skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> practical timekeeping concerns

For that matter, we also used the bell towers - each different, village from village - to orient ourselves in travel... Massive signposts on the horizon. Of course if you have to do something, do it with reason and wits.

Likewise in term of practicality, the bells could act like the "clock" on a motherboard: regulating collective activity.
Yeah, not much so far. The storm is rotating counter-clockwise, meaning the tropical air is going to hit the mountains to the east of the coast first. Also the storm seems to be stuck around the middle of Baja California right now. Strangely enough this is where the water temp begins to cool as you move northward(https://coastalwatertemperatureguide-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/). I was worried the storm would gain some energy from the Gulf of California since that's quite warm(85F now) but that doesn't seem to be happening.

The mountains are what normally prevent the coast from seeing any of the monsoonal storms typical of CA/AZ deserts in mid-summer. It's common for moisture coming from Mexico to produce large thunderstorms east of the coastal mountain ranges this time of year.

I'm not saying this storm won't amount to anything for the coast. We'll probably get some rain and some wind. I'm not stockpiling anything and my only prep has been to put a bit of gas in the car and charge all of my batteries. We're most likely going to roll our eyes at the people panic-buying TP and water this Monday.

Edit: It's 12:32 AM in San Diego. According to several online radar maps including weather.com, we've been in the middle of a rainstorm for almost an hour. The ground is still dry and it's a calm 73F outside. Very weird. I can understand radar picking up light rain which evaporates before hitting the ground, but the map is indicating rain that is much heavier than that. Weird.
Very "intensely memorable" feelings/things don't have names!! The smell of old grass or barnes or rain on dry soil or kinds of breeze at certain temperature and level of humidity.. Many of these random things without names are still there and don't require words.
> But in this case, all we need is the cutting right because we don't care if the HIV survives the interaction.

In the "what could possibly go wrong" scenario, if it survive this drives the virus for mutantion.
There are literal post-its in her house where she basically wrote a confession [1]. There was an almost year long trial. There is very clear damning medical evidence. Its kind of irresponsible to throw out shit like this without even reading the article.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/18/lucy-letby-h...
Mute them? (Btw I have never seen something like that on Twitter.)
Onsen are geat! I love them. I especially recommend outdoor onsen (Called rotenburo) in winter when it is snowing.
You have to get over the first hurdle to be totally naked with strangers. But I often go at a time when it is mostly empty.
Disclaimer: I live in Japan.
Tolkien wrote the essential story - for our time: An evil force works not by open destruction, but through lies to cause despair and corruption. The good people of the world allow themselves to be influenced by it; they embrace despair and abandon goodness and all resistance; or they are corrupted and even help the enemy. The primary actor is a wise old man who travels around, not using great powers, but waking them up, reminding them of who they are and their strength rousing them to action (the scene with Theoden is a great example).

How could Tolkien, in the 1940s and 1950s, write a book for the post-2016 era? Remember what he saw as he wrote it: An evil force that heavily used propaganda to spread their horrible ideas, and masses of people not only in Germany or Italy, but the rest of Europe and the US, refusing to acknowledge or oppose the reality of the evil, the grim future; and many even supporting it.

Tolkien arguably turned it into a myth for future generations, like the real-life Trojan War was turned (eventually) into the Iliad and Odyssey.
> The fact that we cannot even talk about something so obvious should pause some of us to wonder, what is it that is causing this kind of blind spot in modernity.

It is not at all obvious to me. For one, the timing of the introduction of vaccines does not match the timing of the allergies becoming widespread. Or are you proposing that a specific vaccine could be the link?

I've never heard of this before your comment. It certainly seems like a novel theory. Before trying to ask who is trying to hide this, why don't you propose or fund a study?
Sitting here waiting, calm before the storm. Wife is asleep, cats are relaxed. Rain is supposed to start in about 4 hours.

It’s heartening to think that the last time this happened a direct consequence was the large amount of flood control infrastructure we have today.

