skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. I am old enough to remember that we had boutique dog treats in the 90s, too. The vet my parents used sold some, and I recall several nearby bakeries (not chains) selling house-made dog biscuits.
Everything is biased. Everyone, every single human being, is aligned.

That said, bias towards, and alignment with, verifiable reality is possible to achieve, and getting there partway is better than not at all:

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

> [W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
I use butyric acid. Anecdotally it is one of the few things I've tried that actually helps with my stomach issues.
I don't have the GPUs and I don't want to heat up the planet more than needed.
If it weren't banned globally, the “but how do I protect my privacy?” question is a problem for the consumers, not me.
Or people see a futile use of tag and send on the message in a way that works. (I've done that in the past)
The requirement to provide a postal address is pretty bad if you are an individual developer, or a decentralized organization without an office.

And the "if applicable" part is kind of vague. For just one example, is it applicable for a database to have built in support for encryption at rest? Or is it sufficient to depend on the user setting up an encrypted filesystem? 1.3 is a reasonable list for a complete system, but less so for individual components. Some of those items, such as authentication, event monitoring, and high availability, are frequently "enterprise" features for open core projects. I'm not sure what the impact of that would be. Maybe companies will start including those in the opens offerings, or maybe we'll see those projects become completely proprietary.

And a lot of open source projects do the "serious stuff" described on pages 5 and 6. Some of which accept donations but have very small teams.

I don't think putting this burden entirely on the developers of open source projects is the right way to do it. I agree with the spirit of this, but think the implementation has some serious problems. I feel much the same way about GDPR.
> "the sum of all human knowledge," which that shows is a lie by definition.

By which definition? In math, the sum of a set necessarily implies a loss of information about that set, for sets larger than 1. But they're using "sum" not in the purely mathematical sense, more like "the summary of all human knowledge". But the same principle applies axiomatically, because summaries are lossy compression: you cannot have a summary that contains all the information of the source it is summarizing.
Am I reading you right, that you consider refactoring "pain"?
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Road space in cities is a zero-sum game. Currently cars command the vast majority of it, with obvious consequences.

Highly efficient uses of space, like dedicated bus lanes, directly transfer road space from cars to improve transit. This necessarily makes driving "worse" in the short term, until enough marginal drivers shift to the now-improved busses, leaving the car lanes quicker and less congested.

In most cities, cars are physically obstructing better transit, which makes traffic worse for everyone involved.
(To be clear, The EPA said this as well and it was part of the original crackdown.)
What do the macros do? Isn't this as easy as forward declaring the impl class, adding std::unique_ptr<Impl> as a private field and have public methods refer to the field? I'm struggling to understand why macros would help here.
> Where do you stop? If you assume Newtonian time, which extends back to minus infinity... well, what caused time to exist at all?

You stop at the uncaused first cause or the unmoved mover, of course.
Yes, and I wish 100% would respect that implicit width but it doesn't. Try it
Pre-built integrations are a big part of what makes onboarding easy but it sort of ends up in a catch-22 situation where whichever integrations gets highlighted is only directly applicable to the people using those tools.

If you have a different toolset onboarding will look exactly the same though, there's nothing truly DBT specific at work here. It's a good idea though! We really should put together a few other combinations so more people can see their own stack represented.
Maybe we can get him to subscribe to mattresses!
Holochain & Holo (https://holo.host)

Some significant features:

- Compensation (if desired)

- Community vetting of “hApps”

- Control of which hApps use your resources

- Distributed validation of all results, triggering “Warrants” against abusers

Letting random projects use your local resources has serious risks, which are mitigated via the novel agent-centric detection algorithms of Holochain and the Holo project.

Of course, you can just write a Holochain-based app and distribute it “by hand” to your own group of users’ resources - no Holo required.

In Beta now.
I do exactly what you described and indicated that clearly in my post.

What I'm perturbed by are the people who take it to extremes, and are happy to spend hours a week tweaking things, and can't fathom someone else might not enjoy doing the same.
19 states in the Northeast US are part of a similar system

https://www.e-zpassiag.com/

For all the talk about vehicle telematics, this is one that makes a difference. I drive occasionally on the NY Thruway and it is quite liberating to drive past the people who are stacked up for a mile at the toll plaza who wasted gas and poisoning themselves and the toll collectors with pollution.
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What digital advertising platform do you use? I am looking for methods to promote my small business and have an idea of my audience but want to understand the most efficient way to reach them.
That's not what opposite means. What's you just described is the same exact thing with extra steps.

