skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> quote of the islamic holy prophet

What Mohammed did or said is not relevant here. That Hamas chose to use those specific words in their charter to convey their genocidal intent is. They could have quoted Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao for all I care. Or made up something of their own.

Jihadists and jihadi organizations always rely on Islamic history, writing and tradition because that makes it easier to rile up Muslims on issues that are otherwise irrelevant to them. Otherwise, why the f--- would you chant "from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free" or taunt Jews with "Khaybar" in a supposed rally in support for Palestine?[1][2] Or, use genocidal language in your charter?

Sam Harris, as quoted in the article above, is right: "People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen." So, when Hamas quotes Mohammed (regardless of the authenticity of the quote), it should be "taken" at "face value."

[1] LILLEY UNLEASHED: Canadian citizens need to denounce Hamas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXaZ9Uryis)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khaybar
I've had the pleasure of dealing with devs who read this and decide it says "emit json formatted text to stdout and let someone else figure it out, just like it says in some web page." The guidance is explicitly "send it to stdout and let someone else figure it out." Which is terrible advice.

The words don't suggest anything else. Maybe your experience suggests maybe you should use a library and reserve the ability to serialize that data to a proper api if necessary, but that's you not the words in the 12 factor app, and some large subset of people just do the minimum necessary to get the ticket off their queue, and if that means "printf log" that's what this advice in this suggests they'll do. It's splunk's problem now!

And my advice is "use a damned logging library; understand the distinction between using a networking stack and API that manages abstractions like event size and retrying and such and stdout, which offers none of that."
Is there actually an increasing prevalence and popularity of e-ink displays? I know there technically exists some "high refresh rate" e-ink screens these days (meaning you can get 10 FPS if you're comfortable with a whole lot of ghosting), but aren't e-ink screens still pretty much only used in dedicated e-book readers?

Personally, I think it's just that monochrome icons are fashionable. I can't imagine that the GIMP developers for example chose to make GIMP's icons monochrome because that works better on e-ink screens.
So far as I can tell it's emacs' internal indent style and some configurations end up using it for things that aren't emacs internal code.

Exactly how said "some configurations" came to be I never figured out, it may have been a particular set of distro defaults.
I was already running home server, so for me, setting up smart home was relatively simple:

- Buy Zigbee USB dongle
- Install Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT in Docker on server
- Initial configuration

It requires basic technical knowledge, but after initial configuration it just works.

There were three major pains:

- Configuring camera (ONVIF is pure pain) - it works initially, but I physically plug-in cameras only when I'm going on holiday
- Configuring voice assistant
- Finding good ZigBee remotes
- Price of Hue Wall Switch (DIY approach is possible by gutting cheap button)

Cameras and voice assistant troubles were arguably result of my "keep as much as possible within local network" approach.

Minor pains:

- Binding remotes to light bulbs, so they work even if server is down
- Finding instructions how to bind certain ZigBee accessories (they have "just open our proprietary app and it will explain what to do" manual)
> "thousand milli" can just be eliminated, leaving us with 2Ah.

They call it marketing.
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Do we really need to switch on lights or open the garage door with our voice? Is a switch really that hard to use?

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You don't have to be near the control pannel/open the app/whatever

Honestly turning off and on the lights from the bed is a fucking godsend (and choosing the % and color too)

And the music too but it's really hit or miss with certain song titles

I feel like i'm in a film and i can choose my soundtrack while i'm in my home.

Another thing was turning on and off the space heater and fan
The private economy is literally owned by shareholders who want to get paid for holding shares. That's not a theory, not a conspiracy, it's a description of reality.

The mechanism that keeps them in check is competition. We should expect constant attempts to circumvent this mechanism requiring frequent intervention to keep it in place. That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a consequence of incentives working, which is the reason why we have this system in the first place. Not for these incentives, for other better ones, but these come along for the ride. You should expect to see them.

