skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so much hype, but I confess to rather adoring semianalysis, in a way like I loved semiaccurate. But yeah, I'm not sure if these really should be here if we can't read them.
Scrum is a cancer
I wish it was popular nation wide. We don’t have them in BC. The 4L jugs take up so much more space.
Proximity-induced chiral quantum light generation in strain-engineered WSe2/NiPS
It’s not ironic, it’s economic. People had other things to worry about during the Revolutionary War, and then afterwards there was an industrial revolution. (The tax on tea might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, but the protectionist taxes on goods manufactured in the colonies was the real killer.) Once that was in full swing changing the units was impossible.

Every machine in every machine shop was geared towards manufacturing dimensions and tolerances specified in inches, tenths, and hundredths. Changing to metric would have required rebuilding or replacing all of them. England had the same problem. They had the most manufacturing capability in the world, and they weren’t about to spend all that money replacing all of that machinery.

Worse, the SI system isn’t really easier. The SI units were designed to make unit conversions easier, but in practice nobody actually converts units. In the US Customary system (as in the English Imperial system before it), every common activity has it’s own units.

Houses and furniture are measured in feet and inches, and you never ever convert those to miles. Why bother? Miles aren’t useful for measuring cupboards or rocking chairs.

Cooking uses teaspoons, tablespoons and cups, but you never need to convert between spoons and cups let alone cups and gallons or barrels or hogsheads. It is handy to remember that a tablespoon is three teaspoons though, because that can save you some time at the holidays when you have to scale your recipes up to feed all of your relatives.

The SI system is not really any different in practice.
Okay, I have one of those anecdotes too.

I'll preface this with the acknowledgement that I'm a middle-aged man in a typical Viagra demographic, although I am single and not sexually active, which any algorithm should know. On this day, I had never seen a FB ad for Viagra.

I was on Facebook one day and became rather frustrated with how clogged my feed was, lots of irrelevant stuff in there, including ads that weren't well-targeted. And I was also logged into my friend's MUD, which supports no encryption at all, and so I ranted a while about Facebook and advertising, and then I said something like "who knows, the next thing I see could be a Viagra ad!"

Then seconds later, I scrolled down on Facebook and was treated to a Viagra ad. It was hilarious, and I couldn't ignore the happenstance of that.

The only plausible way this could've happened is if my ISP is siphoning off text from any unencrypted connection and selling keywords in realtime to Meta?

More realistically, I suppose, my number was just up, and that ad was going to be served no matter what I said on a MUD.

I did actually try to trigger the algorithm by asking the MUD if anyone knew some tasteful window treatments I could purchase, but I couldn't elicit any ads for window treatments from anywhere.
As an Ae fan I second this, and not in a snobbish way. I used to find Gantz Graf slightly jarring now it’s warm and fuzzy and melodic in many ways but man it took years of listening to them, album by album, to develop that ear. Still, I think Tri Repetae, Oversteps are some of their fuzziest works, and then of course Incunabula and Amber for easy listening.
> Jane Street

> they were consistently building things with just one or a handful of people that would have taken multiple teams at other organizations I've seen.

> you develop a shared mental model of the system you're developing

How much of this was due using OCaml?

Despite some language-specific quirks, trying Elm has almost convinced me that dynamic typing is a mistake for any parts of a project which don't need to be used from a REPL context.
the issue is that they are graduates, and want a white collar, high paid job, rather than a manufacturing job.
Add -O2 for even fewer instructions :)
This is true of any neighbors over the age of about 60 in my california neighborhood and none of them are of any particular ethnicity.
USA as well, as more people move to be in or near urban areas.
I used his Triplicate monospace font as my main IDE/terminal driver for about a year, and I think in a couple of logo sketches. His other fonts look good as well, if I get to do more visual design again I might get some of them too.
Bison and Moose clearly can't graze on developed pine/fir trees which is why the subarctic has been reforesting for 10,000 years and there's basically no subarctic steppe/grassland [1] left (after the mammoths died).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe
The AS memory compression is better as it's hardware accelerated.

IIRC Windows doesn't like to overcommit memory and its allocation calls will actually fail instead, but I don't remember the details.
They are privately operated since the 80s, but the vast majority of their initial development was government funded.

As far as I understand the privatized companies are monopolies-- these companies were formed from the JNR by geographic area served (hence "JR East", "JR West" etc.)

The bloomberg story is really light on details for why and how the privatization occurred; for a much more in-depth view, see S.Y. Lee's Substack, for example this post: https://seungylee14.substack.com/p/the-death-and-privatizati...

(An interesting fact is that most of JNR's debt at the time was retained by the government while the assets and revenue were privatized)
Not a full winter, but got most of last (installing living room windows in -15C is interesting). While of course it also reduces sun heat during winter, the sun is low enough during the winter that we only get maybe a couple of hours at best per day of sun. Given that most of the winter is cloudy or overcast to some degree anyway, we didn't notice the little heat we missed due to the IR film.

