skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a joke from a comedian I forget if it is L̶o̶u̶i̶s̶ ̶C̶K̶ George Carlin o̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶. But basically is along the lines that you don't have explicitly collude when you all come from the same backgrounds. The interests are aligned already. It's pointing out that representatives need to actually be from representative populations of people. But he did it in a funny way, this comment really isn't.

Edit: thanks lo_zamoyski. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs
How does an iPad with an Apple Pencil compare?
I've never experienced a "broken" machine in a cab.
I think it's legitimate to force a re-review for any code change, given that programming is one of those charming areas where a single character can completely change the meaning of something.

That said, if you can read the commits individually then final review for something where minor changes were added should be utterly trivial.
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> Teacher pay rarely raised

There's an oversupply of most PhDs, so there's no need to raise their pay. And that's for professors. Grad students that teach are practically free.
I'm going to say it, this is why we need unions. Only a union can tell them "no, you're not. Maybe 5%." And then negotiate something. The only saving grace here is the generous severance package.
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But back then PV cost the same for everyone: fixed terrestrial, tracker, floating, etc. This is true today: in both cases everybody is buying the same panels.

The argument for floating is and was: available, generally unshadowed land, already flat, with power connection often already there, and lower deployment.

So what’s different now? I’d love for this to succeed.
For any one, or even several, pirate stations, I wish we had what you're saying. Unfortunately it doesn't scale generally.
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B ;-)
Plus all of the infrastructure to tie into the grid is already in place. Seems like there's a lot of benefits.
It’s insane how much the air quality in Southern California has improved. There’s still bad days but you can see the mountains now and that should be celebrated.
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I use this unofficial alternative interface because it lets me scroll through everything that has hit the front page.

https://hckrnews.com/
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It's hard to beleive why such an immense sum of money is being funneled into warping the truth, and to make the extermination of an entire population of innocent people appear justified.
That's because we hunted all the megafauna to extinction during the Pleistocene. Modern hunter gatherers live in the modern world.
Actually I am on iOS and this is an Android solution. But from one thing I found another and finally got to Resilio Sync (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resilio-sync/id1126282325) which might be a good solution.
Thanks for pointing out these alternatives - I'll check them out!
Your missing the point. An EV is not necessary better than a gas car.

An EV like the Plaid X or the Hummer EV actually use the equivalent of more fuel than the competition. A gas X5 is more energy efficient than a X.
I am not at the numerical programming level of most folks in this thread but have written useful numerical software in Python, Julia, Fortran, Java, C#, C++, and Matlab.

My 0.02 is that Julia is awesome... if I was starting a new numerical project from scratch, I'd pick Julia 100% unless there was a very compelling reason to use another language (e.g. to interact with a legacy system). There are some Julia libraries that are so insanely good, like SciML/DiffEq, that I use Julia just to use those libraries (because I'm not smart enough to re-implement that stuff in some other language).

That being said, Python has a sufficiently good ecosystem that it's a sane choice for scientific programming where all out speed (or multi-node parallel computing) is not the top priority. Python with Numpy/Numba, RAPIDS and/or JAX can be very fast and it is very easy to write concise and fast programs this way. The code quality of RAPIDS and JAX are very high too and documentation is solid.

I'd also offer that Chapel and Rust belong in the "HPC/super-computing capable" pantheon of programming languages.
> It’s so strange people still use rails

Why? What makes Django better? (Genuinely curious.)
Foreign entities? Of course, we should ban that as long as we’re at it. Next you’ll have people using vastly superior foreign products, we better ban that as well. And if people decide to leave the country en masse because they’re too morally weak and desire wealth, we can’t have that either, so better build a wall.
Move quickly yes, move forward not necessarily. You've described a system where everybody hits approve or finds something to complain about as fast as they possibly can without worrying about little questions like whether it should have been approved or whether the changes they request are legitimate.
Visual approaches are not non-precision approaches. They’re visual approaches.

Lufthansa wasn’t denied the ILS, they were put in a hold until separation could be created. The same thing happens every day at airports all over the world. The difference is the vast majority of pilots don’t whine about it on a congested frequency and expect to get priority.

