skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been three+ years sober, really can recommend. Life is much different now, things that used to be fun aren't anymore - but I'm making strong connections nevertheless.
So after Tomacco we now have Algacco?
GNU Sends Cease and Desist to Libreboot Developer [video]
Ocean's 11 would be a pretty bad movie if the crew got caught on outstanding warrants and/or parole violations because they were going 50 in a school zone.
In the 80s we had GROWIAN [1], which I found utterly fascinating as a kid. I have always been under the impression it proved that ultra-large turbines were a dead end. Maybe they will be rehabilitated?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growian

EDIT: I always remembered GROWIAN as a single blade system, but apparently that was its successor Monopteros, which only ever reached the prototype stage.
Is there a reason you prefer it over yarn?
It’s less expensive than a good quality whiskey. Honestly I might try some. 50cl == 500ml, so a liter for £54 doesn’t strike me as even “very expensive”, unless I’ve made some major metric maths error.
Is there a better algorithm than the 0 and 1 algorithm [for processor]
I know how processors work but I still wanted to ask if there is something better to use other than 0s and 1s.
> And given the general culture here around minimalism and stasis (not wanting to introduce new features for fear of entropy that would negatively affect the signal to noise ratio and push the site towards Eternal September) chances are any large, publicly visible changes to the codebase aren't going to happen. People here riot if they change the stylesheets just a bit too much. Heaven help us if something imports content from beyond the AT field that Hacker News keeps between itself and the unwashed masses.

As strict as it seems, history seems to have vindicated this policy.
In the UK it's called a Shandy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandy
Everyone of these feature is entirely awesome, but when talking i actually find that it changes the nature of the convos.
English police are very much not fine.

Maybe you’re thinking of the fine upstanding members of the Greater Manchester Police who destroyed evidence and did not turn over evidence to the prosecution (to provide to the defence) which have cost Andrew Malkinson 17 years of his life: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/26/appeal-court...

Or are you perhaps thinking of the upstanding members of the South Yorkshire Police involved in the disastrous crowd control and subsequent cover up of said incompetence around the Hillsborough incident?

It seems unlikely that Northern Ireland’s police services are fine, either, given that sectarian violence and military involvement rampant in the Troubles (caused mostly by hard-liners and reciprocal incidents, and the Iron Lady’s stance helped everything as much as anything she ever did, which is to say not at all), but that may have changed since the Good Friday Accords took effect. It may also not have changed, given that sectarianism is still fairly rampant and the DUP are acting like spoiled children.

Maybe the Welsh and Scottish police are fine, but I am sure that a few minutes of searching could find examples of institutional issues for both of them.
I got really angry reading this. It is a big mistake to think that just because someone does not break the law, and they are successful, they are beneficial to society at large or even to the organization where they are being successful.

The fact that there a successful psychopaths is more an indication that we as a society have not quite created mechanisms of protecting ourselves from such people rather than any evidence that being a psychopath is somehow good.

In the places where I have worked I have seen many of these bold people wreck the business as they are moving up the ranks of said business. In one previous workplace, the business was basically destroyed by these scumbags. But if the psychologists that wrote this article examine these scumbags, they will consider them "successful psychopaths" because they gained ranked and salary quickly within the business before they destroyed the whole thing.

As I have done more work researching publicly traded companies, I have seen many companies destroyed by a bold charismatic leader that has a brilliant plan that can never succeed.

Psychologists should concentrate on creating better tests for identifying psychopaths and creating better social or work structures for protecting against psychopathic infiltration rather than making excuses for or glorifying psychopaths.
My nickname disagrees!
>In the event of global catastrophe we won't even know what we need to learn.

It's worse than that since even if we had books the real knowledge about how to rebuild is stored in past generations of doers. Even if you had a physical book on how to make a smelter, or a car factory, or even how to hunt for food, that is far different than actually doing it, having experience with it. I think many people, especially geeks, vastly overestimate their ability to adapt to changing conditions with the aid of books, physical or otherwise.

Also, you're right - all things being equal, digital content in lieu of physical books is strictly worse. The oldest words we know of were written in stone, clay, papyrus. Words that were written in magnetic particles only 10 years ago are lost entirely.
I have always thought that we should each “adopt a NASA conspiracy theorist” and take them there, one at a time. All that hardware and all those people are right in front of you.

It’s pretty crazy that we have that kind of access.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world!
> I don’t think people rely on it for reviews or recommendations

Not sure why you think that, since that's literally the entire purpose of the site.

And it's the 175th most popular site in the US [1], so clearly lots of people use it for that.

So it's definitely going to affect sales. How much, or whether Goodreads or Amazon reviews affect sales more, is hard to say. But the idea that it has no effect isn't plausible.

