skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the same experience. I once noticed that a section of local highway had been restriped so instead of it being just white dashes it had white dashes followed immediately by a brief black dash. This is a fairly light colored concrete highway that runs east-west.

I was curious about this new striping, emailed, and very quickly got an interesting and friendly response about how they are studying this new striping technique because it makes the lines more visible. Being light colored pavement, running east-west (facing sunrise/sunset), and in an area where it rains frequently (which changes the pavement color) this made a ton of sense.

I think that asking a technical question politely was a big help, but the folks who replied seemed more like talking with a fellow engineer who was excited to explain why they are doing what they are doing.

(I've had other similar experiences when asking questions about / suggesting light timing changes, etc.)
This didn't demystify anything to me, I left it more mystified it than when I entered.
'Parking meters are another thing that seems to be going the app route.'

Gone that way already in the UK, ironically in lots of places where there is very patchy or no mobile signal at all.
A postcondition is an invariant[1]. Invariants must hold at the end of the operation however the intervening inconsistent state must be invisible (effectively, be atomic). They often are (maybe always are?) violated within the operation but must be patched up by the end.

[1] Edit: no, a postcondition expresses an invariant in code - but that's a terminology thing. We may be disagreeing just on terminology here.
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The challenge is flawed.

I asked one of the questions from the quiz to chatgpt which the quiz claims GPT can't solve. But it did.

Prompt: Write out the word "hello" as an ascii art drawing with # and _

Output:

_ _ _ _
| | | | | | |
| |_| | ___| | | ___
| _ |/ _ \ | |/ _ \
| | | | __/ | | (_) |
\_| |_/\___|_|_|\___/

I guess chatgpt isn't raw GPT-4, or the quiz is using some older model.
The US Military Is Getting Smaller, Cheaper and Smarter
Anyone remember the photo viewer from 10+ years ago that started with a tiled view of every photo and you zoomed in kind of organically to what you wanted? At the time it was revolutionary to me. Kind of in the Picasa era or earlier. I believe it was shareware or freeware and might have been Java-based.

And I'd love help with a search query. Can't figure out the right words to avoid links about restoring old photos, or details of various MS Photos applications over the years.
Securing your Bearer tokens with cryptographic algorithms
My Nokia lumia was easily the best phone I ever owned
This was one of the main selling points of Puppy Linux, which has been doing it for decades.
Reading the text didn't help much

> The heresy implicit within is the premise that the user, not the system, gets to define what is most important at any given moment

Calling that a heresy is about the most arrogantly flawed statement you can make in the field of user experience design, which is saying a lot.
I'd say it is now endemic, and the emergency is over.
Jimmy Buffett has died
I don't know this area, so I don't know how good it is there, but these are pretty nice if you're cycling. I imagine if one's in a (motorized) wheelchair it's a fair option as well. But it sure seems like there should also be a set of steps cutting off much of the distance for those who can/want to use steps instead. Maybe even with a bike gutter along the steps like so many transit systems have in their stations.
I wish it did. If it did, we would have finally gotten rid of most of the monetarist bullshit after it was steadily proven wrong by 2 decades of QE and zero interest rates in Japan and one decade in the western world…

But it doesn't and now the theories that have been empirically wrong for two decades are still in used to explain the current inflation rate…

That's the biggest issue with how mainstream economics works: it mostly stands on two legs (classical and Keynesian, roughly) which are both proven wrong by the real world on a regular basis but come back in flavor when the other one fails (and the Neoclassical synthesis is the wrong approach to this problem, and is in fact wrong twice as often).
My-shitty-code

Codin' on my laptop,
watching the clock tock
All of these errors pop up on the screen...
Fixing my syntax, I fire up emacs...
compile again, hope now my code's clean

Struggling again with debugging my shitty code,
Searching for my lost semicolon,
Some people say that there’s maintainers to blame
But I know... it’s nobody’s fault

Don’t know the reason,
my eyes started seizin,
Stare at screens all night, one more pot of brew...
Empty bags of Doritos,
I'm covered in Cheetos,
And still how to solve it, I haven't a clue

Struggling again with debugging my shitty code,
Searching for my lost semicolon,
Some people say that there’s maintainers to blame
Now I think, hell, it could be my fault

I've broken the code base,
ruined each of the edge case
Get an exception, pull up the console
My heart starts to flutter,
as I consider the other,
Jobs and lives that I could have chose

Struggling again with debugging my shitty code,
Searching for my lost semicolon,
Some people say that there’s maintainers to blame
But I know... it’s my own damn fault
People have often asked me how I am able to finish work without having to work nights and weekends. How come the application is so stable when the other teams with more people are working all the time, while their systems are crashing and burning?
The surprise is that they should find this surprising.

The stereotype is that the people in the longer-lived regions say "These are the things that lead to a longer life" and the people in the shorter-lived regions say "Don't tell us what to do!"