And any pilot who is not comfortable performing a visual approach shouldn’t be at the controls of an airliner.
Cleansat: A Debris-Fed Satellite
Humans want to conquer space; but did you know there's tons of junk floating around in orbit that represents a huge danger? This start-up wants to address that.
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D does not support macros quite deliberately, because macros make for incomprehensible code.
Around end of 2022 and start of 2023, Amazon laid off 18k people from their corporate workforce - about 1.2% of their global employee count[0]. That seemed to be the figure the % above was from, as the % from their corporate workforce was 6%.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/05/amazon-to...
It’s impossible to avoid the occasional breaking change in an LTS, especially for software like this. Security fixes are inherently breaking changes— just for users we don’t like.
The better move for the Harvard team is to pivot to investigating Facebook’s big name adversaries (Apple?) and aim to get them on the board turning the university into a corporate influence battleground. \s
What I found thoroughly missing in all music streaming was emotional composition, aka the Algo being able to play music tailored to what situations I I'm experiencing and giving it an arc.

Example:im programming and the concentration music goes towards a victorious crescendo once it works.
Not excusing what Harvard and Zuckerberg did. Joan Donovan is not an advocate for transparency and open discourse, either. Google her name and you will find she is quite alright with censoring.
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Let me clarify what I'm claiming here.

In many counties, users have their OS/Browser settings set to English only, when they actually also speak other languages (or in certain countries, exclusively other languages). There's also a bunch of complexity in regards to spoken/written language comprehension, but I won't get into that here.

There is much more engagement when Google presents content in languages people actually know (or, rather, languages Google thinks they know), regardless of what their Accept-Language header is.

Unfortunately, I cannot present you with hard stats, as I no longer work there. I'm sorry that's unsatisfactory, and I'm not asking you to blindly trust the word of a stranger. Just wanted to offer up some insight into why the system behaves as it does sometimes.
Because they are full of shit. Where is the "pro billionaire tax" think tank and super-PAC they are funding?
There is no space left. The people "in dispute" have left the project, and no one in the F-Droid space is really speaking up against Hans doing whatever he feels like despite the final (short-lived?) existence of councils and boards.
I hope you aren't insinuating election fraud!!!
> In fact, under existing legislation they could have added 'script src' and 'drop table' to an existing list of sensitive words that aren't allowed.

Then someone should register a company named "<FONT FACE='COMIC SANS MS' COLOR='#0F0'>"
> haveibeenfucked.com

Years ago we had friends, a couple in which the wife was pregnant. They were actually a bit embarrassed that “everyone will know that we ‘did it’”. A level of squeamishishness I could not have imagined!
Same, but in a human context, are mundane atmospheric events so far off today that error bars would have any practical value and/or potentially introduce confusion?
It has, but it wasn't adopted by the pragmatists in that time.

It's hard to tell if the early adopters adopted it either

- It doesn't show up at all in the 2023 stack overflow survey (nor in the previous two years) - https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology-most-popula...

- It doesn't show up in questions asked on Stackoverflow since 2008 - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=kotlin%2Crust...

- Nor on Google insights - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2012-07-31%202...

But maybe there is a different data set that shows early adopters adopting D. But for me, I would say a language has been adopted by early adopters when it reaches 1% of all developers in a reasonably large survey. Given that, it's entirely fair for a company making a language decision now to ask if D will still be around in 10 years.
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I was spoiled learning assembly code on the 6809. When I tried to move to the 8086 everything felt cumbersome and weird.
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> I have Github connected to Slack; if someone needs my review I get a message and can have it done within 5 minutes.

Do you not do anything else? If I'm working on something else, I'm not getting to any new task within 5m (at least, not without a net loss of productivity to reload context)
I think the stuff you can do with DNA and genetic testing is wild in how cool and useful it can be. How it can save tons of lives and really accelerate our medical research. But at this time it also seems wildly irresponsible to share your genetic information considering the massive privacy implications and the impossibility of anonymization. Especially considering that PII spills over into your relatives, making the PII leakage often out of your control. I'm not sure how to resolve this tbh. Homomorphic encryption?
Am I understanding this correctly: you let your 3-5 year old daughter stay up each night to 02:00?