I’m anxious but not concerned even though every map with some rating of impact, has us at the highest level. But we are on the edge of those zones, I know our terrain, we should handle the water all right. I have good confidence in the water control engineering in our area, even if it’s overrun. The wind may be an issue, however, particularly with the water. I’ve not experienced that before. Wind, yes. But not wind driving water that hard. It’s a real unknown to me and can make both the wind and water more impactful.

It’s going to be an interesting day or so, but the sun should be back by Tuesday, and it’s always a pretty day in the sun when it strikes the mountains.
> Many of the tools law enforcement uses are straight up hocus pocus, and they lack the training or ability to question their methods.

I suspect that the real issue is the lack of incentive; it doesn't matter whether they know (or are capable of figuring out) that their science is bunk if there's no consequences for the status quo to continue.
Modern book reviews are often written by authors. Try the NY Times Book Review, NY Review of Books, or London Review of Books, to start.
It depends on the era and the local supply - if you’re building your own house out of your own logs you can likely source quite long trees - in a pine forest.

If you’re going stickbuild at the turn of the century, getting large beams from the sawmill would still be costly. Especially over 20/30 feet.
And two movies, with Abe Hiroshi.
Yes. They are pretty awesome.

What blows my mind is that some are crazy hot. I recall one where I could barley keep my feet in only to have some local Japanese kids jump in as if it was a play bath.
> It's not right to cry "theft" as if it is unethical to leave things undone that should not be done by anyone

I understand that Newport argues that and tasks shouldn't be done at all, but this is not at all a fair representation of the author's position.

> It is, in a way, EVIL, to call that theft. It trivializes the notion of theft.

You can critique their rhetoric but "evil" is an overreaction. Indeed, your critique that they are weakening the definition of theft applies to your use of "evil".
I beat rigged giveaways with a bot [video]
https://azdietitians.com/blog/gluten-and-glyphosate-everythi...
I listen to a wide range of music and Spotify's recommendations had been really good for me. But more recently they have gotten terrible. It's really annoying and has made the service much less useful.
Second this. Even some cheap (~$30 per night) guesthouses have onsen. Also you can often get into the fancy hotel onsen by paying a small fee, even when you are not staying.
There were much more region variations on house styles before HVAC conquered everything and Nate it irrelevant.

Modern energy saving building is often reverting to pre-A/C designs - of which one of the tricks is various rooms of various sizes for different times of the day.
A harsh 75 dB+ of engine noise "texture" is abrasive and stressful. A pre-industrial farm background of wind, animal calls, bird songs, water flow sounds like paradise in comparison. A word, incidentally, that means garden. Places full of pleasant sounds. No one ever thought a city center 2 pm on a Monday a fitting metaphor for 'most pleasant place conceivable'.
Asphalt shingles are/were popular because they they are super cheap, pretty hard to fuck up the installation since they soften and half meld together in the sun, and isn't usually that big of a deal if they are damaged by hail or tornadoes again because they are cheap to replace or shingle over. Also easy enough for any random joe blow to install.

Steel is becoming more popular these days though because it has gotten way cheaper while asphalt shingles have gotten a bit more expensive. But like 30+ years a steel versus asphalt roof was a huge step up in cost, and 50 years ago the paint on steel wasn't as good as it is today and could fail and start rusting within the time frame that a quality shingle roof would. You don't see rusted steel roofing very often any more though because most of that failed and was replaced 20 years ago or so.

If you can afford it though steel is definitely the way better deal today, provided you aren't doing your own roof and are tearing it down to the wood instead of just shingling over the old stuff.
Scam company that lies shamelessly on their homepage saying "helped tens of thousands of developers all over the world"
In 2023, do you have reader mode?
Genuine question that I couldn't see in the article; does everyone on a film get residuals, or just the more notable roles like writer and actor? If not, did e.g. a lighting specialist not contribute at least as much as a person whose face was scanned?
Aqara has a PM2 sensor that connects to HomeKit too FYI, it’s gotten a handful of firmware updates too so it’s reasonably mature/stable.
People have been let off for crimes they obviously committed because the rock-solid evidence against them was illegally gathered or handled. I assume that's the sort of argument that should be leveled here: your evidence is illegal, you can't include that.

