skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This craziness leads a sane person to conclude: we are going to start measuring things in terms of Number of Potatoes, soon enough.
Exactly. In the end, according to the field of genomics we’re all children of rapists anyways.
Yes, but there are industrial "high adherence" nails, such as annular nails (common in roofing) and cut clasps (sometimes used in flooring), examples:

https://www.bradfords.co.uk/ironmongery-fixings-adhesives/na...

https://www.heritage-store.co.uk/traditional-nails/2043-cut-...

very likely the hand-made ones are for restoration projects where you need to be as faithful to the original as possible.
Murex rocks v5 is out
I am thrilled to reference the new release of Murex, an intuitive, typed, and content-aware shell. A command line shell is a program that provides a text-based interface for interacting with the operating system.
Command line interfaces have typically been stuck in time with dusty capabilities and recurring user experience limitations.

Murex is a modern shell for the rest of us, techies, with advanced features to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and empower users to unleash the full potential of the command line.

Murex is also my latest open-source contribution.
It's reassuring to think humans are peak evolution; but we may be an accident
Sorry, but that's again a straw man: No one claimed that those countries never have bad news. Those countries having bad news and the Economist exploiting it also doesn't really seem like a crazy conspiracy theory.
Pumped hydro storage would likely work
Slightly off-topic. I had a Dragon 32 as a kid (less successful rival to the Spectrum) and one of its quirks was that it couldn't display text in "graphics mode".

A big chunk of a lot of listings that you typed in from magazines were "drawing strings" to define all the main a-z chars just to give you a graphics font.
Bah, I'm not sure I'd even call Oslo the most walkable city in Norway. It's perfectly possible to live in smaller cities, or even outside cities, without a car.

I visited one of the supposedly ugliest cities in Norway this summer, Alta in Finnmark. It got its reputation because appatently during the reconstruction after the war, they couldn't decide which of the small population centres in the municipality they should locate public functions to, so they put them in the middle. So it was an unusually car-centric city.

What I found was that this reputation is either grossly exaggerated, or is no longer true. The grid is maybe spacier than we're used to in Norway, but they have a huge pedestrian plaza in the middle and you can walk to anything you'd need in the city centre. They even seem to have great pedestrian/bike paths all the way out to Hjemmeluft, and there was nice public transport. I'd happily live there without a car. Looking at the real estate prices, though, it seems lots of other people are happy to live there too, harsh weather notwithstanding.
But as Bandai, don't I want something simpler and cheaper? Why would I opt for something more complex and be sticky with one vendor?
> If every company was worker owned as long as the goods and services produced are traded on the open market as an exchange of value, that would still be capitalism.

No. We had "exchange of goods on an open market" long before we had capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
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jq can be easily downloaded, unpacked, executed and deleted in one line of bash.

It's beauty is the simplicity and portability.
> There's a lot of value in imperfections and quirks.

Value for whom? For someone whose intent is to track you?
It's a long discussion, but in my opinion, Imperial Germany suffered the same failure as the Napoleonic empire: a failure to acknowledge that their imperialism caused diplomatic tensions, and that they could not eat their lunch and keep their neighbours happy. Bismarck tried to freeze Europe in that situation, but that was unsustainable, and ultimately it failed and left Germany in a bad diplomatic situation when WW1 started.

It's not about judging whether that particular was evil or not, it's about acknowledging that its diplomatic policy was doomed to fail.
Let's define our terms. Bigot:Extreme intolerance of the beliefs and opinions of an individual or group, particularly racial or religious.
You can be extremely intolerant from either direction. A college which refuses to hire Republican professor's is acting bigoted. Programs which exclude on the basis of race like a Black Leadership Summit are acting bigoted, and in so far as they say people of other races need not apply they are openly expressing bigotry.
> when you gotta deliver a universe and don't have time to faff about with a borked Emacs, you open vim and fix it in prod with a quick Perl script

How can you make an onion if there's no state? Where will the state of the onion reside?
It’s a binary protocol though, which means that this specific scenario isn’t an issue as far as I’m aware (the only ways of making arbitrary JS-controlled network requests are XHR/fetch(), which is only HTTP, and WebSockets, which have a handshake mechanism to ensure that the other side is really expecting a WS connection, which Erlang won’t be).
This article is completely wrong, and almost sabotages the fight against the UK Online Safety Bill, given it claims a victory that simply doesn't exist, and so lures everyone into a false sense of complacency. The UK govt must be ecstatic that they have changed nothing and yet the tech industry seems to believe that they've won something.

