skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually wanted to start with a remark that "there's nothing more stupid than bringing up the whole Hanlon's razor thing, but this time I would agree with that"... So, yeah. Unlike "Occam's razor", there's absolutely nothing to justify "Hanlon's razor" as being an obviously more useful proposition than it's exact opposite. In fact, I would say it's harmful and annoying, because it contains implicit assumption that you (/me/the speaker) is smarter than whoever we are talking about. Which is arrogant and quite often is not the case. I wish people would stop quoting that.
I'll make an exception for infectious diseases... certainly getting rid of smallpox was, and eventually getting rid of HIV will be, a cause for celebration.
>Lots, possibly even the majority of companies in Europe beefed up their IT security procedures because of this

On the other hand, they also don't provide internet services to people.
Kind of interesting. They force arbitration but don't accept the result if it doesn't go in their favor...
>OTOH, the power plant probably has a rail connection or pipeline for oil, and the marginal energy cost of transporting an additional unit of oil to the power plant is probably quite low compared to the marginal energy cost of transporting the same additional unit of oil to your house.

Uh, I have a natural gas pipe coming directly into my home, along with nearly everyone in my state, and also region.

Electric heating is more efficient than natural gas, but electricity is more expensive per BTU, at least where I live.
I think there is optimization pressure between the size of the generator and the median amount of power produced. Wind speed probably has some sort of log distribution.

AKA

wind speed hours/year
0-10 4000
10-15 2700
15-20 1100
25-30 600
35-40 300
40-50 50
50-55 15

At some point the cost analysis says the extra power generated isn't worth the cost of the oversize generator needed to extract it so just feather the turbine.
If this were true then why have upper limits at all? The only reason I can think of is to protect large corporations.
I call bullshit. This crap can and will happen in unfortunate times such as opening a laptop for presentation, also note that shutting down a computer with lowish battery with update pending is a death sentence until you reach a charger, because you'll never make it past the stupid update.

Just when you need it the most and it has the lowest battery this crap will pop.

Minewhile some computers are stuck in update loop of failing to update, reverting, and retrying every god damn day again like anything will change. If you're too bad at ensuring updates work, dont force them down my throat the 100th time expecting something will change. I already accepted the fact your trash update will never work so can you please stop wasting my time?
It's not that hard: https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis

Code is here: https://github.com/pomber/escher-bot

It's a pity that twitter UI doesn't embed the recursive tweet.
My impression is that McDonalds' margins are shrinking, forcing franchisee consolidation.

Where margins are still fat, you'll find more one-off franchises. Chick-Fil-A, for example, used to limit "Operators" to one store. Real Estate agents are often franchises.
I really want to make a site that expresses this like a skill tree you'd find in an RPG or in Civilisation.
This looks to considerably lower the pain of mapping retweet networks, thanks!
First, that's a very successful company. Second, you're extrapolating what an entire market will do from one, ancient example. Today, there's a number of companies selling static analyzers, test generators, model-checkers, and I think I've even seen fuzzing. They tend to succeed if their tools get results for clients with little work on clients' side. They love push-button tools, too, that smoothly integrate into their workflow.

So, this company definitely has a chance. Further corroboration is the uptake Hypothesis was getting in Python shops. There's definitely a demand. I just don't know the numbers for this sector.
This looks great, playing around with it right now. They seem to have removed PersistentVolumes, too. I'd like to run a MySQL database on K3S, how would I go about making sure that my database's data survives when its pod dies?
What if I'm about to go to a concert, running late and I need to print tickets last minute, and suddenly windows needs to spend 30 minutes updating, without giving me a choice? The fact that you can't stop it in the moment is infuriating. Also, you can't expect the user to manually configure system updates.
I thought matrices were pretty cool when I took Linear Algebra in college. However, I hated doing the computations by hand; it makes one really appreciate computers.
As an interesting aside hops and cannabis are related - they're both part of the Cannabaceae family.

