skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
many people have argued that qm is a larger jump than maxwell's approach, and i agree that that's a very reasonable position, which is why i found it interesting to read dyson arguing the opposite
That's as simple as having vs not having a title ethnicity in the country. If there's no title ethnicity it means there's just citizenship, no one subjugates another: it's a melting pot. Kazakhstan in particular, in any case, is moving towards an ethnic state, as every other ethnicity except Kazakh has very low birth rate there so in a few generations it will become homogenous.
I was disappointed that the article, despite it's title, never actually tells us how these group names came about. From some reading a while back, it seems that many started to be used after the 1968 book, An Exaltation of Larks, became popular. It was written by the Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton, and includes some terms he made up himself, as far as I can tell (the back cover states " In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions...").
> That's the thing. If we don't trust, or accept that trust may not be merited, then there's nothing to break.

Yeah but to get to that point you have to break the trust you had in them or people in general, so my point remains. Or did you from the day of your birth assume everyone is lying to you about everything?
Poetic use is a distant second behind “did you know” articles.
You may have taken a slightly wrong lesson from that exam. AP exams are extremely curved (scoring about 70% or less is a 5), and are half multiple-choice, so a few clues can get the answer), and it's partly a conceptual test that doesn't rely on math.

But of course you're absolutely correct that continuous and discrete systems are approximately equal.
Hope that the kid has time to have fun with friends as well, otherwise will become just a well educated sucker used by others.
Genuinely asking you. Why do you think only one of these conflicts triggers protests around the world? The first protests even before Israel fired a single shot?
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Please, the group is always responsible for the activities of its members. Employers more-so for their employees where actual legal responsibility lies.

There's a trivially small number of gun owners who are shooting up schools; but many people have no problem condemning the group. Only a select few chick fil a employees dislike homosexuality but it's fine to boycott the establishment.

All that just to say the actions of the few do reflect on the whole.
Is there something that you would personally recommend in order to develop better note taking skills?
Apt lurked in HPE's systems for over 6 months
A screenshot of a rasterized image saved in SVG is not something I see any use for. It will be a bloated monstrosity.

SVG is vector graphics, when you already have pixels - there is no clear way going back.
New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
Perhaps, but I doubt any of this [and the article] happens in Union jobs. This is usually only for very competitive high skilled jobs which unions don't attract [in the US].

So I'm afraid Unions would not be any help here.
Am I the one being rude? Maybe. Was GTK also being rude for claiming something everyone else was doing at the time, like fractional scaling, as being "Impossible"? Maybe.

Sorry, maybe I was rude, but someone needs to call out BS claims like this as they probably have enough "yes men" tooting their horn.
Can you subset variable fonts?

One way to reduce the size of a font file is the remove all characters not needed (eg non-Latin characters)

Is it possible to subset a variable font?

Font Squirel is great at subletting non-variable fonts.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
That's comparing budget of a program to NASA's overall budget, ignoring that NASA hasn't been pouring its overall budget into a single lunar program since then (lack of political will), and ignoring that many of the recent landers are explicitly cheaper missions intended to have some risk of failure, either because the country attempting the landing has never done it before, or because they're trying to stimulate private competition in the industry.
(Autotranslated, article is from heise online in German)

related:

Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal" (icann.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152306

2024-01-24

Update:

In case the above URL outputs German text (can't change it), this one should have the right parameters for English: https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Verwirrend-Internet...
>I suppose my point here is that if we should hold nuclear to a reasonable standard of harm - say an order of magnitude less harm then we are presently living under - then the economics of nuclear will likely crush solar.

You believe that nuclear is paying too much, but the truth is that it's paying too little. In France, the US and Sweden the money set aside to handle waste and decommissioning or restitution of old plants is underfinanced by as much as 50%, meaning half the money is missing.

In all countries operating nuclear power, there is a growing hidden debt. France recently paid over 50 billion euros on their debt when they nationalized EDF, but it's not enough.

These costs, and a myriad of other costs, are never included in estimates for nuclear power, because it's regulated in the contract for the operator that they don't have to pay it. Taxpayers pay it.

So when you are looking at the cost of nuclear power, you are often looking at the contracted price that the operator is liable for, but not the true, full cost of actually operating nuclear power.

Recently this arrangement has been reconsidered in many countries, so when you look at any estimates of what new nuclear will cost it has almost doubled in the past few years. This is entirely because a little bit more of the actual cost of nuclear has to be paid by the operators instead of the governments.

>People say solar is cheaper but they seem to by lying.

IEA has recently stated that Solar is the cheapest electricity ever: https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...

