skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a really hard time understanding why fully remote would be "less healthy" for anything software related (I'm at a company now that switched to 100% remote and pretty much everything works more smoothly than I ever experienced in my 25 years of "office career" before). Our teams do (voluntary) "office days/weeks" and smaller team events from time to time, but inevitably those office days are much less productive (which is intended and expected though, they are mainly for socializing).

Everything that needs to be done is possible on laptops nowadays, and the big server machine that used to hum in the dedicated "server room/closet" is now "in the cloud" instead). I can contact a fellow team member faster now than walking over to their desk, and I can also see immediately whether they are busy or otherwise not available.
I did some tests and compared with the clip demo on https://huggingface.co/spaces/vivien/clip

It seems clip performs better for prompts like
"three birds", "man and woman"
Sounds as if the current Cold War II situation keeps on escalating, people from a growing number of countries straight up won't be able to get visas for those conferences anymore.
Could it be Secret Agent by Apogee Software?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/358350/Secret_Agent/
Two registers for return value is interesting: https://ares-os.org/docs/helios/syscalls/
So much for "Free speech is now legal on Twitter".

The only thing worse than cancel culture pushed by woke terminally-online uni students with too much time on their hands is cancellation pushed by advertisers. I cannot fathom why anyone cares about "ads showing up next to [X]". Advertising is not supposed to be linked to content. This was fundamental to anyone ever trusting newspapers, for example, and I don't see why it would be any different with internet advertising. Nobody with a functioning brain thinks "oh this ad appeared on Twitter while I was on this guy's Twitter profile, obviously the creator of the advertised product endorses this guy's views". The idea of someone making that connection is the only reason I can think of for why someone would care about this, and it is so absurd that it cannot actually be the reason.

Nobody watches a YouTube video and goes "oh wow, this ad for toothpaste was before a video about World of Warcraft, I guess Colgate endorses the view that World of Warcraft's last two expansions aren't very good". You'd have to have a genuine cognitive disability to think that. Yet people constantly act as if it's a big deal. I'm starting to think it's just something people have learnt to use as a weapon. It's certainly being used as a weapon here. It's quite different from a brand actually endorsing someone (and implicitly their views and actions), like that whole Budweiser/Mulvaney thing.
I worked in a building with a research reactor for years. In my office I had other students from China. A student from Iran worked on the reactor. We all went in tours together.

This is not a federal rule. No one was required to be any distance away from the reactor based on their nationality. No one checked passports at the entrance to our building. The doors were just open.

That's why you can't find this rule online anywhere. It's not a thing.

Sounds like your campus security went on a power trip? Or more likely you misunderstood the situation.
> There is little more to it

Treating karma as simply cause and effect amounts to an apologetic. The doctrine is that some kinds of action have effects that are borne in future lives. That would imply that there is some kind of place or medium where the seeds sown by actions can be stored, until they bear fruit in future lives. The Abidharma proposes some pretty convoluted metaphysics to explain this storage without postulating an enduring self.

Reincarnating lamas are a peculiarity of Tibetan Buddhism, honoured as much in the breach; for example, many lama lineages are passed from father to son. When searching for a reincarnated lama, monks rely on prophesies and magical signs. Unsurprisingly, the system is wide-open for corruption. Stephen Segal, for example, is supposed to be a reincarnated lama.
I know it's been almost a year but I still haven't accepted this pattern.

Using errors as general flow control makes me uncomfortable. It shouldn't be an error or exception except in.... Actual problems.
Ah - they all look thin to me.

I had my cataracts replaced and before that astigmatism was the least of the issues -20 diapotre for short sight are quite thick
> and at least in my circles many Snowflake sales employees are ex-Oracle.

given my previous experiences with Snowflake sales, this would not surprise me in the slightest.
A small list of the incredibly pushy things SF sales teams did:

- called up junior team members and pushed them to sign a renewal deal
- point blank refused to explain how credits translated to real world money when pressed about how much usage we were actually getting for our money
- after being told not to, they continued to call team members and pressured them to commit to a renewal
- TAC/support gave consistently vague and unhelpful explanations.

