skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US also has some quite byzantine rules. For example, let’s imagine I fly from Europe to Canada, with a 3 hour transit in US. I stay four months in Canada because I’m a UK citizen and Canada allows me to stay up to 180 days. I return to Europe using the same route via US.

If I did that I would have overstayed in the US. Because the US only allows a stay of 90 days under the Visa Waiver program, and even though I only spent a few hours in the US, the four months in Canada counts towards the 90 day limit. The US also doesn’t have airside transit like most countries.

The correct thing to do would have been to apply for a US transit visa so that I am not entering on VWP, or to route my flight so that it doesn’t transit in US.
You're talking of the fears of people like J.K. Rowling, who said she would be scared of having transitioned if it had been available to her when she was younger. And somehow that's supposed to be scary.
It's a different kind of corruption. But I partially grew up in a rural area / small town and this sort of thing was a constant factor you just had to account for. The only thing surprising about this case is that it became national news.
Yes, and those work well for smaller workloads, but if you just run 1,000,000 commands with `&` in a `for` loop, it will grind your computer to a halt (if the tasks are modestly resource intensive). GNU parallel will let you run those same 1,000,000 tasks but make sure that only (e.g.) 16 of them are running at once. It's not easy to do that in bash.
This is such a great story and an important one. I always optimise examples for people copying and pasting, trying to make it as safe and meaningful by default as possible. It doesn't matter why you're copying and pasting - you may not have a lot of skills in this specific area, or you might be in a hurry. If you know what you're doing, you can probably improve the code, but if you use it as-is, it shouldn't come back to bite you!
I’ve noticed similar annoyances lately browsing sites on my 4K displays set to 200% scaling and positioned vertically. Sites tend not to work or look their best at 1080px wide anymore.

It almost makes me nostalgic for 960px being the defacto standard width for desktop sites.
>Imagine you run a business, doesn’t matter what kind. Prospects look up your service on, say, Google, where Google in many cases now shows them enough of an extract of your content so that they may never even have to click through to your page to learn about what you do. So you can never analyze, ab test, tag, sign up, retarget or monetize these otherwise-visitors who are no longer clicking through.

So kinda like the yellow pages in the phone book? Where I would go to the section on lock smiths and read the ads, and call the ones I want to talk to? You're wanting to basically force prospective clients to call each locksmith even if they don't want to. The company that allows ease of access gets the business. You're free to add a robots.txt blocking google today.

>its primarily concerned with the intermediaries reproducing the copyrighted news content or summaries/extracts on their own sites,

This is factually incorrect. The bill does not say "pay to summarize" it's pay to link. The notion that the news orgs are not getting any benefit out of this is insane to me. They're paying staff to manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts. Everything I know about businesses, and especially suffering businesses is that they don't want to burn a bunch of human hours posting stories that are apparently costing them money.

>neighbours evacuated or on alert are posting questions in private neighbourhood groups, on everything from food access, water use to garbage collection, and when answers are behind news articles, Meta is stopping other neighbours from posting links to those articles in response.

Sounds like we should stop depending on our news orgs who paywall public cood content anyways. That information should be on Government run websites.

>This “interference” is purposeful by Meta as a calculated protest against a bill that is not yet in effect and isn’t about that use case.

And I for one welcome it, our news orgs have a dying model and instead of adapting they're lobbing the government to bully the tech companies as they have money. Why have 400 meetings to discuss this bill and not change the text at all?
The only way i know how to work through these types of problems is:

- draw a complete probability tree

- sum the prob. of all branches that are possible given the information (having at least 1 boy born on a Tu)

- sum the prob. of all possible branches we're interested in (2 boys)

- divide interesting sum by possible sum

Then assume I made a mistake, invest the same amount of time to program a simple monte carlo simulation to verify the result.

Fix code and probability tree until they match.

Kind of like double book keeping. Very satisfying because you can switch multiple times between theoretical and empirical approach and thinking.
It seems true, according to [0]

".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS related code.
".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a are invalid.
The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606
Big Sur's redesign is an unusable mess. Window borders are pure white. Contrast is non-existent, especially on buttons (both light and dark modes). Too much transparency, it's not just distracting - the menu bar is often unusable (depending on your wallpaper). Many builtin apps exercise too much freedom in customising the look&feel, everything is inconsistent. I understand this was done to bring the design language closer to iOS, or to make iOS apps feel more at home on the Mac. They are not - every time you run an iOS app, it really feels out of place.

Some of this can be remedied with accessibility settings. Most things will likely stay broken until someone at Apple calls for yet another pointless redesign that will break something else in return.
I've done it. Of course, I didn't travel internationally just for the conference and I didn't need a visa, but I've attended tech conferences on my own--including speaking. Why not? And how many Europeans who attend FOSDEM or Americans who attend Flock (admittedly a lower bar than traveling internationally) are doing so on their own?

