skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take a look at the block a butcher uses?

LOL: my (late) uncle was a meat cutter and owned a butcher shop for many years: most of his surfaces were metal and plastic for easier cleaning.

> They cut a lot more cutting than any chef... and they are end grain

What butcher does and what a chef does are different things. Chefs do slicing, chiffonade, julienning, dicing, and chopping (vertical movements). Butchers do a lot quartering, deboning, chopping, and filleting (many more horizontal).

Further, if you look at a actual butcher blocks, you'll see that they were not tiny little cutting boards, but actual table/furniture. And the practical reason why they were what we now call 'end grain' is because they were a bunch of long pieces of lumber put together with some feet attached:

* https://archersantiques.ca/product/antique-butcher-block-193...

* https://antiquebutcherblocks.com/product-tag/historic-butche...

The tiny (3" in height) little things that are called "butcher block" nowadays are in the style of the giant tables of yore, but the fact they just happen to have a check board pattern is a aesthetic affectation to mimic that 'real' items of the past. Which is why splitting is probably a much more common occurrence as they're much less surface area for glue between the pieces, so 'moisture shifting' is more likely—which is why maintenance is much more important and needs to be done more often.

But feel free to get whatever: if you want to use up more oil in the regular maintenance of your cutting board (and having to do maintenance more often), I'm not going to stop you.
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I don’t even know what people are referring to exactly when they say Windows is full of ads. Windows 11 is my main OS, it’s the basic Home edition.

The only ads I see are when I mistype in the start menu, and get some web search results including ads, just like when I google something.

Inline web search results is a crappy feature to me, but it didn’t bother me enough to go regedit mode and disable it. It only appears when the computer search can’t find anything, it kinds of fall back on web search.

It seems the most outraged people are those who never use Windows and rage at the fact that it’s still a popular desktop OS.

Or maybe I’m just lucky and I don’t get the horrible in your face ads everywhere, for some reason.
Isn't this similar to what Microsoft did with their Phi models?
Through-wall Wi-Fi 7 Sensing radar can detect human activity, breathing rate and falls.

Google Nest uses mmWave radar for sleep monitoring of one human.
Aaron Swartz should also be mentioned as a co-creator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
You realize it's a rhetorical device and not an actual threat of violence, right?
Impressive! Thank you for the pointer
> The overwhelming majority of Americans are happy to fit themselves into one of two political parties.

I don't know about overwhelming. Typical voter turnout for US presidential elections over the last few decades has been right around 50% (it ticked up notably in 2020). Many people who do not vote report disillusionment with both major parties as a significant reason for their choice.
Startups Needing Dedicated Internet?
Hi everyone, has anyone at a startup or early-stage company decided that they needed dedicated internet access? If so , why was that? Thank you.
Too many foot guns.
I see this exact post every month. Are you actually hiring or just collecting people's information?
I mean, so far feigning ignorance has worked great for Apple.
I like how you don't reply to the specifics of what explanatory text I wrote: not replying to the riposte being the last refuge of a scoundrel

and btw, the Hesperus/Phosphorus reference I made many commments ago refers to a famous example of these exact questions in the Philosophy of Language. Read up on it and you may begin to know as much about this as I did before we started.
All assignments should be done in class with paper and pencil or locked-down Chromebooks. No phones. Lectures can be put on youtube for viewing outside of class. I had a couple math classes like this and it worked well.
I've kept an eye on Kivy for quite a while and prototyped a bunch of projects over the years with it, and I'm not a big fan.

It feels like it's at the wrong level of abstraction for... basically everything.

The Pong game demo is an example of this: if you're writing a Pong clone (or most video games) where you're going to be operating on a canvas, you don't need all the widget infrastructure that Kivy offers--you're better-served by something like PyGame.

On the other hand, if you want to build a UI using standard widgets, the widgets they provide out of the box aren't particularly fully-featured or even good--you end up doing a lot of hand-coding of functionality that could be included, and the defaults aren't particularly desirable, so you end up having to configure a lot of, for example, visual display settings.

