skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a window cornice, a four sided box covered in fabric, and actually just finished installing it a couple hours ago in my toddler's room. His room has southern and western exposure and I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to make it acceptably dark in there for nap time[1].

I have essentially zero experience with woodworking, but I was drawn to it due to the practical effects of being able to solve problems I see in my home in ways that exactly fit my needs, instead of having to go with a 'good enough' off the shelf solution.

Building even something as simple as the cornice had a steep learning curve, and I think my wife probably rolled her eyes behind my back more than once when I said I had to go to Home Depot yet again for another thing I hadn't expected I'd need for it, but I'm glad I persevered.

The next thing I build will undoubtedly be easier to make, better constructed, and will continue to be the exact right thing I need to solve a problem in my home.

[1] The complete answer here is blackout curtains with curtain rods that wrap around, the window cornice, chip bag clips to get an acceptable seal in between the two curtains. It sounds straightforward, but it was a process to get there, as I kept taking half steps that proved ineffectual as the season progressed and the room kept getting more and more sunlight.
Heh. The late model is (hopefully) more impressive .. but the key question is did it get it's own song and cult following on the intertubes? :-)
Oh the slow mo of Vader entering the room had me burst out laughing.
No, that's fascism; Read Mussolini's manifesto.

Fascism is basically Communism (as practiced); corporations own the means of production rather than the government, and it uses religion/nationalism rather than humanism/atheism.

They are the same in kind, but different in degree. You could even say China under Deng Xiaoping and later Xi blended the two.

Agile is many ways does smack of Communism:

- It proposes egalitarianism (skin in the game), but generally leads to micromanagement/totalitarian situations.

- If it fails it's because you didn't do the "real" Agile.

- If adherents often speak/act in cultist/religious ways.
it's GitLab, open source / open core / source available, MRs in the open, etc. there's basically zero difference between internal/external contributors. (unless the employee was working on some embargoed/security/backoffice/infra stuff)
I submitted this because it has lots of weird, currently low status or low probability ideas, which are cheap to test and might work really well.

It covers biology, medicine, environment, land use, government, etc.

I'm inspired by the old BBC show "Connections" where often a single individual or a small group, plugging away at something for years while nobody else believes, discovers something early which could have lain unfoind another 100 years... Or finds something obvious that our civilization should be embarrassed to not have investigated 50 years ago!

The price is cheap, and from meeting people in those circles they're nearly all pretty curious, smart, and sincere, so even if misguided, this seems like a very +ev play for humanity compared to alternative ways to spend what looks like less than 1m USD in total. I also made some AI image illustrations of possible success scenarios w/GPT4. https://photos.app.goo.gl/VA5Qu2NkKHwAJUc46
Taking place on a planet of Wookies would make the Empire losing the ground battle make significantly more sense. Legend has it that it was changed to Ewoks for the kid toy opportunities.
It's ironic that a song that is regarded as a war protest song is preventing the distribution of a war protest video game.
> is very iconic

and trivially accessible for free (and in a much easier distributed format that doesn't pay the copyright holder at all) far easier than buying this game from a private store. Further evidence copyright and its licensing is moronic—it doesn't protect original content, it destroys it.
Now in my fifth year of residency after finishing medical school, the effects of sleep debt are astounding. It’s difficult to describe how much better I feel and energetic I am when I have at least 3-4 days off work and get several consecutive nights of adequate sleep .
jigs are like functions

Jigs (and power tools that use them) are like co-pilot! I love my hand-tools. I know inevitably it's all on the way out, but I like the hand tools more!

experience teaches you the order of operations, how things fit together

This is how we can still "beat" co-pilot enabled juniors! You can actually understand the whole system and direct an army of juniors!

woodworkers build a lot of their own tools

Only if you consider jigs your tool(s). I find that this is not actually the fun part of woodworking. Building a workbench from 2x4s from nothing (well, an old ikea table - or sawhorses w/ a sheet of plywood on top), glue to laminate and some 50+ year old plane from Ebay that took a week+ to de-rust and sharpen and handsaws that needed re-sharpening and de-rusting was very satisfying!

custom tools are usually made by same stuff the products are

Yesssssir!

both spend time optimizing their workflow

Absolutely!

wood is quite soft, like software!

It's amazing how hard it can be to work those cheap 2x4s when you're learning. You kinda don't want to use proper hardwood (-ware) for fear of destroying (bricking) something not so cheap!
Chernobyl's mutant wolves developing resistance to cancer, study says
You can't do MMT for a town budget! Towns don't have money printers and they're not issuing bonds for police operational funds.
“Hold tight! We’re optimizing your experience!”

