skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey wait - I know that Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian are very similar. But Macedonian is basically a dialect of Bulgarian and Slovenian has a much more complicated grammar than BCS, it still has the dual and stuff like that. Slovenian and Macedonian are definitely different languages. Most Slavic languages are actually still reasonably close anyway - if you have a little exposure you can at least get the gist. My wife is a native Polish speaker and grew up during communism so learned Russian in school. She can more or less understand Czech and Slovak (as they are both reasonably close to Polish), and also Russian and Ukrainian (including the more Western dialects like Lemko.) By extension, she has a pretty good grasp of the basics of the other Slavic languages. That doesn't make any of those languages a dialect of Polish though.
Usage will soar when it becomes a bank.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934216/x-twitter-bank-...
And he actually did it in 1.4 seconds himself, if I remember correctly.
Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population
> Both are explicitly reactionary in the most basic sense

In the most basic sense, as a reaction? Are weapons regulations "reactionary?" I think it's well established what using the term "reactionary" is, and it doesn't apply to X-risk concerns. Also Eliezer Yudkowsky has been "reacting" against AI X-risk since you were a toddler, in case you thought this was some recent phenomena...
Think about an author for a moment: do you want to model all authors with the same set of columns? Might there be a different set of attributes for a current events journalist and a short story writer? Would you not want to describe certain author attributes in terms of lists of attributes and enable filtering/querying on these easily? This is what a flexible/heterogeneous model with first class support for embedded documents and arrays gives you.
Around 20 minutes of exercise a day may balance out the harms of sitting
I would suggest that if you are allowed a fan that sucks air from under the car then you can easily achieve pretty much any acceleration.

The reason F1 cars do not do this is because suction is limited in F1 for very specific reasons and it goes back to the fatal crash of Ayrton Senna. Basically, a car that relies too much on suction is unsafe to drive because any failure can throw the car out of track with fatal consequences.

Suction is sensitive to distance between the car and the track. It is also sensitive to chasis being in good shape. If a car goes over some object on the track that unsticks the car from the ground and/or damages chasis, the car will instantly lose the suction and also any chance of stopping.

Another problem with suction is that it poses enormous force on shock absorbers keeping them hard and compressed.

Once you allow unlimited suction
the next real limitation for acceleration is ability for the human driver to withstand acceleration.
In the UK, "America" always refers to the USA. North America and South America together are called "The Americas", never "America". It may be different in continental languages.
A tour full of competitive cyclists would beg to differ with this analysis.
>A shader is a pain in the ass that most programs and applications don't want.

As a devil's advocate: most programs don't necessarily require the GPU to achieve what they want. 3d stuff nigh requires such parallelism once you go past a very small scale.

That was the mindset in the 00's at least. Software has gotten more complex to the point where the GPU may be a desired optimization to make, but the GPU pipeline has always been strict and closed down, and the paradigms from single to multi-core programming often require different algorithms. GPGPU programming can liberate you from the need to work in triangles, but you still need to take a completely different approach if you want to enjoy that parallelism.
My company has a policy to erase all whiteboards on Friday nights. Nobody tries to steal whiteboard space from the next meetings, and there are no obsolete diagrams from 2018 around with a do not erase.
"Beautiful" is very hard to maintain when a system starts changing. Think of adding a new box to the middle of an already-busy diagram; it could take an hour to re-align everything. In the 2020s a dev's time is probably better spent using diagrams-as-code[0].

[0] https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/its-time-to-drop-drag-an...
Nit pick: battery technology only needs to equal about 25-30% the raw energy density of fuel to equal the density of fuel in terms of useful work output.

That’s because electric motors can be as high as 98-99% efficient at converting electric power into work while small internal combustion engines peak out at about 35% and that’s generous. 20% is more typical. Then for ICE you have additional losses in the transmission that don’t happen for electric.

The vast majority of the energy in liquid fuel heats the air around the car.

