skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes [1]. They also provide tuition scholarships for children of staff and graduate students [2] who could not otherwise afford childcare in the Boston area (which runs on average $20K/yr against a post-tax stipend as low as $31K/yr, ie, completely impossible to afford unless you have a trust fund or a scholarship).

Not sure what that has to do with a bit of workplace levity at an otherwise famously intense undergraduate institution. Having a bit of fun is a time-honored MIT tradition; e.g., "All Tech Men carry batteries!" [3] and The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery, and Pranks at MIT more generally [4].

[1] http://childcare.mit.edu/

[2] http://childcare.mit.edu/tuition-scholarships/mit-childcare-...

[3] http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1990/H-Y/

[4] http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/books/ihtfp_leibowitz/ihtfp_leibo...
x=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
links -dump $x=37060497|sed -n '6,139s/.\{5\}//p' > 076.l
links -dump $x=37061215|sed -n '5,99s/.\{5\}//p' > 082.l
links -dump $x=37061227|sed -n '4,148s/.\{5\}//p' >> 082.l
for x in 076 082;do
flex -8Crf $x.l
cc -O3 -std=c89 -W -Wall -pedantic -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy$x
strip -s yy$x
done
If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
There are several arguments on this post to that effect: that, yes, organizations should have no right to exclude anyone for their behavior, and should be forced to accept anyone who demands membership.

Banning criminals is a popular rhetorical construction used by those who do not have felony records, in order to scaremonger others into supporting an argument that promotes existing biases and status quos; in this case, in favor of the “sexual misconduct is disregarded” bias.
Honestly, talking from experience, your best bet is to network with folks in the space industry and then get in touch with folks in the American space sector through them. Eventually you will 100% have to have a major American presence, even if you have some functions in Australia. Just shifting ops from the UK to the US gave us a significant bump in cred when working with some major American aerospace players.

Alternatively, you could also work with other countries' space sectors, with the most accessible being the EU's industry, which is mostly dominated by French companies. The Eurosatory summit is often a good place to network with some of the mid-upper level leadership of these EU companies.

Good luck!
That's more than I would spend on a smoke detector battery.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino explains reason for getting rid of Twitter name
"Open Source" means you are not though.
I don't know why universities think the best way to decide enrollment is smashing the register button.

My undergrad university had the sense to let everyone pick their first preferences within 24 hours of enrollment starting. Then for over-selected courses, people were enrolled randomly [1]. This was repeated once more, iirc, and then in the third round enrollment was instantaneous.

This, thankfully, prevented virtual stampedes and allowed for people to select their courses in a non-panic manner.

[1] after required-for-graduation enrollments.
Inside Google, you usually get more easily promoted if you launch new products, than if you just maintain products.

Let's see the moment when Google launches Twitter-bis. It's a matter of time before it's done.
Wow, +500ms latency under upload load for me with Hyperoptic. Incredibly poor. https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=8205ec7e-...
And this is why I smoke filterless cigarettes
Estimates for the degradation time of cellulose acetate filters vary widely, but they can range from several months to more than a decade, depending on environmental conditions.

It's important to note that even though cellulose acetate might break down over time, it doesn't truly biodegrade in the same way that organic materials like food waste do. Instead, it fragments into smaller pieces called microplastics, which can persist in the environment for much longer and have their own set of environmental and health concerns.
The mean is pulled up substantially by a few famous Harvard drop-outs.
I agree and have noticed this too. Even the median kid from Stanford, Harvard, etc., has a level of elevator pitching skills that are unmatched by anyone below the 90th to 95th percentile at 'lower ranked' schools.

In terms of raw smarts I wouldn't make so bold a claim, but in terms of what folks can realistically assess in a single minute of interaction...
I love that ad. It was directed by Spike Jonze, which is very fitting.

"Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you're crazy; it has no feelings! And the new one is much better."

Here's the 2002 original and 2018 redux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecTUnfHyj8k

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_(advertisement)
Bingo. Everything has a limit and when you set it yourself you’re moving the “how many x can I make?” answer from the “unknown” column to the “known and testable” column.

Imagine if you add a feature tomorrow that, on startup, has to run something in linear time with the number of channels you have. If the upper bound were essentially undefined (and not practically testable if it’s max int(32)) it could be that in practice your new feature makes it so that getting above 23,456 channels effectively disables the server due to a timeout in a critical part of startup. But if you’ve defined that channel limit, you can be confident that a feature like that either does or does not break things, even when at your channel limit, because you can test that.
Excuse me? America did not get to define Russia's development, what the heck?
There is a small cottage industry around submetering. Generally a unit has to include utilities in the rent or it has to be metered. The billing companies all have the data you want. But very unlikely they sell it.
If you worry about electricity going down you can buy a portable generator powerful enough to run at least some of the stove. Odds are you have never had your electric stove using the full power it can in theory consume (all burners on high and the oven heating), so long as your actual use is less than the stove needs this works.

