all programs which may have the desired semantic properties, since you can't always decide which those are, you give up and accept programs where you aren't sure, these programs are nonsense, but too bad. That's C++ with IFNDR

2. Reject all programs which may not have the desired semantic properties, since you can't always decide which those are either, you give up and spit out a compiler error when you aren't sure. If a program is rejected maybe the human programmer will rewrite it so that it's acceptable, which is a burden on them. That's what Rust does.