[1] https://www.similarweb.com/website/goodreads.com/#ranking
Feels like you're missing the spirit of the article. Nobody's advocating it as a git replacement -- the author is just posting thoughts about something they built.
They’ve wasted about ~$100M and three years to build an iPad KYC membership app to replace some of the AS/400 functions. It still hasn’t launched because it’s a fuck up from database to client. Until they hire from outside, their IT will always be shitty.
If the New york times or new York post receive documents and they publish ones and not others with a partisan motive they're still not criminals.

So this is a typical bullshit thing for democrat-party aligned people for whom the ends justifies the means and there's no bad tactics, only bad targets. The very same types that tell you "twitter files are partisan nothing burgers" and that people like Matt Taibbi are "right wingers".

I don't care what the FBI tries to pull to muddy the waters. Or the government toppling CIA, for that matter.

Assange has been pursued and illegally imprisoned for exposing corruption and doing journalism, nothing more.
This is not true in the US, at least in Washington state for example. Honking = speech

https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/2011/8...
I know this is completely anecdotal, but I've been a Goodreads user since before Amazon purchased them, and I have found that Goodreads reviews are way more accurate...or, more accurately, they don't have as high of a degree of skew towards very low or very high ratings.

It's definitely changed my buying behavior on more than 1 occasion. I have to imagine it's a big driver of sales, otherwise, as the article mentioned, Amazon would have made much larger UX changes post acquisition.
Teaching machines to think (1991) [video]
In case you thought using neural networks for image processing was new and exciting here's someone training a neural network to recognise if a subway platform is busy on a sun workstation 32 years ago.
There is an argument that "debate" in the manner performed by these clubs primarily trains people to think only in the ideological terms/framing given to them by their "betters". "Debate" in this sense is intellectually impoverished. Call it "rhetorics" if that's all you want -- it's useful, but it is more akin to Toastmasters than politics or political debate.

If there is to be any actual political thinking involved, then some challenge to the given framing must be allowed, or the framing must be capaciously defined. But it will still be mostly a lesson in rhetoric.
Drinking lots of water before going to bed works really well - when you remember doing that...
Marginal as in "new capacity added to the grid".

Cars charge at night, so they help flatten the duck curve and use mostly base power. They're good complements to wind power, which is usually stronger at night.
The school stat is not limited to complaints about school personnel, it includes child on child violence.

The abusers in the church were part of the power structure. That same power structure systematically covered up and protected the abusers. Same thing for the scouts.
A couple thoughts:

- If you don't have cancer and stop eating, you'll likely die of starvation before you get cancer.

- California made a law that says you have to label products if they contain stuff that might cause cancer. As a result, every product that might ever get sold in California has a label that says "This thing might cause cancer". It's safer to have the label just in case. Otherwise you'd have to check every cancer claim anyone publishes anywhere against all the inputs everywhere along your supply chain, recursively all the way back to farms and mines. Can you say with confidence that if some guy at the University of Boondocks publishes an article in the Timbuktu Journal of Basket-Weaving saying X might cause cancer, you'll see it? Can you say with confidence that even if you do, you'll always know if your supplier's supplier's supplier is using X? Easier to just say "We can't be bothered, just slap a cancer warning on everything we make so our liability goes away" and be done with it.

For those reasons, I would say the claim "Everything we eat is associated with cancer" is true, but not useful.
We pay far too little to get people who are very strong at math.

This sort of lack of knowledge was not uncommon in my urban school district, the only teachers who were truly qualified were all doing it as essentially charity work after their high-powered careers.
What do we dream of now?

I've been reading 70s and 80s sci Fi and loving all of the ideas of the future they had. I don't see them today but I don't know what to read.
Hmm. We have super low CPU utilization- something like 9%. This is also across 10+ different clusters.
This is absolutely incredible. Someone would have had to know how to or experiment with rendering OSRS level data, but then they went a step further and replicated portions of UI, simulated some basic movement for the NPCs across all spaces, and mapped out their identifiers to link to the OSRS wiki.

Someone had been working on this for a while, and had a specific combination of technical skills and attention to detail to make this happen.
Wouldn't it be easier to train a second model to check whether the answer is acceptable, and declining to answer if it isn't?
Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
I observe that in a 1950s neighborhood with mature trees. The sidewalks are only for people to exercise themselves (jogging) or their dogs, not as a means to get to a destination.
Without really reading the article, I think maybe the parent's point is that the US basically pays for large portions of defense and security of Europe, especially when it comes to the need for blue water navies to protect trade. That frees up a lot of time, money, and manpower for them to spend on not defense, and spend instead on infrastructure and nice things. It's also nice that another effect Pax Americana has contributed to is that the majority of Europe has stopped starting progress-destroying wars with each other every two decades.