That's not to affirm the stereotypes, but rather to say that this is what the stereotypes would lead me to expect. I suppose it's a surprise that the one would be correct at all, since there's so much misinformation about how to be healthy. But the basics (eat less junk food, exercise, and get appropriate medical care) do seem to work, at least a little.
https://archive.ph/5Q203
Ubuntu latest seems to forget who my graphics cards are after “suspend”
Lack of: Facebook, Instagram, 5G, smartphones made obsolete every 3 seconds, even NEEDING a smartphone, AI, etc...

The world was MUCH better without all this junk.
Rehoboam
Working on this end. Maybe A/B testing?

Never forget you can fall back to yt-dlp and mpv/vlc locally if the website stops working.

Stealing from Google is ethical. Keep it up.
Maximum braking on an empty highway is still quite dangerous.

The problem about “yeah well they should have left space” or “they should have responded perfectly to a car that’s suddenly braking” is that it’s not realistic to the real world. It’s not a least-surprise event.
> The MnDot report...

You are looking at a report from Minnesota's DOT. Their job is to be concerned with roads and cars. Sure, our society is overly focused on cars, but you can hardly blame the DOT for putting out reports on their own subject area.
Infamous Chisel Malware Analysis Report
20 Years of Badgers
I really enjoyed this. I did not really know where it was going at first but it got really interesting. My daughter is in school to become an Archivist so it really started to get my attention as I went further into it.

I do have to say in the beginning of the post, I was thinking it was going to end up being about pork and politics and in a sense that is how it ended.

I loved this so much ... "While I am dedicated to this search, I am not about to fly down to Kansas City to dig through federal archives, especially when those documents may or may not be there...

...just kidding. Of course I flew down to Kansas City to dig through the federal archives"

Thanks for creating this
There are so many better coins out there than bitcoin, some even provide better privacy and faster speeds but bitcoin was the first so it keeps limping on under its first mover advantage. Using over it other coins is like everyone choosing to use the Ford model A over a car made today. Its just silly.
The thesis that this has anything to do with medical technology seems wrong. Life expectancy around the world has a lot more to do with lifestyle than with technology or available money to get it. Americans generally have terrible lifestyles.
Which Linux distros have hibernation enabled out of the box? None that I found.
Just because you don’t find a particular set of evidence convincing doesn’t mean it fails to meet the criteria for evidence.

Many an atheist has found God after honestly and earnestly investigating the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. However, most people don’t have the emotional fortitude to actually investigate the facts with rigor and end up hiding behind the “implausibility” of the resurrection and/or just end up perpetuating pop-atheism with unfounded critiques of the Bible because they’ve never done a proper study of their own.

If you’ve got specific critiques, feel free to field those, but otherwise your comment reads as a rather arrogant write-off of one of the oldest, and most logically-consistent systems of human belief.
Last generation GPUs use DDR6 already if I'm not mistaken.
They are also contributing to Rust standardization efforts through the Ferrocene project which aims to create a validated Rust toolchain for safety-critical applications:

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrous-systems-adacore-joi...
Aren’t there always three pieces though? There is 1. Coming up with an idea, 2. Organizing the capital and labor to realize the idea, and 3. The labor to build the thing. Sometimes, that is all one person, but all three pieces are necessary.
Yeah, this life expectancy divide is just a map of obesity. Even the counties referenced in TFA up through South and North Dakota echo the obesity prevalence.

A friend gifted me a copy of this book (American Nations) and I quit reading it because, while somewhat novel, these regional distinctions make no practical sense. There is a wide, substantial difference between someone from Minnesota or Iowa and someone from New York or New Mexico. I get why the author drew the distinctions that way, but they aren't useful or meaningful.
Decided to limit smartphone usage... by running whatsapp on a computer.

Kids these days.
I don't know the one you mention, but I believe https://github.com/SmilyOrg/photofield does something similar.
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I saw a Superb Lyrebird in Australia just outside Melbourne. They are beautiful birds and once of the largest passerine species in the world (birds are divided into passerines and everything else. The class Aves consists of orders, and order Paseriformes (passerines) make up about half of the birds).

One of my favourite animals.
You'll get that feeling if you setup cemu and play botw at 60fps,4k or 21:9 native, etc
Are you perhaps referring to eagle mode?

https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
Many local cab companies have their own apps, even if they often also drive for Uber.
The prevalence of messaging probably has a lot to do with it. "We still on for tomorrow night?" works fine as just a text. "Have time to chat on phone later?" seems to work pretty well too.

