skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty interesting topic on its own, this idea that being a quick learner is itself a skill or talent (whether acquired or innate). Probably like many others on this forum, I'm generally considered to be pretty intelligent, and can quickly pick up new information without much effort.

However – I don't know if there's a term for this – but in my life, I've found that to be a double-edged sword. Some things that others struggle with (like mechanical, visual, or logical problem solving) are nearly effortless for me, where answers more or less just appear "intuitively". That works for simpler/shallower systems, but not "deeper" systems that can require years of learning and practice, like math. The double-edged part of it is that if it's not something I immediately grasp, I typically give up on it after a few days. Not really out of frustration, just losing interest and wanting to move onto something else. I guess I never needed to learn how to sit still and learn deeper topics (K-12 and college were always way too easy, full of a bunch of shallow topics that didn't require much thought).

That's even more the case when it involves physical skill too, not just intellectual, in things like rock climbing or playing an instrument or martial arts or mountain biking. Whatever kind of intelligence and learning ability I have in intellectual pursuits don't seem to translate over to mixed activities like that, and I learn those much slower than normal.

Not complaining or anything, just think it's interesting! I don't know whether that's because people are just different (and if they are, is it nature/nurture?), or maybe I have some undiagnosed ADD or whatever, lol.

I can become an expert beginner in anything in a few days/weeks at the most. Then it plateaus, and for the next decade I'll remain an expert beginner and never move past that, lol.
The horse collar got to England by the 12th Century — around or just after the late Norman era. However, it took until the early 19th Century (c. 1840) for oxen to finally disappear from the plowfield.

Why? Expense. In Domesday era [c. 1066-1086, before the horse collar advent] small tenant farmers could get away with a single yoke of oxen — a single pair. While large farms used teams of up to 8 to pull a plow through the rough clay.

As the medieval period transitioned into the modern you saw larger and larger farms. A Domesday era villein might keep only 120 acres under plow (48 hectares); a small holder with a single yoke might only hold 30-40 acres (12-16 hectares).

Average farm sizes continues to grow to this day. Today the average English farm is nearly 220 acres (88 hectares). Larger farms, and more varied farmwork, meant the expense of horses could be afforded better.

A chart in this report shows how the sheer number of horses did not equal the number of oxen until the late 15th Century, when it was estimated a little less than 400,000 of each creature plowed fields throughout Britain.

There was a gap in the records until the middle of the 16th Century. By then, and afterwards, the number of horses well exceeds the number of oxen. That number continued to skyrocket into the Victorian era, by which time use of oxen was nearly eliminated.

And then, when the steam engine (and eventually petrol engine) tractors came along, you'll see the agricultural horse population likewise collapse.

https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Lots of options if someone is willing to pay 5x as much. Most options are better as well, but not 5x the price better.
Maybe as this becomes so ubiquitous, we will finally see 'identify theft' recognized as BS. If you allow someone who is not-me to pretend to be me and rip you off, this is not ever my problem; it's yours.
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Washingtonian is very pay to play. However, I'll point some that appear private like Cvent are in DC area because their early customers were trade groups that put on big conferences. These trade groups are here because they lobby the government. So doesn't appear government focused at first but is.

Others may have private sector customers but do huge amount of business with government. Appian, looking at you.

Yes, almost all my work in DC area was with companies nowhere near the government but it was very difficult and I stayed with jobs longer than I wanted. Also, hiring was very very difficult. We would churn through tech resumes and interviews because either inflated salary due to clearance or just people who wanted to push button and get paid well for it. It was always very frustrating.

Also, why do people seem to think there is tech hubs around big cloud datacenter? When did people start caring about being close to their workloads?
Could be paid to the person instead of the government
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In German high school, I've studied Franz Kafka's works, focusing on literary analysis, historical context, and philosophical themes. We had to explore his narrative techniques and existential themes in texts like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial." Helpful to me were "Reclam Kommentare", commentaries accompanying Kafka's texts.

They provide insights into his language, themes and help with the text analysis. A general learning goal is to connect Kafka's life and works to broader historical and social issues.

So maybe translating the respective Reclam booklets will help non-native speakers, too. They for sure helped me.
How about trying to deliver any baby, using more women, and you don't know which one are infertile
I find that idea counterfactual.

Upstarts and citizen scientists are true and recurring trail blazers.