Heat pumps are great, but it sometimes gets cold enough where I live that they are less efficient than a modern gas furnace. (not every year, but still often enough that I need to plan on those days or my pipes will freeze)
AppArmor vs SELinux

I've ran Ubuntu and openSUSE servers and aside from a profile issue with PHP and openSUSE, I don't know if AppArmor is even protecting anything. Everything just works and it makes me think AppArmor is only applied to specific apps/services and not globally.

SELinux (at least on Fedora) is present, everywhere, and will gladly let you know if something is blocked because of it. I prefer this kind of protection even if it's more annoying at times :p Just a few weeks ago I learned about bin_t and that made my SELinux config for that service a lot more simple.
CAT-5, lucky you :) We still got zapped!
I find that generally I go for Amazon brands whenever possible.

Honestly they are one of the few shorts I wear because it is so hard to find good cargo shorts for tall guys.

Paper Towels, TP, vitamins, ibuprofen, etc. Much of it is solid quality, does what I need, and far cheaper than the alternatives even local ones.

Looking at what is mentioned it is the staples like this that will be fine. The things that will be going away will be the fancier things or things like furniture.
The issue is that we are prone to inflate the complexity of our own processing logic. Ultimately we are pattern recognition machines in combination with abstract representation. This allows us to connect the dots between events in the world and apply principles in one domain to another.

But, like all complexity, it is reduceable to component parts.

(In fact, we know this because we evolved to have this ability. )
> because they believe it splits the Vim community and takes people power away from Vim development

I don't understand this point, and I tried to parse it and still don't. (I understand that you are just relaying it).

If vim maintainers don't want neovim to exist, they should have accepted the merges earlier. If they disagree with the merges (which I think they did), then that power doesn't belong in Vim anyways.

edit: this reminds me of this conversation from years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245705

Check DSMan195276's comments.

And finally before I derail, I want to bring stuff back to the focus: RIP Braam.
I would think if someone was important enough to speak at commencement, the act of speaking at commencement would be a relatively unimportant and not worth putting on a CV (if someone in those positions actually needs to use CVs).
I imagine you could still build a dream team of GPT3.5, GPT4, LLama2, Vicuna and their friends
From what I've read[1], vim9script was pushed and developed almost exclusively by Bram. With him, a lot of knowledge about its internals and vision for its future dies.

[1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/discussions/12736#discussioncomme...
> we should go into every Show HN and say their project will be dead

It would be totally fair to ask an upstart DocuSign competitor about their wind-down process. The fact that I’m more confident they will have thought that through is the problem.
Yeah I was typing up a response the inherent disconnect between taking the allegations seriously enough to provide an escort while still allowing the abuser free to assault other women is galling.
Show HN threads don't repeatedly come from the same guy popping in with his unlimited amounts of money that he used to make yet another side project that some people will use for a few years while he gathers your data then decides to kill because it wasn't an immediate smashing success, or he wanted to redo it cause the other one was old.
I wonder how many semi/complete guérilla setups there are.
it actually is but also the vite and vue ecosystem go back a decade in the french naming scheme
The article talks about modesty and meeting in the middle, but I get the impression that the younger dev didn’t want to budge or understand the other point being made by Bram.
> Article I of the United States Constitution lists issuing letters of marque and reprisal in Section 8 as one of the enumerated powers of Congress, alongside the power to tax and to declare war.

It's still a thing
Well that sounds like you'd have a higher failure rate in the margins then, because current solar panels can practically be thrown on the roof with nails and they'll work for 25 years.

There's value in simplicity, and something that's going to be ignored on a roof for multiple decades needs to have an idiot proof installation process.
Engraved steel plates cut up is actually extremely easy and virtually indestructible.

You can buy a piece of 100x50x3 mm 316 stainless steel (thats 4"x2"x1/8" in freedom units) for around $5.

Engraving it is a simple matter of using a $10 automatic center punch and write the password out in dot punched letters.

If necessary, cut plate in N pieces with a hack saw, distribute among N people.

I always mark bicycles this way, dot punch my last name underneath the bottom bracket shell.
ESA WorldCereal – Getting Locations for Global Field-Level Monitoring in Python
Wow, they still named the mission "Luna 25" even though it's 47 years after "Luna 24".
I think you turned it into something philosophical about your "highs" but I was talking about the fact about simply how hard it is to look after a child, and how much drudgery and going crazy it involves

this is why i also said having massive amounts of money helps make it one treat it like a recreational activity, like having someone to help clean the house, cook etc
The article links to the help page for the feature: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12315692. It seems likely that it'd be a lot better at answering your questions than looking at screenshots.

