skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do [UK] people not weigh themselves in stones and pounds?

Older people, usually yes.

Younger people, more often that not, not. Even at 48 I use Kg for my own weight, but those only a half a decade older more routinely use stone/measurements.

Though there is a sizable range of people who use one unit system by default but have a reasonable intuition of the other.

Unlike some things, there are no legal mandates dictating which set of measures to use for this.

Another difference in weight scales: we don't tend to work with just pounds when we use imperial measurements. When a US TV show gives a weight as, for example, “172 pounds”, many will need to do a little mental arithmetic (this may be subconsciously, not actively calculating but the process delaying understanding) to convert to X stone & Y pounds rather than naturally having an intuition of the weight from the single number.
Ask HN: How to improve your presentation skills
I'm an IT technician, system administrator, and sometimes developer. I regularly have to inform my colleagues or direct managers about various technical topics, such as problem descriptions or proposed solutions. These discussions usually involve relatively small groups, but I'm still not comfortable doing it.

Does anyone have any resources or tips to help alleviate this problem?
> Arguing the difference between a turd sandwich and a shit sandwich

It's arguing a rubber duck from a battleship. Emergency powers != martial law. Martial law in America would mean suspending the Constitution.

Calling anything that happened in America during lockdown martial law is the equivalent of Karen calling bad service at a restaurant an assault on her rights. It's misunderstanding a term but wanting to use it because it's edgy.
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I don't get your point. Sure, the git log isnt the "cathedral", but also being able to change things quickly doesn't imply or necessitate this.
probably Russia or China (though they might be more than virtual)
More likely Iran tbh
What smart person thinks it won't?
Full text of South Korea's martial law decree:

> In order to protect liberal democracy from the threat of overthrowing the regime of the Republic of Korea by anti-state forces active within the Republic of Korea and to protect the safety of the people, the following is hereby declared throughout the Republic of Korea as of 23:00 on December 3, 2024:

> 1. All political activities, including the activities of the National Assembly, local councils, and political parties, political associations, rallies and demonstrations, are prohibited.

> 2. All acts that deny or attempt to overthrow the liberal democratic system are prohibited, and fake news, public opinion manipulation, and false propaganda are prohibited.

> 3. All media and publications are subject to the control of the Martial Law Command.

> 4. Strikes, work stoppages and rallies that incite social chaos are prohibited.

> 5. All medical personnel, including trainee doctors, who are on strike or have left the medical field must return to their jobs within 48 hours and work faithfully. Those who violate will be punished in accordance with the Martial Law.

> 6. Innocent ordinary citizens, excluding anti-state forces and other subversive forces, will be subject to measures to minimize inconvenience in their daily lives.

> Violators of the above proclamation may be arrested, detained, and searched without a warrant in accordance with Article 9 of the Martial Law Act of the Republic of Korea (Special Measures Authority of the Martial Law Commander), and will be punished in accordance with Article 14 of the Martial Law Act (Penalties).

> Martial Law Commander, Army General Park An-su, Tuesday, December 3, 2024.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/full-text-south-k...

so, the Assembly meeting to even discuss this is explicitly banned.
> Related to this, the IsA trait allows typesafe compile-time checked casts.
Unlike in C code, casting to a superclass can be written in such a way
that the compiler will complain if the destination type is not a
superclass, and with zero runtime cost.

This is unfair to C. With a little work when defining all classes (or non-leaf classes if you're willing for a hairier implementation), you can do this there too.

There are probably other ways, but the way that seems most "obvious" to me is to define the base via union of all bases in the chain, rather than only the immediate base class. So:

/*
class Foo {int f;};
class Bar extends Foo {int b;};
class Qux extends Bar {int q;};
class Leaf extends Qux {int l;};
*/
struct Foo { int f; };
struct Bar { union { struct Foo base, base_Foo}; int b; };
struct Qux { union { struct Bar base, base_Bar; struct Foo base_Foo; }; int q; };
struct Leaf { struct Qux base; int l; }

Then your "compile-time-safe-cast to base class" macro just checks 3 things in order:

1. check if we're already the right class.
2. check if `base` is the right class.
3. unconditionally try to use the appropriately-named `base_Foo` member as calculated from the type.

(runtime-safe-checked downcasts just have to check that the reverse is possible)
Really interesting! I’ve been working on an idea for a dual-purpose compiler/decompiler and this is really useful for understanding the kinds of things it might need to be used for.
I wonder how well experts in poetry would do? It seems like a strange area to use non-expert humans for evaluation because these days most people reading any poetry are at least enthusiasts.
Does that mean the precautionary kind doesn't give the government any extra power?
Diffusion Meets Flow Matching: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Well, stopped clocks...