Here's one for you: everyone has it all wrong, state is NOT the elemental article of the universe (there is no smallest particle that builds it up.) Potential distributes entropically,and state is merely the resolve of stably bound packets of that potential. However small (or characteristic) that "knot".

I think that rambling he went on about was regarding the hyperdimensionality of our minds. He was tripping man, only his man brain was stumbling with words to recall that glimpse of the light fantastic.
Was Briton not a large naval power by that point in their history already?
The flip side of this is that attention spent on writing is attention not spent on understanding what you're seeing/hearing. Back in university I had a professor whose English was sufficiently messed up, combined with the fact that lot of what he said was simply wrong, that I couldn't understand him in realtime. By the time I figured out one sentence I had missed enough of the next I wasn't going to understand it.

Fortunately, all I actually needed to do in class is to figure out what he got wrong so I could give the "correct" answers on tests.

(To illustrate how far out of it he was--this was a 400 level class. The first class period someone he had confused asked a question that anyone who had met the prerequisites should trivially be able to answer. Instead, he rambled back to what he had been saying. Repeat. The third time someone else answered.)
JavaPackager as you're already using should work, you would just need to build the Mac packages on a Mac build agent. For something more future-proof and performant, GraalVM native images (https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image...) seem to be the future of native packaging for JVM applications.
Nothing meaningful should stored due to data leaks liability, period. Now if data really leaks out users should be able to sue and get compensated. If companies are made to pay they'll clean up their act fast.
For a non-native speaker, sure, that's not obvious. For a native, especially if they're well read and have a decent vocabulary or have studied any Latin it's just fine. The many styles of englishizations of foreign words (romanization just doesn't quite fit here) and obsolete-in-terms-of-pronunciation spellings provide valuable context for pronunciation and meaning to people who have sufficient familiarity.
> one of my issues with distributivism is I'm not sure if we'd have the technological advancements under such a system

What kills these systems is economies of scale.

You're citing one example, those in R&D, but it crops up as a handicap across production. The net result is such a society could really only exist if protected by a great power. (As we see with the Hobbits and Rangers.) And at that point, we're splitting hairs between a new economic system and benevolent feudalism.
When someone says "everybody", they generally don't mean literally every single person, they usually mean "most people". In that light, I believe the GP's assertion is correct. Most people -- really the vast majority of people -- will just click on the default option, or whatever gets the annoying pop-up out of their way.
But thats working-society-ism! That sort of regulation will overstimulate innovation like with diesel-gate.
I updated the website with a GitHub link to the workflow I made for this. Can try it yourself!
Cue is fun, but already the unification example (https://cuelang.org/docs/tour/basics/duplicate-fields/) shouts "footguns" to me :(

TS is certainly excessively powerful though.
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That change is explained in the human interface guidelines of the era. There was some debate in the GNOME world when this was first implemented and the rationale was explained in threads like this one:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/hig/2002-January/msg00079.ht...
SnapMagic (YC S15), AI copilot for electronics, is hiring a PM
Yes, see my second point. Anyone can slack off on their job. Leading a real business with any kind of significant headcount is a full time job.
"Synthetic oil is a lubricant consisting of chemical compounds that are artificially modified or synthesised. Synthetic lubricants can be manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil, but can also be synthesized from other raw materials. The base material, however, is still overwhelmingly crude oil that is distilled and then modified physically and chemically. The actual synthesis process and composition of additives is generally a commercial trade secret and will vary among producers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil
Haven’t seen any “Web 3” shills for a long time, gone right out of style it has!
You can DIY store 10kWh+ of solar in your water heater:

https://www.pvh2o.com/

When I plug data for LA into the simulator I get a payback of 1.4 years.
For Texas just have 2 gun pics per porn pic ... then you're OK.
>`nix build` command disables network access

Only if building with sandbox enabled. Can disable it if network access is required. Seems someone opened an issue asking[1] for granular permissions (explicit network restriction) but has been marked as stale. In same issue someone else has made comment providing an hybrid approach.

Since you mentioned Julia, it's possible to build Julia environments (with arbitrary packages) using the `.withPackages` function. E.g. `julia.withPackages ["Plots"]`.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4584
How Meta's Open Source AI Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon Valley
More like if they buy your mineral rights they now own your oil and have the right to extract it.
A High-Performance Non-Indexed Text Search System
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They can live under the solar panels. Matrix style.