Sure, it's a higher number than J&J asked for, but it's still a number!
Okay, so it seems you certainly fall into the category of people who generally find it worthwhile to learn and configure/modify tools. So I really don't understand how you came to the conclusion that neovim and vim are not worth the time.

Neovim takes a lot less time (weeks to months) to learn than something like git (months to years), while I know both very well, I find that I am more often interacting with my text editor than I am with git.

It seems to me that the tradeoff of using something like VSCode, unless it perfectly matches your particular workflow, is much more friction than dealing with git vs something else.

To that end, if you have given neovim a chance and learned it, then I struggle to see how you had problems with something like e.g. making :Black run automatically before the file is written.

Autocommands are a fundamental vim feature, one of the most important for vim related automation aside from rebinding. Something you will have encountered as soon as you search for "vim how to do X when Y." Figuring out that the PSF black vim plugin is a good option for a way to run black from inside vim is a matter of a 10 second google search. I can understand this being a potentially difficult problem if you really had no neovim configuration experience, but if you have learned neovim then this really is a single line addition to your on_attach which you would have already had to configure for the python language server of your choice.

And even then, the black documentation page explicitly shows how to use vimscript (which can be embedded in nvim lua syntax using vim.cmd, again, a basic neovim feature you would have encountered in any guide to configuring neovim) to achieve this in 4 lines.

I use neovim because it eliminates friction. Whenever I do something and find myself repeating an editing or reading adjacent task and making mistakes I think to myself: "how can I solve this once and for all?" I sit down, fix it in neovim and lua in 20-40 minutes. How do I justify the time investment? The 40 minutes (or hell, even if it took 2 hours it would still be worth it) investment once every couple of months to improve some aspect of my workflow keeps the friction down and the reduced friction more than makes up for the 40 minutes or 2 hours of lost time because I would lose much more time on frustration and lack of motivation.

This friction doesn't affect everyone as much as it does me, which is why I notice other people, less affected than me, don't find dealing with learning and configuring/modifying/writing tooling to be worthwhile. But again, what you wrote indicates to me that this kind of friction _does_ matter to you.

So my question is, how do you justify the friction of VSCode (as you yourself put it, VSCode isn't perfect) when you have tools such as vim, neovim, emacs, or whatever else that are designed to help reduce friction for a modest but steep initial learning curve.
Not everyone knew. I was young and naive and bought into it. I was so doe-eyed innocent I didn't even realize there were old masters to watch out for. Of course we're going to change the world. - Guess this plays out in every generation, you need a big population of young and innocent that can be taken advantage of to keep the system running. Moloch marches on.
They only care if targeting that audience is more efficient at driving purchases than other tactics (like context targeting).

So they don't care if they drive people like me to block personalized ads?

Ok, fair enough, I will carry on --- until personalized ads are banned outright or at least legally restricted based on stated personal preference (aka Do Not Track).
Nope. In order to make the aircraft more maneuverable you also need a stronger (heavier) airframe, different inlet geometry (to avoid compressor stall), more powerful (less efficient) engines, etc. For a multirole aircraft those are bad tradeoffs to make. And removing the human pilot costs a lot of tactical flexibility: autonomous flight software and sensors can still only handle very limited missions, and remote piloting links are unreliable.
so with zero interest rates my savings are worth more over time?

isn't low/zero interest rates what got us into this high inflation problem in the first place?

cheap loans makes it easier for the wealthy to take loans and buy up more property and so on.
I found I'm alarmingly ignorant of the development of radio.

People had household radios in the 20s. Marconi was still alive then. From this admittedly unscientific book, he seems to have been resolutely ignorant of other people's work in the field.
My hope in this regard is that Wikipedia pages tend to have much more than an inch of citations. If even a significant fraction of those sources can be digested, it could give rise to a much deeper source. The really cool thing about their chatbot is that it appears to have the ability to summarize and highlight where the summaries came from. Extending that to the ability to summarize the backing sources, and point to where that came from, could be an incredible research tool.
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Kata used “Linux kernel Direct Access filesystem (DAX)” to directly share access of the host filesystem to the guest kernel. I thought this was pretty interesting, but it sounds like a possible spot to start a jailbreak. I’m guessing these kinds of optimizations along with using super simple virtualized devices is what gives Kata its almost-cgroups-like performance.