Here is a list of solar plants selling power for as little as 1 cent per kwh, 2 cents being common:

https://commercialsolarguy.com/lowest-solar-power-prices-in-...

So, no lies here.

One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that solar has fallen in price so fast that if you are looking at data from 5-6 years ago you're looking at bad data.

Also worth noting is that the average price of electricity in Germany, who has invested heavily in Solar, was lower than in France for all of 2023. Do you have an example of a place with lots of solar that has high electricity prices?
Outlook.com sends links in emails to bing. Meaning your password reset mail links can be indexed. So the AI training seems like the least of their problems...
I dunno, all of them? Which governments mandate open source software when calling for bids?
> Of course plugging that hole will require everyone from the CTO downward to learn about SSH keys and start using them

I had a similar issue 15 years ago, and tied the Linux boxes into Active Directory and authenticated via Kerberos. Worked nice, no SSH keys needed!
Please spare us of this tired trope. People who don't contribute to FOSS, are also allowed to have an opinion on FOSS if they're users of it. Otherwise how would they know what to improve if you don't allow feedback from users? What you're saying is like car companies thinking their customers' opinions are irelevant because their customers never contributed to designing parts of a car.

If you're designing a mainstream product that's not just targeting professional SW developers who can contribute back with code, but also average users who will only use it but never contribute, then you will need to be open to mainstream levels of feedback that represent the average user and not just programmers.

Otherwise let's keep complaining Linux and FOSS alternatives have only ~2% market share that it's somehow the users' fault for only buying Microsoft/Apple and not the projects' for being stubborn to feedback and out of touch with their mainstream users.
I would love an Avernum remake in the style of Exile :P.
That's designing specifically for this failure case, when the typical case is that a sensor or engine encounters an overlooked edge case during the descent phase and smashes into the surface.
> nevertheless this person probably never was your friend. sry

No, it's completely common for friendships to break down over business.

Very few friendships are robust enough to survive one party costing the other $20,000.
The fact that you can write it in one equation shows that the theory is very simple because it is an expression of symmetry. E and B are not these two different things related by an inscrutable cross product but just two aspects of the same thing.
Why should they, if they are interested in releasing games or a game engine?
Yeah, my 2015 car came with an optional spare wheel which eats up a significant part of the not very big trunk. Haven't used it the last 9 years so I get why people opt for the repair kit. The chance of having a tire leak probably depends a lot on the quality of the roads where you drive.
I agree with all your claims here in the literal sense, but suppose there's a minimum length, then it would seem to be at least theoretically possible to use discrete mathematics to formulate an approximation to the "real number formulation of physics"?

The fact that we don't have already a full system using discrete maths doesn't mean it is impossible, because our current system is based on a long tradition of belief in real numbers, and assuming physical space is continuous.

I'd argue (admittedly unhelpfully) that unless we have actually tried to formulate physics using discrete mathematics and found a barrier that we prove unequivocally that it is impossible to overcome, we can't claim that physics must be formulated using real numbers/continuous math. There's a difference between "we don't know how to do this" vs "we know we can't do this".
Virtually every grown-up will interact with the law multiple times per day, especially traffic laws. Half the population has not written a single computer program in their life.
My kids and I enjoyed The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. A good mix of humor, biology, and moral philosophy.

Books and reading can't solve problems. They might help a person recognize or solve a problem. I tend to stick with classics and history, not really interested in argumentation.
How about a slightly larger button that has a bit more complex graphic:

(speaker emitting sound / speaker crossed over). Ie the button has two icons with a slash between them.

One of the icons is in black outline and one is in grey outline. Pressing the button switches between what is black and what is gray.

If speaker emitting sound is black, then sound is on. If crossed speaker is black, then sound is muted.
> For the servers themselves, you shouldn't be able to get to sshd unless you're coming from one of the approved bastion servers.

What if there's a zero-day in your bastion service, whatever that is?
"Google, give me a list of usernames of [x political persuasion]."
> extremely small outfit

Maybe by us standards (1.4m active) - but the legion is almost 10k active personell - close to 10% of the French forces.

Still, Ukraine claim their foreign legion stand at 30k.
> unboxing an apple product is a bit like undressing a lover for the first time.

We have very different experiences opening Apple products. Getting the box open is a bit annoying because of the vacuum and the everything is wrapped in that thin white material that's annoyingly stretchy.

I take put my products as quickly as I can and get rid of the packaging.

To me, it's nothing close to romantic.
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Second life for Canon! I'm excited!
If only nation states had some way of purchasing servers in another country and launching their attacks from there.
But isn’t Ubuntu thoroughly beaten around the bush?

