skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mallow is very common on farms and vacant blocks. Not overly ugly en masse at least.

I think there might be a huge variety of thistle forms. You get the gamut from small and smooth up to the thicker, spikier ones as far as Scotch Thistles, plus low, flat ones that escape the mower like stemless thistle - https://www.google.com/search?q=stemless+thistle&tbm=isch

In a backyard garden sense, I can cope with thistles, but things that infest soil like soursobs, mint, dichondra can get annoying. Watsonia, ivy and couch grass also give me grief.
I wonder if it means that during the daytime, the cities are hotter but at night, the average temperature is cooler than before? Since all the heat trapped indoors has been pushed out into the world.
It seems like that, but I don’t know the gestation period for social media sites. Is it nine months?
Making things worse? What? AC saves lives.
As an Android user, I am already laughing out loud at just 1 sentence in on that page.
...and yet I have a feeling nikita bier will continue to press "shuffle" and make himself a few more dozen million dollars a few more times.

Partly kidding but partly serious hehe.
Agreed, the effects would be much worse today, both because of the fiat currency and the larger debt. Try and imagine what taking $32T out of circulation would do to the economy.
That’s a good link. Sidereal time is interesting. Like a Mercury day is longer than it’s year. Wild
"Magic bullet" is just the most recognisable name for CE399[0], nothing supernatural implied by my use of it.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory
The best way to make the event green would be to cancel it forever and encourage all future similar events to do the same.

It was a mistake.

Same with every international conference that could happen online. Just gather online.
Leaving California: The Untold Story – EpochTV [video]
How about a mental activity tracker to increase mental activity ? Too much physical activity makes me dumber. Playing bullet or blitz chess might consume as many calories as walking per unit time.
Doesn’t do anything for me, it may serve as a clutch but you always fall back to average without any solid habit/life/situation changes
This very article points out Arlen Specter heavily influenced people on the ground during the day of the assassination. This behavior is well-documented. Why do you take the Warren Report as gospel?

“ Arlen Specter, who had traveled to Dallas to take Tomlinson’s deposition in March 1964, was thunderstruck when Tomlinson relayed this scenario. To judge from a transcript of that conversation, Specter spent much of the remainder of his time with Tomlinson essentially trying to talk him out of his recollection, causing a distressed Tomlinson to say he just was not sure about his memory.

But the Q&A itself clearly suggests that Tomlinson, unprompted and unbadgered, had a cogent recollection that a bullet, wherever else it ultimately ended up, had come from the stretcher that had already been left in the hall in front of the men’s room.

In its final report, the Warren Commission mentioned nothing about this detail from Tomlinson’s account. Instead, the panel largely dismissed Tomlinson’s testimony, writing that even though he was “not certain whether the bullet came from the Connally stretcher or the adjacent one,” the commission “has concluded that the bullet came from the Governor’s stretcher.”

As sibling points out, Oswald may have been a scapegoat or patsy.
It’s never been environmentally sound anyway. Then again few large scale human activities are
After Hours: The Oral History of a Cult Classic
It's simple, I don't work with dynamically typed languages. But if I had to, for work or some other purpose, I'd try to leverage as much type hinting ad possible, such as with Python and Ruby which both have type hinting systems. Barring that, yes, I'd write lots of tests.
“Inheritors of the power structure”; i.e. they had inherited authority in what was effectively a new state in economic & demographic collapse. Do you think that all of them believe, now as then, that the situation they found themselves in in 1992 was entirely exogenous to the Soviet system?
You have to deal with battery fires but they're not a climate issue.
First, why are you bringing up US? Many would agree that US healthcare is shit.

But I suspect it's still probably better than China where many people are simply not counted in stats (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990197/ etc). These are also people with least or no access to healthcare and education btw, so we can only guess if life expectancy on paper is better than in reality...
“The new jewel for the new millennium—the Krieg Light.“ That’s probably the one episode I remember. Thanks for the reminder!
Hm. I thoroughly disliked it - 100 layers of abstraction, glue and duct tape in the cloud to construct a rube Goldberg machine that doesn't work. It felt like everything wrong with modern tech.
If I’m reading that right they basically made google wave on mobile. Not the worst idea if executed right
What I've noticed is it's heavily dependent on the dishwasher.

I've not had the privilege of having a new dishwasher till my most recent place, all the dishwashers prior have been 10+ years old. This new one though which is a Miele dishwasher has maybe 1-2 dishes that need to be manually washed per week at the very most. Whereas my older dishwashers it was anything from an extra 1-2 dishwasher loads per week worth of failed cleans.
I understand your POV and where it comes from but not all Christian’s believe in a theocracy or that those things you mentioned are even bad necessarily. Your lumping a lot of people in one group.
The "just do it!" part is inspired by Stephenson, sure. I didn't realize before that that it's the kind of problem that you can actually just do, since there isn't a locked door to the stratosphere :)

But the idea itself is much older, and AFAICT very safe. The only thing missing is a practical way to get millions of tonnes of SO2 to the stratosphere aside from burning dirty oil on the ground.

