skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're wondering why this isn't a big deal in food - tobacco leaves have a huge surface area and generally are NOT washed before being dried. Nearly all food IS washed; but this is a good reminder that we live on a real planet, not a model ecosystem, you're eating trace amounts of all kinds of stuff.
I'm not sure you understand what the Open Source movement was pushing for in the first place.

Exploitation of labour was, very literally, the main argument ESR put forward in favour of the Bazaar model -- and it is the reason Open Source as a term exists.
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Only recently has the traffic safety community started ignoring drunk drivers.

Historically we measured efficacy by measuring fatalities. If you treat all deaths as equal your minimizing function will be narrow viewed.
agreed. when I see people talking about LOC my eyes roll. its verbose for a reason, the language designers WANT YOU to pay attention to the errors, not ignore them.
This is exactly my biggest question about every network out there. What happens after soft-cap?

> The one other thing that almost wholly shapes who I'd go with for an MVNO is what speed I get after soft cap.

This should have to be advertised alongside any deal in big bold print. It should be in the main paragraph outlining the plan in every review. But instead it's often buried somewhere in terms & service, or uses vague words like "lowered priority" (even though it just means you'll be soft capped). If it's available at all. And most reviews / descriptions of plans don't mention this. The awareness around this issue needs to be the focus of most of these plans, in my view.
Try Massachusetts. You drive just as far, there are hardly any businesses to patronize on your commute (except for maybe two Dunkin Donuts), sometimes traffic is going 95 mph at 1am in the morning on Rt 128 in heavy rain, and it snows.
Having known a few people with (war-induced) PTSD, I think stress disorder is a good description of their outward symptoms. However I think your perspective is valid and can see why you think this sounds diminishing.
I’m excited, this is on the build list.

All I need to add is moister meter and CO2 controller to be complete
Even if the Soviet Union had remained neutral, Japan would have certainly surrendered within a few more months after some more atomic bombs. No nation could possibly sustain a war effort while losing a major city every few weeks.
"And between C++ and Rust coroutines, still not sure which one I like less."

I, myself, am not a Go guy, but I feel it has to be mentioned here. Go's approach might not be as universal as C++'s or Rust's but I think for a large number of use cases it makes sense.
this is a good argument for not letting companies have perpetual IP based income :)
Before you start celebrating a possible Tesla factory in India…
Do they care?
The irony to make this suggestion on this article about people commenting on things they didn't read.
> that's literally the entire purpose of the site.

It’s not the entire purpose of the site. The site also serves to simply keep track of the books that one has read – you can export your activity as a CSV file, so (at least for the time being) you still own your own data. Quite a few of the users listed under books that I read, simply catalogued the book as "Read" without giving it a star rating or writing a review.
Hello again :) You've previously rejected scientific studies, so this time I won't include any, and will keep this as brief as possible. If you'll find that you'd like some, ask and I shall provide.

> Which has already happened

True.

> and is irreversible as far as we know

Not true.

> change on the scale that would be needed to mitigate (there is no reversing, only mitigation) would require mass casualties, because it would require deindustrialization

A superlative suggestion, sir. With just two minor flaws. One, it's not true. And two, it's not true. Now I realise that, technically speaking, that's only one flaw; but I thought it was such a big one, it was worth mentioning twice.

> Yes, but we know what may improve our chances.

What would that be?
Sheriff comes from shire reeve in the UK, was their entire job keeping villeins down?
Comma Body – The Future of People
Not a surprise, Rust has attracted the Node.js crowd and they've brought their packaging philosophy with them, if not their love for reinventing the wheel every few weeks.
Holy crap, they can withstand 79.3 m/s winds... that's 178 mph!
read eMyth?
>Of course it is offensive. But so are all the "cops" who follow the Korpsgeist and keep their mouths shut when they see their colleagues openly break the law.

I'm going to go out on a whim and say you wouldn't be comfortable saying that all black people are bastards because they don't stand out against their peers.
<offtopic probably>Haven't read the article but nowadays there's no reason to use either GZIP, or bzip2 when ZSTD is available. It's just so much better than both, I've no idea why people haven't replaced everything with ZSTD, except for XZ/7-Zip which can provide much high compression ratios at the cost of very slow compression and insane RAM requirements (3840MB dictionary with at least two threads).</offtopic probably>
> if you read any accounts by astronauts, there’s a profound effect on people that get a chance to look back at earth, and see how it’s actually not infinite

Still no astronaut says that they don't want to go back because it contributes to destroying the planet, do they?

Don't get me wrong: I would probably throw my principles out the window if I got to become an astronaut. But I don't think we can say that going in space makes you a big environmental activist.
This is provably the case.

https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2020/05/05/veil-dar...