And I believe that's what the argument against secrecy with these systems is. How can you know whether legal lines have been crossed if the system is shrouded in secrecy?
I don't think that their usage of 4th Generation Programming Languages is incorrect. The paper shows cleary that they understand the generations. The conclusion reads more like LLMs can translate from an human prompt to a 3GL such as python. The prompt is not quite human language but is rather a specific form of writing designed to get the output needed from the LLM, in this way it is a 4GL and the LLM is the compiler.
How can an introduction like this not create disgust and shame?

>> The Pacific Ocean is vast, and when it comes to planning for how to fight a war in and across it, the United States is turning to a new airframe design—one that promises more efficient flight. In an event put on by the Air And Space Forces Association on August 16, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Ravi I Chaudhary announced the award of a contract, worth up to $230 million through 2026, for the development and production of a prototype “Blended Wing Body” airplane.

War! Such a fun thing to write about in an enthusiastic article opening! Yay!
Because they tend to be on the stone age of tooling.

In what concerns C++, have a look at VCL, Firemonkey, Qt, Unreal, Godot, DirectX, Metal,...

All Apple frameworks for Objective-C and Swift.
In issues of art, worksforme doesn't resolve the issue.
my Infinity installation on Android (obtained via fdroid) continues to work, without prompting me to make any payments, so I'm still using it. however, the general quality of content and discussion seems to have dropped significantly. all interesting discussion on the comment section is obscured by tired and banal "reddit culture " attempts at humor, or political flamewars, since literally everything is politicized now. I don't find Reddit nearly as useful, interesting or entertaining as I once did.
How many of those do we have plausible evidence were done in by people?

Of course Irish elk are island fauna. Lions persisted in Europe into the Classical period, finally done in by Roman industrial-scale collection (not comparable to hunter-gatherer hunting).
Couldn't this all be accomplished as well by simply setting an encrypted backup password and making sure you have an alphanumeric with symbols password for maximum entropy? Its my understanding that Cellebrite (maybe not their super secret version) is really just a fancy iTunes backup machine and that it requires no fewer conditions than whatever is required to backup your phone manually at home...
Partially, at least for MacPaint: “The high-level logic is written in Apple Pascal, packaged in a single file with 5,822 lines. There are an additional 3,583 lines of code in assembler language for the underlying Motorola 68000 microprocessor…”
Engaging and informative write-up. Thanks!
1607 Bristol Channel Flood

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1607_Bristol_Channel_floods
A Framework for Open Source Evaluation – (Redis, Mongo, Confluent, HashiCorp)
>law works probabilistically

Science also works probabilistically, like most of it, but the law works "probabilistically", as in eyeballing a rough estimate using folk theories kind of probability.
> They argued that “back in their day,” everyone ate everything and was fine; food allergy was made-up nonsense.

The whole “wisdom of elders” seems more like an unwillingness to learn new things.
washington post article is probably more straightforward, to quote

"The team created a computer model that simulated how a full lake affected the fault. They found high water levels in Lake Cahuilla prompted activity along the fault in two aspects. First, the weight of the lake water caused the crust beneath it to bend, unlocking the plates so they don’t touch as much. The lake water also seeped into the cracks and pores in Earth’s crust beneath it, increasing the fluid pressure inside the fault and further unclasping the plates."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/0...

* Sorry for formatting, not really my strength.
> Everything you're allergic to is something you were exposed to at least once; your immune system has to see it and learn to recognize it before you can react to it.

Is this true? From a biochemistry perspective, it doesn't seem like it's necessarily true. Allergies could be genetic, in which case a genetic mutation results in the phenotype where an immune system mis-identifies allergens as harmful.
> shouldn't the legal department be involved way before the issue reaches the engineer?