All the govt said was "we'll only force scanning when it's "technically feasible" to do so" - i.e. when someone believes the CSAM scanning quality is high enough beyond some given threshold. It's still scanning though, and still fundamentally undermines encryption; it's just potentialy delaying the implementation a bit... having enabled it in law. The thing we should be fighting is enabling it in law.

Politico just published an article which nailed it: https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-signal-meta-faceboo...

> "On Wednesday, Whittaker and other privacy campaigners falsely claimed that London was pulling back from its bid to access encrypted messages"

Likewise, the Government has spelt out very clearly that they consider absolutely nothing to have changed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66716502

dang: it's almost worth flagging this thread as being based on entirely incorrect data. For whatever reason, the desire to make progress on this issue means that folks have jumped the gun and are prematurely celebrating a win which is not a win, and thus undermining the whole campaign to protect encryption.
The borders between parasitism and beneficial symbiosis can be fluent. Maybe if another parasite arises (say, some mite), it's in the beetle's interest to defend "its" termine colony against it, and it may have better ways of doing it because the mite evolved only with termites as hosts.
The author has conflated two topics here, AI and data collection. They are both important certainly, but if there is a link he certainly doesn't make it.
Doing away with at will employment would probably be a good start.
"a day or two" would handle probably 90% of situations -- or 100% if there's enough solar overcapacity to power everything even on winter days (which probably involves good power grid connections to places like Arizona and Mexico).

I think we need to close all the fossil fuel plants eventually, but keeping them online to be used maybe a few days or weeks a year is the most responsible way to use them.
That is absolutely astonishing, but something bothers me, I thought termites were blind and it says they are and rely on smell:

> though termites are blind, they sense one another through touch. The beetle may also absorb unique chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons from the termites or produce similar compounds in order to enhance the perception that it is a termite as well.

So I would have expected a fake termite to be just the crudest impression but with great odour mimicry, but this visual mimicry is so incredible it suggests termites visual perception is better than we expected, or perhaps something else is going on.

TL;DR something doesn't add up here
I once worked for a company that is renowned for its miserable working conditions to the point where there are news reports of employees crying at their desks and company offices having designated "wellness" rooms that serve as unofficial crying spots.

While working at that company, I was miserable due to the absurd timelines and implicit and explicit pressure placed directly and indirectly from managers and senior managers to deliver them. The stress levels were so high that I could barely function in the couple of hours after clocking out, and instead I found myself in a lethargic state. If that wasn't bad enough, my knee started to hurt like hell. I couldn't stand up without spending a minute or so doing a kind of warmup, and even then I couldn't help to limp around. I felt that my knee joint was slightly swollen too. I endured this for a few months.

After a while, I resigned from that job. Managers were bad at establishing milestones and deadlines, and the senior manager was the worst of them as he systematically over promised his higher ups to afterwards try to catch up with threats of dismissal.

A couple of days after I handed over my resignation, my knee stopped hurting. Moreover, in a timespan of a week or so, I went from barely managing to stand up on my own two feet to actually running for extended periods of time without any hint of joint pain or even discomfort. I only noticed it when I was late for a flight and I had to run from one terminal to another. Once I boarded the plane it dawned upon me that I was sweaty and my heart was racing, but my knee was perfectly fine.

Correlation is not causality, but the link between arthritis and stress is a known fact.

https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/emo...
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I would like to add that just like in our universe, in Haskell entropy only ever increases and never goes down.
I.E., add more functionality to your program and the complexity will go up. This is true for all programming languages of course, but in my limited experience larger Haskell programs seem to become exponentially more complex.
Even worse, we all have mothers!
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Someone in OpenAI PR is getting a bonus for placing a corporate fluff piece with Wired. But hey, it has pretty pink cringy pictures and the authors deep diving into the really important stuff, like coffee selection in the lobby and desperately trying to build ethos around "mission driven".

