skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since everything living can feel pain for a generous definition of the term and since you kill plants and indirectly insects even on a plant based diet, there is little difference

There certainly is if you take quantity into account. To quote the page linked to by unfairly-downvoted sibling comment:

> Regardless, each pound of animal flesh requires between four and thirteen pounds of plant matter to produce, depending upon species and conditions. Given that amount of plant death, a belief in the sentience of plants makes a strong pro-vegan argument.
Decades of crappy fuel management and cancelling their rapid attack helicopter crews didn't help.
Primarily formaldehyde, but there are a few other things in the modern products that I can't remember. It goes into tissues and creates networks that essentially freeze membranes in place. It kills nearly everything and preserves large anatomical structure.
People will definitely notice the loop point if they're trying to sleep.

My Android app (Chroma Doze, est. 2010) uses this algorithm to splice noise segments together:

When adding two streams together, the perceived amplitude stays constant
if x^2 + y^2 == 1 for amplitudes x, y.

A useful identity is: sin(x)^2 + cos(x)^2 == 1.

Thus, we can perform a constant-amplitude crossfade using:
result = fade_out * cos(x) + fade_in * sin(x)
for x in [0, pi/2]

But we also need to prevent clipping. The maximum of sin(x) + cos(x)
occurs at the midpoint, with a result of sqrt(2), or ~1.414.

Thus, for a 16-bit output stream in the range +/-32767, we need to keep the
individual streams below 32767 / sqrt(2), or ~23170.
That's a really interesting exercise. I read this comment whilst standing in my bedroom, and counted seventeen of these ads / brand impressions in one 360 revolution. Two steps to my left, and I saw three more I couldn't from my previous position; two steps to the right, four.

Jesus.
I'm imagining two connected olympic swimming pools, at the base and on top of a mountain, filled with liquid mercury...
So long as the kernel developers are actively hostile to ZFS…

You will take your Btrfs and you will like it.
“But every person has their own encyclopedia written, which grows out from each soul, composed from birth onward, hundreds of thousands of pages pressing into each other and yet there’s air between them! Like trembling leaves in a forest. A book of contradictions. What’s in there is revised by the moment; the images touch themselves up, the words flicker. A wave washes through the entire text, followed by the next wave, and the next . . .” - Tomas Transtromer.
Researchers are notorious for writing bad code

What even is dvc

edit: also- i'd avoid snap and just use your regular package manager.
Nicely put. Makes us wonder - we are all pawns that our leadership uses to divide us on, while really leadership is all buddy buddy at a higher level! I suppose art imitates life. You see this in your international governments, you see this in corporate politics. Reality is we (demographic X) have a lot more common with the same demographic X in another region/country/corporation.
Car dealerships are a huge revenue generating entity for state governments. It is possible doing away with dealerships would net out to similar incomes, but short term would most likely lead to a net negative for the balance sheet.
Several potential turnoffs in the (earlier versions of?) resume 1) possibly overqualified. Companies definitely do worry that someone overqualified will quickly grow bored and leave. Not an unreasonable concern 2) some of the language in the resume is a bit off-putting. Maybe it's a language issue, but I could see "World-Class qualified." and similar statements as coming across a bit like a bit of inflated sense of self/ego. I could be totally wrong on that, I don't know.
The deal is that formal law enforcement is reasonably effective meting out justice and that private parties people forgo pursuing their own.

A deal can be broken by either side.
I'd have to agree (with the little experience I have). My school is the cheapest on the block and we have the oldest planes, the other day I sat in another's schools C172 and saw the G1000 and.. "damn.. look at all those colours and uh what does this button do" was just about all I could say

I think in regards to safety, screens have the upper hand 99% of the time however...

a) the 1:1 of screen X to screen Y doesn't exist, I (think) you have to pretty much learn the new system

b) there's a certain je ne se quais to instruments

c) the school that has the G1000 needs a G1000 trainer as well as an IFR trainer (though I guess that's fine because then you have experience in both)

d) too much screens may not be the best - the G600 has touchscreens now
The reason is simple: the car owners adored the Fast N Furious series
If music is just auditory wallpaper anyway, why distinguish?
They don't. You can switch to LAN-only mode, or disable the network connection altogether and put gcode on a microSD card and print from that.
I was guessing it's a hamfisted response to Block the Blue
I was referring to tablets but thanks for pointing out the Librem. I’ll check it out.
Aircraft carriers are nuclear though. That’s a bit quieter than a modified civic
Details are subjective, and that can be influenced by culture and language. For instance if in my culture it's more important to know the colour of your pants then i will remember that. If in your culture the colour of your hat is more important you will remember that. But a person's culture changes, and that person can still speak a particular language but memories be influenced by a different pattern. Correlation and casualisation etc.
protopage is a fine page
Vulfpeck's Sleepify album. The tracks were silent so you could play them in the background. They used the proceeds to fund a free tour for their fans.
This can hardly have been a surprise. Intel's very first mass market SSD from 15 years ago had enough IOPS to embarrass a whole room full of HDDs, and unless you know exactly what you are doing, a Linux NFS server will not benefit from any width of RAID-0 due to concentrating all filesystem metadata load on a single disk or pair of disks in the array.
> don’t think it would possible to build a 1000sf house in Seattle for under 200k due to materials and labor costs

