skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those tracks are an insult to any rail engineer. Unbelievable.
The following is not really related to time perception per se, but a fascinating look into memory:

"A REVIEW OF 80 YEARS OF MEMORIES INDUCTED BY ELECTRICAL BRAIN STIMULATION"

https://web.archive.org/web/20200126062547/http://gpe.ups-tl...

(Source data for this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976341...)
Thanks so much for that full essay! Absolutely fascinating.

I'm not a Californian, nor even an American, but understanding the
culture behind the last 40 years of digital technology... and why,
after staring out so hopeful it's gone so wrong, is important stuff.
The novelty wears off. Bear in mind that you don't control when they occur. Also, a lucid dream is not quite the same experience as being normally awake -- you are still dreaming and accessing your memories is surprisingly difficult, so you will typically not remember what you had set to achieve in your next lucid dream.

That said, I think the biggest realization of being a frequent lucid dreamer is: how is it possible that most of us don't even realize that we are dreaming? Dreams feel completely different from real life.
Maybe it's LLMs as opposed to CNNs, LSTMs and other bespoke models, pre-2020 AI.
Not quite, "estate" is a station wagon.
3.0 by now.
Somewhat related, a survey of how Norwegian people visualize time:

https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually...
I Aprilis MMIII (mapping from Gregorian to Julian calendar left as an exercise to the reader)
When someone asks you "Do you have any plans for the weekend?", will you answer with what you're going to on saturday, or sunday, or both?

For me, "weekend" very much means one unit consisting of saturday and sunday and most often friday night as well. "Weekend" meaning a single day which can be either saturday or sunday seems not to match any use of the word "weekend" I've ever encountered both in personal life and in things like TV shows.
A lucid dream is characterized by knowing that you are dreaming. The plot of that movie is the opposite.
Or take the XML route. Unicode offers several strategies to avoid continuously updating the Unicode table [1] which has been adapted by XML 1.1 and also later editions of XML 1.0. The actual syntax can be as simple as the following (based from XML, converted to ABNF as in RFC 8295):

name = name-start-char *name-char
name-start-char =
%x41-5A / %x5F / %x61-7A / %xC0-D6 / %xD8-F6 / %xF8-2FF / %x370-37D /
%x37F-1FFF / %x200C-200D / %x2070-218F / %x2C00-2FEF / %x3001-D7FF /
%xF900-FDCF / %xFDF0-FFFD / %x10000-EFFFF
name-char = name-start-char / %x30-39 / %xB7 / %x300-36F / %x203F-2040

In my opinion, this approach is so effective that I believe every programming language willing to support Unicode identifiers but nothing more complex (e.g. case folding or normalization or confusable detections) should use this XML-based syntax. You don't even need to narrow it down because Unicode explicitly avoided identifier characters outsides of those ranges due to the very existence of XML identifiers!

[1] https://unicode.org/reports/tr31/#Immutable_Identifier_Synta...
Lloyds bank did this to me. It took three calls over 3 weeks to customer services to get it reversed - each over 30min. I explicitly asked and was told it was half driven by algorithm and half by people. When it reversed I was basically told it was a bug.

My belief is their is some data science team responsible for this. They are ruining people's lives with their false positives. I hope those people read this message and realise what they are doing.

I was lucky. I would've got a marker put against me that could've had every other bank close my account. I only escaped this because of my persistence in calling them and getting lucky with a customer service rep who went the extra mile.
tobacco patches do it for me
Greenville was quiet. Then a hometown kid became YouTube's biggest star
Great write-up, though the expression is "whet your appetite," not "wet."
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I have read quit a bit about litjium batteries causing fires
once a week on average on commercial airlines. ¹
(some cargo incidents are included).

I dont understand how the FAA has not banned cell phones / laptops
/vape etc: anything with a lithium battery to be used while in the air,
or really while in the plane.

Seemsm to me they should be deposited when you enter the cabin, and
stored by the crew in a specialized container that can safely
deal with fires, or prevent them from happening period.

Presumably it is due to the fact that passangers would feel unduly
inconvenienced by having to spend a few hours without their
Lithium powered tools?

We all have to go through elaborate security checks before boarding
to ensure nobody is carrying anything dangerous onboard, yet
devices that cause fires upto once a week are allowed through without
any problems.

I must assume that this could be an exploitable vulnerability.

If someone intent on blowing up a plane was able to bring
PCs, pads, or any device(s) that can contain large batteries
could modify them slightly to allow a manual trigger.

Now perhaps one person is not enoguh, so how about 20, each
bringing such a device on board.

Could it enough to bring an airplane down?
Could it burn through a window?
Or cause enough smoke to kill people?
(I dont know how toxic the plumes from a lithium fire might be)

If this hypotetical situation could occur in real life then
the whole secuirty theater we go through seems a bit faulty.