This is also why a normal sized EV powered entirely by coal fired electricity can emit less carbon per mile than an efficient ICE car or even a hybrid. A big supercritical steam turbine in a coal power plant is going to be well over twice as efficient at converting heat into useful work than a small ICE. (Few people get all their power from coal, which is the worst case for CO2 emission, so in practice EVs are pretty much always lower carbon.)

Small heat engines suck.
I hope nobody will use it when (and if) X will become a WeChat.
You are wrong on both counts. Has nothing to do with electricity. And it is pretty easy from engineering standpoint. The real reason F1 specifically bans this much suction is safety.
geez, if that's your biggest complaint about discussion forums, you live a pretty blessed life.

We're talking about Internet discussion forums here.. The amount of fakery, lying, bullshit and outright awfulness that happens on forums every single day across the whole Internet is staggering.

If they used aliases to kickstart discussions and try to get people involved and contributing, I'm not sure that's something to get your pitchfork out about.
Is the insurance you offer legit or crap? Shipping companies have a notorious reputation for not paying out on insurance claims.
Not at real time - i'm a hobbyist photographer so have snapped the tyres digging into the track, but they're far too fast to see with a pair of eyes! really the only thing you can see is a blur then a parachute being deployed. the noise goes through you like nothing else though. I have metal plates in my arm due to an injury and was worried the vibration was going to undo the hardware :-D
selling kidneys doesn't preclude us having the same thorough screening process we have now, although it means there may be people who try harder to game the screening process.

i just don't see kidney donation as being a significant enough harm to outweigh the harm of the recipient not getting the kidney. if we're worried about people being financially desperate, we should allow organs to be sold and build a stronger social safety net (with the money we save on dialysis?)
Incorrect: libraries are indeed archiving scholarly journals like the ACM ones, even when they are online-only. For instance, CLOCKSS: https://clockss.org/

Essentially, CLOCKSS member libraries operate scrapers to download and archive copies of all covered journals. If a journal publisher disappears or deletes its back issues, the CLOCKSS members have agreements allowing them to republish the contents.

So there are a bunch of academic libraries holding copies of the content of academic journals for long-term preservatino.
I've done this from a plane before and got some very epic 3D images. I think Mt. Rainier at sunset was one of the best. So yeah, the easy way if your camera is on a moving platform, is take a shot, count three aligators, then take another shot.
A new hybrid subspecies of puffin is likely the result of climate change
even if we do, I'll miss the pure noise they make!
Most folk’ll never lose a toe but then again some folk’ll …
How do you mean? Do you mean source code? What's vague about that?
Date formatting in Excel allows you to display dates in various formats to suit your needs. Excel provides several pre-defined date formats, and you can also create custom date formats.
I also have a Boox, but do you have good suggestions on how to get articles or books on the device and sync? I end up not really using them because there are so many options: e-book apps from different stores (e.g. Amazon Kindle) or that read from local storage (e.g. PocketBook), syncing of PDFs (e.g. Dropbox) which are difficult to read, syncing epubs but then you have to find them back...

What is your process for getting stuff on the device, and for keeping it organized (or at least finding back what you're currently reading)?
If you take 10 people, they will give you 20 kinds of interviews they prefer. You can't make a perfect kind of interview.

I can already see people bitching about your proposal:

- it's too long

- coding along with another engineer is unrealistic

- it's close to impossible to scale this out to a number of interviewers as there are no strict scoring guidelines

- it's too different from what other companies do

- it's trying to outsource some of the problems your company has

- it's too technology specific

- candidates who know the domain will have an advantage

- candidates who know your tools will have an advantage

I'm not saying these are sensible arguments, but you will hear them against all and any kind of interview you can come up with.
The vegetable oil stood out to me too. That Bob Flexner book emphasizes that oils other than tung and BLO don't cure but instead go rancid which is why they're not used. (Which is also why BLO is boiled because straight linseed oil doesn't cure) I wonder what that process of heating the vegetable oil with the wax does that just heating vegetable oil alone doesn't?

