skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In principle I agree that "objectively elite" is questionable but there's no question that the measure merely assesses the institutional whims of Who's Who - I can say from experience that Henley, the polo world cup, the game fair, and the rest of "the season" is as popular as ever, if anything the non-u representation is larger than previous years. Where perhaps inclusion in Who's Who or roles that ordinarily grant inclusion have become more egalitarian I'd argue that is a dilution of elitism, not a societal shift in it or in elite-values.
Try the "Recursive Mono" or "PT Mono" variants of Iosevka.
You think men buying rings for women is a selfless gift? They are buying them for the same reason they buy the trucks and many other things: it's for sex.
I find people usually like a specific amount, and that often there is such a thing as excess, even with desirable things, traits. This also changes over time, and from culture to culture. Another example is the coloring of clothes. In ye olde times, a vibrantly bright colored article is a rarity, because dying it, and then keeping it clean are not trivial tasks. Nowadays, bright basic colors such as royal blue can easily seem cheap, like something from a bazaar. And many subtle tones, such as colors resembling what you'd find in nature, are popular.
A modern cross-platform desktop RSS reader
Amazing. I own the Gen2 and am very happy with it. Good to see that now you don't need the stupid dock any more in order to run multiple screens, but you can do it via the 2x USB-C and the HDMI with the new model.

I can only recommend this laptop.
Lack of curiosity is not a generational thing, but here it's pronounced way more
Very large, judging from the second hand market values.
Pretty sure htmx is a framework, it adds a new abstraction on top of HTML to integrate server rendered templates. You can then amend it with some UI library (e.g Material) on the front to make it all look nice.
I forgot to add the reason why there's a moral imperative to wearing a titanium ring instead of a diamond one: after saving yourself from drowning with the titanium ring, you can then descend to the ocean floor in an experimental diving suit, disarm a nuclear bomb dropped there by some nutcase that threatens a bunch of ocean-dwelling aliens, and impress them with your intended sacrifice (since your suit only has enough oxygen for a one-way trip) that they decide not to wipe out much of humanity with simultaneous tsunamis.
This masochism also applies to classical music (eg violin). Decades of rote before you’re allowed to express your own musical thoughts.
Yeah but the article focuses more on a third party app.
I just find voice control too outward to use in public. I don't want people to know what I'm doing, even if it's something totally innocent, plus it would also be super annoying to be on a train full of people going "blah blah blah" to their devices.

If we could subvocalise with throat or other microphones/bone speaker then maaaybe, but I feel like it's better left to a brain interface and we should really just stick to touchscreen/typing interaction for now.
Can you finish your thought? I'm not following.
Maybe there's no intelligence behind this comment, but intelligence is all around you. It's a clearly defined phenomenon.
Yes, wikipedia showing it's usually disinterested reporting of events that concern current politics.

Read the article if you don't like the wiki page.

Braverman got fired for being right. Sunak is weak.
Tangentially, does anyone know if there are any off-the-shelf or DIY solutions to overcome hand tremors while soldering?

I have read about micromanipulators:

- off-the-shelf (https://www.singerinstruments.com/solution/mk1/specification...)

- DIY (https://www.microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/viewtopic.php...) (https://retrotechjournal.com/2017/10/03/make-yourself-more-p...) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246806721...)

They are very interesting, but don't seem to be suitable for soldering.
That famed impartiality in action.
> I think they meant something else but worded it that way

Well, we have no idea about that :)
Perhaps people genuinely enjoy having a lasting memory of an important happy moment.

And obviously this works without diamonds too.
Maybe those companies should have been smaller and focus on returning money to shareholders rather than on investment in expansion to other markets/products. It all depends on their size and influence.
Would you post an image of the CD? It seems interesting to check out
I went to grad school for chemical engineering a decade ago and part of my frustration with the courses is that the math was never rigorous enough; when I asked for clarification, the inconsistencies were glossed over and hand-waved away.

The linked article mentions differential forms, which is a perfect example. In engineering courses, these are often introduced without any rigor or formality. They just “appear” as a way of rewriting the equation. What is a “differential”? Who knows. Is there some kind of axiomatic basis for how these symbols can be manipulated in a consistent way? Who knows. But here are the steps to solve the equation; good luck on the test.

Another example is the quantum chemistry class I took (my first introduction to quantum mechanics). The professor mentioned something about how you can take a measurement and collapse the wave function of an electron; the probability of measuring its position at any location in space is non-zero. I followed up with some question about an experiment to confine the wave function collapse to certain regions of space which could be used to transfer information faster than the speed of light, which I thought wasn’t possible. My question was mostly met with a blank stare and something along the lines of “this course doesn’t cover that” before the professor moved on.