Daytime, black drivers get disproportionately pulled over. Nighttime, same rate as others. Daylight savings time switch used to eliminate other variables in a really elegant way.
Do you have any evidence of this? The IC can refer you to the justice department on his own if you've lied to him/her.
A Radler.
Traffic cameras as they are now are probably not the best safety encouragement device. I don't understand why states or localities have not run cameras along major routes and looked for speeding over a longer period of time, as opposed to speeding at a specific point.

It certainly would be a safety device if you were seen traveling effectively +20 mph over 15/20/30 minutes along a highway.. proves a willful negligence to traffic laws while leaving unharmed those that go 15 over to skirt by an 18 wheeler that is fish-tailing.
Considering it is open source, you could do this :)
It seems he isn't a big fan of Python:

> When you start a Lisp system, it enters a read-eval-print loop. Most other languages have nothing comparable to `read', nothing comparable to `eval', and nothing comparable to `print'. What gaping deficiencies!

> I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundamentally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. `read', `eval', and `print' are all missing in Python.

Given he appreciates lisp, I'd like to know his opinions on the smalltalk family, that shares many of the same strengths. I never managed to find any declarations from him about it.
We also pool our clients heavily. Maybe we could reduce the new connections to zero to test.
I would most orgs that have massive Geo ETL problems use FME, love it or hate it, it's probably able to do it
The sticky stuff on the tobacco leaves (where most of the Po210 is) is important to the product.

Also worth clarifying that the tobacco plant is radiophilic, meaning it proactively takes up radioactive elements into the body of the plant and tends to grow better in the presence of radioactivity.

It’s for this reason that Big Tobacco also quietly seeks out radioactive fertilizers
I knew that my country really won't be prepared with anymore relaxation on narcotics because we smoke cigarettes much more than almost every other country in the world despite long long campaign on health issues. Heck, Big Tobacco manages to capture religious sector! That's how powerful legalized capitalized drugs are.
I think a lot of my interest in tech was probably influenced by Michael Crichton movies, Magic School Bus, Critter Gitters, and the like. What little tech content there was in the media really set me up for embedded systems.

I liked the idea of making video games for a bit, until the gaming scene changed and I realized how hard it is to do anything at a pro level. But mostly, I was interested in how devices could integrate with the real world. Cold dead pixels on a screen aren't that interesting unless you're a true intellectual and have a lot of understanding of math and algorithms, probably more than average coders.

Even the early internet, and remaining unshitty forums, are mostly only interesting because there's a real person on the other end, and it gets boring again if all anyone talks about is tech with no connection to anything but more tech.

I think that's probably a lot of what happened and why the internet isn't that exciting to a lot of us anymore.

When all day is JUST phone scrolling, nobody is doing anything to write about. It's like the "AI models eating their own shit" problem, but WE are the being like the AI models and have been since 2008 or so.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with my mind, since I don't get into the really abstract stuff as much as other devs, I don't spend weekends learning LISP just for fun or writing my own sorting algorithms, everyone else seems to be motivated by logic and simplicity and ideas a lot more.
Some great footage of a very young Geoff Hinton at 17:49.
Google, unfortunately, does not "get" robotics. They are great at big ML training infra, but they need better robotics fundamentals that involve the real world.
Loss of trust from investors
Discord handing over his billing details certainly made it quicker at least
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/14/fbi-used-d...
Opponents of abortion would argue that the same "this isn't really a human" tactics that the Nazis used are still alive; if everyone is comfortable, it sounds like there's a lot of "at least we're not the baddies" going on.
Had a similar experience - I was exceedingly excited after reading the communist manifesto, some Jorge Luis Borges, and a number of other revolutionary texts as a kid. I searched high and low for people to talk seriously about this with. It wasn’t until well into my late twenties I finally realized all the pleasant, satisfying, productive conversations I’d had had been with moderates or what I may have once foolishly called “imperialists”.

I do love talking to bright young communists tho. It’s amazingly pleasing to introduce an ounce of doubt, or conversely an ounce of appreciation for the world we inhabit.
People build things for practice all the time and then write up their experience and what they learned.
No. As it explains at the beginning of the paragraph you're quoting:

> If you're particularly naive, like I was on one occasion, you'll exacerbate these failures with some poorly-implemented application logic.

Then a few paragraphs above that is this sentence:

> The gotchas that follow were all occasions when I didn't use it correctly.

I'm not sure how to make it more clear that I'm criticising myself, not Redis, in the post, but that's the intention. If you have suggestions how I could make it more obvious, please let me know.
It's just amazing to see the tech support bros come out and I've got at least six replies telling me how I can use Tor when my OP listed fewer than half the reasons I won't use it, but tech support comes out and asks me if I tried rebooting my ideology and upgrading my politics to the latest.
> of open sea space

I'm not disagreeing with your math, but it doesn't need to be offshore only. Currently 93% of wind power is on land, and 7% is offshore[1].