ADDED: And people with hobbies/interests like, say, medieval history absolutely will attend a conference/event as part of a vacation even if it has zero connection to a day job.
Here is something conferences can do: run the conference in a visa-easy country. These usually happen to be: 1. Cheap and 2. Welcoming because they need the conference economic activity.

Of course this is unlikely to happen because the companies running these conferences are mostly based in the EU/USA/UK and would not bother with the inconvenience.
Hence why I only play 90's games...you know, when the industry was actually good
Ctrl+alt+f2 (Or any other F) will give you additional login terminal.
.example, .invalid, .local, .localhost, .onion, and .test are all "special use" domains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

"ICANN/IANA has created some Special-Use domain names which are meant for special technical purposes. ICANN/IANA owns all of the Special-Use domain names."
Hopefully, yes.
Just to give a different perspective on degrees, I did get a BS (Applied Math and Computer Science at an engineering school) and in my late 20's secured a large contract with IBM at Ford. Ford wanted me to do the work (they knew me from a previous contract), but IBM wanted a large contracting company to do the work. I'm pretty sure if I hadn't had a degree, I would have never gotten that contract.

I can't say I learned much of anything useful in college, but I didn't want to be that guy that constantly was passed over for promotions and opportunities because I didn't have a degree and a less-qualified person did.
> Ah the old "people only disagree with my politics because they are tricked".

That's not really an accurate paraphrasing, but I guess the gist is close enough. Yes, I think many people vote the way they do because they are misled.
It's only an advantage when compared to fossil fuels (and why would one do that?) For fission, solar, and wind, the fuel costs range from small to zero.
Your system will probably become unusable, because anytime Windows is shut down or disconnected too long, it will immediately crave gobs of updates upon boot, and you may be powerless to stop it.

For that reason, I made sure I rotated through all my VMs about once a month, just spin up and down for no other reason but updating.
On Debian 11.7:

$ parallel --embed > parallel.sh
Unknown option: embed

[edit] Ran it in Ubuntu 22.04, it does output a bash script ... which still depends on Perl.
Or maybe there's a whole conjunction of factors, including the destruction of most of Europe during WW2, the fact the USA is pretty geographically isolated while bolstering a large high income population, which helped the USA to leverage its industrial prowess in the aftermath to catapult itself as the world's economical/financial leader, from then on the rest of the world has been playing catch up.

These stupid policies have helped a lot to build wealth in the USA, it's an amazing place for business, not so much for citizenry. If the only metric one cares about is how much money there's to be made, the USA is definitely 1st in the world, if you care about more than just money then you really have to look deeper. At some point these policies can bite the USA in the ass, then it's pretty much good luck on changing a whole society's view in what's valuable outside of pure wealth-generation.

The USA is a rich place but that doesn't make it necessarily the best place for one to live in as a common person, even more if one doesn't care so much about buying ever more expensive cars, homes and clothes.
>(Note that the monk talking here is a Vedantist, talking with great respect and reverence to Buddha/Buddhism and on Buddha's birthday).

He (Swami Sarvapriyananda) has a lot of other interesting talks too, many of them about Advaita (Vedanta), which is the main focus of his work.

He is at the Vedanta Society of New York, which was started by Swami Vivekananda in 1894.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda

https://www.vedantany.org

https://www.vedantany.org/resident-minister
I don't find it threatening, just contradicted by life experience. My background includes chess at a reasonably high level, and it's always always the same: just an absolutely obscene amount of work that gradually yields emergent skills, that includes things that many people think are "natural" like visualization and memory.

For instance the 'trick' of casually memorizing games you play isn't a feat of some super-human memory. It's, inadvertently, the exact same 'trick' that memory competitors use. When a reasonably strong player looks at a chess board, it begins to tell an often vivid story of what's happened and what will happen. And stories are really easy to remember for everybody. So memorizing your games isn't really like memorizing a series of arcane moves, but instead more like recounting a familiar tale.

We can even cheat, because so long as you remember all the key points of a game, you can generally reconstruct the filler in between - again, just like telling a story. It's why it can be much harder to remember games against weaker players than your peers - their moves, and thus stories, often don't make as much sense, and so it gets pretty fuzzy pretty quickly. This is also why you might often notice things like strong players able to relatively easily replay 80 distinct moves of an arbitrary game, but have difficulty remembering the exact date the game was played.

