skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you think the original question I posed is a legit question for a person to have?

Some self inquiry and reflection on whether a global average is a useful metric for erosion, gold in the crust, pesticide toxins in food, etc. might be worthwhile.

Such average are generally so low that they convey little of use, what is more useful are geospatial type distributions; where there is (above some threshold) gold, toxins, or erosion, how much is there and how is it distributed over the threshold?

> Is it a crime to ask a question

No.

> If this was conversation in real life would you dismiss a person who might have asked the same question

I wouldn't dismiss them and I haven't dismissed you, evidenced by this reply. (I must warn you though that HN is not meant for length back and forth conversations and I literally have to scroll back pages in my comment history to see your replies .. so, hopefully I catch and answer any further replies you make).

> and tell them they should take out their phones out and answer their own questions with google?

I would wonder why they expect me to do their heavy lifting .. was it really neccesary for you to ask where Maryland was mentioned in an article when you have Ctrl-F search and can see the context of the threaded comments?

> read the comments and found a position on erosion surprising

And responded by low balling the real and actual concerns of somebody who paid attention to local erosion and delibrately purchased a house back from the water .. by suggesting that you figured it was less than a few millimetres a year you implied they were foolish to be concerned.

A more reflective take might have been to guess that perhaps you knew less about erosion than the the person you responded to.
My laptop and phone can't last through a long-haul flight. My e-reader doesn't need charging until I come home, fits in a jeans pocket and is a similar weight to my passport.
I tried to reproduce it on Ivybridge (Windows VS20122) and failed (mulss and muldd) [0]. single and double precision takes the same time. I also found a behavior where the first batch of iterations takes more time regardless of precision. It is possible that this tricked me last time.

[0] https://gist.github.com/dosshell/495680f0f768ae84a106eb054f2...

Sorry for the confusion and spreading false information.
I bet it will increase in value.

The JP Morgan guys just want to buy in more cheap before the event.
In the UK many years ago, there was the Net Book Agreement, which was price fixing and Amazon, BooksOnline/StreetsOnline comprehensively broke that. Unfortunately, book shops didn't really learn, and we are where we are.

Back to the title. I still buy books. I've stopped buying them from Amazon, and just buy them from my LBS.

Though one thing still makes me irrationally angry - "SciFi + Fantasy" as "a genre" in bookshops. No. It. Isn't. It's two separate. Two loved-up vampires, isn't sci-fi. At least on Amazon I can filter that. Browse on Amazon, buy in the LBS. Which is the reverse of what I did a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Book_Agreement
That's kind of my point - your preferences are to the advantage of the e-reader. For others, the same might apply to physical books instead, despite the disadvantage of bulk.
I may be wrong, but I believe all 2 letter TLDs are ccTLDs. All none ccTLDs would have to be 3 characters or longer.
I'm still using picchi 1.0 to improve my deployment pipeline by 20%
A few years ago I had to call an ambulance for someone (in the UK) and began giving coordinates, only to hear 'oh do you have what3words it's easier that way' which I found very surprising! I don't love the idea of a proprietary coordinate system either, companies come and go but normal coordinates are universally understood.
Belgian man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving
And when you read lying on your side, no awkward holding for the nearside pages!
Out of curiosity, what percentage of people who are currently online were also online in the early days that we are reminiscing about?
Saves you time! it goes through the transcripts of youtube videos to infer sponsors and find related content
Just use any editor + yosys and nextpnr. You can buy an FPGA like the lattice ICE40 or Lattice ECP5 for cheap.
Luckily we have discovered air conditioners, have the ability to move and even mass migrate people given enough time, build dykes and floating structures or supported platforms, and invent ever better solutions to problems previously thought unsolvable. Instead of slowing economic growth to make an almost imperceptible dent in climate outcomes, why not maximise economic growth and trust yhat we will find solutions to deal with the fallout? Also people say, what about poor people who will suffer the most from climate change? Well, let's get that economy to 10X as fast as possible, rven if wealth disparities increase, the bottom is still getting better off, just at a slower pace than those at the top. So if you care that poor people will be harmed by climate change, then maybe focus on how to get them economically better off? Telling them they cannot use fossil fuels etc is not helping them I suspect. And slowing down the first world's economic growth is also not going to help the poorer nations.
I think that's a wrong assumption on your side. You are assuming that the type describes the "actual thing". But there is no such actual thing really. All we do is model. And here we model a view of the user within a certain context. Totally possible that a different department will model their user in a different way.

