skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The important aspect of the metric system is consistency, not the actual base. The base is 10 because it makes math easier in almost all modern languages

Time is weird because its units are so necessarily arbitrary. We don't control (yet at least) the relationship between the rotation and revolution times of the planet, and both of those values are so very much essential

It's also interesting that you almost never will need to convert between time units. In normal life you will maybe convert minutes to hours and days or months (which aren't even of uniform length) into weeks and years. But scientists or engineers will always work in "metric" units of seconds and astronomers / archaeologists will always work in "metric" units of years

Compare this to mass and length/volume units, where a normal person will frequently need to traverse multiple orders of magnitude even just to bake a cake (grams to kilograms and milliliters to liters) and will have frequent experiences involving much higher orders (meters to kilometers every time they are following directions on their phones, or tons if they are loading a truck or buying a car)
A list is just what it sounds like, a set of works or editions. But OL also has the concept of "reading log" which is specific lists that are read/reading/want to read that are preset for people.

You can learn more about lists in general here https://openlibrary.org/lists

This is a list I created recently titled "Understanding the Latin American City" https://openlibrary.org/people/raybb/lists/OL235745L/Underst...

If you want to access the api for lists the docs are at https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/lists but it's also as easy as tacking .json to the end of a url like so:

https://openlibrary.org/people/crowmax22/lists/OL226172L/edi...
It's 8 because it's 1/3 of the day. 10/3 is not a nice round number.

Also 1/4 of a day is 6 hours, another nice round number! 10/4 is 2.5 which is not as bad as 10/3 but still not a round number.
... because nothing is more pleasant than revising multiple manuscripts with different requirements at the same time?
See my reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37855705
Nobody questions the logical consistency of the system, I think.

Presently, we use 24-hour time (AM/PM or otherwise), so the loss in precision is enormous going from 24 to 10.

Think about it.

A tenth of a standard hour is 6 standard minutes.

A tenth of a metric hour is 144 standard minutes, more than two standard hours.

A hundredth of a standard hour is 36 standard seconds, or half a minute. It is in the context of hours a negligible amount of time.

A hundredth of a metric hour is 14.4 standard minutes! Imagine being 0.01 metric hours late for a meeting.

So everywhere you now have to specify time to two decimal places /at least/, three to have sub-standard-minute precision.

Layer on top of this the fact that the new system has significantly fewer distinct prime factors, so you quickly run into continuing fractions. Disaster.
I think companies overvalue secrecy to the point that most that are able would immediately leave. And I don't think most any industry has such a problem with willingness to execute quickly that trying to incentivize that is worth totally crushing R&D. Hell, I think the world could do with a bit more research and a bit less moving fast and breaking things.
Can I download this as a PDF? I'd like to read it offline.
I think they said what _they_ meant _and_ still meant what _you_ said.
I am a big advocate for job hopping, but in your case I think you need to stay on at one company for at least a few years and develop skills, and see a project through long term.

You can always try starting something up, but it is honestly pretty difficult to beat the cost/benefit of just getting a promotion!
NASA: Capillary Cup
This isn't really fair. There are many manuals with rapidly changing or incomplete information, or information only months old that is no longer accurate.

This is a fast moving space and can definitely be confusing.
> freight with many technical debts

"Freight" is a noun, not a verb. I can't guess the word you meant.

"Freighted"? (Weighed down.)
"Fraught"? (Troubled by.)

The sad thing is that Pascal continued to evolve, but TP codified and fossilised it and that seems to be becoming a problem now.

Pascal evolved into Modula, which fairly soon became Modula-2 which is still around and enjoyed a moment in the sun.

(Modula-3 was someone else.)

Modula-2 evolved into Oberon, which is also still around.

Oberon evolved into Oberon 2, then was rebooted with Oberon 07, but which also led on to Active Oberon and Zennon.

