skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person was Egon Kisch, a Czechoslovak communist, who arrived in 1934 for a speaking tour to raise awareness of what was happening in fascist Germany, and who the Australian government found far too 'revolutionary' to let in.

The full story is quite fun. He was initially refused permission to disembark, which he solved by leaping five metres from the ship, thereby making landfall (rather literally). The government then tried to exclude him using a dictation test, which could indeed be in any European language, and the test he failed was administered in Scots Gaelic. Some controversy arose when it turned out that the person giving the dictation test couldn't themselves understand Scots Gaelic, but the High Court ultimately ruled in Kisch's favour for the somewhat amusing reason that Scots Gaelic was 'not a European language' (at least within the meaning of the relevant law). [0]

Australia has a long and not-particularly-storied history of extreme border restrictions. Laws banning non-white migration persisted in one way or another until 1973, and in the subsequent fifty years Australia has done progressively more insane things to keep people out, including removing all of Australia from the Australian migration zone (so migrants never actually 'arrive' in such a way that might give them a right to seek asylum), using the navy to put people that arrived by sea back on boats and launching them vaguely in the direction of other countries, keeping people actually accepted to be refugees (!) off-shore in remote Pacific island concentration camps for years, and - during COVID - criminalising its own citizens leaving Australia for two years (and briefly even the return of Australian citizens home). [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_exclusion_of_Egon_Ki...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56953052
I do love my AirPods Pro and use them in all modes except for spatial audio. I have a bug that I cannot fix for almost a year: reversed channels when connected to MacBook Pro M1. Especially the spatial audio is totally wrong. I have tried everything, resetting AirPods, Mac, Bluetooth, reinstalling drivers. It is fine with my iphone. But just totally wrong with my particular MBP. Any ideas?
When individuals want products we're capable of incredible things
So what is high school for?

Also does the above apply also to the most selective and renowned institutions, or only to community colleges?
Can you make your (proposed?) patch (to DS, presumably?) even more explicit?*

[ok, y is “seconds” peeking out from the other “si unit”]

To me, it makes more sense to say (<- what you said)

string (representing expression) to expression ( <- destructure value to env)
expression to (shorter) string ( <- eval expression )

(Trying not to make “string”/“word”/“expression” interchangeable)

*i sometimes cannot ask my friends questions (similarly, but also different, to this) as it would be too embarrassing XOR explicit => better (even more symmetric?) sibboleth?
Show HN: Translation in the Age of GPT
DeepL and Google Translate impose hard limits on the size of the pptx files that they accept, even in their paying plans. This makes pptx translation effectively impossible for office-like usage.

I developed slidelang to remove this limit, but most importantly to take advantage of gpt-based translation and build a modern service : enabling the user to control the style of the translation.

For instance, translating to "Spanish" or "French" is too vague, when these 2 languages have tons of regional variations. Now users can instruct the translator to adapt to these variations, with additional stylistic instructions if they want ("formal", "business like", "for a young audience"... you freely type it).

Try this app and let me know what features would be useful to you?

NB: the app is entirely built with Java, back and front.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but the milky way is only 105 thousand light years across. So even if you assume an earth like planet couldn't have formed any earlier than ours, other intelligent life in the galaxy only has to go through the geological processes and evolve a tiny tiny fraction of a percent faster to have tons of time to send all the signals they ever want. Nearest other galaxy is only a couple million LYA which ain't too bad either.
I'd say C is the only correct answer actually. Neither the President nor his running mate are elected by the people; they're elected by the Electoral College. And the question isn't about the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
Am I the only one that saw this and thought, "What's a python shell got to do with it?"

https://github.com/JoelGMSec/PyShell
Chrome Devtools AI assistance panel
Do you mean outside of the API that I talk about in the article? If I exposed the HA API via the frontend, users would be able to just take the bearer token and do whatever they wanted with it (even deleting the entities used for the doors). That's why the express server is sitting in the middle to only expose the relevant information (proxying w/ the bearer token, which the end users have no access to)
https://archive.is/QH4er
You submitted this 36 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911373
Ask HN: Which is the best AI memory API library
Which open source AI memory library would you recommend ? The ones I know are Zep AI and Mem0AI , which is better and which is cheaper if we choose their hosting platform?
YouTube link for the same video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ
I really like that everything is an expression. I know the extra work is happening in the background, but this kind of developer experience is really nice in my opinion.
My personal goal is to make my mental happenings more visible in order to understand where I get off track while tackling a task.