These guys are supposedly working on it: https://makesunsets.com/
I'm hoping so – gunicorn has a long-open pull request that would fix `--reuse-port`, which currently does nothing

https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2938
When I read this, I ordered powdered DIM, and xylitol to make my own mouthwash. But there was an old study about stevia extract, which was also found to be extremely effective against biofilms, so, maybe I may add add more to the cocktail. Best would be to chew also mastic cum before swashing as that was found also highly effective against cavity-causing bacteria.
> EUROPA is C++,

Maybe it is now (I don't know -- I've been out of that field for over 20 years) but it wasn't then.
The same applies. If you don't want it to do clever stuff on your computer, then just configure it not to do so. Don't try to make the software less configurable so that I can't make it do clever stuff on my computer.
I had the exact same reaction. There are X’s on the road where Kennedy was hit, and standing at the window next to Oswald’s position, two things were immediately obvious to me: that both X’s were in line with his position (so he wouldn’t have needed to shift his point of aim unlike a shooter from the grassy knoll) and that I could have probably made the same shots.
Its just an expression, dont overthink it.
Hotter air results from the hot concrete. Then the air has more capacity for holding water instead of precipitating it out as clouds or rain. This increases the likelihood of 100%RH conditions, in direct sunlight, on top of a huge thermal mass heated to way above body temps, making heat waves deadlier because evaporative cooling becomes moot at that humidity and you're essentially in desert conditions surrounded by hot rocks.
When the four or so meat processors whine about a "labor shortage" and then report gargantuan profit increases, I'm not really keen on waiting any more. And meat is just one example.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2021/12/10/rec....
I think one of the worst things is how lying actually just works, even when people know its a lie. If you just keep hammering away, eventually people give in. I always knew numbers from China were sketchy but one day I fell down a wiki-well and found it really comes down to whatever the CCP wants gets published and becomes truth.

We all know the whole Tiananmen square lies but not sure why I didn't realize that could just as easily extend to things like population and GDP.
Billions of dollars. The original Xbox lost 4 billion dollars. The 360 had probably the worst consumer electronics failure rate in history and cost billions to fix.
Sorry but there’s not an option out there that’s worse than the police being virtually immune to prosecution.
Ansible in my experience will stop trying to run subsequent tasks on a server once one of them fails, but it will go ahead with other servers that match the inventory pattern. So it very well could have successfully updated 7 out of 8 hosts.

Maybe there is a switch that will stop everything if any task on any host fails but it's not the default behavior.

At least it would have logged an error that hopefully would have been looked at.
> It’s not backed by anything but trust.

It's backed by the ability of the US government (and military) to ensure that the US is operating. As long as the US maintains a world hegemony, it's a safe bet. If it loses a series of engagements (not a single theater of economic interest), it's time to hop on to another currency. Ofc, that's just how I see it.
Recently Brazil managed to recover a feathered dinosaur fossil unlawfully smuggled out of the country by German researchers. See:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/one-of-a-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubirajara_jubatus
If you're serious about climate change and global warming, then you need to have priorities. And the first priority is coal-fired power plants. They produce 30% of the global CO2 emissions.

Automobiles only make up 14%, and that's including the big diesel trucks that move freight around.

You've got to attack the big stuff first.
There is a middle ground between "let the planet warm uncontrollably " and "huddle in darkness waiting for death".

Meanwhile, I assume you're a vegan who bikes to work and never uses air conditioning? The difference between just one month of living like the average American and one month of living like the average Indian is significantly greater than the footprint of attending Burning Man.

It's absolutely possible for someone to attend Burning Man annually and still weigh in below the average emissions per capita, or even to be carbon negative.

We are all going to have to make sacrifices, but we aren't going to have to sacrifice everything, either.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
The most ridiculous detail about that botched election is the hanging chads were caused by those election administrators not clearing the chads from the prior elections.

Just turn each unit over and shake it. (Like a three hole punch.)

Not following procedures. One of the many consequences of conducting elections on the cheap.

So dumb.
Most techniques for nerfs also work for the newer variants like guassian splatting.

It's the same fundamental process - optimizing a 3D representation of a scene using gradient descent. Neural networks are a very general-purpose way to represent anything, but that comes at a cost. Using a more 3D-specific representation improves performance.
Clubhouse was never cool.
> calcium is essential for buffering pH

Except that’s not what’s going on.

The Wikipedia article lays it out. The amount of hydrogen ions someplace is what PH means, so controlling PH is controlling the number of hydrogen ions.

