skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good diagram(s) can save projects a hell of a lot of time

I've no idea why people do not spend time in getting it looking good
When someone asks "where are you from", you are usually trying to guess what you can tell them that is most exact which they still know. Usually that's the country. Or if it is a big city (Paris, Berlin or so), you might also tell that, otherwise not. If there is a chance they might not have heard about the country (but quite unlikely, unless it's maybe a small country, and you are in a very different part of the world), then I think Europe might be the best answer.

But this is anyway not the same question as "what do you identify with" (at least I would not interpret it that way). You might want to expand by answering that as well though, depending who you speak with.
Correlation does not imply causation /s

The inverse could also be true! Removing sugars (and most carbs tbh) from my diet noticeably stabilizes my energy levels throughout the day, which helps think clearly and reduces downtime. I do this periodically, and the difference is immediate and stark.
They don't really have a choice a about it though. PRC is basically threating to invade the movement Taiwan decided to renounce its claim on the rest of China.
There were many proposals but none of them were an actual improvement over the simplicity and straightforwardness of the existing. `if (err != nil) {` is simple, short and to the point, and adding language features for only this use case wasn't deemed worth the cost in the end.
How do you add the personal aspect to AI + customer support? I feel like I can still tell when I'm talking to AI and it just doesn't hit the same.
> I considered building my house slightly crooked, but that turned out to be far too expensive as everything would have to be custom made.

That's the efficiency of standardisation at work...
GDP correlates really well with just about anything we value.

> Things obviously going downhill for 40+ years, [...]

Global economy inequality has decreased markedly over the last few decades. More and more people have it better than ever before.
Understanding privacy risk with k-anonymity and l-diversity
This is a great reply. You are someone who has thought deeply about this matter. Thank you to share!

> I find eye contact difficult to maintain for reasons I do not know.

Years ago, I asked my mother why she always sits next to my father when they go out to eat, instead of across (face-to-face). She told me: "It's less pressure vs face-to-face." To be clear, I would describe my mother as a social normie (not autistic), but it really struck me. Over the years, I have changed my seating style to sit next to people (even when only two of us). For me, it makes a difference. Side by side, you can kind of talk forward or slightly angled and the other person can hear you very well (assuming no hearing disability!), but you don't need to make constant eye contact. That said, from time to time, you really want to make a point, and you tug on their sleeve or turn your head... you make eye contact, but for a short time. (Also: Without dragging on too long about this topic: You can more easily make physical contact -- touch! -- which can really help to connect, even in non-romantic settings.) I'm not trying to run away from eye contact, but my mother's comment was insightful: In-person need not always be constant eye contact.
> except I nearly never know what I want the digram to look like

That is the point of diagrams as code. You focus on the semantics, not on what it will look like and you let the tool decide for you.
More or less any clever tricks at sea have been tried and tested and found unsuitable. In particular, almost any non-positively actuated mechanical valve exposed to sea air will seize in days.
> As it pushed the boundaries of aluminum mast construction there were lessons that had to be learned over the years, but the result was a robust and well controlled rig in the end that performed well, within the limits of the design.

The mast of this ship was slightly higher than that of the Preußen, one of the biggest sail ships ever build.

While it clearly worked for a while, it shows how insane the design actually was

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preussen_(ship)
@dang

Need to bugfix comments on Android Firefox:

-While not logged in, write a comment,

-Press "add comment,"

-Go "Oh shit!" and press back to go back to the text box (to copy contents),

-See text box is now empty, so you press Forward in the browser to maybe recover by logging in,

-Noope! Browser requests to resend data, hangs and never loads (I presume this is being filtered serverside because a second POST looks funny),

-Now screwed with no original comment text

Expected behavior:

-The original comment is there when I first press back, AND/OR

-The server accepts the second POST when I press forward, and Firefox prompts to resend the data for the 'expired' page.

Thank you! :^)
As someone who learned layouting from a grumpy old typographer who still had experience in cutting letters by hand I have to say epub layouts are often quite horrible — especially when figures and tables are involved.
To be fair I have cut down my daily 250ml intake down to a once a week thing. After a particularly nice and heavy meal I like to have one like someone might have a beer.

I’m far more productive too no sugar crash.
The US has virtually no involvement in my home country, yet that hasn't prevented one of their historical adversaries from constantly attaching and threatening us. My country is on course to developing closer ties with NATO and the West for that very reason.

Of course, I would also prefer it if everyone scaled back military spending, it's an easy thing to wish for when it takes so many parties to actually do it. But failing that, I would rather have the West outspend and outsmart their adversaries.
Modern anti ship drones are just converted speedboats/jetskis cough Cole cough.
Get started with Fides
Have you heard of a 'store'?