On the flip side, the glass we replaced was some 20+ year old two layer glass while the new were thick 3 layer stuff. They're vastly better insulating (heat and sound), so that alone was a huge plus compared to the old.
Sure but the officer has to be willing too. And just like the soldier, they have friends and family sitting under the threat of retaliation. A suicidal leader can’t personally threaten to shoot everyone in the head to get their way.
WDYM by minimum radius? Are you referring to the part of my post where I wrote that you just look it up in the building code (as opposed to trying to calculate it), or when actually designing where the pipe runs?
> 1in = ???

What do you need to convert those inches into? Why would you ever need to convert those inches into miles? Nothing you will ever do in life requires you to convert between inches (or feet and inches) and miles.
This is seriously impressive. I’m also just about to enter college for software engineering and projects like this make me concerned about how I’m even gonna compete with such skilled peers.
This seems like a great feature for a forum for doing ideological battle, like Twitter on hot-button social or political issues. In such forums, it's important not to agree on any minor issues with someone with whom you disagree on a major issue, lest you give aid and comfort to the enemy.

But it seems wrong for HN.
Wife's family in Minnesota still uses bagged milk. With Minnesota essentially being south Canada that makes some sense.
The floor is all vacation days, not employed.

Still "no time off" is not synonymous with "negotiated time off". I'm arguing with the title being wrong/misleading. Not whether USA should have mandated time off.
Oddly enough long ago my family visited relatives in Missouri, and they had milk bags and the special pitcher.
Sounds like a use case for frames?
I grew up with those. In Germany we have cartons instead. That's already a lot less plastic used, it's recyclable, and the small 1 litre format is perfect if you only use milk for tea.
The one telling omission is how much he's actually paying the weavers. Given that the cheapest hat on his site retails for north of $700, I'm pretty sure his markup is considerable, no matter how much he pats himself on the back for eliminating the middlemen and paying weavers directly.
That applies to literally everything.
This is gut-wrenching to read and my heart truly goes out to Jake and his family.
My mother-in-law had this diagnosis and same course of treatments although she was able to keep half her tongue before the cancer eventually returned with a vengeance. Only now reading these visceral, gripping diaries do I realize how poorly I understood her physical and emotional experience.
I am very, very hopeful that the coming generations of AI enhanced research will accelerate us quickly out of these almost unbelievably brutal treatments and into therapies that work non-destructively.
African elephants destroy trees and thus maintain a more open savannah. They prevent the ecosystem from advancing to later stages of forest succession.

Two main feeding behaviors do this: 1) stripping whole branches and bark which kills the tree; 2) uprooting the trees and eating the roots.

Presumably mammoths could be similar...
> Deng's approach would not work in a world where low cost manufacturing has moved overseas.

no, but the next step, which is to mimick what japan did post lost-decade, is to move into higher value manufacturing, increase automation and increase domestic service industry.

However, the required tech, research cooperation and transfers that would've been needed is going to need deep trust and cooperation between the west and china - that entails giving up the full authoritarian control of the economy. This isn't something the CCP can entertain, unlike japan.

China still has ambitions of becoming a superpower that can dictate terms on the world stage. I think this is the difference between Xi and Deng. Xi cannot move past being second fiddle. And i think this is the real cause for china's downfall (if it were to happen).
Once you get past the dabbling stage it starts to get pretty natural. I don't think either system is better, the value is mostly tied up with what's on the shelves at the local home center and how your measuring tools are marked.
The worst part about them is they aren’t even recyclable.
Sure, if tools are dirt cheap you can just sacrifice to Benford's Law and use base 10. If tools are not cheap, you'll learn to use base 2, one way or another.
Times change.

Hackers and scammers get more advanced. Vulnerabilities are discovered with time.

Users expect more security today than 10 years ago.

For Google & device manufacturers to be able to guarantee that level of security, they need to keep their store updated. And the apps on there shouldn't be using outdated insecure APIs.

If you're not able to keep up with that, then you shouldn't have any expectation of getting new downloads on their platform.
If you mean top hats and such, sure, but the Panama hat, cowboy hat etc absolutely still have their plan in men's clothing, particularly if you live in the kind of climate where shade from the sun is a necessity.
You’re right! It now works on all platforms natively via the plugin (which does nothing except for replace API endpoints.) works perfectly for me without any third party servers
It feels like we need to go back to where we were (in the UK anyway) when I was growing up - milk delivered in glass bottles which then get collected and sterilised for re-use and/or recycled into more glass.