I don’t remember which online meeting software told me that once in the “oh shit I’m 5 minutes late” situation you’re describing but… man did that not sit well.
The author has more content at https://killedbyapixel.github.io/TinyCode/
I've spent some time in mining, electricity for heavy excavators has been a thing since the 1970s, even the 100 tonne trucks have had electric motor drives since then (albeit powered by onboard diesal engines that generate the power to banks that run the individual per wheel drive engines and regen charge from braking.

The next great leap forward is projects such as the "Infinity Train" that aim to recover electricity from the annual lowering of almost a billion tonne of iron ore per annum to sea level from an inland height of some 600m above MSL.
NYC and Seattle are major cities. Most police departments in the US aren't in major cities.

(Also you forgot about inflation.)
What definition of “robot” are we using here?
> Possible.

I had dealt with these people for several years. In my company, I changed teams several times.

But I still got emails inviting me to internal meetings: they thought? assumed? hoped? ...that I was an internal consultant.

This was pursuant to a larger project and I was on the call for that one and pointed out that I was no longer on the implementation team but was thrilled to be there... because I was. That final / initial deployment resulted in WTFs and I said "woot!" and dropped the call.
Looks like they're currently under attack: https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/ongoing-ddos-attack...
Zoning Out During Standup
How much of an original script survives to filming? I assume that huge swaths of dialog gets reworked as more people can workshop the scene and get a sense of characters/timing/whatever.
It means there is no higher authority to appeal to in a disagreement.
Not who you are replying to but I would define legacy as any project that is doing spring di and wiring the project together with XML (excluding Pom for maven building), rather than annotations or raw Java code. Or anyone still deploying to an application server.
Our dog has surprisingly rich "vocabulary". That is, the modulation of sounds she can make is surprisingly high. She "talks" to us in the evenings and tries to convince us that she needs some extra food (her weight says otherwise). There definitely is an apparatus for quite evolved communication only if we could somehow agree on the communication protocol.
> I'm not sure I have the energy to do a numbers-game applicant strategy.

Neither did I until it became a neccessity. Did 4 job interviews in 7 years and got them all in one go. Then I quit, and there was a long drought of people just not wanting to hire me for 6 months. The first rejection I took personally, but after 10 interviews with crazier and crazier questions you can’t do anything other than see it as a numbers game. Anything else destroys any sense of self worth you have.
I think that's a pretty standard literacy criterion, and probably equivalent to "Level 1" in the US (which is in the low 90%s : https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp#:~:text=Adult....)
I've been in data and analytics for over a decade and co-founded a consolidated-ETL company (https://www.polytomic.com).

Nice to see Tristan realising this (people should be commended for changing their minds). There were three problems with this term:

1. It mostly resonated with VCs and industry observers whose jobs are to peddle in buzzwords, rather than users who simply want their problems solved.

2. It was (and is) ill-defined. Ask a group of people in the industry to define it and you're guaranteed to get different answers.

3. It committed the cardinal sin of using the adjective 'modern' in a noun. At some point, everything today stops being modern. Couple this with (2) and your term is now even more meaningless.

At a mundane level there's no drama here: just another example in the long list of noise contributors to the free-money party that was going on during the Covid years (as the essay acknowledges).
Thank you for submitting this. Took me right back to my childhood!
> The down side of this is that there's no undo. You have 300 operations to step through and if you mess one up you probably need to start over.

This is why I love ceramics and wheel throwing in particular. It's relatively quick, but at any step something can go wrong, especially at my skill level. Sometimes you throw the same piece, apply the same glaze and it comes out quite different. It prevents you from getting too attached to any one piece and forces me towards a zen-like attitude. In some way it makes it even more a balanced to software engineering.
I happened to be using OpenStreetMaps for the last couple weeks and released a Golang OpenAPI library for OpenChargeMap [1] In that, I released an IPython notebook and used that to visualize the data on Vision Pro [2].

And I did get it working! But it was not near as cool as it could be because of two dramatic events:

OSM Foundation violated the trust (nice way to put it) of a participant, OSMBuildings.org, in the search for sponsorship [3] (four years ago, such lost progress :( ) The other is that LeafletJS’s developer is Ukrainian and can’t advance his project [4].

Please consider those two issues when contemplating donating to OSM due to this press release. While I applaud OSM abstractly, it exists because of a massive amounts of public contributions of IP, not because of $$ from a commercial sponsor.

