skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, I've had dentists notice the difference between when I am flossing regularly vs not at all and it has shown up in my gum measurements. I would even argue I've seen more benefit from flossing than brushing for my gum health. Though I've never had any cavities as well.
You just don't know how to manage your time yet. This is every manager's first few months. The totality of your work should be done at work, or you're actually pretty bad at your job, efficiency wise at least. You'll tell yourself you're doing more than others, but eh.

Anyway, people told me that and I scoffed as well, so it's useless to type this, it's the type of thing you adapt after going through it.
> I honestly, worry about the world we are creating for our children

It's not we, the politicians are creating this unsafe, cruel world. We didn't choose war.

Also, the world has always been like this. Peace was always only momentary. The best scenario would be to just stop procreating so our children don't have to live in this shit but it's obviously not going to happen
An overview of the gzip and zip file formats
> but I can't imagine a world where having my scanner send an email would be more convenient than just having a scanned document directly on a computer or phone.

I have a home office laser combo - it has a touch display on it and is bulky next to - when I need to scan in receipts I just upload it to a share folder where my accountant can pick it up.
The CRTC latches the display start address at the beginning (IIRC) of vblank, so you can just write a new value to that register at any time without affecting the current frame.
My first job was with plone. I hated it. Then I learned the twisted ecosystem and had a moment of crisis.

Those are the devil pits of the python world.

Thank god for django and asyncio.
> The missing key factor is that you have to find something unpopular and easy which will actually have a payoff

Why?

I found the article refreshing precisely because it didn't assume you're doing it for the money, or otherwise insisting that a hobby only makes sense if you make a business out of it.

I take this article as a reminder of how little time and effort it takes to achieve basic proficiency in just about anything.

I'm fond of the view that the 80/20 rule applies recursively: you can get 64% of value in 4% of effort, or 51% of value in 0.8% of the effort. Applied to "deliberate practice" meme, that gives you 51% of value for 80 hours of deliberate practice. Sounds absurd, but then most people never done 80 hours of deliberate practice in anything at all.

Personally, I round this up and call it a "10-100-10k framework": 10 hours of deliberate-ish practice is not that big of a sacrifice to pick up some random, specific skill, but you can go surprisingly far doing that. 100 hours should give you competence - good investment for few things that matter for you daily. 10k is for stuff you want to be world-class expert in.
If your boss can do your job, one of you is redundant.

Managers of engineers should be the interface to the business and other units within the organization. That's a big enough job without requiring coding skills on top of it.
>How is the CCPA stupidly-worded when that's what a layman would think "selling data" means?

Because it is the twisty logic that lawyers can apply which is relevant to mitigate legal risk, not what a layman would think.

Where I work, our lawyers are convinced that running our code in the cloud to run our service counts as "distribution" under the terms of open source licenses. Because a cloud employee might accidentally look at it or something? Who knows. A lawyer sees legal risk in things you or I don't; they should know I guess!
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> For me, it took eight re-reads of Raschka's (emininently clear and readable) explanation to get to a level where I felt I understood it.

It’s interesting to observe in oneself how repetition can result in internalizing new concepts. It is less about rote memorization but more about becoming aware of nuance and letting our minds “see” things from different angles, integrating it with existing world models either through augmentation, replacement, or adjustment. Similar for practicing activities that require some form of motor ability.

Some concepts are internalized less explicitly, like when we “learn” through role-modeling behaviors or feedback loops through interaction with people, objects, and ideas (like how to fit into a society).
Immigration is core to American identity and America's success.

It's one of our core defining values

The American that was originally convinced was imperfect and much worse then the America we have today. We literally had slavery and most adults couldn't vote.
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Hello fellow Nordschleife fanatic. Did the same with an E36.
This really calls into question your meaning of the word "understand."
Would slow down battery innovation. Form factor is constantly changing right now.
That's already how it works on the VGA, you write the start address into a CRTC register and it will be used once the next frame starts, without affecting the current one.
I don't think a battery swap is more dangerous than the current fuel stations where you can just use your lighter and set everything on fire
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China would have seized it already if they were sure there’d be no US response. But if the US continues to wink at Putin’s crimes, they may change their mind.
I think there are better ways to use SICP. In an institutionally educational setting you'd have peers and mentors to help figuring things out, for example.

Going at it alone is a thing for people that are already alienated by waged labour or whatever, and likely not the most efficient way to learn its lessons, thought it might be the only obviously available. Personally I prefer to dip in for a short while once or thrice a year or when I have something I'd like to get better at that I know it teaches.

