skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pkd was a genius, an addict, and most importantly, got paid by the page.

Jonathan Letham's Amnesia Moon (mentioned at the bottom) is my favorite "how pkd would write if he weren't ripped on speed 24/7"

Guess it's time to reread it. And ubik, and fmytps, and the lathe of heaven, and hyperion, and embassytown and...
> Once the skies are clear

The problem in Ukraine is that the ground is not clear (mobile air defense and MANPADS). So neither side is using planes for CAS.
It says it is written in Python. Wasn't bazaar written in Haskell or OCaml?
La cornice foto digitale MELCAM da 10 pollici offre un'esperienza visiva chiara e vibrante, perfetta per presentare foto e video con nitidezza grazie al suo ampio schermo IPS e all'ampio angolo di visione di 178°. Supporta la riproduzione di video ad alta definizione a 720P e 1080P, fungendo anche da orologio e calendario.

Questo dispositivo multifunzionale non si limita alla visualizzazione di immagini: può fungere da lettore di foto, musica e video. Supporta diversi formati come JPEG, BMP, PNG e riproduce file video a 720P/1080P. Con modalità di presentazione diverse e riproduzione automatica in loop, è possibile impostare una colonna sonora di sottofondo durante la visualizzazione delle foto, rendendo così i ricordi ancora più vividi.

Una delle caratteristiche interessanti è la funzione di riproduzione a punti di interruzione, permettendo alla cornice di continuare a riprodurre le foto dal punto esatto in cui è stata chiusa. Inoltre, la cornice supporta l'anteprima delle immagini, semplificando la ricerca di specifiche foto tra centinaia di immagini.

L'installazione è semplice e veloce, senza necessità di software aggiuntivo. Basta inserire la scheda di memoria o il disco USB. Supporta schede di memoria fino a 128 GB e dischi USB (solo in formato FAT32/EXFAT). Con il telecomando incluso, è possibile controllare la cornice foto da qualsiasi luogo della stanza.

Con la sua capacità di mostrare i momenti più belli della vita in foto e video, la cornice digitale MELCAM è un regalo ideale per Natale, matrimoni, Ringraziamento, lauree o compleanni. È particolarmente consigliata come regalo per genitori e nonni che preferiscono una cornice digitale tradizionale rispetto a una con funzionalità WiFi cloud.
This being said, that while loop of death is pretty terrifying indeed.
I like the idea, though I use nanoid with the safe letter dictionary (it excludes letters used for profanity[0])

They should use a similar dictionary approach IMO because I looked at the implementation and it’s hardcoded to look for “bad” words

Otherwise looks real straightforward! I’d love to see some performance test suites for it

[0]: https://github.com/sqids/sqids-javascript/blob/ebca95e114932...

[1]: though with UUID v4 so common to generate and well optimized in most languages I wonder if these userland solutions are really better. You can always generate a UUID and re-encode with base32 or base64 with also is well optimized in most languages
I'm curious to hear more about why you feel this was the winter of sci-fi! Can you share some more besides personal preference? (I'm not a huge Vonnegut fan or even big reader in general and Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle were pretty far from DNF for me.)
I would contend that being friendly for non-technical users is a necessary condition to consider it working well. It clearly works, nobody is saying it doesn't.
We need a publicly funded body whose purpose is to issue grants for firms to reproduce scientific findings. A scientific reproduction corps. Extra can be awarded for finding flawed/fraudulent research. This would create a community of organizations that counter-balance industry incentives and instill trust in our scientific process.
Reminds me of my account manager at PayPal when I was running a TV torrent tracker. "We both know what you're doing, just never tell me what you're doing, OK?"
I’ve definitely seen an increase in Spam filtering issues on iCloud.

I recently emailed a new contact for the first time and their reply to my email went into the Junk folder. How does that happen?

This last week I’ve had two other emails from people that I’ve corresponded with for years go into Junk.

