jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Uhhh, yes. But only in fields where they are not already an expert.

What you're referring to is Nobel Prize disease, and that is essentially the implicit human assumption that when you become an expert at one thing, you're an expert at everything. However it notably does not happen when someone is an expert at something, because well, they're an expert -- they know enough about the field to separate the wheat from the chaff

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

Like the parent says, I'm not sure why you'd rather believe a software engineer on Hacker News -- who unless they are unusual, has zero experience with archeology outside of watching Time Team occasionally -- versus someone who is actually qualified in that field.

This is the kind of thinking that led to the catastrophe that was MetaMed -- software engineers and mathematicians not realising that they needed to actually learn things about other fields to be an expert in it (Unlike computer science where you can read a few well-curated blogposts and understand most of the problems in a week), and deciding to go into Medicine with that mindset (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/MetaMed).
> Whenever a solution to a technical problem is "recompile components of the OS", this means the answer to the same problem in a "non-linux"/non-free system

The kicker being that such problems are so rare as to be functionally nonexistent, and even in such cases, usually contacting the vendor can at least give you some options. A few anecdotes from my own experiences:

1) Windows\MacOS have never simply refused to use a network card, for no apparent reason.

2) MacOS has never destroyed it's own bootloader because it was Tuesday and it was bored: Windows did it once, but it was repaired automatically by the recovery partition.

3) Windows\MacOS have never refused to play audio after resuming from standby until rebooted.

> The point is: once your problem is complicated enough that your only resort is to edit the software, free software _at least_ gives you the chance to do that

But conversely, I don't have to edit software I paid for that's built on a reliable, if imperfect, OS. A reboot fixes almost anything wrong with Windows, and sure, I'd appreciate it if it could be like linux and stretch it's uptime into years, but also, a reboot takes less time than a run for coffee.

That a solution technically exists is less important than the accessibility of the solution.
Sorry to see him go.

Unfortunately, Jazz has fallen out of favor in the United States. America, with a population of over three hundred million, accounts for about 1% of the global Jazz market. Japan is the biggest and has been for the last two decades. Europe is second with France, the UK and Sweden being epicenters of both musicians and listeners.
Just wanted to see I love Firefox Android, I have been on nightly release for at least a year now, and it's great !
He was, and quite a prominent one as well. While it low-key bugs me, I decided I won’t let it destroy the beauty of his art for me.

In general, it’s better not to dig into the personal lives of people you look up to, because chances are we’re attributing all sorts of virtues to them based on their work, while they’re - just like all of us - humans with flaws and dark nooks. John Lennon, for example, beat his first wife.
It could be very interesting to see similar comparisons with other operating systems like FreeBSD with kqueue or DragonflyBSD with Light Weight Kernel Threads.
APE executables are PE executables that embed a shell script in the MS-DOS stub. The GNU or LLVM linker is configured to generate a printf '\177ELF...' >$0 statement which inserts the ELF or Mach-O header into the first 64-bytes depending on where the executable is run. See https://justine.lol/ape.html and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jart/cosmopolitan/master/a...
Term and conditions apply ?
1986 Jordan worth some money ;-)
There were benchmarks and a discussion on this on reddit recently comparing goroutines to tokio.
If I recall correctly tokio was slower than goroutines but if you set the right settings it could be almost as fast.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lg0a7b/benchmarking_t...
> Why are people's identities so tied to spinning metal vs flash storage?

In this case, probably because the original article was needlessly confrontational.
Other companies are even worse - The title for Instagram.com is instagr.am
Very shiny and pretty, but dear god I could hardly type in skype, it was printing out characters at a pace of 0.3/second.
Agreed, for many books. I'd also add the book digests (especially for Management books), and then diagrams and charts, which can convey so much more.

But on top of that, I think the framework/lens you have when you're reading makes a big difference too. Biggest advantage of a Cliff Notes-style is to add an opening paragraph saying: this author was writing in a time of social change X or common belief Y, and most of this book addresses their concerns related to that (many of which were unfounded).. or something.

On your last point: I think reading as leisure is a wholly worthwhile pursuit in its own right - tacitly feeling the experience of the world through another perspective - though I'm not sure I'd need to read more than a book a month for this
All that's needed is physical access to the computer. Your computer account is not a real protection.
From a content provider point of view, there is no point in creating WebM content. The H264 version works on all plateforms, why would they be interested in paying for transcoding time to access a market they have already...
It might sound great, but I do not see the industry following Google on that...
http://jobs.jsninja.com

http://nodejobs.com
Very cool idea, it's something I can think of a bunch of cool uses for. Will definitely be looking into it.

