skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my third shot they were still doing mass vaccinations in Vancouver and the way to get express treatment was by your doctor filling out a stupid form which had a number of conditions but didn't have a way to say "other" so he just gave me a generic doctor's note urging to get vaccinated. On site the nurse asks, ok, why do you need one ahead of your age cohort? I haven't even finished listing the shit I live with when she said enough, enough. It's not one health condition, it's a mix brewed in hell. Based on this and on my reaction to the first AZ shot, I am fair certain I wouldn't survive covid. (You do know "variant" means "vaccine resistant", right?) And if by luck I would, I don't think I would much appreciate long covid.

Luckily shots from 3rd were mRNA and those were uneventful.
Wealth is not zero sum. If it were we'd still be quibbling over sticks in caves. It is generated.
What you are talking about is a variation of Schlieren photography [1] or shadowgraph [2]. I'm no expert in these kind of experimental techniques, but you are correct in that they can identify regions of turbulence.

A problem is that a lot of these techniques need a clean background to really see the streaks or shimmers associated with turbulence. In a laboratory setting, this isn't a problem, but an aircraft isn't always pointed straight up or at a clean background. This seems more plausible during takeoff when the nose is more pointed to the sky than cruise or landing, but even during takeoff it seems like a stretch. Also, I doubt that a single star would provide a good enough light source to really distinguish between clear-air turbulence, clouds, or even birds for that matter. It is an interesting idea but unfortunately I do not think it would work in practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowgraph
Funny to see this comment which is in stark contrast to the current top comment [0]. I suppose in reality it's all about balance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557571
Will you lead by example and commit to never again receiving any sort of medical injection or biomedical device, even if it kills you?
NIMBYism is largely responsible
The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)
That's pretty speciesist.
The textbook my Emag professor wrote himself made sure to avoid anything intuitive or visual, and was just a dense tome of text and equations with nothing else. He had a lot of trouble getting it published, but made sure to teach from it for decades. If you asked nicely, he'd give you a copy of the errata that he never fixed in the book. That class was essentially "vector calc for EEs" so it was my introduction to all these concepts, and I never intuitively understood them until much later.
Ouch

From NGINX Unit webite: "Also on Linux-based systems, wildcard listeners can’t overlap with other listeners on the same port due to rules imposed by the kernel. For example, :8080 conflicts with 127.0.0.1:8080; in particular, this means :8080 can’t be immediately replaced by 127.0.0.1:8080 (or vice versa) without deleting it first."

Systemd (PID 1) also needs to start stopping their opening network sockets. In short, systemd now needs a systemd-socketd to arbitrate socket allocations.

I am never a fan of PROM, firmware, nor PID1 opening a network socket; it is very bad security practice.
This is a nice summary of an earlier, more "optimistic" view of Mathematics and our understanding of Nature. The final words sum it up well: "We must know! We will know!"

Then things like Gödel's Impossibility theorem and the Halting problem came to light. Or quantum physics, with it's inescapable uncertainties, etc. In those earlier days, it must have seemed like humanity would in due time reveal all of the workings of the universe / uncover God's Plan.

Then we got a reality check (:

I feel like I've gone on a similar trajectory in my understanding of the world. Early on, I felt like "the answers" were known, and I just needed to apply myself to understand them. Perhaps it's a side-effect of the way school and academics are structured. And over time I've come to understand that all the elegant formulae and high-level concepts are just approximations (albeit useful ones) to reality: which is a wild, beautiful, never-fully-knowable mess.

Sometimes I think of it in terms of Plato's Cave[1]: the notion was that the Ideal is the "perfect thing", and our observed reality is just wavering shadows on the wall, derived from that ideal. But nowadays I think the shadows are the perfect reality, and the "ideal form" is just our derived, simplified, mental model, and we're more exploring our own limited ability to understand rather than some innate truths of nature itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
and how, exactly, does your cat murder birds? did you leave the bird cage open?

oh. you meant feral cats. outdoor cats.

cats really shouldn't be outdoors in most circumstances, and they should never ever be feral.

and feral dogs kill cats, dogs, chickens, goats, sheep, and sometimes horses.

no animal does this for personal satisfaction. see that little word in there: "person". it means what humans do, nothing to do with feral or wild animals which do what they do because they are actually animals. it's a moral code that is far simpler and far more perfect than ours. no animal other than human has ever murdered another (killed certainly).

so you can be a "dog" person or a "cat" person or a "chinchilla" or "rat" or "fish" or "horse" or "chicken" person, or all of the above and more. its means you love and get along with the particular psychology of and interaction with those kind of animals. that's fine. one likes what they like. you may not understand someone else's attraction to spiders or weasels and that's fine too.