> They also said they will only be adding an audit trail later this year. This is really sketchy because I believe it means you, nor anybody else can actually verify if it has been signed.

From the help page it seems obvious that both the sender and signers are able to check whether the contract has been signed. "1. Open the respective PDF file in Drive or through the link in the email notification. 2. Click View details in the upper right corner of the PDF to open the right side panel and view eSignature details."

Are you saying that the only possible valid implementation of an audit log is one appended to the contract pdf?

> Can Google not send people a simple email with a link?

Obviously they could. But equally obviously from your description, this is not a feature where sending one email with one link is sufficient. Based on the help page the final signed contract is "saved in your Drive", an operation that's not meaningful for a random email address that won't have an associated Google Drive. It seems likely that this is a feature that would be blocked on e.g. embedding the audit log in the pdf as per the discussion above.
Wouldn't the fact that getting caught using a deepfake or something similar be politically damaging to your campaign sort of make this a bit moot?

In my opinion, the main problem is people from outside the official political campaigns using this sort of tech, and I am not sure how the FEC is going to limit that...
My Dad did something like this for our pool in Australia in the '80s. He ran a bunch of black PVC pipe in a zigzag pattern on the garage roof and ran water through it from the pool filter. It was pretty effective at heating the pool!
They probably have a team or club you could participate in if you are interested beyond the course credits.
> American law and similar systems the admissibility of a type of evidence is established by it having been admitted before

It’s also been statute since 2000 [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Signatures_in_Glo...
The problem with that is that if the accused is only 30% likely to have done something, then there may be an equal or greater likelihood that the accuser is maliciously lying (allowing for some likelihood of genuine misunderstanding).
…in certain areas which could generally be characterized as “urban”, meaning outside of census agglomerations or whatever they call them in Canada, houses are fair game.
It's difficult to interpret your comment as having any other meaning.
> at an age where performance will start decreasing from here

Challenge that idea
Langchains prompts abstraction is definitely a bit wonky.

However, their more general patterns for things are pretty good for prototyping and getting something working fast.

And things like caching + retries is nice to have.

Imo start with langchain but once you get an idea of where you are going build it yourself.
That's why I'm not enthusiastic about Musk's vision for X...
It's not the "ghost guns" in the way that Mocsary is referring to (he misses the entire point), it's the kits:

https://www.bradyunited.org/fact-sheets/what-are-ghost-guns

>> Ghost gun kits include all of the necessary component parts to turn the unfinished frame or receiver into a fully functioning gun, which once assembled looks, feels, and functions like a traditional gun, whether a handgun or assault weapon, and is just as deadly and dangerous in the wrong hands.

>> The process of converting these parts into a ghost gun involves just a few steps and can be completed without any specialized skills.

>> There are no federal restrictions on who can buy ghost gun kits or parts;

>> There are no federal limitations on how many ghost gun kits or parts someone can buy;

>> Ghost gun kits and parts are relatively cheap; and

>> Ghost gun kits and parts are intentionally marketed as unregulated and untraceable to appeal to those who want to avoid background checks and/or are gun traffickers.
Still not worth it aside from the "neat" factor. 3 watts net increase won't pay for the cost of the fan over the lifetime of the panel, and a moving part like a fan won't make it to 25 years (5 years if it's lucky).
> Like usernames. You don’t use usernames as primary keys for anything, do you? What happens when people marry?

well it's extremly painful to rename the primary mail address or the UPN when it comes to microsoft 365 and active directory, especially in a hybrid environment. of course you can change upn's but it's definitly some kind of "primary key" for a user. in fact most systems at least use a UPN
I installed the solar first, which cost about $10k for parts, plans, and permits. I got quotes between $18k - $26k for the same-sized system professionally installed, so this was a great savings for 3-4 weekends of physical effort.

I don't know how much I saved on the battery, since I didn't get any quotes. The battery was vastly more time and effort, since I had to move my house onto that backup loads panel.

If you just want to shift usage, the backup panel may not be necessary. The Enphase batteries do support a fully grid-tied mode, where they simply connect to your main panel as a branch circuit. I'm sure other brands do too. This would be an easy DIY weekend project, as opposed to a months-long home re-wiring project. The Enphase mandatory training would be the biggest downside for using them here.
it's nominally controlled by the elected. until someone accuses the elected of threatening the independence of such and such agency and then the intelligence community (permanent Washington) has six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. stories are planted in all CIA/State Department-aligned i.e. major newspapers. classified information is selectively leaked by the heads of the agencies to their friends in academia. lawsuits fly. the ACLU finds a couch surfer to testify that bees are fish. and it's over before it started.
I'm not sure that this is terribly complimentary of software engineers, but over the course of a 30yr career in the field my best managers have all had one thing in common: former middle school teachers. O_o
Did you inspire the reddit TIL post or were you inspired by the same?
I would assume so since a weak planetary magnetic field means that the atmosphere is much more easily stripped off over time via solar wind. Mars, having no magnetic field, is a good example of this.
It's known under the name FSC and explained here for each region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-safe_cigarette
> Please explain how a population that sees its fertility rate voluntarily drop below replacement will ever have it raise back up to replacement level.