This isn't even a technical problem, it's a semantical problem. Trying to reuse the same type throughout the whole world is doomed to fail, no matter what techniques you use.
I set up Linux desktops for elderly relatives who wanted tech support, to universal satisfaction. They seem to not have many issues, since I get fewer than 5 support calls a year total, and I'm an experienced Linux user so fixing anything that does come up is usually easy (<1 of those is actually OS related, they're mostly questions like "how do I do X in LibreOffice again?" or "I got this scam email...").

It's also nice that the DEs I chose are relatively stable, not forcing them to keep up with changes. Running well on old and cheap hardware is also a plus, I couldn't convince anyone to buy a new or even used iMac (and wouldn't want to do that anyway, macOS is far from bug free...).

That said, none of them have self-destructive tendencies and I don't expect to just give them a device and have them set it up themselves.
I love grunions. Such funny little creatures. I'd recommend finding a video of them in action where they bury themselves in the sand, only to wiggle around and "pop" out of the sand again.
md is “make debug” which runs e.g. nodemon or cargo watch, rerunning tests when I save a file
This "law" is only for point (or spherical) sources, i.e. those emitting evenly in all direction - the area is increasing as a square of distance and thus signal power drops accordingly. With lasers, directional antennas, phased array antennas [1] the signal won't decay that fast. For instance with lasers it will be just a matter of alignment of internal elements to obtain a parallel light beam which doesn't lose power over distance (obviously there are other factors - atmosphere, particles in the vacuum, et al which will result in diveregence anyway).

In fact some billionaires [2] invest into using telescopes with fast sampling cameras (in this case IACT [3] telescopes used normally to detect gamma-rays by their interaction with the atmosphere) to detect flashed of extraterrestrial lasers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array (see the animation of the radiation pattern)

[2] https://www.space.com/are-aliens-flashing-laser-beams.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IACT
So I guess there will be a paid plan with private option in the future or how do you plan to generate profit?
There's a technical existence proof of a secure architecture for problematic IoT hardware, from Microsoft (of all places) Azure Sphere, with a Mediatek MCU based on Pluton (from Xbox and Ryzen). It has hardware separation of security-critical software (Linux Kernel) from IoT application software, allowing each to be updated independently, even if the device vendor goes out of business or cannot afford to invest in security in the first place.

If the security properties of the Azure Sphere design could be generalized beyond Microsoft/AMD/Mediatek by Arm or RISC-V, so that OSS software like Debian or Zephyr could be used in the security-critical hardware compartment, we could have a vendor-neutral starting point for sustainable, low-cost, networked devices sold and supportable by multiple vendors.

https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/seay

Further down the road, CHERI capabilities may be a silver bullet, but we're still years away from affordable hardware.
Ah yes, the first Michael Crichton novel I read - and also the book that first introduced me to binary code (https://imgur.com/N4IjIYq)! And after watching (and then reading) Jurassic Park some 10 years later, it took a while until I realized that it was from the same author...
the marketing is indeed super slick, in terms of added value for the framework, as needle is built on top of threejs, I'm not sure I'll bite
The letter was quite illuminating (albeit being too long and not focused enough for my taste). I looked up Determinate Systems and it looks like their primary aim is to provide and monetize a bettered nix tied to their FlakeHub platform. In this context, the lack of progress on the poor usability and documentation, which have plagued the core Nix project for as long as I can recall, is entirely unsurprising.
> "ejecting fascists" (where 'fascist' means "someone whose opinion I don't like")

Source: https://hachyderm.io/@leftpaddotpy/112248186696362113

What they wrote: "there's a lot of work still to do on getting fascists out of the community and everyone is quite exhausted from the fight to get this passed. however. the fascists will get kicked out."

And where they wrote, in a post right below, that "fyi: if you still have concerns please talk to piegames, they're very involved in making this happen" - the person "piegames" being referred to here is a moderator of NixOS.
This sentence does not make sence because it is applicable to everything

> There’s nothing inherent to the X that guarantees you free access to its content.

Libraries, public transport? Taxes.
Love of your parents? Depends on them.

Give me something for which I can say use the phrase and it will be true.
A note. There is a sensible reason why, likely evolutionary derived, that we ignore "in the future" things so handily. Social reasons.

Let's presume I dislike my neighbour. He's not loud, just an asshat or some such, to the point that I'd love to punch him in the head. I don't, of course. We live in a modern society. Nor does he, either! The dislike flows mutual, deep and dark, yet we essentially ignore each other.

And even more astonishing? We go to sleep each night with a rival next door, sleep peacefully and in comfort, yet each of us with baser, animialistic instincts to beat on each other, perhaps to death, and yet? Even more astonishing, if the city walls were attacked? Hatred or not, we'd stand back to back and defend each other. Our families. Our friends, our city.

We are genetically predispositioned to live beside danger, and even completely ignore it, put it out of the way. The danger with the neighbour, a rival!! right next door, is ignored. And more so, the danger with those invaders one city over, with the wolf outside our cabin door, all of these things are put out of mind.