Still, neat presentation.
Bit off-topic but interestingly the title of the article is "There's little proof flossing protects your teeth or gums" but when you, for example, send the link to somebody over (insert your favorite instant messenger with link previews), the title in the preview changes to a much more clickbait-y "Is flossing a waste of time?"
Even that is a bit of a strech, at it got released one year after DirectX 8 was made available, and was powered by GeForce 3 class hardware, which naturally came first on PC.

> The GeForce 3 was unveiled during the 2001 Macworld Conference & Expo/Tokyo 2001 in Makuhari Messe and powered realtime demos of Pixar's Junior Lamp and id Software's Doom 3. Apple would later announce launch rights for its new line of computers.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_3_series

Naturally outside PC, there were other stuff predating programmable graphics, however if we stick to the PC, XBox follows PC, not the other way around, specially since the first one wasn't that great versus PlayStation 2 in market share, even if there were some great games like Halo and Fable.
At this point, and from this point onward, some other hegemons sound darn good compared to US. russia aint one, they simply lack competence for anything grander than petty squables at their borders. Everybody hates them, inclusing all former soviet bloc countries and only deal with them when they have to.

Ie China is not doing sudden backstabbing of its allies, strongarming weak at their weakest point. In contrary ie it helped develop parts of Africa that were severely neglected by western powers, not for free but that was never the case. They did some not so nice stuff, but so did US in the past, in much higher numbers. Tens of millions of civilians are dead because of failed US policies and invasions which ended in withdrawals and defeats in past 80 years.

With all negative stuff on China (uighur treatment, other cases of human rights violations) its still shines compared to US now. Now for any outsider (>95% of mankind), why should they still ally with US now?
I swear, none of these people have been to Louisiana, West Virginia, or any of the empty-looking cities that used to be lively 50 years ago. And I’m saying this as a person who isn’t American, but wanted to check it out myself before I made assumptions about the world.
I'm rather late here so I'll keep this short since I'm probably just talking to myself, but hey it's fun to organize one's thoughts anyhow. I could argue that CRISPR is more like a chainsaw than a scalpel, but I think things like this are tangential.

In general a lot of the research around aging is more motivated by a desired outcome than a the evidence in question. Telomeres, for instance, are clearly correlational rather than causal with contrary evidence in numerous species such as mice most obviously. In general there seems to be practically a rule that any observation of biological immortality is later met with a refutation. For instance lobsters are observed to eventually stop even trying to moult as they age, which inevitably leads to their death. Senescence manifesting differently in different species obviously does not imply immortality.

People, even very smart people, have a habit of lying to themselves when they want something to be true. Obviously religion is a good example of this in the past. And in the present I think we're largely just replacing religion with pseudo-scientific hypotheses to the same end. For instance I personally am a strong believer in the simulation hypothesis, at least I think I am. I don't know whether I "really" believe it's as sound as it seems, or if it's a coping mechanism to balance a secular worldview and the desire to not die. I mean it's not really even a theory since if it turns out to be true, and one day I simply 'wake up' - is that new reality "real" or just another simulation? But I'm at least aware of the fact I may well be lying to myself with a highly debatable theory.
This is why it pays out to turn on "Paint Flashing" [1] in the web console, even if just from time to time.

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1: https://web.dev/articles/simplify-paint-complexity-and-reduc...
Based on whether they take you to places you don’t want to end at, which is an incomplete measure but quite a pragmatical one. E.g. if your set of axioms end at “erase half of the population by force”, then perhaps revisit your axioms.
Reading a bit from Wikipedia...

When the Rudins purchased the house, Walter was only 10 years from finishing his Ph.D., and had only written one textbook. He had made zero famous mathematical discoveries. So not exactly nobility.

The house was a prefab, adopted from an earlier prefab design by Frank Lloyd Wright, yes... But FLW's most important contribution seems to have been chopping 50% from the cost. And if the prefab company was a success - any "Designed by FLW" fame could get pretty diluted, after they'd build a few thousand more of 'em.

Plus - if you're at all familiar with the climate in Madison, WI - a cut-rate 1950's house, mostly concrete block and window walls, with a carport - that could be pretty uncomfortable to live in.
It's one of the best landing pages I've seen in a while because it explains clearly what the software does, contains a video demo, and easy navigation to explore more. Basically, no BS.
As the other person responded. You are not correct.

The west started this. They couped in Ukraine in 2014. They accelerated tensions with the DPR and LDR. This reminds me of people who say Oct 7 is when things began in Palestine.
no hassle unless the door has to cope with rain, salt water drizzle and daily freeze-thaw cycles. then it suddenly starts to cost like half a spaceship
Attraktor[1] in Hamburg and shackspace[2] in Stuttgart <3

[1] https://blog.attraktor.org/

[2] https://www.shackspace.de/
One way to interpret the results here is that all the building blocks of life can naturally be formed right here on earth or anywhere that has conditions similar to where Bennu came from.