These are basic reasonable expectations you should have in a capitalist economy.
I think good tutoring should/does demonstrate the standard. It shows us what education can do, when the limiting factor is (ideally) the students' ability to learn instead of resources available to teach.

Idk if any technology, institutional framework or other fix can ever achieve that standard. They don't necessarily have to. Its still useful to have a comparative standard.

There will always be a difference between learning to (say) pole jump & hammer throw by self coaching, vs training under an olympic coach. You can, however, use that coaches' methods and standards to teach a cheap, recreational class.

The mechanism is complex, but recreational field athletics is better (farther/higher) by existing in a world where olympic training exists. They'd be even better in a world where those trainers coach middle aged normies, to remove the "youth and talent" factors.

I suspect, for example, that small groups or 1-v1 can comfortably pace a primary school curriculum with a small fraction of the desk hours. That in itself is a "performance gap" with potentially actionable crossover.
King. They're getting King, the 100kg mobile MTX adware gorilla
shouldn't every airport show that, including major ones like Atlanta?
Did you read the first paragraph?

> Plaintiff Twitter, Inc. (“Twitter”), by and through its undersigned counsel, as
and for its complaint against defendants Elon R. Musk, X Holdings I, Inc.
(“Parent”), and X Holdings II, Inc. (“Acquisition Sub”), alleges as follows:

If you are trying to say this is 'difficult to read', maybe don't pick things that are answered in the first paragraph.
It probably isn't even #2 in console business either.
Really amazing interfaces!
> Your website is a guest in my house, which is to say, my machine, and I will do with it what I please.

If only - but sorry, nope. Both for websites and software, the provider provides a service under conditions (or license) backed up by IP laws. This is what allows Windows to behave as if your PC was their property.

Your only option to keep being a master in your house is to not let in vampires.
A labor of love - outstanding work!
Generating knowledge and novel concepts requires privacy and control over the concept.

Instant access to knowledge has cheapened and diluted the process of creating new concepts.

The guys who put knowledge on the 'internet shelf' are not the guys who made the valueable knowledge in the first place.

The best way to create knowledge is to isolate concepts, structures and relationships into the human mind.

As soon as a concept stops being literally secret, it becomes infintely less worthwhile. Nobody works on hard intellectual problems any more because they've been massively cheapened by CTRL C, and CTRL V functionality.

The James Bond-ian culture of spies fighting over a hidden concept, is not just a flight of fancy at the movie theatres, it is one of the best culturally visible examples of how to develop and keep secret, aka. a new concept.

Spying, duplicating and publicating knowledge into instant-access platforms, is way more dangerous than anyone publicly admits.
This is the way landline phones are going in the UK (edit: I’m referring to the “phone over the internet” aspect, not the space aspect). I don’t see why the same doesn’t apply to mobile phones.

However the notion that it makes phone numbers and ISPs obsolete is naive in my opinion, as is the notion that it would improve privacy. Quite the opposite. Aside from death and taxes, certainties include that businesses adapt to changing markets, and that privacy is always at threat.
This is a (bad-faith?) misreading. What I took away was: a business that attempts to maximise profits without returning a corresponding value to society is likely to fail.
That seems more like a “let’s not sweat the small stuff” type decision to me. It seems like exactly the sort of decision that would have to be revisited if huge industries got built on AI.

I mean, ultimately if you had a “virtual musician” that could do “live performances” of any cover with 100% fidelity on demand while running on your phone, I think we wouldn’t treat that like a human cover band. Doing so would just kill off the idea of music IP (which, I’m definitely not going to defend the current mess that is IP law, but people have been arguing about it for a long time, so I suspect we as a society won’t just toss it out now).

It also occurred to me while writing this that this sort of virtual musician wouldn’t even really be like a cover band, because they don’t even play at a venue. They play just for you. I suspect there are no laws, at least being enforced, that cover what sort of songs a musician can play in private, in their friends’ houses. So, I think this is really going to break our intuition.
That sounds nice but I don't think it actually happens. Shittier but cheaper service seems to always fare better than the better but more expensive one.
cmp-natdat[0] is an nvim-cmp[1] source that autocompletes natural language dates (e.g. `@tomorrow`) and turns them into ISO dates (e.g. `2023-10-14`).