It was us that covered the sky. At the time they were dependent on fossil power and it was believed that we would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
Always nice to learn about new Seattle startups. Curious who funded you?
https://archive.ph/uvyuW
I do agree that it is lame.

However, money sinks like gambling can be seen as a part of the in-game economy and are a useful tool to take money out of circulation.

I don’t necessarily have a problem with judicious use of it, but if the point of the server becomes buying in-game currency to lose it at the poker table, then yeah, that’s exploiting your users.
Cue the posts complaining about how impossible it is to do any transaction online because you have to provide so much proof (and the companies collecting even MORE data about us, to later be stolen).
Something that I don't see noted within the comments is that the purpose wasn't to eat pigeon but to eat squab.

In culinary terminology, squab is an immature domestic pigeon, typically under four weeks old, or its meat. Some authors describe it as tasting like dark chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squab

[Edit]

Another note about pigeons: they feed their young milk produced from a gland inside the upper throat: crop milk.

Pigeon's milk begins to be produced a couple of days before the eggs are due to hatch. The parents may cease to eat at this point in order to be able to provide the squabs (baby pigeons and doves) with milk uncontaminated by seeds, which the very young squabs would be unable to digest. The baby squabs are fed on pure crop milk for the first week or so of life, or about 10-14 days. After this the parents begin to introduce a proportion of adult food, softened by spending time in the moist conditions of the adult crop, into the mix fed to the squabs, until by the end of the second week they are being fed entirely on softened adult food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_milk
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Special-use domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)
Everyone spent the cash they were going to invest into startups on NFTs, I guess.
Wonder how much question's success rate would increase if the question was, "what is the first continent you hit?"
Hi there. I'm interested in this position but it seems as if the email you provided is incomplete
God the amount of kvetching about algorithms and data structure interviews.. is it still has bad as it was a few years ago?

During COVID, every tom dick and harry thought they could be a coder.
Yes, I use all of these techniques. Making the customer feel like they have a direct line to you is so powerful. I don’t recommend any of the off the shelf feedback systems either, it has to feel natural.
In other words, robo vehicles are less able to discern that someone is messing with them. The attack they are discussing would be akin to the drone carrying an image of a piece of empty road. A human would recognize the scene didn't fit together, the robot does not.
Aphorism? There is substantial evidence supporting the statement that most violence is committed by people who know each other rather than by strangers. Here are some key findings from various sources:

- Sexual Violence: According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), the majority of sexual abuse cases reported to law enforcement show that 93% of juvenile victims knew the perpetrator: 59% were acquaintances, 34% were family members, and only 7% were strangers¹.

- General Violence: Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) indicates that less than half of all violent crimes were committed by total strangers. A significant portion of violent crimes were committed by acquaintances, friends, and relatives⁵.

- Homicide: In 2004, only 23% of murders were committed by strangers, highlighting that a larger percentage of homicides occur between individuals who know each other⁴.

These statistics demonstrate that violence is more likely to occur within known social circles rather than between strangers. It's important to note that these findings are based on reported cases and surveys, which can have limitations, but they provide a general understanding of the patterns of violence.

Source: Conversation with Copilot, 6/3/2024
(1) Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: Statistics | RAINN. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violenc....
(2) Violent Crime by Strangers and Nonstrangers - Bureau of Justice Statistics. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vcsn.pdf.
(3) VIOLENCE BETWEEN LOVERS, STRANGERS, AND FRIENDS. https://journals.library.wustl.edu/lawreview/article/6708/ga....
(4) Statistics In-Depth - National Sexual Violence Resource Center. https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics/statistics-depth.
(5) STRANGER AND ACQUAINTANCE RAPE: Are There ... - University of Arizona. https://experts.arizona.edu/en/publications/stranger-and-acq....
> curb (effective) tax evasion and profit offshoring to reduce inequality.

that assumes cooperation on a global scale between competing tax jurisdictions, which in my book is infinitely harder to achieve than net power via fusion
That’s a bit of a straw man. While the benefits of antibiotics are certainly untold millions of lives saved, we’re only now understanding their long term impacts on our gut biome. Let alone their overuse in factory farms.

There are considerable numbers of people who have severe complications with antibiotics, and their overuse over time has left us in a position where the functional pools of antibiotics keeps getting smaller and smaller and the pool of superbugs gets more and more virulent.