In the United States, it's much more extreme. Literally 99.99% of turbines are on land and 0.01% are offshore[2].

Offshore is growing faster than onshore, though.

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[1] See "Technology deployment" section here: https://www.iea.org/energy-system/renewables/wind

[2] See this map: https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/ . It shows 72,731 wind turbines, 7 of which are offshore. Also see this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...
That’s not necessarily true though, the stock price is related to the company’s performance. Stock allows you to hire, pay for stuff, etc.
This doesn't pass the sniff test

>[...] the NYPD held a work “slowdown” for about seven weeks [...]

>[...] The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown. [...]

If we assume that "complaints of major crimes" is a reliable proxy of actual major crimes being committed, as the article suggests, what are we supposed to conclude from this? That within weeks of the police not catching people for minor crimes, that criminals called an armistice stopped committing crimes? Or 3-6% of "major crimes" were only committed because police were doing stop and frisk? I'm aware of arguments about how aggressive policing creates a cycle of broken families and thereby creating future criminals, but that can't explain the effect materializing within weeks.
They're also grown with high phosphate fertilizers which produce a lot of decay products ending up in Po-210. THEN they aren't washed, and THEN they're dried under gas heaters which promote the formation of Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines, which are incredibly carcinogenic.

One of the many reasons why, even though smoking anything is not great for your health, smoking tobacco is particularly harmful.
nope, I created a new openai account a few days ago they only gave me access to GPT 3.5(16K)
Same. Element is the single reason I dislike Matrix with a passion, and any other client is either another Electron monstrosity, or a crappy native app that's little more than a proof of concept.

Element is so bloated and slow, it's impossible not to feel Matrix is bloated and slow as well.
> Well under 50% wear helmets.

> As a pedestrian in NYC I feel far more endangered by bikes than I do by automobiles.

how do you make those two follow?
So we should give all the cigarette smokers opiates right? Reduce the mortality rate drastically that way.
It can cost tens of thousands to remove a single tree.

No shot those reasons would justify millions in tree removal fees.

However the huge budgets for roads could do it trivially.

You underestimate the impact of measuring fatalities as the only way of verifying success of transportation policy...

Certainly if other benefits were weighed properly it might not happen but if you ignore the upsides... (certainly we historically ignored shade for pedestrians).
This article is fantastic, but I have a hard time understanding some of the complaints around community norms. My experience with Twitter-like services is that nobody badgers me — or indeed even notices that I exist — until I start getting followers. There’s no overarching community that I can detect, but instead many overlapping ones. So why the complaints about content policing and what-not? Doesn’t that entirely depend on who’s following you?

If someone told me to wrap my post in a CW, I’d just ignore them if it was an unreasonable request. What do I care what some rando on the public internet thinks?

I guess I take some issue with the idea that there’s any coherent Twitter culture or Mastodon culture past a certain size.
> I think most franchises have a blanket policy against serving people without a car to intentionally exclude... Certain People.

Bicyclists?
This is why history is selectively taught at schools. Here in the UK we werent taught anything about Hiroshima but whilst its portrayed as shortening the war, thats using an argument which is hard to prove.

It also means that once that step is taken, ie dropping the bomb, there is no going back, the US will have to remain the dominant power for the foreseeable future in order to prevent retaliation. This then underminds the US rhetoric and western/nato rhetoric when looking at developing countries and countries improving like we see with Russia and China and Chinese desires to bring Taiwan under their fold.

Last century, mid 80's I remember a conversation on what subjects to study for UK GCSE's. If we had to take a language, most could only study French, those in the top also studied German and could take that as an language exam subject.

This person same age, ie teenage said they were going to study Mandarin, and I asked why. Well his father worked in the City of London and they could see back in the mid 80's China was going to over take everything economically in the next few decades. Fast forward to now and thats what you are seeing along with the European bloc aka the EU being formed.

So it looks like economics is being used to drive the creation of trading blocks and these economic blocs appear to drive political blocs, but the local media spin things to divert peoples attention away from whats really going on.

Anyway this Hiroshima film is likely to placate the Japanese elders and remind them they are not forgotten as are the events that took place.

