skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many windows users consider macOS font rendering at low dpi blurry, and windows font rendering crispy.

It's just what they are used to.
Same here, the joy of a good Marseille soap (I'm in France). It lasts at least 3 months for showers, washing hands, and everything (hair as well)

I heard some people wash their teeth with soap, I'm not there yet :))
Some examples of natural forests in Scotland - which look nothing like commercial planting:

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/our-pick-scotlands-nati...
The ecological disaster is that these kinds of forest are green dead zones. no other native plantlife can survivie in this ecosystem, if you can even call it that. Silka Pine should be considered an invasive species, IMO.
Italy as well, and other countries are following suit / will do.
Eon Switches All U.K. Customers to Renewable Power
Okay, that might work for smaller groups. I guess my head is too much focused on hyper-scaling, which might actually not be the goal here... Other than scaling / hardware space, I think the idea is great btw. My first post sounded very negative, I actually like the idea a lot.
The most popular CMS is WordPress. Is there a .NET CMS that you feel has more functionality than WordPress? Perhaps your site will be in a domain for which a .NET CMS would have some advantages?
You said:

> Yes that is correct but that's not what I was talking about in earlier comments, which were exclusively about example-based proof/disproof.[0]

In reply, thaumasiotes said:

> If you're not talking about proof/disproof, you might want to look for a different word.[1]

Now you say:

> I was unaware there is only one type of proof or that it is not allowed to talk only about specific types of proof.[2]

Based on your comment [0] above, your comments were apparently about a specific type of proof, and yet the words you used did not make that qualification clear. In particular, statement [0] says you were restricting the type of proof you were considering.

Reply [1] above is suggesting that if you are only talking about a restricted type of proof then you might want to use a word other that "proof", because you are not talking about proofs in general.

Your comment [2] seems to have missed the point. You yourself in [0] said you were restricting your type of proof. You're allowed to talk about anything you like, but if you use the word "proof" without qualifying it, but you intend only to be talking about a specific type of proof, don't then be surprised if people misunderstand you.
How do you suggest OP uses html files "without dealing with front-end"?
I think phonics is a slight mismatch with English, which might produce poor spelling ability?

The "buh-aye-buh-ee" comment elsewhere here also seems somewhat on the nose.

UK schools have been all-in with phonics for some time though.
Ireland was mostly defeorested before the British even arrived. Though having arrived they did indeed make it worse.
Indeed - and there's no mention of any of this at https://hub.docker.com/_/golang - compare with https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/nginx that discussed non-root users and how to use it.
A firefox theme i need to brew install just feels ... weird. Is there no other way to do this?
I see mentioned a lot the problem with online shopping.. what about shipping and the other countless logistics problem with ordering stuff from Nigeria?
--Who we are--
We’re a tech based real estate company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We specifically chose this market because we were driven by the problems we once faced as tenants, owners and property agents. Our vision is to simplify the property acquisition minus the red tapes through taking control over the Agents and backend processes.
We’re convinced that we are able to solve the issues with duplicated listings, fake agents, and unqualified tenants/buyers.
We are learning, and trying constantly to add value for our users and the agents wherever we can through different touchpoints, enabling them to make the right choice while maintaining the best user experience.

--JD--
We're looking for Full Stack Developers who are familiar with
Ruby on Rails, HTML and Javascript.
If you've had experience with AWS, it will be a good bonus.

We currently only accept applicants who are either currently residing in Malaysia or who are Malaysian citizens. The option for remote work was there, but as a startup we don't have the luxury to resources and time to closely monitor tech. We prefer that you'd be phisically present for the job.

--Our Culture--
We are a small family of dreamers, driven by the same vision: to bring on positive changes to the property industry.
As a team, our strength lies into our diversity of backgrounds, interests and cultures. We work in an open office environment, which fosters interactions and fast paced decisions.
We favor ability and a can-do mindset over experience and degrees.
So, if you are ...
tired of corporate jobs and want to go maverick
a go-getter and usually says “I’ll do it !”
in a habit of learning new things
Drop everything and apply now because we’re expanding our family!