I think knowledge work in general is plagued by the intangibility of the processes that lead to its artifacts.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has a few things to say about this. (Here's Jonathan Bricker's TedX talk for a glimpse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTb3d5cjSFI&themeRefresh=1)

And a lot of what ACT does happens to echo what Buddhists are trying to do in meditation.

Maybe the most important aspect of mind wandering -- ie distraction -- is: what pushes us off track? In my experience, that's often a feeling of discomfort that is tied to the anticipated pain of a task. Sometimes that pain is tedium (I know what must be done and don't want to do it), other times it's complexity (I know I must do something but the exact steps are not clear), and other times it's sheer difficulty; ie I'm not breaking the task down into small enough chunks to feel able to do them.

I'm looking for my own internal protocol to sense mind wandering, identify which type of perceived difficulty caused it, and then take the steps to stay on goal: if tedium, put on podcast and forge forth; if complexity, back up and unravel the vague aspiration; if sheer difficulty, break it down into small steps.

I feel like the very ability to slip into metacognitive reflection depends heavily on my overall state, whether I'm doing all the right things like sleeping and exercising in order to monitor the internal course of work.
Something can be open source but not free as in freedom, as in you can see the source but copyright is reserved, maybe that’s what they mean? But WP is also open source and they specifically said it’s not so idk
I think voter registration itself should be disallowed and banned. Why should voters need to register beforehand? You should be able to just show up on election day and cast a vote. The entire process of voter registration is nothing more than a means to disenfranchise voters.
__init__.py distinguishes (for the import machinery as well as human readers) standard packages from implicit namespace packages, both of which "look like" (and are!) packages.
I was looking into the numbers and what I could find was that is more like 350 than 750. Source: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-carbon-dioxide-does.... Still interesting fact not often cited.
The question you refuse to answer is at what point should incompetencey be judged over effort. Little timmy who was always going to be a good teacher has now lost out because you the gave the position for the university place to little Johhny who everyone, despite all his everyone knew he was going to be a terrible teacher.

There is no benefit in always being praised for your efforts if you cannot deliver the goods.
I learnt data analytics and SQL for MIS/BI purposes on-the-job as a sales manager. Got pretty good at it too, built several dashboards and long-standing capabilities for my team.

Now, if I say I want to get into this scene for good, I am immediately daunted with a mountain of diverging learning paths to take. Should I take to Python and its massive library ecosystem, or should focus on database fundamentals? In every choice taken there are seemingly infinite branches, and it is rather hard to focus if you aren't even sure you're on the right track.

Last time I sat in an analytics/consulting interview they grilled me on highly specific technical questions on data pipelines and warehousing and testing and other topics that I've never had to worry about before at work. In another assessment, I was grilled on some AWS/Redshift-specific things. In yet another I was expected to know deep learning. It is all too hard for someone not originally with an engineering (or adjacent) background.
It certainly is, because the laws are passed with the intent that they won't be applied equally.

Incidentally, this is one of the things critical race theory actually talked about: how laws can be non-discriminatory on the surface, but deliberately created and applied in a discriminatory manner.

To trot out Wilhoit's Law again: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Use Spotlight to open the “Audio MIDI Setup” app, select your AirPods Pro in the sidebar and check if channels are correctly configured there.
For me the 100 exercises were a gentler introduction to the language for some topics, making the exercises was a bit difficult without having read the book first.

But I would give it a try, I did that and then the book was much more accessible.
You can say a lot of things about Apple, but which other consumer-facing tech company adds features meant to accompany people throughout every phase of their lives? People are growing with their smartphones, and the need for some functionalities only starts to become obvious later in life.
There is an actual SCOTUS case on these tests, confirming that they indeed actually exited, see Louisiana vs. U.S. (1965).

Also this sample test (https://lasc.libguides.com/c.php?g=940581&p=6830148) is from the Law Library of Louisiana, aka, the State Bar of Louisiana. Are you accusing the State Bar of Louisiana and the Louisiana Supreme Court of lying about the history of their state?

And this article (https://www.nola.com/news/politics/civil-rights-victory-50-y...) by NOLA actually goes through the history of the tests, citing contemporaneous reporting of the tests over several decades, though you would probably need physical access to the microfiche archives to confirm them yourself.

Unless you are suggesting that SCOTUS, SCLA, and the biggest newspaper in Louisiana are all conspiring together to make up these tests, the historical record for these tests existing is very well established.
It doesn’t have to be just funded by governments. Corporations and individuals are also welcome to and encouraged to provide funding as well.

