skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the one thing that seemed off. I don't have any preference for one ear over the other. If I hold the phone up to an ear, it would depend on what I wanted to do with the other hand. If I'm writing, I would hold the phone in my left hand to my left ear. If I'm typing one-handed, I would type with my left hand while i hold the phone in my right hand to my right ear.

If I went to listen up against a door, it would depend on other things which ear I used, like which ear might already be closer to the door.
To put it another way for those who don't web-dev much. Getting rid of cookies completely _requires_ that any authenticated experience becomes an SPA (e. g. only works with JavaScript enabled). The sole alternative available today is to include the session identifier in the URL, which means the end user cannot share links safely and that anything that logs the URL logs the session key. Everything that browser makers are suggesting as a replacement for cookies also requires JS to function.
Going on 13 years without a smoke, since my kid was on the way. Now I wonder how I ever started that dumb habit in the first place. Can’t stand to be anywhere near it anymore.
Cope.

You get out of books what you put into them. If you can't remember what you've read, it's because you didn't work to remember it (and that's okay). This quote is just cope for people to passively consume and feel good about it.
Cognizant, Infosys, etc. are also quite well known to avoid putting their H1B (or equivalent) in position to consider staying or have opportunity to stay.
I'm of the generation that were forced to write with the right even though I was a natural lefty. I also broke my left arm when I was 2, which may have made things even more messed up. These days I:

* Write with my right, my left is not quite as quick/tidy as my right
* Swing/grip with my left (cricket / golf / etc)
* Use my phone with my left
* Mouse with my right
* Cut (scissors) with my right (but we don't have any lefty scissors so...)
* Drink a pint with my left
* Play guitar with my right (but i learnt with a RH acoustic, so...)
I wouldn't be so sure... Or rather I'm not sure it's that simple.

If you compare yourself with someone that's sedentary but also not eating right, than yeah, possibly you're even with an overweight non-smoker, overweight being linked to so many diseases... But if you compare yourself to someone sedentary that eats properly, or let's say as well as you do, for the sake of good comparaison... I wouldn't be so sure... The damage you do to your lungs and heart tissues are unlikely to be offset by the little time that you spend at the gym or on your bike...

This coming from an also fairly active smoker (now vaper).
cgroup is the only way to track a process and its children, as far as I know

Either you use cgroup (in which case, neither the parent pid nor pidfile nor even the process ID are useful), either you do not (in which case, you leak processes)

Stopping a service means, in the end, killing all processes in the associated cgroup.
IIRC, the big Texas freeze of a couple of years ago knocked out both pipelined gas and electricity supplies, and over a much wider area than just Texas, on account of the interdependence of both systems.

Of course, once you run out of gasoline or propane, you are once again dependent on the infrastructure.
AI tools consume up to 4 times more water than estimated
>> I do think AlphaFold already has reached sufficient level of impact.

how so?
Found: https://github.com/KingSkyrock/sqlsandbox
Quitting smoking is hard though, remembering I was going through a severe withdrawal phase.

Don’t know why but maybe I quit cold turkey as a chainsmoker.
There are a lot of myths and anecdata about lefties having shorter life expectancy. That might indicate health consequences in some way.
Advertising is a virus that will eventually infect all ecosystems.
Maybe "indoctrination" was a poor choice of word here. The problem with this maxim is that it welcomes moral relativism.

This can be bad on the assumption that whoever is exposed to the maxim is not a proponent of "virtue ethics" (I use this as a catch-all term for various religious ethics doctrines, the underlying idea is that moral truths are given to people by a divine authority rather than discovered by studying human behavior, needs and happiness). In this situation, the maxim is an invitation to embrace ideas that aren't contradictory to one's own, but that live "outside the system", to put them on equal footing.

To make this more concrete, let's suppose the subject of child brides. Some religions have no problem with marrying girls of any age to men of any age. Now, the maxim suggests that no matter what your moral framework looks like, you should accept that under some circumstances it's OK to have child marriages. But, this isn't a contradiction. There's no ethical theory that's not based on divine revelation that would accept such a thing. And that's why, by and large, the Western society came to treat child marriages as a crime.

Contradictions are only possible when two parties agree on the premises that led to contradicting conclusion, and, in principle, should be possible to be resolved by figuring out which party had a faulty process that derived a contradicting opinion. Resolving such contradictions is a productive way forward. But, the kind of "disagreement" between religious ethics and "derived" ethics is where the premises are different. So, there can be no way forward in an argument between the two, because the only way the two can agree is if one completely abandons their premises.

