skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It rejected "marxism continues to be popular because jealousy is the sex panther of emotions" apparently the anchorman is too spicey?
There seems to be an article on confabulations - seems to be a concept from neuroscience. From the abstract of the article:

"Confabulations are inaccurate or false narratives purporting to convey information about world or self. It
is the received view that they are uttered by subjects intent on ‘covering up’ for a putative memory deficit."

It seems that there is a clear memory deficit about the incident, so the subject "makes stuff up", knowingly or unknowingly.

--

cited from:

German E. Berrios, "Confabulations: A Conceptual History",
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, Volume 7, 1998 - Issue 3

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/jhin.7.3.225.185...

DOI: 10.1076/jhin.7.3.225.1855
Even if NXP allows you to look at datasheets, the only supported way to read them (on Linux) is an ancient, pirated version of acrobat downloaded from a sketchy Chinese site.
hubris++

Thanks, I'll see myself out... lol =)
Interesting. This article you linked states that tires emit not only more particulate emissions than tailpipes during driving, but also more VOC emissions!

> Another area of research centers on the impacts of aromatic hydrocarbons — including benzene and naphthalene — off-gassed by synthetic rubber or emitted when discarded tires are burned in incinerators for energy recovery. Even at low concentrations, these compounds are toxic to humans. They also react with sunlight to form ozone, or ground-level smog, which causes respiratory harm. “We have shown that the amount of off-gassing volatile organic compounds is 100 times greater than that coming out of a modern tailpipe,” said Molden. “This is from the tire just sitting there.”
> these language game land wars

"Energy" is also a "language game war" between internet posts on physics and professional physics.

> This–and TWIM jhanas in general–certainly involve the arising of the relevant jhana factors.

Yes. So someone suggested calling them "mindfulness of the jhana factors". Also the word for joy in several languages is "piti". We can talk of joy and happiness, and see it's not the same as jhana. Is any joy and happiness from non-sensory wholesome states jhana? No.

> People feel real and somewhat life-changing experiences of piti, sukha, equanimity… are those, due to limited concentration, below some critical threshold to earn the name “jhana”?

Yes I don't want to dismiss these states they are wholesome, just not jhana. Do cultivate joy in wholesome states!

> Besides, it’s not even entirely clear that the earliest texts are actually describing something all _that_ much more concentrated than Nadia does

Well, how do the early texts describe the insights that happen as a result of jhana? they are quite deep and quite challenging to conventional world view (just like if someone did an excellent physics experiment). Consider AN 9.42... senses disappear to the mind at the first jhana https://suttacentral.net/an9.42/en/sujato
I’m assuming they are saying it is when it’s based on a lie/bait and switch.

Aka a scam.
Well… one is just a tad more readable.
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Natural lighthouse, right? It's got a bright side and a dark side and spins around.
there's no real difference between you, me, and Mr. Gautama in mental structure. circumstances of course matter, but instruction, especially the interactivity is decisive.

yes, there's a practice element, to do the dissociative steps well, to get the right body sensations amplified with the right mental ones, etc.

the start-up-y way is not better or worse for you if it works. the traditional way(s) work vy constraining as much of the circumstances as possible, so the originating mind state is "exactly" as the one the instructor had.
Hackernews try not to make a computer analogy when talking about biology challenge: impossible
And that is why it keeps happening.

Bonus: cut education enough, and it even gets easier to do!
Yes, the TfL system does a partial authorisation. It checks the card is valid and not blocked etc but doesn’t necessarily do a real-time authorisation all the way to the issuing bank.

If you try to use a card that is valid but has no available balance/credit, it might work for the first ride but then be blocked when you try to use it for the return trip.

Fares are batched throughout the day and you are charged once, overnight, for all rides that day (after applying any multi-ride discounts, etc).

This is different from some other cities where I’ve used contactless payments and they’d charge you immediately for each ride, giving you lots of annoying little charges on your bank statement!
What is the news doing at 39916800?
That doesn't seem hard to pull off. Just record the stream multiple times and splice/replace the low quality bits.
One of the interesting insights into society at large is that one of the big divisions of knowledge is into the pots of "benefits others that you know this" and "other". There is a lot of social effort put into spreading political memes (as the easiest example) because that will influence society in a way that is favourable to the meme-er. Ditto a lot of commercially useful skills are spread because it is in everyone's interests that businessmen are competent. Messages of peace, kindness and (ironically) war get a lot of play because they are all helpful in various ways if other people know about them.

