skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly programs will either have a positive return on investment in the conventional sense (e.g. hire more tax inspectors, make more tax income),

or have an arguable, positive overall long-term return on investment hopefully, (e.g. infrastructure spending, sending smart kids to college)

or will enjoy widespread public support and provide non-monetary benefits, (e.g. public parks, libraries, maternity leave)

or will be widely accepted as a core function of government (e.g. police and military), or a morally good and virtuous act (e.g. caring for the disabled, foreign aid)

or will be the pet project of someone powerful, semi-useful, and inexpensive enough no-one cares to fight them over it (e.g. opera subsidy)

or will convince people they're one of the above regardless of the truth of the matter

or will be at risk of cancellation.
Understanding one's past is understanding one's future.
As a huge fan of Civilazation and Total War Series, the GUI definitely impressed me!
> too many graduates from certain social sciences and humanities compared to the actual need of employers / academia.

The natural employer of the social sciences grad is the government- social workers, city planners, etc. This type of government funding has been under attack at all levels of government since the 80's. We don't see any benefit to, say, sociology, because we've bought the idea that those benefits only go to those that don't 'deserve' them, and are paid for by taking what I've 'earned'.
His letter method makes so much more sense than numbers though. Higher resolution and faster to type.
That’s why he uses these assets to borrow money
'You are cleared to avoid the UFO' Pilots report unidentified lights over Oregon
This makes me sad, more than other recently seen obituaries, but I can't picture an image of him without his smile that could stretch his whole face up and back. I'll always remember him as his mirthful and investigative mind.

I think my first interaction with him best describes the influence he had on me as an educator, adviser and scientist. I hadn't met him yet, I was in his office because I noticed a few of my fellow Comp. Sci. undergrads there, just chatting as we do. I didn't even know whose office it was, at that point, now that I think about it.

In he walks with one of those wall-mounted soap dispensers that I recognized from the gym locker rooms. He sits down and starts fishing out screws from it, all while jumping right into our conversation without missing a beat. At my first chance, I ask him what he's doing, I was a little confused but my curiosity was clearly something he had an appetite for. He starts describing his investigation of which screws to replace. You see, the things kept falling down because something in the soap was causing the coating or material of the screws to disintegrate. I think I inquired about why he had to do it, or maybe the question was written on my face, because I also remember he was not obligated to, just that kind of person to see an open question as an opportunity for experiment.

Twenty-plus years later, and many many experiments of my own, I still remember this interaction. Here he was describing a very practical approach (rather than hit the books on the components in the soap and what *-oxide coatings were added or developing on the screws, just throw the experiment together -- its answer will be as good or better). He was affable and delighted to share knowledge, and he didn't exude any of the pretentiousness that you might expect from someone whose walls were covered (literally, to the ceiling) with framed copies of his patents and awards. He was still actively going to the gym even at his clearly advanced age (even 20 years ago, I think he was already emeritus, and he played racquetball at least weekly). I learned what a convolution was just from looking at what he'd done. All this and he managed to inspire without personifying it.

RIP Dr. Donald Bitzer
Sorry I can't look at your product page from work, but am I getting the correct impression that this machine doesn't have a boiler? If so, my (meant in good fun) suggestion is that you have in fact designed half an espresso machine :)
Sorry, I should have specified that I was talking about psychology and sociology. Happy to believe it was part of crit lit then.
> Is it something symbolic, like "paying respects to the Don"?

Yes, my most charitable interpretation is that they're kissing the ring because they know that if they flatter Trump enough, they can get him to push for concessions that will be of great financial benefit to them.
It's a process thing but it's not a regulatory thing.

There are no regulations governing the transition of cap table management, as generally this thing is handled by most companies internally by their Legal and/or Finance departments. It's just tech that felt the need to create software for something that can be done in Excel.
Thank you so much! I appreciate the advice about the potentially over stylized product pages. If you go to the store here, you can see many full profile views of the products:

https://velofuso.com/store

You raise a ton of good points.

- It's going to ship with a full spare parts catalogue available

- Full prusa-esque upgrade paths will be made available for existing customers

- Every single part on either product can be changed off with the removal of 1-5 screws.

- The switches, cords, buttons, and (gear)motors are all standard sizes.

- and I absolutely commit to open sourcing everything if a day came where the project could not continue (I have done this for previous projects, it isn't an empty promise)

You make a good point about the burrs being a non-standard size. The thing to remember is every size of burr was once a non standard size. One of the most important parts of being a good engineer is only making something new when you can truly add value, and I think the burrs are valuable enough to have them be probably the only non-standard wear item in either machine.
Iron lungs.
The main argument against capital punishment isn't even that mistakes are made. Capital punishment is more expensive and less effective as a deterrent for crime compared to life imprisonment.