The US doesn't get that benefit as the self-employed enforcer, and I'm sure we're all aware of how insanely massive the defense budget is.
> Crucially, it held onto the Redis connection for the duration of that fallback condition and allowed errors from SET to fail the entire operation.

What? Was this inside a MULTI (transaction) or something? This isn't a flaw of Redis being single-threaded. Honestly all of these "footguns" sound like amateur programmer mistakes and have zero to do with Redis.
It was a reaction against Elon Musk, and the desire to find a Twitter-like social network that's more human focused with less news, etc. But it's very bare bones right now. You can't do a lot of the common things that made Twitter so good, such as searching to see if AWS us-east-1 is down by people posting tweets.
Yes, but in the end unless they change the underlying transport (i.e. TCP/IP) to something that is not the Internet, you can still see that the traffic is happening and block the endpoint.

If the device doesn’t work after that, well, maybe I didn’t need it.
Lack of adequate transportation has been cited as the biggest barrier to upward economic mobility

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/upshot/transportation-eme...
Move fast and beat Musk: The inside story of how Meta built Threads
*Kobe, not Tokyo. FWIW.
I also bought a few bottles of the red about 18/19 months back. I found that it tasted quite nice when it was mixed with orange juice if I remember right. It did have a very mild relaxing effect but it needed to be stronger, in the end I couldn't justify the price for what it was. I do hope they crack the code though and get something a bit closer to alcohol. And I agree about Nutt, absolute travesty that the government/UK media basically forced him out after his report.
You need a certain amount of revenue to be able to afford a car. Easy way to get rid of indesirables at night
Nowhere does the author advocates for using its tool instead of git. Not everything is about self-promotion, sometimes it's simply knowledge sharing.
Take RIPA for example. Local authorities have literally deployed drones for covert surveillance. They have invoked powers under the Act in trivial cases such as fly tipping, dog fouling and deciding which school catchment area a child fell within. In some cases they were subsequently criticised for it or even found to have acted unlawfully but that obviously doesn't mean that the intrusion didn't happen or that the victims of that intrusion weren't distressed and possibly harassed as a result prior to some formal legal action going their way often at a much later date.

There is absolutely no legitimate justification for local authorities dealing with those kinds of issues to have access to the kinds of lawful surveillance and intrusion powers that RIPA is primarily concerned with. Even if you accept that those powers are justified and necessary in cases such as imminent national security threats or investigating organised crime that still doesn't explain why so many organisations that are not the police, security services or perhaps HMRC need them.
> (a) teach civilians that people who volunteer to serve their country in the military deserve respect, not disdain,

Why? What if someone feels neither respect nor disdain but mostly indifference?

What if someone treats each active member or vet as individuals, to be respected or disdained based upon their past and present behavior?

You're trying to swap one prejudice for another. So, no.
Bit of a tangent but Canadians should be ticking "Yes" for "are you authorized to work in the US?" because acquiring TN status does not require sponsorship from the employer; the TN is explicitly non-immigrant intent. If a company prefers to hire an American over a Canadian, that's discrimination on the basis of citizenship, which is illegal.
Are there programs where kids mostly play with other kids and then do the education side a couple hours a day of homeschooling individually or in small groups? I feel like that would be a nice structure through like middle school.

We have one starting kindergarten in a few weeks and honestly it seems like too much school time for a five year old to me.
And you are the only one who can see clearly through everything. How nice.
Americans are often taught that the bombings resulted in less loss of life than a conventional land invasion of the home islands. So it's not quite a matter of "A-bomb good". Plenty of Americans alive today lived through the Cold War too, and spent years or decades in low-level fear of nuclear war. It's not quite as simple as "nukes good therefore no criticism of nukes in movie". Part of the interest in things like the Manhattan Project is the grim context of what happened next, and of the alluring eeriness of radiation and nuclear weapons in general.
For all plants available, why tobacco?
Are these meant to just be incomprehensible, or is there some translation possible?

Haven't heard the song for awhile.
India’s Uprising The world’s largest democracy, united as never before
‘X’ logo installed atop Twitter building, SF to investigate permit violation
I should clarify that by <8gb I meant “less than 8gb”, which is what SD 1.5 and 2 were able to do. I’m aware that it can run on ==8gb.
This is called an average speed check in the UK and I hate them, you literally can't speed at all
>If we focused resources on the community instead of punitive [...]

Yeah, but the problem with this approach is that the benefits are uncertain and take forever to materialize. Going back to the example of heart attacks, we might be able to prevent them if only we convinced people to have healthy diets and exercise, but doing so is fiendishly hard, so we end up with the imperfect solutions of open heart surgery and statins.
Tomalgae
This is exactly it, a walker/biker can easily be run over.