As another user pointed out, their default widgets don't support accessibility meaningfully, and there are many other features, such as dark mode/color scheme support, which modern users expect and which you'll have to code yourself. Realistically, a lot of clients aren't going to give you funding for accessibility features, so the defaults are what most projects will end up with, and if it's me developing it, I'm doing accessibility on my own time, so I'd want this to be configuring what's largely already there, as opposed to what Kivy has: implementing it from scratch. In 2024 I'd view failing to support accessibility reasonably out of the box, as almost a moral failing, and certainly this is enough to discount Kivy from being used for any product intended to go to production.

There IS a fairly vibrant ecosystem of 3rd-party widgets (flowers; there's a "garden" metaphor in their branding for the ecosystem). But this comes with all the problems of a 3rd-party ecosystem: Kivy itself is probably large enough that it won't become abandonware in the forseeable future, but 3rd-party projects aren't, and there are large security and reliability risks to pulling in a bunch of small packages maintained by developers of various talent, intention, and funding. These are risks you generally have to accept for something unusual, but you shouldn't have to accept these risks for your bread-and-butter widgets like buttons and dropdowns.

If you're embarking on a project that benefits from using pre-built widgets like this, the framework I'd recommend is Flet. My experience with it has been overwhelmingly positive, and I've entirely switched away from PyQt for any new projects. The one criticism I'd give is that it doesn't really support multi-window, but that's something I'd avoid for most projects because multi-window support can never really be cross-platform, since mobile platforms don't really support windows as such.
Fascinating to me that this only mentions phones once in passing, and even if it had made a big deal about that seismic change in the industry, it would still be wrong. It doesn't mention Microsoft's struggles in the console market, but would still be wrong. It mentions Linux once, doesn't talk about servers, databases, S3 or EC2, but it'd still be wrong.

Dunno what the lesson is, and obviously you can move the goalposts to make 'dead' mean something else. Maybe we'll see this again with all the companies that aren't quite AI enough today. Sure is nice having enormous amounts of cash on hand, though.
Is there a dengeon option?
A few years ago I thought Gmail was scarry. Now I'm more worry about Google Docs.

Diaclaimer: I use both, and everyday I pray my Google account is not baned due to an error in their system.
I think people have recognized that the current research grant system tends to reward safe, status quo ideas, and discourage potentially revolutionary risky long shot ideas. Its been talked about for a long time now. Maybe even decades at this point.

The hard part is what to do about it.
I see you're fortunate enough not to have been to an ER in a while.
Microsoft is still here and still Microsofting. They've had a few setbacks to total dominance. They fumbled the mobile ball and found that they couldn't compete against Linux and open source, which enable new forms of computing at the largest (cloud) and smallest (embedded/Raspberry Pi) scales that don't fit with their business model.

So they successfully pivot to co-opting the dev stack used in the open source world. That's their play with Azure, WSL, Visual Studio Code, and the GitHub and npm acquisitions: to make it impossible to do webdev on an open source stack without MSFT involvement, and hey, why not try out these other great MSFT products and services while you're at it?

It's a clever play. But they're not dead, irrelevant, or your friend.
Thanks for this. Indeed I can confirm the conversation is conceived to be stronger. That said, still I am not convinced that about half the population would not be worse at thinking, the weird it may be.
I would instead recommend people use the GitHub Explore feature to explore trending repos that are using their favourite programming languages. It’s a great way to see what others are working on.

Here are trending repos using Java: https://github.com/trending/java?since=monthly
The ribeye steak on their site is $25/lb and the USDA national weighted average price for bone-in ribeye is $8.67/lb as of yesterday. That's the reason. No long-form article needed.