The argument for MAID is more about terminally ill people being able to prevent excessive suffering. Also consent is a major difference between MAID and capital punishment
C99-Lambda: Purely evil preprocessor macros adding lambdas and closures (2012)
From re-reading, it sounds like your lack of experience isn't just conferences, but going to places in general.

If you want to not be in a hurry, plan to get there the day before the first day you want to be there, and leave the day after you want to be there. Trying to travel before/after the event will put you in a hurry, even though it's cheaper. You decide how much you value your money versus your sanity, especially since you're new to traveling.

Rail travel: If you're accustomed to air travel, rail travel will feel very casual. Be on the platform when the train gets there, and then get on the train. Depending on where you're coming from you might need to get off the train in a certain place and get on a different train, once or twice. You'll know this when you buy the ticket. I heard in some places there's security like airports, but it's not typical in Europe. If you paid extra for a flexible ticket, if you miss one train you can take the next one (depends on the company and the kind of ticket).

Getting to the venue: if you're good at walking you can walk all the way around Brussels. I did. You can also take the trams in places the trams go. You tap your credit/debit card on a reader when getting on the tram. I'm not sure if you're supposed to tap again when you get off, and no one else from FOSDEM could explain it either (someone please share this info) - but the maximum payment is only about 10 euros each day so it's not a disaster.

Hotels: go on a platform like booking.com and book one in advance. There might be better ways to get hotels but stay with what's easy and works. Remember that cheap rooms are cheap for a reason - check the reviews (but they aren't outright scams and you do get what you paid for). The sooner you make your booking, usually the cheaper it is.

Food: plenty of restaurants and takeout places around, like in most cities. There's also plenty of food at FOSDEM. You can also bring snacks with you on the train - even liquids over 100mL :)

Language: you didn't mention it, but the official languages of Belgium are French and Dutch. All signposts are in French and Dutch. I guarantee that everyone at FOSDEM speaks English, and so do a lot of people outside of FOSDEM. Brussels is the capital of the EU, so lots of people from different countries visit, and English is widely spoken as a second or third language in Europe. And if someone like a food seller doesn't speak English, they should be very used to people coming in to get food without speaking to them. So basically, don't expect major problems.

Meeting people: FOSDEM is busy. Go say hi to someone who looks idle. Go listen to conversations and say hi if someone is talking about something interesting. Go say hi to someone based on the FOSS project logo on their T-shirt. Go say hi to people running project stands, when they're not busy. Go to Bytenight, the mid-FOSDEM party at HSBXL (Hackerspace Brussels) no matter how scary it seems. Most people at conferences are open to interaction with people or they probably wouldn't be at conferences (at least not the ones you don't get paid to attend!).
Sci-Hub is now available as meme coin
Sci-Hub now officially supporting a meme coin to support donations
auto insurance definitely isn't a scam. it's not to protect the policyholder, it's to protect the people who the policyholder might run over.
Evolution's Design Pattern
Wasting his money on luxuries would be preferable to destroying Twitter and funding Trump's reelection.
> Use emoji only judiciously, if at all. Similar with gratuitous non-ASCII characters.

This deserves to be highlighted more. Nowadays some authors keep assuming users use a patched font and build their tools with that in mind, thus hampering ease of use significantly.
I enjoy coffee and espresso, I don't enjoy the ritual of making it. I don't want to have to stand and focus on getting my pressure correct on the leaver in the morning when I'm half awake. I want to dump premeasured beans into a grinder, then dump them into a machine and press a single button. I realize this machine would require more work then just that but it's still less then a leaver machine.
There aren't regulations on this.

Cap tables at most companies (including nearly all publicly traded companies) are handled internally by the Legal department or Finance department. While they may or may not use software more advanced than Excel to manage the cap table, they generally don't put all of their eggs in one basket and rely on a third-party SaaS to do this critical work for them.
Very interesting contrasting visions between IBM's hierarchical approach and Englebart's Mother of All Demos. The IBM vision isn't really even computing based. it's obvious from the video which shows an on-demand point-to-point analog video link between a senior executive's office and a central reference library. The video is only from the library to the executive but the audio is bi-directional allowing the researcher to receive requests, assemble materials which could include documents placed on a video camera stand, transparencies, microfilm or the display output of a video terminal and then display them on the video feed using a video source switch box. It's really more a demo of a dedicated corporate video calling system.

> Dunlop’s 1968 video demonstration of the Executive Terminal and the Information Center proceeds in three acts.

The article doesn't make this clear but the linked videos are not a video demonstration but instead unedited B-roll shots without audio probably captured to be cut-aways edited into a narrated video demonstration. Unfortunately, that video demonstration isn't part of this collection (or was never created).
I totally agree, but it is reflective of a shift in how cultural products are designed and selected that is in my view the more interesting story here.