¹ https://explore.dot.gov/t/FAA/views/LithiumBatteries/Inciden... [2022]
> imagine if some bank knowingly facilitated money laundering

You won't have to imagine very hard, HSBC was caught laundering money, told they had to strengthen their controls, but ultimately all the Justice Department wanted was a small cut of the action in the form of fines and HSBC has been allowed to continue their corrupt practices even after being caught laundering money again and again (in addition to all kinds of other crimes). It seems like as long as they can pay the fines, banks are basically above the law.
letting go would require a lot of effort for some people, especially if other people keep coming along and hitting on the same damn spot.
Given how many locations depend on having car available and public transport offerings are a joke even in Europe, I am more going into the deadlines being pushed back scenario.

Not everyone is living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London,... city center.
This is not strictly (purely?) category theory, but two fun little projects that will teach you a lot (or reinforce what you already know) are writing your own parser combinator library (https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/pearl.pdf) and Lens library (https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Lenses_and_functiona...).
Website is down, got a 502; see mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20231106023033/https://www.xtof....
As someone who used to use Haskell a lot, I will tell you that learning category theory isn't really going to improve your practical ability to architect Haskell code.

If you're simply curious about the mathematical structures that Haskell's standard typeclasses are named after, then by all means learn category theory.

But if you're trying to improve your ability to use those typeclasses to write real-world software, I recommend "Haskell From First Principles" and/or "Effective Haskell". And get your hands dirty writing actual programs - practice makes perfect.
```

hg clone ssh://example.com/repo

cd repo

hg update -r
$SOME_COMMIT_HASH_OR_ID

```

Unless you mean you want to delete history back to a certain point, in which case it's only slightly more complicated.
I never understood how people can happily figure out a gigantic, complicated code base like Firefox and are taken aback by learning a little bit about some tool. In your case, was it a thing where working with an unfamiliar tool was simply demotivating? Cause I think if you can write a Firefox patch, you should be able to learn Mercurial during breakfast.
doesn't work w/o traction.
When the decision was made to use Mercurial, Git for Windows wasn't a viable option. If you wanted to develop on Windows, the choices were Mercurial or SVN.

Edit: I work for Mozilla, although I didn't in 2006 when I think the decision was made.
Last night I performed a private concert in my house with an entrance charge. You did not attend. Were you "stealing from creators"?

If you walk past a busker on the street without dropping a coin in the hat, are you "stealing from creators"?

In the former hypothetical, this is clearly absurd. You didn't ask for the concert, you didn't even attend, so of course you were not obliged to pay for it.

This would be like Netflix telling you you are "stealing from creators" by not watching their shows.

In the latter hypothetical, you did not ask for the performance but you heard it nonetheless. You may have even enjoyed it. The busker has costs that you did not meet like food, clothes and equipment costs. How could you not support that?

If Netflix follows the "private concert" model, YouTube very clearly follows the busker model. If it wasn't in public, most of these creators would be like me playing the concert in my home: nobody would attend. They need to be in public.

You can't be in public and force the public to pay.
Well, the average salary across the EU is 27K EUR, so 25K is arguably still pretty much, in the grand scheme of things.
classless frameworks are exactly what I was looking for, thanks
Good news, everybody, apparently the bureaucracy part is still operational.

Scrolling down to the web data viewer and then right until you can order by date, descending, is ... impressive.
Yeah pour another glass for Mercurial, it is a shame that git ended up winning, but then again what to expect when it was a child of Linux kernel project.
I wanted to add that though the banks are at fault, I believe the cause is government. This is the exact response one would expect with the KYC regulation. If a customer falls into the "to much effort" category (note not "done something illegal") then I assume they would not be worth the cost of researching for the bank.
I've considered it quite a bit in California. You are charged a nontrivial amount of money just to be connected and consuming no energy. That and the power went out for many days, multiple times this year.
Please don't shit on people who are trying to help and inform.
Science communication is lossy and people aren't using Harari's work as a reference textbook.

I haven't read his material on AI but I can't imagine it's any more sensationalised than what Sam Altman, Elon Musk, or Nick Bostrom have written.
Excuse my multiple comments, just trying to understand this better since I’m very intrigued by your library.

What does the JS “if x != x” check do? I don’t see the equivalent in the golang example?
After all the years, do you think mercurial still offers tangible benefits in terms of versionning workflow ? faster operations, more extensibility, things that are somehow only possible in hg and not git (or way too hard in git)

I'm a happy git user but I'm really curious about losing good ideas from other tools due to mindshare.
> Losing brain functionality is a scary thought for people who enjoy using their brains all day.