We'd go bananas if we had to focus on "the threat" constantly.

So we are designed to ignore even impending threats, let alone threads "decades or more in the future". If fact, I've often wondered if the more dire and dangerous the threat, yet with it not immediately on our doorstep, the more people might simply block it out!

That only mild threats are something that average human can deal with, for there is no need to push it from mind to sleep, to relax, to live without becoming a bundle of nerves. I wonder if there's some metric here, some "perfect level of threat", which ensures it is constantly in mind, yet sleep is possible, this returning the maximum human action on a distant (time or distance) threat.
> You fail to understand how software development and maintenance works.

Someone complains about bad food at restaurant. Defender responds "you fail to understand how cooking works".
I found my two old mechanical PC keyboards from the mid 80's in the garage, took them in and cleaned them. Bought some VIAL adaptors for them and new alps keycaps for one of them. Ended up reading about mechanical keyboard history, keycaps, VIAL/VIA/QMK, etc. Also bought an old IBM model m keyboard yesterday.
U.S. Takes Aim at Chinese Banks Aiding Russia War Effort
For "linear fiction"[0] I use an e-ink reader exclusively. I also re-read books pretty much never. There are way too many excellent books I haven't read yet, so why would I spend time redoing something I have already experienced? I can easily hi-light stuff on the Kindle and check them out from Goodreads if I need to later.

For books I read for work and other knowledge stuff it's either PDF on an iPad or a web page. In some rare cases a physical book, but stuff tends to move so fast paper reference books expire too fast to have any advantage compared to asking a large language model.

If I get the urge to make any notes from this category, they go into Obsidian.

[0] Books that are read from beginning to end with no need to jump around to check stuff you read before. Could be a biography too, which isn't fiction per se.
I am not sure if I follow correctly. Please clarify the following for me. Have you succeeded in making a tool which undoes the work of the linker?
I also use a similar approach for my open source Python automation project, alkymi: https://github.com/MathiasStokholm/alkymi/blob/develop/CHANG...

In addition to the author's comments, I would suggest also using the format from https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/ (more sub-headings, e.g. "added").

Lastly, pruning the CHANGELOG upon adding and removing stuff again is a great idea to keep entries meaningful for the reader.
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That there can be owners of a company who take all decisions is, in itself, a political decision to remove workers from deciding. Yes it is allowed in the current system, of course, because that's what the system is built for. Just like another system allowed people to own other people, but many parts of the world got out of it because it sucks.

I'm not forgetting owners, quite the contrary.

> Oh wait, it was - see its governance and the original purpose for it.

Who cares what the original governance and purpose was ? Does it has any single impact on how things are run today ?
Despite finding out about "nonce" as a technical term when I was reading around PHP like 3 years ago, I still can't not react to it every time lmao
_Like reddit subreddit admins_?

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I agree with the idea. But I can't come up with any feasible model of motivations on how to implement it.
This is on point that you mention IQ, since in IQ itself, only a single test includes words. The rest is about pattern recognition, working memory, spatial capabilities and other stuff I don't remember. So in other words, the metric you use as a benchmark for good reasoning barely measures the literacy
digital media has revolutionized the landscape of modern relationships, offering both opportunities and challenges for couples navigating the complexities of love in the digital age. By embracing the positive aspects of technology while being mindful of its potential pitfalls, couples can cultivate healthy, fulfilling relationships that thrive both online and offline, fostering deeper connection, intimacy, and mutual understanding.
HTTP Fundamentals: Understanding Undici and Its Working Mechanism
If it is mainly for web-browsing, then Linux Mint, with only a web-browser (uBlock extension), and an Office suite.
How can you go wrong with that ?

It depends on the usage of course. If there's a need to manage pictures from the phone, some music etc... then Mac OS with non admin account.
Buy a 1 To external hard drive and setup Time Machine, you can't go wrong with that neither.
But it's frustrating that search engines are able to index the whole page, so things I don't have access to are listed in search results and I can only find out when I've clicked.
From what I could tell, Nuitka dynamically loads extension modules so this wouldn't work with Webassembly modules which are statically linked. If I could be enhanced to automatically build wheels of packages like numpy and statically link them, then that could bring extensions to Wasm and be very cool. IIRC, Google does this with their Python apps so the concept does exist but don't think I've seen any OSS tooling trying that.
Wasn't that what Yahoo used to do?
So, why did we ban indentured servitude but not jobs-with-no-decision ? What makes one bad and the other good ? There's no argument in absolute about keeping one and not the other.
I found an effective way to reduce my PGE bill to $0....I left CA

House in TX is 3x the size of our former CA house, utility bills are 1/3
> This is not very contributor-friendly.