In any case, the goalposts for calling someone out of the blue have moved for a lot of people.
no it is not getting cheaper, much propaganda bloomberg loves it
I remember Jeff Han's multitouch demos (which pre-dated the iPhone!) -- is this what you were thinking of? https://youtu.be/ac0E6deG4AU
"Resolution Criteria: On questions that may have ambiguous answers, I will clarify the acceptance criteria. Here, for example, I will copy/paste the code to a file called index.html, open the page, and I expect to see a US flag. If I click on the flag it should change color. The flag must be immediately recognizable: red/white stripes, blue background, 50 stars. It does not have to be dimensionally accurate, but it should be better than a flag I would draw by hand.

The text that I show in the question box is the only command given to GPT-4. No other context is provided. Here, for example, I've only fed GPT-4 with these 25 words you see above."
I’ve been listening to City Planner Plays on YouTube as he plays City Skylines and he has quite interesting patter about the behind the scenes work for development. Many interesting things come up you might not even realize.
I think that’s a good way of thinking about a lot of art, or really anything where there isn’t some objective metric for better vs worse. The value is in the story behind it, and a major part of this story is that it was made by the hands of someone noteworthy, regardless of its intrinsic value as an art object.

I think the interesting thing is that the value of a story is mostly in someone’s belief, or even faith, in that story. Even a ridiculous, nonsensical story can be powerful as long as people believe in it.

People believed in the story of Hitlers purported diaries in the 1980s, just as they did with Enron and sun prime mortgage backed securities in the 2000s. Things are worth something if and only if people believe the story that they are.
they arguably got the best military power projection capabilities
This:

> “Your health is only 10 percent influenced by the medical environment and maybe 20 or 30 percent in behavioral choices.

And then a paragraph later, this:

“There’s a reason why the Southeastern portion of this country is called the Stroke Belt: It’s because the rates of stroke per capita are substantially higher there and mirrored by rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and other risk factors.”

Cardiovascular diseases can be mitigated via diet and other choices. That's not sociopolitical. It's personal, and certainly more than 20 to 30%.

Even in the areas with a higher life expectancy ceiling, that ceiling is lower than it could be. Regardless of where, we're eating and sedentary'ing ourselves into early and earlier graves.

To frame it as these "premature deaths" are ok because other premature deaths are worse is a deceptive and dangerous narrative. Premature is premature and we shouldn't be rationalizing like this.
Batteries are good and cheap enough that needing hyberbation can become obsolete in most cases.
Washr?
High energy prices definitely play a huge role in the upgrade cycle.

The higher the energy cost, the sooner that upgrading to more efficient compute pays off. But it’s still amazing to me that just the CPUs for this system were selling for $10,800 in 2020.
I don't think thats a correct solution to the problem.

The prompt asked for an ascii art drawing made from the # and _ characters. But the output also uses |/\() characters (and it doesn't use a # anywhere).
It probably is order of magnitude less in reality since I was looking at worst case - chargers are actually 70-sh percent efficient not 50 which almost halves it. Also far from everyone on the planet has a mobile phone, let alone high end flagship.

What I mean is that there are much easier fruits to pick without sacrificing even tiny bit quality of life.
Ah! I didn't even realize there was a PDF, or that this was an article from Math Horizons. You must be right.

That also explains another thing that confused me: Every time the article mentioned a specific video, it could have easily linked to them, but didn't. The magazine being the source of the article explains that too.
One could use an Android emulator without needing a smartphone.
You need groups with the courage of their convictions and a curated list of courageous convictions.

That's the motivation of a startup. Reid Hoffman talked about it in blitzscaling although that literary style is my own
I get that part, I just don’t care about the financial details of how they are buying a community, they are just a boring little side detail. I was commenting on the fact that they are using the language of community engagement, but they are just blatantly buying a town, not engaging with it.
But that is malice. They're specifically fucking over an entire country because they believe that post codes shouldn't be that way. They know otherwise.
On a more generic front, there's always libeatmydata which forcibly disables fsync. I've used it in the past for doing, eg, faster database restores. Run mysqld under it, do the restore, manually force a sync, shut down MySQL, restart and then carry out validation activities. Usually dramatically speeds up bringing up a replica.

https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/
> [...] the government opened a digital wallet called Chivo, and gave every citizen the equivalent of $30 in bitcoin. But hundreds of the Chivo accounts were hacked, and the money was stolen along with the account owner’s identity.

> [...] only 1.3% of remittances have been transferred using digital wallets that use cryptocurrencies, according to the most recent data from the central bank

> The move to bitcoin has been an undeniable success for El Salvador, says Andrés Engler, a journalist specialized in cryptocurrencies and former editor for Latin America of the crypto website Coindesk. [...] "[...] If you ask anyone in the industry about El Salvador, they will recognize it and will probably name Bukele straight away. From that point of view, it seems to have been effective."

It seems that bitcoin's rollout as a practical matter, as a tool for everyday people, is a goal that has lagged behind the political win for Bukele in terms of name recognition. At best, with an open mind, it makes sense that a certain amount of time and education are necessary for anything as new as a digital wallet. This is especially true considering how volatile bitcoin has been. At worst, I don't know, it feels kind of cynical.