The same thing happens with calcium, but rather than doing the buffering it’s the number of calcium ions being controlled. Calcium buffering is controlling the number of calcium ions.

> Calcium buffering describes the processes which help stabilise the concentration of free calcium ions within cells, in a similar manner to how pH buffers maintain a stable concentration of hydrogen ions.[1] The majority of calcium ions within the cell are bound to intracellular proteins, leaving a minority freely dissociated.[2] When calcium is added to or removed from the cytoplasm by transport across the cell membrane or sarcoplasmic reticulum, calcium buffers minimise the effect on changes in cytoplasmic free calcium concentration by binding calcium to or releasing calcium from intracellular proteins. As a result, 99% of the calcium added to the cytosol of a cardiomyocyte during each cardiac cycle becomes bound to calcium buffers, creating a relatively small change in free calcium.[2]
Neuroscientists Find Link Between Appetite and Memory in Human Brain
> if Earth sqm = 2^49: to address a single metre, we'd need 49 bits.

Yes-- that's why I said it was 46 bits for an 8 square meter area (because this is about the size of area you care about for this problem-- W3W is 9 square meters).

> for 8m do log_10(2^47)

No, because 2^3 = 8, so one does log_10(2^(49-3)) and gets 13.8. 46 / 3.3 =~ 13.9 works because 1/log_10(2) =~ 3.3.
Seems the article is accurate, then.

And is it actually weird they didn't just copy the logo? I assume South Korea has robust trademark law enforcement.
> Has any state that has eschewed these myths and run their monetary policy accordingly?

Essentially all of them that make their own decisions? Especially "government debt needs to be repaid". Running perpetually increasing nominal debt balances is fairly normal.

The myths are much more common (in incoherent, shifting, inconsistent combinations) in public political discourse about government policy than in actual policy, except policy directed by externally-imposed constraints from (mostly) the IMF.
If you are doing 3 loads (whites, colors, towels) it means 15 hours vs 4.5 hours.
Having sequencing equipment on ship is undesireable.

There are practically no scenarios where the effort of making such equipment seaworthy is worth doing, compared to putting samples on ice and waiting until back in port to test.

If something was absolutely urgent it could be transferred to a helicopter. But I can't imagine any scenario that this ship would need that for.
While this is a tiny contribution to global warming, funny enough, it turns out that reducing this kind of emissions is also very cheap. To the point where you get very solid emissions reduction per dollar spent.
> In total, 39 systematic reviews and meta-analyses were identified, reporting results from 163 992 participants spanning all age groups, from both healthy and clinical populations. Taken together, the meta-analyses suggested activity trackers improved physical activity (standardised mean difference [SMD] 0·3–0·6), body composition (SMD 0·7–2·0), and fitness (SMD 0·3), equating to approximately 1800 extra steps per day, 40 min per day more walking, and reductions of approximately 1 kg in bodyweight. Effects for other physiological (blood pressure, cholesterol, and glycosylated haemoglobin) and psychosocial (quality of life and pain) outcomes were typically small and often non-significant. Activity trackers appear to be effective at increasing physical activity in a variety of age groups and clinical and non-clinical populations. The benefit is clinically important and is sustained over time. Based on the studies evaluated, there is sufficient evidence to recommend the use of activity trackers.

That seems remarkably effective. It’s in line with my personal experience as well. Unfortunately, it also occupied a part of my daily headspace. I was exercising more with the tracker, but without the tracker I enjoy exercise more as it feels less goal-oriented.
It doesn’t have to be Siri itself. Any app that Apple gave access to the Siri private API could have done this.
Yes and: Since corporations are not subject to public records requests, privatization (outsourcing) is a terrific way to transmute even banal administrative functions into black boxes.
Could be starvation. Even though we're capable of producing more than enough food for everyone, the combination of sub-optimal eating habits, sub-optimal farming techniques, and comically inefficient/unfair distribution means that we don't. Between those factors and increasing population, even a small decrease in crop yields could cause unprecedented levels of famine.

Could be war. War over food, war over water, war over water for growing food, war over living space as coasts get flooded or obliterated by storms, etc.

Could be disease. There's plenty of evidence that climate change is causing diseases to spread (along with their animal hosts) where they hadn't before. If anyone thinks COVID was the last or worst pandemic we'll have to endure this century, they're fooling themselves. The true worst might not cause civilization to collapse entirely, but it sure will increase a lot of the tension already present.

Most likely, it will be a combination of all of these. The four horsemen are all enjoying the race.
Again, maybe we can do better than attribute a difference of opinion or experience to the other person being ignorant. As I've said three times now, I'm not writing from the suburbs or 'uptown' (not what you think it is in many cities!); I've been in the areas you name daily for many years. (Have you?)