As a side note, I like the low VOC aspect. I've used pure tung oil from Woodcraft before and it doesn't have a strong smell but it give me the absolute worst headache I've ever had. Worse than any exposure to a varnish or paste wax or something I know has VOCs in it.

Good luck with that product, it looks very interesting!
I know that, but it's not what I meant, but probably didn't make it clear enough.

Germans know these official rules and maybe linguists, but if you present the typical English speaker with Möller vs Moeller it's confusing. Look at the media (who could, maybe, do some research?) who write Jurgen and not Jürgen. That's my point, the official rules don't help if everyone ignores them, for whatever reason.
Perhaps the issues is with the software rather than the format. I use KOReader and it offers a number of tools for browsing through a book. Which is fantastic. Yet most of the software out there is incredibly linear (with the only exceptions being keyword search, table of contents, and maybe an index provided by the publisher).
Youtube has forgotten what "audio" is for me so noting the first talk is also at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/the-future-of... - which is using youtube - but manages to make noises. Which I suppose is a pointwise instance arguing that software does not work as well as it might do.
> Calibration in this case isn't about providing "and so everything then looks like it's the same brightness, because it's calibrated" it's about "and so the same modifications can be applied to everything consistently, because it's all calibrated".

You seem to be assuming the commenter you replied to didn't know that. As I understood it, all they were saying is that advice about calibration is useless for people who don't do photo editing, but whose problem is exactly that different windows have such wildly varying brightness that switching from one to another often makes everything look either pitch dark or third-degree-interrogation light in your eyes.

Which category of people do you think there are more of? My bet is on the latter. They need... Well, if you don't want to call it "another kind of calibration", you're free to come up with another term.
Which great man is that?
> See, and here I disagree, and I think at least a non-trivial number of players would too.

Good for them! They are not the ones we should be concerned about.

> Too hard to reliably distinguish between the two.

It's probably hard to distinguish from the outside, but it's important to cultivate that skill [edit: to evaluate one's own habits] if living in a consumerist society where most cravings can be satisfied by going to a shopping mall or to an online store.
In 1952, a Group of Three "Stars" Vanished. Astronomers Still Can't Find Them
Ayrton Senna
Not exactly. First, a GPU can't run a pixel shader against EVERY pixel simultaneously. A typical screen might have about two million pixels, while GPUs max out at a few thousand concurrent 'threads of execution' i.e. it effectively draws in chunks of a few thousand pixels at a time. Second, the GPU doesn't need to run pixel shaders against a whole screen, it's capable of running shaders against any arbitrary shape you like using triangles. So the efficient way to draw a line is to send the GPU two triangles that match the line geometry that you want, and then only run the pixel shader on the pixels that the triangles overlap. Much more efficient.
You may want to look at this through a hiring manager eyes.

Create a job posting on linked in, then review thousands of those CV's, pick people and have a 4 hour interview with each (meaning repeating the same problem, you don't want to have a different 4 hour coding session with each individual).

Then calculate how much time you wasted on (a) outright scam (b) people lying about their experience (c) people nervous enough so they almost freeze (d) people not motivated as if you already owe them something.

Then, you need to realize that you probably need more than 1 engineer and you'd want to repeat the process.

Things like leetcode at least filter out people who can't code and people not motivated enough to solve a couple of challenges. Yes, this will not prevent scam. And then you can filter out scam on the follow-up call.

If you solve this problem of getting qualified engineers to the companies at market rates (not overcharging like some outstaffing firms), where companies and engineers have a pleasant experience, I guarantee you can scale it to a billion-dollar-sized business.
Fun thought exercise, but I disagree with the assertion that mars settlement is a hard first requirement. Why not a series of larger scale satellite stations (think 100x ISS), or the moon?
just so you know, around 1% of people die in conditions where their organs are elligible for transplantation. then there's the factor that kidneys from living donors generally last longer for the recipient
On mastodon you can follow hashtags, so follow #generative, #procedural, #creativecoding etc, not just people; you get a lot of serendipitous finds this way. What shows up on the different tags varies a bit: #generativeart picks up a lot more AI-generated guff, not interesting to me at all, while #generative tends to get less of that and more hand-coded art.