Given how poor iCloud Webmail is - to the degree that it looks like Apple simply doesn’t care about it as a product… at all… I’m not surprised if the internals are being neglected too.

I’ll be moving everything off iCloud very soon.
I would assume the answer is probabilistic and likely follows something like a bell curve.
Check flutter.
"something you've worked on personally" pretty clearly does not cover pubolishing a completed project from someone else on a new platform.
I might think, it's solely the social media and social comparison - but that's not the only reason.

In my experience, burnout will be a problem for people, whenever they take themselves too seriously and important - but at the same time, they don't want to invest time into work (because life is much more important).

No matter what they do, if works duty sums up and staples - this guy's saying "so much work" and spiraling into that thinking. Each day will be worse and worsen because of the spiral.

And, no matter when I'm bringing my theory up. There will always be some guys telling me it's wrong - but in the course of discussion, one can read out exactly: "takes himself being to important and to serious" and "not willing to do overwork".

So, let's discuss:)
Ohhhh, is _this_ where the 7-bit transfer settings came from? That always seemed a weird number to me (unless a bit was instead repurposed as a parity bit).
The last I recall is that the SEC considered all crypto to be a security. And Coinbase is absolutely aware of it. In fact, in the previous sentences to my quote, in their court filing, they are aware, but disagree:

> We disagree that the majority of digital assets are securities.

And you seem to miss my point.

Not once in Coinbase's lawsuit did they actually say "We'd love to comply, we just don't know how to".

In fact what they did say was that they knew how to comply, "but the cost and effort makes it not profitable for us".

But because of their PR everyone is latching on to this spin of "we'd love to follow regulation, but we don't know how and no-one will tell us!"

So why didn't they say that in court?
> This is why there are decoy flares.

..are you serious. chaff/flare is a last-ditch countermeasure for when the missile is completely depleted of energy for final evasive maneuvers, not a first line of defense after a modern missile. against a manpaad there's a higher success rate but even then it's not 100%.

> Anyway, WWII-style antiair guns would easily down a F-35 in a CAS role unless it is so high that its ability to handle that is compromised.

are you under the impression the f-35 is going on strafing runs???

> Things that shoot bullets are the real threat to CAS aircraft. Also, the F-35 has so few shots that it can only fire a fraction of the bullets that the A-10 could fire.

...

> Combine that with reduced accuracy from having to fly higher up and it is almost useless in a CAS role.

i'm not sure how to even respond to this
I feel similarly. However, I absolutely love Vonnegut, but don't see his work as scifi. Sure it has all the elements, but the themes are mostly different. To me the best scifi is about a technology that could exist and plays through all the consequences. Slaughterhouse Five isn't that, it's about WWII. (From my definition one might guess correctly that I see space opera as a derogatory term)
It is probably A* search + Q-learning
Yes, I give up once I get two ads in the space of 30s or when I can't properly skip the video to nth minute.
> It discusses "F-16’S CAS VARIANTS". That is the F-16 in a CAS role as far as I am concerned.

Then your understanding is deeply wrong. The F/A-16 discussed in that article was a specific variant of the F-16 that mounted a 30mm gun pod. Which failed horribly. During the gun produced vibrations that broke avionics, and the targeting software didn't even work with the gun.

The normal F-16 is a multirole fighter that can drop bombs, missiles, and rockets on ground targets just fine. It can shoot HARMs, too. It has performed in a CAS role just fine for decades. Not to drag contemporary events into this thread, but I guarantee you many of the Israeli planes dropping bombs in Gaza are f-16s. And yes, this is close air support: ground forces are pushing in, and when they take fire from a position they're calling in strikes. This is textbook close air support.

> That being said, for CAS, being able to shoot bullets at dozens of targets is more useful than dropping a handful of bombs. It is also more cost effective. :/

No, it is not. 30mm cannons aren't going to demolish trenches or penetrate that far into fortified buildings. You also have to get really close to the target to be effective. It was an effective way to conduct CAS against armored targets specifically in the 1970s and 80s before laser and gps guided bombs became ubiquitous. And today, the proliferation of IR guided SAMs that are fairly resistant to flares make strafing too dangerous, even for the a-10.