The most egregious example was a grad-level course on statistical mechanics. The professor mentioned something about the overall wave function of the system being a Slater determinant of individual wave functions. A student (not me) asked why we have wave functions for individual particles and a separate one for the overall system, and which was more “correct” fundamentally? The professor replied that the wave functions for the individual particles were more fundamental, and the overall wave function for the system was just an approximation. I replied, sure, the Slater determinant is a way of enforcing certain constraints that must be met for the whole system, but one of the defining features of quantum mechanics is that the function describing the state of the entire system is generally inseparable; without this we couldn’t have entanglement. The professor dismissed my response as incorrect and said students shouldn’t challenge professors on topics they don’t know anything about. This was a guy whose research career was built on dozens of computational chemistry papers that heavily utilized DFT by the way (and by “research”, I mean plug a file with atom coordinates and atom types into the DFT software, run the software, and publish the results).
Just about any OLED made in the past 5 years do.
Did we all forget title tags exist or something?

> How Bangladesh saved lives by getting lead out of tumeric spice

That's the title of the article and it's pretty close to the submission.
You should check https://hyperline.co, does everything (metering, subs, invoicing) and it's self-serve if needed
French publishers do (or did at one point anyway) the same thing. For instance the first section of realm of the elderlings (3 trilogies, so 9 volumes) was published as 19 volumes.

And for some reason a few years later they republished it in only 7, which is just as insane (they literally cut in the middle of the 5th volume).
It's even more confusing for polish speaking folks.
The margin is in cutting and faceting. The Swiss make a CNC diamond cutting machine that can cut and facet a diamond in about an hour vs days for manual cutting.
If you can get people to stop buying diamonds you could turn religious people into atheists. So, by and large, it’s not happening.
> We can be much more creative in this new playground.

You are not being creative gatekeeping, this behavior is quite old.
Diamonds suck indeed. They are easily reproduced and are artificially kept at a high price by big business

Gold on the other side, is impossible to reproduce and is a very rare metal that will have many fine uses. You can do anything to it and it won't lose its value. I will never understand why some women require worthless diamonds. It's a crystal, it reflects and will lose its value if broken.
Threat of prosecution is of course always present, but the chance of that prosecution making it past the courts is significantly altered by actually committing the acts you might be accused of.
Yes, but I think the ops point is that the correct phrasing is report-specific, and trying to get phrasing down without considering whom one will be speaking to is a sure sign of failure
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Diamonds aren't rich people game, they're middle-class and above game. Hell, probably even below. That's what makes the arguments about being associated[0] with violence fall on deaf ears - approximately everyone in the west is participating. Not the Evil Bad No Good Rich One-Percenters. It's all the 90-percenters.

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[0] - It's always "some of them", "could be". The industry has blood on its hand. The particular rock you might buy your wife? Unclear. It's not like with e.g. tantalum capacitors which, at some point, AFAIK were all made out of tantalum sourced from child slavery mines in Africa. I honestly don't know if "some" diamonds are more like 50% or 5% or 0.5%.
Why mention the provider instead of using the verb you use the provider for?
You want to "search" for something.

You wouldn't say I am AT&Ting or AOLing for browsing the internet or Honda-ing / Ducati-ing for using the motorcycle
This is Expedia we’re talking about, the face of an industry that has marketed/SEOed/strongarmed their way into taking a cut on the majority of reservations. They’re literally the Google to the industry they feed on. I bet a lot of business owners hate them more than they hate Google, even though Expedia considers themself “vibrant innovative enterprises that deliver value for consumers”.
Love is irrational. If you avoid all irrational things, you are not human.
> Both fields embrace a sort of masochism and active desire to keep knowledge impenetrable b/c it acts as a mechanism to feed out the dummies. The system acts an an informal IQ test - that maintains the prestige of the departments. If you're pigheaded and clever enough to get through the masochistic torture is that their undergrad textbooks then you're probably pretty clever and so the prestige of the degrees is maintained.

In a twist of irony anyone could have predicted: this selects for the middle of the bell curve, and not the right-hand tail.

I feel as though there are a set of personality qualities that must not be present in order to achieve anything worthwhile. Wasting time, frivolous activities, and fostering an outsized ego are just a few.
The Godfather of A.I. Fears What He's Built
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It's one thing if the author decides to do it (although it might not go down well with their readers anyway) and a completely different thing if a publisher does it without the author's knowledge. But, to say something positive, it was at least identifiable as an ad and not "seamlessly" integrated into the text.

Some not-so-reputable print magazines still do something similar to this day: embed ads that have more or less the same layout as the actual articles, praising some product. However these must be clearly labeled with the word "ANZEIGE".
Because of the propaganda campaign from the foaming mfrs: “if you don’t spend a lot do you really love her? What signal are you sending?”
But surely doing whatever works for you is OK? Some people love "creating memories", some people love to have more "social status", some love $4 wooden rings, some love $40K diamond rings; everyone is different, let all the flowers bloom.

