skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You too can talk backwards:

1/ record your voice saying something

2/ play the recording in reverse and imitate it (this can take a couple of tries)

3/ then record yourself speaking backwards

It's more fun if in step 3 you do something that would seem weird in reverse, like pouring a glass.

Then you play that video in reverse, and you have something strange: you saying things in a weird but intelligible voice, while the liquid goes back to the bottle.
That joy is transient and ultimately in its transience a cause for suffering. Perfectly fine if you take it for what it is, but not something to cling to. 'Life is suffering' is kind of the whole deal of Buddhism - first, it teaches you to recognise how bad the problem really is, then gives you mechanisms for solving it (detachment).
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The biggest problem is levels of brightness on screens. Most people don't change it, and by the time they've realised it's affecting their eyes, it's too late. And i think mobile adaptive brightness does not account for how we must always use lesser on-light screens.
You make a really good point here.

Some years ago, I probably never would have thought of myself as "disabled" in any way. But, like you mention, I wear glasses, and, depending what the activity is, I can either continue on with little issue, or end up completely useless. I've also learned that I have ADHD and a learning disability.

A "disability" is generally defined as a condition that limits one or more "major life activities," which is a term that has its own definition, but it's pretty common sense. One of my disabilities is myopia, which limits the activity of "seeing." My learning disability limits my ability to process visual-spatial information.

Without accommodation in certain tasks, I absolutely am disabled. Ask me to navigate an unfamiliar neighborhood alone without my phone, and I'll end up lost, frustrated, and probably not find where I'm supposed to go. Ask me to do it without my phone and my glasses, and it's just a pointless exercise in futility then.

But, let me have those tools which I know can help me do the tasks, and I'll be just fine. I am still a person who has some disabilities even with my tools, but they're what lets me manage. It says something about American culture, I think, that being seen using something as a "crutch" is a sign of weakness, when, in fact, a crutch is nothing more than a tool that can let someone who would be otherwise unable to do an activity be able to do so, no more or less than my glasses or my phone.
Bubble/selection sort with early exit can win outright on big lists if they're already almost in order. Textbook example years ago was cheque numbers which mostly are presented in order.

Know your data. (Which in this case, i don't).
For new cars, I guess.

In the EU, it’s similar. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...:

All new vehicles sold from May 2022 must be fitted with advanced safety features, including:

- monitors that detect when a driver has become drowsy or distracted

- emergency stop signal to help prevent rear-end collisions

- rear-view camera or parking sensors

- alcohol interlock system to prevent drunk driving.

These systems will help reduce serious accidents on Europe’s roads.
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My take: Fedora seems to be going in a good direction. Canonical/Ubuntu does not seem to be going in a good direction. I don’t believe Canonical has a good stream of long-term revenue and I don’t have confidence in how they manage their projects.

I wouldn’t switch. YMMV.
Row over restaurant ‘wealth screening’ boils over in French resort of St-Tropez
> Yeah and it almost always stops being fine.

No, it’s just a non-issue in the 99% of cases where it really does stay at small inputs. I come across configuration code all of the time that is stupidly inefficient like this and it’s almost always irrelevant. Tons of stuff works on inputs of <10.
South Korea's biggest telco says 5G has failed to deliver
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Thanks mate, I really wanted to see some demos myself, but OPs link didn't show me much. This is pretty exciting, I know it's in its infancy but still... exciting times!
Hotel California. You can check out but you can never leave. The policies of the state hollow out the middle class so you get the very rich and the desperately poor.
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I think many people don't really think for themselves. They just want to belong to a tribe.
> Hoe much are they even paying ARM?

I think Apple has a perpetual license to ARM tech because they put up a bunch of investment money after ARM spun off from Acorn.
This is where I like the FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement (https://fsfe.org/activities/fla/fla.en.html). It's more explicit about protecting free software. They solve a different problem to most CLAs, but align better with what I want my relationship with a project to be. For example KDE uses it (https://ev.kde.org/rules/fla/).
I agree. The entire article can be summarised as

"There are lots of rich, powerful idiots. Orwell's works still have appeal."

I also take issue with the statement that 1984 was not "prophetic". That's an unimaginative misreading of the book, or even the whole genre. Dystopian novels are rarely intended as an accurate prediction.
That's really crazy. I mean spelling words backwards in your minds eye seems like something you could pick up rather easily, but then deconstructing the associated sounds and reconstructing what they'd sound in reverse on-the-fly is really something.
I remember reading something similar about people who survived bombings in London during the war.