If you were under the impression that the abortive F/A-16 was the only version of the F-16 ever fielded for CAS then your statements in this chain make sense. But it's a totally false understanding.
> Inequality is as old as dirt

Yes

> unfortunately

No. Perfect equality means that nobody can excel in anything, anywhere and any time. With perfect equality comes stagnation. If you happen to know Rush' song "The Trees" you'll know what I'm talking about:

Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw

It is not so much inequality which can be a problem but the fact that the lower bounds can be too low for an acceptable quality of life. As long as the lower bounds are high enough - above the "poverty line" - there can be inequality without that being a problem in and of itself.

Another thing which can be a problem is the reason for there being inequality, e.g. when some rule or custom creates artificial limits for some people but not for others ("discrimination").

For a society to thrive you want people to make the best of their possibilities and to use their capabilities to the fullest extent. With that you automatically get inequality because not everyone has the same possibilities and capabilities, e.g. a farmer on a rock-infested piece of glacial detritus will not be able to produce bumper crops even if he is at least as capable as the farmer in the river delta who can not leave his wooden shoes outside without them sprouting roots and growing leaves. On that same river delta a capable farmer will be able to more reliably produce good crops than one who has never heard of crop rotation. If you take the most productive developer in your company and provide him with a fully equipped tool shop he will not be able to produce as good a widget as would the most experienced mechanic who in his turn would not be as productive a developer. Both can do their best to reach their local optimum but the developer will most likely see that result in higher earnings than the mechanic will.

Inequality is not a problem. Equity - forced equality as personified by the "they" in the lyrics to "The Trees" - is a problem.
Thanks for the tip, I now know that I can’t use ChatGPT when I’m being interviewed with this question.
> How does this stuff pass QA??????

Microsoft notoriously fired all their QA engineers back in 2014. I would assume that QA is no longer a core competency at Microsoft. I'm guessing that they have testing tasks that are now performed by contractors, but no actual _process_ in place to assure quality. The only engineering process now is agile.

My experience as a QA engineer testing software in agile environments in the last 15 years or so is that my attention every sprint is focused first on assuring that the features implement the user stories, and second that the automated regression tests are written and checked into version control. This automation task is where the majority of my 80 hours every sprint is spent. There is no time to check for bugs by way of, say, ad-hoc testing.

If I'm a contractor, all the buttons are on the screen, and the only issue is that the buttons aren't centered, then I'll enter a bug for the alignment issue as a low priority fix and clear the feature to ship. I might POSSIBLY perhaps maybe add a note to the bug suggesting a workaround by sending an InvalidateRect message to the window containing the buttons, but I doubt it knowing that the developer outside of the team would never read it.

I will absolutely NOT be an advocate for the developer experience and refuse to clear the feature to ship with this bug knowing how tenuous my employment status is, however. I would guess that that's how this bug passes QA in the first place.

Edit: Clarified a few statements.
On...Bandcamp? Which is what most indie artists use to sell?
Server Meshing, PES and Replication Layer [video]
You can also (surprisingly) ask ChatGPT for validation. The part of the LLM that activates when solving problems is going to be different than the one that activates when reviewing.
Maybe a slam dunk first FOSS contribution?
Wait... Wasn't Bitcoin supposed to save Argentina? I thought they were being held up as nation that embraced crypto... Have they given up on this?
That’s anti-science. It’s well established you shouldn’t just “eat what you want,” at least when it comes to living a long/healthy life. Death is a compounding statistical phenomenon, not a discrete one.
Could this not be removed on an Android phone, or is Android in SK locked down to prevent this?
It's not usable on two computers running Fedora 38 and Firefox. I guess it's time to search for alternatives.
And maybe whoever designed and built it gets the honour of being the first person to walk that route.
Is this for an in-person interview?