but you can't compare bad or feral animal A with domestic family member animal B as some excuse for why your favorite animal is better. that kind of superficial "reason i like X" is a sure tell one doesn't really understand any animal relationship at all.

the attraction to any domestic animal really boils down to the fun and achievement of learning and trust and communication across different brain and psychological types. it's also pretty good practice for communication with different human psychological types. it should be a symbiotic relationship. cats nay be a little trickier than dogs because, at least superficially, some dogs are natural "people pleasers". but dogs can be difficult in their own way. cats are a little less followers. they might agree to be your peer, if you are worth it. it's good for your humility, if nothing else.

and cats make this awesome rumbly noise when they sit on your belly and are happy.
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It's not possible to live without killing. Plants are alive.
The above commenter is me and I say that goods and services are finite because they are. So what if there were fewer in the past and there will be more in the future. We live in the present and in the present goods and services are provided by people through labor which is finite at any given time. We're all competing: for housing, healthcare, and the political power to determine our material conditions. If wealth doesn't allow you to outcompete other people for those things then what the hell is it for?
Images — photos, paintings, designs — are not primary human expression.

Words are fundamental, dense, often objectively chosen, and the most primary way of communicating thoughts.

Asking someone to read your thoughts that you didn’t actually even think, because you’d rather save the time writing them, is profoundly disrespectful to the reader, who has to invest the same amount of time reading generated words as real ones.

Which is not to say that I think passing off generative images as one’s own work is not disrespectful. Or that extensive, unreal body sculpting or skin retouching is not — as a photographer I believe that to also often be not just unethical but immoral.

But a judgement on a retouched image is less of a burden of time.

I would likely judge someone who uses ChatGPT to communicate personally with me as harshly as I would judge them editing a photo to deliberately lie to me.

(Which is not to say that I don’t think GPTs have inherent grammatical advantages for cleaning up poorly-written text; I do think generating entirely new text is disrespectful to the reader, though)
Next go look at their provisional teaching requirements. California has a BSR test, that you have to pass, showing you can read, write and do math slightly above the grade level you will be teaching. Then you can get a provisional license and eventually meet the actual teaching requirements.
Does this support PUT so we can donate a cat?
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I've built my own [0]. I have to do server maintenance and pay hosting costs, but it's worth it. We run successful meetups with it. If you want pointers shoot a message (see my profile.)

[0] https://handmadecities.com/meetups
You can pickle just about anything, not just cucumbers.
I don't know I could do that, because the first draft of anything is mostly me working out what I think and what I want to say, and it's messy so when you get to the next draft, you instinctively know where to tidy it up.

You don't get that from AI. You get boring neatly paragraphed prose. It's like tidying up a room that is already tidy.
We have 1x Musk and still have homelessness. Why would 9 more help exactly?
Previously investigated and written up at https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-equifax-became-a-priv...
I'm checking out Hey and am finding it super zippy on my 600MBit connection, and still pretty usable on "slow 3G". What I'm not impressed by is DHH's snippy response, but having read DHH's outbursts before, neither am I surprised.
AFAIK IR blocking film is fairly recent development. In NZ it's only past year when it became required for all new buildings (helps with reducing heating and cooling costs).

Most glass blocks UV tho which makes some marketing shady.
There's nothing stopping you from checking your spreadsheets into version control just like any other text-based file format (or non-text-based format, for that matter).
There's also serious coordination problems internally. How easy is it to get access? Did you make buddies with the little emperors in charge of the historical archives? Is the archive in your company large enough? Are the chances of getting access to another competing company's dataset high enough to not require multiple decimal digits to express?

(This I think is part of why Chinese human genomics has been such a disappointment: yes, there's collectively a lot of data, but there ain't nothing like UKBB pulling it all together. Just thousands of fiefdoms.)
> The above commenter is me and I say that goods and services are finite because they are. So what if there were fewer in the past and there will be more in the future.

What you're describing here is literally the opposite of zero-sum. The total set of goods and services in increasing. It directly contradicts your claim that the accumulation of wealth necessitates the deprivation of others.
I am confused. Does only one of them support charging? (I've got one where both can charge, though they don't look the same because one is also thunderbolt)
So fine then with a huge, shiny, lifted F-350 that the owner drives 5km once per week to the ice cream shop? Or is your largest issue perhaps "redneck culture"?
What is the relationship between governance and inequity?
That’s the same warning you get for any elongated URL
Sorry about the “You realise”.