Apparently many of the survivors were quite content as they had somehow survived the destruction.
Why use so-called? It's literally a law concerning data protection. Unless you feel that the empirical truth somehow shouldn't be used to describe the GDPR and colloquial "right to be forgotten" aspects it entails, you're just trolling for trolling's sake -- either that, or you don't even know that you're using "so-called" improperly.

Once again you jump to mansplaining and condescension, followed by failing to even get a username correct when it's literally on your screen.

Your repeated attempts to tell people what they think, what they do or do not know, and where they live, show that every observation of you being arrogant, condescending, and disingenuous, is patently correct.

Unsure if you need a shovel to get out of that hole you've put yourself in, but you're sure backpedaling quickly, yikes.
Window of tolerance.
Recommended by who? Redditors?

I read the critique. It's basically "you don't do enough volume for certain exercises", "you'll end up doing too many squatting and looking funny", "their approach to stall isn't optimal".

It sounds like a www.bodybuilding.com forum rant. Someone arguing why micronized whey is superior to non-micronized. It's ultra-optimization.

If you're someone looking to get started, you're looking to get started, not optimize for a bodybuilding competition. If you like SS, and it gets you actually lifting, then it's good.

If you really get into it, then great! You can continue to refine what you do, read up on all the arguments, try different things. But if you just want a workout that makes you stronger that you can keep doing, then SS works fine.

It reminds me a bit of audio enthusiasts. Somebody wants an amplifier recommendation for a certain budget and people jump in telling them "you'll regret going solid state, the purity of tube amps can't be beat" and the person is like "I just want an amplifier so my kids can watch Disney in surround sound".

And the really good thing about SS is the focus on proper technique. It's more important than how much you lift.
Larger binary sizes for ARM? Is Thumb still a thing?

Still, a binary diff update would be helpful, especially since Apple seems to have more control over the system files. Maybe reproducible builds would help so you wouldn't end up with meaningless diffs
I don't understand the problem you're describing. When would using JSON lead to data loss/corruption?
I'm not sure if this is also present in EU law but in German law online services like web shops and in-app purchases require very specific wording for any button that has the user commit to a payment or purchase. The recommended wording (which you're allowed to deviate from but is not recommended unless you know what you're doing) in German is "Zahlungspflichtig bestellen", which means something like "Order with obligation to pay". The label "Kaufen" ("Purchase") was deemed insufficient.

Note that this also requires the user to be informed about what they will have to pay before they click the button. No bullshit surprise charges or hidden fees, mostly.
It's more like when you flatten production, but steady consumption, by having people get paid for work without producing anything, you produce a mismatch between the dollars and the goods they are chasing that results in Inflation.
If you drop money out of helicopters and people spend that money instead of working you get inflation
AI alone can't disrupt a business, the companies that survive and thrive are the ones that are using the technology to solve real problems.
> Why is "how hard it is for beginners to understand a concept without reading a reference" a useful metric for measuring anything?

Two reasons:

1) Because it's unnecessary complexity. When you add unnecessary complexity into fundamental technology that everything uses, you've now made everything worse. It's like polluting the lake, and then ignoring the fact that beginners need to learn how to boil the water properly drinking it.

2) Because that prevents the technology from being adopted. Whether you think it's justified or not, beginners will choose the tech that's easier to use, and it will succeed.

The market of technology adoption forces us to make things simple for beginners, and in the end, that's good for all of us.
> 1 in 5 people currently have a disability.

Considering that 15-20% of people have dyslexia, this is undoubtedly an underestimate.
It violates the Hippocratic oath as much as cutting somone open for surgery does. That is to say, it doesn't at all.
I think things are getting better

Hopefully. Although I haven't programmed with it yet, the latest ROCm looks nice (at least from reading the docs). Now all you have to do is actually get to a point where it's actually supported on hardware people actually own and convince people that it's worth investing their time in, and then AMD can start making progress.
At the same time, I have increasingly witnessed Dutch and Flemish young people using English when they talk to each other – this will usually be explained by the Dutch side as due to their lack of comfort with Flemish, but I think it is simply a result of how highly online young people are these days – highly online in English – and I suspect that bodes badly for the future of purist attitudes even among the Flemish.
It's possible that he's speaking less about "Night of the Living Dead (1968)" as an early zombie film, and more about "White Zombie (1932)" as an influence on later films, as it earlier and more clearly on topic: Set on a sugar cane plantation on Haiti, with voodoo, etc. As the title suggests, the shock is not just that there's a zombie, but that ... this time, she's White!
Thermal collectors, at best, can capture about 90% of the sun's energy. Practically speaking a bit less.