(De Beers are still the big baddies though)
I had a lot of fun watching this documentary. The one person framework really comes out in the personal story of Toby from Shopify. "From Hello World to IPO". What I also loved is that he mentioned that if you open up any Rails application, it looks basically the same in structure whether it is the biggest Rails app there is or a new one. Sure that can be true for many apps, but in a world of, for example, APIs and front-end stacks, that isn't always the case.

The latest developments in Rails are making the solid foundation even more solid. There is stuff happening to make infrastructure easier: Kamal sure, but also Solid Cache and Solid Queue and there is a lot happening in the front-end with Turbo (Morphing) and mobile apps with Turbo Native and Strada.

We have upgrade to 7.1 already and have a mobile app in production that is built with Turbo Native. I am also excited to start replacing our Redis cache with Solid Cache to make everything simpler and cached longer.

Great to see the Rails community so alive and see the deep connection the (ex) core team members have to the framework!
On the contrary. If you care about the environment, it is your duty to have kids and raise them caring about the environment.
You don't read too much history, do you? Of course I can understand the confusion. Caligula was the guy who started running from sea to sea until he came back with a very long and unrecognisable beard. Also: that was the decline of the Roman Empire. Nothing to do with the other empires that went through the same process. EDIT: Sorry, I did not read the Western Empire thing. I guess the Egyptian empires exist to this day.
> Consider that literally everyone used to believe

This literally isn't true since, you know, ancient Romans were aware of lead poisoning.
Scary stories about Apache Kafka
With happy endings. Mostly.
Why the Electric RAM 1500 Ramcharger Has a Pentastar V6 as Range Extender
He’s right - intuitive physical reasoning is useful (and often valid in the applied sciences) but it isn’t rigorous mathematical proof.

Some areas of mathematics are applicable to physical realities, but they aren’t defined by those realities.
Show HN: Missing enpoint for api.example-weather-app.com from GTP builder
Think of all the poor unsuspecting stars! Have we not drained enough heat from our own already? When will plants learn to stop appropriating energy that isn't theirs to take?
Next do rubocop
Also the concept of needing "more dakka" imply that at some point a state where there is "enough dakka" is attained.

Of course the possibility of reaching such theoretical state is still largely debated.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAI6uft4GPo
Another way of thinking about it is that a wedding itself is a public commitment you’re making in front of witnesses (so in theory harder to back out of — not a bad idea as it provides some hysteresis to overcome transient conflicts).

Meanwhile the government is simply providing some infrastructure as a service to people who want to make such commitments.
Social contract. Every year I pay its passive. Can anyone tell me when the profits will be distributed?
Why do you think so?
When I was doing undergrad, the emphasis was on scientific work.
So novelty or applicability were not important for grades, but if your written communication about it was scientific. I didn't see a write-up of this project, so I couldn't judge it grade wise
Note though, that nonstandard analysis isn't compatible with more "intuitionistic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy (in place of axiom on choice), which free you from Banach–Tarski paradox and have some other appealing properties.
Could you please elaborate on the security implications?
We made Vampire Survivors BUT in 10 Lines of Code [video]
Cool. It's like Sega Channel but only those choose-your-own-adventure games with 2 buttons.
'A Monster': Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids
https://archive.is/2023.11.13-111024/https://www.nytimes.com...
I was testing GPT builder. I found that example REST API endpoint api.example-weather-app.com is not working ... Why? Simply, there was no such endpoint.

I've checked the domain, and it was free. So, I set quickly FastAPI endpoint with hard-coded JSON response. It is available at api.example-weather-app.com/location so we can now test our GPTs :)
But isn't that the very problem?

The market for these loss-leading services is skewed because Google subsidizes their free offerings so that they improve their ads branch. Because it is hard to compete with a free (actually money-losing) service, it is very hard for competitors to spring up. And thus the whole thing is anti-competitive.

If they were separate companies and had to compete on their own merit, not subsidized by the ads division, they'd have to ask for money too. Then, competitors actually have a chance to offer something better.
And through that, the reach of the ads business is limited unless they start to work with the competing services. This opens up the market for other ad markets, too.

And then we are a step closer to the free market that is efficient and good for consumers.
It's sadly a bit worse than religious nationalism.

It's start with that common religious nationalist myth:

'We are the best/greatest in the world, because god made us So (baked just right).'

Then continue with a that bit that separate it from Cesarism (and Stalinisme):

'But we aren't the greatest country in the world, we aren't at our rightful place: ahead of our ennemies'.

Then you have different follow-up. A Maoist 'we should improve and work hard, especially you, to make up for it', Or a more fascist/whiny approach 'its because of those pesky I internal traitors (usually Jews, sometimes communists, it seems to be Muslims in India currently)'.