So yeah, Snowflake is an awful company and an overpriced product, and I hope it fails.
So in a way anxiety prevents learning a.k.a moving past "undesired" behaviours.
Bluegrass Archive
I believe beginner here is not untrained. There were a few links with different categories (all above the 30kg deadlift, 50kg squat for the lowest one). I only shared the first one in my comment.

30kg DL is 5kg on each side of a 20kg bar which is less than I've lifted my very first time and I was pretty unfit and I'm sure the vast majority of untrained people can lift that. Hell, that's easier than bar-only bench press, which most people can also easily do on their first try.
McKinsey's New GenAI Product Spells Trouble for B2B AI Startups
Also, because the cars now are gigantic, compared with old cars.

Even the Mini Cooper is huge now.
Why did they change ccc to be at the same time as defcon instead of end of year?
Ask HN: How is the Apple website made?
I personally like the Apple website. How is it made? What does the tech stack look like, what frameworks are used in the frontend and backend, and how does it "work"?
I really wish standards like WiFi simply covered more usecases like this. All it would take is a few extra modulation and coding modes in the standard.

I should be able to walk 5 miles from my house, and still have my house wifi work, but at a data rate of 0.3 kbps.

I should never have wifi 'cutting in and out' or 'on the edge of the range' - it should be a simple matter of not being fast enough if I'm too far away. If Shannon[1] allows it, the standard should allow it too.

Obviously my phone would probably choose to switch to mobile data long before that. But for some use cases, like instant messaging, 0.3 kbps is fine, and there shouldn't be a need to use a totally different standard to achieve it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
...or anything else in the readme describing the program in any way or form. The title of this post has more information about the program than the whole readme.
The heart of Snowflake is a very solid data warehouse, and one with very few configuration options.

Yes there other bells and whistles, but it doesn’t feel as though you are buying something hugely overblown even if you are doing something very vanilla.

And as you say, it’s all consumption based pricing so I think it’s unfair to characterise their sales team as pushing the wrong solution into the market.
Gaillard's Medical Journal and the American Medical Weekly (1884)
I (Brazilian) had to get a J1 for a 3-month internship despite having a B1, my sister had a 6-month J1 for another exchange, so I guess it can vary
“Hot Weather.—Many a man has mopped his brow during the summer months of 1884, declaring it was the hottest weather the world ever knew, which, of course, would not be true, for the extreme heat in the record of the past has not been approached during the late summer.

In 627, the heat was so great in France and Germany, says the London Standard, that all springs dried up; water became so scarce that many people died of thirst.

In 879, work in the field had to be given up; agricultural laborers persisting in their work were struck down in a few minutes, so powerful was the sun. In 993, the sun’s rays were so fierce that vegetation burned up as under the action of fire. In 1000, rivers ran dry under the protracted heat, the fish were left dry in heaps and putrefied in a few hours. Men and animals venturing in the sun in the summer of 1022 fell down dying.

In 1132, not only did the rivers dry up, but the ground cracked and became baked to the hardness of stone. The Rhine in Alsace nearly dried up. Italy was visited with terrific heat in 1189; vegetation and plants were burned up. During the battle of Bela, in 1200, there were more victims made by the sun than by weapons; men fell down sunstruck in regular rows. The sun of 1277 was also severe; there was an absolute dearth of forage.

In 1303 and 1304, the Rhine, Loire, and Seine ran dry. In 1615, the heat throughout Europe became excessive. Scotland suffered particularly in 1625; men and beasts died in scores. Meat could be cooked by merely exposing it to the sun. Not a soul dared to venture out between noon and 4 p.m. In 1718, many shops had to be closed; the theatres were never opened for several months. Not a drop of water fell during six months.

