skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal income is just a claim on other people's goods and services. How would higher income fix problems like car crashes, gun violence, and drug overdoses? I'd argue that people are spending time and effort on the wrong and deadly things.
My first intuition is integrating a "triangle" using cylindrical coordinates.
Yeah, you have an audience primed for buying your product, plus the fairly gullible nature of your audience who tend to believe whatever is posted in the comments, it's ideal for advertisers and they're certainly taking advantage. But it doesn't look like reddit is benefiting from any of this. Contrast this to facebook, which has managed to squeeze money from advertisers under a somewhat similar setting.
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Is email dead?
I'm specifically talking about children, before they are at the age to comprehend marketing.

The prime example is a toddler.

I can't think of any exceptions, but any sort of marketing to children seems to be brainwashing. They don't have the ability to resist bright colors, music, and in-group bias.

I've done this on my own kids to teach them phonics and numbers. Lucky that there isnt any corporation with the exclusive ability to sell the number 7 or the letter F. At age 2, they all know the phonics.
Personally, my biggest qualm is the spicy pillow syndrome. Spicy pillow means the battery swells up so it is no longer safe to connect to power unattended (to say the least).

I tried using nexus 4, then nexus 5 phone as a ip webcam, always connected to power. Result spicy pillow. Tried using an iPhone 6 as a two step Authenticator so I could see the two step code at a glance from my computer by keeping the screen always on, connected to power. Result: spicy pillow. Tried a ZTE phone as another webcam again, same result.

Ah but wait, the battery in the zte is user removable so can I use this phone which gets USB-C power without a battery? Yes, with an asterisk. I still need to connect the spicy pillow on boot and once booted, it will happily run from the 65W laptop charger with USB-C. Seems like certain things like flash photography will be too much for my charger to handle but for an ordinary IP webcam, it works just fine. It runs android, is several versions out of date, is connected to the Internet, yada yada.

What I personally want when/if this EU directive that requires manufacturers to use user replaceable batteries takes effect is the next step that requires devices to be able to boot and operate (at least actions that are physically/electronically possible) without a battery as long as the device is connected to power. Something like how laptops used to be? They still ran just fine without a battery. The OS and firmware make no assumption that a battery exists to boot. This possibly requires the use of a super capacitor, something like the dash am in my car? I don’t know enough about electronics…
LLC rules do not apply during bankruptcy. Equity holders are unsecured in bankruptcy, employee salaries and secured debts have a higher priority.

You can have provisions about tax liabilities, but that is a specific risk that must be mitigated in an LLC that a corporation does not have to deal with, thus it’s an added risk
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The copyright is on your creative expression.

There is a ton of precedent on the issue of how much expression and creativity is required to assert copyright. One of the key questions is whether it is plausible that someone just accidentally duplicated the same thing, or if it is the result of actual copying.

Given how iconic Mickey Mouse is, I would be shocked if white gloves and the exact color scheme weren't copyrightable.
You can have LLMs rewrite your texts.
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19318/1909...

Here's the study with methodology and whatnot. I agree it seems a bit low
Do you think Nintendo stopped marketing at some point? It likely is more refined and worse than ever.
It seems like you just confirmed my original comment. Thanks.

If you think the average person that gets banned in a sub is some sort of freedom fighting martyr, then you frankly don't really know much about the subject.
There are some screenshots in the manual, but they are too small on my standard 4k monitor. I had to right-click and open the image in a new tab to get a decent view

https://dust3d.org/model-complete/index.html
I have this idea that as you go up a level of stack parts of the underlying stack get underused, people want to use things at the same level in the stack - for example if you are using React or Vue have everything React or Vue. This makes things work worse because of course you have those underlying levels for a reason, but it makes people feel architecturally purer or something (it is at this point the idea breaks down for me, I have no idea why it is that everything should be in whatever framework you are using, just that this seems to how everyone I ever work with feels on the matter)
The food is garbage. Sugar levels are higher. FDA only forbids ingredients when they are proven unhealthy. Compare that with EFSA.

Urban planning is garbage. The likelihood of being able to walk or commute by something besides cars is close to zero.

Healthcare, guns, politics... Why would I pick this over anything in Europe?
"The TimeMillis library offers helper functions to read, write and operate on timestamps stored as milliseconds in UNIX epoch."

That doesn't seem related?
I'm 45 and my tolerance for shit is virtually non-existent so I can only imagine what 49 implies :)
How embarrassing, I have never heard of those people! Here are some journalists or whistleblowers I have heard of:

- Daniel Ellsberg
- Julian Assange
- Glenn Greenwald
- Seymour Hirsch
- Chelsea Manning
I know a little about SAT solvers. I wrote a SAT library, based on MiniSAT, used in production in the Meteor package manager, and more recently I’ve used my SAT solver as part of a sudoku solver that can solve standard Sodukos and also exotic variants, quite efficiently.