The issue is that India nationalism is moving from a somehow Maoist mythos (except with more competent leadership, which isn't hard tbh) to a victim hood, whiney myth that imho lead to at best reactionary thinking, at worst fascism (I don't think they're there at all, I don't think they can their society is too much... Indian? to be really fascist, but I can see castes becoming a real thing again.)

In general, I think nationalism is like being proud of something you don't control and don't have any impact on, so a bit dumb, but Human. I'm OK with it, mostly. But add paranoid victimhood to nationalism and you have the dumbest ideology in the world.
If you have lots of money and like fancy rings, sure, go for it!

If you just finished your college, sit on a big pile of student loans, work in your first job and then spend several months of income on a shiny rock, then that is a bad financial decision, no matter whether you love diamond rings or not. (And from what I hear, this situation happens a lot, due to social pressure and "desired social status".)
Not sure why people are downvoting.

I can confirm for some types of lectures this is a wholly legitimate approach.
FIDO2 for centrally managed users – Fedora Magazine
Well it depends on what you mean by eID. Many government systems of course have ways to log in. But I would dispute that these are really ID systems.

For example, to pay road tax for my car, the government send me a reminder letter in the post every year which has an 11 digit number on it. I can then log in to the DVLA website using this number and the car registration plate number (or alternatively I can do it using the serial number on the vehicle's "log book" and the registration number).

When I renewed my son's passport, the log in used (I think) the old passport number and his date of birth and name.

And so on. Each bit of government is only supposed to ask for what they need and no more.
they shipped the org chart
The Windows 11 Snipping Tool apparently has OCR as well.
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This is indeed a logic problem that exists in many countries that have partial legislation.

But it still helps. It removes the stigma, but most importantly: In many countries going after substance users is a low-hanging fruit to police. Instead of solving real crimes if you raid a club you can arrest a lot of "criminals", improving your statistics.

In the "war on drugs", in 99% police is going after the users, not the dealers, because the latter are far harder to catch.
lol, I forwarded this article to my girlfriend, and she immediately responded: absolutely not!

I guess some things are not meant to be optimised.
She mentioned that you can buy a lab-grown diamond for much cheaper, and keep the same shine as a "real" diamond.
I once migrated a monitoring task from a smallish VM to GCP Cloud Functions triggered by the Cloud Scheduler. Nothing super fancy; imagine some code that runs on a cron once per hour, collects a bunch of metrics on various things then writes the results somewhere. Straightforward but takes a couple minutes to execute and needs a good chunk of memory while it's running. Costs went from about $100/month for the VM size we needed to $0.12/month for the Cloud Functions version. Plus there was no longer a VM that needed to be secured, updated, monitored, etc. That aspect was arguably the much bigger savings than the basic VM cost.

My current company is running entirely on Cloud Run. Not quite as "serverless" as pure Functions or Lambdas, but we have zero VMs or hardware that we manage, so I feel like it counts. We don't do huge amounts of traffic (and don't need to), but it's not trivial either and it's very spiky. The Cloud Run part of our setup is almost negligable (dominated by the database and storage/network costs by several orders of magnitude). With that we get easy deploys and rollbacks, auto-scaling, ephemeral preview environments for every PR, and a simple security story (when the security questionnaire spreadsheets come around, I get to just say "not applicable" and skip entire sections on host-based security, SSH keys, OS updates, etc). And it's basically just a standard Docker image for the app, so if we ever felt like it would be more cost effective to run it on a VM or K8s cluster, it wouldn't be that difficult.

I agree that not everything is better with serverless, but there are some things where it's just a vastly better fit.
When I spend time studying a topic, I make PowerPoint/keynote slides. They are better than texts for three reasons.

(1) Slides are more concise, forcing me to digest the material into high level sections.

(2) More diagrams and less text provides motivations and intuitions of the subject. They are therefore easier to teach others or at least hook them to learning more.

(3) I am always ready to give a talk on the subject.

(4) Details or technical notes can be put in the back.
eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel (official documentary) [video]
Then you could simply read the script — no need for the video at all.
It still is in other parts of the world!

Here in France a single diamond ring is quite rare. Sapphire, emerald, ruby, etc rings are very very common. They are usually lined with tiny diamonds around to add a bit of sparkle around a large gem. However due to Americanization of the cultures, people start to do it the american way (we call it a "solitaire", solitary diamond).

Three couples in my friend group got engaged recently, all three had colored gems on their rings. Diamonds were in support of the main gem to enhance it, not the star of the show. That's a sample of N=3, but very much part of the French culture.
No one is perfectly like you'd want them to be...
This is a good example. That was math heavy, it took me too long to parse for basic understanding and honestly I am not sure I got it right. The LUA code was easy to understand even though those variable names force you to read all the code, and guess what is what.

It has been a long time since I did diff eq at work, and I agree with the PDF the more I knew the less I understood. I dont know why I need to have the math tainted by the unclean reality to understand, and if that hinders my understanding of them.