I decided to edit that out in the time while you were replying. Gone 3AM here and that tone was unreasonably grumpy; sorry again.
And the problem is, zoning is almost never the answer to healthy growth. Is it useful for segregation? Yes. Is it useful for temporarily sustaining property value. Yes.

I know there are some counter examples, but I always think about the beautifully organic growth from some of America's greatest cities in the early 20th century. And how that growth would be categorically impossible today because everyone's afraid someone's gonna build a lard rendering plant next to a single-family house. Or that poor people will move in across the street. Goddamn I'm sick of selfish assholes.
More likely things like fentanyl are to blame for homelessness. It’s extremely addictive and cheap to make
If I rephrased the OP as “give the half eaten restaurant leftovers to be used as school lunches” people would say that is horrible but somehow OK for homeless people?
No, tech is largely responsible
I've hosted the Thessaloniki Python meet up for the past ten years. I had a relevant discussion in the latest meet-up, two weeks ago:

Some of the members were asking why I don't find sponsors, get some food and drinks, a bigger venue, and try to grow the meet up. I realized at that moment that I don't want to.

I don't like the business part of technology, I'd rather have a meet up of twenty people building cool random things with Python, than two hundred job-seeing networkers. I know it's a bit of a false dichotomy, but I've found that sponsors turn the event businessy quickly.

This is all to say that, if you're organizing a meet up, you should decide what you want from it. I don't want a large meet up, I want a small group of people who know each other and have fun while presenting topics interesting to them. Maybe you want the biggest meetup in the country, with everyone there finding exciting jobs. That's OK too, it just makes the approach very different, which means it's hard to give general advice.
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The very first objection that immediately have sprung up to my mind it that this approach gives up on (chances of) inlining a lot of stuff (or de-inlining, for that matter). The second thought is that it also heavily interferes with any code motion transformations, including instruction scheduling, loop unrolling and auto-vectorization. Granted, this second objection can probably be dealt with by using some clever fine-guided techniques... but at this point I'd wager they'd be both a) about as slow as doing all the work it from the clean slate; b) have incredibly large surface for obscure bugs — and those steps are already one of the most finicky ones.

And back in the 70s, when the microcomputers and interactive computing were becoming the norm, and people really cared about the compilation times — still nobody bothered to implement that kind caching, AFAIK, even when the compiler performed way less complex kinds optimizations than they do today (heck, even register allocation was not done as graph colouring back then).
There literally is reason to believe that. “Logical” by your assessment or not, inequality is a far stronger contributor to unhappiness than absolute wealth.

The premise of your argument is absurd. If we were to accept it, we’d have to expect that people in the 1100s were all just depressed/angry/anxious — including the wealthiest, most powerful people on the planet — to a degree that is literally unfathomable to a modern first-worlder.

Brains just don’t work that way not because other people are fickle emotional messes, but because a brain like that wouldn’t work.

(Yes, obviously poverty sucks and higher standards of living are preferable to lower, just to head off some strawmen)
Thanks for the comment! I give the users some flexibility with how they want their page to look. They can input the recipe then choose to upload a photo or include a prompt for the image they would like to create by describing the dish.
There are limitations to the bandwidth available in the cat distribution network which I don't think have ever been studied adequately. There's probably a grant that could be applied for in there somewhere. There's probably some interesting research to be done in cat distribution network congestion too.

I did some computer vision research, and an unpublished (though posted on a blog) paper in the area of feline toe bean rejection on a multi-touch display in a predator/prey simulated environment, i.e. a touch screen display with a virtual mouse (prey) interacted with by a real cat AKA "an expensive cat toy."
A wise team lead once told me "I never knew how selfish I was until I had a kid".
You can tell from a distance whether a ball valve is open or closed. The handle will be in line with (parallel to) the pipe when it's open. I learned this from dad recently.
Elixir has had typespecs for a long time which can handle static type checking which is a lot like using typescript with vite. The compiler doesn’t type check, it relies on your IDE to do the dev time analysis.

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/typespecs.html

They’ve recently started gradual typing which will feel a lot like typescript in the early days where you can type some things but you’ll frequently need the escape hatch ‘dynamic’ which is their ‘any’ to make it compatible with existing code

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradua...
> They do this in large part because we've intentionally bred them this way. Domesticated cats exist primarily for pest

My understanding is different. That cats haven't really changed that much (in terms of behavior) while dogs have. That is to say, it's a cats choosing that they hang out with humans, it is a matter of convenience for them rather than being instinctively compelled (like dogs). The fact they naturally hunt rodents, means humans have welcomed cats aboard ships, farms, & in cities big & small.

Some interesting background reading [1]:

- "Did you know that not even a century ago, few cats lived entirely indoors at all?"