> Mapping files using DAX provides a number of benefits over more traditional VM file and device mapping mechanisms:

> Mapping as a direct access device allows the guest to directly access the host memory pages (such as via Execute In Place (XIP)), bypassing the guest kernel's page cache. This zero copy provides both time and space optimizations.

> Mapping as a direct access device inside the VM allows pages from the host to be demand loaded using page faults, rather than having to make requests via a virtualized device (causing expensive VM exits/hypercalls), thus providing a speed optimization.

> Utilizing mmap(2)'s MAP_SHARED shared memory option on the host allows the host to efficiently share pages.

From https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/tree/main...
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Well, it has link that it can follow.

Add some AI to take the footnotes and get to the sources and train on that.
Municipal airports are nothing like the large international airports you may be thinking of. Municipal airports have like two runways and are only used by tiny private planes, not commercial airliners.

The only effect on the "public good" is to serve a handful of rich hobbyist. And potentially as national defense infrastructure, which I guess is why the feds fund them.
What's your source for "it also needs extensive overhaul after every flight to maintain stealth coating"?
When I was taking electronics training, my soldering instructor told me most of the lead exposure was that people used to lick the tip of their soldering iron before starting heating it up, and this exposed them to lead. Now most people don't do that, but older solderers are a little... off, if you've ever met any. Rosin flux fumes are also bad and you should definitely be working under a fume hood if you do any significant amounts of soldering, even at home.
> Or maybe he just reads all/most of the comments on all stories...

I think it's this one.
> They are still around, I'm in a community with a few of them. They are just quietly working on small relatively unknown hobby projects in their spare time, while simply putting in their hours to get their paycheck.

Yes, this. I am a classical hacker and most of my computery friends are as well.

The larger computer space has basically ejected hackers (often while trying to maintain the hacker aesthetic) because it turned into a money-printer rather than a space for creative disruption and curiosity.

There is no company that I'm aware of that retains the hacker philosophy at all anymore. It's All About the Benjanims, Baby.

Hackers haven't gone away at all, they're just less visible than they used to be.
The CDC believes a lot of fairly bonkers stuff that does not match up to reality.

If you heated solder up to the point that lead was boiling off, your circuit board would be on fire.

You cannot get lead poisoning from using leaded solder.
That is amazing. They are using them for their intended purpose, to keep birds away! And those structures look post-modern. Hats off to you birds!
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While Shirley is painted as the main antagonist in this story, I feel like OP made one critical mistake: they cared.

When you work in a large organization, any kind of emotional engagement / personal attachment to the work at hand is only going to hurt you.
There's an argument to be made that the rapid advancement of human technology is down to the creation of the metal lathe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djB9oK6pkbA&t=751s
By letting your CPU idle you save electricity, improve air quality, and contribute less to carbon emissions.
It is just a caching bug.

You shouldn't need to recompile the runtime to statically link it.

Red might not have a way to store intermediate static linking files and so is forced to do a full compilation everytime.

Caching at the output file level is simplest but can result in these kinds of weird performance issues.

(Shipping a precompiled library is standard to avoid this pain point, MSVC includes four versions of its standard library, Debug/Release and Static/Dynamic in the various combinations)
This link will take you there regardless of text-fragment-link support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
I haven't yet replicated Table 3 because most of those datasets are much larger and it will take awhile to run (they said the YahooAnswers database took them 6 days).

Also, I have only tried the "gzip" row because that is all that is in the github repo they referenced.

Yeah, you're right, the more classes there are, probably the lower the effect this will have.
It's honestly weird and annoying and I'd give it up in a second.

There's two issues:

- I don't have an ear for what's simple vocabulary versus tryhard, I go into a mad loop when I try

- even if I actively notice it, substitution can seem very far away from intent. Simple wouldn't have occurred to me - I wanted to say something more akin to sloppy / stunt and ersatz is much closer to "hacky" in meaning than simple. Think MacGyver.

But I should do the exercise of at least scanning for words more often and aim for wider audience - I would have known ersatz was an outlier and I shouldn't feel it's condescending or diluting meaning, it's broadening the audience who can parse it
> When they realize that rooms are selling fast in the area, they sell the room as prepaid rooms. If the nightly rate is $100, they sell it for $120-150 and they pay hotels $100 - 15-18% commission.

I've never seen Booking.com do that with any hotel no matter how high the demand, and I have never heard anybody in the industry having experienced that. What do you base your claim on?