I do find a lot of NFT pollution in these tags so I've got words related to that filtered out.

I follow some actual people too and you can find good follows from who they RT but following tags made mastodon much better for me than t**ter ever was, and actually makes it worthwhile posting with tags.
J is ASCII-only: https://www.jsoftware.com/#/
> If Munich and Berlin can be in the same country, why can't Zagreb and Belgrade?

Munich is more similar to Vienna than it is to Berlin. And yet Munich and Vienna should definitely not be in the same country, because people who argue like this, also tend to argue that Kaliningrad under its former name was pretty similar to Berlin after all.
>What's the name of the continent where "America" is?

In all seriousness, North America.
I will buy a Tesla because I love driving it. Yes even commute. Driving an EV makes driving so easy and fun. I had one as part of a car subscription for 5 months and I always looked forward to my commute. Even an ID5 from VW or something comparable gives you that feeling of... effortless. Can't describe it any better. Even an automatic ICE can't compare at all. Didn't care much about self driving because in Europe it lacks a lot of features compared to the US FSD from Tesla.
I like D2 for this. In a previous role, I wrote a program to parse all of our serverless.yml files (we were doing micro services on AWE) and auto-generate a big D2 diagram from it. It was nice because it would auto-update as the system grew and I wrote it so that the diagram could be broken out into smaller diagrams for each sub system (think splitting on SNS topic)
Chrome / Fedora 38 64 bit / Wayland / Radeon Vega 3 graphics.
I'm relieved that Lean4 doesn't seem to be some AI thing.
The app that revolutionized money transfers in Nigeria
It seems the author started with a notional combinational subcircuit presumably operating in a single clock domain, then summarily unloaded a foot shotgun by deciding an initial behavioral fix was to infer a flip flop clocked by an input signal.

At face value, this:

always @(posedge RDMGI, posedge RINIT, posedge cycle_finished) begin
...
assign TDMGO = RDMGI & ~won_arbitration;

...was just asking for metastability in that it transformed the subcircuit into a clock domain crossing problem. Recognizing this, it makes sense that the sol'n[1] was to dual flop synchronize the async RDMGI input.

[1] http://www.froghouse.org/~dab/papers/bus-arbitration/grant4....
> This is completely normal for official documents in Germany and it makes sense for us.

Of course, and I mildly apologize for my case of Whataboutism because I actually described the reverse. They're taking the rules too literally and are using the thing they need for official documents everywhere (their marketing/status emails).

I'm just just kinda puzzled why they'd think it's a good user experience, especially for people who are not just not used to reading their government id name but actually uncomfortable (i.e. pending name change).
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By chance do you share any of that photography online?

P.S. You could always stop by the pits and ask them to re-torque the bolts :-D
> Your compiled C or C++ program will be very different from the code you wrote

Sorry, you just lost beaucoup credibility points. C is just "high-level assembly language". The output looks exactly like the input, modulo some optimizations by the compiler. Every computer programmer knows this. Or should.
> Colour

OK, that does it. You're a Hong Kong viking, not a Seattle baker.
I agree - its truly tiresome. But then, if all the media is banging on about Trump + Russian collusion for 3 years, as if there was nothing else, I guess this does impact people.
I used the infinite scroll for a web project and it works well.
The client however did not want to load new content when reached the bottom of the page. He wanted it a continuous flow so you dont notice the load at all.

With this, I placed the htmx code not on the bottom record, but 50th from bottom. This worked well, but if you scroll really fast it misses the trigger altogether.

I am sure there is a way to fix this, perhaps with additional javascript - but something to point out.