Single family? Maybe. (There is a lot of red tape in materials, too.) Building for a proper city? Much, much cheaper. Those are the economics of densification.
The equation for potential energy is U = m ⋅ g ⋅ h, so higher density factors into higher mass (per unit volume) so directly into higher energy storage capacity.
This is a killer "app" for Java 21. There's now little reason to choose Kotlin or some other language to build efficient API's etc.
But also expensive right?
They are banned in many major European and Asian cities for a good reason
I would like to have Ivo's head (founder of seznam.cz, windy.com and sold Melown startup for a few hundreds of mils )
Glad to see new languages designed around having good support for IDEs. matklad (rust analyzer) and I wrote a bit about this:

- https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/01/on-modularity-of-lexica...

- https://azdavis.net/posts/pl-idea-tooling/

I think pure functions, sum/product types, and pattern matching are generally accepted as an excellent way to model and manipulate pure data. I wonder what the team’s thoughts are about handling less pure things like asynchrony and I/O, as well as more interesting control flow like exceptions/panicking, coroutines, generators, iterators, etc.
This topic is a molehill out of which vast hinterlands of mountain ranges have been made.

This article neglects to mention the practice of using the output of "pip freeze" to create a versioned requirement.txt file, and using that if it exists next time the .venv/ is created.
> At the executive level you stop getting the kid gloves with the feedback

Hmm, that doesn't ring true here, I've coached a lot of execs and the ones you described are often getting the coaching for the very reason that they are too direct! The consequences for that are varied and definitely real.

And again, you can be very direct and also sensitive, gentle, etc. So it's not like there aren't any options for putting things out there in an effective way.

> The other thing that happens at the executive level is you stop getting direct feedback at all, so when someone spends the time to give you some direct feedback it is a gift to be treasured

This would seem to be a pretty logical self-reinforcing loop on its own, but again, I have to say that in practice it would be quite an exception. There are many, many different mechanisms through which executives receive feedback.

The exceptions who aren't getting feedback, even in those cases, are the execs who are too direct. Why? Because the same people are often effectively deaf to feedback.

And so, they tell professional consultants and coaches that they'd like to learn to be _more_ sensitive to feedback. Their training is nearly the exact reverse of what a lot of people think execs want or need.

These kinds of execs often explain that they'd prefer to be able to pick up even the subtleties, in a way that a) helps them do their job more competently and b) protects them from even more critique, which is what some of the most direct people out there fear more than anything.

So, I have a hard time buying this as a general principle, let alone some given attribute of just doin' business. If any given person or commentator is experiencing those issues themselves, it's far more likely, in my professional experience, that they share the same blind spot that other over-direct people have.
I agree 100%. A transition however would take more than a decade and real commitment and support.
Massive spikes in platinum, palladium, and rhodium prices and the availability reciprocating saws.
it seems likely that's the "plan that never came to fruition" mentioned in the article.
I also had a microscope and loved to watch things under the microscope. It took patience: I would get something under the microscope and I would watch it interminably. I saw many interesting things, like everybody sees ­­ a diatom slowly making its way across the slide, and so on.

One day I was watching a paramecium and I saw something that was not described in the books I got in school ­­ in college, even. These books always simplify things so the world will be more like they want it to be: When they're talking about the behavior of animals, they always start out with, "The paramecium is extremely simple; it has a simple behavior. It turns as its slipper shape moves through the water until it hits something, at which time it recoils, turns through an angle, and then starts out again."

It isn't really right. First of all, as everybody knows, the paramecia, from time to time, conjugate with each other ­­ they meet and exchange nuclei. How do they decide when it's time to do that? (Never mind; that's not my observation.)

I watched these paramecia hit something, recoil, turn through an angle, and go again. The idea that it's mechanical, like a computer program ­­ it doesn't look that way. They go different distances, they recoil different distances, they turn through angles that are different in various cases; they don't always turn to the right; they're very irregular. It looks random, because you don't know what they're hitting; you don't know all the chemicals they're smelling, or what.

One of the things I wanted to watch was what happens to the paramecium when the water that it's in dries up. It was claimed that the paramecium can dry up into a sort of hardened seed. I had a drop of water on the slide under my microscope, and in the drop of water was a paramecium and some "grass" ­­ at the scale of the paramecium, it looked like a network of jackstraws.