Send your resumes / CVs to founders@bumbung.co, we will send you an email with a quick test to see how you fare out. Cheers!
If you ever market your product in France, don't use that acronym.
The quote should be "Comparison to others is the thief of joy.".

Overcoming your own limitation is a much better form of success. At least there is a form of control that you have on it.
The great strength of child centred instead of teacher centred methods is in realising that it doesn’t matter whether a child learns to read at four, or nine, or twelve. Once you really understand that Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development means you can teach it to a four year old in 100s of hours, a six year old in tens of hours and that a nine year old has a decent chance of picking it up more or less by osmosis you wonder why we bother. The hard part of reading isn’t sounding out words, it’s understanding complex thoughts. Four year olds can’t do that.

A good teacher can make a big difference to how a child experiences a year of their life but the long run effects on them are unlikely to be large. Children of normal intelligence learn to read easily once they’re ready, just as you can cover grade school math in under 40 hours with a normal twelve year old.
Except all the Indian holidays would be on different dates :).
SLP86 Planb – Frontrunning the Bitcoin Halvening?
I agree with this, however to be pedantic even in Serbian (or BCS more generally) there are some homographs (in ordinary orthography at least) which are not complete homophones - the classic example being grâd "city" / gràd "hail". It's definitely not ghoti though ;)
Collaborative Drawing on the Web
I did say in my former post that the reason for not contradicting the curriculum is because it is confusing for the child (this is something teachers up and down the country observe day to day).

Sure, it’s also easier for the teacher as well but that’s irrelevant to the discussion.
Interestingly enough, blue eyes bear low levels of melanin but that melanin is what makes eyes brown at higher levels: the blue color is due to Rayleigh scattering!

Green eyes are so because of a combination of lipochrome (color source of amber eyes) for the yellow component and Rayleigh scattering for the blue component.

Hazel eyes have non-uniform melanin in low to moderate amount, which combined with Rayleigh scattering makes the eyes change color depending on light conditions (mine can go to greenish-almost-blue to deep green to brown with speckles of gold, and any intermediate combination of those).
Upcoming generations will think of us as the society who was afraid of being bored. The book Deep Work by Cal Newport is a good read on this topic, but I'm sure it isn't the only one. You can find my detailed notes on it here: https://alvaroduran.me/deep-work (any feedback is welcomed!)
Zorax Talks: Market Overview. July
Pista, a {bash, zsh} prompt written in rust
What I remember from biology class is that nerve cells are very long (up to ~1 meter) and when they are cut they die.

I wonder how they transferred nerves given that.

If someone know and can explain I'd be very thankful !
> this makes me think that telomeres are not the main cause of aging-related death

That's an interesting argument, but couldn't you use the same reasoning to argue that telomeres are the main cause of aging-related death? The mental model I'm thinking is: As you run out of telomeres, you get diseases and you can't reproduce - and that’s maladaptive. So there’s evolutionary pressure to slow down the shortening rate, up to the point where you have children (plus grandchildren in the case of humans). When you're living long enough to have one or two generations of offspring, there’s no more pressure to correct the telomere problem.

Wouldn't your argument and mine be equally consistent with the featured article (that shortening rate predicts life span)?
Those are not problems a new number format can fix though. The issues with x87 precision are due to compilers freely converting between different representations without this being indicated in the program.

Posits also can't achieve associativity in all conditions, you need to use "quire" accumulators with higher precision. However, if the decision of using quires were left to the compiler, you'd end up with the exact same problem of unclear precision as for x87. To avoid that, those accumulators will need to be annotated in the code, and straightforward programs that do not use them will continue to exhibit non-associativity.
I came up with the same conclusion. It's not a technical test in such, it's more a competition/motivation test.
Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
This Thursday I'm invited to a privacy roundtable with Facebook Legal and Privacy Policy teams in Amsterdam. The round table will be with other entrepreneurs and experts in the privacy field. I'm invited because I'm the founder of Simple Analytics - a privacy friendly analytics SaaS business [1] - and critical about Facebook on Twitter [2].