The old-fashioned milkman was even way ahead of the crowd in terms of fuel use, they had low-speed electric vehicles dating back as far as the 1930s (if I'm reading the wikipedia article right). Environmentally friendly all round, though labour-inefficient I guess. And as much as any cow-related product can be environmentally friendly...
> that's the thing, software workers are used to just walking away, because their skills are versatile and demand is high.

But walking away voluntarily is different from having to walk away because your employer gives you an ultimatum. Especially when you're facing a market that has been hit by mass layoffs by many tech companies, and especially if you're looking specifically for a WFH job when many companies are demanding return to the office, precisely reason you'd be walking away in the first place.
New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun
That's over three times too big though.
Compare your culture’s TFR to the Amish. Which is the “serious culture”? Which will still exist in 200 years?
Generally more formal hats are out of style and have been for quite some time. You can break lots of fashion rules if it's fun and you're riffing along a theme, but you should remember that most "formal" hats have been co-opted, and tend to come with some rather negative connotations (tips hat m'lady). You can overcome those with good grooming, classic style (don't wear a fedora and a t-shirt), and being attractive, not unattractive.
My understanding is that this is also the economic play for Brightline, which has an operating passenger line in Florida and is planning to start on a new high speed line from LA to Las Vegas.

They are owned by Fortress Investment Group and are buying real estate along the lines, which is likely to make more profit than the operations of the rail lines themselves.

I don't have a super strong opinion on public vs private ownership for public transit systems, but I do think the idea that the owner/operator of the rail line also owns and develops property around the stations is a good idea. It's a positive feedback loop where good service creates demand for development, and development provides more customers for the transit service. I feel like in the US at least we have a tendency to handicap public services from making choices that would let them generate profit (ie investing in real estate and developing train stations into shopping malls) while also complaining that the public service doesn't generate a profit.
it would've been fine, had china been more cooperative in opening up their internal markets for investments and move up the value chain - i cite japan as an example of what could happen if they cooperate and relinquish their absolute authoritarian views, and their geopolitical ambitions of empire building.
Yaaaas, my dad had one of these and through some magazine I had learned it could produce music… I had limited success but I was able to master enough annoying compositions to be forbidden from messing with it. I forgot entirely about this until your photo. Wow.

And I had no clue who Kraftwerk were until the 90s when I could comprehend and appreciate anything. I had no clue about the connection.
I'm also increasingly sick of the Linux eco-sphere these days. I think there is something to be said in favor of Linux ditching POSIX and other standards and that this inclination has definitely had some positives and pushed us forward further than we may have gone otherwise in some areas.

But I don't think a total lack of a standard was what should have replaced Unix standardization efforts.

I think my real issue with Linux is that it is increasingly complicated (both the kernel and most distributions). It doesn't feel as "open source" as some of the not even quite open source Unix's, because you need to be a domain expert in a particular area for you to be able to modify it correctly. When you've got a team of people responsible for the whole OS as a single package, there is some incentive to keep your area maintainable. You never know who is going to be switching teams or knocking on your door. With Linux the incentive structure is to make a name for yourself as "the <particular subsystem or utility program> guy", which opens up a lot of potential for feature creep and overengineering.
It's an appealing theory but unfortunately doesn't hold much water. That Wikipedia article covers the criticism. Savory himself conveniently believes HPG can't be proven with science, which is a pretty big red flag. Studies suggest it is better than unmanaged grazing but not as good as no grazing. So, a useful idea but not the claimed panacea.
People don’t usually need training to want to protect their friends and family.

If you think the military successfully trains that out of people, you’re not very familiar with the military. Defending friends and family is one of strongest motivations for conformance to military discipline.

MAD works because no one wants to be the first to push the button. And as long as no one pushes it first, no one needs to push it second either.
Interestingly they seem to be a lot less prominent in grocery stores than I remember the past few years I’ve visited Toronto. Carton milk seems to have gained popularity/prominence on store shelves.
Well, latitude, or longitude at the equator.
In an old $DAY_JOB I used a variant of this as a way to make certain internal errors execute a breakpoint when debugged, and generate an error log if not debugged. iirc this did not happen until after an error had already occurred, so it was not very useful as anti-RE.
It's worth noting that the sexual environment in McMurdo is... distorted. You have a bunch of adventurous, thrill seeking types, isolated from civilization, and extremely bored a lot of the time. They fuck. A lot more than you'd think.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-condoms-idUSN094316702008...

It's a strange culture. Beware of extrapolating any kind of larger social lessons from things that happen there.
Most filters don't work like that. If you check a box, it excludes everything without that facet. If you uncheck a box, that facet is ignored (it is neither included nor excluded.)

For example, if I want to search for size-9 blue Adidas shoes, I find the three checkboxes for "9", "blue" and "Adidas" in the shoe department. If I uncheck "blue" then the search will show me every size-9 Adidas shoe, whatever its color.