Possibly, but the legal department might not know what cloudflare is or the implications until the engineers explain it.
Different allergies behave differently and some are easier to treat than others. My allergy shots are a 3 year course of monthly shots. Afterward I will supposedly have lifelong protection but we will see. For food allergies personally I suspect that after 5+ years of exposure without reactions you're probably protected for life, especially if you start treatment as an infant or toddler, but there aren't any long term studies to determine whether that's true. Current guidelines for food allergies are to maintain daily allergen exposure indefinitely to maintain tolerance.
No, please read my response again. My claim is that GPTs are better than human teachers, for most* domains, including software.

However, I do think a framework needs to be developed for formally learning any particular topic. If you are self learning using just chatgpt, you might miss out on a few key things. I haven't used it much personally but the khan academy bot is close.
We got one of them fancy lads what drinks the jet A, boys. Thinks the 100LL ain’t good enough, no doubt!

:)
Java 21 is expected to be released in two months....

Being a bit entitled regarding support of preview features.

If said developer is savy enough to use a preview SDK, they should be able to cope with the downsides of lacking all the nice support.
Researchers find why San Andreas hasn’t caused a big earthquake in L.A. – yet
The other books reviewed in the NY Times:

* The Two Towers, by Donald Barr (I don't know of an Auden review):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-t...

* The Return of the King by Auden:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/s...

Also, this website claims to have a CS Lewis review of Fellowship of the Ring, but doesn't say where it was published:

https://www.theonering.com/the-gods-return-to-earth-c-s-lewi...
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230819193912/https://techcrunc...
That's a profoundly anti science stance. It's easily falsifiable, because organic wheat does not come in contact with glyphosate. And glyphosate is used widely outside of wheat production.

If gluten allergies were actually glyphosate allergies, it would be trivial to demonstrate.

Gluten allergies exist. Gluten is a protein, and people develop allergies to all sorts of proteins.
6 months? Were you told to expect results that quickly? I don't think I saw meaningful results from my subcutaneous allergy shots for 1-2 years.
We all know how Groovy ended.

Being syntax sugar isn't enough to keep a language going.
The extension ecosystem is what makes 1111 the winner for now. SegmentAnything, DreamBooth, ControlNet, OpenPose ... It's almost easy
> Electric bikes are cheap, efficient, fast enough, safe, good for your health, and good for the environment.

Electric bikes are a very positive direction. Society should be doing a lot to push them as a primary choice.

I used to commute 20+ miles on a road bike (not electric). I don't have a commute anymore but if I did I'd have an electric bike and it would probably increase my tolerable range at least to 50 miles.

For longer distances I don't want an EV car. I've had them, too much hassle with the charging and range limits. I feel the sweet spot is an electric bike for 90+% of local travel and a regular car/truck for when the distances are big and/or need to tow and carry heavy things. Which is rare, so most usage can be the bike. EVs fill a niche that doesn't exist for me.
In biology anything is possible. I'd never rule out something like that. But for all common allergens I'm aware of it is true, you cannot be allergic until after your first exposure. That said, some things are "cross reactive" due to similar proteins, meaning that e.g. you could be allergic to goat's milk even though you've only been exposed to cow's milk. And some of these relationships are less obvious, like cashew and mango or banana and latex.
Christopher had no say; JRR sold the movie (and some other) rights ~1970.
In Nov 2018, during the Camp Fire, I was in the Bay Area and was thrilled to have an air quality tracker from Wynd [1]. It is small, but seemingly accurate (when comparing outdoor readings with PurpleAir[2] readings). It allowed me to identify drafts of contaminated air coming into my home and seal them up, such as the fireplace (of course) and the gap under the door to the garage. I was running a few HEPA air purifiers and within a couple hours I was at 0 AQI for the whole weekend in the whole home.