In 1753 the thermometer rose to one hundred and eighteen degrees. In 1779, the heat at Bologna was so great that a large number of people died. In July 1793, the heat became intolerable. Vegetables were burned up and fruit dried upon the trees. The furniture and woodwork in dwelling-houses cracked and split up; meat became bad in an hour.

In Paris in 1846, the thermometer marked one hundred and twenty-five degrees in the sun. The summers of 1859, 1860, 1869, 1870, 1874, etc., although excessively hot, were not attended by any disaster.”

- source: this book, page 473
See also Warhammer (Fantasy, not 40k - although 40k certainly mixes magic and technology too).
I think I'm too used to EU-style passports. Any other colour or shape looks strange to me.

That document looks beautiful though, very reminiscent of CHF notes.
Oh that site is a treasure. Lots of opportunity to "backfill my childhood" - playing games I never played back then.
Again, this doesn’t talk about summaries. It talks about following a link.

At the end of the day it’s not facebook’s responsibility to make sure the news are profitable, nor does it make sense to charge Facebook per link when it’s the users posting them.

The same with Google. All the sites need to do is adjust their robot.txt file and Google will leave them alone.
This particular Claire Boucher is cited in the story as 21 years old. I don’t think this is Grimes.
> Sure you do, just by sitting there.

I 100% sure that I cannot bend or stretch imaginary coordinate system outside of my imagination. Can you point to real physical process which causes stretching or bending of the mathematical abstraction?

> If you seriously believe you can see 4e12 light years through your window, that's probably hallucinogens of some kind (not necessarily intentional).

I cannot see objects smaller than a star or galaxy with naked eye. However, we can see light stretched to the microwave range.
I was with them until I read that they voluntarily floated out without a motor and had to safety equipment. There's just no excuse for this. You can get nasty old (but viable) class-2 PFDs for free almost anywhere.

What happens when they run into another boat? Or the river currents throw them into the rocks and an expensive rescue operation needs to be mounted?
I've been having fun thinking about computing in the post-apocalypse.

The CPU itself isn't so bad. Heck a relay CPU is should be quite doable to build, as evidenced by the various people that have built them. It's mostly just laborious.

The problem is memory.

There's a reason for all the seemingly whacky ideas to implement memory back in the early days, like the torsion wire[1] delay line[2] which is pretty much like banging on a taut rope and recording the pulses that arrive at the other end.

But it's quite tough to get any real density from what I can tell, without advanced manufacturing.

[1]: https://nzeldes.com/HOC/DelayLine.htm

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
Standing too close to a speaker at a house party gave me permanent tinnitus. Took me a long time to accept it mentally and emotionally. Now I’m a lot more careful with my hearing.
I've been doing this too, but saying to myself "you are off the hook altogether" with the reasoning that the harm from not attempting something is just so much worse than any typical consequence from saying or doing something dumb in the moment, to the point it needn't even be a consideration. But I like this approach of focussing on intention, to rationalize it.
Ask HN: How will DSA / DMA affect how you collect in-app payments?
With the EU's DSA and DMA expected to go into effect early in 2024, how will it affect your payment collections?

Will you stick with Apple and Google's in-app subscriptions, or are you looking to expand your offering?

(e.g., are you looking to add Alternative Billing via Google? https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/12348241 )
My guess is that people love to upvote cancer cure, perhaps too much.

IIUC this is only a proof of concept, not a clinical trial, not even rats, so it's too early to know if it will be useful. I think it will be very specific because it can target an specific RNA, but I don't know if it can be adapted to test multiple markers instead of just one. Also, I don't buy the single molecule story. My guess is that have many (10^20) molecules in the solution but only one of them binds to the probe.

For an oficial reply, you can email the mods, so they can take a look.