Since unchecked boxes are simply ignored, there is no signal I can use in such a filtered search to exclude facets which I specify. I have never seen a filtered-search interface which permits this in the sectors where I most need it.

For example, search for a therapist who practices CBT. Easy. Now try listing all therapists who do not practice CBT. Impossible!
It's still the minority. People are interested in what they like whatever that might be. Kids that want to understand the nitty gritty of computers have and will always be a minority. For those that want to learn more, they have the option of looking it up on the web to expand their knowledge. It has never been easier.
Those that would watch old people riffing on even older films. IDK. Me and my dad used to watch them which always holds a special pla e in my heart. The creator is local to my state, Minnesota and it started as public TV which I find interesting.

Another golden one of these is space mutiny and "Why study industrial arts?"

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=industrial+educat...
My company bought into the SAFe bullsh*t and it’s awful.
NetBSD is used on a lot of embedded/turn-key devices without advertisement.
I agree with much of what you say, but I think you overestimate the effect reducing population would have on the environment.

It's one of the slowest ways to reduce our carbon emissions. If by 2070 population (in some country) is 30% lower than today that's a dramatic change. But the effect on the environment (land use, carbon emissions etc) is likely not more than 30%, and that's not much!

By 2070 most developed countries in the world are supposed to have net zero carbon emissions. That target is not going to be significantly easier to reach with 30% lower population.
https://effectiviology.com/appeal-to-nature-fallacy/#:~:text....
Crumb,a New Programming Language of No Keywords, and Everything Is a Function
The ‘curse of 35’: In China, millennials are already too old for some employers
Throwing out dubious security advice, especially as a lemma for downplaying legitimate concerns, requires backing it up with details. If you don't want to have tedious discussions, the sooner you supply those details the better. FWIW you were the one who said you were going to stop replying, but apparently you care just enough to dig your heels in on the content-free part of your argument, but not enough to actually fill any details of what you're trying to advocate.
Face recognition technology is really great these days. The fact that only a portion of her videos get flagged seems to indicate that Youtube is not employing facial recognition when it searches for minors; it just looks at every single video in a vacuum.

My guess is that the shorts don't provide enough data for the algorithm to make an accurate assessment, whereas her longer videos probably show more of her face, voice, etc. If the algorithm assessed her videos collectively (or at least the most recent ones), it would probably not return all these false positives.
The level of public support unions and the NLRB have is material, because it could influence SCOTUS justices. The amount of trust in the Supreme Court doesn't have the same materiality, because one of the most fundamental ideas in American civics is that the courts are meant to be insulated from public opinion.
They're definitely potent but I don't know how the total emitted mass compares to CO2, or how their atmospheric lifespans affect the impact. I would bet the information is out there and has already been analyzed in IPCC reports or peer-reviewed studies. But the writing can be quite dense and I don't have time at the moment to do more than skim the documents that turn up in search.

Given how they're constantly referred to as transition chemicals in reference to the banning of CFCs, I would expect that the warming potential of HCFCs is regarded as dangerous but necessary, and therefore a bad outcome but less bad than continued degradation of the ozone layer.

FWIW, this document indicates that failing to abate the emission of methane, black carbon aerosols, ozone, and HFCs (note, a bigger class of gases than merely HCFCs) will result in an extra 0.5 degree C of warming by 2100. But I'm not sure what proportion of that belongs to each substance individually.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15112799/
sendfile is implemented with splice, but the scenario in which splice is actually zero-copy is not well defined (man pages just say "it's generally avoided"), so you'd have to dig into your kernel source to know for sure. That being said, chances are the cost of copying the data would be far outpaced by the cost of serializing over the network anyways, so you would want to architect your application in a way that you're sending as little data over the network as possible if performance is of maximum concern.
This is still a problem for modern multi-lane digital connections, like PCI Express. The solution? Make each individual lane self-timing, and compensate for it digitally in the receiver buffer.
I was referring to the entire country, not just a specific neighborhood or city
whether or not this is true, i've put my tinfoil hat on, and am now buying 'toms of maine' dental floss... (PFAS FREE) btw...
Tinygrad 0.7.0
We’ll I mean maybe but we’ve still contaminated huge swaths of habitable land with these chemicals. So I guess you’re putting a positive spin on it but it’s still a catastrophic fuck up.
A long time ago I was at a student party in France, and somebody brought in a 4L floppy plastic bag of the cheapest wine possible. It was just as unwieldy as it sounds, and the wine inside was terrible, so I never saw one again and even most French people I've related this anecdote to have never seen or heard of one.

Then a clever Australian invented boxed wine, which hides the plastic bag in a cardboard box with a little spout, and now wine in a bag is commonplace and almost (but not quite) respectable.
>There's no reason ART and the Dalvik runtime couldn't be distributed via google play like the rest of the android ecosystem

This is already the case.