skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has just moved back to Australia after ~20 years in the USA, I was surprised to notice how many people reverse park here. It seems to be an ego thing , particularly when I notice how many people do it at the supermarket, where it has to be super inconvenient.
I have a sneaky suspicion there is an if-then situation here - always the edge cases :).
Art has long been used to convey the enthralling beauty of the avian world. Birds, with their vivid plumage and distinct features, are a popular subject in a variety of artistic mediums. One such genre that has recently gained popularity is Paint By Numbers Birds. Let's go on an adventure to investigate a few bird-themed kits that have piqued the interest of fans.

Owls Paint By Numbers portrays the mystique and wisdom of the owl. This kit emphasizes their deep eyes, delicate feathers, and majestic beauty, allowing painters of all levels to recreate the nocturnal bird against the stillness of the night.

The Birds Paint By Numbers series depicts the vast world of birds, from chirpy sparrows to majestic eagles. Each kit emphasizes on the distinct characteristics of several bird species, ensuring that the artist captures the intricacies of their selected avian subject. The systematic design of these kits ensures that even beginners may create wonderful artworks honoring the bird kingdom.

Waterfowl, the birds that can be found on lakes, ponds, and marshes, have a special beauty. The Waterfowl Paint By Numbers series allows art enthusiasts to paint these aquatic birds in their natural surroundings. The kits provide a complete guidance to replicate these birds, capturing the shimmer of water and the delicacy of their movements, whether they are the beautiful swan or the colorful duck.

In conclusion, the avian-themed numbered painting kits are more than just an artistic endeavor. They serve as a link between humans and the dynamic world of birds, allowing us to appreciate the beauty, diversity, and complexity of our feathery friends. Whether you're an art enthusiast or a bird watcher, these kits offer a rewarding and immersive experience.
The first time I ever "forward" parked was after I passed my test. In fact, the examiner guided me into the space before telling me I'd passed! I wonder how many others in the UK go through the same experience.
I think I prefer factlet over factoid.
Uses/used NetBIOS in various guises - no ARP.
> Having a million in liquid assets is much rarer, but still easily attainable on a FAANG salary.

Is it possible to reach that figure by 30 while living modestly?
Thought the same thing. And agree.
It is pretty nice isn't it. Now can someone please make one with a nice metal case and the ability to run android on it. Then I can basically have my replacement for my much missed Nokia E71.
I work on vision, about how humans see and understand things. Robots with vision is something I am keen on. Philosophy in general. I like to play badminton, learning guitar. And I love travelling and exploring new places.
What do people living in Taiwan call the 'other' China? Is "mainland China" a correct thing to say, or is the word "main" there implying that Taiwan is lesser and not an equal/peer state?

I used the word China in other comments because I didn't know what to call it otherwise, hoping that in the context of Taiwan it is clear what I mean
It is not, they are still under the general term of “influencer”. It also depends on the person who is writing a blog or a book. “Do they have any sort of financial interest at sharing this opinion?” usually covers most of the cases.
I think the rings are a fantastic innovation. It would help me even further if the z-layers were colour coded too.

I appreciate the colours currently reflect different blocks like in the original tetris, but I'd find it easier to process the "board state" if each ring size also had a colour associated with it. It would be easier to "scan" the board state for where best to place the piece.

That said, this is a fantastic demonstration of innovation. It very neatly demonstrates the pros and cons of this particular 2d visualisation scheme.

The game itself is awkward, and requires 3 hands to properly play. Also for anyone else who grew up playing a particular windows port of tetris (from the BOWEP pack?), having space jam down the page instead of the block takes some getting used to.
When I was around 19 I received a phone call offering me a free sample of underwear. No strings attached, I specifically asked if I would have to cancel a subscription and they said no, it's just a free sample. I could subscribe if I wanted to.

So I receive my free package of boxers and socks and lo and behold next month I receive another with a bill. I actually liked them so I paid for a while and then I called in and canceled when I felt like I had enough underwear. They kept sending them. I sent an email canceling, they kept sending them.

So I sent another email saying that if they send me more stuff I'll consider it a gift and keep it. They kept sending for a few months and eventually stopped. Never even heard from any collections agencies. If I had I figured I'd just show them my emails canceling the service.
And? I really do not get how a tweet from Google contradicts the fact that their search engine is hot garbage that incentivises spam, centralised silos and "SEO tricks" like what CNET is doing.
Same here, I simply park reverse because it's easier to squeeze in and adjust, and I can see all the parts that gets close to the edge.

That I have more visibility is just a bonus, but not the main reason.
I asked bing-gpt to write me some css that would also happen to need the disabled selector.

It asked me to talk about something else, presumably because disabled can also be taken to mean disabled people.