When selection is personal, you have a smaller set of choices and will respond to how things feel. If you're walking down a street looking at 3 restaurants, a surprising element in one might speak to you in a way you can't even explain. On the other hand, if you're just browsing in maps, you'll be going by ratings that reward a more generic notion of quality. That type of selection is algorithmic rather than personal.

More parts of our lives have been algorithmized than even before, and we generally like this because selecting things is hard. But algorithmization can drive us toward local maxima, where the pleasantness of familiarity draws us away from selecting or creating something truly personal. Of course, it can also draw people into arcane and corrupt niches like conspiracy theories.

The algorithmizations of physical spaces and social connections are probably the newest and most distressing. These realms used to be almost entirely localized; the idea you'd pick your friends or spouse by algorithm used to be rare and is now dominant. But personal relationships are incredibly nuanced and the algorithms are inadequate to the diversity of human desires. Yet they're shaping our desires in a way that is preventing many people from finding their happiness.
No, it's definitely true. A conventional OS CSPRNG can be effectively modeled as a stream cipher, where the key is a hash of observed entropy. As you encrypt more bytes with a stream cipher, you don't "deplete key". Real CSPRNGs are more complex than this, but that complexity is there to improve things from the baseline of "hash some interrupts and key ChaCha20 with it"; the argument gets weaker on real CSPRNGs, not stronger.

The parent comment is correct: entropy depletion is a weird meme. Unfortunately, Linux encoded that meme into its legacy KRNG ("/dev/random"), so lots of people believe it to be real. It is not, and modern userland programs don't use "/dev/random" anyways.
Why do you say "still supporting HTTP"? AFAICT this is just a site builder, but doesn't enforce how the site is deployed.

It includes "builtins" for accessing other resources (i.e., as a client) using HTTP, but I hope it should be obvious why that is a necessity.
Hahahaha, that is fair, but I like to think it is the important half =]

We figured out how to heat water thousands of years ago. Flow control is considerably newer
The 90% schedule is not a bad idea, but you need to look at it via metrics - what percentage are you actually meeting that schedule? If you are not doing so 9 out of 10 times, you are at a 20% schedule or a 10% schedule.
That's pretty cool.

- What did you use to prototype your project? What software and what companies offered prototyping services for your project?

- Was it hard to get the whole machine made? How is the market for small scale manufacturing?

I'm asking because I have some designs, that I never materialized - because there were no companies that would mill a one off item.
"Have some fun with it"... For most bands, each album they put out is a year's worth of effort and a year of income. You don't want to get de-listed from the charts because it looks like you're gaming the system. If your album charts, it's guaranteed radio and playlist placements, leading to more exposure.

Most bands are funded similar to VC.. there's an investment, then payoff then profit. If you don't payoff the investment because you "had fun with it", your band will be dropped and you are searching for a label while working your day job.
Async closures in Rust have been stabilized
this is really cool, congratulations on the launch!

i'm definitely in your target market - my daily drivers are an 83mm flat burr grinder and a manual lever machine. don't get me wrong, i love them both, but i'm intrigued both by your grinder and espresso machine and i am strongly considering pre-ordering both.

here's my little laundry list of unanswered questions:

1. workflow/usage video! i know it's come up but i definitely am keen to see the grinder and espresso machine both in use.

2. particle size distribution for the grinder would be really cool. i know that distribution isn't everything, but this is a whole new style of burr and people (myself included) are going to be (or already are) very curious about how they compare to existing conical and flat burrsets. also, any word about retention?

3. can the trefolo do pressure profiling? if so, is that profiling based on pre-set shot profiles, or is it live profiling via the knob input, or both?

4. is the group electrically heated, or does all of the preheat temperature come from the hot water? especially for very light roast espresso, i've found that it's just impossible to brew at 96-98°C without electric heating, and there are some shots that i've only been able to get balanced up at those temperatures (they were just pulling way too acidic even at 94).

5. does velofuso have any social media accounts we could follow? where should i be keeping my eyes out for videos, project updates, etc?
The Burmese Python problem: 20ft predators are wreaking havoc on the Everglades
Ah, I think I misread the intent of what you wrote—apologies!
Or maybe he just likes the attention, and he likes "winning," as measured by the size of his wealth.

I can think of a prominent politician with the same qualities.
Sorry, but you do not *want to "basically memorize every word that uses the high scoring tiles." Rather, you want to study the low-scoring tile-filled words because those are more likely to be found on one's rack.

A key to high-scoring games is scoring "bingos" or using all 7 letters in a rack in a single turn as it gives a 50 point bonus. This is why we're taught to memorize the word lists that have such letters as TISANE in them as that string combines with most every other letter to make a bingo. The letters in TISANE are 1 point each.