[1] https://github.com/neomantra/go-openchargemap
[2] https://github.com/neomantra/go-openchargemap/blob/main/exam...
[3] https://medium.com/@osmbuildings/why-were-not-going-to-suppo...
[4] https://leafletjs.com/
Oh, it's an analog computer. I was hoping for water-driven logical gates. I think those could be awesome as interactive urban decoration installations. Perhaps a three bit adder in the park that you can also dip your feet in on a hot summer day, disturbing the calculation currently keyed in at the top. Why is that not a thing!
This one is also cool. https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
I was just looking at Esty wondering if it's time to start making some smalls to see if I could make a living off of them.
The 24-Hour Startup
That’s still far from established at the level to warrant the original expression of absolute certainty. Considering that people have been studying it for decades, and that it’s like 70% heritable, it’s unlikely that everyone missed something as simple as “they are eating too much sugar” – something like this is likely to involve multiple genetic and lifestyle risk factors. I would defer to the researchers who still characterize it as a hypothesis - for example, this article is recent but is still careful not to overstate the case:

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/12/1/99

Part of why that matters is that you will have no trouble finding people who ate little sugar and still developed it, or sweet fiends who didn’t, and presenting such a simple explanation can feel cruel to people who saw their loved ones die a pretty ugly death since it sounds like you’re saying it’s a choice.
I was a fan of dbt for a while, but the shine wore off when I saw one of my smartest coworkers try to use it. His development speed was about an order of magnitude slower than what I expect from data scientists using dataframe packages like R's dplyr, Python's polars, or Spark DataFrames. In my own experience, dbt is significantly better than writing raw SQL, but still nowhere near a normal software development experience. It needs an IDE badly, but the current IDE is cloud-only.

I am currently building my analytics pipelines on top of R's dbplyr package, which allows me to run dplyr operations on database tables just as if they were local data frames. Since it's R, it's not without warts, but at least I get to use a real programming language and the free and fantastic RStudio IDE.
I’m not a combinatorist, but I’m also appalled that two separate Quanta articles didn’t mention De Bruijn sequences.

I see they are trying to spice up math articles, but this is ridiculous !
I wonder what her side of the story would be, and what might be left out of this accounting.
Because it's not true, unless they are operating devices stolen from ukranian forces in "ukranian" territory, which becomes funnily enough, ukraines own fault.

Had they not demanded use of starlink be allowed for military action, against SpaceX/Elon's wishes, or had they not publicly guilt tripped him into providing the service at no cost, the devices would be useless in that territory.
Did you find any games to contribute to?
I wouldn't do it for myself but I live in a big household with kids.

I expect many other "hoarders" are in a situation where what they are actually trying to do is provide a good discovery experience for others where it is not entirely clear what they would want.

You can use overseer/jellyseer and they are great but not as nice as just picking something from media browser.
This is tricky in the comment format but here goes.

Let us declare that a function is passed exactly one value, and that it passes exactly one value to the chosen continuation. However that does not imply that it takes exactly one named argument.

(lambda a ...)

Binds that one value to a. If you pass it a list, that's a variadic function.

(lambda (a b) ...)

Requires the argument be a list of two values and binds the elements to a, b.

(lambda (a (b c) d) ...)

Likewise, except it's now a list of three things where element 1 must be a list of two things.

The corresponding return/continuation part then looks like

(let a (foo) (b c) (bar) ...)

where the let binds whatever foo returned to a, binds a list of length 2 from bar and so forth.

This works really nicely with static typing in the absence of function currying. Destructuring bind on function arguments is somewhat common.

In lisp, you have to work out what let returns when the binding doesn't typecheck at runtime and that's a bit of a mess.

In SML the construct typechecks at compile time but I can't work out how to reconcile it with currying.

Parameter trees, the (a (b) c) idea, I first saw in kernel. I don't remember if it went as far as let binding / destructuring on the continuation invocation.

I like the destructuring syntax more than currying so haven't put as much thought into providing both as the latter might deserve.
what are you talking about? it's fine on firefox, and I don't expect an academic department to test on every browser
Legal or not, it still reeks of evil. But it seems quite a few people are OK with evil. Very disappointing.
The “green movement” is not setting research agendas or funding for Alzheimer’s. The vast majority of this research operates in the opposite direction, starting with patients and figuring out what they have in common.
If he owned the property where this was done (or at least as close as you can own to the water mark) would it have made a difference?
Put this in a sealed wooden box and you'd have the basis for a magic routine that would fool many people. Especially when the box and what it's standing on can be inspected. When the motors aren't spinning, if this were enclosed, it would feel normal.
> You have 300 operations to step through and if you mess one up you probably need to start over.

Only if you’re a perfectionist. You can always adjust the plan or do some annoying work with glueing. And usually it’s one part of a bigger thing that can be redone individually. Unless you’re sculpting a giant piece of wood like marble
Reminds me of the story of someone with the first name "Kim" who had to put "Mr." in front of it on his résumé to get any interviews. Depressing.
San Francisco seriously needs a reboot. The decline in law and order started at the top in the post Ed Lee era and it's been a downward spiral since COVID.

