skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well after reading this thread I will remember 2:1 forever...

Really is is just a measurement of how often you encounter facts. What you encounter often you cache and remember. Trivia you never use you don't.

As a 41 year old Norwegian, I have not encountered pounds often enough in my life to remember this fact.

It's not like I have ever used Google to convert either. It just isn't relevant. It is like..what is the currency of Malaysia? I really have no clue. Pounds is just something I almost never encounter.

Closest real use for pounds I can remember having I think was in "pound per square inch" pressure vs Newtons; but in that conversion there is so much else.

(Yes, before this thread I did have a vague sense. I would have said a pound was more than 200g and less than 800g I think.)
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Furthermore, once it’s published in even the shoddiest journal that “research” gets cited by politicians/orgs with an agenda as if it was a Nature-worthy large-scale longitudinal cohort study of millions.
I've been (very slowly) working on this for a 4-bit CPU. Not for any practical reason, just for fun.
Previously, McKinsey fined $122M for bribery in South Africa [1]; they had earned approx $85MM during 2012 - 2016, due to their bribes

QUOTE:

McKinsey and Company Africa (Pty) Ltd (McKinsey Africa), which operates in South Africa as a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of international consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc. (McKinsey), will pay over $122 million to resolve an investigation by the Justice Department into a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in South Africa between 2012 and 2016. The guilty plea of a former McKinsey senior partner who participated in the bribery scheme was also unsealed. The Justice Department’s resolution is coordinated with prosecutorial authorities in South Africa.

McKinsey Africa entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the department in connection with a criminal information filed in the Southern District of New York charging the company with one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Vikas Sagar, a former senior partner of McKinsey who worked in McKinsey Africa’s South Africa office, previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA.

According to court documents and admissions, McKinsey Africa, acting through a senior partner and for the benefit of McKinsey, agreed to pay bribes to then-officials at Transnet SOC Ltd. (Transnet), South Africa’s state-owned and state-controlled custodian of ports, rails, and pipelines, and at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. (Eskom), South Africa’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company. Between at least 2012 and 2016, McKinsey Africa obtained sensitive confidential and non-public information from Transnet and Eskom regarding the award of lucrative consulting contracts and submitted proposals for multimillion-dollar consulting engagements, while knowing that South African consulting firms with which McKinsey Africa had partnered would pay a portion of their fees as bribes to officials at Transnet and Eskom. As a result of the bribery scheme, McKinsey and McKinsey Africa earned profits of approximately $85,000,000.

/QUOTE

Whatever reputation McK had as the "good guys" and premier advisor to the CXO suite was shattered a long, long time ago...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mckinsey-company-africa-pay-o...
Congrats! cool project and great write up as well
There are packages for those things in npm, but they you'll have to start using javascript...

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@samuelmarina/is-even

The javascript crowd. They are always one step ahead!
My last experience with IVR and REXX was setting up a system in the mid-2000s to do identity verification for loan applicants. I can't remember the name of the software. It ran on Windows server and wasn't an IBM product.

I also used REXX on OS/2 systems including doing some development using Watcom VX-REXX which you can basically think of as Visual Basic but with REXX. I released a GUI FTP program I developed with it to the OS/2 BBS but last I looked couldn't find it in the OS/2 BBS archives.
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I thought YouTube doesn’t really pay much anymore unless you have millions of subscribers watching 45 minute videos.
English grammar also has features for expressing uncertainty, unreality, hypothetical, wishes, demands with uncertain outcomes etc. by use of the subjunctive mood.

"If I were a bird, I would be able to fly." (were, not was)
"God bless you." (bless, not blesses)
"The teacher demands that students be on time." (be, not are)

Though many native speakers, even very intelligent ones, fail to properly use subjective mood at a high rate. Or otherwise do not recognize it. As some of the other comments note, there are some interesting differences around what a languages grammar will strictly enforce, where as in English, proper use of the subjunctive mood is less strict. Obviously, this is also far less expressiveness in English around this in grammar than there is in other languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_mood
> Musk isn't hiding his intentions. He's blasting them. He wants to make humans an interplanetary species.

What people say about what and why they do things and why they actually do them are rarely correlated.
My bad ! Should not have said that. Apologies to op, i am human
I think an option to 3d print a ring of dots that could be stuck to the outer adjustment dial would work, you could add a stick on dot to the inner dial and line things up that way.
i can only find two rules: treat the developer and his time with respect, and say hello before filing a bug[*]. the rest are statements to tell everyone what they can expect, nothing that they actively need to do.