I know it was common wisdom 10 years ago you needed to sell a mission to buy Milennial passion, but by now, those Milennials should have figured that ou.

Real title: "What OpenAI wants yout to think OpenAI wants told to you by OpenAI leveraging Wired"
Yes, for instance ...101010 (the pattern 10 repeated infinitely) isn't an integer.

It's maybe easier to think of the argument as working on sequences: From a sequence (x_0, x_1, x_2, ...) with each x_n a binary digit (i.e. 0 or 1) you can always construct a real number x = Sum(x_n / 2^n, n = 0, 1, 2, ...).

The integer you'd want to construct from such a sequence would be Sum(x_n * 2^n, n = 0, 1, 2, ...), but this only works if there's some N such that x_n = 0 for all n > N. Otherwise you would have an "infinite integer" (whatever that means). Valid positive integers are all on the form Sum(x_n * 2^n, n = 0, 1, 2, ..., N), i.e. the binary expansion is finite.

The subtlety of the diagonal argument (why it works for reals but not for integers/rationals) is that while it always produces _some_ string of digits, only the real numbers are defined such that the string of digits is itself always a real number. In the integer/rational case, you can construct a number "outside" the set you started from. (In fact you always do if the original list really was of all integers/rationals. Given any enumeration of the rationals, the diagonal argument can actually be used constructively to produce an irrational number.)
Not necessarily, if the color doesn't matter it would evolve towards the one that is the least costly. Probably like not pigment at all.
One thing to that I don't have a solid source of numbers to back up but I highly suspect is that eventually the power will be more expensive during the late night than the early morning. As a result a lot of demand will shift to reflect that.
I always assumed that ads that told people to search for the product/company were to raise their search ranking (due to relevancy?). But I’ve got no idea if that would actually make a difference or not, or if it is just so people don’t have to type a URL as you said.
The key here is "not yet". But try to use a public VPN/proxy IP to get a peek incoming future.
I remember somewhere around 1997 that our teacher built in a few small breaks during the day, so everyone who had one could run to the hallway to get the Tamagotchi from their coat pocket and feed it.
Battlefield Earth brings back a memory: it was the first book I had read where I realised that authors can have serious mental problems.

Most books are written by sane, intelligent, and educated people. The books you'll read in a high school library are also curated by librarians. There's an expectation of quality you don't notice until suddenly you pick up a book at the local council library authored by someone with some serious untreated mental issues.

After that revelation I started noticing the author of a book instead of just paying attention to the content of the book.

Similarly to L Ron Hubbard, I found The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson impossible to finish. There's something deeply wrong about him that I can't quite put my finger on. (I did finish his Gap Cycle series, but felt dirty in my brain after.)

I picked up The Dragonriders of Pern series based purely on the dragon on the cover and just started reading. A few chapters in, I though to myself: "This is written by a woman, isn't it?", flipped to the cover page and lo-and-behold: "Anne McCaffrey" -- I had guessed correctly!
Hey! as one of the maintainers i can safely say that we take backwards compatibility very seriously
> It was not the Prussians and Germans that declared war first in WW1, that honour belongs to Austria-Hungary

Of course. Because Germany had their back. If AH was in weaker position it might not have evencome to that because they would have been more willing to compromise in general.

AH would be also allied/aligned with the South German state(s) which would’ve meant that its relations with Prussia would have been cold and antagonistic if not openly hostile.

> There were too many people at the time who wanted that war for various reasons for it not to happen ine way or the other.

In some ways it’s a direct outcome of what happened in the 1870s.

No unified Germany, would have meant there would’ve been much lesser need to form alliances to contain it (e.g. Russia and Prussia would’ve probably been allies/much closer since they both hated AH)

Which makes a Franco-British rapprochement much less likely (Britain was generally pro-Prussia in 1870 after all). Also in the future UK would’ve likely aligned with Prussia/North Germany just to maintain the balance of power in Europe.

All in all.. yeah there would still be war, we’d just be more likely to see a higher number smaller scale conflicts instead of something like WW1.
This deeply un-democratic attitude, which seems to be based on pure selfishness combined with a perceived exceptionalism, is really troubling.