For example, Arm computing are now quite active in funding biodiversity activities, see on wildlabs.net

I’d like to take the opportunity here to appeal to folks with the cash to see if they can find a funding cause that appeals to them and improve their karma :-)
I studied mathematics and I think this subject illustrates my feelings on this perfectly. Coding, just as well.

When it comes to learning maths, or a new programming language, there's all this tedious boilerplate you need to know. The rules, or syntax, the names of everything, how it all fits together.

There's ways to make learning this stuff more fun, but ultimately, not that much more fun. And anyway, the learning part is not the good part, it's the things you can do once you reach a certain knowledge level that are incredible, beautiful, even sublime.

On the other hand, take something like learning to paint, or taking dancing lessons. Unless you're hoping to become a member of an international ballet company, learning to dance is the fun part.

As another point, if you're a knowledge worker and you're likely to have situations in your life where someone basically says to you "right mate, you've got the job, here's a huge body of deep technical knowledge to learn, get up to speed, see you Monday" then a certain amount of skill in knowing how to absorb that quickly is a good thing.
A vape is definitely not a less addictive form, I can attest to that. But especially with the patch, and to a lesser extend with gum, it’s not that addictive to (most) people who that never had a cigarette/vaping/dipping/pouching addiction. Gum is probably still more addictive than coffee but I would guess it’s at least closer to that of coffee than inhaling it.
Neel Nanda did it better: https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/34-learning
I think gene therapy type stuff seems more interesting at this point:

https://www.psypost.org/new-intranasal-rna-therapy-shows-pro...
Ramanujan was, what, a 1 in 100,000,000 level genius? The gap between Ramanujan and the average class valedictorian is much wider than the gap between the class valedictorian and the average student. I think if we optimize schooling for people like him, we are probably not going to do as well for the other 99,999,999 students.

We probably aren’t going to get it quite right for that 1, either. Extreme outlier geniuses are extreme outliers and there’s no easily generalizable pattern around them. The ideal education for a young Ramanujan is probably different from the ideal education for a young Von Neumann. Of course in an ideal world we would give an extremely individualized education to every child, but that’s much easier said than done. Failing that maybe we could identify and then invest in the extreme geniuses, but that’s what we already try to do.
We tend to get so buried in what we are doing, it's hard remember what it will feel like when we succeed.

My lack of motivation to start a task seems to be because I have forgotten to day-dream a bit about the future benefits of completing the task i.e. what it would feel like to actually finish the task and to enjoy the benefits.

Gold Panning Example: I really don't want to go panning for gold. The water is cold. It's hard work. It's windy. It's cloudy. I rarely find much anyway...

So, I imagine what it feels like to actually find a 1/4 oz nugget. Wow! What a trip! I did it! I remember what it was like the last time I did it. It was great! Now it's easier to start.

So far I have focused on "starting a task." Not continuing it, nor finishing it. I find that once I have finally begun a task, it took so much effort to start that I am very reluctant to stop.

When I recognized I had two different problems (not one), things seemed quite a bit easier. I just remember what it will be like when I succeed, and once I am going, I remember that it is easier to continue than to quit.

Hope that helps.
Also see some of Ramanujan biographic documentaries on Youtube, specifically;

The Man Who Loved Numbers - Srinivasa Ramanujan documentary (1988) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqP2c5xNaTU

Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Mathematician and His Legacy (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5jsgBvJMUc
In theory, couldn't we focus on a perfect spot near a black hole where the light has been warped 180 degrees around it... i.e. if the black hole is 100 light years away, you'd see ( with perfect zoom, of course ) a picture of the earth 200 years ago...?

I understand that we'd have to account for the movement of objects, of course, but with computers, seems like a small hurdle...
Hard to choose, but I always enjoy this one:

https://youtu.be/Jb4prVsXkZU - how to land the space shuttle
Amen.

I grew up in the days of "Tough Love." It destroyed the family. This many years later and there is still no chance of re-connection.

That was a total failure of a program. And they lacked competing theories on raising "problematic" children that were, say, less hostile than Tough Love.

Ruined families are not so rare. What is rare is treatment for those who are in the "after" group.

That's just one example of so many.
In your case, you ask but then verify. Most people(i.e. IRL people outside tech circle) just want to get things done and believe anything, which is why the “Best top 5/10/20 Y in 20xx” articles work or the top advert gets many hits on google, or social media misinformation spreads and works.