One downside came when I tried bookmarking with Delicious (hit the url length limit, truncation would break it). But great for shorter content.
Small hatchbacks are being abandoned for crossovers. It’s sad. I love my Honda Fit and they stopped selling them in North America...
> Anything I missed? Has anyone even thought about this in-depth?

Yes. I think you are taking the most poorly executed NFT (a token and jpeg centrally hosted on the internet) and extending that to all NFTs.

There is no right or wrong way to make these NFTs, and a jpeg/token may work for many use cases anyway...but I can certainly accomplish and satisfy all your issues/concerns. That is create a unique digital artwork that is hosted on the blockchain represented by an NFT that is all self authenticating without the need of any central authority...unless you are classifying the ethereum blockchain as the central authority
Huge "dumb tv" proponent here
I've had an nvidia shield for years and it checks all the boxes for me. It runs android and from what I know, it's one of the most well supported android devices period in terms of consistent updates.
Here's why I love it:

- I have access to the play store for apps, not some proprietary tv manufacturer subset of poorly developed apps. That means I can install the retroarch/plex/etc android apps directly from play.

- It has built in google assistant which I use every day to play music and yt videos (as well as controlling other stuff in my all-google house.

- Thanks to CEC, if I say "hey google play [artist] videos on shield" it will turn on the shield, which will turn on my TV, which will turn on my stereo. I never have to touch buttons if I want to listen to music.

- Because it's android TV, I can clear my homescreen of everything but the app launchers I use - no ads, no suggestions, no junk apps.

- It has a really cool feature that lets you stream 4k from a PC with an nvidia card. I added the rdp exe as a "game" that I can stream so I stream my office desktop to my living room tv to browse reddit and check emails and stuff. (This is probably one of the most incomparable features)

- It has 2 usb ports. I use one for retroarch roms and the other one for a logitech wireless kb with a touch pad (which is great for when I'm streaming my desktop but also when I need to enter a password or something.

- you can pair any controller with it but I've used the nvidia controller that came with it to play a bunch of n64 and snes games all the way through on retro arch.

My TV is stupid and I like it that way. As far as I'm concerned, the shield is my TV's os
The fact that they were able to optimize two frames of input lag away to make the online gameplay have the same latency as offline is itself incredible.

As far as I know, even other rollback-equipped fighting games still add a little bit of latency in order to play online without requiring constant rollbacks.

That said, Melee is also a game that is very hard on the rollback, because movement and attack startup are far faster than in many fighting games.

Dashdancing with rollback leads to some annoying camera judder.
Bought a Samsung TV that purports to support Airplay. It works... except for some apps can’t stream to it. Turns out that some apps can only Airplay to official Apple devices and not the Samsung TVs despite marketing. I was planning to neuter the network from my TV and go with an Apple TV anyways, but that sealed the deal.
Yeaaaaaahhhh, I don't know, man.

Every VW owner I've ever met had some kind of long-term electrical or wiring problem with their car. And that was with a gasoline or diesel engine.
This sounds a lot like the R Markdown format. https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/articles_intro.html
Okay, but look at how close it is to Australia, with a narrow channel separating them.

"North America" and "South America" makes sense, because they are so close together. So why don't we rename these continents "East Oceania" and "West Oceania"? Oceania is a name for the region around Australia/NZ/Indonesia, so that seems like a happy compromise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
> There is nothing in the C standard which makes that invalid.

C only permits¹ optimizations that do not change semantics, so changing the result of a floating point expression is invalid. Example 5 on p16 of C11² makes this explicit: “Rearrangement for floating-point expressions is often restricted because of limitations in
precision as well as range. The implementation cannot generally apply the mathematical associative rules
for addition or multiplication, nor the distributive rule, because of roundoff error, even in the absence of
overflow and underflow. Likewise, implementations cannot generally replace decimal constants in order to
rearrange expressions.”

¹ Of course many compilers have options that invoke something other than standard-conforming C.

² C11 final draft: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
Just as a counter point - I had a different experience with these guys. Got approached by a hiring manager who set up the first screening call that went fairly well. Then got contacted by the Recruiter ...

Things went downhill fast after that point - the recruiter was very casual in her approach towards anything related to skills or compensation but very aggressive about how they value performance, what an honor it was to work at Netflix how lucky I am to be in the interview "pipeline"...

I had never met a bunch of folks so enamored by their own culture. I probably said something like "I have worked at quite a few places that have very good supportive cultures as well" towards the end.

The process ended after that call...thankfully.