I built it because I missed this feature after moving from Notion to Obsidian[2] and writing my notes in Neovim.

Repository link: https://github.com/Gelio/cmp-natdat/

## Examples

* `@now` -> `2023-10-13 12:38`

* `@tomorrow` -> `2023-10-14`

* `@last Friday 2pm` -> `2023-10-06 14:00`

* `@Oct 8 2021` -> `2021-10-08`

* `@today 14:20` -> `2023-10-13 14:20`

## Features

* autocomplete for partially typed month names, relative dates

* supported formats:

* `now`

* `yesterday`, `today`, `tomorrow` with optional time

* days of week (Monday -> Sunday), with optional `last`/`next` modifier and time

* full dates: month, day, optional year, optional time

* time: am/pm, or 24h format

## Installation and setup

Described in the README[3].

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[0]: https://github.com/Gelio/cmp-natdat

[1]: https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp

[2]: https://obsidian.md/

[3]: https://github.com/Gelio/cmp-natdat/#setup
In modern parlance, "high-DPI" or "HiDPI" does not refer to your 24" 1080p screen. That's solidly a "low-DPI" screen; it's perfectly usable with UI elements rendered at "1x".
Good advice here!
> every system that interacts with your server (who have all likely defaulted to UTC) have to know about this now.

No, why? Almost all APIs/interfaces use zoned timestamps or seconds since the Unix epoch.

The argument of “servers must run in UTC” sounds a bit like “servers must run with an English locale” to me in that sense, as if the locale changed the name of API parameters or enum values instead of just human-readable strings.
"can do things others can't" isn't the thing we want to stop, though. Wealth isn't bad for those who focus on creating value, just as strength isn't bad for those who are in the gym 6 days a week.
Infocom games were always amazing to me. Great writeup!
China is advancing, so of course they do. Nothnig is wrong about great China.
If possible I would encourage you to make an MWE and post it on the Julia Discourse - "Julia slower than R for optimization problem" or something like that, there's a good chance that the community will be able to eke out some more performance. Alternatively you might have hit on a case in which Julia itself is currently leaving performance on the table, which would still be helpful for the community to know as being slow is often considered a bug in Julia world.
Why does this feel like an attempt to steal an underdeveloped thought and run to market with it?
Sorry if it came across that way, everyone’s needs are different. As far as I know both Mac and Windows have preferences to make scrollbars permanent and/or giant, though not every app is as accessible, and webpages can, of course, do whatever they want to some extent. You could probably find a browser and OS combination that is completely customizable to suit, though.
Is this a "no real Scotsman" defense of the UI/UX industry becoming subordinate to Marketing Departments?
I'm not saying they raise the rent on your current place (which is perfectly fine), I'm saying they move/upgrade you to a more expensive address that you've never seen before.
Agreed. At least in Germany it is totally feasible by now to get your seed funding from local community banks, e.g. Sparkassen. Federal and country banks are covering up to 80% of the lender's risk nowadays, so getting a 100k EUR to get started has become rather easy and fast. You need a business plan and a pitch and off you go. (For perspective, we are still talking a few months of paperwork, but it is a marked improvement over the get-out-of-my-office of only a decade ago.)

Sure, not all of the money is in grants, but you don't have to sign over half your company to some investor either just to get started.
Yeah, they did want to maintain root access because they had started to rely on it, I'm not very familiar with exact details. We have an ongoing process of exposing different debug info in the restricted CLI, but it is a never ending task so they always want something which is only visible to the root.
- waitpid returns after timeout, assume the process is dead, collect all zombie processes just in case.

- yeah this one is a bummer, write the child pids, collect them via a watchdog process
(threading along for a minor nitpick on above post)

Ya, correct enough.