[*] i disagree with "Bugs are a lousy way to say hello". though i think i know where the developer comes from, but if i am going to make a contribution, i'll just do that, and maybe start the contribution with a short introduction, but i am not going to say hello until i actually have something to contribute. i agree with everything else though, and expecially with all the things i should expect if i contribute something.

One page is meant to draw users in, the other to fend them off

i'd say it's meant to draw in friendly users and fend off the unfriendly ones. if you have participated in other projects you should understand why some developers feel that this is necessary.
How many of those dvds are too scratched though? That would be like half of the blockbuster dvds we’d get. Even tried playing a dvd again at my folks and hit an unskippable scratch I couldn’t even see on the disc.
> What does the Intel Management Engine do?

It runs Minix, as I recall...
https://www.aamc.org/news/press-releases/aamc-report-reinfor...

TLDR
1. Society is getting older demographically.

2. Physicians are getting older demographically and have stopped working.

3. Many rural areas and minorities are already underserved.
In the Golden State Killer's confession, he explained how a force would enter him and make him commit his brutally horrific crimes.

He said that he later got stronger and was able to keep it out. (IIRC)

The best help one can get requires that we pray to God with all our heart to guide us to the help we need. It requires clairity and humility and an honest seeking that will result in our finding the path that both makes us happier and reduces the unhappiness we cause others.

Such negative forces in the universe actively work in opposition to all happiness, both ours and those around us, but we are completely free to remain ignorant of their existence and Wisdom's teachings about human nature and our role as the moral agents of this world, with the requisite abilities and responsibilities it entails.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi

Look at Gukesh's face, his happiness and success, and know there is a direct correlation. This is because our life is a series of causes whose effects result according to a logic beyond what is currently accepted as present.

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is to convince the world he didn't exist." --from The Usual Suspects

Its effects on our minds (reasons, faulty data, and ill-logic) and hearts (selfish desires, ideals, attitudes, and behaviors) are the reason so much of the world is filled with misery, strife, and oppression. We must rise above our animal selfishness and will to competition, and embrace humanity and humanitarianism. In other words, we must resist our common enemy, who works on all our beings, and it has obviously been very successful.

Note that most people can't be occupied like the GSK was, although he probably didn't care for a long while thus refusing to fight it. The vast majority of us just have to contend with its suggested thoughts and feelings. It is almost always (IIUC) within our capability to resist sefishly ignorant possibilities. Note that we are all presented with suicide; it's part of its m.o., and we all must contend with that common tactic.

We love you. May peace be with us all as the selfish do their worst. The more of us that choose compassion, the sooner and more quickly this world will improve.
You shouldn't feel silly. The animosity towards Freud is completely understandable, and I think, pernicious. What people want to challenge is not Freud's crankery, but the destabilizing and widely accepted idea of a human subconscious. I see it most common in a certain kind of "rationalist" that doesn't want rational methods to extend to analyzing their own behavior.
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That’s not at all the same thing.
It will be funded, it will always be funded, just not in public education. Its impossible to root out critical consciousness entirely because that is a condition of possibility of capitalism. But like usual, it might stay in the halls of the wealthiest private institutions instead, where it will not be useful. The crisis will result in radical movement either way, even if its unsuccessful. Imagine 10,000 Luigi Mangiones working together; there are other places this knowledge is disseminated.
There's this: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
GP is using "PRNG" to mean "the subset of PRNGs that are not CSPRNGs."
The secret to living to 110? Bad record-keeping
Wow, I never considered a Ghostbusters theme. I'll keep that in mind for next year.
Unnecessary complexity can decrease the shelf life and lifetime of a piece of software.

Best to keep it simple to let any complex needs arrive on their own, instead of prematurely complicating things.
In Go you can do errorf("%w: %s", err, path) so that you get "file not found: foo/bar.json", while still being able to match on the wrapped error value with errors.Is(). The caller can do the same with this error and so on up the stack
Fine, ECC doesn't care much about primes, and is asymmetric.
I am a traditional Catholic, and I can say that for us, such stories are not mere fairy tales. The spiritual world is something entirely normal for a Catholic. We are convinced that demonic possessions do happen (at the invitation of the person themselves), although many cases are simply mental illnesses. Traditional Catholics, however, should not be particularly interested in this, let alone listen to any messages from the devil. One does not negotiate with the devil :-)
Any more details you could share? Is this a physical cpu design, or a VM/assembler?
You can always find a case where you are stressing the very thing that people are using in a micro-benchmark; like, no one is claiming that table unwinding is the correct choice for every single function!