We'll see if it actually happens. People love to complain about government "waste", but it turns out to be remarkably hard to actually find any.

The government has a vested interest in keeping its aerospace firms afloat. We've never needed to go to the moon, certainly not again. We do it because we want to keep that industry going.

The SLS is probably the wrong way to do that. But just zeroing out its budget would create a lot of chaos in that industry. A lot would be lost in the process. The businesses who lose out would surely deserve that, but the workers (both for them and for the many, many side-industries and suppliers) do not.

We do, at least, have a commercial alternative now. But it's just one. And to be blunt, having the owner of that commercial alternative be a key adviser to the President smacks of corruption rather than serious consideration of the tradeoffs.
Do you think that "low approval" and "scandals involving his wife" are completely irrelevant here? Should those be omitted from an article like this because he is on the conservative side of the spectrum?
PydanticAI
Yep.

https://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_comman...
I’m happy with Jetbrains conflict resolution, but the I’ve never tried SmartGit for comparison.

It would take a lot for me to move because I already pay for Jetbrains IDE.
The visa is (a) not permanent and (b) only valid for the UK, which was never in Schengen; if you are a non-EU national you need to get a visa for each European country you plan to visit, separately, according to their rules.
>Japan whispering in his ear and pulling the puppet strings

I'm curious if you have some sources for this? I'm not that familiar with SK politics and I'm obviously biased since almost all info about SK I either get from English/Japanese sources.

Afaik he was pretty dovish towards Japan during his election, which goes against the decades long tradition of tit-for-tat during election between SK&Japan since "looking tough to the neighbor" win votes. I wasn't aware of any "Japan whispering in his ear" level embezzlement. He seems just more pro US, closer ties with Japan rather than "balance things between China/US-JP"
> It's probably along the same line as how vinyl records supposedly sound better.

I'm not an audiophile, but that's actually probably objectively true, but for non-obvious reasons that are not clear if you're just looking at technical specs. Digital music can sound better, but opens up the technical possibility of prioritizing other things, which are in fact prioritized.

IIRC, it was the "loudness war." Digital audio capable of a much wider dynamic range than vinyl, but the record companies choose to throw most of that away in order to make the music sound "louder." Technical limitations of vinyl prevent those shenanigans (I believe the grooves would be too wide or something), which forces the music to be mastered in a better way than sounds better.
No, I and everyone else was still able to leave our homes. We were free to assemble in large numbers outside. I (and many others) exercised free assembly rights to protest the murder of George Floyd, for example (not the riots... ironically the one example of somethimg resembling martial law being imposed, albeit belatedly and with great reluctance).

There was no curfew, particularly no curfew enforced by the military with threat of violence... ah, except during actual riots in a few cities.

Businesses were forced to close alongside many non-essential government services.

Nobody was jailed, not even in their own homes.

Enforcement was through ordinary civil means, not by actual soldiers pointing guns at you, unaccountable to civilian law.
200+ comments 6 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260027
IDK why you are grey right now because his statements reported by CNN are basically a purging of the opposition party.

The entire reason he declared martial law was to eliminate the opposition.
i’m hoping the price comes down. i’m a premium kagi user, but I think it would be interesting to get my results via api
Alcoholics anonymous?
Clive James is wrong. The Italian is very straightforward, and the traditional translation is right.
> Who are these people you keep referring to?

Just the various takes i've read in newspapers about why people are fed up and desire change.

> Martial law in America would mean suspending the Constitution.

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

The SC has ruled that 'Congress' means the government writ large, including state governments.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-26/pastor...

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/06/964822479/supreme-court-rules...

Oops... guess that one was suspended! If you have to appeal to SCOTUS to un-suspend it, it's safe to say that it was suspended.
These students are paying the UK, not the other way round. Without them the taxpayer would have to pay more for UK student fees.