As someone who enjoys craft IPAs/NEIPAs rich in hop oils, have hemp protein powder in my breakfast shakes with hemp milk and love the odd puff of the peace pipe, I've got to say it's a remarkable plant family.

You can eat it, drink it, wear it, use it as a medicine, get drunk (well, it's a flavouring and biocide - not the source of alcohol) and get high from it.
I always figured electricity to heat was nearly 100% efficient, it's the generating of electricity where the losses occur.
Same thing with phones with headphone jacks. The collective internet wisdom is that all phones must have headphone jacks, full stop. From a marketplace perspective, it doesn't really matter much to consumers at all.
> But again, the change here isn't that Patch Tuesday means "install these things ASAP", that's always been the messaging on Patch Tuesday. A lot of people just felt entitled to ignore that for as much as years in some cases.

Yeah, those damned users and their feeling of entitlement towards being able to control a thing they bought. Idiots.
It means that it doesn't literally physically vibrate, like quartz oscillators do. It's only the electric field that vibrates in it, not the physical thing itself.
What makes for a good meetup? I've been contemplating starting one in my town, but it'd seem that having a plan for the meetup would help.
I'm partial to Wimbledon Tennismatch.

So far from the real thing, yet everybody gets it.
They still produced phones with the Droid name (I replaced my Droid 4 with the Droid Turbo), but they lost the keyboard.

And IMO, Google failed to market the Droid phones. In a world where everyone's crying for better battery life and stronger screens, the Droid Turbo came out with a whopping 3900 mAh battery when everyone else was in the 2000-2,500 mAh range, and a screen that was damn near indestructible, probably the top two most asked for features from a phone...yet nobody ever heard of it. Meanwhile people flock to iPhones and Galaxy phones which would crack their screens if you sneezed.
They are though. There are no Edge forks or free iOS distributions.
Be careful not to have vitamin D deficiency! I think that might have been one of things which contributed to my multiple sclerosis. I was sitting in front of pc most of the spring/summer, rarely spending time outside...
I'm not pretending it was not well thought; I'm merely saying its technical advantages were not the main drive behind its huge adoption rate.

With all due respect, none of the pluses you mentioned would be a reason for a random, tech-illiterate, using-a-computer-for-FB person to install Chrome.
The structure of a mouse mind is incredibly complex
The article says the prototype was inspired by the "Nokia 950" - I'm assuming they mean N950? I had two N900s - I hope the keyboard is far more robust than that as the labels on the keys wore off in weeks / months.
I remember this being part of the pitch of Avon -- you're already buying laundry soap, why not build a business?

Of course, at the bottom of the pyramid, you'd buy overpriced soap to keep up your minimums.
I'd be intrigued by AMC or Moviepass if Netflix wasn't pouring out tons of content all the time. At this rate, I don't have enough time to consume all the content.
I'm currently hanging onto a Windows Mobile phone, though support ends in December, so I have to start looking for a replacement. I once swore I'd never own an iPhone, but if nothing else shows up, I guess I'll have to. My hope is that the Librem 5 launches on time and is capable of supporting a Verizon compatible radio (the radio is supposed to be replaceable).

My primary interest is security and privacy, so Android fails out entirely as an option. I also expect my phone to have current and regular security updates, so the operating system must be something presently supported.
Probably because WebKit was easier to patch.
True.

And more so, that you get less resistance about it.

Also, it strikes me that startup founders are probably a lot like that. Or more generally, entrepreneurs.
‘Total Scam’ or ‘Fabulous’? Why Airbnb Deeply Divides Us
Thank you for your book. I applaud all sorts of free texts.

I notice that there is an option to buy your book, and perhaps there are other options to somehow get money to you. I was wondering if you felt comfortable revealing approximately how much money has come to you as a result of your (donated) labours?
> was something dismantled after vietnam?

Yes, the law authorizing the draft expired in June 1973, after a strategy was developed and a policy decision made to pursue it to meet military needs without conscription.