The fact that the components on the asteroid is racemic meant or heavily suggested that they were formed using non-biogenic means. And if so, it also means that Earth could have had the same thing happened a long time ago, leading to the seeds of life.

tl,dr: this discovery weaken the panspermia hypothesis.
I get what the author is getting at, but I really think this is a poor comparison. Selecting a gear on a bike gives immediate feedback. Selecting a power level and cook time on a microwave...does not. Not needing to remember a formula for figuring out a cook time and power level based on the quantity of meat I'm defrosting is a really useful feature.

Plus, I can always select whatever levels I want manually on the microwave, and when using a pre-programmed function I can see what the microwave is doing.

I think an example that makes it clear that the author needs to more carefully work out their point is the Honeywell AllergenPlus line of airfilters. For a while, they had three settings, "Allergen", "General Clean" and "Germ" which are merely 3 fan speed settings. This method was so disjointed form reality, the eventually started shipping them with stickers covering it up with "Low", "Medium", and "High" (I forget what the actual order was...).

It's a real life nightmare bicycle, but of course there is no risk of losing intuitive understanding because of instant feedback. The user will quickly figure out which setting is low, which is medium, and which is high based on simply pressing the buttons. A similar thing will happen with the bicycle. People don't actually look at the numbers and select a number, they just shift gears until it "feels" right.

This really needs a better product example, perhaps just AI over search.
its a world of occasional regional nuclear exchange
The ancestor of DES at IBM, Lucifer, had both an 128-bit block length and 128-bit keys.

Therefore there is no doubt that both the reduction of the key length and of the block length have been deliberate.

The only thing that can be argued is that perhaps the motivation for the reduction in the block length could have been less for weakening the cipher, but more for reducing the cost of the hardware, based on the assumption that the cipher will be used only for the encryption of amounts of data that are very small for today, but which could have seemed big during the mid seventies.
Visualising Climate Data with NASA's Giovanni Tool
There's a similar trend in devtools that's absolutely frustrating.
Check out mailcow
Note that satellite providers try to minimze leakage by jettisoning or using up all of the fuel aboard before the satellites fall back to earth.

The article is stating interesting things, but does not really provide any alternatives. Current sites are located in places so as not to pose any danger to human settlements, and rockets are flown mostly over sea or desolate deserts. Sure, more could be done to protect the wildlife, but there are standards that all launchers have to abide by. If such standards are too lax, that is for regulatory bodies to decide.

Some estimates suggest the number of launches per year could hit 1,000 by 2050, up from 112 in 2020.

Deciding policy based on the guess that current number of launches will 10x in 25 years may not be.. wise.
It is barbarism within the context of elites in Ukraine sitting around taking money of cowards in Europe and the Five Eyes funneling money and weapons in. A war that could not be won. It was wrong to not cease fire in 202. A proxy war is not the same as most situations
I don't think economists overall, even when generalizing, have a good track record. Too often hidden interests modify the core of their messages. Krugman for example has a poor record on predictions, not sure about the other ones.

That said, this isn't all "gold" either in my opinion. Money is still tied to productivity. At least it works as long as people believe debts can be repaid. If they wouldn't, there would be runaway inflation.

It is more sensible to back that debt with productivity or "economic potential" instead of gold, but the idea isn't that far off as people generally say it is. In general it still is more loosely tied to real productivity though and that is a problem. The solution isn't to return to gold backing though.

And there is a development of poor economic ideas, like that creating debt is always good on a national economic level. You should never neglect to mention that this new debt would require something like a hegemonic military position to underline the "securities" of said debt.
It’s logical but the axioms are emotional. They late rationally the same if you have an emotional reaction to one and not the other then your emotions have no basis in logical consistency.

The point here is to show that there is no difference but emotions are what create the illusion of a difference.
Where I live the electricity is primarily generated by fossil fuels. The light is weak for many months of the year, and wind power is apparently way too expensive if they remove the subsidies (weird!).

Wouldn’t gas cars just eliminate the middleman of fossil fuels -> power plant -> car? Like we did before EVs?

I would love nuclear power but it doesn’t appear to be happening
Frustration from one line? You may be projecting?
NATO aka the west aka colonizers.
I have used https://lookscanned.io/ with success, but you mileage may vary.
That is not how it works, many of those countries will need to align with China or be conquered.
Stalwart seems to be Rusty, while this one is Gooey.
Smartphone restriction for 3 days can alter brain activity
Same query, but for my dryer. Particularly the "Jeans" program. It is explicitly stated on every pair of jeans which I own that I should never attempt this.