On the other hand, nobody anti-immigration ever cares about facts or how the system actually works.
Silkworm eggs, not seed. Got my refunds. No clue. Domestic, wasn't shipped from overseas or anything, and if it was customs they usually send something saying that they're confiscating the shipment (or so I'm led to believe, I don't often try to smuggle anything). It was a bit weird. They were pretty good about delivering the empty ripped envelopes though.
And one could argue that it's counterproductive to ban symbols that have been co-opted by hate groups regardless of context, because doing so legitimizes their use as hate symbols, and by proxy legitimizes the hate groups that use them.
I get what you mean. A lot of Reddit traffic can be more about curiosity than actual conversions. It’s tough to figure out where the real value is without solid data.
practically any person in the West, never mind just America, can name at least 2 Trump policies. is that true for Kamala? was it for Biden? the Democrats' platform is essentially "we're the good guys, don't vote for the bad man", plus some boring, centre-right drivel that may well help people, but excites precisely no one.

the Democrats need big, memorable ideas that will get people excited, and to supplement that with practical economic policy and abortion protections. they need to quit being pragmatic with their goals. Trump shoots for the stars. he isn't restricted by logic or realism. people like those policies, remember them, and it gives him a strong negotiating position.
You guys are the best example of a ghost job... and you are shamelessly posting every month too....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_job

https://images.app.goo.gl/zFMba68BzDgYMvfQ7
I think that immortality would be a disaster, personally. That we die is a critically important aspect of life. I'd prefer that we work on ways to make the death process less traumatic.
McDonald's hamburgers are rated favorably too.
You’re just shifting goalposts. First it’s martial law, then it gets disproven and the response is „ok, but still bad!“. Why not make a correct claim in the first place?
The headline is misleading. The actual text says:

> Notably, participants were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems

There is clearly a significant difference between AI generated poems and human generated poems.

A random group of people probably do not read poetry. It would be be interesting to see what people who do read poetry regularly do on this. Also, which they rate as good, rather than just "human authored".

I find with both the little AI generated poetry, and the AI generated paintings that show up in my FB feed, both look a bit rubbish. FB is pretty good for experiencing this because the work (usually an image) shows before the cues that it is AI generated in the text and comments.
On what basis would that form of explosion actually happen? In my understanding of the history of art, what often happens when something "slumbers in anonymity then explodes" it is quite popular in a subculture but then eventually gets mainstreamed when the mainstream culture comes around and people start to explore that subculture. In other words, it is a commercially successful product from day one.
Even for geostationary you still need to gain a ton of horizontal velocity, more than LEO. You are staying over the same spot on the earth, but the earth is rotating and you need to match that same angular velocity. Being at a higher altitude you need a faster linear velocity to match that angular velocity, since you have a larger circle to travel in the same amount of time.
Because the world has never been a more peaceful place than when the US was a major dominant superpower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
A while ago I bought a coffee machine and the gadgets that go along with it. I managed to learn how to extract coffee evenly and all that stuff, but the final product was never tasty. It always tasted like hot puke. Then I realized I liked robusta, which is used for a proper Turkish (or Bosnian or Serbian) coffee that I grew up with.
this topic is large and easily misunderstood. No absolute statement covers all. therefore all absolute statements are untrue. People originated as tribal groups, most of them fought violently over territory at times. Meanwhile "religion" is always present, but in varied forms. The stratification and codification of "religion" and The State occurred in different ways in different cultures, but it is certainly a compromise between active violence and active spiritual traditions, in a society. You can say "people who claim to be ReligionX used violence" and it means more than one thing.
My point is that I don't understand where the driving force for desiring to change it at all is coming from.
> various takes i've read in newspapers about why people are fed up and desire change

They made less money. I'm looking forward to the next two years: I and everyone in my friend circle are going to make a lot of money. Even if we do nothing.

> if you have to appeal to SCOTUS to un-suspend it, it's safe to say that it was suspended

You're using a judiciary striking down an unconstitutional law as an example of martial law? Maybe start with the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law.

Here's a hint: if you can appeal to any court, you're not under martial law.
As a thought experiment:

- Is it possible that you are mistaken about some -- any -- moral issue which is almost universally held by the culture at large?

- If so, would it be reasonable to conclude from this that you're wicked and stupid?

You agree that the answers are "yes" and "no" respectively, right?
Old stuff is harder to use and you have to put in more effort to get good results out of it, so the act of creation using old tech feels more meaningful
The message in the book seems to be that Sun failed out of weakness and it could happen to fb as well if they don’t eat the world.
I cannot find where now, but pretty sure I read recently somewhere that they are working in a kind of anonymous token that can be used to not link the searches with one's account. But I cannot seem to find details, but it would be indeed cool if that happened and it would make some things much easier.
Russians, highly likely ))
Because a world with one hegemon is much more stable that a world with multiple ones.
Maybe, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It's more about how much data needs to be fetched and how many calls have to be made to fetch it. With Maigt, it sometimes feel like a select-in-loop anti-pattern. I.e. Git only exposes information in certain slices from its database. It's hard to run free-form queries on it. Often, Magit wants to display something that cannot be phrased as a single query, so it needs to do multiple. These queries also cannot be made concurrently, or even if they could be, the concurrency overhead would've been too much.