(You can also buy stuff over the Internet these days, sure. And you can buy internet access with money, too. Isn't money wonderful?)
I’m sure it is possible. One surprising thing i hear about yachts (or not surprising I guess, depending on how you look at it) is that money is not a limit when it comes to guest accomodation but they are very much pinching every penny when it comes to anything else.

So the question is not “is it possible to design automatically closing ducting” but “what is the cost of doing it”. And in general everything the guests interact with or experience will be exactly how the owner wants it, while everything else will be done to the minimum quality required by the classification rules.
I think such analogies are useful and have their place, but I’d be super cautious about taking it anywhere near that far. Reducing something as complex as mental health to a redox reaction is definitely more than a bit…reductive.
A lot of pirated ebooks are scans of physical books stored as page images in DJVU or PDF. I do agree they have a certain charm to them.
While everyone here seems to talk about the epub angle to the story, there's also simply the deeper story here, that "the web's" handling of paged media and the CSS paged media specs (to which his epub problem is related) is a never ending shitshow. Not only for epubs, for everybody who actually wants to print to real paper, too, ideally with a working cross browser solution.

Mistake is largely not in the specs, but in the lack of support for them. Page breaking controls, weirdly breaking tables, lack of access to area outside the page box to influence headers/footers without weird hacks etc. etc. For printing, the 1990ies never ended.

This leads to the bizarre situation where basically everyone who has semi complex printing needs in web applications will create PDF and then print that - and for creating those PDFs, often HTML to PDF conversion is used, just with actually implemented CSS for paged media. Which again proves that the spec is at least 99% there, if somebody would just kindly implement it in a browser, too.

Won't be more complex than having the latest WebGL whatever thing in your browser engine ;-)
Surely the only difference between an A4 PDF and an A6 one would be text size?
Depends where you're from. In American English, both are disks: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk#Usage_notes
Built in algebra system. Mathematica is nice. Also very expensive.
Thanks for sharing your blog and the paper. I think your results are really stunning! Especially the bluethroat portrait[1]. When I started researching evolutionary algorithms, the application to image reconstruction was mostly pedagogical. But your blog inspires me to refine things for artistry.

[1]: https://www.basjacobs.com/post/2020-11-18-image-triangulatio...
> which doesn't seem to have worked anywhere

Well by definition it has worked in all other cases that you have not listed. Also you can't expect terrorist organizations to behave rationally (on a state/geopolitical level) and pretty much all Middle Eastern countries (besides Iran and they aren't 100% committed either) came to terms with the fact that Israel does and will continue to exist. Did that happen due to ideological factors?

I'd say that Russia is the only actual valid example and the economic outcome remains to be seen (unfortunately Russia has been doing remarkable well economically so far..).
thanks god the latest craze is that in place of binging eating fast food and be proud of that
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In my experience, writeable and rewriteable CDs killed Zip drives well before USB drives could hold as much.
Being able to know your blood sugar in reaction to the things you eat in realtime is simply incredible. Diabetes starts years or even decades before people have bad enough symptoms to get a diagnosis. If you are aware of which foods cause blood sugar spikes and learn to avoid them, you're doing something amazing for your future self. Of course, you don't necessarily need a device to know that it's going to be mostly high GI sugary foods that do that, but it does seem like this is more of a personal thing than people used to think, and the data from thousands of people without diagnosed diabetes will be highly useful. And who knows, there might be some surprises for you in there.
I guess we are all in our own bubble, but in my circle of friends (all in Germany), it is rather the opposite: I and many of my friends feel quite European, and don't identify at all as being a German. I would consider myself even quite anti-patriotic. E.g. I would be quite happy if we can get rid of the countries (Germany etc) and have one unified big Europe (or EU) country, similar as USA. And this is not such an unusual view. You will definitely get many "we are all europeans" vibes. I think you will mostly see this in all the bigger cities and also all the university cities. Esp among students, this is very common.
Posters from the Montreux jazz festival through the decades
I'm a big fan of intermittent fasting, but OMAD doesn't work for me. I find it difficult to get all the necessary calories and nutrients in a single sitting and not feel completely bloated afterward. Especially if there has been an intense workout on the same day or the day before (me hungry!)
I’m wondering why so many people just can’t accept that sugar is bad to humans health. Are they super-fit or super addicted? I think it’s the latter
Yeah, prices do indeed go up beyond 1GB - but we're talking about systemd needing 8MB of RAM. With small RAM chips there is more variation between parts than there is between sizes - hence the linked 2Gbit chip being cheaper than the 1Gbit one despite both of them being the cheapest option at LCSC. Those 8MBytes of systemd might push you from needing 1Gbit of RAM to 2Gbit, but it isn't going to push you from 8Gbit to 64Gbit - and as shown 1Gbit and 2Gbit don't meaningfully differ in price.