> > Higher mushroom consumption was associated with lower risk of total cancer (pooled RR for the highest compared with the lowest consumption groups: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.78; n = 17)

> Specifically the “0.66; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.78; n = 17” line?

For a given study with a cohort of A entities, and a count of events A_event, and a cohort of B entities, with count of events B_event; the A_risk will be A_event/A, B_risk will be B_event/B; and the risk ratio (RR) between the cohorts will be RR = A_risk/B_risk. [wiki gives a cursory math explainer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_risk#Numerical_exampl...] If the RR here is lower than 1, whatever distinguishes cohort A from B is interpreted as reducing the risk.

The linked study does a systematic review of the literature. From that review, they ultimately find 17 studies which are suitably comparable under their criteria. Each of these 17 studies are observational studies over different sizes of cohorts (table 1 in linked paper characterizes the n for each study) that report their own risk ratios (figure 3 in the paper plots each of those RR), then they pooled those risk ratios with a random effects model to synthesize each of the different risk ratios between those studies into the single pooled RR within some confidence interval quoted above. ("pooled" because it's pooling the results from multiple studies.)

>sample size n = only 17 after all

The nitpick is that n=17 is referring to the number of papers pooled, not the population sampled in the underlying observational studies. (that number is higher than 17; lee et al in table 1/ fig 3 is n=112,991).

This chapter in "Doing Meta-analysis in R" gives a rundown on the mechanics of pooling effect sizes with random-effects models (as done in this paper): https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/...

Odds Ratios and Risk Ratios pop up in a lot of medical studies, there's a number of papers that can help clarify their differences and pitfalls (Viera here is a reasonable entry point: https://sma.org/southern-medical-journal/article/odds-ratios...)

Hope that helps ^_^
From what I hear, it's also an example of how ineptly run the State Dept's IT systems were.

Complex tasks like "set up a new computer" had months of lead time.
Hope you didn't take the job.

Saves them a lot of pain in the ass.
> Release the hostages, don't fire rockets at Israel.

How do you know that will stop anything of Isreal's plans?

They woved vengeance, not "an operation to recover hostages".
I agree (and said as much in another comment). The different groups didn't come up with different effects, they came up with different magnitudes of the same effect. This doesn't seem like a replication crisis.
Which other "init system" is mucking with the bootloader and partition table like systemd does? How is that even in-scrope for an init system?
Just so you know, you can disable that spacing in the file explorer: in the explorer -> View -> Show -> Compact view
_All_ apps are CRUD apps.
No it’s not. You can argue about number theory and combinatorics, but the stats/prob part of the book is very inadequate.
> Things are rarely binary.

Things are remarkably binary in capitalism. Try pitching a VC on a startup concept that’s about more than money and see how far it gets you.

Or hit up just a few of hundreds of thousands laid off in the industry over the last year and ask them how important money is to them.

People who talk about wishing they hadn’t focused so much on the money are the ones who have it. Such tone-deaf takes are only possible once you’ve secured yourself against the system. The rest of us dream to one day be in a place to say such stupid things.
There is a relation between them, but not a strong one, I agree. The more conclusions you can draw from a data set, the more will be wrong. A possible reason, hinted at in the article, is underestimating the noise. It's one of the things that went bad in psych studies, but also in genetics (in a lecture some 10 years ago, a statistician explained how results in genetics would be reproducible only at 5 sigma or higher).
I'd say waiting for the traffic light to turn green when there is no traffic nearby adds friction rather than reduces it.
I cannot wait for the day where I don't have to actively drive my RV cross country on a trip.
Screenstudio is incredible and a one time purchase
I would have gone with Petraeus' gmail account. The one that got the Chinese to hack Google.
Would be fun to read an article about how websites abuse browsers. I keep getting frustrated with https://www.macrumors.com and its insane amount of network calls, ads, bits of javascript, and other endless connections. Browser features started off so easy to understand, and now it's crazy. I had to write a webapp for the USPS in 1998 using IE 2, which had almost no features, and occasionally the features they had actually worked...
Umm, scrollbars nowadays are just to indicate something is scrollable. You almost never have to actually drag them.