Enforcement of the registration requirement that expired in the 1970s but was reactivated in 1980 without any actual draft law was discontinued by agreement between Selective Service and DoJ in 1988, but no actual prosecutions were pursued after 1986, and compliance has always been low (even with the stick of student loans, which gets lots of people heading to college registered, those who register are unlikely to update address when they move while registered.)

So: we no longer (for 45 years) have a law authorizing conscription.

We no longer (for 30 years) even pretend to have enforcement of the law requiring registration in case we decide we need conscription and pass a law authorizing it.

And we no longer (for more than the 30 years of non-enforcement, really, but even moreso after that) have much compliance with the law requiring registration in case we decide we need conscription and pass a law authorizing it.

Everything that happens around Selective Service registration requirements absent changes in all that is purely symbolic ritual with no real substance.
The future of Instagram face filters is glossy, metallic, and surreal
They used word "efficiently" and some Python code in the same paragraph. Having worked for quite a while with Python now, I'd say their notion of efficiency is different than mine.
On a tangentially related note, I love the PowerPC instruction to act as a mmio barrier: Enforce In Order Execution of I/O, or eieio.

For those anglophones that remember the kids' song "Old McDonald Had a Farm", your code can pretty easily follow the song.

read_a_register_right_here();
eieio();
then_write_a_register_right_here();
eieio();

bookkeep_here();
bookkeep_there();
a_lot_more_bookkeep_everywhere();

then_write_a_register_right_here();
eieio();
Agreed it's a high price point but also thought that about the iPhone XS and people still didn't flinch to pay that for face lock and animoji's.
Sure. But is it offensive in Brazil?

I really don't know -- in english it is, obviously, but white/black are seen as fairly neutral. And these things shift weirdly with time.

Ditto mulatto I guess (which was also in their list) -- I had an idea this was still a neutral term in parts of latin america, but could be wrong.
Yeah but in most cases that happened during the rise of Chrome which could suggest that Firefox didn't really overtake IE, but IE lost users to Chrome and Firefox happened to lose less users.

Another point to reinforce this argument is that in many of those regions Firefox peaked around 2010 and started losing users too.
Detrimental to what/whom? It depends, except with the 40-hour work week, that one belongs to the dustbin of history. Nobody profits from it at this point. BTW, why are you mentioning these topics?
How do people feel about Samsung's Fold vs Huawei?
I used to work at Amazon. Demographics aren't needed when you have a ton of customers for which to take the intersection, and sort by weighted (frequency, time of purchase.) Any non related purchases won't show up nearly as often or close in purchase date as related ones on a large sample of customers. This is just a consequence of having big data, which makes the noise floor insignificant. ML shouldn't be thrown at everything indiscriminately.
I'm actually afraid to buy a new car for this very reason.

All of my favorite cars now have a giant iPad in the console and almost no physical buttons.

When I'm barreling down the interstate and want to change the music, I don't want to fiddle around with a touch screen that requires any sort of attention.
I remember Wozniak once said that if you wait long enough, what you said will be true.

Apparently he said once (a looooooong time ago) that a mouse is a useless device and nobody would need one. So with the use of the touch-screens mouse use will be reduced.

I have to say that although my laptop does have a very good touch-screen, I still use my mouse for 80% of the actions. Perhaps when browsing or changing windows (to continue browing) I may be using my fingers. But try to select text and change it to Bold on Word, when on the highest possible screen resolution, and well.. you know what happens.

Of course for small portable devices, such as a phone, to write a small note it 'good enough' when using the software keyboard, and the fact that the usual mode on smartphones is 'one-app-at-a-time' displayed on the screen, makes for a simpler UI and UX.
That'd be nice, but but raising a family on a package delivery driver's income doesn't seem like a walk in the park either. I don't want to go off on a political tangent but I've always been struck by how capitalism is presented as both the great multiplier of wealth and the remorseless driver of competition and unyielding bottom lines.
Oh HN...

Q: Why does everything suck in the tech world these days?