So, using the library will remove the overhead of exec() and friends, and will definitely make the situation better, but the ultimate solution is either for Git to be more like SQL database, or for Magit to extract information directly from the Git database, rather than go through the API (but the choice of Emacs Lisp for this functionality would be highly questionable).
I'd be happy to try it but making an account is a turn-off. Could you use something like Firebase anonymous auth to keep track of people without that?
More importantly, what do the AIs think?
At least this one is on the way out. Ours is on the way in. :(
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Canadians mostly use imperial when describing one's height and weight. Folks also tend to bake using imperial measures in my experience, and idk if it's different for large projects, but home demos are very much the domain of imperial standard objects (like a 4' x 8' panel of drywall or a 2" x 4" x 8' beam)
De Gaulle was called by the president of the 4th republic to counter the military insurgents. De Gaulle had sufficient charisma and status to calm down the military.

When the military woke up again in 62 in Algiers, De Gaulle crushed them.

You got it reversed.
This happens a lot and it's really weird. Google had a Gemini stand at Supercomputing, the best thing they could figure out to demo their vision abilities was to have you male lego robots and have the AI judge them.

Like, why is that fun? Would it be fun if the judge was a human? And is that all AI can contribute, arbitrary value judgements that we'll find humorous?
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Sorry for the slight tangent, but I noticed the "conict" typo in your quote. Selecting article 77 in the pdf you linked to selects everything but the "fl" in "conflict". How odd.
Greenlight has not been a thing for 7 years or so, you can just pay a fee and publish your game.
The president is the executive alongside the ministers. The opposition is the other parties that have an opposite view on things.
Every domain where the judgment comes from the 99%, sure. The 99% is uncultivated.
I'm middle aged and looking for a new hobby, and for this reason alone I might take up singing, to be able to play by ear much more easily on my instrument (iso by trial and error, I get there eventually but it's not effortless).

I'm held back by a sense of embarrassment when singing. I feel weird singing by myself (always have), let alone with others around. I don't have this same embarrassment making mistakes when playing an instrument. Any tips on how to help with that?
You're in luck! git history is already built on top of as filesystem
You mean like SpaceX, which is a well-resourced and determined civilian team?
Martial law is the imposition of punishments without due process. In no world can one argue that being under the equivalent of house arrest is not a punishment. To impose that punishment carte-blanche on anyone who's traveled domestically is a form of martial law.
If you correct for the replacement rate being 2.1, it's actually even worse than this... closer to 5 people.
It was great back in the day, and amazing to think that we could literally turn the data document itself into a complete web page without any intervening JavaScript. As much as I loved XML, the terseness of JSON won and I can't imagine going back. JS itself is also terse and allows accessing data elements through dot notation rather than slashes, so we can achieve all the same effects as XSLT -- but we give up its declarative nature. [sigh]
VIM S2
Bending Spoons has a history of ruining good companies and products (a history noted even here on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968476).
You forgot be smug and entitled. He does that a lot.
> It's quite strange. It's still consumerism - primarily about ownership display, not use - but trying to pretend it isn't.

Reality is strange. Like how Apple owners somehow think they own a product that expresses individualism and artistic freedom where it really is a mass-produced product that looks the same as everybody else's, and more so than any other brand with less choice, while almost every aspect of customization is heavily controlled by the company ...
It wasn't even true then. The COVID lockdowns were child's play compared to the abuses of freedom in the US's past, and they're a mere suggestion compared to the lockdowns in other places around the world.

Anyone who thinks the government asking you sternly to "please stay inside" is an abuse of power must have fallen asleep in American history class. Or have never talked to their grandparents about politics in the past. There are still people alive in the US who were imprisoned due to their ethnicity.
> Martial law is the imposition of punishments without due process

No it's not.

> being under the equivalent of house arrest is not a punishment

Where were you? I was in New York City and travelled to Tennesse and California and London and Frankfurt in 2020. I went running every other day.
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Congrats on the launch and slick website! Not sure what has gotten everyone's undies in a knot this morning but keep up the passion for creating things. I wish I continued to build things but I feel like the older one gets the more doubt that sets in. Let's all strive to have constructive feedback and work on our passions!