That would make little sense, since the proposal of Booking.com is to always offer the cheapest rates.

However they do buy a ton of Google Ads for hotel bookings.
Oh, those are the statues the pigeons sat on and pooped on at my last company’s patio.
People are terrible at judging their own thoughts.

Pound for pound, people prefer ads that are relevant to ads that are irrelevant.

What they are annoyed by is the volume (in multiple senses) of the ads. That's it.

They just take it out on other things.
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> If they add enough value to justify their existence, shouldn't they also turn a profit?

Only if you assume the nonexistence of (or perfect ability to internalize through regulation) externalities (specifically, here, positive externalities.)
>But these translations are, generally speaking, poor.

I think that's an unfair characterization - Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato's dialogues are decent and readable (these are readily available online). I also liked H.G. Dakyn's translations of Xenophon's The Memorabilia and The Symposium:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1177/pg1177-images.html

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1181/pg1181-images.html
Well, that is very good news for everybody in my family.

Of course there are never any guarantees. I know very smart people who loves puzzles who still got dementia.
Or possibly are aware they stream or download content illegally. Copyright infringement is so incredibly routine that people don’t even realize that’s what they’re doing.
I wouldn't be surprised.

Devil's advocacy:

Even if the Odyssey is arguably a relatively paler reflection of the Iliad in terms of mythological weight across the western corpus (ie: centrally important myths reflected within other myths), while still being a monster in its own right, it would be a monumental lifetime feat for one woman to acquire the deepest mythological and even religious (apocalyptic) knowledge it would have taken to write the Odyssey. It's still an incalculably skilled work.

In all, I'd lean against the one woman theory. But it wouldn't surprise me either. Authors and artists often had advisors on classical subject matter that would have been mostly mastered by those with expensive educations.

Homeric Question and historicity:

No one who is a serious student of mythology thinks that there is a real controversy over whether or not works such as the Iliad fall into dichotomous categories of true or false. What these myths are meant to describe are archetypal repeating events. That is, they are both true and myth. As is the case for most long persevering myths. No one should allow a little bit of allegory to fool them.
The F-16 is not a Lockheed plane, which why it's so popular. Lockheed planes are expensive and high maintenance. The FB-111, B1B (8% readiness rate), OV-102 (space shuttle, 40% of which failed), and of course the F-35.

EDIT: Guess it's a bait-and-swtich -- LM got their hands on the F16 somehow: https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2619834/air-...

The manufacturer makes a big difference, even if the design is the same. For example, the F-111 (later the EF-111), built by GD and Grumman was a reliable, low maintenance plane. On the other hand, the FB-111 built by Lockheed was a maintenance hog with a 30% readiness rating, even with extensive cannibalization of parts.
No. Service to society is not always a money maker. Value does not imply profit.

Now, not every unprofitable service is worthy of government funding.
Here is a direct link to the arxiv article:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14292

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Continuing tangent:

The Optum RX mail-order pharmacy has caps where both sides can be the "bottom" and screw onto the bottle, but one side is childproof and the other is just a normal screw attachment. Since they come with the childproof side of the cap engaged, this does present the bootstrapping problem of getting the bottle open to begin with, but thereafter you can just use the other side of the cap.
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They might mean that, but they'd still be wrong. Soldering is done around 75-100°C lower than temperatures where lead is anything other than melted in meaningful quantities. There is ingestion risk of lead residue on fingers (which is the reason why eating and smoking is prohibited around soldering stations), but very low inhalation risk.
The Amazon Kindle does a version of this. They offer a more expensive ad-free version and a cheaper one that displays ads on the lock screen. I have already chosen twice to pay more for the ad-free model, and I'm glad to have been given the choice.
Do you mean leaning on rules like:
.myWidgetClass form{
...
}
.myWidgetClass form >input{
...
}
Which seems good to me. California has been leading the way on this, passing laws ranging from requiring diversity quotas on corporate boards to its own privacy legislation.

To me, it doesn't make sense to have very many laws that apply nationally because people lead such completely different lives depending on where they live in the country. e.g. a person living in San Francisco leads a wildly different life than someone in rural Montana, and passing laws that both people actually _want_ is difficult.

The more granular and narrowly scoped laws are, the better, in my opinion.
Jumping through all these hoops just to, what? Avoid the garbage collector?

It's okay to admit C has shortcomings.