Essentially, you can think about it as if two teams wanted to compete in some sport. If both are playing soccer, then there's a meaning to winning / losing, keeping the score, being good or bad at the game. But, if one team plays soccer while another team is playing chess... it just doesn't make sense to pit them against each other.
whose father was one of the leading local industrialists

(installing the first electric lighting for the 1885 Munich Oktoberfest)
Smoking is one of the nastiest habits society has acquired. Twenty years ago it looked like smoking was on the way out, but recent trends are troubling and show how weak we are in the face of determined actors with financial motives.

Facts like these are good to see, because every little bit of incentive to help people stop smoking is needed. The trouble however is not getting people started in the first place…

The downwards trend of the percentage of people who smoke is stagnating, and recent research has shown that the way people pick up smoking is, predictably and indeed, by stepping up from vaping. The short summary is that for susceptible young teenagers vaping is cool, and then when they turn 15 or 16, vaping is too childish, and 'real' smoking is where it's at. Smoking is still 'cool', and now even 'retro-cool'. By that time they are quite addicted to nicotine, so it's either vaping, tobacco smoking, or quitting. The latter of course being really hard at that age. Big tobacco won this round.

It's not all bad of course. Smoking has been successfully banished from lots of places. This varies by country, but I for one really appreciate not having to breath smoke in public transport, offices, shops, restaurants, and bars, and not having to see parents smoke on the school grounds (thereby denormalizing smoking for children). I saw society change in that regard, and it is positive.

But I loathe the people who kept delaying acting on vapes taking over part of our youth and keeping them smoking for the foreseeable future.
I think we’re actually both in agreement, actually.
What exactly is it? I get the sense it's basically a knowledge graph and an inference engine. But what was it actually doing in terms of submitting queries and spitting out takeaways in human readable form?

I'm extremely skeptical about the anecdotes about the game as an indicator of this thing's competence. It sounds unlikely that this thing actually encoded any sort of game state or nuanced simulations and was really just spitballing on vague strategies that just happened to find some cheese (twice?). I'm guessing they had to play the strats until one of them proved valuable, and it's kind of weird and surprising that they thought this was a good use of their time and model.
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I agree, there are two things I miss with markdown: import/export of text + media, multi user editing. This is always an extra step when you do not have and editing builtin in the Wiki that handles that. The "paste" image into document feature is one of the most useful features of a wiki if you want to write a fast bare bones tutorial.
Safe to say that 2010 was the beginning of Intel's downfall
as someone who works on 3 different machines regularly and likes to have the same environment on all of them... i would LOVE if applications would stop cluttering my .config with cache data and other bullshit i keep having to exclude from sync.
Yeah, a lot of the article was reasonable, talking about implementation details they don't like, but once they started talking about problems with local state I feel like they went off the rails. The server needs to be the source of truth for application state, with the application pushing state changes through POST/PUT/DELETE requests.
std::u8string, std::u16string and std::u32string are supposed to be the portable unicode string types, but a lot of machinery is missing and some that has been added has since been deprecated.

> there's no way to implement such a module without being very opinionated about something.

indeed! Boost.Nowide[1] is such an opinionated library.

[1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/nowide/doc/html/i...
There are probably two good reasons for this:

1) Getting natural gas plumbed to your generator is expensive.

2) If you're running this generator for an extended period of time, things have pretty much by definition gone to shit and aren't working as designed. You have a lot fewer dependencies to go fill a couple of jerrycans with gas at the nearest gas station (that has both gas and power to pump it [0]) than you have to restore piped natural gas service to your property.

[0] And if a gas station loses power, getting it hooked back up restores its utility to everyone, whereas restoring power or natural gas service to a home only restores its utility to the person living there. Prioritizing gas stations over private homes makes a lot of sense.
Smart phones confuse this, I think. I bet most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can touch the screen with their right. So it then naturally follows that, to hold the phone to the ear, we'd keep it in that left hand. Of course, sometimes I also use it one-handed, in which case it's in my right hand — on reflection, I think most phone use is probably ambidextrous.
After Reddit committed suicide (when they killed the API), I deleted my account. I now only use specialized forums for the things I’d use subreddits for. Except slightly more friction by having to register for each forum separately, I don’t miss much. The content is better, there are users who’ve been there for 20+ years and are knowledgeable, and I don’t have to des with Reddit anything anymore.