If your product is absolutely safe, and is _never_ able to output such stuff, I assume it is also limited, confined, and not able to do anything really interesting.

In such tools, the generic ones, i.e. a recipe for something everyone knows and makes, is already easy to find on any search engine, these tools are often useful for doing something _slightly_ out of the box.

More importantly, those highly limited apps are just boring. Let us have some fun.
I talked with someone who was writing the 64 emu at the time. He had fun stories of looking the original source code for the games on burned CDs and finding hilarious comments left in the code (I believe chiefly in Conker). Learned that they also kept the original hardware used for some of the development of those old games, even if it might be long-nonfunctional.
Clickbait title makes it sound like some doomsday scenario, when in reality it's just some evidence of gravity working slightly differently than believed.
I had a legit $13k offer for 180k users recently (even though it looked super shady, and the result for end-users would probably have been gross).
Great note, didn't think of this limitation when using the dongle previously.

One question though, doesn't the sender transmit advertisements sequentially on all of the broadcast channels? So at least for BLE advertisements, they should all appear on the advertisement channel you're listening on - even if that's just one of them?
So much for - "Internet doesn't forget". It does. A lot of stuff has been lost.
This seems a little...unbelievable. Kinda semi-sensationalistic reporting.
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I honestly believe you asked this question out of your ignorance.

Despite the apparent difficulty maybe the people of China like their language nevertheless.

Languages vary widely in their expressivity.

Also, I think language (and the script) is closely related to the culture as well. The people of China might not want to let go of that.

And what about the literature and everything that's already written down in their native language? It's not just a question of translating everything. Trust me, things get lost in translation.

Also, if we're going to have everybody in the world work with the same script, there are arguably better candidates such as Arabic and Sanskrit.

In Sanskrit, for example, there's only about 50 letters (49?), it's impossible to mispronounce, the whole gender-neutralization situation becomes irrelevant (because well, things like car, village, fruit, pencil etc have genders (of which there are 3 btw — masculine, feminine, and neuter, but they aren't used in the way you would think)).

> why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing?

By the way, here's how this appears to us non-westerners — okay here comes this Western hero who thinks the rest of the world is nonsense and should be replaced by the superior Western™ system.
if only more people had such sharp senses
This would be an incredible result and probably the biggest experimental physics discovery in decades (bigger than gravitational waves and the Higgs). But MOND has so many problems on so many levels and some of the people who promote it in the scientific community are borderline crackpots. So I'd treat this veeeeery carefully until confirmed by independent groups and measurements. For the moment, this is like the room-temp superconductor: Revolutionary if true, but I'd still bet on poorly executed measurements in combination with unknown errors as the real explanation.
> parse a string into a number and return a value indicating if it was successful or not.

Eric Lippert had a decent blog post[1] back in 2008 on this titled "Vexing Exceptions" with regards to .NET.

[1]: https://ericlippert.com/2008/09/10/vexing-exceptions/
If I were an attacker, could I clone the device id and attributes of the victim's previously approved devices? https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard#before-the-first-start

Anyway I enjoy this HID stuff, I've been playing with using a computer as a keyboard to another computer. With scroll, num, and capslock LED's, bidirectional communication can be achieved and by injecting a small process I think some new kind of universal REPL can be accomplished.
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They should black list cleaning and household supplies. I'm not even sure why this is an issue if I ask an llm to make me a recipe involving bleach.
just FYI, I've been running a few services on a Hetzner VM and a few others in a box at home. With an 5 minute uptime ping (uptime robot) I am consistently getting a 3 to 4 nines uptime for the home server and that can be substantially improved if I care to put an UPS (my old one failed). As others pointed out, home ISP is often not great for self hosting due to things such as asymmetric transfer speed, periods of higher latency and short, but sometimes frequent outages.
Looks great! Didn’t realize there was much more that could be improved upon vs the alternatives but I think I’ll use this again next time.

A dedicated domain would be nice. I probably wouldn’t recommend this to people like fast.com though due to the more complex interface, but I love it!
Twitter is big in Japan. Same for Facebook in some countries.
Qalc seems like a better calculator to me and is more stable somehow despite being written in I think C++. Not having to download a huge programming language taking up GB of space, research an ecosystem and import ten packages sounds ideal. I prefer python or R and sometimes even BC to Julia for terminal calculating anyways...

I'd let the post about qalculate be about qalculate here.
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That's actually a pretty epic unicorn. I like how its tail looks like a lightning bolt. Should be a logo idk
> Would be nice to see joint stereo support

This was/is available in MP3 since forever, so seems a reasonable request.

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Intensity_stereo
Smug or not asking an LLM to repeat a bleach based recipe and then receiving one is exactly what this quote is alluding to.