'Talent'/genetics obviously plays a role, but mostly only in determining what your peak potential is. But the fact that the overwhelming majority of people (including e.g. grandmasters) will never get anywhere remotely near to their genetic potential in anything makes it largely inconsequential in practice. In any case, we certainly aren't carbon copies. These 'tricks' I'm mentioning here only really emerge after many years of concerted and dedicated study of something. The overwhelming majority of people will never do anything like this, so whether ones brain is an 'alien mind' or not becomes largely a matter of semantics.
> But we discovered something. Our one hope against total domination. A hope that with courage, insight and solidarity we could use to resist. A strange property of the physical universe that we live in.

> The universe believes in encryption.

> It is easier to encrypt information than it is to decrypt it.

-- http://cryptome.org/2012/12/assange-crypto-arms.htm
Love the tool. One of my favorite snippets adds parallel processing to jq

#!/bin/bash

cat - | parallel --line-buffer --pipe --roundrobin jq "$@"
Simple. When the original poster tries a new pair, they assume it may not work. If they happen to feel pain they mentally mark the glasses as “one of the bad ones”. From then on the placebo effect won't apply to that pair because they don’t believe it will help.

Humans are great at finding patterns in randomness like this; this is exactly why superstitions are so prevalent.
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My reasoning for using mirrored vdevs was more about the ease of expanding the storage than the redundancy.
> Do you still take it regularly

My understanding is that after 10 weeks, I was supposed to get a monthly shot for 2-3 years. I ended up never doing the second part, though.

> are you essentially "immunized" now?

No, I'm not. I was told by doctors the effects of this sort of treatment last for "several years".

> Sounds amazing anyway. Whats the shot called?

I still have the shot, it does not have any specific brand, just the lab name in the box. That's the lab's wepage: http://www.llac.com.br/.

The shot itself has the dosage, my name, the doctor's name, the expiration date and "ALÉRGENOS INALÁVEIS 1:10.000" written on it.
This is an interesting observation. Do you have some examples of this?
Can you back that up?

If I put the GPL in my software and add a file next to it that says "Also you can't use this software if you make more than $100k/year", I've pretty clearly added an additional clause that's incompatible with the GPL.
Show HN: Kypso – copilot to manage and scale your teams' operations
Law enforcement works on statistics and psychology. We do not have nearly enough police or prisons to prosecute dramatically more people. And the US is already the most incarcerated country; this “just build more jails” reasoning seems as suspect as “the solution to having the highest rates of gun violence is more guns”.
For clarification, by "df has a bug" I meant that it doesn't produce the result it should given the situation, but not necessarily that the problem is located in df's own source code, vs. the kernel, other process, library etc.
Ooops, I slipped, fell and ended up in jail for 2 years.
That's a bit of an over simplification.

You can't go for aesthetics without chasing numbers to some degree. You do, after all, have to build that muscle you want to show off.
Something I've started mentioning, is the US immigration and customs is also pretty rude to their own citizens. Coming back to the US has been the far more stressful border crossing in my experience.
Poor Tori
> how spoiled I’ve been as a developer. I’ve _never_ had to apply for a job

Well, if that's been your consistent experience, you're spoiled even _for_ a developer - I have 30 years experience and a decent degree in CS, and I've had to go looking for new jobs whenever I've needed one and been turned down for many, but I do agree the process is _way_ easier than any other line of work.
No one needs to evaluate all options against their current/known/possible needs when they can just pick a well vetted product and get on with business.
Recruiters would say to sent a copy-paste template response back and ask for 50% over your current income? Love to meet them, in that case.

TBH your advice can apply to any part of life: most of it sucks but you get some gems. It's more of a philosophical question on how much of that you want to dig , and some are fine getting dirty to find that gem. even if it's a 1%. Me personally, I'm content at my salary level and don't need to minmax like the article, especially since I have a very specfic career line in mind.
> You're complaining about people encoding dates in string and at the same time you encode numbers in string. That's funny.

No. I'm complaining that JSON is too limited. And that it's "type system" is lacking so much that I have to resort to hacks like encoding numbers in strings. Which I think is embarrassing for an industry.

> There's standard to encode dates to string. It's called ISO-8601 and it's supported everywhere.

It's not. Too many servers and services use formats other than ISO-8601. Should I call Visa that their export formats suck? Or that Random API that their JSON datefields should be changed to ISO-8601.
It's supported in most languages. But e.g. something widely used as Google Sheets doesn't support this: If you get a JSON or CSV with ISO-8601 into Google sheets, a lot of string parsing and even regexes are needed to turn it into a proper date.

Saying "we use ISO-8601 and that solved everything" only works if you never need any service outside of yours and never interop or exchange data with other services. Which in practice is never for anything remotely successful.
I've worked in this field since the average HN commentator was in diapers. It's my experience that the common wisdom about the uselessness of recruiters is, if anything, an understatement.