Sometimes technical stories have a high upvote to comment ratio. It used to be common but now it's more unusual.
In this blog we run the TPC-DS benchmark to see the cost and performance benefits of Photon and Graviton instances on Databricks. The results are intriguing and reveal a techno-economic struggle!
"Of course my story is not an allegory of Atomic power, but of Power."

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #186
Well, if McKinsey says....
The four designated State Sponsors of Terrorism are Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Iran, and Syria, and due to OFAC sanctions you'll need to be very careful if you plan on inviting any of these to the US. However, China and Venezuela are not on this particular shit list.

https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/
That explains a bit better what she did. Thanks.

I guess Mastodon is bigger than I thought since running an instance gives you so much recognition.

Perhaps I should seek openning an account there to get to know better.
One.

Sorry, two. I am following Samuel Pepys daily as a feed, so I got a biography of Pepys. Half way through I realised it would spoil the daily revelations I get. I have put it aside for 9 years when I will be done!

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/08/20/
You provide 2 options - they can accept treatment (drug addiction rehab, mental health, etc) and she’s the thing that makes them a dysfunctional person or they can go the jail.
>I.e. learning about namespaces would take a programmer couple of hours, including a foosball match and a coffee break

It's not about the time it takes to learn about namespaces. I'm talking about the complexity that namespaces and entities add to the data model and the requirement to actually handle them throughout the entire stack.

You can normalise and compare arbitrary pieces of JSON using only information available locally in that same sequence of UTF-8 bytes. You cannot do that with XML. You have to consider the whole document context and resolve all namespaces and entities before actually comparing anything.

The JSON specification is ~5 pages and most of that is diagrams. The XML specification is ~40 pages long and it imports ~60 pages of URI specification.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to use only the simple parts of XML unless and until you actually need what namespaces have to offer. But that's culture, and you have no control over other people's culture.
A lot of countries (e.g. UK) seem not to have the clear B1/B2 separation that the US has with just a "standard" visa for US citizens and others covering routine business matters like attending conferences, meeting with customers, doing some work in your hotel room, etc. in addition to tourism stuff.

But you're right. No one really wants to hear about your travel expenses being covered or your nominal honorarium--which are absolutely routine for certain types of industry roles. Your company is covering it as a routine matter (and that applies if you're in business for yourself as well.)
Builtwith lists a lot of frameworks and other stuff,

https://builtwith.com/apple.com

Everything else is mostly design oriented.
Just to add, there are seemingly a few loose ends in Lord of the rings, like galadriels mirror and so on... "the last ringbearer" ties those up. Lord of the rings is portraied as a work of propaganda, in which the orcs and sauron are all evil but are just normal people. Can recommend.
We are only talking about the browser here, where the few choices come from the extreme complexity of the spec.

However, I do believe the same for operating systems and application binary in general. Nobody would ever complain about X or Y operating system if writing your own was sufficiently easy.

Not saying that we can simplify operating systems the same way we can browser, but we can make it easier to start from a clean base and quickly support Windows, Linux, macOS, Android & iOS app binaries. As an example, how hard is it to interpret an android app binary? Is this complexity really necessary? Couldn't we depend on languages with more emergent behaviors to ease the implementation of VM/interpreters?

Just to be clear, I am NOT and have never said that we should all write our own browser or OS, but that simplifying them would result in more choice and no more begging from users to support X or Y features (which happen in every single standardized/monopoly situation)

> which makes no sense and it's not how anybody does anything in the real world.

In the real world you have people begging everywhere for features to be implemented in software they have no control on. Software standards have never solved any issue, they increase the barrier of entry and make users powerless.
>>While Hindus described this state as basically "everything", buddha and later many prominent buddhists described it as "nothingness" which appears as inconsistent with each other

Similar are thoughtless (awareness) and mindfulness. Both may appear contradictory on the first glance but are same thing. These concepts are not easy to describe so often they are expressed multiple ways.
I've also noted that issue. I know of several people at my former job who traveled to the San Jose office and were turned back for some inane reason that had never been an issue before that time. US Border Guards have extreme latitude and they seem to like their power a bit too much.