Reading up on the jhanas they are clearly a very real, very distinct thing. But they aren't obviously to the benefit of anyone except the practitioner and it is practically impossible to verify if someone has actually experienced them. So they drop out of the conversation pretty quickly unless they are attached to something else (this is a large part of the genius of Buddhism and other religions, attaching good ideas to social rites).
Even if we make the tenuous assumption that the bike lanes are implemented correctly, you cannot expect that people that have lived with car-only infrastructure their whole lives will change their habits overnight. It's going to take some time to reach cycling volumes of even the less developed european cities.
Never said it did. I assume you know that at least a few people on here have a basic grasp on multiprocessors, locks, threads, asynch, etc
I don't bother making anything run on linux unless it's meant to run as a service. It's just not worth the time and trouble to test it on multiple operating systems, probably with different libraries, just for what is a very vocal minority.
I’ve used this method for a while now, not sure if it’s from this particular article or if someone else blogged the same idea. I also prefix any aliases or sh functions from my rc file with a comma. Mostly it gets me easy to find custom commands when I “forget what I called that one alias”.
The boreal forest aka Taiga is quite a bit more at risk than the forests of Oregon. There may be an argument to be made that the wrong kind of firs have grown in the south of Oregon (they're much more susceptible to fire from heat) and that logging and replacement with the right type of firs could be a win economically and environmentally. Somebody with specific knowledge would need to fact check that idea though.
They don't even mention that it's made by a Chinese company.
> That's a nice theoretical position; however, the current programming languages as they exist disagree with you.

as i pointed out in another comment, c++ is a good example of having tight low-level control without programming with a lot fewer abstractions, and c++ is hardly a little-known language we can dismiss as irrelevant

so the current programming languages as they exist do not disagree with me
It's important to realise the difference between consensus and Sybil prevention protocols. Consensus such as this one assumes participants are already selected and known to some extent. Then it runs its network messages to ensure it agrees on a value where everyone has the same value and won't revert or anything.

Sybil prevention is something that I wasn't taught at school and it concerns itself with creating the pre-requisites for consensus algorithm. Given the world population, how do we establish participant set for consensus while minimizing their chance to attack. Well, maybe by requiring them to waste record-breaking amounts of stupid compute.
Something one often sees in Go (which is in my mind an anti-pattern) is the supplier of an object also supplying an equivalent interface, as they would in Java or another nominative adoption system. In Go, the interface belongs to the consumer!
I’m not sure my interest in programming has faded, but I certainly have less time for it if I also want to sleep.
I hope that tools like apt-get run subcommands in a predictable environment and never leak interactive session's $PATH. Then nothing in $HOME will break them — that user just put his df executable in /usr/bin or somewhere like that.
Not true frankly. Old growth plateaus from a ton/acre of carbon perspective pretty quickly, and old growth forests aren’t meaningfully sequestering much new carbon in their soil. It reaches a steady state, with excess rotting. Almost no forests do, or they’d be sitting on hundreds of feet of charcoal like matter.

Even the best of them it’s less than 6 feet of carbon containing soil.

New growth pulls carbon out of the atmosphere fast - and cutting it down and using it, gives room for more, fast.

It doesn’t look as nice, and isn’t as pleasant to be around, but the math is clear and easy to verify.
Can you please share a few example? Many technical decisions rely on experiences.
It's a nice program, but you need to pay to update every version of .net, which is every year.

I used to purchase premium version (single user) and the upgrade option is $97.50 instead of $125 for new license.
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/1djtfbj/testi...
VimFx
>Why Do We Still Teach People to Calculate?

I would say it is intended for everyone who can not figure it out for themselves.
I have a really random winforms project I opened up the debug build of on Linux with Mono and had 0 issues. The bar can be very low.
Does day job take too much of your time? Maybe that's a front to optimize?
I'm in a similar boat. I wish it were possible to externally verify in some way. I'm a bit skeptical of how easily a lot of newcomers to meditation claim to have reached them.
For now. I haven't optimized it yet.
Some subreddits ?
To see patterns in things and to extend from the known to beyond.

While numeracy is certainly useful, isn't that only the surface point. The depth in deeper learning (we all learn - Edward Deming - but learn what?) is in shaping self and the internally and externally perceived worlds.
> Well, how do the early texts describe the insights that happen as a result of jhana?

The main reference I can think of off the top of my head is something along the lines of “with a mind thus purified [by jhana] the meditator inclines the mind to [insight practice]”, which feels compatible with either the very strong Vsm version or the weaker end of loose interpretations of the suttas. Even a really really weak experience of J4-flavored equanimity still reduces stray selfing enough to make insight practice work better. Obviously this effect is magnified many many times by the pa auk style jhana states.

Perhaps there are other specific claims I haven’t read.

[edit to respond to AN reference in edit] interesting, first I’ve seen this one. On one hand it does seem to imply a slightly higher level of concentration than other suttas I’ve read but even here it only talks about elimination of desirable/arousing sensory phenomena, not the sense of “pretty much all sensual phenomena” that Vsm points to. I don’t actually have a super hard time squaring this with what Jhourney and TWIM teach.
If we get hit by an EMP blast and get blown into the 19th century those calculation skills would make some rich.
They didn't reference a source, and the claim is rather outlandish.