When did the sun set where you lived during that time? I suppose that was a big influence on sleep times?
> Why use hreflang?

I’m not a web dev so I might be missing something obvious… but…

Why the obsession with binding languages to a url (resource)?

There’s an accept-language http header that will respect the user’s languages in desired order… I can understand you as a user might want to be able to overwrite it for a specific site so that they can workaround a badly translated site, but even for that purpose you can use a simple opt-in cookie…

But why attach it to a resource (url)??? Now when I share the url it will not respect the language preferences of the one I share it too…

And even if you wish to be able to share a specific language version of a website, why not have these as an extra layer that redirect with a cookie setting that language and then just use again the regular url…

Honestly this boggles my mind… why why… can web developers and their managers please respect http standards… with the german trial case we might see some traction with DNT, so there’s that. Please also respect my language setting.

Fun (read supper annoying) fact: ever worse is trying to use ip to map it to location and then deduce language like that… I live in Belgium and how many times I’ve received a French version of a site is mind boggling… sorry very sorry, but I’m not fluent in French. I can survive in it, but I don’t want to consume websites in it if I don’t have to.. if you actually would respect my browser settings (accept-language) you would know better… zzz
The worst thing about DRF is the dogmatic adherence to inexplicable class hierarchies, something that is modeled after Django class based views. I think Django would fumble a DRF implementation.
Second this, if you need a database and users, Django is better than the headache of thinking about this yourself with all security pitfalls. I've built several production APIs around Django (like, not CMS at all) and I find it a good compromise between an SDK and rolling your own, this is partly due to Python as well of course.

And I've done smaller things with Flask where it would make no sense to go with Django as well but those were things not really built around a db or CRUD API etc.
You're right. We should be glad it's centrally controlled. If business interests in china were able to insert their own democratic opinion into the debate the problem would be much worse.

It begs the question how good is democracy when huge powerful corporate entities with only business interests in mind are able to participate in a democracy? There's no clear answer here.
i agree with you, but knowledge and understanding of these issues varies a lot. my confusion was your apparent conclusion that in a community run project this would have been better.
If Spotify had a brain in their head they would’ve known that Amazon’s offering was desperation against losing so badly to the main big baddie, not a genuinely good product. The Amazon music player is a joke and the service sucks at integrating with other services and products.
What explains the sustained strength of US consumer spending?
California's lithium reserves could power 375 million EV batteries
There is also the question of discoverability, especially unsought discovery.

Nobody casually scrolls through urls and and finds a radio station.
No. Their infrastructure is secure but there are a great many people out there consuming the company names data feed and the U.K. government can make no assumptions about how technically proficient they are.

I’m sure some will object to this as “big government gone mad” or whatever but it feels pretty common sense to me to at least try. No one actually needs to name their company after a SQL statement.
We are saying the same thing. Transformers are more compute efficient than RNNs. Nobody is denying that but the switch from RNNs didn't precede some performance wall(i.e it's not like we were training bigger RNNs that weren't getting better).

We use Transformers today in large part because they got rid of recursion and in effect could massively parallelize compute.
You are correct that reinforced concrete will corrode, generally the service life of reinforced concrete is around 50 years if no special measures are taken. This is because the initial alkalinity of the concrete, which protects the steel, will be neutralized over time. This is the same for modern and for Roman concrete.

But many methods are available both to extend life, and to monitor the health of reinforced concrete. The failures that do occur are typically due to negligent maintenance.

The Romans didn't use steel reinforcement, of course, they just used massive concrete structures. We can do the same today, but it would mean no skyscrapers, no long span bridges, etc.

To be able to build the Pantheon, at 43 meters height, they used walls with a thickness going from 6.4 meters at the base down to just 1.2 meters at the top. In addition they reduced the density of the concrete by almost 50% towards the top, by using very light aggregates.

In comparison the Burj Khalifa at 828 meters heigt has less than a tenth of the wall thickness at the base, just 0.6 meters of reinforced concrete wall thickness in the hexagonal frame.
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Julia aims to also be a C-Compatible low-level language with manual memory management in addition to the GC.