While technically, SAT has exponential algorithmic complexity, in practice, SAT solvers can solve problems with thousands of boolean variables quite quickly. “Guess and check” on these same problems would take the lifetime of the universe. CPU vs GPU does not remotely cover the difference.

Basically, I have no idea what this author is going on about, this could be a joke for all I know.
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Comparison of the performance of VMs from the big three clouds. Targets financial analytics HTC/HPC use cases.
Says the guy who can eat, dress himself, stay warm in the winter, travel, enjoy the first world because of the stuff Texas pumps out of the ground.
There's sixel[0], but not every terminal supports it.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
No it wasn't at all, as it just highlights how completely arbitrary his role in the whole thing is.

If mods are landed gentry then spez is a monarch. Unelected, unaccountable to the populace and completely out of touch with their concerns (even more so than the "landed gentry").
A flight attendant who was supposed to give him a massage as part of her duties. Because who doesn't expect their flight crew to be masseuses?

You must be crazy to work for Musk.
You really can’t compare the income levels without factoring the actual system that Europeans live in. Most Europeans don’t have a car, healthcare is subsidized, food is cheaper, +50 other things that are different.

A European coming to the US on a European salary would not thrive.
Energy is actually a red herring -- what's relevant here is work.

Useful work, aka information, is work that can be employed in dynamics vis a vis processing. Useless work, aka heat, is the devil's share of the energy expenditure which is lost as entropy when undergoing a process.
Yes. And it'll be a leopards ate my face moment when it happens. Pretty much everywhere that get's hot and humid today, will become deadly to normal life in our CC wonderland.

Move north, or south, or underground.
I already have per-IP ratelimiting, and I'm against using captchas have bad UX (including the much-hailed Turnstile).

I'll probably migrate to some proof-of-work based schemes and some algorithms to detect anomalous requests, but it would require some engineering work on my part (for a free website FWIW), and the quickest way to mitigate it would be to block Tor.
I think it's probably a combination of a lot of factors (full disclosure: I'm quite unsure about whether extraterrestrial life exists, but I am hopeful that it does). More sensors capturing more data, newer developments in drone tech that are being mistaken for UAPs, and an increased willingness on the part of military servicemembers to speak out about things they've seen with less concern about the repercussions. That said, if you are referencing the recent discussion fomented in part by Leslie Kean about the U.S. government having actual physical alien ships, I am much more skeptical as to the truth of that and recommend listening to Ezra Klein's podcast with Kean.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
Having to use a special kernel for ROCm is a real pain, I can't just use it like I can with Mesa.

I have enough issues using graphics already so I'll stick with Mesa.
No, but habits will change over time, similar to Spain.
Less activities during the hottest hours, longer opening hours in shops, staying up later.
Culture is formed around the weather for the most part. Spanish people don't do siesta because they are lazy, but simply because it's too hot to do anything between 2pm and 5pm.
That's a great joke if you want to keep people off your platform. Then again, we can also pretend its from skeet shooting, something that happens in the sky. Still ridiculous to need a separate site to show the content of your site, though.
You can generate the metadata in ~/.mozilla/firefox (installs.ini, profiles.ini) to have whatever profile dirs you want. Only if you let FF generate them itself will they have the unknown random names.
The more desperate and discouraging things get, the more people need fantasy.
Well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions…
My favorite counter anecdote is all the Texas refineries working until the last minute then dumping tons of pollution in a haphazard shutdown before a hurricane hit. [1] They could've shutdown slowly, but muh profits were at stake. Texas was built on oil, it's only fitting it ends because of it.

1 - https://grist.org/project/accountability/excess-emissions-te...
if a manager brought up my "personal velocity chart" in a 1:1 unironically I'd quit on the spot
That's a very common format.
Yes, that's the one I actually meant, thank you. I can't edit my original now but this is book I was referring to.
Thrilled that this guy read a paper then explained it to us all very slowly using the words actually and basically. He appears to have had nothing to do with authoring of the paper and was unable to show a demo of the technique. Great that he thinks it’s interesting though and the advice to not leak the secret key accidentally is priceless. We’re all back to the drawing board now
Tor hasn't been IPv4-only since a long time
It means the law gonna change again to extend the copyright some 50 years ahead.
No, I didn't read it again. I read it last year when matt first wrote it (its a year old). My impression is he is generally out of touch with this issue and other income-related issues, he needs to get out of DC more.
Pricing for the Downturn
It’s kind of comical how easily this revolt got quashed.
>The invasion of Iraq was supported by closed to 10x more countries.

4x. More, because America's power to lean on other countries is higher. As I said.

203 million and 954 million are also within the same order of magnitude.

