skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a kid I was sick of mechanical cranks and levers, especially for car windows. Nowadays not only the door opener is electric, but also it probably sends telemetry to at least one political superpower. The next wave of despotism, like during pandemic, will likely bring thrilling new features and service integrations.
Claim: it is difficult to find the manual release handle for the doors

My reality: every single passenger who had never been on a Tesla before always uses the manual release handle instead of the right button, and I get a warning message on the screen and the risk of breaking the window glass.

Source: Tesla M3 owner
Actually there is a (nearly imperceptible) difference between the pronunciation of ei and ij, at least in my local region. For the "ij" sound the tongue is pushed into a slightly narrower bowl in the middle, while on the "ei" sound there is no tension on the tongue at all.
I don't want to get into a war of "isms" Hinduism is much older than these isms and will outlive it. Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism like a sect like so many others. Hinduism is a collection of many sects. I hope considering Buddha an avatar of Vishnu is not meant for offence but the highest Honor.
> nobody uses incandescent bulbs anymore

See I thought so too, I went to lookup the stats in Australia but turns out we banned them years ago (I didn't even notice) but in America: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/07/29/us-ban-on...

An estimated 30% of U.S. households used incandescent or halogen incandescent light bulbs in 2020

Americans are still the funniest

“I’m happy the Department of Energy is out here making sure that we can all save money because we’re too dumb to figure out how to do it ourselves,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., said.

Does the DoE have the opportunity to say "you're welcome!" to Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn?

Should also add in: Remember to pump up your tyres! it helps save petrol!
3.5 seconds might be tolerable for your car radio i guess
I applied for a visa to Ghana last year. They had a broken website. When I asked tech support what the issue was they invented a reason of "you applied too far in advance" which wasn't true. The level to which they just didn't give a damn was palpable.

I can't remember exactly what the issue was - something like a button or a drop down not working - but I managed to work around it in the end but it was very stressful. I had a whole bunch of flights, other visas, etc. hinging on this stupid broken website.

It's a whole different world to when I travel to Europe/US/Asia but it's not all that different to how my spouse experiences traveling (with an unfortunate passport). The websites in the west tend to work a bit better but they do all sorts of things like require a visa appointment at a visa center, throttle the number of slots, make you come two weeks from now on Tuesday at 11:24am exactly and then keep you waiting until 5pm to talk to somebody who doesn't even understand the rules of the visa you're applying for.
Most English speakers are flexible on where syllables get split, especially unstressed ones. Both a-tom and at-om sound fine to me. I could also see ay-tom in some North American dialects (if this seems ridiculous, ay-tomic is more mainstream, ay-tonal is standard).
I became disabled after a music festival last year. The music was too loud and something broke in my ear.

Now every sound hurts me, my voice is far too painful, going for a walk outside is too painful. Basically I can't do anything but sit in a silent room and browse the internet.

Pain hyperacusis sucks. I wish I'd been more careful with my hearing.
They already invented an ISA, it's called ARMv8. The ISA was designed for Apple Silicon, not the other way round.
Something else to be aware of--which I've heard second hand--is saying anything that implies you'll be in the country to work. This can potentially include an honorarium, travel expenses covered, etc. Just something to watch.

(As a US passport holder) attending conferences in most countries, much less answering some emails, without a specific business visa has never been an issue for me personally, but it can be an issue for some. (And business visas with letters of introduction etc. are required last time I got one from e.g. China.)
Well, engineers are kind of the archetypal model of the "but ackshually..." guy, so I'd venture to say you're right. I used to be more bold in my pronouncements when I was younger, now I think I like to repeat stuff I've heard like "interesting, I had heard that X was a factor with this, do you know if that's true or not?" In these situations. Having some intellectual humility and actively seeking opinions of people who might be more informed goes a long way.
Get your kids a free Library Card.. and keep them of devices and away from screens, allow them to grow up with intelligent self learning enquiring minds, not zombie brains from sitting mindlessly in front of a device staring at a screen that rots their brains..
Intel and Sun? Oh man. Hopefully, the battle scars have healed by now.
> a schema to get the correct type information, for example to distinguish actual strings from dates.

Which, in practice, is a terrible oversight. I've honestly never seen a JSON store/transport/serde in practice without dates and/or times in them. There's always some updated_at or captured_on somewhere in the API or dataset.

Of all the data-types needed, I'd say dates are amongst the most important. At least more important in practice than floats; which JSON does support for odd reasons. Especially with dates being ambigous at best and inconsistent at worst.

Pubquiz: when was/or will be, how much paid? { currency: "THB", paid_at: "04-03-2566", amount: 13.37 }¹ - JSON is neat for simple use-cases, but utterly impractical for when precision and correctness is required. Yet here we are, building around and on top of it, to get that correctness and precision.