When building data-structures you're often using small unsigned integers that use the complete value-space, (e.g. u8s and their bitsets in tries, u16s and blocks with that size in sparse vectors).

With 1 based indexing, you can't do that anymore without first having to cast the index into the next larger integer, adding 1, and then doing the access, which is a PITA, adds instructions, and messes with prefetching, while you're already working with difficult, hard to read, and heavily optimised stuff.
Are ASCII diagrams worth my time?
The word activism itself makes regular people cringe and leave, particularly after activists blocking major roads, throwing stuff at paintings, etc...

That aside, I think one way regular people could be swayed back into caring about climate change is by showing them hard facts about the progress that has already been done, akin to what this article is doing.
I left spotify after reading their privacy policy and some news stories about how they plan to use your listening data to infer things about you and sell the results
To be fair, I haven't ever heard suspicions of prejudice as an argument to discredit Spanish expedition's writings on the matter, presumably as I've heard the accounts were often eyewitnessed, unlike typical Roman/Greek depictions of distant places they were frequently declaring cultural and actual war on.

I also didn't dismiss potential evidence for Carthage's sacrificial culture, of which there's enough to make the accusation, but really, only that.

I don't actually have a horse in the races of dead people, but I do hesitate to perpetuate even ancient culture wars. It's usually just going to make more use of people's tribal desire than their deductive skills, though why people have emotions about ancient, dead societies, I'll never know.
>big lakes are used for recreational boating

This is a great point. Many of those reservoirs included recreation benefits in the accounting that led to them being funded in the first place, so it may not be trivial to impinge on them.

>in the west, putting these in water might not make so much sense.

OTOH, evaporation is also a big problem there (roughly a couple million acre-feet/year in the Colorado drainage, from memory) so mitigating that would be beneficial.
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I worked as an independent IT consultant / admin-for-hire since I was 20 or something and continued moonlighting for existing clients during my first 2 permanent positions.
At one point a friend of mine was working at a company that needed a way to talk to some printers that were running at their warehouse from a web application running at a remote location and I hooked them up using OpenVPN and CUPS with IPP.

When I found myself out of a job 1,5 years later, the company and it's needs had grown considerably and they hired me.
That was 2014, I'm still there as the primary infrastructure guy.
Although my responsibilities have grown and changed considerably since then, I'm still maintaining that CUPS install.
Switched out OpenVPN for Wireguard, though :)
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Java's ZGC and Shenandoah collectors suspend threads only briefly -- less than one millisecond regardless of the heap size.
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> The ability to not be beholden to the preferences of whoever runs a fedi server is, in fact, the #1 selling point of federated network in the first place.

But you're ignoring that this is dependent upon not being blacklisted from the majority of (and the biggest) servers for not agreeing with their politics.

Folks regularly make the comparison to e-mail, so let's go with that: anyone can run their own e-mail server and send/ receive e-mail from users on other servers. We would find it unacceptable to blacklist an e-mail server because of the politics of the owner or users. Spam, sure, but not _politics_.

The main Mastodon developers also run the main instance, run a directory of other instances, and blacklist instances which do not follow their politics.

So anyone can run their own instance, but the other important part of federation is BROKEN.
no they only allow:

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Thank you for the dozen of you who responded. It's fascinating for me to see the large range of price points due to different regulations in different countries and also affected by different needs (eg. need to track kWh for subsdies).
Much broken panels littering the shores I guess.

Besides I'm sure fish won't like decreased oxygen levels storm or no storm.
WITR Henrietta / Rochester here - we had a 705-watt transmitter on top of the dorms that was good for about 15 or 20 miles.
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guestfish and libarchive are sort of in this space. Neither is a canned tool for exactly this.
> Without Starship Starlink will never grow beyond being a niche player in satellite telecom

Niche? SpaceX is the primary mover [1][2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/29410/number-of-worldwide-roc....

[2] 2023, 31 launches outside of starlink. https://spaceexplored.com/2023/12/03/spacex-launches-2023/
This comment would be more interesting if you provided specifics.
I still have a Motorola 6809 TRM that has artwork right on the cover about how the 6809 was a "bridge" processor to transition you from the 6800 to the 68000.

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Let's all pour one out for the D register.