And yet, the program exists. Did they find a workaround? Or are they selling an empty promise?
Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up
Too bad we're going to do the exact opposite of all that for at least the next 4 years
Colouring in pages.
I can add an anecdote that it ("it" being printer stopped functioning when I replaced the cartridge with as 3rd party I've) happened to me and support confirmed that non OEM toner was the issue when I called about it.

Swapping the drm chip from the oem starter cartridge to my 3rd party cartridge resolved the othe problem
Specifically, billionaires formally enter the political sphere at a much higher rate in autocracies than in democracies.
This was an immersive experience. I was trying to make sense of what I was seeing, putting my face closer to the screen to take a good look at the creature... Then WHACK! paywall! It hit me before I could understand what was happening.

I can relate to that crab.
The problem with printer recommendations is that many vocal supporters are running older models that work like charm, so when a good company becomes enshittified, there will be some timelag until consensus shifts. I mean I could still praise Samsung printers despite Samsung having left the printer business years ago.
I wonder what he thinks the “non-doing” 80% spend their time on. While I’m sure there exist pure-consumption-mode “observers”, I suspect most are simply engaged in pursuits and goals that are invisible to him.
What do you mean by “unstable”? All single-track vehicles are inherently unstable and use that for steering.
Yes, because you need to have a feel for the quality and direction of the systems your organisation is building and maintaining, independently of the people you have dominance over. Because that hierarchical relation itself will make it hard for them to accurately communicate to you how it's going and the more time you make them spend explaining things to you instead of cooperating with each other, the worse for the team that actually gets stuff done.

You should also keep using programming and automation to perform managerial tasks and not degenerate into constantly droning away in some mind-numbing office software suite.
I agree with your overall point. I think software security in particular is a skillset that is very well suited to deconstructing establishment dogma. The entire exercise of (novel) software security (specifically research) is ignoring what everyone says and asking how things actually work detail by detail. You look for indirect signals that betray other information to help understand underlying structure allowing you to better poke at it with whatever information prodding tools you have access to.

The electricity graph is a very good example of that. A machine plugs into a wall and uses electricity. An aggregate graph of electricity consumption contains the information of how many machines are running in aggregate. You can argue that data is wrong, and I'm open to believing it is since I believe you can have a privately owned power source, but if you don't dispute the data, then a graph of electricity is very much a graph of aggregate manufacturing, also aggregate computing. Aggregate electricity should have a deeply entwined relationship with aggregate economic output. I'm not an economist, so apologies for any misused terms.

Electricity is basically a raw material component for almost any good, even services likely have a relationship with electricity.

I find that analysis cogent and satisfying. I've traveled a fair amount, and the amount of "third world"ism I see in the US is shocking. Before traveling it never occurred to me that San Francisco literally literally has slums. Meanwhile many places in "poorer" foreign countries are nicer than things I can find in the US even if I were to go looking for them.
Taiwan to keep advanced chip tech
From a security perspective, it is better to have separate & isolated processes (but written in modern languages that provide safety).

Mox is currently a single process handling all connections, including deliveries over smtp, imap connections, and webmail and other http requests, which isn't great. User connections should probably be in a separate process. I'm not too afraid of the mox process being taken over (by a bug being abused, I don't think that's easy/common in software written in Go), but of course it will be a good line of defense against that. Resource limit enforcement of separate processes would perhaps be even nicer to get.

I haven't gotten around to really designing privilege separation, but I'm forseeing some complications around handling http requests (of the webmail, pass each request on to the user process? Have to figure out how to do that with the http library), and message database access (the database files can only be open by a single process, need to do quite some back and forth to the user process in various places).

For performance, I imagine it only helps to have an integrated server. Performance isn't really top of mind, I don't think mail servers are commonly highly loaded, at least not for the smallish scale servers. Btw, mox does not require a lot of resource (eg RAM) to run.
I mean, if this uses the same calculation as Twitter, Instagram and other sites that limit characters, then it should probably stay as it is, I don't have a problem with that.

However, a quirk in the way Unicode handles emoji has meant that some of the symbols take up many more characters than others. For example, a flag can take up as many as 14 spaces in your Tweet. Twitter has announced that it's changing the way it counts emoji so that they're all counted equally, as two characters.
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17963230/twitter-emoji-c...

So 4 character flag, which is written as 1 character, is sometimes counted as 2 characters. Honestly, I don't know, I did not expect for this to go so deep.
You FRiendly Spy drops a grain of rice in a plant... Pull up that AINT