Cadmium and Lead are both quite toxic, and I'd be absolutely shocked if any tyre company in the western world used either of them anywhere near their products, let alone mixed into the rubber, which is insane.

"Tire fragments soaked in solutions with pH ranging from 3 to 8 did not leach measurable amounts of cadmium over a period of six week" from: https://www.echocommunity.org/en/resources/b1d9d1eb-afcb-472...

"Cadmium and lead concentrations were negligible." from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9085433/

"The low cadmium levels in their tyres was due to the efficacy of the zinc oxide purification process. In the nearly 50 years since the David and Williams study, Zn, S, and Cd refining has improved and this may contribute to low levels of cadmium being detected" from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

So... it looks like tyres contain some Zinc, which many decades ago wasn't purified very well, which resulted in Cadmium and Lead being included as impurities in the Zinc. The industrial processes have improved and this is no longer a problem, but people are quoting tyre compound issues from the 1950s like they're still issues today.

Whoever wrote the article you linked couldn't be bothered to run a quick Google search to see if the problem still exists. That's unfathomably lazy.

PS: Not to mention that the lead added to fuel was a vastly bigger problem than any trace lead impurities that got into tyres.
They are good states and do it, wholesomestates are good joy in the wholesome is good.I am interested in not appropriating words that are well understood by communities for 100's of years and taking amateur internet posts about them as truth. Words like "Energy" should be taken as understood from the physics community, although we understand in certain contexts someone else may use that word in other ways. It's the same when it comes to the term "jhana".
Why would you need it as a library other than to do jit?
Woke up each morning, checked fuckedcompany.com for the latest news, then went over to Yahoo! Finance to watch my holdings get ground into dust. Lather, rinse, repeat for a year or so.

FC.com example snapshot:

https://webarchive.loc.gov/legacy/20020909235327/http://www....
The odd framing is thinking Interpol should ensure nobody is making large scale weaponry but still allow small scale weaponry.
Luxury Gyms Are Taking over Big Retail Spaces
Oh you mean frontage roads.
Author here.

I don’t use Wikipedia at all.

Generally, I read old magazines, books, and occasionally old websites in the Wayback machine when I can’t find other stuff. I then write.

I don’t make citations as my work is meant to be neither authoritative nor academic. I research and write for my own enjoyment.

As for Davies, I didn’t bring him up because I didn’t have a ton of material on him. For Xchange, I again didn’t have a ton of material. For the games, that early period wasn’t my focus. I really wanted to read/write about their mobile hardware.

Now, for the backlight part, I will need to make a correction to my work. I recall reading it was present, but I was clearly wrong.

Edit: as for CPU, covered that on my site already: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/mips-for-the-masses

Edit 2: also, honestly, writing about anything in the UK is somewhat more challenging. I grew up in the USA. Unless people present did interviews I can find, or if I can find books/magazines about it… I won’t have much to go on as I’ll not have experienced it.
that function contains four if statements and all four of them use indentation, and the same brace indentation style is applied with perfect, machine-like precision throughout the entire file

the last two look like this

if (fixedcolormap)
ds_colormap = fixedcolormap;
else
{
index = distance >> LIGHTZSHIFT;

if (index >= MAXLIGHTZ )
index = MAXLIGHTZ-1;

ds_colormap = planezlight[index];
}

that's indentation

maybe you're running some kind of browser extension that screwed up the formatting of the code in your browser. or maybe the problem is that the indentation uses 8-space tabs and your browser is rendering the tabs in some other way. (when i initially pasted the code in here, hn converted them to spaces.) what browser are you running? the code looks fine in linux firefox

the only exception to this perfect syntactic consistency in compound statements is that in two cases (lines 137 and 237) there are unnecessary braces around a single statement, turning it into block that could have been just a simple statement. i don't know if this is an artifact of the code's edit history or what
I misread your post as meaning there was not more than approximately 250 million spent. Sorry, my mistake.
Fluent CI: Setup and run CI locally or in any CI Provider in a consistent way
A local library
In NYC, there will soon be no more single ride tickets.

There’s the OMNY card, and I believe the original plan was to outsource sales and top-ups to third-party stores, but lately I’ve also seen some vending machines for that in some stations, so maybe they’re going back a bit on that idea.
Is there anything like this for Java. I really miss LINQPad since I’ve moved to a company that uses Java instead of C#.
With such framing I'm tempted to say TikTok.
So what about the remaining 45%?
Compressing graphs and indexes with recursive graph bisection (2016)
Isn’t it true that the only thing that LLM’s do is “hallucinate”?