I remember Monday morning all my co-workers had raspy voices. They did keep their windows shut, but even with HEPA air purifiers running, that wasn't sufficient to create a living space with clean air. You really had to have the ability to find and seal up the drafts!

The Wynd air quality tracker has been sold out for a long time, but it's part of another product, a personal air purifier / tracker bundle [3], too.

1: https://hellowynd.com/products/wynd-air-quality-tracker?vari...

2: https://purpleair.com/

3: https://hellowynd.com/products/wynd?variant=25232063299
No, we can't. It requires creative input, not mechanical curation.
Worthless as in no ones going to pay you anything but a piddling amount of money for it.
> “And anyone testifying about those products under oath must not hide important information that could help exonerate a criminal defendant solely to protect the business interests of some company,”

What? To exonerate means not to find someone a criminal. It specifically has the nuance of finding someone not guilty due to careful consideration of the facts of the case. Someone who gets off on some technicality has not been exonerated.
> Unless you need RT for gaming then most of AMDs cards are better value.

Nobody "needs" RT for gaming. It's still in gimmicky phase and not worth neither performance hit nor the way it looks on screen.
I used to think abortion was a solved issue, everyone agreed child labor was bad, we wouldn't have to worry about hurricanes, etc.

This timeline hasn't exactly proven stellar so far.

You're right though - California did a good job restricting guns. Until that gets overturned (which at this point, I think it will). On the other hand the reason California is so for gun control was originally to prevent the Black Panthers from marching with guns (seriously - gun control in California is deeply racist in origin).

Given all this I just think we'll get there and we'll get there faster than we expected, and we'll all have to pretend to be shocked and then it will become normal.
It’s not a theory that this area is understudied.
A lot of western data is public, people in China aren't aliens compared to those in the west, there are only small cultural differences so chinese data in itself is usable for many western requirements.

Combine the public western data and private chinese data, and it should be enough for them to give the west a run for its money if they decide to slow/stop. Not to mention that chinese apps like tiktok are used very widely in the west, and coorps like Tencent have a tentacle wrapped around hundreds of western coorps.
IIRC, the pool is effectively RAID0 over vdevs: if any single vdev dies - whole pool dies. Do i remember this correctly?

So if over the years I got, say, five disks of varying quality - I shouldn't add them to a pool as five individual vdevs :)
It isn't in practice. Only a minority of methods actually need it.

It's certainly far, far better than having to add exactly the same check after every method call. Which is only what you need to do if you're working in a situation where exceptions are not an option.
I understand but I read the statement differently. It's a description of their security model simply. Sure they could be lying like any other company, so a certain amount of trust is required.

Unless you read and compiled the code yourself and run it locally, some level of trust is always required.
Go back to twitter please.
> The AMD experience on Linux is vastly better than the Nvidia one.

I just wish we had an equivalent of AMD Software on Linux, so I could mess around with the settings more.

For example, I like to limit the GPU to 50-75% of it's total power for ambient heat/cooling reasons, or UPS/PSU/electricity bill reasons when specific games make it hard to cap framerates.

With AMD Software on Windows, it's no big deal. On Linux, the best I found was CoreCtrl: https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl

Sadly, it doesn't seem to work all that well for my use case, which I mentioned in my blog post when using Linux instead of Windows as my daily driver at home too: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/a-week-of-linux-instead-of-...

> You see, by default the card controls its own GPU and memory clock values, which means that when idle the GPU draws around 40 W of power. However, if I want to set a limit for how much W in total it can use, it also makes me set the GPU and memory clock values, which will them be fixed: so at idle the GPU will use about 60 W of power.

Oh also ROCm makes me want to pull my hair out. Still use almost all AMD hardware though, except for low power Celeron in netbook for notes.
To be honest, no. I stopped due to out of pocket costs and not seeing any result in that time period.
Allergies are predominantly in Western countries, particularly North America.

Vaccination isn’t.
It can vary greatly across the country. My instructor loved to use LORAN which one of the planes was equipped with (and was shut down shortly afterwards).