Fertility rates tend to fluctuate in relation to stressors like resource availability.

> No little girl who grows up seeing few, if any women, have children will think to herself "I want 2.1 when I grow up!".

Why not? Baby booms are very real. This is normal human behavior.

Edit: Just one example would be the short-lived COVID baby boom. Remarkable how responsive people are to changes when you think that this is mathematically impossible.
> heavily

Sadly not the case, as much as I love ASL the scene has zero new blood. SC2 really killed the Brood War scene, and League of Legends really killed SC2. The days of packing an aircraft hanger with 30,000+ fans for OSL finals are long gone.

I was invited to the Stormgate alpha, and while I can't say anything about it (NDA), I am hopeful it will bring new life into RTS esports.
That sounds really innovative, hopefully you're able to get proper funding. Sucks that a lot of investments in space engineering is centered around the US. I wish I was an Australlian with some robotics experience, I would've loved to be a part of your mission. Best of luck!
It is an easy mistake to make :) - it seems like ages ago when MySQL was sort of state of the art.

I was there too when Oracle took over and everbody knew what was going to happen.

Happy also that pgsql was not a victim and is still alive!
Those were likely evacuated tube solar collector systems. They can boil water in direct sunlight when there's snow on the ground.
+1 -- nothing better.
Text Indexes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB VCore
This seems an odd place to be making this argument though. Of all the things that you might do if you had carte blanche to break all backcompat in Windows, you’d really pick these reserved words? like, how important is it to make a file named just con or prn? Or a Teams channel or Sharepoint group for that matter?
I’d be aiming more for something like the backslash as path separator, or eliminating all system dependencies on drive letters. (I know NTFS can mount elsewhere, but too much stuff uses and assumes drive letters.)
While it’s a lot less energy efficient, once saw a video of someone that replaced one of his tank-based residential water heater elements with a combo 240v/24v element and attached a panel to the 24v element with a temperature-driven cutoff relay. Set the tank to 50C or whatever and the element to a higher point to dump extra heat when possible without getting too hot.

A very cost efficient approach that probably gets you some double digit reduction without a lot of risky plumbing or freezing issues.
And credit card companies make money on usage -- they charge the retailer something like 3% on purchases meaning they make money on the transaction volume regardless of carried balance.
Then robbery and assault and battery are also only "regulated", because they have similar conviction rates: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

And I couldn't find data on the average non-federal sexual abuse prison sentence in the US, but for the UK it's 8 years: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/may/26/rape-sentenc...

So on what basis, other than "men bad", does the claim that rape is merely "regulated", and that the legal system wasn't (Shouldn't that be "isn't"? Or will we argue about what the legal system was like a century ago, and imply but not state that it hasn't changed?) meant to address it, rest?

In the UK, the police have even withheld evidence from defense lawyers to ensure convictions for rape. Does that affect the claim how the law is basically pro-rape, or is it completely immune to evidence, so long as a single rape can still occur? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/06/05/basic-tenet-j...

A simple matter of faith, no matter how badly society treats accused rapists: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46235634
Reminds me of Keyenes : Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
> Yeah wouldn't want it to go the way of Google Toolbar, that thing would've definitely been relevant today.

Hm... I briefly was a part of the Google Toolbar team back in 2008. How would it be relevant today? All of the features that I remember, are now a part of the browser itself (whether it's Firefox, Safari, Edge or Chrome/Chromium).

That said, the eSignature for Google Docs feature would definitely benefit from some strong (preferably, legal & irrevocable) commitment to keep it alive for 40+ years or more. Otherwise, I fail to see how it's useful.
Python made a deliberate choice to do that, thankfully not too common.
Software scales better than hardware, so most investment (capital and intellectual) is in software.
I bought their bluetooth speaker that turns itself off when you haven't sent music through it for five minutes, and that you have to get up to turn back on.

edit: The physical quality seemed fine, but it's obvious that they never tested it or even thought about it much.
No it's not that. It's that I believe they will be profit seeking with that data unless forced to be otherwise.

The last decade has worn out my optimism and tolerance about privacy concerns. If a company wants my trust, they have to proactively earn it by excessive transparency, at least GDPR level, on their part.

If they can do that, I’ll consider it; otherwise, no thank you.
I'd love to Linuxify my old Blackberry
txtai 6.0: the all-in-one embeddings database
If you want to track, charge or close-source your code, it is okay, the Streisand-effect from all the freeloaders will save you.
Study uncovers attitudes ref Covid vaccination status in romantic relationships