¹I'm messing a bit, 'cause this calendar isn't used in practice for such use-cases anymore. Hardly. But I've seen this with Hijri calendars. And those silly US date-formats. I've seen it "solved" with complex structs like { created_at: { year: 2022, day: ... , timezone:xxx}". I've myself "fixed" floating-point precision issues in financial applications that used JSON by using all-strings: "{ currency: "USD", amount_in_cents: "1337" } and such.
But, the design is to die for.
Last Nomad release was 1.6.1 and were released July 21, 2023.
From your other comments, you seem to subscribe to one of those movements to restore some pure ur-Buddhism separate from its actual historical tradition. As I said up top, I find this dubious and I personally am not interested in discussing that kind of Buddhism.

You say “my practice does this” and “my practice does that” and you are certainly entitled to follow whatever approach you want. However, I think it would be more honest to label the collection of practices you very deliberately chose as something you could be comfortable with from a contemporary skeptical perspective, as something different from Buddhism.
No other language has exactly the same systems of sounds and so we wouldn't really be better off. Now the ideas could fit. We could add 30 more letters and then assign each letter a unique sound. We could make longer sequences of letters be one sound and each sound have one unique sequence of letters. We could adopt some accents on each letter to indicate which sound it represents. (Those are the 3 answers I know of from Europe, though they are sometiems combined. There may be other options I don't know of) however it still needs to be unique to English. Though we could agree with the other language on where to start and add sounds that they agree.to use out changes if they ever adopt.
My family had the Sinclair hifi kit based around an Op Amp. It was noisy as all hell and the instructions were shit, my dad blew two power transistors before he realised they weren't adequately isolated from the case. Also the balance between channels wasn't great, but it was a cheap kit and we replaced an ex ww2 army radio amp with it. Finally my dad got gifted a quad22 which was simply superb.
The internet doesn't seem to think they were married. Seems to be a lot of evidence of incompetence in the story.
This is also an opportunity to think about the value of a piece of configuration. If an example configuration value works for 40% of users without modification, should that value even exist? Think Bash's `HISTCONTROL=erasedups`, which shouldn't be necessary to set in the 21st century. Or should it be auto-generated, like Docker's container names?

In the very best case, the defaults are so good that an empty configuration does what most people want. Think ripgrep, …, welp, I can't really think of many good examples. Browsers need extensions, Bash needs a decent prompt, even many pro cameras need to be configured to save raw images by default.
3-5 seconds sounds like the latency I see in my 2018 Toyota’s garbage Entune 2.0 system. It’s criminal that things like this are released for general usage.
> I have two children…

Oh, you have two children? The probability that they are of the same sex is 1/2.

> and the sex of at least one of them is…

Say no more! If at least one of them is of some sex the odds that they are both of the same sex go down to 1/3.

I said 1/2 before but that was before knowing that at least one of them is either a boy or a girl. That changes everything! (Probability is tricky.)
Such an internet gem
I don't need to make up any scenarios of slippery slope. Book banning is by itself wrong in any shape or form. It's a manifestation of the same flavor of stupidity that makes people succumb to authocratic and theocratic ideas.
$400, while indeed a significant jump, absolutely is "a few hundred," given that $200 is "a couple hundred." In my reckoning, "a few hundred" starts around $250 and arguably runs up to $750, where "almost a thousand" could be said to start.
That's a ridiculous security theater.

But I'm curious, what is the distance?
There is another side to this. Whenever I have organized conferences, I end up receiving lots of requests for invitation letters, typically from researchers in India, for Visa purposes. I absolutely understand this, and I have always done my best to accommodate these requests. But this is time-consuming, and it is very annoying when those researchers (who are sometimes also scheduled to speak) never show up, and never bother giving advance notification.

I have since been told that this is a scheme that some people use just to get a VISA for Europe, and then use the time for vacation once they have all paperwork in order. This creates a bias against researchers from these countries (I have been told by colleagues not to accept requests to speak at conferences from researchers in India because they will "never show up"). Annoyingly, my own experience does somewhat confirm this "advice", and it is extremely unfair for the people that genuinely are interested in traveling to attend conferences.
Interesting. I had read something a bit different, or maybe there is some overlap:

After nirvana, he felt compassion for all the countless beings who were not there yet, so he resolved to stay until everyone got it.

And that is supposed to be the difference between an arhat and a bodhisattva.

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

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

https://www.google.com/search?q=arhat+vs+bodhisattva
Probably due to deadlines for inclusion, while for normal release they had more time.
Obligatory xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
English is crazy!