Oberon+ is an attempt to re-unify them.

https://oberon-lang.github.io/
And based on a 1,000 (kilo) of something so 1 metre 1,000g (kilometre), 1 gram 1,000g (kilogram). You can have centimetres but that not in the spirit of the metric system really.

Maybe we need a cron for an hour or a day? 1,000 crons for an hour sounds better than millicrons by breaking up a day if it was 1 cron.
Good humor is black humor.
> I hesitate to call it a "free" market because any electricity market ends up having a lot of rules).

Markets without a lot of rules are not free, they are inevitably controlled by the biggest players or cartels.
The Adeptus Mechanicus might have something to say about that...
SGML is a meta-language unlike every other example in your reply, so the prevalence of such semi-structured languages (including SGML applications) doesn't justify SGML itself. Even HTML is not exactly an SGML application (except for HTML 4), and in my knowledge implementing HTML with a generic SGML implementation was rarely done. So the fact that SGML is a near superset of both JSON and XML doesn't mean much.
I can't imagine how slow it is without a graphics chip
I believe they mean for designing the schema in the first place. Meaning the impedance match between JSON and their chosen language is usually more natural.
Here: https://www.openintro.org/book/ims/
It’s how science worked for 3 centuries before the current review system was instituted just a generation ago.
It doesn't matter what the page also says the video clearly was intended to show a car that didn't need a driver
Lazarus is the IDE for FPC, the FreePascal Compiler, as I understand it. Lazarus itself isn't a language.
You can say a lot about Microsoft the company. You can even take digs at Visual Studio Code and its "telemetry reporting". But LSP is one of the best things that's come out of that whole ordeal. It's far from perfect. But as a Vim user, we've had nothing this good until now. I used TernJS for JavaScript and some other handy plugins for other language specific stuff... and it was such a pain. LSP made things far more uniform. And they gave it away to the community! They didn't force anyone to use it.
Thanks for sharing this, somehow I missed this while reading cat-v. Definitely applicable to a couple of other technologies too...
Speeding up embedding 13x with the GPU and ggml
I don't really care how much sleep I get as long as it's enough. I care greatly when the bus leaves and when my meetings are. Anything that hopes to replace a clock had better be adding precision rather than removing it.
> Weren’t the California brownouts caused by Enron fucking with California’s supply to cause them to purchase electricity from Texas at insanely high rates.

The Texas grid (ERCOT, specifically) is almost completely isolated, in order to avoid certain Federal level regulations. There's no real way for California or any other state to sell power into Texas or buy power from Texas.

Part of what happened with California is that Enron would schedule to deliver a bunch of power over transmission lines that were not rated to handle the power. When it came time to deliver the power, this forced a transmission constraint that in turn forced CAISO (CA grid operator) to buy power on the spot market (expensive) to cover the shortfall. Enron then had generation they could sell at a premium. I remember hearing stories of the ISO seeing the trade go in, recognize what was happening, and not have any legal recourse within the market's legal design.
The official name of the operating system built by Microsoft is Microsoft Windows. For the OS developed by Apple it's macOS. These are their actual names, this has no personal bias in it.
Legal BEPS exist and is more complicated than this oversimplification. While Apple didn't do Stanley Works "moving" to Bermuda, Tim Cook is no slouch in the financial domain as that was (and is) his wheelhouse. The calculus involves a myriad of factors including a risk appetite, leadership ethics, lots of data, and decision support. As an aside, I once parted ways with 2 potential business partners because they were on the privately-admitted illegal side of BEPS and tax minimization in speech and action. (Last I heard, they're lobbyists for political interests based in another country.)

Also, the books for taxes and the books for securities regulators aren't precisely equivalent per jurisdiction based on how things are counted or not counted. For example, in general, Norwegian and US accounting practices tended to be/are vastly different in some areas... hence a need for local external auditors.

Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens (2002)
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=29288
It would help to see something about a privacy policy. Letting a 3rd party into your inbox is like letting them into your home.
You can still access a lot of stuff via just SMS - could setup an SMS ChatGPT service for yourself and use it via this in the middle of nowhere
Structured concurrency as commonly understood requires children to not outlive parents, recursively. For example, if A spawns B spawns C, then B cancels for C with timeout 30s, then 5s later A cancels B with timeout 5s, then the timeout for C must be effectively reduced by 20s[1].

But the issue here is more basic than timeouts. If we are to use process groups in the example, then B must be a process group leader for C and simultaneously belong to the process group led by A, which is impossible on Unix—that’s what TFA means by “[the] process group mechanism [is] one-level deep”. Close but no cigar.

(On the other hand, no reason this can’t be an extension to—I would even say a rationalization of—the process group mechanism. It doesn’t exist right now, though.)

[1] https://250bpm.com/blog:71/
I don't see widespread agreement in the statistics community as to what should replace NHST. If you go Bayesian you need to completely rewrite the course. I've seen confidence intervals suggested as an alternative, but there are arguments against. I've also seen arguments that hypothesis tests shouldn't be used at all. Given that NHST is still widely used and there isn't a clear alternative I think it's a disservice to students to not introduce them.
IIRC, the only US ISO without a capacity market is ERCOT (TX). They let the marginal rates go higher on the theory that it will create an incentive for construction of generation to address anticipated capacity constraints.
> Hackers, working alone, late at night, strange times, strange places. Cultivating their work and skills and then ... shoot ... sending an email!

Very poetic, but also not much different to the current state. Just clicking to open a PR instead of sending an email attachment.
That's just the CPU though. The Amiga has a bunch of custom chips for doing things you would have to do on the CPU in a PC.
sr.ht does that

I don’t find it very user friendly (well, at all), but if you want a git forge that does that, you can use it.
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I used to use relayd to add TLS support to suckless' ii, something close to stunnel.
"Thanks. I just had it stuffed."
"She wore a gray blazer over a white v-neck blouse with black dots tucked into a black skirt, and she still didn't quite summon up the appearance of an executive. That made sense. The text messages we saw suggested she made few consequential moves without first consulting Bankman-Fried - not exactly a real CEO."

This was a bunch of kids. Math majors with no understanding of how the non-abstract, real world works, or at least, no ability to deal with it.

The adults were SBF's parents.
Did you find a solution for tasks you actively avoid? Asking for a friend that needs to finish a thesis...
There are designs for modular reactors that are inherently safe. Using subcritical reactors and a particle beam. See Aker Solutions: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featureaker-s-ads-uses-...

Haven't seen any news from them recently though.
If they do, they'll be ignoring the last 12 months of "oh hey these generative AI can make pictures of anything now".

Note that I'm not saying they won't, just that it's a bad idea in a new and exciting way.
Lot of things are mentioned that are valid but personally those are secondary I would pay for a good community of a specific topic I'm interested in where the content to noise ratio is great and the community is friendly and helpful.
Private companies should not be holding such data regardless, so the point becomes moot.
For this Amiga demo it's mostly just the sound mixing the hardware handles. On a PC, mixing a couple of sound channels is pretty quick.
As an alternative to the notoriously terrible world of academic publishing an obvious solution is to use github (there's a lot of parallels here with the old software world of closed source vs modern open source...)

I'm in the very early stages of building somthing like this, if you'd like to publish your own research like this or simply help out/give feedback check it out and ping me [0]

[0] https://versioned.science/
Yeah, it sounds like it should support it.

Traditionally though OCaml editor integrations have also supported not only asking just the type of a symbol, but of an expression. I wonder if LSP can do that, because that function needs some interactive scoping of the query, not just a single point, or I suppose it can work if hovering over parenthesis but if precedency needs to be accounted for, it would be difficult to understand what the user wants to see.