You also don't want to leave vowels (all of which are worth 1 point each) adjacent to the bonus squares. A parallel play with an I under/to the right of a triple-letter-square can easily score 62 if one puts a Q on the triple and another I to make QI both ways.
>I think a correction is warranted, but I hate to see it happen as part of a charged ideological / political process.

didn't the changes that you would like corrected happen as part of a charged ideological / political process?
Real-Time Observability with Apache Pinot for Failures
Do you have another method in mind that is epistemically sound other than the scientific method?
I had the same problem, but it turned out to be a missing dependency: my webkit2gtk was 4.0 instead of 4.1. Another one, to my surprise, was xdotool.

Why does a Linux webview app built with Dioxus require it? I'm asking, because software inserting simulated HID inputs to arbitrary windows is not exactly my cup of tea. ;) And xdotool doesn't work on Wayland anyway, by design. Apparently there are similar programs for Wayland, but AFAIK they require the user to belong to the input group, which in turn gives any app run by such user access to /dev/uinput - a security risk.

In general, though, Dioxus looks interesting and I wish you all the best in your endeavour!
I have had a Flair for a few years now and the time is an important aspect. I used to use a Jura and the whole 1-button thing led to me drinking way too much coffee as I also had it mounted next to my desk. The workflow is a meditation and at the end the reward is a (usually) perfect pair of espresso shots.
There are actually no renderings on the website except for that one cross-section of the grinder, the internals are rendered there.

But absolutely, going to add more "banana for scale" photos asap
Switzerland definitely shows interesting political paths, they nonetheless don’t pretend to be a direct democracy.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democracy/swiss-democracy-in-an...
https://archive.is/puxle
Re website, The photography is also noticeably low-resolution, which stands out immediately
C tries to be everything to everyone. It has to be able to target every architecture, within certain limits. It took them a long time to standardize on two's-complement signed integers - they could only do that after the whole industry had migrated to two's-complement signed integers as they are the technically best way to represent signed integers.

The x86 is the weird architecture that tried to keep existing programs working when they moved to multicore. Most other architectures implemented whatever is easier to implement in hardware, and compilers have to target that. And the compiler can't simulate a strong memory model on top of a weak one, because that means lots of overhead for every memory operation and that's not what C does.
It is for the same reason why “Medicare Advantage” plans exist. These plans are operated by private companies using tactics to deny health coverage.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-medicare-advantage-scams-senior...
> you bring the hot water

What type of hot water supply is needed?

E.g.

- Hot water poured in from a kettle?

- Hot water plumbed in from a domestic hot-water supply?

- Hot water plumbed in from a boiling water tap (such as Quooker?)
They are all real! But I definitely need to have more photos in actual environments.
"fiscal responsibility" and railing about public money are usually just ruses used by people pushing a political agenda.

I've had countless discussions with people who want to spend billions on sports stadiums and the military but then scream endlessly about "big government" when it comes to the arts and education.

They'll bail out wall street at the drop of a hat and then shrug with big eyes, "where's the money going to come from" when someone brings up say, having an anthropology department at UCLA.

It's an obvious bullshit game of a political project masquerading as virtue that you'd have to be a toddler to fall for. I don't care.
> government said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million Marsden Fund, the nation’s sole funding source for fundamental science, to “research with economic benefits.” Moreover, the fund would no longer support any social sciences and humanities research

It does seem misguided to assume that no research in the social sciences or humanities can drive economic benefits. Aside from economics which can obviously drive insights and recommendations of economic value, psychology includes e.g. industrial-organizational psychology (which can help teams and organizations be effective today), developmental psychology/educational psychology (which should inform education policy), etc. While I can understand a desire to ensure funding is targeted at readily applicable areas, this seems like it cuts off potentially valuable opportunities.
MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
Want to try turning my comment more constructive (though my frustations with what passes for customer service/relations these days will bleed through)

I see that the OP has already stated they will upload some videos. That would be great; many angles, both in use and not in use, both overview and zoomed in on components.

I am not most people, but I would prefer the kind of videos without excessive (though not to say "devoid of") pre-/post-processing, editing, green-screening, video cuts every three seconds, and all that shebang. Even your teenaged child or friend/significant other conscripted for twenty minutes to hold the phone with a steady hand while you show things off, minimally rehearsed and to-the-point... would be _fantastic_.

Don't even need to publish it on the official website if you deem it too tacky; but it will be infinitely more valuable to have on the ready than no demonstration at all if people are reaching out to you through channels like HN or even any address listed on the website. IMO.
Agreed. I wrote my own LLM abstraction library in a few hundred lines of code: https://github.com/knowsuchagency/promptic