My nearest independent butcher charges $39/lb for same. There's no question that meat prices at small outlets are far above those of the giant international meat packers.
on the web - people forget there's google tax.

i.e ads or search engine placement.

countless of public companies have it in their reports that mobile app users generate more revenue compared to web whether desktop or mobile.

and i'm not talking about game companies.
It's similar, I think. It's a straw man with the goal of appearing smarter than the person asking the question rather than just making an argument.
the point is not whether your suggestions also work, but whether "internal style guide" does as I showed in the context as I wrote it. You need to reply to arguments made, not change the subject.
why people are assuming this essay main points are wrong?

it's very correct.

Microsoft windows and office only make money with kickbacks to govt buyers. see the documentary on Microsoft and EU. lots of money is moving under tables.

azure is a joke that mostly gets sales based on price for people who need to buy a cloud just because. in this regard they are a walking corpse like ibm was in the 90s.

then the money came from xbox, which they tried to kill several times and only got market share because they sold at loss early just because that's what they do without even thinking. Salesforce, and LinkedIn, which they bought after they were monopolies already (and owners only sold exactly because of the fear of saying no, which the article paints very well) and couldn't run to the ground no matter how bad and abusive it got. and lately openai related stock memes despite being the least protected player (as in no hand in chip design).

what exactly paints the article as wrong? they just got a few luck hits on the way down.
You can still decode starting at a non-keyframe, and just apply the diffs to the current picture, although the results might not be understandable; VLC is known for doing this when seeking.
I get it is small percentages of light but it can impact some plants fairly heavily, it is a non-linear feed back. They can handle cloudy days but that is a temporary phenomena and the dimming would be on top that already existing trait.

As for the acknowledgement of the predicament, this come down to the problem of first movers on any technology. Those that do not consider the blow back will be the first to deploy and the first to potentially make a big mistake.

I fear that a country that is being hit hard by climate change will be pushed into a corner and just deploys something quickly without considering all the multi-order events downwards. Or even knowingly aware of impact that will benefit them at the expense of other nations.
Perhaps you only think you are a smart person.
autistic with high IQ. every day I have to listen to illogic is a tough day, so yes, every day is a tough day :) don't worry about me though, as long as I feel I've pointed out the minute distinctions I was drawing, I feel happy.
Yeah, it seems pretty half-baked at the moment. It looks like QML is the intended target for mobile apps on the Qt side.
Oh the hand wringing. Fair's fair when the other side is doing it.

Anyway, public discourse will always have someone pushing an agenda. Nabisco, CIA, your local Instagram influencer. It's a race to the bottom. That's why bastions of unbiased investigative journalism is just such a precious thing.
> This highlights the importance of iterative refinement and the power of combining different technologies to solve problems.

This uninformative non-sentence sounds an awful lot like ChatGPT.
First couple links from top news site in UK

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/neil-gaiman-a...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/03/neil-gaiman-deni...
I don’t know how successful he was if he had several ant colonies in his room. Perhaps they regrouped and returned to another spot in his room. Perhaps this particular ant colony just loved his room a lot.
I mean, they are much better than humans at "mental" arithmetic.
Penalties or Incentives, to get the market to less expensive sustainable tires?

- An N $ rebate for sustainable tires

- Capital investment into R&D and scaling production of sustainable tires

- Grants for open access research into cost-viable sustainable tires
Watch the first 2 mins of this:

> Leonid Brezhnev New Year's Address (1979) [Subtitled]

https://youtu.be/E66oM2iAMwM?si=W6OeT2GxdfUt-nzI
W-2 employee used real estate to reduce federal taxes by 99%
Yeah that’s a crazy low number for several people. I think they are confused on the difference between the amount of water needed to keep several people barely alive vs able to function without concern.

When I was doing ag work in kansas during summer, I’d go through a gallon or more a day of just drinking water.
A lot of people don't seem to understand that fluency in problem solving comes partially from memorization.

Memorizing all of the theorems you need, proofs, and a diverse set of examples is going to make it substantially easier to approach new problems.