But where it’s common the workers often look the other way.
Goodreads is a mountain of evidence against the idea that simply reading makes you a better person.
Exactly why I find this article so confusing.
Magnesium saves me too. I've had persistent leg cramps since my teens. If I look at my right calf the wrong way, it seizes up, especially after a night of drinking. All of that went away when I started taking 200mg supplements daily. Big, big difference.
500mg NAC before drinking, then a pint of water + fish oil + B vitamin complex before bed = zero hangover.
you don't see a difference there 'I have this authority for the common good, and if I don't use it wisely I can undermine my very goals' vs 'I have this authority, to protect this authority, and if you act to call that into question I have no choice but to make you hurt badly'

not really the same
I don't have complete numbers on this (I think it depends a lot on the size of training set), but for one dataset, normalized time for a batch:

original : 1.000
precomputed : 0.644 (first improvement)
gziplength : 0.428 (+ 2nd improvement)
Every time a politician anywhere in the world suggests adding more freeways or more lanes to freeways, I think they should be forced to live in LA for a year and do a ~1 hour commute each way in traffic.

They need to see first hand what happens when you just add more freeways and more lanes. It's not good.
It isn’t, I work as a developer and most developers have no use for a GPU unless you’re doing machine learning or gaming. For this case Macs are really hard to beat, especially given the UNIX like environment.
As with all things, it depends on your use case. Ternary (base 3) processors exist and in many cases can optimize some logic. Quantum computers use qubits. Similarly there are analog computers that use continuous signals instead of binary values.
> The woman at the center of that case, Helen D. Immelt, had been raising chickens in Snohomish County, Wash., apparently in violation of her local homeowners association covenants. A neighbor complained, and Ms. Immelt, according to court documents, drove over at 6 a.m. and applied some free-speech payback.

The Pacific Northwest has always had a libertarian streak, I doubt this would be ruled permissible in other states.
>I hate them, you literally can't speed at all

What do you think speed limits are for then?
This is cute and funny - but imo it really just points out that social media attracts anger.
That happens at schools too: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexual....

This happened at my kid’s (not religious at all) school: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/01/29/key-sch...

It’s obviously easier to uncover this when dealing with large national or supra-national organizations like the Catholic Church or Boy Scouts than tens of thousands of individual school districts.
Or, as is far more often the case, they find someone of colour (usually Black) driving a car that fits some racially biased‡ preconceived notion (e.g., the only way a Black man could be driving this car is either (a) they are a drug dealer because they’ve got lots of cash or (b) they’ve stolen it).

‡ While an unfortunately large number of police officers in the U.S. (and elsewhere) are outright racist, not all are. However, most do pattern matching according to what they’ve been trained as "indicators of criminality", and most of those patterns have their basis in systemic racism that have no connection to real criminality. As I pointed out on a wholly separate discussion the other day, the most common and largest form of theft — and the one least prosecuted — is wage theft by white collar workers.
Use you’re imagination I guess, we can’t do the same things and expect different results.
It’s a model organism in plant bio. Like drosphila/fruit flies or xenopus/frog or E.coli and candida
Technically if you read this article it kinda implies that a lot of people doesn't read the books at all. At least on the examples given.
I have the zx1 _compact_: https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz1_compact-8610.php

Which is 129mm tall and has a 4.6 inches display.

Still, the Zenphone is about 15mm taller. I'll check it out. Thanks.
Why do they do these experiments in tobacco? Is it just easier?
I’ve been running the open source “stop light” design for awhile. It works great but the internet is very flaky on the esp board. Not entirely sure why, but easy to disable internet and just use the colors.

It helped me identify patterns, such as CO2 settling in my large living room.

Knowing that the CO2 levels are healthy throughout the day really helps me feel better about living in a new sealed home.
Or we mostly surface anger. In any case it’s a net negative.
As someone who likes to have a "beater" vehicle for work/puttering, this is shockingly noticeable.

I've gotten pulled over multiple times in a crappy old pickup, while never being pulled over in a slightly less crappy, slightly less old Lexus that I drove far more regularly and far more... spiritedly.
The number of adults in the school system is vastly larger than the number of Catholic priests.

There are 37,302 diocesan and religious-order priests in the United States vs 3,500,000 full and 500,000 part time teachers in the US + even more support staff.

You can look into the past demographics, but it looks like there is dramatically more victims per priest per year than per teacher per year.
I don’t understand, is this a problem?

There’s nothing new under the sun.
This. You used to be able to get a few "session ales" in pubs which were under 4% and meant for long drinking sessions, now because of the rise of craft beer you're lucky if you get one. Meanwhile, there's always a ton of options over 5.5% which used to be unheard of.
Presumably many individuals do this to engage in the culture wars.