[posting from a throwaway to avoid the fairly easy googling identification]
Stay cold, give yourself inflammatory distress, and get cancer.
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/12/18/lab_mice_are...
The article itself is pretty light, but I've always been interested in the tech opportunities for caring for the elderly, and there's a huge market there :) .

I based my Master's business plan on a pill reminder app ( http://www.dontforgetyourmeds.com/ , never finished it )

The analysts call the sector "mHealth", and while several companies have identified the opportunities, “Most of these apps are actually awful. There may be 12,000 apps out there but they’re not 12,000 good apps,” Chris Wasden, Global Healthcare Innovation Leader for PwC.

I'm convinced there are a lot of opportunities in healthcare out there, though it's a hard to reach market.

See these links for more information:

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/10/mobile-health-is-taking-off-but...

http://www.doseofdigital.com/2010/04/no-one-uses-your-health...
Exactly, federated Pirate Bay solves many problems.
I sincerely doubt it. Dungeon Master was the all time best-seller on atari and maybe also on amiga, It has spawned a whole genre of games and is still a reference and is played to this day 25+ years later. It gained a cult following among people who played it to the point that one published a fully reverse engineered code in early 2014: http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=298...
Here is the actual article, rather than the pirated version:

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/01/come-with-us-if-you-want-...
Stanford published a paper that is basically the exact same model

Um yea.. "basically".

Except they demand an 'ultra-slow' hash function in that paper. You ignored that requirement and that makes your implementation equivalent[1] to using the same password for all websites.

[1] https://www.achilleslabs.com/product/4
>Does anyone have experience with lossy png tools?

I do. Lossy PNGs work great for images with not a lot of colors. I use pngquant and optipng a lot in my work to compress a lot of PNG images with practically no visual quality loss.

For very colorful images, lossy (quantized & dithered) PNGs just don't work, though. They just end up looking nasty with larger filesizes than what high quality JPG gives you.
>I used to live in Paris where it felt warmish when the temperature was around 10C. Now that I live in Hong Kong, 10C feels freezing cold, as you pointed out.

expectations and clothes. In Russia i never wore shorts in 10C which i do in CA (even at 5C :) In Russia it would be jeans, good boots, t-shirt, sweater, good jacket. In CA - shorts, light sneakers, t-shirt, light jacket. Getting caught in SF at cable car stop summer evening without jacket - you get to freeze like it would be -25C with wind in St Petersburg :)
Do people have any pride? Why would you subject yourself to this?
> the basic "no-true-scotsman" argument used to advocate for free markets, also known as the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

No, that's not the basis for wanting more free markets. The basis for wanting more free markets is that, under conditions where a free market is not efficient (and yes, such conditions often exist), the failure modes of a free market are still better than the failure modes of the alternatives. In other words, free markets are not "best" so much as "least worst" (the worst except for all the others, as Churchill would have said).

In the particular case we were discussing, you were assuming that a transaction was possible (a personal connection) that both parties would value. That means, in a free market, both parties would agree to the transaction, so it would happen. The problem, as you stated it, was that a market did not even exist for such transactions--the parties weren't even aware of each other. And, as I pointed out, the obvious way to fix that is to allow someone to create such a market. Nobody needs to make any decisions about "how social goods are priced" to do that--the market participants themselves will take care of that, by deciding which transactions to engage in and which not. See further comments below.

> The market is producing disastrous outcomes making life unlivable for huge swaths of humanity?

No, it's not. What's producing those disastrous outcomes is the failure modes of the alternatives to a free market. See below.

> The reality is that not all social goods and goals can be priced, or measured, or even understood and articulated in a way we all agree on.

Yes. And in a free market, we don't have to agree on all those things. All we have to agree on is whether or not to engage in particular transactions. If you and I can have a transaction that both of us voluntarily agree on (and that's the definition of a free market, that all transactions are voluntary--nobody is ever forced to make a transaction they don't want to make), then it doesn't matter what the rest of our values or goals are; all that matters is that we agree to make the transaction.

And that is why the failure modes of free markets are better than the failure modes of the alternatives--because the alternatives force people to do things that they don't want to do, or that they even think are very bad ideas, just because someone else in a position of power says so. That is what makes "life unlivable for huge swaths of humanity"--people being forced to do what some idiot in power says, instead of what their own intelligence and common sense would suggest.

> it's literally impossible to base your normative system on the idea that we'll all just optimize for outcomes when that system is non-deterministic

You're assuming that there has to be a single "normative system" that everyone is forced to abide by. And that, as above, is precisely what a free market does not do, and why our current system, which does do that, causes so much misery. Your so-called "public policy discussion" is all about what normative system to impose on people. Your public policy "experts" never even consider the idea of not imposing things on people at all.
For what's not, you can add additional definitions.