I've heard it from people conducting interviews, when we're discussing what we want from candidates: "I'm not looking for memorization, I'm looking for problem solving!" - if you've memorized 1000 problems, you'll be better at problem solving than if you didn't!
Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA's Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days
Last time I looked at Flet, it gave the impression that you had to use the wrapped Flutter widgets, making it hard to use widgets and packages from pub.dev in a Flet application.
I was simply restating in different words _blk’s casual implication that KerrAvon has a cognitive deficit because they mentioned the phenomenon of election-related violence from the right.

If someone (for example) wants to look or feel smart in a discussion about logic, there’s a shortcut a person can take by casually calling others stupid for even mentioning anything upsetting regardless of whether or not the thing mentioned is real. It’s kind of funny when people invent a fallacy as if language that they find personally distasteful is categorically wrong (especially when the rebuttal is basically “Nuh-uh dummy!”)
I've had the same exact experiences.
http://archive.today/FGQvo
Haha is that real? I will definitely kill every ant I see from now on, they are clearly evil.
Engineers in LATAM are increasingly popular for that reason; the timezone difference is about four hours from PST and about one hour from EST.
The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour
Microsoft Is Dead: The Cliffs Notes (2007)
The efficiency has not improved all that much, and when you multiply two exponential growths it's still exponential.

Though even when you add the efficiency improvements I think we're still lagging behind Moore's Law overall.
The problem is that many tests aren't about asking the specific questions; those questions are mere proxies for the presence of foundational knowledge. They're testing whether a student is building up a rich mental model of the domain.

So we're not really testing students to see if they can do X times Y arithmetic problems, and we're not anticipating that future work involves being a calculator. Instead we're using these tests as proxies for whether a student has a good model of multiplication.

ML tech has the possibility of making someone look like they have the foundational knowledge. We can ask people to design "better" tests, but that also makes things harder to cope for everyone else! Must we all take increasingly difficult and fatter tests when a cheap proxy would've sufficed?

Also, perhaps some might say that foundational knowledge is not foundational because ML tech can one day do everything. Yes, this is a possibility. That one day there's no point in learning foundational math because ML can handily beat people just like it does in Go and Chess. But in such a world we won't be talking about students cheating in school, we'll be talking about massive economic revolution.
Learn Nix the Fun Way
On-Page SEO 2024 Comprehensive Guide (Advanced Strategies)
Lithium has actually dropped in price by 80% over the last two years, so this part of the article is (currently) wrong:

“ The lithium commonly used for batteries isn’t that common. It makes up about 20 parts per million of the Earth’s crust, compared to sodium, which makes up 20,000 parts per million.

This scarcity, combined with the surge in demand for the lithium-ion batteries for laptops, phones and EVs, have sent prices skyrocketing, putting the needed batteries further out of reach.”

Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium

https://www.bradley.com/insights/publications/2024/02/lithiu...
The smaller the tokens the more guesses the LLMs need for generating text. LLMs are really good at guessing, but the more they have to guess the likelier for them to lose their train off thought.
I made a moderately popular website to compare the different translations: https://ttc.tasuki.org/
What’s different about the way you find competitors?
Yep that was my first thought when I visited their site. Here in SoCal where the cost of living is high, a Costco prime ribeye is $15-20/pound and a ribeye at the Halaal supermarket butcher is $6-10/pound depending on whether it’s a steak or roast. Prime top sirloin is $10/pound at Costco or (ungraded) $6/pound at the supermarket, compared to $18/pound at the Co-op.