I've _really_ enjoyed the expression type queries in the past, but I haven't coded OCaml for a while :/.
Tobermory, on Mull in Scotland, is a well known (UK) example of colourful houses - it is shoreside too. It's probably that in most tightly packed housing there's no vista, only on the shore does that become possible and so the use of colour enhances the visual amenity.

Who did it first?
Plate solving - identifying constellations and deep sky objects by the relative positions of stars - is a pretty common part of astronomy software and possible on a raspberry pi. For example https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net

I'm not aware of anything that can, say, identify a meteor and differentiate it from a plane or satellite, but I'm sure it's possible.
So long as you can export to USB all the tracks i'd call it good. Record in peace, then if you want more take those tracks to a real DAW for editing. The easy to record where you are is a major feature as setting up a computer in a different room for a 5 minute song is not worth it.

I'm looking for an easy way for my kid to record himself, so i'm more concerned about durability as it will be abused. To that end i'd prefer to see features like take an mp3 from the instruction book website and play along (this is often hard to download).
Provide source packages. It works for hundred thousand of packages, so why your package is an exception?
I like this one a lot.
What is your background and what field will you be applying your knowledge to?

There can be a rather wide gap between a theoretical approach that you might encounter as taught by a statistician and an applied approach you might encounter in a business statistics or social science statistics course.

Depending on your math background and the area of intended application, in my opinion, it would sway recommendations for a first 'book' on statistics for self-learning.
Ha, good joke. Yugoslavia wanted Stalin dead because Stalin tried to kill Tito twice up to the point of the Yugo Secret Service advicing Stalin that they should stop fucking around, if not they would get rid of Stalin themselves.
The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence
In a way, China kind of has something like the Swatch gimmick for real. There's just one time zone in the whole country (which is roughly the size of the Continental US). This has benefits (easy to coordinate video conferences in different cities) and drawbacks (the official time is far off from what the sun would indicate in much of China).
An OS with missing and/or broken packages is not a better OS.

The OS engineers are usually not the ones maintaining Wesnoth, and if they are it's because they want to.
You didn't make an argument, you merely stated something that the respondent disputes. There is a very stable base load in most countries that can be well provided with nuclear. This is especially the case when there are good interconnections between neighbouring countries.
Well, the nice thing with decimal time is that it also gives you a better indication what portion of the day is over. at 6 o'clock you know 60% of the day is gone. With 2pm you don't make that calculation. Not that it's important, but it's one of the nice benefits.
If you said nothing better became an industry standard I could see your point, but how exactly is XML better than s-expressions? Or, if you want something less generalized, KDL (which is roughly XML with 90% less syntax overhead)?
I honestly hope that they don’t. You’ll never cover all sports and you’ll never have global coverage, all while sucking up a ton of developer resources. Focus on search.
> Because the vast, vast majority of people have no idea how any of this shit works.

Then don't let them use it. We don't let people drive who don't know how to safely operate a car. We don't let people make food in commercial kitchens without training. We let users run free with no knowledge, then build systems to stop them from hurting themselves, it's absurd.
Unable to download pcap "Download the pcap to follow along." When going to the page it gives the error "Not found"
I like to buy books, but mainly because I like having a physical book collection. In the past year, I've probably ordered 40 or 50 books from Thriftbooks (yes, I am a fast reader). My bookshelf is now getting full with quality books that I can read again and again, or loan out to friends if they want to read one of my books.
I was going to post something like this. I would even argue that you didn't fail. You did exactly what you actually desired

This is an opportunity to introspect on why your actions didn't align with whatever goals you set. Maybe you don't actually want to reach the goal at all.

As with anything else. The value of the journey isn't an illusionary destination, but rather what you learn along the way. You'll likely find that you don't follow the path you imagined, likely because you found something more exciting along the way.

It's as if the goal is some sort of sacred object for change rather than something to be obtained.
Never, because "insider information" is a legal concept that doesn't correspond with what people intuit it means. People wrongly think insider trading is when one party unfairly profits from having important information other investors don't have.