But, the other extreme you get is saying all error handling should be done with checks and branches, and the idea is that this slows down the code which isn't throwing lots of exceptions so much that, for average workloads, it is the wrong tradeoff.

Ideally, you could make this decision more locally, and yet continue to use the cleaner syntax which comes from structured error handling, but I don't know of any language which implements this :/.

And, so, the best we have is to just use a language which maps exception syntax to tables as you can always -- as you did -- fix the few places it matters to use a result type by adding manual checks.
Corollary: the relief/anguish when you discover that the reason none of your fixes have worked, nor your debugging print statements produced output, is because you were editing a different copy of the file than was getting built/run because you moved or renamed something and your editor didn't notice.
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Pounds is definitely not something I "regularly encounter" -- at least in the sense that I need to know more than that it is more than 100g and less than 900g. It just doesn't come up.

Perhaps different European countries are different here..
Problem is that we live in an environment where a company like AT&T can lobby for basically anything they want, and have basically no accountability when they don't meet their obligations.

You even have people telling stories where they could get fiber service, but the provider just doesn't want to.
He is the main character in The Friendly Orange Glow [1], an amazing history of the PLATO system that has many valuable lessons on how to foster technological innovation and create thriving online communities.

[1] http://friendlyorangeglow.com/
1. There is a cap on the number of doctors that the US can churn out since Medicare funds most of their training. That number is 140,000. This inherently limits supply. This is the biggest issue.[0]

2. There are limited spots in certain residency programs due to how competitive they are. Ergo those specialties are artificially more lucrative. Dermatology is a good example.

3. Becoming a doctor is temporally arduous: 11 to 15 years! Why the hell do people need to spend four years of time and money on a bachelor's degree instead of entering a medical program directly?

4. Becoming a doctor is financially arduous. You will be in debt for four years of undergrad, then four years of medical school, and then you'll be paid garbage for 3-7 years of residency. High interest rates exacerbate this.

5. Residency is hell.

6. Working in a hospital is often hell. Burn out is very real.

7. There are many, many professions which provide a far better standard of living.

[0]: https://www.aamc.org/news/press-releases/new-aamc-report-sho...
When I was studying literature a few decades ago, psychoanalysis still thrived within critical literary analysis.
Where is the evidence that social sciences give us the capability to ask those questions and understand those answers? I would argue that only I have that ability and instead you should direct that money towards me.
My bad ! Should not have said my comment about the website earlier. Apologies to op, i am human, this is how communication should be.
Different courses at the same institution
As a procrastinator, however, I can definitely say that the corollary is not true: work doesn’t shrink to fit available remaining time.

Therefore, setting arbitrary deadlines as advocated in this article is the worst possible idea. It will only lead to deathmarching your teams to project collapse, especially on long-winded endeavours.

To me, the best way to proceed is let the team define small increments, and work with your reports to debug the issues they have in building them. No deadline is needed for that, just fine-grained involvement, focus on the workflow, and frequent discussions to see if the most recent stuff in progress is still valuable.

The solution to expansion of work is cutting less-valuable tasks, setting deadlines is just the lazy answer for uninvolved or unskilled managers.
The Doctor Who meme here applies.

Is 5 a lot?

Depends. Potatoes? No. Murder? Yes.
That's absolutely not true, and some of us have directly experienced what happens when it runs out. There are implementations that will keep producing output without an ongoing and sufficient supply of fresh entropy, but there are also implementations that do not. Generally, those that do keep producing output in those cases are formally weaker.

When the supply is treated conscientiously, depletion broadly doesn't matter outside of weird race conditions during system startup. But if everybody naively consumes cryptographically secure randomness for every casual occasion, it becomes a much bigger problem.
You wish it weren’t the case, but it is the case. Play the hand you are dealt and go and get your clean copies. The market isn’t catering to you but that doesn’t mean you should then cater to the market if you don’t have to.
Almost to the minute.
Its possible, but still points towards, as I said, an overall hierarchy rather than a given multiplicity.
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Thanks for making it open-source!
> Some disciplines in the social sciences in recent years have taken a pretty hard turn towards qualitative methods and epistemologies that are either misaligned with or explicitly reject the scientific method.

Hard to see a social science field that fits this description better than economics though…
I don't disagree. I think I make that point throughout the site. I don't like the identity of it.
> Bernie Sanders has been arguing for universal healthcare for 35 years to no results, while Luigi Mangione proved a point: that violence can work.

Oh, it worked? Why do you say that? Did you get your universal healthcare?
The "why" is utterly irrelevant if you can't then do anything about it. It also seems like some of that "why" research was fraud too, so they couldn't even answer that.