Most people in Montana can’t afford to eat beef like that unless they get a quarter or half of a cow from a local farmer at a fraction of the price.
Why going to sleep during the 'golden hour' could save your life
A couple of notes on the blog post: the example

echo "Please explain this code: $(cat some_class.py)" | mark

needs a dash at the end to work correctly. Also, it doesn't output pandoc-flavored markdown (blank lines before headings and code chunks) unless I specifically ask it to, as in:

echo "Please explain this code, using pandoc-flavored markdown, leaving a blank line before headings and code chunks: $(cat some_class.py)" | mark -
Memorable quote:

> As a physician, I am so glad that my life events lead me here instead of being a proctologist.
> > The primary issue is that there is no means to correct the situation non-violently

Support https://eff.org, https://edri.org etc.
Why the news is so negative – and what we can do about it
Here's the best Windows debloat tool thus far: https://www.winehq.org/

Yes, that is a link to Wine which is yet another recursive acronym for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'. Does it run all Windows software? Nope, it doesn't. It does run a lot though and it may well run that one Windows program which you 'can not do without' while the other stuff is available for Linux et al.

The advantage of this approach to debloating Windows is that it is a one-time process. Once you take this step you will never have to worry about that next update which enables all those 'features' you managed to disable using a host of 'debloat' scripts, advice from random sites and sketchy tools from sites with fake box images of whatever software they peddle - get the PRO version now for only $XX.- !!!. No more upgrade nags, no more sneaky attempts to upload your data to Onedrive, no more nonsense. Will your life be trouble-free?Nope, it won't, you'll get a whole set of new problems to deal with but these tend to be more straight-forward bugs and incompatibilities, not marketing stratagems designed to get you to (accidentally or otherwise) give in to the will of the corporate machine.
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Why would you think that's a walk in the park? Have you actually tried formalising stuff in Lean/Coq? I have, and even with a postgraduate maths degree behind me it's hard as hell!

The fact that Kevin and his team are formalising FLT is incredible, but they all have decades of experience with this stuff (!!).

Transformers can do arithmetic (and many other things) just fine, do a bit of searching on arxiv and you'll find papers from 2023 showing that nano-scale transformer models suffice. It really is a data problem, not a fundamental limitation with the technology.
This is from a book that was formerly intended for print only. From the bottom of the page:

"[Many thanks to Samuel Okei from Texas Tech Univ. for his skilled conversion and reformatting of what was a complex 25-year-old file with obscure and obsolete typesetting codes, into HTML.]"
I love the idea of buying local, but am always frustrated with the price. I intuitively want to think that vertically integrating and cutting out several middle men, and selling locally would reduce the price. Especially when I hear so much about distributors gouging farmers. For some reason, this never seems to be the case.

Out of curiosity, I checked out the old salt store and they sell Tri tip for $16-20 per lb. I buy tri-tip on sale for $4/lb, and sometimes $3/lb.

The interesting bit is that I was recently in Switzerland, where it is common for farms to sell meat and dairy direct to the public. I noticed that the there the farm meat and cheese was 25-50% less than the super market.

Taken together, this really leaves me wondering what the difference is between these markets.
We either live in a society with laws that can protect us or we don’t.

If we don’t believe in our society, if we need to carry guns all the time to protect us from the anarchy, it is of course really hard to believe we can build enough protections to prevent retargeted adverts.
The Coldest Cream
Thanks, I will try it out then.
I used to listen to the StackOverflow one but now it's just white-washing AI, and justifying them selling out their data to OpenAI.
'Stuck': Housing market malaise may last for years
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
http://blogs.zynaptiq.com/bernsee/time-pitch-overview/

Not sure if it's useful.
It's probably going to involve granular synthesis.
Awk is a bona fide programming language. It makes line-oriented processing extra easy, but so do Perl and Ruby.

While awk is mostly used for text processing (and general data transforms, e.g. in the Linux kernel build system), it allows for writing arbitrary programs, e.g. first-person shooters: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
In the repo https://github.com/wolandark/bash-dungeon?tab=readme-ov-file...

cd bash-dungeon

ls

cd Enter

ls

cat parchment
It's NumbeR. I don't have an authoritative source other than e.g. [0], but I was around (IRC, mailing lists) when some of these were created.

[0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...