A: Because users are mindless cattle and we, their glorious masters, must make things suck for their own good! It is the developers' burden...

I hate all of you.
That sounds like a job for a Server...
I would be disappointed to discover that the collective intelligence that I find in HN is not well represented when I speak with any member of the HN community, so better to continue with my bliss ignorance.

I've already seen that the collective intelligence in HN is not necessarily well represented by any particular commenter. (I may resemble this remark at times.) In any case, you already have no basis for your ignorance/bliss.
I dunno, The Terminator was pretty good.
Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached 5 Sigma Certainty
The problem of how to use a fixed set of buttons for a variety of purposes was solved much longer ago by the designers of (military) aeronautical instruments: you put them on the edge of the screen which displays labels next to currently active buttons. You designate a few buttons to have fixed functions - that would be the home, back and switch buttons on Android - and leave the rest to be used by the current application.
It's amazing how quickly my attitude toward the idea of GPU-accelerated JavaScript flipped from "awesome idea, let's check out the comments!" to "how about no."
Finally, reboots are necessary on all major operating systems, even linux.

Linux has a handy app called "needrestart". After you've updated it checks what needs restarting and offers to do it. If the kernel is updated then it will tell you to reboot. Some distros have live kernel patching which is as nutty as it sounds but seems to work. You only really have to reboot if the kernel is upgraded but to be honest, its a good idea to put in a reboot on a regular basis anyway and design your systems with some sort of redundancy to cope.

In my experience, only Gentoo (and derivatives and the like) can take longer than Windows for updating. Bear in mind they compile packages from source code. Getting a LibreOffice and Firefox and a Window Manager (say Gnome or KDE) update at the same time is a recipe for a very hot lap.
This resonates with "There are no projects like side projects" https://crastina.se/theres-no-projects-like-side-projects/ I wrote a few years ago (and it is still my credo).

Since I create educational projects (luckily, Quantum Game with Photons http://quantumgame.io/ was partially supported by an outreach grant; all other writings and stuff - not so much), I would love to see some way to support such endeavors.
If your workflow routinely brakes from updates then you probably need to reevaluate your whole setup.
Fractal: Automated Application Scaling
No alarms set. Plugged in, on Wi-Fi.
The Feds' Favorite iPhone Hacking Tool Is Selling on eBay for $100
> The fact that you're emphasizing ads over the very real performance advantages just means you've got an axe to grind.

No, it means I have a mother, siblings, friends, colleagues, ... that understand next to nothing to computers and would probably not even notice if I switched them from Chrome to Edge. And if any of them use Chrome, it is definitely not out of a conscious choice.

With all due respect, the single fact that you are commenting here on HN makes you more tech-literate than an overwhelming majority of the Web users. For a simple experiment, got to see your mom/dad, and just ask them what browser they are using, and why. IME, in every case, they will tell you they use ‶Google″, because they are not even necessarily aware of the whole browser concept, just accessing ‶The Internet″ – and I say it without any contempt; I'd be unable to do the tenth of what they are able to do in other fields.

Once again, I'm not saying that Chrome had/has not technical advantages; I'm saying that they were not decisive in making people switch.
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What is your argument that it wouldn't affect R&D spending?
Not to get off topic but I was a Meetup organizer for a year. In theory it's worth the ~$8 - $10 per month they charge. But I have two major complaints (from when I used MU a couple years ago):

1) Their onboarding sucks __for organizers__. When someone is new to Meetup, Meetup forces them to pick three (or more) groups to join as part of the sign up process. The person may or may not have an legit interest in your group. Maybe they came for another group and your group is just fulfilling the onboarding process.

This matters because if as an organizer you went for their cheaper tier w/ a smaller group size you get to that cap fairly quickly. Which mean you either keep the group closed and "eat" the dead members, or you pay more so you don't have to close the group.

2) You can send a group email / message but they have no analytics. Not even something as basic as an open rate. You can export members but not their emails so something like MailChimp is not an option.