Meanwhile the hard science guys are forcing retractions.
Crowley saw demons as manifestations of the mind's architecture - real in their effects, but originating from within rather than existing as independent external entities. To that effect, they are very real, in the same way that the color green is real - subjectively experienced by humans with normal color vision, yet meaningless to a being with a different sensory architecture.
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Please allow me to counter, from the perspective of someone who owned a medical practice for much of my adult life:

- The ACA limits the amount of money, as a percent of revenue, that insurance companies collect as profit. If they wish to increase profit, their primary option is to collect higher premiums and pay more benefits.

- (No experience with keeping someone alive overnight. I'm sure it's happened and couldn't disprove it in any case.)

- Of course they have optimized billing. The current fiasco has byzantine rules for payment. For instance, you know how your dermatologist offers you smoking cessation and weight loss classes? That's because if they offer it to you, insurance rules allow them to bill the encounter as an enhanced care visit which pays more. This isn't an exaggeration. The insurance rules say "we'll pay you an extra 30% if you ask about their smoking and weight". The doctor can earn more simply by following those rules. Again, of course providers do this! If my boss gave me a 20% raise for asking him each morning if he'd like me to make him a sandwich, even knowing he hates breakfast sandwiches, you bet I'm doing it.

- That's complicated. If a hospital violates the insurer's rules, they don't get paid for seeing the patient. Yes, the situation you described is horrid, but no provider can afford to write off every patient. It's the insurers who said they wouldn't pay until the patient is seriously sick.

- Surveys have shown that as much as 60% of small practices' management overhead involves staffing people to deal with insurance companies, process claims, optimize billing (see above), negotiate pre-approvals, and so on. They have higher overheads because the insurers require it, not because they want to.

- Well, according to the insurers trying to weasel out of paying for it. For example, a patient came to my wife with an obvious soft tissue injury. She ordered an MRI to diagnose it. The insurer refused the approval until my wife took an X-ray first because it's cheaper. X-rays also don't show soft tissue injuries. (Don't correct me; I know the exceptions here and they're not relevant to this.) So it was the insurer who demanded my wife perform a wholly useless test before they'd pay for the effective one.

- I'm not willing to lower the quality of physicians. Other studies have shown that the lack of upcoming doctors is due to fewer people willing to put up with the insane stress levels for mediocre pay. The stereotype of a doctor heading out at noon for an afternoon of golf are largely over for nearly all specialties. Frankly, there are many jobs that pay better with less stress and less personal responsibility.

- That's laughably wrong. No one gets a new knee for the fun of it. It's a major surgery with long and challenging recovery that people get because they're otherwise unable to function normally.

- There is no way to handle this efficiently. It's an utter morass.
I was looking for something similar to get started! Thanks for sharing
No matter your beliefs on the supernatural, it should be clear that the story of Wiggo was an actual "fairy tale" made up by Einhard as a proxy for airing his disdain for the current state of the empire.
He can only share his shares and assets at 400B if the market thinks they're worth 400B, and if there are enough buyers for all 400B. And once he starts selling, the market might re-evaluate the worth of the shares.

Isn't Twitter a good counterpoint? I vaguely recall Musk had a hard time liquidating shares to buy it?
> * To serve content on devices where setting up letsencrypt or other SSL is either too much of a hassle or not important

This is my use case, serving homeserver stuff from a ".internal" domain, only accessible through WireGuard. I ain't gonna mess with a custom CA just for this.

If one of my devices gets compromised enough to be able to sniff network packets that pass through the WireGuard interface, I have bigger problems to worry about.
But that's not the actual science, that's an economist giving opinions on a news show. You can find plenty of examples of physicists giving opinions on lots of things also. Go look on Sabine Hossenfelder's YT channel.
Fantastic idea and implementation, thank you for putting your effort and money into bringing such an interesting idea to life!.
Haha, a 100mb library, it doesn't say so but is this really a dictionary of numbers with even/odd as values? I love that they have an entirely separate is-odd package.

//edit: looked at the code, it's literally 100mb of if else statements- and a bunch of them are wrong! The github pull requests to add additional integers are hilarious.
Yeah, "Grid Mode" sounds similar. But instead of only 4 zones it would just roughly map the keyboard to dozens of invisible zones based on the position of the keys on the keyboard. So it would mostly be by feel. I have no idea if this would be better or worse than "Grid Mode" but it would be interesting to try it.
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I hope you vote for love and peace, too many Christians don't