— A nun from a Franciscan order from Minnesota who taught us English (and some Japanese) at school
Gám doesn't need the following e anymore as it is only there to indicate long A.
My sister can do this— when she was learning to read she would figure out what words would sound like backwards, and over time learning both pronunciations just became the way she learned new words. She was amazed not everyone can do it.
But the whole reaction here was 'this makes it more difficult to find security problems' (running a binary is not intrinsicly a security problem, if instead you are just going to compile it and then run it, it's just harder to audit a binary) and yet no-one was even doing the easy bit (auditing the source code). If someone had injected malicious code into the build.rs file it would have exactly the same effect.
As someone who came very late to this from an unfit childhood: annoyingly, they're right. I started lifting at _40_, and after a couple of years I can deadlift 100kg vs my own weight of 90kg. All the tables of "expected" lifting values are laughably high and clearly compiled on enthusiastic 20 year olds. But it's been very helpful for my energy levels and to balance against my sedentary job.

For me, bearing in mind all this injury discussion, I've focused on form 100%. When doing free weight exercises, this forces a whole bunch of other, secondary, "stabilization" muscles to some work. It's those, especially if they end up spending all day "locked" because of your posture, which can produce a lot of the minor pains of age, so give them a workout.
Why is "use more examples" the solution? If the users are copy pasting the code, why not just generate random strings thereby showing an example and also fulfilling their own requirement of non-identifiable strings?
I wonder if they had something better than git.
I go to https://www.goggles4u.co.uk/

There are frames advertised, with prices, before they have any idea what my prescription is. I add to cart, and give my prescription. The price is the same. So, they can't be adding extra for my astigmatism.
> in the US, whether you are permitted to enter and how long you may stay are determined by the person at the border

I don't believe this is specific to the US. The agent at the border always has the last decision on whether you can enter the country even if you have a valid visa and travel documents.
Twitter had that already. People just convinced themselves otherwise, mostly due to politically driven narratives, but it always had real people and interesting conversations.

Of course, if your bar for quality is "more shitposting, chaos and racism" then I can see how you might think Twitter has improved. I don't consider any of that interesting, though.
From the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_c...

looks like Mongolia and the Caribbean are optimal places to organize conferences.
Anyone else miss when a Chromebook was just a portable browser as a companion device and not a bloated fully windowing operating system trying to punch about 20 times above its weight?

I miss the CR48 era ChromeOS. It was so much cleaner and simpler.
G20 digital ministers sign up for Digital Public Infrastructure push
You likely had to pay more to get the thinner "high index" lenses. Otherwise lenses get pretty thick at that power, but they don't cost much more as long as you're willing to live with that thickness.
Let's just grab a coffee before my daily call and I get back to the dreaded update progress bar.
Which one of those is problematic to you? The state giving you a number or arresting you if you refuse to identify yourself? Because you've given yourself a nice straw man to fight by conflating them.
G. "Tattergreis"
Does anyone even go on Quora anymore...? I thought it was spammed to death.
my wife, who is an astrophysicist, tells me that everybody in her fields uses this! one of the few things that unites different generations in astro
> is what was followed by Brahmins to decimate Buddhism.

Looks like you deep rooted anti-semitic hatred for Brahmins more than anything else.

> No present day Hindu remembers or honors Buddha or his teachings.

Well I do ! In fact some of the greatest Hindu philosophers spent their lifetime studying Buddhism and writing books. Even the Vipassana teachers in USA and everywhere happen to be Hindus not Buddhists.

> If purpose was to absorb his teachings, the caste system is still present.

Buddha himself was a proponent of basic tenants of caste. Buddha primarily took Brahmins as his disciples. Nearly 40% of his students where Brahmin and nearly all who got popular and wrote about buddhism were Brahmins. Buddha's multiple childhood friends studied at Takshashika a Hindu university that existed before Buddha and later prominent Hindu Brahmins like Aryabhatta studied at Buddhist universities like Nalanda.

When the Shakya king decides to disown his wife because she was born to a low caste mother, Buddha stops him, not by citing that "caste is evil" but rather the well established Hindu rules of caste that it is father's caste that should matter and not that of mother. Not to mention Buddha also predicted the future Buddha to be "maitreya" a person born in Brahmin family.

Even on the matter of "caste", Buddha is pretty much a Hindu.
I love the way you put that. Thank you for sharing.
Or don't go to conferences at all, less costs for traveling, less flying (climate etc), less potential for COVID infection.
You can also recursively define fib as a lazy sequence that is the pairwise sum of fib and fib shifted by one. (Clojure, from Rosetta Code).

(def fib (lazy-cat [0 1] (map + fib (rest fib))))

=> (take 10 fib)
(0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34)

Explanation:

0 1 1 2 3 5 ; this is fib
+ 1 1 2 3 5 8 ; this is (rest fib)
---------------
1 2 3 5 8 13 ; this is (map + fib (rest fib))
; and the sequence needs to be initialized with (lazy-cat [0 1] ...
Sounds like a bad design?
I was standing near a speaker at a concert, and all of a sudden my ear just sounded like an amp that was overdriven, all distortion, fortunately I recovered, but I don't go near speakers at concerts any more.
even if it's a 'glorified janitorial role', you ain't paying him for it, so I don't really understand your objection to him not wanting to deal with your feedback on it (especially if it's just participating in a dogpile and not actually a useful contribution).
There are so many people in things for a quick buck that people that truly care keep their treasures hidden.