If you think a democracy, regardless of form, asking for taxes is tyranny you lack even the slightest trace of history or civics. And you show clearly, that you simply are not willing to participate, and take even the smallest responsibility, in modern society. True authoritarians, fascists and wannabe tyranns are happy to use that attitude to erode democracies.
Stem students are privileged at Duke
https://youtu.be/_9Te_ISK598?
It was 32 this labor day weekend
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-shoot...
It can go up to 75 depending on the weather
https://abc7ny.com/40-shot-7-fatally-in-violent-weekend-in-c...
August 21st had 40 shootings.
One would think an honest study of mass shootings would show you they happen in urban cores and are largely gang motivated, not in a school Columbine style.
What surprised me was that Yggdrasil Linux is apparently still alive, though there's been little Github activity and none since April 2022:

<https://github.com/Yggdrasil-LGX/Yggdrasil-LGX/graphs/code-f...>

Still, the name is fairly likely to cause confusion.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-...
Good times. I built a wardialler out of one of those science fair 150 in one kits and an Atari st using an rs232 data line to bounce a relay. found plenty, but the fun ended when the 400 quid bill came in. Endless paper rounds.
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bit misleading not to add the top two (Australia and Netherlands)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap...
Just look at how much they attacked encryption after the 7/7 bombings, despite being organised via plain SMS
The most trivial bit of research would have given you an answer. I put in "wing evolution wiki" which got me a top hit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight, which has an entire list of hypotheses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight#Hypothe... including

Pouncing Proavis model

Cursorial model

Wing-assisted incline running

Arboreal model
https://archive.ph/LQ6nZ
Here's a great graph with finer than hourly data: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...

It doesn't average out on an intraday basis, but neither does consumption, which has its peaks during the day.

I know someone working at an energy provider heavy on renewables, there they use gas turbines (=biomass) for compensating heavy fluctuations, because those are online in a few minutes.
Which has an even more despicable villain.
It's that modern computer science around Web is just total Stanford prison experiment when it comes to ethics. A/B testing, heatmap collection, user generated data collection, those are all human subject researches and should be required to have an independent board in a University.

These guys have established processes and justifications to do these experiments. It was always just wrong that Web has none, and it also makes no sense to assume that just because the process look substantial judged by norms of other industries they must have ignored it.
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Fun to imagine the lives of the developers making these things. Hardware/software coding in 90s japan.
Indeed. Make a civilian version with a canopy and I’d be happy to play with it.
It works pretty well for WWI if you ask me.

The axis powers were the aggressors invading their neighbours, that in itself is hugely significant - there's a massive difference between being a french soldier (fighting to stop an invader) and being a german one.

On top of that, the axis powers committed huge atrocities in places like Belgium - murdering entire villages and so on. I genuinely don't understand this "moral relativist" outlook that has been applied since - it is pretty clear to me that the axis side were the evil ones, being both the aggressors and committing the major atrocities of the war.
Not only are the images gone, archive.org tells me "Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
People who make that argument should give us their credit card numbers
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan explains this well
That's a weird conclusion. Aren't humans part of nature as well? And how would we stay out of nature? By forbidding anyone to travel?
If we only allow the pieces to mate in the official manner, at right angles, then it’s still a combinatorics problem with an finite integer answer. There’s an extensive tradition of picking out discrete subfamilies out of continuous things and studying them with discrete tools—symmetries of polygons, tilings, regular polyhedra, crystalline lattices, etc., are all in that group (no pun intended).

On the other hand, just because your problem sounds discrete doesn’t mean that the continuous toolkit isn’t going to be useful for it, as the inordinate utility of generating functions[1] (closely related to Fourier transforms) shows. The other way around also works, with the theory of smooth symmetries (Lie groups) making good use of the discrete things I mentioned above.

It’s all a single field, as Bourbaki wanted to point out by ungrammatically naming their course Éléments de mathémathique (not -es). Even if they omitted some significant parts of that fields that they didn’t know properly or weren’t well-developed yet (e.g. logic counts as some of both).

[1] https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html