I hope these platforms would die already but I know they’d be replaced by an even worse “evolution” of themselves.

Such is our internet now :(
Super-leverage Points: a Positive Tipping Cascade in Energy [pdf]
>predictably and indeed, by stepping up from vaping.

Do you have any citations for this? I don't know any vapers in the younger generation who switched to cigarettes who hadn't already picked up the cigarette habit.

Looking further, I don't see any uptick in cigarette smoking rates.

https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco....
One codicil to your argument. Magazine advertising was very much targeted, just not at the individual level and specialty internet sites can do the same. Vogue did not run the same ads as Byte.
> So you say, but history has shown that if groups don’t exist to allow easy discrimination, they will be created to allow such discrimination.

Yes, that's what I am saying. In- and out-groups are made contextually in each unique situation.

> So it’s a good sign of long, well established, and ingrained discrimination, eh? With associated infrastructure to make it easier to continue, and ‘fairer’ in that it allows almost everyone to have someone under them to take their own angst out on. (Except those ‘outside the system’ anyway, which historically were the Dalits, but now even they are in the system eh?)

Can't understand what you're trying to say here.
Yeah. One day I found a sign outside a co-worker's cubicle. It said:

"I am attempting to quit smoking. I am a Vietnam vet and I have worked at the Post Office. All that stands between you and sudden death is this silly little patch I am wearing. Be very kind to me."

He successfully quit. Didn't kill anyone, either - at least, not at work...
Apple literally offered the clang/LLVM copyright to the FSF to be released under the GPL. This was basically just ignored.

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

Furthermore there were real technical problems with gcc, certainly at the time. There were good reasons to start a new compiler project.

The license was always more of a detail, rather than the main thing.
Like with battery tech, you pretty much have to assume that a solar cell that's not currently being produced and shipped is 99.99% likely vaporware.
The churn in React keeps me out. I also get really suspicious of tech that spawns mini cottage industries, where there has to be a React-ified wrapper for every single thing.

Maybe in 2025. I've learned Svelte 5 and think it is pretty good for the tradeoffs it makes though. And I think MPA is the right default for 95% of sites.
The most likely nation state is the one with the most Russian speakers: Russia.
The point is that what ToUpper does depends on locale AND Unicode version. This for many applications it only appears to work until it will fail spectacularly in production.
There are a lot of legacy lead pipes. 400K homes in Chicago alone supplied by ~50K lead supply lines estimated to require 40-50 years to replace.
rules of the prize can be changed.
I think the only way this gets better is with software development tools that make it impossible to create invalid states.

In the physical world, when we build something complex like a car engine, a microprocessor, or bookcase, the laws of physics guide us and help prevent invalid states. Not all of them -- an upside down bookcase still works -- but a lot of them.

Of course, part of the problem is that when we build the software equivalent of an upside down bookcase, we 'patch' it by creating trim and shims to make it look better and more structurally sound instead of tossing it and making another one the right way.

But mostly, we write software in a way that allows for a ton of incorrect states. As a trivial example, expressing a person's age as an 'int', allowing for negative numbers. As a more complicated example, allowing for setting a coupon's redemption date when it has not yet been clipped.
Right hand/left ear feels incredibly awkward to me — almost as bad as trying to get something from your left pocket with your right hand.
I'll start smoking every december, and quit as a new years resolution. I'm going to live forever!!
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> how weak we are in the face of determined actors with financial motives.

And a highly addictive product. Nicotine is just plain bad for us anyway, so all the "safe" alternatives are just BS.
So this is a big problem then. Potentially insurmountable. There are in fact people then that want a privacy-invading ad-soaked shit internet and profit wildly from it. These people have outsized power and every incremental win leads to more power that results in more wins in a positive feedback loop.

How can this be stopped?
I'm not sure why people have started to make reversed musical instruments. I saw a video with a reversed piano, calling it "left-handed." I am a left-handed person who plays the piano and I had always thought the keyboard was laid out like an ascending scale on paper rather than having something to do with handedness - low notes on the left and high notes on the right.

The motions involved in playing music are so weird that I don't think it matters that much. Even if it does, there might be techniques that you find easier to master with one handedness or the other.

I will also add that I have been complemented on the facility of my left hand when playing, but when I hear the people who say that play scales, it's very clear that they don't practice technique with both hands equally.
Adtech dominance goes beyond "stuff you don't pay". Plenty of non-commercial entities did and published stuff for free on the internet before ad money became dominant. For instance, the first forums I socialized on were all individual-owned or association-owned, and so were the webgames I played.