""If I ask for something I don't want, will it give me something I want??" - no
Search is an inherently centralizing and monopolizing industry. The one with the biggest index can show the best results and ads, thus has the biggest budget, and the one with the biggest budget has the biggest index.
How is the sun there for the solar part?
I didn’t a blockchain would be more efficient than a computer. I said it would be more efficient than a Raspberry Pi. And yes, of course a blockchain needs electricity, but the cost and burden of running the blockchain is covered by transaction fees, which you only pay when you’re actively engaging with your app, which is different than the Raspberry Pi where you need to pay when your app is idle.
Google Maps did make you do anything. It's a dumb tool that is not always correct made by people in USA. You decided to forgo basic due diligence in a foreign country.
Not all websites need all of the SEO bs you mentioned.

Least this one.

It's legendary as it is.
There are chinese languages - completely tonal - whose only comprehensive written representation is with the roman alphabet.
Because it's not Rust/C. And it does have some nifty features like tagged unions and comptime.

Here is Zig UB in a nutshell

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
const warning1 = try powerLevel(9000);
const warning2 = try powerLevel(10);

std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{warning1});
std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{warning2});
}

fn powerLevel(over: i32) ![]u8 {
var buf: [20]u8 = undefined;
return std.fmt.bufPrint(&buf, "over {d}!!!", .{over});
}
Value it a $1Bn to make it a Unicorn Unicorn.
I like the philosophy of QOA (and other similar projects, including QOI and TinyVG), but unlike others, it seems like it's not ready to use yet, see https://github.com/phoboslab/qoa/issues/25

> I have just pushed a workaround to master. [...]

> This still introduces audible artifacts when the weights reset. It prevents the LMS from exploding, but is far from perfect :/

This, combined with the fact that that issue is still open mean that a breaking change is still to be expected.
> a small government to take care of the essentials and the free market will handle the rest absolutely.

Yeah, I used to believe that, because it was such a neat theory and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged seemed so right. (I was a teenager.) Life has convinced me otherwise. There's a sweet spot (which probably moves over time), but free-market absolutists aren't being realistic, largely for the reasons mentioned by 'defrost in response to you.

(NY Times lead economics writer Binyamin Appelbaum got it right in his book The Economists' Hour when he said, of Milton Friedman, that Friedman celebrated drivers but took roads for granted.)
This could for all I know be the most brilliant solution to 3D Tetris ever, but the font is just so terrible that I find it hard to get past the first paragraph, which makes me doubt the validity of any further (possibly quite clever) design solutions that are being presented.

Design serves a single purpose, which is to present information in the clearest possible way. Any design choices you make which don't serve that purpose are hubris. (And yes, the conveyance of some information requires invoking emotional triggers via more complicated and hard-to-fathom design; this is not one of those exceptions. Clarity, please!) An article about reducing some immense design complexity to visual simplicity should strive to present itself as clearly as possible, not use a goddamn webfont from the 90s.
True but such foundational code is rarely kept synchronous in prod, you'd usually have a coroutine (or equiv) and await the reply, or timeout after X seconds? Installing a random, kinda crappy, third party service like Consul seems overkill imo
Villages and tribes have typically been composed of people who are related to one another.

So another way of saying this is that the extended family participates in raising children.

Not long ago, children were allowed to roam freely in the neighborhood, walk to and from school, and have some essentially unsupervised time to play and be children. The reason this worked well is because they were known to the neighbors, and at least some of those neighbors were looking out for the children, albeit discreetly and not actively. Me and my sister roamed the neighborhood, and at least one Mom on each block would know who to call if we got into an accident or something. There was a creepy guy who invited us to his hot tub, but my sister wisely turned him down, and nothing more was done.

Furthermore, in an extended family, you'll have grandparents to babysit, and cousins who are peers, and in a family with enough children, you'll have older children effectly supervising the youngest ones, changing diapers, doing basic tasks like that. This happens all the time at church, and I see it. It's a matter of Mom and Dad setting good examples and instilling good discipline.

If instead you have a situation of high divorce rates, single moms and single dads going it alone, everyone lives in a separate little dwelling, we barely know our extended family, we live in neighborhoods full of strangers, we all work two full-time jobs, well your support system will consist of paid child care, if you can find it, and if you can afford it. So children are high-maintenance.

And in a family of one or two children, the children won't be learning the basics of changing diapers and feeding applesauce, so if you do raise children, you're raising children who are unprepared to be parents.
Ultra and hyper mean basically the same

So does super, which is the direct Latin cognate of hyper. So ultra > super > hyper?