There are a lot of other factors involved with respinning hardware which make an upgrade a lot more expensive than simply a BOM increase. I can definitely understand why an existing product wouldn't be upgraded, but for a new product going to a bigger memory chip is a far smaller hurdle. The added software engineering time for working around RAM limitations can easily outweigh any money saved on the BOM, with choosing a smaller chip ending up being penny-wise pound-foolish.

And indeed, an extra $0.10 or even $0.01 can be a big deal. But those cheap systems usually aren't powerful enough to meaningfully run Linux in the first place: just because you can technically hack a $1.00 RP2040 or ESP32 into running Linux doesn't mean it is a good idea to actually do so. If your product is both cheap enough that it represents a significant fraction of your BOM and high-volume enough that you can afford the engineering time in the first place, why not use a purpose-built embedded OS like Zephyr?
> How? I've used smartphones without any case since the Galaxy S1 and I have never had a cracked screen.

The only smartphone in my close circles I know to have outlasted its usefulness without having its screen cracked is an LG P350 - my first ever smartphone (which incidentally was barely powerful enough to run its own OS; from then on, I always just saved up money and bought a flagship). Since then, I've seen friends getting new Pixels one day, and breaking their screens the next; in the Galaxy line alone, I had my S4 screen replaced twice, I personally replaced the screen in my wife's S3, my S7 died with a black screen after hitting the pavement (it was in a case, but the impact angle was unlucky); my wife just got the screen replaced on her S23. A family member broke a new Galaxy Tab when their briefcase hit the ground, etc. Same for cheaper devices too.

(EDIT: well, OK, my wife's Huawei P8 didn't live long enough to get its screen broken - 6 months in, it wasn't able to make a phone call without freezing. Replaced it with an S9, whose screen theoretically never cracked - instead, at some point, top half of the display got hue-shifted towards pink.)

Things got much worse when phones became glass/metal instead of glass/plastic; I personally am not brave enough to operate a modern smartphone without a case while standing on hard floor (bathroom tiles, or pavement outside).

I don't know - maybe myself and people around me all have really bad luck? Regardless, before smartphones, neither the screen nor the buttons were particularly fragile; you only ever worried about breaking the plastic case (or the flip mechanism in flip phones) after using the phone as a hammer one too many times...
It makes so much sense to think about this as sets, thanks
These tools are neat and handy for simple diagrams. Love mermaid.

For more complex diagrams, where explainer notes are beneficial, I find hand tweaked diagrams can not be beaten (my go to is draw.io)

If a simple DaC diagram is 1000 words, then a hand tweaked diagram is 10,000. And that 10,000 pays off. The bang for buck payoff is there. Of course, other considerations like maintainability etc etc
https://book.webtypography.net/
I know this process as steelmanning.

https://umbrex.com/resources/tools-for-thinking/what-is-stee...

If you see people doing this, befriend them because it means they're valuing knowledge higher than their ego.
it’s called lobbying
JPEG is the absolute worst possible solution here. If MathML or similar is not supported, use an SVG or PDF so that it's zoomable and not made of pixels. It's also slightly readable by screen readers (although you probably want some sort of alt-text for those anyway).

If no vector formats are supported, use PNG, or another "lossless" format not JPEG. JPEG's compression is designed for photos where the probability of 2 neighbouring pixels being the same is tiny. Note that PNG doesn't have to be lossless - if you want to shrink the file size you can reduce the resolution or the colour space.

Even GIF is a much better choice than JPEG for a diagram, mathematical formula or logo with hard edges and a small number of colours. SVG is usually the right choice, (but don't do what one designer did for me and embed a JPEG in an SVG instead of giving me an SVG direct from Illustrator or Inkscape).
Yes, exactly. That's what matters.
Depends which parameter you choose to hold fixed. You could shrink your text and keep the layout and page count or keep your text size fixed and increase the page count. If people were doing layout for a fixed A5 or A6 size they will probably make many different choices compared to laying out for A4.
It has electrolytes!
There is a very interesting book on sugar. Pure, white and deadly by John Yudkin. Is backed by research. Also of interest it might be this talk by Robert Lustig: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kOCPyheVesM
That's may need over million TB to collect all data, actually is there anyway to host they data without doing cloud or Hardiver things in the world?
Interesting I was not aware of that. I was told the reason was that in addition to a different format, the drive was more flexible so that it could adjust more dynamically. But it seems that you could store it more efficiently and get similar results on PC.