Because without checking `man` or stackoverflow (or leaning on ChatGTP) my first response would be to go with `if [ $# -lt 1 ]; ...`. This has the advantage of being pretty readable, and while I've been doing shell scripting for long enough to consider myself reasonably competent at it, I'd have to refer to the man page to be sure what `${1:?}` did.
This would have been awesome in the 90s
https://youtu.be/RKT-sKtR970 Check out this engine sound simulator. Perhaps a preconfiguration of this?
> Note though that the fraud that the prosecutor addresses here doesn’t have anything to do with crypto per se. As in, it’s not about securities laws, or even AML stuff.

That's playing pretty tight with definitions to push "crypto" out of the picture.

SEC's press releases was "SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX". https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-219

The release said "crypto" ten times.
Want to make a bet that it's not zero by 2030?
I'd like to counter your carnivore-biased doctor with a doctor with a wfpb-biased approach covering the same topic https://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxalates-in-spinach-and-kid...
The way I read it, that’s why you’re supposed to imagine it’s the 1800s. All you have is the simple-sounding concept of “boiling”, and you’re trying to codify it by finding the temperature beyond which water will not go. At which point you start really paying attention and find the phenomenon is way more complex than your initial model of “water is either boiling or it isn’t”.
Saying master of none precludes the possibility of it being good at anything. :/
These laws come from a very different time. The original theory was that:

1) it's an easy way to do antitrust without breaking up the economics of scale in the manufacturing side

2) dealers would keep money locally / respond to local consumer demand better and

3) dealers were smaller entities that would negotiate better with consumers because they wouldn't have a monopoly on local supply of a manufacturer's vehicles

None of these are regularly true today (and it's questionable how true they were at the time). There are far more viable automakers than when this regulation was originally passed and dealers don't offer better pricing or try to meet local demand more than manufacturers. Dealerships also typically aren't small local businesses anymore, but instead large corporate chains whose owners may live just as far away as the OEM.
This is some delusional, misinformed, crypto bro kool aid type propaganda lol
The stairs in the article are probably not code compliant, even with all that work. The uppermost tread is cut short. Most locations require all treads to be the same depth, so his half-tread probably won't pass inspection.

The stringers either need to land a little further away from the wall, or the stairs the need to be at a slightly steeper angle (but check local building code for the max permitted angle!).

I built stairs with a friend years ago, and there are a lot of constraints to solve for if you want to build code-compliant stairs. A good parametric CAD system was very helpful. We could specify overall dimensions: stair rise/run, number of treads, thickness and width of the stock. It'd solve for the critical dimensions to verify, like tread rise, stair angle, tread depth, and the angles to cut the stringer ends to.
15. Rocannon’s World has a stupid tagline in the title. Ignore it.

This book is short and is supposed to be the first part of a novella called "worlds of exile and illusion" which consists of a trilogy of stories.

Read the novella of 3 stories in order. Do not just read rocanonns world individually.

When read Separately the stories are your standard sci Fi fare but when wholistically read the trilogy becomes one of the most epic stories I have ever read. All three stories seem only slightly connected but as a trilogy all three stories combine to form a completely different epic tale that spans the entire universe.

I didn't really like Ursula's left hand of darkness. It was ok, but worlds of exile and illusion blew me away. But for some reason most people don't know about this gem and I think it's because the books were initially released separately.

The whole thing needs to be read in order as one book, the length of each story actually makes it better fit for a single book too, link:

Worlds of Exile and Illusion (Hainish) https://a.co/d/0jtS7Zb

Guaranteed there's nothing else like it in sci Fi both on television and in other sci Fi books.
Would have been nice to share your emscripten build with the original project.
And what did you do with that Monero after you received it?
Notably missing from the docs is a "Why?"

Specifically, in what way is Breezy an improvement over existing DVCSes
I read the "breezy in 5 minutes" article but it didn't really explain much. Almost all the commands were exactly the same in git, and the console output looked the same as git.