Me personally I detest violence, and I couldnt think of a worse job than being told to go kill someone based on someone elses orders, no matter how it is spun.
I've heard about some of the things that went on in Japan, I dont know how true they are, like all of history I take it with a pinch of salt because of the saying, the victor writes the history books, but even now I cant believe so many people were willing to go fight for a side, its just an out and out bad situation whatever side you are on.
Is it though? That’s close to what some startups get as seed raising
In most states (all?) it's illegal to have a tinted front window, yet people still have them, because it's not enforced. IMO cops should be citing people left and right for tinted windows and tinted license plate covers. You'd think they'd already be taking advantage of such an easy revenue source.
A movie about Oppenheimer should’ve at least shown what haunted him and weight of his decisions, not one minute (!) of Oppenheimer watching some background video showing surprised face like on this video.

https://youtu.be/6pc0u-iqIDw
Israel is, I think, the poster child for pro-natal developed countries. Their average age gap is only 0.4 years larger than that of South Korea or Japan [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_at_fi...
I think I'm not gonna bother updating any social logos on clients' websites for awhile.
According to British historian Mark Felton:

"The Japanese murdered 30 million civilians while "liberating" what it called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from colonial rule. About 23 million of these were ethnic Chinese. It is a crime that in sheer numbers is far greater than the Nazi Holocaust. In Germany, Holocaust denial is a crime. In Japan, it is government policy. But the evidence against the navy – precious little of which you will find in Japan itself – is damning."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#:~:text=....

Crimes all around. War is bad, actually?
It's Time for Everyone to Stop Ignoring E-Bikes
What about computers with far less resouces than a Macbook, e.g., SBC.
That may be true but the people who broke into my car twice didn’t do it because they were addicted to nicotine - they did it because they were addicted to opiates.
I think the assumption is more that us Europeans can afford such decadent, livable cities because we don’t need to spend as much money on defense (?!) So car-oriented hellscapes are somehow the default, "normal" situation, because of course what you have accustomed to feels subjectively normal to you! Then Europe is some sort of a fairy-tale Disneyland that doesn’t need to face the Realities thanks to the US. Anyway, a nice claim but building and maintaining all that sprawling infrastructure is actually vastly more expensive than a denser, more sustainable urban fabric…
That doesn't make any sense. the timeout is how long to block for and retry, now how long to block for and continue.
The article explains it. Students like these formats bc they fit with their interests and politics, students graduate, the ones that were most active in debate become judges and reinforce that these topics will be rewarded
depends on what you mean by "washed". rinsed by rain sometime before harvest; at the very least.

I rinsed my tobacco leaves after cutting / before drying, but I dunno how common that is in industrial farming. I've just grown a few plants as a hobbyist interest, advised by someone who helped grow tobacco 50yr ago, specifically for "plug" chewing tobacco. That's a bit different than the bulk of production even then.

Anyways my leaves were covered with a fuzz of (dead) gnats that needed washing off. My advisor says thats normal in moisture like mine.

"Washed" = soaped and waxed and repainted like commercial vegetables; then no. It all goes in a big grinder anyway.
What’s the average age of death though?
I don't have a citation handy, but I've seen studies showing that red light cameras increase accidents. People slam the brakes because they don't want to get their picture taken and get rear ended

I'm also not crazy about it from a privacy perspective.
Improving LLMs in Production with Observability
The main impediment to walking in South Africa is getting robbed at knife point or gun point. Dignity is the last thing on my mind.
Kind of like how social media companies know their products are detrimental to the youth that consume them?
Should have landmark consequences but cashed up lobbies run the show.
Common Lisp is the name of a programming language.
The article argues more than 50% of 66 cities were already destroyed by conventional bombs, and then we dropped the nukes. A full bombing run of 500 planes could equal about a quarter of a nuke, but with better targeting. According to the article.
It's illegal in the US to block the sidewalk with a car and it's one of the few things cities will actually enforce aggressively -- if they don't, they can be sued for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
GPT-4 Code Interpreter and Pillow
I am not sure how Musk would qualify as a psychopath. If you look carefully, his successful ventures were actually the result of very thoughtful and careful long term planning. And this is not usually a strong suit for psychopaths.

He did not build a successful electric car maker, he joined tesla well after it was founded and after it had done significant amount of development. But if you examined why tesla succeeded it was not only boldness or craziness, but careful planning many many years ahead. It is not enough to do something that seems impossible, that usually ends up in failure as the thing ends up being in fact impossible.

The genius is to see how technology and public perception changes in the future as to set out in such a way that after 10-20 years of hard work the impossible will seem possible.

On the other hand his failures and many embarrassments came universally from doing things on a whim. Examples are that "funding secured" tweet and the purchase of twitter. And if you look at those embarrassments they are really more the result of narcissism than psychopathy.

So if I had to guess, I think Musk has developed more narcissistic traits later on due to his success, being surrounded by sycophants, mental exhaustion and perhaps drug use. But I don't think this is the cause of his success.
I think old CLI tools are hard to use because they were designed to be machine- and human-readable at the same time. They are effectively APIs in some scenarios (e.g., scripting and as linked libraries) and in others handholds. As a result they are restricted to be barely viable as either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit
>because of the saying, the victor writes the history books,

Yeah, in all my history books, the bad guys always lost and the good guys always won 100% of the time. What are the odds of that? /s