I'd like to understand better how his government is actually conducting the rollout and education effort. What metrics are they studying? What does their vision of success look like?

Also, it's a little suspicious that the government's bitcoin holdings aren't made public. Maybe someone from there who understands better can explain.
It's easy to drop down to pure SQL in every ORM I've ever used. Meanwhile, a good ORM gives you type safe queries, and saves from having to write boilerplate for trivial CRUD.

I honestly would like to know which ORMs most critics have experience with. If it's something terrible like Hibernate, then no wonder. For reference, the ORM I've used the most is Entity Framework (the new one, rewritten for NET Core), and it's simply wonderful for 90%+ of my work, and doesn't get in the way for the rest of it.
I keep an eye on the “Deals” forum at ServeTheHome. They link to particularly good deals on eBay.

If you don’t see specifically what you’re looking for, check out the listings and look for other items being sold by the same sellers.
I'm very surprised that areas with a disproportion of the demographics who die young have a low life expectancy.

See page 13 to see a better breakdown:

https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/docs/collab/lifeExpectStudy2022jun...
By 2080, India could lose groundwater by 3 times the current rate: Study
Not 30% of the population. Not 30% dead. It’s 30% of colonies affected.
Adding a cooling fan to the Commodore 128DCR
More RAM is always nice but I'm secretly hoping we'll start to see more ECC support in the future. With these humongous modules and even with a teeny tiny bitflip probability corruption chance becomes non insignificant.
These questions can be distilled down to: Will fill_in_the_blank jobs go away? Less demand equals less pay and less interesting problems.

AI is the second wave of software eating the world. The first wave improved knowledge sharing and mechanized business processes. That wave replaced many jobs and produced funny t+shirts like "I could replace you with a bash script".

The second AI wave will replace low hanging fruit pattern matching jobs, when there's enough data to train on. If your job is to pattern match input, then it's likely ripe for AI replacement. Think jobs with analyst in their title. Compliance Analyst. SOC Analyst.

Any job that requires critical thinking, has limited training data, or has low tolerance for failure - they're not going away anytime soon. Maybe augmented with AI tools, but not replaced. Jobs like Security Researcher or Security Incident Handler.
Crazy amount of cash, I wonder if the police get to keep their gloves after counting all the cocaine..
Could "conservative areas" be a [unintended] euphemism?

The article cites a Univ. of Cincinatti study: "Their conclusion: “Whiteness encourages whites to reject policies designed to help the poor and reduce inequality because of animosity toward people of color as well as being unaware that the poor include a great many white people.” "
That map correlates fairly well with this one of per-capita gallons of soda soft drink consumption:

https://healthmap.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/gallons-of-soft-d...
I wonder if anyone has told the folks in west Texas that they are part of "Greater Appalachia."
It's too late to edit, but I would like to omit the snarky first sentence "Or, maybe ..." and just begin this comment with the second sentence: "Or, maybe from long experience ..."

I usually don't comment on social/political issues, but in this case I had a specific personal experience that was pertinent.
> Tensor product V⊗V is space of all bilinear forms on V*

This is only true for finite-dimensional V. In general bilinear forms on V* are linear maps `V*⊗V* -> F` (where F is the base field) which is isomorphic to `(V*⊗V*)*`. For infinite-dimensional V this is much larger than `V⊗V`.

The general characterization is that `V⊗W` is the vector space (and associated linear map `⊗: V x W -> V⊗W`) such that for every bilinear map `h: V x W -> T` there's a unique linear g such that `h(v,w) = g(v⊗w)`. Intuitively, it adds "just enough" elements to `V x W` to encode arbitrary bilinear maps as linear ones.
RIP, WordPad
There are similar patterns elsewhere, so I would not call it surprising. Take England, for example. Despite being a relatively tiny country, some regions have significantly higher life expectancy than others. In that case, it has been linked to infant mortality and health [1]

[1] https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/growing-divide-in...
It's actually more like choosing a reliable brand that's been around for years vs. buying a Tesla.
When they advertised QT3 and its new wonderful codec "Sorenson"? :)
I really want a car navigation app that actually routes you correctly.

Apps like Waze have fallen for the "AI" meme where they take a limited data set of people driving and extrapolate it.

"It's 0.2 seconds quicker if you take a hard right across 4 lanes of traffic in rush hour" it thinks, so it takes you off the main road and onto a side street. You are then stuck there for 10 minutes because you can't turn right across 4 lanes of traffic in rush hour.
Why? What’s the difference between now and 2021, other than the fact that most people decided to stop caring?
LV’s HD24 Is a Smaller and More Affordable Way to Live Off-the-Grid
What math pre-reqs does it need for someone who never made it to college level maths?