Solar panels, at their best, can capture about 25% of the sun's energy as electricity. There exist heat pumps with a coefficient of performance (COP) such that the system as a whole captures more heat i.e. COP >4

I'm not sure the claim is absolutely true universally, especially in challenging environments, but in a broad sense it is true that turning sunlight into electricity and then using that electricity to power a heat pump has a bunch of advantages over direct solar thermal, not least of which is air conditioning.
> But you're still lifting, presumably. That sounds like success to me.

That attributes success not to the program but to mindset. He may well be lifting despite lack of success.
It's the same 3 examples shown in web page (It's a carousel, you have to click the "righ/left" buttons to see the others)
I can do this as well. I thought everyone could do it, and just realised it's not the case.

I think it has to do with how you represent the words in your mind. For me there is no difference between "a word" and "a stream of letters". I can also speak fluently spelling out letters of words forward or backward without thinking.

"hello" and [h,e,l,l,o] is the same to me, and it requires no effort to switch from one to the other. I also picture the full [h,e,l,l,o] at once, it seems others have to rebuild the spelling from left to right in their head.
AskHistorians is a bunch of PhDs doing quality write-ups with full referencing.

You can't compare that to r/fitness in the least.
What's the plan to stay injury-free?
I don't know any bodybuilders.
Regulation can ensure there's less risk of abrupt shortfalls and price spikes (eg mandating headroom for peak production, or usage rationing). Record heat waves aren't exceptional now.
I can't believe I guessed that was the coast of Zakynthos from a photo.
- an universal messenger tool which integrates with all the messengers (whatsapp, telegram, signal, e-mail)
- an open source ChatGPT voice interface which I can use easily for ongoing interactions. I want to do like "OK Google" and start asking questions and interacting. Additionally it could record all my daily conversations to get context on what I am doing. If it could create calendar events and todos and remind me on that - it would be perfect
>In all seriousness I get the idea behind XML

followed by

>and I have used a couple of SOAP services which were absolutely brilliant

makes me doubt the first part of the statement.

If I were to guess what it means is you understand the point of SOAP, and also understand the limitations and problems especially as it relates to uses of XSD in SOAP and the various stack of Web Service specs, but you probably have not had much experience with non-XSD based validation of XML, you do not have any experience with document formats as opposed to data formats, you probably are not familiar with larger international standards like UBL, and not familiar with XML formats that are not so much data or document oriented - SVG, XSL-FO (which admittedly sucks more than is reasonable), GraphML and so forth...

A lot of the commenters here are standing up for the value of XML, and I'm not actually with this comment, there are a lot of benefits for using JSON especially when you are using JavaScript all over the place. But saying XML sucks because XSD and SOAP sucks indicates a potential lack of knowledge about the whole subject (perhaps only caused by infelicitous phrasing)
Sorry if this sounds like a humblebrag, but I would sing songs backwards as a kid but then stopped after some time. Surprisingly it all came back few years ago and I can still hum the songs with some minor efforts. Human brains are fascinating.

I think this happened when I was learning Devanagari script which is an Abugida and it makes it (relatively) easy to talk backwards just by reversing the syllable order.

E.g. "मेरा जूता है जापानी" can be reversed pretty easily by just switching the syllables "रामे ताजू है नीपाजा"
Can't comment on a thermal collector, but if we look at efficiency of solar PV and heat pumps:

Solar PV panel: the best ones are up to about 22% efficiency.
Heat pumps: again, top of the line approaches 400%

You can't just multiply those numbers, however, there's also losses when you invert DC to AC, but it might be a good starting point.
I feel for him/her. When you provide a usefull service in OSS, this is the result of the slightest transgression, real or imagined.

I also think this displays 'emperors clothes' behaviour. In a perfect world, many eyeballs make all bugs shallow, and long term, it actually mostly works. But short term, we collectively severely fall short of our ideals. I think part of the harshness an OSS contributor receives in this kind of situation comes from everyone realizing we've been caught with our pants down.

It's human to shoot the messenger, but let's not forget this only happens because someone worked hard enough to make the whole world trust him or her.
Same here, I had to right-click > inspect to know how the field was working :-D
I used to do karate. There were all these character who had seemingly superhuman physical fitness yet they would die really early. I always wondered why was that?