They don't read, they don't understand anything about what they're selling, they often lie, and they don't care. There may be a few exceptions, but if so, they are so few and far between that it's not worth trying to sort through the rest.
If the change happens at a rate faster than most life on earth can adapt then the end effect is the same. Just will happen over a decade vs. over a month.
Really sorry to hear about what happened to you

Would recommend to everyone / have bought as a gift a pair of ear plugs that fit onto your key chain. They are like $10 and are honestly the most useful thing I carry on that ring aside from the actual keys. Plus they can be useful in random situations (Needed them to sleep while camping recently because the wind was so strong)
I kinda want to submit patch to GNU Parallel that changes "Hall of Shame" to "Hall of Heroes".

But yeah, if guy wants to have the name of the app mentioned there is a BSD license for that I thin...
How about learning how to listen ?
I think that would just be a matter of practice. Many things are uncomfortable/difficult in the beginning, but if you do them enough then they can become rewarding.
Scene Representations in a Latent Diffusion Model
The same can be implemented with just bash using jobs and wait. Useful if parallel is not available in your pipeline
Where does one even go about finding 12Gb of pure latin text?
> Is the author still adding the "cite me or pay 10000€" notice to the output? And calling that GPL?

IIRC the citation notice was cleared by Stallman as GPL compatible. I’d be surprised if anyone’s paid, I assumed that’s rhetoric to imply the value of a citation, or lack of citation, for anyone publishing scientific works.

> These are just some of the reasons I’ll never use parallel.

Hey I’ve actually ranted on HN before about the citation notice (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15319715) - in part because I find the language of the notice a little misleading; it’s not tradition to write citations for tools used to conduct research, and it’s a requirement (not just tradition) to cite academic sources. If I used parallel to speed up some calculations, that doesn’t justify an academic citation. I don’t cite bash or python or C++ when I write papers either. On the other hand, if I’m writing a computer science paper about how to parallelize code, and especially if I compare it to GNU Parallel, then a citation isn’t optional, and I don’t need a guilt trip to add one, it’ll get requested in review, and rejected without. Is there even a journal publication to cite? (Edit: found it - the request is to cite an article in USENIX magazine.) So I find the notice a little irritating and I’m not sure who it’s aimed at exactly, or what the history of Ole feeling snubbed by scientists really is. Maybe some people were trying to compete with GNU Parallel and failing to cite it? Maybe Ole is paid by an organization that appreciates citations and will continue to fund development on Parallel if there’s evidence of it’s use in academia?

That said, GNU Parallel really is totally awesome, the documentation is amazing, and the citation notice is a one-time thing you can silence permanently. I don’t think the notice is a good reason to never use Parallel, and I do think Parallel is worth using, FWIW.
This happens to me a lot when writing fiction; I can see the action or feel the emotion I want, but finding the words to describe can sometimes be very difficult. (Also depends on what time it is, I'm particularly bad at it in the morning.)

Related is when you forget a word. You've got the specific meaning in your mind, and you know there exists a word for it, and it's in your brain somewhere, but you just can't get the appropriate neurons to fire to give it to your conscious mind. (And then it might randomly appear to your during some other random task.)
In case you’re unfamiliar with Woźniak’s work:

Piotr A. Woźniak (Polish pronunciation: [pjɔtr ˈvɔʑɲak]; born 1962) is a Polish researcher best known for his work on SuperMemo, a learning system based on spaced repetition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Wo%C5%BAniak_(researcher...
No... Alpha would be especially bad.

Radiation and the Cookie Test - https://letstalkaboutscience.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/radiat...

> So if we are concerned about radiation safety, how do we treat different sources of ionizing radiation? The cleverest way I’ve heard it summed up is by the ‘cookie test’: imagine that you have four cookies. One is an alpha emitter, one is a beta emitter, one is a gamma emitter, and one is a neutron emitter. You can throw one cookie away, but you have to put one in your pocket, hold one in your hand, and eat one. How do you pick which cookies to do what with?

And for a real world case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...

> Unlike most common radiation sources, polonium-210 emits very little gamma radiation (the low-intensity gamma ray at an energy of 803 keV is the most prominent), but large amounts of alpha particles which do not penetrate even a sheet of paper or the epidermis of human skin, and is therefore relatively invisible to common radiation detectors such as Geiger counters. This explained why tests conducted by doctors and Scotland Yard at the hospital with Geiger counters were negative. Both gamma rays and alpha particles are classified as ionizing radiation, which can cause radiation damage. An alpha-emitting substance can cause significant damage only if ingested or inhaled, acting on living cells like a short-range weapon. Hours before his death, Litvinenko was tested for alpha-emitters using special equipment.
Thank you! This context is so much more valuable than the empty quip that you hear everywhere.
then you may simply prefer https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html
I Stockholm, you need to be in the housing queue for 20 years to rent an apartment. No, I'm not making this up.
As someone who has done both parts assembly and web dev, I assure you they are not worlds apart.