That said, I found a forum post that claimed an Amiga could store 1MB (1.1 in the comments) on a DD disk (standard size is 880k on Amiga, 720k on PC). So perhaps an HD disk could have been formatted to store over 2MB? I wouldn't be surprised if there were some drawbacks to this method that makes data corruption more probable.

Ref: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=102630
> have error chaining via a `?` operator

Although I do frequently find typing in the boiler plate of _every_ _single_ _error_ a bit of a faff, it does prompt me each time to really think "what if an error really happened here". I'm inclined to think that something like the ? operator makes it much easier to just toss in the ? and not consider the implications of an error.

> even force you to check the error[,] meaning I’m sure there’s plenty of missed error checks in production code

Something the equivalent of "#[must_use]" would certainly be an additional aid, (as would const pointers).

EDIT but one of the tools mentioned in the blog post, golangci-lint, will warn you of unchecked errors.
Already the first artwork, from 1986, is a collaboration between Keith Haring and Andy Warhol... And the 1995 is a David Bowie (see link below).

The MJF itself has a page in its website collecting 62 works: https://www.montreuxjazzfestival.com/en/posters/
> Man pages are notoriously a colossal waste of time. In general they are poorly thought out, they are incomplete, they were written with complete disregard for user experience, and more often than not they are way out of date.

Uh, what? What man pages are you reading? I read manpages all the time, and I've never run into an issue where one contained info that was untrue because outdated. The only manpages I've ever read that I'd characterize as incomplete are Apple's.¹

> Why do you think sites like Stack overflow is so popular? Because all those "incurious" people in tech feels the need to ask questions and dig through answers on how to solve problems?

One of the reasons Stack Overflow is so popular is that people who can't/won't read docs can use it to have answers spoonfed to them, often by people who only differ from them in being more willing/able to read the docs. Isn't that extremely obvious?

> unreadable documents

Reading isn't a singular skill— each genre requires its own skills, and you gradually pick those up by reading in that genre. Reading novels doesn't much prepare you to read math textbooks, but that doesn't make all math textbooks 'unreadable'.

The same things goes for skimming. Skimming a text is likewise a (set of) genre-specific skill(s), built up through practice.

Frankly, moving from your terminal to your web browser to look up how to use a CLI tool is only consistently faster than working with the docs native to that CLI environment (man pages, info pages, usage messages, --help flags, help subcommands, tldr pages, etc.) if you have don't have very good reading skills in the genres of those native docs.

As someone who does not have difficulty skimming or navigating manpages quickly, when someone tells me that digging through StackOverflow seems like less of a waste of time than reading docs and so they never read docs, I have to wonder if the real issue is that a reading skills deficit is caught in a self-reinforcing loop.

And indeed, a trip to StackOverflow never ends at StackOverflow for a person with much curiosity. Because even if a curious person finds a solution to their immediate problem, they will wonder things like:

- is this solution outmoded by some other fix?
- how is the feature/option/change used in this solution actually supposed to work?
- are there any alternatives I should know about?
- if I wanted to do things slightly differently, could I still use the method/feature/option referenced in this solution? does it have any parameters that are easy to swap or tweak?
- is this scenario what the feature/method/option in the solution is actually intended for? should I care?

... and the quickest way to answer questions like that is usually a glance at a manual.

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1: In some cases with GNU stuff the literal `man` pages are abridged versions of the `info` pages. But even then, the `man` pages direct you to `info` pages. It's not like they leave you having.
Really, "oxygen to fire" is a bad metaphor for sugar for anybody remotely aquinted with chemistry. Why not "gas to fire" or "hay to fire" or even.. "sugar to fire", instead?
note that sugar != blood sugar.

For example carbs include fiber, which can stabilize blood sugar. fat can also help.

I listened to the audiobook for "the glucose revolution" and it was pretty educational. glucose spikes are what you want to prevent.
You may have accidentally fallen prey to timber baron misinformation. It just isnt true that private owners "actually care for them" in some way that prevents fires. [0][1][2][3]

And even if it were true, lets pretend we give all of the forests to timber barons--then we get to 1) still fight the fires anyway, and 2) we'd end up having to bail the timber barons out after the fires. The end state is more burned forests that we now dont own, or get to use, or have any say over, yet, we still pay for it all and the billionaires walk away with everything.

At this point we know they wouldn't care for the forests any more than the forest service.

[0] https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/osu-research-suggests-fore...

> OSU research suggests Forest Service lands not the main source of wildfires affecting communities

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[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/despite-what-the-logging-...

> For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that.

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[2] https://missoulacurrent.com/study-wildfires-land/

> Study: Most destructive wildfires have started on private land

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[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06002-3

> Human ignitions on private lands drive USFS cross-boundary wildfire transmission and community impacts in the western US
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