So what's the point? Is it just for people to hack on?
More like this:

- https://twitter.com/steveruizok/status/1727625036159234555

- https://twitter.com/_nonfigurativ_/status/172732259457002734...

- https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1727755227766350031

- https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1727722358465523721
For a very high-level, visual introduction, see:

https://mlu-explain.github.io/reinforcement-learning/
Enders game, speaker for the dead, ringworld, and many others are post-1983. Are those dull hard sci fi?
I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome
Bend-Forming: CNC deforamtion process for fabricating 3D wireframe structures
Last year I migrated off Lightroom because my intermittent use made it increasingly hard to justify the monthy fee. I looked at Darktable as a replacement and, while it seemed superficially capable, I soon realised that actually doing anything with it required more patience and resistance to pain than I possess. I wish I could have liked it, but the recent posts here finally make me realise why I didn't.

So I'd be interested in the hive mind's recommendations for an LR replacement. I have my LR edits exported as xmp sidecars, I'd prefer a one-off purchase rather than a subscription and I'm an average punter with more enthusiasm than skill. I shoot mostly jpeg with some raw. What should I be looking at to replace LR?
That's an unwise way to filter out candidates. It's an obscure and unimportant syntax feature whose effect can be accomplished in many other, more readable ways. Writing line noise using obscure syntax is not a sign of a good programmer. If you want to find good candidates, give them an assignment in bash and make them explain their solution.
bazaar is python
They probably mean female labor force non participation rate. The unemployment rate is probably zero, given there isn’t a minimum wage.
Doesn't that apply to wood too? Yet we use wood to build houses almost everywhere.
I was a regular player when this was released. Thanks for the nostalgia!
While there is some merit in having a secure LAN, I see where you’re coming from.

I assume anything leaving the LAN is insecure, and why I prefer secure protocols. However, this is often impractical for many devices and projects on the LAN side.
Wow this seems profound, I didn’t even know you could do that, that could be the future of augmented reality if you think about it, layers! Great job!
There's a big difference between "build this program for me" and "explain how this line of bash code works".

I use LLMs for the latter, and they often do a great job and save a lot of time looking up individual flags, concepts, etc.
1,400-year-old temple discovered at Suffolk royal settlement
The eleventh circle of hell: setting up an RPi camera module
Case in point? The US has every incentive to shut down businesses that want to facilitate the continued existence of these organizations.
A court has already ruled that XRP does not pass the howey test. If it is an investment contract, who are the parties to the contract?
Odd design decision in that if you provide your own blocklist, it overwrites their (extensive) default list instead of adding to it.

And in general the algorithm is surprisingly complicated for something that could be replaced with simply base64 encoding, the given example (1,2,3) base64 encodes to a string with just one more letter than this algorithm.

That said I do appreciate the semicolon-free-style. I don't typically see that in libs besides my own.

https://github.com/sqids/sqids-javascript/blob/main/src/sqid...
Off-topic: I'm looking to read more old books and the genre of travel diaries from the eighteenth century that the author mentioned seems very interesting.

Does anyone have recommendations for those kinds of books?
Hackable also... Yikes! Version control is inherently an archival system. Having a hackable VCS system seems like a good way to lose data.
> Write a quiz question to make sure I understand it. Rate my response to this quiz question.

I like this idea. Definitely gonna steal it.

I love that "extensions" can be implemented just by writing a couple extra words.
Being a notary or any other public service or semi-public (depending on the country) seems like a safe and easy job once you are in.
Okay. Lets say you want to take out a few dozen targets. Your F-16 dropping bombs will be useless for that, as it needs to fly back and forth so many times to keep getting bombs, by which point all of the ground troops could be dead. The A-10 on the other hand is fantastic for it. The A-10 does not need to return to base after hitting a few targets. Also, the A-10 can drop bombs too.

Seriously, if the purpose of CAS was only to hit 1 target, then any plane that could drop a bomb would work, but nobody cares about being able to hit a single target when they have many targets that need to be hit.