I think no more discussion is warranted here.
Crypto isn't possible with todays tech, because it's an ever increasing bug bounty program that's super slow and has no undo button for fraud (which the elderly are extremely susceptible to).
Based on the comments (I'm also unfamiliar with emacs), you may also want to look into Obsidian. It keeps a local vault of files with some file structure magic to basically let you both easily jot down notes for later and find them (tag/header searching, etc) but also link them together (select some text -> extract into new note, and it backlinks, etc). For a bit I tried to get into being a "power user" of it, using scripts to collect things, add interactive widgets, bla bla. But at the end of the day, I've found it much more enjoyable to use in a very general way, linking documents together (I keep a personal writing vault, and a separate work vault) and giving myself ways to mash through ideas when typing makes more sense.
How about all discussions occurring in major communities. Why ignore places like metafilter and Fark and slashdot.
Of course it’s a trademark. I don’t think this is contested by anyone. Being able to reproduce the “Steamboat Willie” animated short doesn’t mean you can use Disney’s trademarks in new contexts.

If a book published by Penguin enters the public domain, it doesn’t mean you can start using the Penguin logo on any book you want to publish.
I'd just keep in mind that the goal isn't to reduce human additions to the carbon cycle, it's to eliminate them entirely. Building nat gas power plants is actually a bad thing, even though they emit less CO2 than coal plants, because their expected service life is well beyond the point at which we need to be at zero.
Those .gif animations were built by hacking a Gamecube emulator to display the hitboxes and hurtboxes of animations. Then playing those animations in the hacked emulator with the circles (red for hitbox, blue for hurtbox) overlaid with the characters and their animations.

At a minimum, the smash community members who built that data have an expert-level understanding of Gamecube graphics programming, Gamecube assembly language, and Super Smash Bros's internal scripting language to create those posts.

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Yes. This is a very technically adept community. I'm not very much a part of them, but I can see the expert-level reverse engineering work needed to get this working.

And the knowledge won't be forever lost if it is lost. The importance of hitbox / hurtbox reverse-engineering is common in all fighting games (Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, Super Smash Bros). The various communities always work on reverse-engineering all the frame-data and hitbox/hurtbox information ASAP whenever new fighting games come out, so that expert-level fighting game players know what their training routines should be.
I think the comparisons to TikTok are quite apt, and I think there's a further conclusion that is missing from this essay. Long term /u/spez wants to get rid of subreddits, but he needs to do it in a boiling-the-frog kind of way, otherwise the community would revolt even further.

But it's the right way to go from his perspective. In retrospect subreddits were a mistake, allowing individual communities to form in isolation, requiring mods who understood the nuances of each of those communities.

/u/spez wants to figure out how to kill subreddits without actually killing them. My guess is that subreddits will transition over to a hashtag concept. At first, posts will only be allowed to have one hashtag (so it maps to how reddit works today), eventually they will have many. This will kill sub moderation.

All that's left is killing old.reddit.com, he can do that by just gimping the thing and breaking it. Nothing explicitly malicious but just stop putting engineering effort into it and eventually it falls apart. This makes sure all users use "new reddit".

In the new client you won't be able to view subreddits - you will have tag search but it will never be as feature rich as just scrolling the home page.

I have no idea if reddit can compete with tiktok but at this point that's where they'll be. Maybe they hitch on to the "tiktok is stealing your data" wagon and brand themselves as the American Tiktok that is Lawful and Is Not Evil, which can probably get them decently far.
In an episode of Jewish Matchmaking that I watched last night, one of the people said to look for someone with a good heart. That's all you need.
For the 2024 year, the Navy is not buying any new Tomahawks. They are refurbishing the ones they have. The only branch that buys Tomahawks is the Marines, and they only buy 34.
Most Europeans also have a lower cost of living. So maybe the correct metric is average purchasing power, which goes down if the wages go down (that said, maybe only when viewed for lower or middle class incomes. It could be that rich become as much richer as the poor are becoming poorer, yielding zero change in purchasing power on average)
Amazing they're grasping at all the straws to hang on the B52 but are thumbing their nose at the A10.
Natural gas still has greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, even if less than coal, it is however good for air quality at least.

The point above about Texas is probably that their current leaders make claims that reducing greenhouse gases won’t save us from global warming (at this point, no one really denies that global warming and climate change is happening).
Refusing to let Gov. DeSantis use them as a punching bag constitutes "openly campaigning against [the GOP]" now? DeSantis represents "50% of the country"?
x^(3/3) would just be x though
I've seen hipsters prattle on about how much they looooove certain toys from hipster toy companies that are always bragging about saving the earth. Are they brainwashed? Well, the company says that not using plastics is ecofriendly. Don't pay attention to how many trees they cut down to make their neo-retro wooden toys. I think there's quite a bit of brainwashing going on all over the place. Humans are tribal and love their tribal signifiers.
My experience is mostly in JavaScript, although I'm trying to level up my C++ skills more recently. My biggest fear is accidentally writing a security vulnerability, so I've been watching a lot of presentations on past security bugs in Chromium so I don't repeat the same mistakes.