IME it's the reverse: if you aren't from those areas, it's easier to believe the negative hype. The people most terrified of cities don't live in them - the less contact they have, the more they believe these things. A very recent survey showed how Republicans, who are rare among urban residents, have by far the most concerns about cities. It was the NYC suburbs that voted Republican because of concern about crime - in the city where they don't live (and where people voted Democratic). It's easier to believe these crazy stories if you aren't there, about the 'other'.

Now I'm in cities that are, in places absurdly safe. Downtowns filled with people who are going about their days, not a care in the world. Yet I hear suburbanties say they are afraid to come downtown. It's laughable. And then I turn on cable TV or HN and read how dangerous it is, how crazy homeless people are - places I am and people I talk to daily.

It's like standing in the sunshine and hearing people insist that it's raining here. It's that absurd. I don't doubt others have different personal experiences, and I'm glad to read about them - the speculative, uninformed BS, not so much.
You mean Google
Filling of Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile Complete
If it weren't for the internet, it never would have even occurred to me to 'prewash in the sink', how difficult is it to wash a single plate anyway, at the point I'm 'prewashing' each plate I may as well just wash it in the sink?

The best I can come up with is that maybe it's advocates have a lot left on the plate, and where I would scrape into compost if that happened are using a sink garbage disposal grinder thing?

If it's just some kind of saucy residue like goes into my dishwasher (without any need for any kind of 'prewashing') then any machine that can't cope with it needs returning.
Perhaps some of the programs are still running, new generation, same playbook
Yep, there is all sorts of research on that problem.
Debugging by printf is useful in a bunch of places. Debugging via debugger is useful in a bunch of places. Why would I limit myself to only one? (Doesn't matter which one; why would I limit myself?)
Out of curiosity - in what domain do you work ?

I find the work in finance / tech very interesting. Societally useful ? Almost certainly not. But probably still more than most good-paying tech jobs.
Wouldn't a much simpler and cheaper approach be bypass switches for each panel instead of microinverters?

For that matter, can solar panels be wired in parallel instead of in series?
The existence of a rule doesn't mean the thing will happen.

(There's no reason for government policy to eschew abundance, so I'm not particularly worried for the future, but that is because of the dynamics of the situation, not the laws that are in place)
You got the hindu date wrong. The Hindu cosmology actually has scales comparable with what modern cosmology believes.
As an addendum - a fair portion here should be in one way or another familiar with Ilya Repin's Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (aka Zaporozhian Cossacks are Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cos...
There are a few misunderstandings here. Rational Bézier curves are incidental in this article, and the conclusion is not that they are correct. They were just a convenient curve I used to express the main message of local control, and the article endorses looking for other curves that fit the properties.

The parameter count has not gone up; it's equal to or less than usual Bézier control handles, because I forced the parameters to take specific values.

The part that is "new" about the Béziers is the new formula that selects one specific Bézier out of all the possible choices. I think this linguistic accusation is silly; for example, if someone discovers a new rock, it would be fair to call it a "new rock" even though rocks have been discovered thousands of years ago.

These curves are also unrelated to the file format; the curves are designed to fit how the user thinks about curves rather than be computer-efficient. For the tooling point, I think you are agreeing with me while arguing; I agree that there's no reason the curve should match what is used in the final product, and some of the other curve choices I considered require a complex conversion step.
Are there any highly regarded bringup docs out there? I.e. docs from an OS, emulator, etc. that do a great job of explaining how to get the OS running on new hardware. Or is it usually just done by studying previous code examples and asking experts for help?
The recommended solution to slow startup times has always been keep a repl open. That's basically the same workflow as a notebook in my mind. Like I said this means there is a large class of tasks julia a doesn't make sense for because paying the startup cost is too expensive compared to python or go.

I just timed vscode with the lsp. From the point I open a 40 line file of the lorenz attractor example, it takes 45 seconds until navigation within that same file works, and the lsp hogs 1 GB of memory. That's 5x the memory of clangd and 20x worse performance; hardly what I would consider a snappy experience.

I have no doubt that julia can be shoe-horned into realtime applications. But when I read threads like this [1], it's pretty clear that doing so amounts to a hack (e.g., people recommending that you somehow call all your functions to get them jited before the main loop actually starts). Even the mitigations you propose, i.e., pre-allocating everything, don't exploit any guarantees made by the language, so you're basically in cross-your-fingers and pray territory. I would never feel comfortable advocating for this in a commercial setting.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-real-time-worrie...
Looks good!

These are just my opinions;

Maybe have the black background be off-black, and the green a tad less sharp, just for easier readability

If page times could be loaded in a bit faster, just to make it feel a bit snappier.

I love it though, always a fan of "fun" design!
Would he be expected to know we would spend decades doing ballistic studies on that bullet trajectory in the heat of the moment?