As the drop of water evaporated, over a time of fifteen or twenty minutes, the paramecium got into a tighter and tighter situation: there was more and more of this back­and­forth until it could hardly move. It was stuck between these "sticks," almost jammed.

Then I saw something I had never seen or heard of: the paramecium lost its shape. It could flex itself, like an amoeba. It began to push itself against one of the sticks, and began dividing into two prongs until the division was about halfway up the paramecium, at which time it decided that wasn't a very good idea, and backed away.

So my impression of these animals is that their behavior is much too simplified in the books. It is not so utterly mechanical or one­-dimensional as they say. They should describe the behavior of these simple animals correctly. Until we see how many dimensions of behavior even a one­celled animal has, we won't be able to fully understand the behavior of more complicated animals.

--From Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynmann
check this out!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgyLEE2TA-I&pp=ygUYcGlsb3Qgc29...
I believe code holds meaning even without a compiler or interpreter. I can read code and discern its functionality. I can even recognize existing algorithms such as quicksort. I can achieve the same understanding with pseudocode, which lacks an existing compiler. Similarly, prompts possess meaning; I can comprehend the task delegated to a machine learning model by reading the prompt.

I agree that both code and data are akin in terms of meaning. Transitioning from Assembly language to Python liberates us from concerns about registers and low-level intricacies. Python directs our attention to the problems we aim to solve, in contrast to low-level languages where a significant effort is spent on specifying hardware operations. High-level languages emphasize outcomes, enabling us to focus on the result rather than meticulously instructing the hardware. AI propels us further along this trajectory.

In this sense, I view a prompt and code as rather similar.
> any auto finance org would have repossessed in that situation. And I'm sure every auto finance org has experience with deadbeats who don't pay and ignore all communication attempts until the repo man comes.

That wasn't the situation. The vehicle was already paid for upfront with a bank cashier's check, which the Tesla representative admitted that Tesla had the entire time. There was no missed payment. You never get your car repossessed if you never financed it in the first place. That's probably why the emails sounded like a scam.
You're not the only one. On my understanding the word is a neologism, hence its meaning isn't "stable" yet.
There's a certain strain of political outlook exemplified by an article like this, commonly categorized as "post-colonial", that ironically morphs itself into increasingly complex and implausible shapes to explain why all of the bad things are caused by the "first world" and nobody else has or will ever have any autonomy as an agent in the world.

The other aspect of irony to this is that this worldview is cultivated uniquely in bourgeoisie Western spheres to be championed by chosen avatars of the parasitized people completely Westernized outside their disdain for Western culture.

What we really need is a Canada-infused Iranian with a Western worldview telling us what the Iranian people truly want -- how absurd.

The final and greatest absurd irony latent here is that in the minds of proponents of these conspiracy theories, the US and other Western powers go from bumbling buffoons that can't socially engineer their way out of a paper bag when you can see/prove it (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) to master machivellian puppeteers when you can't.
I’m holding out for bcachefs and still building ZFS via dkms on current kernels like a madman.
Wohooo!! good luck!!
This has been floating around for 2 years at this point so might be a long while until it gets in. Interesting, QNAP somehow added this feature into the code that their QuTS Hero NASes uses. I'm not sure how solid or tested the QNAP code is but it's solid enough that they're shipping it in production.
One of John Adams' famous criticisms of Franklin came in a letter to James Lovell dated April 14, 1781. In it, Adams writes:

"The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the Earth and out sprang General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod—and henceforth these two conducted all the policy, negotiations, legislatures and war."
And then Pike begins by saying he doesn't know much about APL.
Hi there, author of article here - I definitely see your point. I might have been a bit to general here, it's like another poster here says, it's very much napkin math. Yes, "better leads" are ofc always better than randos - but these numbers are from of a made up business, not the company mentioned in the beginning so if we imagine that 90% of the users already comes form paid, then we might want to invest more in paid. And if organic, maybe we invest in content and SEO instead.

Overall, when setting objectives it is still very important to have some numbers to target - you can even change these targets later if it turns out there is a better way of getting those 1066 customers.
Overwatch Do you like bosses? Then you don't know what you're missing
I agree. There's a lot of things we do which doesn't require language.

It's often there for me though, like a default. I don't think "left leg, right leg" when I'm walking, and I don't think "geez, I'm walking now", but when I'm walking my go-to thinking defaults to some internal monologue: "gonna buy some food", "can I cross the road?", etc.

When I go to bed this is more evident. It's silent, dark, and all senses are numb. This is when the internal voice gets more noticeable. I just can't get rid of it, until the very moment I go to sleep.
the "purple card" of myth and legend!? please take a picture.
All war boils down to the ability to access, control or set pricing for a natural resource

The perennial Iran/Iraq conflicts originated from disputes about access to the Shatt al-Arab River starting in the 16th century - once the industrial revolution hit, then of course oil was the key resource for growth

The Overthrow of the Shah then, was based on the requirement to not be beholden to anyone but the west when pricing Oil, to ensure the west had unmitigated control of how the largest oil property set prices.