I'm fairly sure people outside of HN enjoy using their brains too, I'd say the vast majority of people do
Could someone explain how this adds concurrency to JS without changing the VM/runtime?
Wow, that's so terrible! Cashless society is a real threat.
The US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teeth
> The BeagleV-Fire includes MMC 5.1 SD/SDIO, a Quad SPI flash controller, 128 KB eNVM, and 56 KB sNVM for storage, paired with a 36-bit memory controller supporting various memory types with error correction

I'm a noob here. Does it means it has ECC or does it support ECC?
Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from Voice Recordings
Right ok, I see if you're looking for something non-European you'll likely not find anything as good as the good stuff in the US.
But that seems like you're looking for the wrong thing.
I understand the point in the article now though, it just seemed far more general than what you're saying here.

People just make their own food here.
> Unity is a clown engine. I remember some guy benchmarked DOTS, against plain old C++ code with OpenGL, just like your dad used to write, and it was no contest, DOTS couldn't keep up.

I don't think it is necessarily a fair or useful comparison. I also wrote several toy 3d engine a few years back, and some where performing better than some "commercial" engine, but it is not hard to do when you don't have to handle cross-platform, and a large number of feature. What is a fairer criticism is that Unity has been unable for the last decade to actually stick to a few features and make them actually mature and production ready. DOTS has been introduced like 4-5 years ago ? And it still feels like a polished tech-demo, not a production ready-system, properly integrated with the rest of the stack. And the same could be said about so many Unity feature. The "legacy" systems are just plain simply more reliable than almost any new feature they started for their replacement.
> According to the bear's owners, the Cocaine Bear has the authority to officiate legally binding weddings in the mall where it is kept due to Kentucky's marriage laws. This claim is only partly true; the bear does not have the authority to solemnize weddings, but the state of Kentucky cannot invalidate marriages performed by unqualified persons if the parties believe that the person marrying them has the authority to do so. As such, it is a belief in the Cocaine Bear's authority that allows it to officiate legally binding weddings in Kentucky.

*Wiping away a tear* God bless America.
It will come. The "problem" with EVs is that they retain their value much longer. Which is factored into their second hand value. Second hand ICE cars are cheap because they start having lots of issues when they get older and the risk of them needing some maintenance that exceeds the purchase price gets higher and higher.

If you buy a ten year old Nissan Leaf for, it will still be quite usable and be desirable enough that people are willing to pay a lot more than 2.5K for it. And if the time comes, you can put a new battery in it for 4-5K or so and drive it for another decade+.

And of course there aren't that many EVs that old around to begin with because the market was relatively new and small ten years ago. Most EVs on the road are probably younger than 3 years or so. They'll be on the road for a long time and might change owner a lot. But it will take some time to trickle down.
awesome, love the idea and maybe putting a default prompt like:

"this images comes from the persons POV that ask you questions"

instead of "a person holding something" "you are holding xyz" wold be better
I simply pay for it now, since I deem it internet culturally too important to simply give up on it.

YT must be feeling pressured by the cost-side of things. Storage doesn't get infinitely cheap after all.

But yeah, I download things I want to preserve since some years now, in case things go awry.
Then attack the lack of remediation, and the lack of more objective criteria, not the notion that there are criteria for participation in all kinds of communities including in most of the ones you used as examples of inclusive ones.

> That's why we had to fundamentally re-form our institutions in the US in the name of inclusion and not just have better intentions.

Are you suggesting that worked?

> But let's call a spade a spade and not pretend it magically turns to something else based on wishes and dreams.

The problem is that you appear to call a spade something else entirely, and attack a position nobody has taken. I note that you have expanded on specific issues and pointed out another club that has specific policies that can be easily conformed to elsewhere, and that was a much more productive line of argument to take.
> time dyslexia

AKA "time blindness", though I think "dyschronia" would be a better term, to match with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, and dysgraphia.

(I think I also have it, though undiagnosed. Three of my last four web projects have been a clock, another clock, and a timeline. I still have a terrible problem with procrastination.)
What SUV is more comfortable than its wagon or saloon equivalent? I’d definitely rather be sat in a 5 series than an X5.
I know for sure the Samsung 950 Pro has a working option ROM, and it was pretty common at the time. The successor apparently doesn't have it but I don't know that for sure.
The world epidemic of sleep disorders is linked to Vitamin D deficiency (2012)
Parents are different. Reading sociology, it seems that those who got from blue-collar families to be white-collars their life, feel this isn't guaranteed and are obsessed with grades and extra-curricular training, like music.

Psychologists point out that a very frequent complaint is like this: "fix my kid. he wants nothing. codes on his computer/plays sports/reads that stupid scifi, dropped out from music/sports/drawing classes."

In fact, sociologist Bourdieau pointed out that lots of skills that help at school are inherited. E.g. you have a geographical atlas or map at home, and at school you easily perceive all the data in the geography class, whereas to others it's just like senseless magic speels to be learned by heart.