Before AI, people used to “google” things and vehemently believe and support the whatever content that were first and second on their search result, which is why google probably replaced all above the fold results with ad/sponsored and businesses throw plenty money and SEO to be the top.
Have they automated PRISMA lit reviews yet?
Which part of this having actually been done in Canada and other regions, and what you're claiming not happening is unclear to you?

American Exceptionalism at work...
To overemphasize in a complex topic as good | bad is overly simplistic and doesn't help at all. Hardly anything is complete good or completely bad, it's meaningless to make a black or white point.
If that's the issue why not just change port?
Put this in your website! I understand now :)
Then where is the problem?
Let‘s get rid of the online tools and go back to the meadows.
I don’t think that alters the dynamic much. There isn’t much point generating low quality long form text content for the Eternal September crowd because they’ll just ignore it anyway. The filtering is on the consumer side, not on the producer side.
Yeah learning to actually use in practice is different from preparing for interviews. I would say continue where you already built some knowledge and branch out when you realize you have to, and then work on learning one branch as you go.

For interviews you may need to lookup what type of questions to expect and memorize details on that, unfortunately. That is not useful in practice but can be necessary for interviews.
Resigning as a bad government is a thing you can do.
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))

(* rare stratagems, but i think you already caught that )

Not sure i caught the sclera drift

(esp since post covid)

denta coverage [by undies] might be … more decisive.. in “california” (circa 1993)

e.g. Kevin Eastman (in 2009) vs Shredder (in 1984), aka Oroku Saki (aka !! Raphael) (TIL)

[note that most camiknickers have same genus as most pants]
What a strange idea for someone from Germany. Here you are registered as a citizen and get a letter to your registered address and you take that to the voting station. Vote. Done.
Hey, that's my project!

I just wrote another post about perf benchmarking it against Mathematica proper-- https://www.spakhm.com/ts-wolfram-bench. Really surprised by the result, on the workload I tested Mathematica is only 2x faster than my barely optimized interpreter. A testament to the V8 engine, I didn't quite realize how ridiculously good V8 is until running this benchmark.
That's because the programming language used is not FP, even if people pretend to.

Js is still stateful everywhere, even where you don't want it to be
> Firefox is using TripleDES??

What's wrong with it ? /s
Randomness and probabilities can be incredibly hard to wrap our heads around.

A deck only has 52 cards, but you shuffle it properly, it's essentially guaranteed that nobody in human history has ended up with the same order as you just did.
The last beta was 5 months ago. Not fast, but not dead either.
I like it. I always wanted these sports where the competitors can kill them freely with dope.
Same, it's such an amazing game. And the mobile port is great too.
> Have you heard about qutebrowser, Luakit, and Nyxt?

Yes, but neither support extensions AFAIK. Not ready to take my browsing back to a pre 2004 era. :)
Ecosystems do adapt. They look broken to us because of our ridiculously small life span.

That's why I dislike framing climate change actions as "saving the planet". The planet will be just fine. We won't.
Yet the countries with the least amount of poverty (Northern Europe) have high taxes, a large welfare state and high redistribution
I have just lost an hour of my workday. A good longform profile of a single controversial character will do that to me.
I've been planning to use https://twenty.com/ but it's on the Todo list, so I can't comment as to how great it is.
Wow that's a blast from the past! 12 year old me was absolutely addicted to this game.
The Strengths and Weaknesses That Set Founders Apart
True? How are phone modems inexpensive?
(Scalene author here) Nope, but WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is, and Scalene works great with it.
Oh my good you have really gone deep into the rabbit hole. Sad to see.

> Since the 1960s, space launching has never been limited by supply.

It has been limited by price. Tons of business that now exists could have existed before. There is a whole history of sat companies that went bust, and big reason they did go bust is because the capital requirements were to high.

And even if your statement was true, the only reason it was even remotely true is because things like the Space Shuttle were subsidized by the government at billions and billions of $ ever year.

Now the government doesn't have to subsidize launch anymore.

> That's why 80% of SpaceX's cargo is for satellites to support their marginally useful Starlink business.

4 million subscribers 'marginally useful' ...

> Like Hyperloop, "space startups" are just dressed up snake oil.

Hyperloop was literally just a idea blue paper. Starlink has 400 million subscribers and has had a literal influence in the larges European war in 7 decades. But sure those are comparable. Totally.

> I asked GPT

That you resort to that because you clearly don't know any of the industry yourself is very telling.
I would not say that, as long as it is a good summary there is a value in having everything in the same document.

Obviously they should have stated that this is partially generated, but at least they are dog fooding it :)
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I wish we lived in the multiverse where he didn’t die. Imagine what he could have done. Cool article though.