I would suggest the opposite, as in modern usage, the Greek words "feel" larger than the Latin ones, perhaps because they look less familiar.
Like we saw recentlly with Russia, the people were not upset when they invaded Ukraine. Then when McDonald's pulled out of Russia a fat guy chained itself to the doors. So internet, fast-food, clothes, cars, movies... water pumps... and so on.
"Slightly different" is a breakdown in precise sciences like physics.
>in inventory he

Thank you, absurd iPhone autocorrect. This should have been “within the”.
looks like it's a llm filtering itself, so 'taste' is a valid meal.
This is reductionist science at its best, and I mean that very much in a good sense. Evolution is one of the most foundational theories in all of science outside of Physics, and now we can see it at work in a most stripped-down case. Phantastically fascinating.
Reverse parking is the suggested way to park a car by my employer in Norway for safety reasons. So yes, I reverse park every day at work to be compliant.
> There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file.

As a compiler author, there are a bunch of nasty surprises to this approach. If you execute a file line-by-line, then functions only exist once you "reach" them.

If you write:

def a(): b()
a()
def b(): ...

...then a() needs to crash when first called, because b() hasn't been declared yet. So your functions need to be invoked via some kind of table, and can't easily use jumps to hard-coded offsets. And b() can't be inlined.

There are dozens of these problems that come up when generating efficient code. And the easiest way to fix them all is to make your entire program "exist" from the beginning, so it can be compiled and optimized as a whole. Which is how you wind up with main().
But that's wrong... Do breadcrumbs get larger as you move away from the loaf? No!
I would trust Amazon slightly more than Aliexpress and both significantly more than the store down the street to make right any issues with goods bought there.

Amazon is very quick to refund, Aliexpress is slightly slower and more effort, a local shop is up to how they feel with only the vague threat of a chargeback.
I would argue that `image-2023-04-25` looks comparable close to a unicorn. The art style does vary a lot though.
Back of the envelope math gives me that if you can stick $85K a year into an investment that gives 10% annual returns you'll have a million in 8 years. So in theory it should be just about doable if you get a really well paying job right out of college (with no student loans) and have a bit of luck on the investment front.
Each and every rare occurrence of a US police shooting goes toward the US having the highest per capita police killing stats in the G20.

Compare the per capita deaths at the hands of the police figures for the US against the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, etc.

There's a staggering jump.

Once again the US excels.
It's fairly common on industrial sites I've been to - particularly ones that you might want to leave in a hurry!
Yeah, truly. "Don't be evil"? Like, you want to be evil, or you tend to be evil, but just don't do it?
Clickable link: https://github.com/kahole/edamagit
'legacy automakers' have been making EVs and Hybrids for years, and even long before Tesla was a thing (I've been to Geneva motor show enough times to have seen them).

What they have been doing is milking their petrol & diesel markets for as long as they possibly can. Why cannibalize your existing market for EVs when you're still selling plenty of the old cars, until you have no other choice?

Once they can't make money off petrol anymore, those companies will very quickly pivot to EVs and are currently more than technically capable of doing so. And they'll say 'thank you very much Elon for educating the public in what it means to be an EV owner, and what infrastructure is needed to support them. We'll take over from here'.
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests
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the main critique of k8s is that its poor design adds complexity to an already challenging concept (for non CS folks)
I'm confused as to why this would see any improvement over time. Looking at the code, it's by default hitting the gpt 3.5-turbo API. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought I've seen statements from people working at OpenAI where it's been claimed that the API is static, we'd be informed of any changes to the underlying model. Is the model actually receiving updates?

edit: Looking at previous days, too, it doesn't exactly seem to be improving. I think we just got a lucky sampling.
Polar POD [0] is a spiritual successor to FLIP but is designed to work in the southern ocean.

[0] https://www.polarpod.fr/en/polar-pod
I always park like this because it's much easier. Not just to get out, but to get in.

Because your front wheels rotate, not the back wheels, it's much easier to get into proper position when parking backwards especially when you're between 2 other cars and the space is small.
No way to use bytes instead of bits in the output?
I've been told that in the army (UK) its illegal to park forwards. They had so many accidents that they banned it.

But yea, definitely easier to squeeze into tighter spots going backwards, and not that much harder after you've done it a few times.
The problem is that detecting the different variants to label the training data requires understanding the semantics (detecting French vs English can be done purely lexically), which has historically been a hard problem. With modern language modeling it’s tractable.
I'm holding on to my papers
Came to find Tetrisphere and really surprised it’s not come up in the thread already.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game back in the day, and it has some really novel ideas about how to approach 3D tetrominoes.

https://youtu.be/VLSKnVJMvHg
Are we actually discussing burying plastic soon to be trash near plants so we can 'document' them? This is one of those times where I think someone solved the wrong problem.
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