If there’s a Linux problem, most likely someone solved it on Ubuntu - or you have a different experience?
The usage of 'bad apple' which you are describing as incorrect is so widespread now that railing against it is futile. Language sometimes changes in ways we disagree with personally.

I understand how you feel, I have the same feeling about how the word 'literally' is now defined as 'figuratively' in some dictionaries. Makes me want to tear my hair out... but the people have spoken.
> If there's no title ethnicity it means there's just citizenship, no one subjugates another

That's a wild, unwarranted and patently wrong statement.
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Oh, you are right about GTK4! It has switched to a scene graph and retained mode drawing. Somehow, I had never heard of that before. Presumably, it was done to be able to use 3D graphics APIs that all work in retained mode.

Vulkan and OpenGL, though, are in no practical sense immediate mode: You need to draw the whole frame every frame (barring a few exotic extensions for compositors and such), so you need to retain the state of everything in the frame so you can draw it.
I think he means taking the scenegraph and saving it directly to SVG. Pretty much how it would be done for PDF.
You'll need a lot of trees close by then, which is not an option in some densely populated countries. If you're hauling trees using diesel trucks and chopping them up with petrol chainsaws you might as well just pump natural gas to houses.
>while my friend goofed off and ran personal errands all day.

"A CEO's high compensation is justified by the skills, experience, and dedication they bring to the role."

I doubt this is only an issue at startups. I've noticed that the higher up the rungs of the corporate ladder you climb, the easier it is to get away with doing nothing all day.
the subscription cost is utterly ridiculous.

If it was $2 a month then maybe and I'm a guy that loathes subscription costs.

I'm looking into this sort of thing as i'm hopeful it'll help my wife with thyroid issues get better sleep. but eightsleep is right off the table with those subs prices
This isn't targeted at you directly however I have been on the other side of this. I've sometimes been too open with actionable feedback. What has bit me is that people say they want actionable feedback, but then get defensive or sometimes mildly hostile at any conceived criticism.

This led me to be much more careful with feedback and only give it if I know they can take it. If you think you are one of these people and you receive feedback, just ask questions.. don't dig in and defend yourself.
I love it. I wrote an RFS[0] based on a similar idea. The big value prop in my mind isn’t the single user experience but rather automated trust signals on content quality based on access by members of your network graph and their proximity.

Hopefully yourself, author, and others continue to work on this idea.

[0] https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/replacing-google-search...
Not to be too negative, but this seems quite inaccessible to anyone using a screen reader or other non-visual output device. Unlike with SVGs or images, there seems to be no way to provide an alternative representation?

Similar to the inaccessibility of icon fonts, but those tend to use private use character codes rather than actual readable text; reading the example page [1] with a screen reader is... not a great experience.

[1]: https://dy.github.io/linefont/scripts/
I think the point is that places exist for jokes that don't add anything, so we can just go do that there, rather than changing the definition of what this is
That reminds me, I saw a video recently of a choir practice where they sang "brighter" and "darker" based on the conductor's hand position.

It was fascinating how the singers could control the brightness of their voice while holding the same note and frequency. When they went bright, it sounded closer to "eee" or "iii". When they went dark, it sounded like "uuu" and "ooo".

From that, I learned that the lyrics of a song, in particular the vowels, can be chosen consciously (or not) for their harmonic effect.
I have been in both sides of the equation.

As an employee, it happened three times.

1. I got fired when the product got acqui-hired. I didn't have a significant exit or anything like that. He explained to me that they could only keep the most senior guys and I was ok with that. Was during college. Learned a lot during the time. (My friend was like 10 years older than me)

2. I joined a "dev collective shop" basically we were something about 10 devs and designers that would run gigs and make mvps for startups and share the profits. We had a leader (close friend of mine), very idealistic and charismatic. After a while we noticed that there were some transparency issues about money and how the projects were picked. It was very stressfull, I ended up breaking relationship with my friend. Shortly after everyone got pissed with him, he got me and some others jobs at his brother's company (a big industry) as a form of compensation. His brother was way crazier than him.

3. I worked for a friend of mine that has a small telecom company. Worked for some months, then went to a better paying job because I needed the money at the time. After that I did many consulting gigs to him and we are very close to this day (remotely, but we always talk)

As an employer, many times, but two in special:

1. I hired a close friend of mine as the tech lead. I was the CTO of a startup and it came to a point that I couldn't handle both the business side and the technical (code) side, just architecture and infrastructure. He had a very senior position at a really big payment gateway. He joined us and really gave his best to the success of the company. When we exited, we gave him lots of options so he could exit well with us.