Despite the above, I do like HTMX. Really removes a lot of libraries (and JS frameworks) which is nothing but good news for me.
So 100kph/s is less than 3g, assuming constant acceleration. Because 3g is around 106kph/s.
I disagree, because I think in the definition of the word dissident it's not enough to oppose a system mentally. It needs to be challenged actively.
What you describe sounds more like what I would describe as society dropouts
Discover the wonders of an online Python compiler with Matplotlib. Find out what it can do, how it works, and how it transforms data visualization.
Veritasium did a video on Micromouse competition which also got the breakthrough via similar kind of technology (fan that sucks air from under the car) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

Interesting watch.
Ground effect was used in F1 between 1978 and 1982. Ayrton Senna died in 1994.
NASA wants to fly this nuclear Dragonfly drone on Saturn's moon Titan
Ask HN: Please advice How do I crawl out of ADHD hellhole?
Hello Guys,

I graduated from university 2017 with a first, after university I was nearly unemployed up to today except couple of cheap freelance gigs. Also got tricked by company for freelance project (where they keep adding and changing features).

Tried to build several projects to earn a living, but I was not unable to complete them because my mind scattered all over the place and getting distracted by unrelated things (technologies, movies, etc.), due to dopamine cravings. It takes huge mental effort to work on things, while it comes easy for others.

Day by day, year by year time passed, I washed TV shows, helped relatives, read Reddit, blogs, did a little bit of coding here and there etc. Then it came to last year was diagnosed with ADHD (age: 29). I was given Atomoxitine, Ritalin, Buproprion, Venlafaxine, which are approved meds on the country, but none of those helped with focus, concentration, but Ritalin helps with mood and motivation, but there was sweating, crashing, faster digestion. Last week finally got the doctor in agreement to bring Lisdexaphetamine through countries regulatory agency, hopes it works out.

Now to the current situation: I feel I have wasted close to 6 years of life doing nothing (2017 - 2023), my peers from college are senior software engineers, my relatives are all in high places in big companies, I am now becoming socially withdrawn and try to avoid them much as I can. I humbly think that I am smarter than those peers and relatives, but I have huge struggles executing and doing things with consistency, the mind is restless, unless I fall asleep. I am an ambitious person, almost regret that my knowledge, skills are going to waste. It seems what Dr. Barkley says is true about ADHD.

> You gonna be the brightest kid in the world, not gonna matter. ... You can know stuff, you won't do stuff

To make things worse, my parents and relatives do not understand the disorder, my father keep pestering me to get a job and marry, since the relatives are married. Even some doctors think I have ADHD.

Before ADHD I struggled with OCD for years with terrifying obsessions, it took years for me to manage those compulsions with meds (Fluoxetine), now I have this, and this have wasted most young part of my life, I never being in a relationship. I also probably on Autism spectrum too (Aspergers), but I won't try to get that label, until I crawl out of this current hellhole created by undiagnosed ADHD.

In addition to that my mom has Parkinson's disease, here condition is deteriorating (memory, consciousness) year by year, Sinemet hallucinate her, then hallucination leads to suicide attempts. Both of my parents are old, they probably want me and my brothers to have a good life before they die, the current situation we barely make a living. I am scared guys!

Now to questions:

1. Is there anyone being in similar situation and overcame, please share your inspirational story and advice?
2. How could I guys apply for dev jobs, being unemployed for last 6 years after graduation? How do I explain the gap? How do I complete projects?

Thank you everybody!
In real life your eyes do the blurring on fast moving objects. Real life is nothing like a game without motion blur. Swipe you hand fast in front of your face fast. Do you really see it sharply all that time through the movement? Or just the beginning and the end?

At 24fps motion blur in games or 3d movies is bad. But at 120fps or more motion will never look well without it.
Yes. Because the second order effects of giving those desperate people the option of donating their organs is worse for the society going forward.
Yes of course if it was like the computer in star trek the next generation then I would find it quite useful. But I'm not convinced that will occur any time soon.