However, these entities became marginalized quickly through the creation of walled gardens, Google search discrimination pushing non-commercial websites out of the internet, and ad companies sabotaging open standards (e.g. RSS) and comitees (anyone hears about W3C these days?).

> As Churchill said of democracy, advertising is the worst system except for all of the others.

The analogy doesn't really work, because ad-tech is the reason other systems get stiffled. Democracies wouldn't look so good if their politicians got assassinated by neighbouring dictators whenever they feel like it.
The Nobel Prize has always prioritised advances in the field over specific training.

Curie was a trained chemist when she won her prize in physics. Michelson was a Naval Officer. Of course naturally, being able to win a Nobel usually means you studied the field your entire life but that has never been a requirement.
I mean, I'm in the 12% tax bracket and handling my credit cards just fine. Then again, I'm also accumulating some savings and not spending my entire paycheck let alone beyond my means.

If you are paying interest on credit cards, that means either of two things:

A) You're one of the unluckiest men in the world having one shit thrown at you after another. I sympathize and hope you can get that balance paid off soon.

B) You're terrible with money and can't budget nor save to save your own life. I don't sympathize, but I will encourage you to learn how to budget and grow the necessary maturity to cut down expenses you don't truly need and can't afford.

Also, banks hate credit card holders carrying balances. Banks make their money off merchant and transaction fees, not interest payments; they very much prefer card holders who pay their statement balance in full every time.
I was originally ambidextrous, but my mother taught me to be left handed because that seemed more interesting to her. I'm mostly left handed these days, though I bat either way, use my mouse either way, and shoot guns right handed (I forced myself to learn to shoot right, so semi-auto casings are ejected away from me instead of toward me).
Often times chirality is not just a fun quirk. For certain drugs, the left handed and the right handed versions can have completely different effects on the human body: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_drugs#Drug_toxicity. To avoid making the wrong type of drug, a specific way of producing the chemical molecule has to be derived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantioselective_synthesis.
This is a great idea, look forward to reading. I work with founders, devs, and execs as a mentor & coach. So I find tools in this topic valuable for people and the community to be in their best flow. Feel free to reach out if I can help
It's still one server side template, you just render different parts depending on what is calling it. By default render a full page, if you want to get precious about a few dozen KB from sending a full page over the wire you can toggle some blocks off.
By chance, have you tried preprocess.co for text extraction + chucking?
Brits living anywhere outside of Britain is a classic example - exemplified by the clubs and societies formed around the world when the sun didn't set in/on their empire.
I'm similar, but no parent or teacher forced me to be so. I do write with my left hand, but so many other things are just easier right-handed that I do both (sometimes switching between them during the same task). Pretty sure my right hand is faster and my left hand is more precise.
Benchmarking hardware encode is also a pretty specialized rabbit hole since it's not just the performance that varies, but also the quality of the results.
Same but I disagree on the explanation. When in comes to jumps I usually use my left foot but here it's more about balance than power I think and having played handball for a long time, I feel more stable with left foot in front
It would have caught it once Kapersky reported it and they are keeping their AV definitions up to date.

Write block prevents transfer back to the USB which is the exfiltration mechanism.
But why would you want that? The state of the world is about to get news banned as tabbaco advertisement.
And then it replies: "Cold"

The human language is great, but it fails utterly on some tasks. Which is why we have all the jargon in specialized environment. I'd take any system with a reduced command interface that works well than one that takes generic commands and tries to infer what I mean (meaning it will get it wrong most of the time),especially for vocal interface.
There are thousands of watch shops that are not "official rolex" repair shops, but are very high quality and will never do a background check lol. And a rolex really only NEEDS a service every 10 years or so.
> People who want it to be like this are those who make money from it being like this.

There's no reason why this is true. Advertising means you look at stuff in exchange for a service you don't pay for, and removes friction in visiting sites. Lots of people want that. How many would choose a world where you pay for every website you look at, other than payments processors charging transaction fees?

> Poverty, war, famine - they all exist because that condition makes some other group of people richer than they otherwise would be.

Capitalism is the thing that's lifted more and more of the world out of poverty, so I don't see this being the case. People got wealthy by making and selling stuff other people need and want. That's fine. The key to lifting people out of poverty instead of starving millions of people to death in the name of equality is: inequality isn't important; the base level of poverty being raised is.
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