After a year I decided that Meetup was good for Meetup but not for me.
Great idea. Rather than let the user, who knows more about their schedule, workflow, and needs, than anyone at Microsoft, determine when updates should be applied, we will instead use fancy Machine Learning to pick a time and force it upon them.
> As the technology improves, all this stuff will be abstracted from the user.

I'm not optimistic. We still have an Internet on which it's basically impossible for a non-expert user to reliably send or read encrypted email.
In what way is it less performant? The start up is faster on Firefox on both PCs that I use. When there are a ton of tabs, both browsers eat on all RAM, but I wouldn't say that Firefox drags the system down anymore than Chrome.

I am on Windows 10.
Lawnmowers rust if they're not properly maintained, regardless of use. There's no evidence that shared lawnmowers would rust slower. Probably the opposite because when people own their own lawnmowers they're move like to maintain them properly. So no, sharing wouldn't reduce the net demand.
I don't understand why everyone is tolerating (nay, engendering!) the level of invasion and subjugation that's baked into all the modern operating systems, linux aside. I want to spend $99 on a perpetual license and not be monetized any further! It's gone way too far now, and there has to be a way back to sanity. I suspect laws will be necessary and the industry will need to shrink. Some will lose their pointless jobs, but so be it. It's a dystopia you're building anyway.
Ouch, their Forum is full of spam.
I think AI/ML has changed things.

I think Computer Science used to be more aligned with math, in the sense that the mathematics courses most people took in school were overwhelmingly symbol manipulation. Just like CS.

Now I think things are not only more data driven, any sort of "undertanding" might be prioritized away forever, unless some adversarial network requires it. :)
Phones have became corporation insecure touch computers

Removed MicroSD

Removed 3.5 headphone port

Removed NFC

Removed IR

Removed proper traditional UI

Removed Text labels

Removed Hard buttons

Removed removable back panel

Removed removable battery

Removed ability to change/firmware boot loader

Removed ability to install third party android roms
I'll write an unpopular opinion:

1. Developer's time is not a commodity. The time you spend testing in alternative browsers is time you can spend in tasks that will make life less painful to the people who work with you such as writing tests, documentation, or new code.

2. A website that only works in Chrome is preferable to a website that does not exist. The business should be the one who dictates which browsers should be supported, and it should be a rational decision based on data such as reviewing your own analytics. Nobody has infinite resources.

3. Using a website is a privilege, not a right. The same way you are free to choose your favorite browser, a website owner is free to choose which users to serve, the same way we can say "Are you still using IE8 in 2019? tough luck buddy, the site is broken", we can also say "Sorry dude, I didn't care enough to support Firefox because X feature was broken".

4. When you as a user decide to choose Firefox because "my ideological reasons", you are also choosing to deal with the negative aspects such as broken websites, broken extensions, lack of features, loss of mindshare, etc., etc., if you don't like dealing with them the alternative is pretty simple: Use Chrome, that's what the end users do anyway.

The reason Chrome has gained lots of mindshare is because we all love convenience, and there are less-painful alternatives to push the "we don't like Google" agenda such as forking Chromium. The "we don't track you" is a huge competitive advantage against Google, why should you give up everything that Chromium does right? The resources that Mozilla spends maintaining Gecko could be used more intelligently to build for example a security team to alleviate the concern of having a huge common attack area.

Wasn't "test once, run everywhere" the holy grail? Or now we like O(N) instead of O(1)?
LYAH is a bit dated, but since it focuses a lot more on conceptual stuff, instead of being directly pragmatic, it has aged a lot better than books like "Real World Haskell".
Beatles, "Two of Us", Let It Be
Past climates are scientifically reconstructed from data recovered from physical objects that were present during those climates. One of the main sources, if not the main source, for that data is tree rings from old wood.

If this statement is untrue, in any way, then please correct me, because yes, I've misunderstood how past climates are scientifically reconstructed. But I'm going to need you to explain what data is used during their reconstruction (and not some hand-wavy "it's very difficult and not for non-climate-scientists to understand").