Problem is that a single rejection forces you to go through the Visa process instead of the Visa-free process for the rest of your life: one of the questions on the entry form is (or was) "have you ever been denied entry", next to "are you a nazi war criminal" (not a joke). And answering "yes" on the former guarantees a whole lot of pain. If you answer "no" you're committing a felony.

The USA's entry system is inane, utterly dependent on the person in front of you and downright scary to me.

I've known conferences to move outside the US for this kind of reason, the pain was just too much and too many people couldn't get in.
> > you would have to bring up the rust runtime environment as part of the boot process

> Like the existing C runtime environment, this just isn't a big deal by the time we've got here. If you're the code for initialising the DRAM controller then sure, that's pretty intimidating. But this is all happening much later, we're part of an operating system, we were already loaded from disk.

I don't know what you're trying to say. The code which is written here that we are discussing is in a constrained environment where the regular kernel runtime facilities are not all available. This was cited as one of the reasons cited for open coding a very simple algorithm.

> > And evidently they do need a stable sort.

> How so?

From reading comments from patch author here.
> the Snap Store server is proprietary and controlled only by Canonical.

Has nobody reverse engineered or created a replacement yet? I assume that's because nobody with the ability has the desire.

If this spurs anyone into action; make it AGLP3 or some other similar license.
re "recruitmen agencies are employed by the employer"

Not really they are paid according to the salary of the employee so have an incentive to increase the salary.
Same.

Somehow it never bothered me.
With almost supernatural power, the Gonne can possess the mind of the man who uses it. It shows him the power he has in his hands, and erases all scruples by telling him what could be achieved with this power.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series Men at Arms

https://wiki.lspace.org/Gonne

The Gonne, like so many other recent technological devices in Discworld, was invented by Leonard of Quirm.

As usual, he had the best of intentions when he devised it, but it turned out to be one of the most dangerous weapons ever conceived in the history of the Disc.
The same applies to European conferences for essentially everyone not from Europe/US, with very few exceptions.
more companies will choose to build in-house instead of relying on an untested one-size-fits-all GPT wrapper...
I hate this kind of writing. Mournful, verbose, low facts.

But anyway - the island is twice the size of Manhatten 23.7 (square miles, or about 15,131 acres) and there were 2000 cattle at the last count.

How much damage can 2000 cattle do in 30,000 acres?

PS:

Ah. I have my answer.

> This story was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism and the Society of Environmental Journalists and was published in collaboration with Earth Island Journal.
> Avoiding crowds is of course also one of the best ways to avoid offline social interaction.

Specifically, he's talking about avoiding the crowds in Edinburgh during the festival. Either you've seen this, and you know what he means or ...
I’ve never heard of this happening the way you describe it.

US Universities often have many international students. Public universities often are large open public spaces. It seems highly unlikely it would happen just because of the person’s country of origin… all by itself.
It's interesting to see how the perspective on this is shifting in Iran to the point that nowadays, it became controversial to call this a coup. In the royalist version of events, it is Mosaddegh who attempted a coup. Mosaddegh had lost is parliamentary majority, but was still very popular. A held a referendum to dissolve parliament and give himself as prime minister the power to make law. The Shah responded by dismissing Mosaddegh. The Shah had the constitutional right to do this, because Parliament was not in session.

That's of course only part of the story, and it completely ignores the role of Britain and the US. But what is interesting to me is not so much what exactly happened, but how peoples' view on history changes with shifting political moods. A generation ago in Iran, basically everyone agreed that this was a coup by Western imperialist powers. Today, with growing opposition to the political system, comes a questioning of the "official" history as thought in schools. Young people are today looking for different (but equally one-sided) versions of the story in which the roles of good and bad get reversed.
The whole rationale of the laws in these countries is that you shouldn't be allowed to get one.