Old school conquest of territory post WWII is considered gauche, so the 21st century approach to resource conflict is to find "other means" to have the same effect of guaranteeing access to someone else's property.

I think this extremely rare peaceful period of "orthogonal conflict" that was notably devoid of multiple widespread bloodshed in war (~1975-Today) might actually come to an end in the next few decades as state capitalism crumbles under it's own weight and no coherent alternative exists.
I wouldn't care if he won a Nobel Prize - dirty old books sound like a disgusting ingredient to use.
Given they only need to specify two properties of the material (density, and ability to be suspended in water), they should be spoilt for choice; and would be pretty stupid if they didn't pick something inert. This is not like semiconductor manufacturing or something where they need to find a material with obscure properties.

My guess is the main reason for not specifying the material is that they will pick whatever is cheapest locally to each development.
I had no idea! Researching now
I don't disagree. Perhaps it is totally bogus.
I’d imagine he’d think differently if he owned the rights to it.
I wish the artical attempted to address the "good smell" part of the title.

I read this article and I didn't find it engaging... It lists some of the chemicals that cause the small. It's no suprise that there are aromatic chemicals that cause it.

I would really like to know why they small good? Is it like petrichor? Childhood experiences that influence my perception?
Is Spotify a monopoly? They're competing with all the tech giants: Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, not to mention good old fashioned piracy.
Yep, see also https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/raid-z-expansion-feature-... (2022)

(Via
https://lobste.rs/s/5ahxj1/raid_z_expansion_feature_for_zfs_... )
> Running any (halting) algorithm on a human computer is constant time, because you're bound by the number of states you can fit into some terabytes, but nobody should actually try to use that as a final analysis.

That's the sort of thing I would usually say to explain why we do things like use asymptomatic analysis and ignore polynomial factors. If you have a different solution, that's great, but you're no longer taking about the kind of runtime the article is about.
Open sourced - nice!
A lot of people say “sentient” when they mean “sapient”.
Development Platforms and the Strategy of Getting There
My first guess was some form of alginate.
if you use iPhone, you can turn on "background sounds" under accessibility settings - no app required
Couldn't recall just how long it'd been.
>>>> Current driverless cars are not even capable of ...

If Brand A has single-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, while Brand B has quintuple-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, it's weird to argue that all brands are massively fucking up so much worse than humans.
> "100MW in storage capacity"

Sigh. A MW is not a measure of storage capacity, it's a measure of momentary power. Do they mean it can store 100 MWh of energy? Or do they mean it can generate up to 100 MW of power?

Journalists always seem to get confused by this[1], but it's surprising to see "Recharge News", of all people, making such a mistake!

[1] The Times once famously published an entire headline anti-EV article that claimed the UK would need to build dozens of new nuclear power plants to power them. But it quickly turned out they had just gotten GW and GWh confused!
But as they stated it translates into higher energy storage capacity (per unit volume). This translates into smaller footprints as volumes go down, but that’s it. Now, mercury is almost 14 times more dense than water so that’s nothing to sneeze at.
Overall, it’s telling that you have to explicitly walk through the contact.
The Story of SkiFree (2005)
I still have the Interstate '76 soundtrack in my music library, it was great. The gameplay may not have been the greatest but the style was off the charts. A modern remake could be a truly great game.
Generating AI art can get as complex as you want:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/14ye2eg/co...

https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
I’m running bcachefs on my desktop right now.

It’s promising, but there’s… bugs. Right now only performance oriented ones, that I’ve noticed, but I’d wait a bit longer.
Sad to see what Iran has become - no in small part thanks to the US/UK's meddling and installing a crazed theocratic government. The Iranian people deserve so much better - they are a nation of really smart people and would be a beacon in the Middle East if it wasn't for a bunch of religious reactionaries holding power.

Some of the best engineers I've ever worked with were expat Iranians who left and have no intention of going back there.
Probably more of a narcissistic mistake.
The surfactant might be a problem, but the mineral particles are almost certainly something very cheap and common, like clay.
I once saw a pedestrian step out in front a speeding police car with lights and siren . . . I guess because the walk light turned green? The police car had to slam on its brakes and honk before the idiot noticed it.
They don't put the cone on the bonnet for no reason. They do it because they know what the likely outcome will be.

In a similar way, if you booby trap a vehicle such that it might surprise a human driver in some way whilst they are driving, causing them to potentially have an accident, the crime you are committing is not simply that you're surprising someone by tampering with their property, but you might be doing it with a specific intent to cause an accident.