Touch devices: swipe the content.

Laptops: touchpad two-finger swipe, hold middle button and use trackpoint

Desktops: mouse scroll wheel, pg-up/dn

What am I missing?
Another person whom I admire more is James Low (from Waking Up app) and also Adyashanti.
The only medium for creating monopolistic power is government. Unless laws or regulation exist to create barriers of entry to market by businesses then the prices are always competitive.

Cartels have been proven 100x over to not be feasible. Even classic examples like standard oil prove the monopolies aren't possible, because Standard Oil was out competing all market competitors on price, quality, and innovation.

Only thing close to a modern day monopolistic behavior is growth before profit capitalism we've seen over the last 20 years. Now that interest rates are going back up it's finally coming to an end.
Oh, I'm pretty sure we can just say whatever, even "we have decided and it will be so". There is only a tiny problem when a customer is bigger (and richer) than the vendor by an order of magnitude or more :) . They tend to control a lot, with such power imbalance.
It doesn't seem like there are enough experienced software engineers, at least in certain fields. Native mobile seems to be a tight market.

Getting your foot in the door is hard though. Nobody wants to hire a junior.
Louis DeJoy is still in charge.
As a non cryptographer this whole conversation chain has me confused. I though it was desirable for a good hashing algorithm to be slow to make brute force difficult.
How do you link the same product across competitors if there’s no unifying unique id?
One of the things that is little known among Westerners is just how much money the Japanese invested in China when Deng Xiaoping opened the borders. Yes he travelled to Texas and Singapore but he also met with Japanese industrialists- just like their Western counterparts however they underestimated the CCP's ambitions.
The end of the long dash: CBC stops broadcasting official time signal
Oh, I'm not talking about comments, but literally road signs.

I've seen plenty of these comments myself in various states of correct- and usefulness (from right and helpful to redundant to wrong, because of a change to always been wrong) in the last (almost) 20 years. Some of them had been my own.
If I can have an additional way to interface with my home, then I see it as a win.

What I think holds the largest value to me, is to be able to extract information that you can't get from flicking a switch, or actively looking at a screen/tablet somewhere in the home. What's the weather? Can you start a timer for X minutes? How long is my commute today?
I think the main difference is that OpenAI doesn't have network effect. AirBnB/Uber/any social network wins because you want to be where everyone else is. ChatGPT is great, but I can switch tomorrow to something else without any issues.
my thinking was that someone with domain expertise could identify if the summary and key takeaways make sense and furthermore if the accusations have merit.

anyways, it seems i cannot delete the comment, so would be great if a moderator or something could do it, thanks.
You might try a third party repair place.
Well said, and it rhymes with many of the mistakes we have made in the past. We discount the social, the emotional, the storytelling... Often they're what matters.

It also rhymes with common parenting folk wisdom that having "the wrong friends" is detrimental to grades.

>the challenge isn't explaining, it's to get the students to care.

This.

The reason not one student learned French in my four years of mandatory French classes is that we didn't want to know french. We didn't know any french people. We didn't care about french songs or movies.

OTOH, when telenovelas became a local fad, every girl had a clique of Spanish speaking 13 year olds.

The actual problem in that case is: How do you teach french/philosophy/whatever to a class full of kids who don't want to learn that stuff? Maybe they want to pass exams and get grades. Maybe you can rejigger discipline mechanisms to motivate them... but that is never going to get you to good.
OTOH, ensuring our representatives are 100% beholden to us also means screaming in the next primary about every bipartisan deal made.

Which has the net effect of decreasing the ability to reach nobody-is-happy compromises.

Which is something else people say they want.

I'm unconvinced that private, smoke-filled backrooms don't have an essential place as the grease that keeps things running well.
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