Also, sharing "insider information" isn't illegal. In some narrow cases profiting off of "insider information" is illegal, but in most cases it's not.
We use a mix of everything in the UK, although metric is common in many areas where it matters.
My understanding is that’s exactly why access is not unlimited.

Interestingly during the pandemic some Nevada state parks moved to a mandatory pass pre-purchase system as a way to control the number of people in the park at a given time to aid in infection control and prevention. Nevada has some truly gorgeous state parks that are more akin to BLM managed land than NPS land. (To me, it’s all beautiful.)
R&I Foresight in Government
Exactly this. It could be either one, but M$ has done zilch to earn goodwill from the community.
Just as bad as having 31 days a month, for randomly chosen months.
If any periods of time need to fixed it's surely weeks and months. How about 5 day weeks (3 working, 2 not - and yes, therefore 10-day "fort"nights) and scrap months altogether...
Hobbies are supposed to be fun. Running is brutal ;p
Good news (kinda): C23 allows (and GCC has for a long long time allowed) you to write typeof(float *) foo, bar; and declare two pointers. Not that I’d advocate writing normal declarations that way, but at least now you can write macros (e.g. for allocation) that don’t choke on arbitrary type names.
I always felt these kind of integrations ask for so much access in return for so little additional functionality. Do I

A- give you access to all my documents so you can make a thumbnail when I attach a document or

B- not do that and not get a thumbnail, so I just look at the document outside of slack before attaching it?

That's never been a complicated decision for me.
It's specifically not a USSR-like regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
Because up until (relatively) recently, you couldn't even compile code on Windows without VS.
correct. Opening a PR triggers an email. No difference at all.
I probably should have been more clear. I didn't say hypothesis testing, I said NHST (the binary null/alt hypothesis approach) - which is an approach to hypothesis testing particularly prevelant in certain disciplines such as Psychology.

And in that context, there is a lot of agreement that this approach is fundamentally flawed and outdated. if you are interested, I can provide references when I get to the office. But off the top of my head consider Gigerenzer and Cummings.
Many oss projects still do this, don't they. I am subscribed to debian and python mail lists. Debian's lists are highly active.
Helpful, I guess. But it feels like a case where aggregated data makes for a better narrative.

For example, the article says, "About 26.6 percent of the nation’s vacant housing units are actively available for rent." Does that mean the landlords are having trouble finding qualified tenants? If so, then the real issue is the disconnect between inventory and what those seeking shelter can afford.

A $5000 p/m unit being held back if 99% of those needing a place to live can't afford it.

Housing availablity is like jobs creation. X new jobs? Ok. Whatever. But at what rate of pay? With what benefits? A job is not a transparent unit of measure. The devil in these things is in the details.
This site seems to be made by Drew DeVault who also runs sourcehut.
founder here: this probably suggests the fundamentals of the platform are misunderstood, which is already good feedback. But if it is thought that using Gmail for email has any less 'privacy', that is interesting. And that a privacy policy will somehow protect you.
We use MongoDB queryable encryption (new feature) to mean email content is never known server side.
This is my experience as well. I love the hacker culture associated with it and it's very fun to use e.g. Mutt, sr.ht, and git-send-email together, but it's anything but efficient and straightforward. I ultimately moved away from sr.ht for that reason.
I do think the HQ camera is due an upgrade, though I'd prefer a proper low-light camera, ideally Sony Starvis.

Although you can buy cheap Starvis modules you don't have full control over the exposure time and/or can only shoot in a compressed format. The HQ camera is well-supported with good drivers, like all Raspberry Pi hardware, which is why people still use the HQ Camera for cheap astronomy projects despite having a small sensor and poor low-light performance.
I feel like this statement hides something critical, "Here's the thing: there is, clearly, more utility in me keeping my finger than in you keeping your measly ten pounds."

My point is that, is that so clear? Or is the utility function being presumed here lacking?