Some meth head probably took the shelves to the scrap yard for a couple bucks after dumping the slides illegally by the side of the road somewhere.
The first time I was ever in an m3 I did precisely that.
Fantastic closures and how to find them in React
Would be really wild if 20%, a truly whopping number, of the companies did need Showflake or Databricks.
Sample size: Very few

Type of evidence: Anecdotal

Statistical relevance: Tiny
Trucks drive just fine with no rear view at all other than side mirrors, so cars can do that as well.
Claim: every single passenger in your Tesla has found the manual release without issue, so it must not be an issue.

Reality: some people are not able to find the manual release handle, which is a safety issue.
It's something that would make sense centuries ago. Nowadays it's just awkward/annoying/pointless that there are a handful exceptions finger-appointed by the RAE, and everything else is treated like a proper/foreign name.
I'm unsure. It's something beyond "don't be on campus" I also can't find any documentation about it. Happened to a client of my partner who was an ESL academic proofreader.

The most likely situation is an over cautious interpretation of https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-inf...
Ah, maybe because it boots straight into the Mac kernel instead of an independent firmware/bootloader.
Streaking versus downloading is a technical detail. For a user, the only difference is that downloading cna be done in advance, when you expect crappy or expensive internet connection.

But, additionally: Spotify has a client cache, so it's not always streaming - though it may be intended for a couple of albums or play lists regularly accessed, not hours of podcast content.
>If the eyestrain persists, see an eye-care health professional who can perform a thorough examination of your eye health, Downie said. “Sometimes eyestrain can be actually caused by an underlying eye health or vision problem,” she said.

Idk if you have already, but could be a good idea to visit a professional for an evaluation.

My friend was having eye sight issues and a bit of strain, turns out it was a brain injury.
Happened three times with some researchers that tried to use conference as the main vacation (and they wanted to get paid!!!). They never show up. I tend to delete all the requests for invitation letters from people that are not referred by anyone.
Which use cases cannot do without Snowflake or Databricks?
Yup. Visas have multiple types, and unless it's specifically for that, you're forbidden from doing anything that looks like work.

They also want to be quite sure you'll be returning after you're done, so a part of the application process is that there's something that ties you to your home country, like a job, house, etc. You're also expected to have enough savings to pay for anything you might need without working.
This probably the only intuitive human factors design element of my ID.4. I mean that literally.
Core strength is great, pilates does the same with less effort though.
I wonder how well that works in the winter when it's really cold?

Obviously, not very well.
The realisation that, e.g. Lisp, doesnt need structs or classes, because everything's a list, was nice
Hardly unique to the US. As a US citizen, I've had to cancel on business speaking invitations because I couldn't fit the visa paperwork around my travel schedule.
I was in the same boat. Lots of people expressing grief but nobody explaining who she was. It seems to be one of those instances of "well if you know you know" which I personally find very irritating indeed.

I tried Googling her but it just results in a lot of people expressing sadness over her passing. I do not want to intrude on anyone's grief here, but I'd never heard of her before and I've not been able to find any solid info about her life or work.

In another place, someone said she did the best talk of FOSDEM 2023. I was at that event, but I'd never heard of her, nobody mentioned this talk, and he did not link it so I don't know for sure what talk it was.

I've googled that too -- this is way more work than I should have to do, frankly -- and I think it might be [this one](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/hachyderm/), but the blurb is fairly content-free and tells me nothing useful.

But the talk is also [mentioned here](https://medium.com/@dotdc/fosdem-2023-highlights-163cb96a190...) and that gives a little context.

Apparently she ran Hachyderm. I hadn't heard of that, either. Apparently it is a Mastodon instance -- I see little to distinguish these, TBH, and while I'm on Mastodon/Fediverse, I find it little to no use. But the second blogger there, David Calvert, said:

> mostly known for hosting the tech industry at hachyderm.io since Musk bought the bird site.

That's more info than anywhere else in this thread.

Hachyderm is apparently

> a safe space, LGBTQIA+ and BLM, primarily comprised of tech industry professionals world wide powered by Mastodon and ActivityPub.
LoRaWAN is quite unusable actually. The bandwidth sharing makes it unsuitable for any crowded environment.
Same experience for us. Every guest that rides in our Tesla M3 for the first time reaches for the manual release which works every time but gives a warning. I remember getting trapped in an ICE Jaguar as a kid because the battery died ... Central locking was electric and so were the windows that was scary; parents panicking ... we had to drive to a garage and someone hooked the car up to jump leads so we could get out.
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