Who knows the long term ramifications of this new class of weight loss drugs. This smells to me like the Prozac craze in the 90s when everyone was on it or giving it to their kids. Or the olestra boom until everyone was literally crapping their pants.

Or tangentially, the over proscribing of novel opioids. Look what that has wrought in our society.

Could this new class of drugs be helpful, absolutely. Do we know the long term issues, nope. I think there are people who can use this therapeutically and there are others who use it as a quick fix because they have no self control. In a lot of ways it also feels a little ironic to look at fiction like the food indulgent scenes of “Hunger Games” and South Park and see that happening for real.
> I've attempted in this sketch to lay out, by analogy, the nature and structure of the Chinese writing system. All of the concepts apply

Do they? I think there is one section that has nothing whatsoever to do with how Chinese works, namely "Inflections". Chinese does not have them, at all. I guess the author felt compelled to at least give a token acknowledgement to the concept, even while it was irrelevant to what he was really going for (a parable about the Chinese writing system).
Andreas is a fantastic coder and also a great shepherd of geeks (community builder).

The split makes sense for practical reasons - I also sense he is personally perhaps more passionate about browser hacking than OS hacking (his own contributions were more to Ladybird than to the OS for about a year as he himself writes).
Smart as he is, he may have recognized that he is in a unique position to be able to contribute a cross-platform browser that competes with the big tech companies, where as SerenityOS is essentially more of a toy OS (32 bit, 1990s look and feel, not compatible with important other operating systems, no radically new OS concepts) - without wanting to dimish the contributions of its amazing developers.
IMHO, SerenityOS is more about the process of writing code from scratch than the resulting software itself. Its purpose appears to be 1. to prove it is possible despite the naysayers ("only large tech companies can build a browser", "no-one can build an OS from scratch") and 2. to enjoy the coding itself.

As other commenters have already stated, the only issue will be taking as much from Ladybird over to SerenityOS as possible.
Not img2img but IPAdapter. I have updated the website with a GitHub link to the workflow if you want to try it yourself. I also reworded the pricing to be more reasonable. My goal is to offer a service if you prefer not to fiddle with the models yourself.
Has anyone calculated how much energy could be extracted before the cooling of the earth's crust, due such geothermal extraction, would turn irreversible the reservoir and unleash worse consequences than those "greenhouse gasses" mentioned?

From how such progressive temperature change (extraction) would affect the dynamics of the Earth's core, among other things, to how it would affect such temperature to the nature chemical processes on the surface, how it would affect vegetal life (cultives), and so on.

The planet is big, but we are talking about, lets say, a century of use or more. Has anyone calculated were would be the limit of holes (on geothermal a new hole each XX years due area cold down) before the "we never guessed that X could happen"?
But it does allow you to consolidate the equipment and access roads on a large piece of land because you could, for instance, run a road across the narrow dimension of the property and run the wells horizontally along the wider dimension.
Completely agree. I am a bootstrapped SaaS owner and we cleared about $1M in revenue, $1,200 in profit, and $90k in taxes.

Bootstrapping a tech company in a post Section 174 world doesn’t even seem feasible. I can’t believe this issue isn’t being taken more seriously.
https://glcoverage.com/2024/06/03/10-best-free-screenwriting...
Yeah but also what about second breakfast
Penzoil is at least upfront that they make their synthetics from natural gas.

Mobile-1 is happy to tell you that they dont use natural gas.

But that doesn't mean that they dont use hydrocarbons pumped from the ground to make it. Synthetic is just a marketing term: http://xtremerevolution.net/a-defining-moment-for-synthetics...
> This is an extremely uncharitable view of Firefox and an outrageously generous view of Windows. The things you listed take 2 checkboxes in a new tab window, 2 checkboxes in settings (which has a search bar that takes you right to them by just searching "studies" or "data collection"), 2 checkboxes in settings (search "suggestions"), 2 clicks (right click the pocket button and click hide)... The only tricky one is

It’s wild to me that this is being presented as if it’s not a big deal.

Shows how far the goalposts have moved in this conversation.
Ask HN: Managing Project-Level Dotfiles
There are many great solutions for managing system-level config files which have been discussed here many times (just search for dotfiles in the HN search). Do you have any good solutions for project-level config files, though? Repositories can get quite cluttered with config files, so I'm wondering if there are any good tools which allow me to manage them (eg put them in a directory of their own and still have the programs access them correctly).