Now I believe that a lot of physical training isn't that healthy. And if you put your whole personal identity on your physical abilities then when your abilities start to decline, as they naturally do from age 40 and up, you may spiral out of control and literally die.
Yes, it it. However, it's a breaking change that happened 14 years ago.
Can't you just run on bare metal on rpi? Also a resistor, a capacitor and a realay would work to filter out the extra bass.
This could become a party trick: memorise 20 seconds of reverse speech, invite others to record and reverse it
> the facilities to support your general language / runtime environment is not up yet.

Rust's [T].sort_unstable() is part of core, that is, the code to sort a slice of arbitrary type T doesn't need the allocator, operating system etc.

Only if you want a fast stable sort do you need to wait for such an environment because their fast stable sort needs an allocator, I doubt that FreeBSD needs a stable sort here.
Like I wrote in the article, the engine uses `rust_decimal` to represent arbitrary precision floating point numbers- this is how the engine supports SQL types likes postgres's `decimal`.

We support using ieee754 floating point numbers as well, but those have no special serialization requirements- the structure of a ieee754 floating-point number was designed so that lexicographical comparisons and numeric comparisons give the same results (I took inspiration from that to write the serialization code that solves the issue, which I'll lay out sometime when I write part 2 of this story).
Fear is an immediate, emotional response to a known or definite threat.

Anxiety is a more prolonged emotion that arises from an anticipated or potential threat or a situation that's uncertain. Unlike fear, the source of anxiety might not be real or immediate.
As opposed to when The Resistance in 2016 tried to overthrow the election results via faithless electors. Stacey Abrams is an "election denier" to this day. As are many Democrats when you ask them about the results of the Bush v. Gore election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...
On December 14, the Unite For America campaign released a video[36] published on YouTube and other media addressed directly to Republican electors urging that each of them individually, plus 36 of their colleagues (at least 37 Republican electors in total), vote for a Republican other than Donald Trump for President. The video featured numerous public figures,[37] including Debra Messing, Martin Sheen, and Bob Odenkirk, urging Republican electors to prevent a Trump presidency, expressing several times the message: "I'm not asking you to vote for Hillary Clinton". In electing an alternative Republican, the featured speakers ask the elector to become an "American hero" by using the elector's constitutional "authority" to give "service and patriotism to the American people" through a vote of "conscience."[36]
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-moore-appeals-gop-el...
> I cannot do that in the real world at all

Sure you do, just by sitting there.

Reminds me a bit of my dad; he did radar simulation for military IFF and one of his work anecdotes was about increasing the number of decimal(!) digits of pi the software used.

He stopped boasting about that when I pointed out the extra digits were less relevant than the curvature of spacetime caused by Earth itself.

> Just by looking in the window, I see that some object are close, other are far away, then even further away, and so on, up to 4Tly

I had dreams like that once. Woke up to find I was suffering from testicular torsion.

If you seriously believe you can see 4e12 light years through your window, that's probably hallucinogens of some kind (not necessarily intentional).
On tapes (plural ≥ 3), isn’t merge sort the way to go?

I just coarsely checked TAOCP volume 3, and didn’t see bubble sort mentioned in the chapter on external sorting.
I use a combination of a Kanban board (Kanboard) and Time Recording (clockify.me) then you have quite some statistics for performance reports and a structured plan for future tasks.
Different languages deal with the constraint you describe in interesting ways.

PHP has the “use” keyword, which captures variables explicitly. You can’t capture anything in the outer frame otherwise.

I wonder now if this has any performance implications.

In Rust, every captured variable is statically checked. The compiler knows that you capture a mutable reference for example. This often means that you need to express additional constraints in order to satisfy ownership semantics.

Now again, I wonder what the implications are on the generated code.
> The code works just fine in Common Lisp

It would work fine in Lisp in general, since Lisp is typically late bound and can call global functions via the symbols. Thus in a function writing a call to an undefined function is not an error. The function only needs to exist at runtime, even then in many debuggers it could added and the computation can be resumed.
Tbh it was never very obvious to me why we reveal N-2 goats instead of just 1.

My own explanation is that if you are shown a goat door in advance, there is 50/50 of two remaining doors. But since without that you might have picked the door that was revealed, there’s a symmetry about it in which the swap is more lucky. Which is just a clumsy way of saying your chances were 2/3 lose vs 1/3 win and it doesn’t change after the reveal, so you must swap.
27 years ago I was helping someone rearrange structs because word-sized fields were being word aligned, and you would waste a good deal of memory if you arranged by concept instead of for byte packing. I believe that was under Microsoft’s compiler.