I have been thinking of making an IAccessible2 inspector, since all the old ones are abandoned and crash in Windows 11, or are missing some nice to have features. But I won't lie that recently I've been feeling the job search burn, so more of my side projects are web apps using technologies to aid resume driven development, haha.
Your idea of what a "first-world employee" makes is extremely optimistic.
Dallas here.

Usually "summer" lasts May through October, with July August being the worst of it. here is the high for the next 10 days:

94, 96, 96, 97, 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 98
> Texas has been one of the first to deny this so it is only fitting that they be one of the first to bear the brunt of it's effects.

I hope you’re living a net zero carbon emissions lifestyle in a country with a net zero carbon emissions balance, otherwise, I wish you the very same fate.
The Factorio team is pretty chill about stuff, generally, which is why they make the game so moddable in the first place. The only time I remember them having to take any legal action was to deal with someone reselling stolen keys or something. It's understood that anything cool the community does is good for Factorio.

> i would absolutely love to see the original source code for

As someone who's seen the source code, I'd say it's relatively good code, but nothing particularly amazing. C++ with multiple inheritance, game objects doing method calls to each other in multiple phases, and a good dose of "maybe not the best way to do this but it works and we're not changing it now" code. What keeps it all running as well as it does is a comprehensive set of automated tests, and Rseding getting on your case any time you make a PR with less-than-optimal code. The interesting bits are the algorithms, which are covered by the Friday Facts.
The answers there all give a mathematical answer. The title made me think it was being asked in an almost philosophical sense (my own flawed reading of the question) like:

“Why does the universe impose spatial constraints such that a a cone’s volume just happens to work out this way?”

But on reflection I’m not sure that’s even a meaningful question.
I have not dealt with your bad client, but I have dealt with bad clients before.

My advice is to accept that you won't get paid, move on, and find better clients in the future. Sure you can lawyer up, but it won't get you ahead and will be a distraction for a long time.

In the future stop working when I client stops paying, because showing you are willing to work without being paid provides the client with a rationale for not paying you in the future.

Good luck.
But:

Overdelivering on expectations often just means be better than the rest of the company.

Most companies don't operate on global skill levels.
Instant coffee likely also correlates with working at night and not having very much money. I wonder if they properly controlled for those factors?
We weren't smart enough to solve the tragedy of the commons situation because we believed a wealthy China would drop the true-believer Mao ideology.
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I will never stop giggling at this. What reddit actually, actually provides is not technically impressive for anyone that's done relatively anything at scale. In fact, it's impressive how utterly shit the site operates most of the time, given the only, the ONLY THING THEY DO is develop and run it.

And yet, I still basically can't watch ANY DAMN VIDEO on the site now that I can't use 3P clients, yes, years after it's introduction the video player is still worse than stepping in dog shit.

It's a database, some over engineered piles of JS to load a list of links, and by reddits own messaging, a crap API. It's really not special. The mods and users made it what it is, in spite of what it is.
Summary: The study investigated the association between coffee consumption and telomere length using data from the UK Biobank. Observational analyses found that coffee intake and instant coffee intake were negatively correlated with telomere length, while filtered coffee showed no significant correlation. Mendelian randomization analyses supported these findings, showing that instant coffee had a causal relationship with shorter telomere length. The type of coffee appears to play an important role, with instant coffee potentially shortening telomere length due to added substances like creamer and flavorings. Further research is needed to validate these results and clarify the potential mechanisms involved. In summary, instant coffee in particular may reduce telomere length, an indicator of biological aging.
Maybe you need to read more than just the headlines?

> Texas consumes more petroleum than any other state. In 2020, the state ranked third by volume in per capita petroleum use, after Louisiana and Alaska.

> Texas produces more crude oil than any other state and accounted for more than two-fifths (42%) of the nation's production from both onshore and offshore areas in 2022.23 Texas has led all states in crude oil production in every year but one, since at least 1970.24 The state also accounts for more than two-fifths of the nation's crude oil proved reserves and has more than one-fourth of the nation's 100 largest oil fields as measured by reserves.

> ...because hydraulically fractured horizontal wells drilled in both the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford shale led to increased crude oil production, a surge in production began around 2010 after more than 25 years of gradual decline.29,30 In 2017, Texas oil production exceeded the state's 1972 peak for the first time.

From your source.
All of that sounds a lot better than spending an entire afternoon getting basic graphics to work for a desktop environment
Costs of employment is higher than just wages paid.