2. At the same company, we hired a friend of mine (not very close, someone I met in college) to be a regular dev. He was a very smart guy, you know, that use his own distro and coded his own crypto wallet and the such. The thing is that he was never pushing code. Later we found out that he was doing other 3 jobs at the same time. The CEO and everyone complained a lot with me. When we were almost firing him, we noticed by his surname and after some social media searches, that his father was one of our major clients (like 30% of our revenue). So we kept him and turned him into a tech evangelist kind of guy (he ran a technical twitter for the company). Surprisingly, it yielded a lot of new clients and helped a lot with recruitment.

My takeout is that the relationship should be equivalent. You should not be "helping him" or "understanding a difficult phase" and he should not be "helping you grow" or something like that. You both are professionals that by chance are friends. No more, no less. And that your work ethic should always be high, but with friends, double or triple that.

Also, I never seen a couple that worked together and maintained a healthy relationship at the same time. It can happen, but I've never seen it.
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A man opened an emergency exit and walked on a plane's wing
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Tbf the hiring already said they don't have the position open, and rather than doing something about it, the CEO asked OP to make another homework, which is also not a guarantee. Another round of interview may be fine, but another homework, that's laughable.

OTOH, it may be that the company already have one or some super programmer, that he/she carry the company to success. Having OP, if we assume is another super programmer, may halt the company rather than improve it.
The tools and libraries for both GIS and Civil Engineering are also much much more developed in Python compared to Ruby. As are the tools for most areas of mathematics, and probably most other scientific and engineering fields.
The resell value of Apple products is higher than anything else I'm aware of with the exception of GPUs when they spike because crypto mining, AI, etc.

For example, the two generations old Mac Book Pro M1 I'm typing this on was purchased for roughly $1800 three years ago. A search of sold eBay auctions shows this configuration having sold for $1200 today, roughly 67% of the original purchase price. When I've done searches in the past comparing similar generation and original purchase price iPhone devices vs Android devices resell value was something like 30% higher.

I'm not familiar enough with the Dell product line to do a comparison search but I'm pretty sure this is significantly better than a three year old Dell, especially with the lower end models essentially being disposable. The lowest-end Macbook Air of this vintage is selling for 60% of the original purchase price.

Everyone I know keeps Apple packaging for resell when they upgrade which is the "reduce and reuse" portion of the "three Rs" reduce, reuse, recycle from the 90s. iPhone boxes also make excellent electronics project boxes and I use them routinely for ESP based projects, etc because they are so sturdy. Of course I still have all of the original packaging for this Macbook Pro for when I finally resell to offset my next upgrade.

Of course eventually the packaging will need to be recycled at some point down the line but generally speaking Apple devices tend to take much longer to end up as e-waste which is a far bigger issue than paper-based packaging.
Couple times in the past I have implemented GPU-targeted GUI renderers, here’s an example: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac?tab=readme-ov-file#vector-... https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/VAA...

2D graphics have very little in common with game engines. The problem is very different in many regards. In 2D, you generally have Bezier and other splines on input, large amount of overdraw, textures coming from users complicate VRAM memory management. OTOH, game engines are solving hard problem which are irrelevant to 2D renderers, like dynamic lighting, volumetric effects, and dynamic environment.
I wish GTK didn't follow the trend of allowing widgets in the titlebar. Some can drag, some can not. There's less room for the app and file names. This is not a GTK specific complaint.
I've used postfix+dovecot for a while and it's fairly easy. Main issue is you need a static IP (not on a consumer/residential subnet) with reputation. To be safe, you really need a /24 subnet since some blacklists will lost entire net blocks if they get enough complaints.

Even with DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and a PTR record, it was quite difficult to get Outlook/Microsoft to accept emails without them going to spam. I think they have some sort of form you can submit but it took lots of tries

If you don't have a static IP, you have to pay for a relay.
For those coming to the comments first, this is at standard pressure as well.
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I'd be very skeptical about that. I work in the game industry, and while our 3D renderers are very good, I have not seen a 2D UI renderer I would feel is at all competive. What are you using for path and pattern rendering?
I have child seat in my back seat secured to designated attachment points (not the seatbelt) and its heavy enough to warn me EVERY time. It's secured, not dangerous, and is a persistent false positive. Badly designed systems can also do harm by training people to ignore them or even actively circumvent them.
> the cost which often gets quoted with those mistakes is not a real cost

It is still money they would have made that now weren't made. It is very important to explain to people how much value is lost during these events so that we also correctly value the work to prevent such events in the future.