I found myself wanting to calculate Little Boy blast yields sufficiently often that I added a hiroshimabomb unit of energy.

Similarly, various areal units such as countries and states/provinces.
I would still recommend going with http://www.ninjaframework.org as it is a lot more complete
Another workaround for this if you forget and accidentally connect to the internet during setup is to write incorrect login credentials at the MS account login step. If you do it a few (less than 3?) times the option comes up to make a local account instead.
I don't believe it...it's the "weapons don't kill people" defence...

It is you who provide the most intrusive and aggressive weapons for this crime. The owner would have no way to do this by himself.
> This is a so well known misconception that it is hard to not consider it propaganda by this point.

Wikipedia paints a different picture but I consider that a fair point and I will look into it, thank you.

> intermittent with unsolved storage (solar and wind)

Can you be more specific about that? I know the figures only for Germany. Here, solar and wind match up almost perfectly (solar excees in the summer, wind excess in the winter) -- we would only need to store energy reserves for about two weeks. Gas tanks capable of storing these amounts already exist, they have been built several decades ago.

> or vapourware (power to gas, etc)

This is the first time that I hear power to gas described as vapourware. I'm very interested in that topic, could you give some more details or pointers?
I dont think that techies are outlier here. Despite the profession, most people think they can do their boss's job better.
Preact is (or was at one time) a nearly-complete implementation of React's APIs -- meaning a virtual DOM, etc. Synergy takes its own approach, and uses Custom Elements (from the "Web Components" standard).

Edit: and synergy is also optionally avlbl via CDN for the no-tooling approach you liked in your preact experiments.
Who does not have the privilege to earn money for a second phone and what would that privilege be?
I tried it. Auto-import never worked reliably. I asked their customer support for help, and they said I should just do it manually.

They seemed like a close alternative, but if I'm doing all this work manually, I might as well use a spread sheet for free.
I'm sure Windows Defender will take care of that!
Sorry for the self-plug on someone else's thread, but if you're learning a language with a partner, I've been building an app to help couples learn each other's languages (https://learncoupling.com) if you're interested.
For example, having to help someone who was stuck for a day debugging a broken setup and it turns out they didn't know class properties are not JS
Life is risky. In my (likely unpopular) opinion, things like this are what make it worth the risk, at least for some people, and I'm willing to give them the space they need to make it happen.

From a risk perspective, I do prefer things like the Broadway Bomb[1]. Sure, pedestrians are maybe at a bit of risk of collision, but at least they are mostly gambling with their own lives.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Bomb
Sorry but it's naive to think that the only reason Turks cannot read their own Ottoman history is the change of script. Let me try to explain myself briefly:

1 - Unfortunately Anatolia historically had a very low literacy rate for centuries. This still has a profound effect on Turkish reading. Although there were great works of art, Turkish population is not deeply interested in literature or factual history.

2- One can find translations of any material abundantly. If someone is/were interested in any historical artifact I am sure there would be plenty of options or even better tens of thousands of unemployed young university graduates who could help your curiosity.

3- Even if someone were able to read the arabic script fluently. Literally no one could derive any meaning from it without proper education. In fact there are University Faculties dedicated to teaching "Ottomanees" as the language beares very little resemblance to today's Turkish. Literally >two thirds of our vocabulary were loan words.

4- The arabic script was phonetically incompatible with Turkish, vowels which are second thought in arabic script are very much important in Turkish. Hence the alphabet was already a modified one. This was also part of the reason behind poor literacy rates. Turkish written in arabic script was very hard to teach and master.

There are many more arguments behind the very much needed change. These are only a couple off the top of my head
It's actually not that hard...

But yeah, I did. Quite a few times.
I even did a SVG path to G code converter once.
I'm anti-bitcoin, and pro-crypto. I think the only thing that should be taxed is wealth, regardless of debt, and not work or transactions; so state don't need to monitor financial transaction at all. BUT bitcoin is not a smart crypto: its inefficient, POW is not a good idea and is worse when the algorithm can be optimized with specialized processor. It gives too much power to state actors (like most computational activities tbh) . If the US, China or Russia wanted to do a 51% attack, it realistically could with some investments.
It seems reasonable. It's been said, even if we cloned a Mammoth, it would quickly die if we didn't colonize its gut carefully. It had adapted to eating what was growing forty thousand years ago. It would need different flora to digest hay today. Even then, there might be no solution compatible with its intestinal biochemistry. We are all products of our environment.
It depends, if your "master of many" list is all old technologies, or all new technologies.