The only way to know if it did “hallucinate” is to already know the correct answer. If you can make a system that knows when an answer is right or not, you no longer need the LLM!
FIFA is set to organize a real Rocket League World Cup, featuring national teams
Yes the first one is always free.
Show HN: Field report with Claude 3.5 – Making a screen time goal tracker
That’s great, thank you!
In my 50s, I started drinking coffee in the afternoon. It helped a bit.
Throwing your money into a fire pit would be equally as effective.
Unfortunately idiots who will run the mower over their own cord, or absent minded who consistently forget to plug the thing in to charge it, also exist.

And more neutrally there is a certain laudable economy in not throwing away a perfectly functional lawn mower just because it's become a relative nuisance as the options around that have become better over time. The lawn mower equivalent of wanting to drive a car until the wheels fall off because why trash a perfectly functional car when so many people don't even have that.

Finally there are other people who actually enjoy the petty power thrill that comes with being able to make all of their neighbors endure the harsh grating drone of a 2 stroke engine, the kind of person who doesn't see the problem with suggesting other people should wear earplugs in their own homes when he's mowing his lawn, (there's a number of this type in this very comment section doing the same for cars) and because there is a flimsy but historically normalized justification for it -before electric mowers appeared on the market, everyone else with lawns to cut had to be equally guilty of making a comparable racket willing or not- they get away with it as there's no straightforward legal argument that isolates exactly why what they're doing is a net harm to the quality of life of all their neighbors.
That's not how they're drawn. Outliers (More than 1.5 times the interquartile range outside the 1st/3rd quartile) are plotted as dots beyond the whiskers. The whiskers go at Q1-1.5×IQR and Q3+1.5×IQR.
BART stopped accepting paper tickets last year, presumably because of the complexity (not just the ticket barriers, but also the fare machines and add value machines that also had to handle them): https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230911
I don't know why you're getting down voted because you're correct.

I'm in flyover country, in a state with few "cities" and yet the laws reflect the values of a city dweller who uses the countryside as a stop off vacation.

We're dying in the rural part of this country, the towns, the people, all of it. And the arguments that I constantly see are - well just move to a city.
Granted it's not exactly Lenovo, but do you make these same comments on the new thinkpads?
I worked for a [Japanese] corporation, that took “formal methods” into overdrive.

They made really, really good hardware, but it was extremely painful for us software schlubs.

That said, I don’t know if it’s really possible to do really big stuff, with a team, unless you have some degree of formality.

Best practices are usually a good place to start, and I would suggest that the degree of necessary formality, is inversely proportional to the experience of the team. If you have a lot of really experienced engineers, in a mature team that has been together a long time, the formality is still there, but doesn’t need to be written down.

I usually work alone, or as the sole technical person, in a diverse team. I’m really experienced, and don’t write much down.

But I’m also really, really formal. It just doesn’t look like it.
But will it free Hat?
We need a name for the phase of innovation curves after IP warlords have completed vision quests, leaving a stable landscape.

This vendor has an array of RFID products: https://gototags.com
> Accurately placing heavy, aerodynamic objects onto people when you start out directly above them is not very difficult.

It's still difficult; to do that, you need to know the wind speed at every point between them and you.

Or you need to be so close that the wind speed doesn't matter, but at that point nobody's going to be impressed that you can hit them.
Sort of, electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin, electromagnetism, so it's waves in the electromagnetic field with the wire acting as a wave guide. (as far as I understand)

Veritasium has a video that goes over this. It was pretty controversial at release but it gives a good overview.
https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0

And why magnets work due to relativity
https://youtu.be/1TKSfAkWWN0
This quality that the national mall is (monuments aside) an eclectic mixture of federal and private buildings continues to amaze me. Some of them are very QANGO like, clearly massively in receipt of national funding. Some not. They bear the name of founders, of private bodies. Some of them are guarded by federal employees. Some of them seem to have a coco-cola truck planted outside permanently.

The Smithsonian is funded from british money, vested through the surviving childless American resident, and grows by accretion of other indepently funded bodies (the Hirshhorn, the Freer which in turn relates to the Sackler but we don't talk about that...)

The folger is near, but not actually part. Behind the mall. Where we keep the coffee tins. "oh yes, we put the shakespear next to the coffee tin, in the fridge"

I used to imagine the LoC staff digging a tunnel and secretly liberating the books.
Jhanas are distinctive states reached when you do concentration meditation deeply. Like, when you go this deep you'll see this weird thing. And when you get this deep you see this other weird thing, and so on. I've gotten to the third or thereabouts.

But that was when I was really into concentration meditation. (And believe you me, there is real magic there).

These days I do the other thing (vipassana. Dry. That is to say, without concentration meditation prep).