- "Cats formed a mutually beneficial relationship with people, and some scientists argue that cats domesticated themselves. Especially prized as mousers on ships, cats traveled with people around the globe"

- "Even though these changes to our modern lifestyle make keeping cats inside possible, biologically, cats are the same as they were thousands of years ago. Their role in our society has evolved and broadened over the last hundred years, but their basic behaviors and needs haven't changed."

- "In the thousands of years that cats have lived alongside people, indoor-only cats have only become common in the last 60 or 70 years—a negligible amount of time on an evolutionary scale."

[1] https://www.alleycat.org/resources/the-natural-history-of-th...
Pattern matching doubles as native type-hinting (ie, not bolted on--it's always been there). For example:

def foo(%{} = map) do
map
end

This will crash if `map` is anything other than a map.

There are also guards (which is another form of pattern matching):

def foo(map) when is_map(map) do
map
end

Again, this will crash if given anything other than a map.

It isn't always necessary to do this since Elixir doesn't overload operators or many functions that work on types (although it does have the `Enum` module which works across collection types).

For example, `+` only works on numbers. So if you have:

def add(a, b) do
a + b
end

You aren't going to run into those "subtle bugs" people talk about, ie, if you give it anything other than two numbers (like two strings or two lists) it will crash right there. These are only runtime checks but this is where a good set of sane tests help as there is no need to write any type-checking tests.

As mentioned by others, as of a couple of weeks ago the latest 1.7 release candidate has the beginnings of the type system. A big wart has been comparison operators as they will silently compare any two types. This has been half-fixed in 1.17 insofar as a compiler warning will be thrown if you compare two different types. Of course you could still run into the "subtle bug" issue, but this is where pattern matching and guards can help.

Until the type system is finished there is always still Dialyzer if you're into that! It will likely be a while before the type system is fully ready as they are really taking their time with it to do it right.
No, I'm not seeing the logic behind this at all. If someone invented assembly line production before Ford, that person would accumulate an immense fortune. But said hypothetical person didn't invent assembly line production. Ford did.

The lotto ticket is a great analogy. If other people picked the winning numbers, they'd have won a lot of money too! But they didn't. Does that create an obligation for the real winner to compensate all the hypothetical would-be winners?
So technically this could fit in 5 QR codes.

I say technically because neither by building or downloading with wget I can get a local html version working, so I guess it would be useful to waste time creating 5 QR codes.
Good thing you put the + in 20+.
This comment would be stronger with some kind of examples or other reasoning about the kind of problems this avoids.

In particular, the dichotomy you created which paints the two options as “advanced mathematics” and “intuition” seems to need some proof that there is no third option. Since the original poster mentioned OOP, that would be a good place to start with some example of a problem which is hard to avoid following good OOP practice.
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Yeah, there is that. I guess this comes with the caveat that you have to have enough say in the project that you can mandate a rewrite.
Yes. I was with two friends in Quetico at a cabin. Temps of -20 below at night. Wood stove, no electricity no running water. We cross country skied over frozen lakes to the cabin. It was a log cabin and the logs were colder than ice cubes and stayed that way over the ten days we were there. In the center was a pot belly wood stove. A foot away from it, the temp was 50. Ten feet away it was 20. Cold.

There was a wood cooking stove and a second older wood cooking stove. We decide to start using the second wood cooking stove for more heat. There was one problem, the stove would smoke. My friend climbed on the roof and cleared the snow away, and we tried to seal leaks but it kept smoking.

One day I came back from drilling a hole in the ice to get water - through 24 inches of ice. I noticed something funny.

When I opened the door, the old wood cook stove stopped smoking. When I closed the door the stove started smoking. I stood there trying to understand. Opening and closing the door over and over. Open the door, no smoke. Close the door, smoke. I started to wonder why it would stop smoking and then it hit me.

The cabin was on fire. When the door was open it got enough air to burst into flame. No smoke. When the door was closed it smoked. I still remember standing there opening and closing the door. Over and over. What an idiot. But I learned something.

We looked underneath the cook stove. The reason there was a newer one wood stove became clear. The firebox on the old stove had rusted through. So coals from the wood were falling through the rusted out part onto the wood floor. We got a fire extinguisher and sprayed it. Then got piles of snow and packed it under there too.

That old adage "where there's smoke there's fire". Not quite accurate.
Sure. But acknowledging the source of the investments would be swell. And it's a bit cheeky to be vehemently against govt and taxes after being one of the largest beneficiaries of said govt.
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I apologise for suggesting that sheep and cows are murderous.

As for the carnage of cats: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/felixer,-the-grooming-trap,-...

I'll take the bilbies and birds over introduced ferals every time.