While the administration has started trying to promote "SF is back", events like this demonstrate that things are getting worse, not better.
"We will be the first civilization to not save itself, because it wasn't cost effective." —Kurt Vonnegut.
I'm listening to the "Flying Blind" book by Peter Robinson right now. I think much of this video is based on the same research. Would recommend it.
Please don't misunderstand me; I've also implemented tokudb_buffer_pool_size for TokuDB because their control over memory is excellent, not falling into the black hole of the page cache. This allows my DBMS to be stable enough. This is also my point in this post, and my discussion ends here.
Oh man, same. I check every now and then for a sequel or remake or something, on newer consoles. Nothing so far.
Skeumorphisms were a bad idea back then ("folder", use of a 1.44 Mb diskette as "save") and they're worse now. We know how poorly they age - when was the last time you used one of those diskettes? Or held a manila folder?
Legally, probably. I don't know the laws around environmental protection in that area so there may still have been a violation but it appears he was convicted here for violation of property rights as this is public land. But this whole situation is more about the property rights and how the lake here will be used for recreation rather than ecological concerns if I'm reading correctly.
Interesting read. The underlying point here is what many of us have been saying since the beginning of the conflict.

Putin is not some crazy drugged up megalomaniac. Morality aside, his moves are clearly rational and shows a high level of sophistication.

A small window of opportunity opened up just after covid. Russia got a chance to make its last stand against the rapid decline of its sphere of influence and sovereignty.

Many people don't seem to realise how existential this is for Russia. Being surrounded by Nato on side and China on the other whilst rapidly declining as a nation (economy, birth rates, military etc etc) is really not good.
As a xoogler who's wanted to use this and invest in it, I'm curious about the state it's in. Google has been investing in perfetto, this is different, but has some redundancy. It would would be nice to know this isn't abandonware.
Surely this is not the first time you've heard 'partner' to refer to someone in the other half of a committed relationship.
Applying to Finland from where?
Their work is always jaw-dropping. Here is some explanation of the tools they use: https://frankforce.com/tools/

And here's their work on the micro animation blog Dwitter: https://www.dwitter.net/u/KilledByAPixel

Youtube explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV7Dmo277Rs
>To disagree, I'm a computational biologist and it's my firm belief 99% of the scientifically important stuff happens before the stats and plotting.

I'm a microbiologist too, but the kind that uses mostly off-the-shelf tools to do the taxonomic/functional assignment on metagenomes, and then stats/data science on the features. I kinda didn't know what you mean by "99% of the scientifically important stuff happens before the stats and the plotting".

I mean, give me a 500x2.6x10^6 sparse matrix of gene function abundances and tell me that you've done anything scientifically meaningful. Or on the other side, let me hand you a fastq file from sequencing a poorly extracted DNA sample, and you give me the best algorithm in the world, and there's nothing scientifically meaningful that's going to come out of that.
Has that situation improved at all? I appreciate many shops still cowboy code their way across the finish line, but I would think that big publishers might put more effort into ensuring digital preservation for potential remakes/ports/whatever.

For example, it is not outrageous for me to believe that Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo would require source code/build pipelines/something for any release on their marketplace. Or do they just accept a binary from developers?

That being said, I could easily believe that even if you had the game source code, there could be many additional bespoke toolkits, widgets, 3rd party binary libraries, etc all of which have their own inscrutable compilation process.
> You have 300 operations to step through and if you mess one up you probably need to start over.

I’ve heard a couple of people say that the #1 skill of master woodworkers is fixing mistakes. Keep at it and you (usually) won’t have to start over.
We seem to refuse to admit that companies are a microcosm of the broader cultural/political environment and politics as much as we try to avoid it, plays a big part in how we work.

There are clear conservative/progressive ideologies: Progressives are always wanting to try the shiny new thing, while the conservatives want to stick with what works, and disagreements over the languages, tools and processes we use have similar religious fervor and animosity as you see in the broader culture wars.
Exactly.

In my work as a senior software engineer, half of my work is to write some “popular science” versions of documents to educate the leadership. I have to over simplify the system to fit into their needs. It seems to me they don’t have the patience to understand some real complexity of the system, or even don’t have the curiosity to.

They looks more like business man too me, instead of their title as software engineer director.
Is "import gameassets" allowed in those competitions?

On a side note "import GOTO" works in python :)
IDK, I read some reviews about this book and it seemed to be written for a time before remote work. It looked overly worried about office organization and dynamics. Is it true? Because those ideas made ti fall in my priority list form management reading.
I raise you the cities in the biggest country in South Asia; they'll make your hell seem like paradise.
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It goes with out saying, I mostly disagree with Noah but I find the depth of his content so refreshing.

It is very rare to see this level of sophistication and depth from the people he shares his political believes with.
Putin != Russia

It was, and has always been a war to maintain a kleptocratic autocrat.
Rabid enough to do anything substantial? I always think back to the Modern Warfare 2 boycott screen capture: https://i.imgur.com/MLZ0bMu.png