You've put it way too politely IMHO. It's a license designed to attract contributors to help build their product for free, but leaves space for them to just re-license the product and sell it when the opportunity arises. It's not like we haven't seen this play already, and it hurts both contributors and users...
Wow, how long ago and what device!? It’s definitely not an issue I’ve come across. Even when people have disabled HW acceleration I would think most devices wouldn’t even sniff.
I think if someone on Mastodon comments on a Ghost blog, then Mastodon will tell Ghost that they did so (via ActivityPub).

Then if someone on Pixelfed sees that blog, Pixelfed will ask Ghost who has commented on it (via ActivityPub). Ghost can then tell them about that (via ActivityPub) - or it can choose not to do so (based on its own moderation tools).

That doesn't mean that the Mastodon comment no longer exists, nor that it is invisible to the people looking at the Mastodon comment (similar to HN comments), but Ghost won't boost its reach.

So what ActivityPub gives you is the option to reshare comments.
Then we need content "reCAPTCHA" signatures such as artful inclusions of code comments containing ASCII art and poetry embedded in web page content that include multiple layers of beauty that would not be easy to replicate by an LLM.

And also socially through authenticity and originality pledges from content producers and their platforms identifying what was created entirely by humans and what predictive text completion tools were used, if any.
How to improve one's speaking voice. Mine is tiny, no strength, no quality, monotone. Found something called "kharaj ka riyaz" and practiced it for a few weeks and voice quality and strength improved. Then quality went down and my voice is not irritable and scratchy. I hope it recovers.
Google Maps – A Swiss Story
Yes, in the future we plan to add premium plan in which you can make idea private and it'll add access to some additional tools for make complete solution from idea
Check out this speaker kit call C-Notes. They're really well rated and a pretty simple/budget friendly option, especially if you're okay applying some eq on them. Paul Carmody has many good designs.
This for me, for quite a while now. I've built my own speakers, microphones and now I'm in a DIY synth module hole.

Latest at https://fourays.lon.dev

I've just got to the point where I think I know what the module is going to be, but last night found out that PCB manufacture puts additional constraints on the PCB design, so I have to go back and re-do a lot of it, including probably dropping some features to make it simpler. The learning never ends.
That’s where we started with Yahoo. They manually put websites into categories.
Popularity isn't the be-all and end-all of utility, interest, or quality.

That also proves most people lack taste and knowledge.
How much are you willing to spend? Troels Gravesen has many builds on his website and I'm sure some/many of them would be better than the HS8s. You could also search for "hs8" on diyaudio.com and see posts of people in a similar position.
Reading ebooks doesn't mean submitting to Amazon's ecosystem.
I love lisp. I love the stability, the macros, the crash handlers, the repls, the elitism, slime, emacs, the works. But IMO sexpr is straight out terrible and hacking around that is a chore.
Yes, I too had the same disparity in recognizing the author as a young 'un, reading CONGO and SPHERE and so on .. Mr. Crichton sure had his finger on the pulse of the technological world we live in. What a wild series of stories he has created .. he was my favourite author until Messrs. Stephenson and Gibson came along ..

Staying on subject, I wonder if we will see a new adaptation of ANDROMEDA STRAIN some time. As a story it seems topical and relevant.
To quote myself from a previous blog post of mine:

> I tried and tried and tried to get into [FreeCAD]. It promises so much, but there are two fatal flaws in my opinion. First, the UI is a nightmare. I have no idea which "workbench" I am supposed to be using, and there are so many similar choices available, each with subtly different tools and ... I gave up trying to make sense of it. Secondly, even when following tutorials to get some basic modelling done, I found lack of sensible keyboard control and having to click almost everything a real distraction. Not a good experience.

It's an absolute nightmare to use. Really the worst UX I've ever seen.
Friends don't tell friends to learn FreeCAD.

I'm a decently able self-taught CAD user now, of the level where I can reasonably quickly pick up a new piece of software. And yet... I've lost count of the number of times I've reinstalled FreeCAD thinking "this time it will be different"... and then quickly removed it again. Compared to anything reasonable it's just an awful hot mess to try and figure out, with huge quirks, a weird interface, and unhelpful error messages.

Given the reasonable pricing, I'm interested to try Plasticity, although it's not strictly CAD in the sense of Fusion360/Solidworks/etc - it's currently more of a modelling program. It's also doesn't have the parametric + history features that are really valuable in other products.

The truth is, we're crying out for a decent open-source CAD program. Everything currently available (FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, SolveSpace, CadQuery, etc.) has huge usability and/or feature deficits compared to the commercial offerings.
That's how long I've been using C++. I would appreciate more chariable interpretations.