My personal observation is that parents who were born into white-collar and especially who saw this "social class panic" by their own parents, are much more relaxed about school and grades.
Which problems did you encounter while figuring out Mercurial?
Obvious dead cat.
Well, yes. Despite both having the three letters "git" in the name, Github works against the features of Git and there's a huge impedance mismatch.

Git was suposed to be a decentralized, peer-to-peer way of managing software using standard open-source tools, and Github is the exact opposite.
And it's an absolute piece of shit that does 0-100kph in 20s and tops out a 125kph (and at that speed you're not going much farther than 100km)
Let's make INTERCAL great again. Bring it on!
I thought the title was mathematically uncouth as well
Modi Says India's Economy Will Be Among Top in 5 Years
Corner cutting doesn't happen in socialist countries?
How come not true? My 3L A6 Quattro did more than 400mls on a tank of you were careful. That’s normal territory for European cars.
Before, God was always watching, and that seems to have given people a comfortable feel for many centuries.
The Mother of All Demos was about a lot of things but I don't remember any PC in there.

Edit: Oh ! What you are talking about is the UI of a modern PC but these UI first became available on shared computer before been available on PC.
DEC always saw itself as the scrappy, sleek underdog in IBM's big iron market - an engineering company making relatively affordable tools for engineers, academics, and other qualified professionals. Where "affordable" meant six or seven figures instead of seven or eight.

Which was fine while it lasted. But with VAX, the mini market became corporatised, inward-looking, nostalgic, even arrogant. Big-iron hardware had much higher internal prestige than VLSI - unfortunate, because DEC's VLSI people were the best in the world, and the systems software people weren't far behind.

DEC had absolutely no concept of VLSI-based mass-market commodity computing - no idea how to design it, build it, distribute it, market it, or even imagine it. The Rainbow was as close as it got, and that was a disaster.

So even with Alpha it had no chance. Prism would barely have changed that, because the problem was a failure of imagination in upper management.

BigCos should always have an internal team of annoying curious generalists to challenge orthodoxy and report annually on "What trends and opportunities are we missing?" Sometimes the C-Suite has the talent to do that, but more often it just doesn't.
Younguns may forget or never have experienced branching an svn repo. It used to literally take hours.

Then git-svn was born, and you could branch instantly. This was such an obvious improvement that all future repos moved to git.
Too slow (45kph) and not enough range (75km), but perfect for the city.
Worth noting they include synthetic data and training other models as derivatives:

> “Derivatives” refers to all modifications to Yi Series Models, work based on Yi
Series Models, or any other models created or initialized by transferring the
weights, parameters, activations, or output patterns of Yi Series Models to
other models to achieve similar performance, including but not limited to
methods that require using intermediate data representations or generating
synthetic data based on Yi Series Models to train other models.

This model does not seem fit at all for public use except maybe for some research. I suspect they have customers lined up or are currently prospecting/in talks, and this release is purely for marketing purposes.
There are a lot of projects, both commercial and OSS, which have a Makefile for linting, version releases, etc, — and never use its dependency graph feature; or, their usage is so superficial that implementing it, say,

- via direct function calls in Python code,

- or using Typer callback functions

…is easy.

There are potential approaches worth exploring (annotations, decorators, …). I might come up with a list of options with syntax examples and ask for community's thoughts about it, — but at this point jeeves, as an MVP, is already useful for me and a few people I work with, and that motivated me to share it with the community.
I don't remember Bugzilla ever being particularly usable. In fact it's always stuck out as one of the things I detest about contributing to FreeBSD.
Fair point - a two seat estate is a bit odd, unless you go down the shooting brake route...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_brake
Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app (2013)
Why just numerals :)

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
In a truly socialist structure, corner cutting comes from prioritizing other duties to the people, directly or indirectly. Capitalistic pressures come from money.

But there is no pure capitalistic structure nor socialist one. I did already mention it was a trite comparison.
Einstein had a very thoughftul and sophisticated take on the philosophy of science, and had thoroughly read the works of a great many philosophers and scientists. His introduction to an essay he wrote for the centenary of Maxwell's birth is another fantastic snippet:

> The belief in an external world independent of the observing subject lies at the foundation of all natural science. However, since sense-perceptions only inform us about this external world, or physical reality, indirectly, it is only in a speculative way that it can be grasped by us. Consequently our conceptions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these conceptions, i.e. the axiomatic basis of physics, in order to do justice to the facts of observation in the most complete way that is logically possible. In actual fact, a glance at the development of physics shows that this axiomatic basis has met with radical changes from time to time.

https://d-meeus.be/physique/Maxwell-Einstein-en.html

It's a little disappointing that his best known quotation is the out-of-context "God does not play dice".
People used to die before some life saving technologies were invented.

People can die these days if their technology fails. They might not have a better alternative because they can't afford it or it hasn't been invented

Teaching someone a lesson or educating society sounds like a line from a villain from a Bond movie. A sociopathic villain. You are making comments that a sociopath would make.