Some people advised me not to go there because it would only do harm to my name and brand, but I think I should. The Facebook teams are going to give a presentation with some new plans where they want feedback on. For internal push back they need critical people from outside Facebook, which I'm happy to contribute for.

To make it more interesting for the outside world I'm going to ask a few questions for Facebook in general (privacy wise). And that's where I need some help. What questions do you want answers for from Facebook?

Facebook agreed I could use the answers outside of the meeting (with the exception of sharing from non-Facebook attendances).

[1] https://simpleanalytics.com

[2] https://twitter.com/adriaanvrossum
So, this is the new Instagram?
I would guess that around eighty is the upper bound.
Theming Firefox requires some funky file location detection; ShadowFox does that by executables, which is a little distressing. GitHub project also includes the sources to the distributables, as far as I recall.
Remedies Gomati Chakra Vastu Tips by Enlightened Life Guru Dr.Puneet Chawla
Code style is subjective nonsense.

Some aspects of it are. I don't give a damn about tabs versus spaces, semicolons, etc. A decent code formatter fixes that sort of thing so it doesn't matter.

I absolutely do give a damn about things like breaking code up in to easy-to-grok modules, writing testable blocks, etc. In your response a few posts back you said "The feedback was only that the code was disorganized because all 750 lines were in one file and there was no test automation." That demonstrates to me that you can't write unit testable code, because you didn't write any tests and your code isn't broken up in to units. I can't write tests for a monolithic file like that without importing all of it and potentially getting side effects like prototype poisoning or globally scoped variables. That is a good reason to reject you as a candidate, and why you shouldn't write code that way.
Just out of interest, which country are you based? I wonder if the reason perspective is so polarised from mine is because our education systems also vastly differ.

From the perspective of the UK, most of what you said is completely untrue.
This "feature": https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/358651/unable-to-c...
I "solve" this problem by using soap but in smaller amounts. It doesn't need to form a lather.
There are cases of all of the following:

(a) A conjecture claims that X doesn't exist, and a proof has been found to show that X does not exist;

(b) A conjecture claims that X doesn't exist, and an exhaustive search has failed to find X;

(c) A conjecture claims that X does exist, and a search has found a sample X;

(d) A conjecture claims that X does exist, and a proof has been given that such an X does exist but without ever demonstrating a specific example.

This collection of cases seems to show that your statements are mistaken.
14? Seven for the years with leap days and seven for the years without.
Check out the relevant Reddits r/homeassistant and r/homeautomation.

I started using Home Assistant a year ago and it has become a fun hobby.
Unlikely, outside of tech circles no one is interested or cares about federation.
Why not use the official Firefox Color to change your theme? Doesn't need a separate installer.
https://color.firefox.com/
You are right, no soap. It calls itself a "beauty bar" hah! I use it and it certainly doesn't cause the astringent and drying effect I get from real soap.

I tried to find out whether it was actually recommended for the skin and it's an ungoogleable topic infested by a toxic combination of beauty product snake-oil and "chemicals are evil" antivaxish insanity so I'm none the wiser.
Did you read the Guardian articles about UK Gov't sponsored money laundering? An eye-opener to be sure: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/05/how-britain-ca...
Is not a secret at all

Oak, linden, beech or chesnut. Start burning much slower than any resinous, support a high biodiversity of insects and feed mammals and birds

If you want something that grows faster: poplar, maple, ash, birches and most willows. Willows are bee lifesavers in early spring.

If you really want a pine, use a native species at least. I'm not systematically against using a few Spruce, Cedrus or Sequioa here and there, but if you invest strongly in a monoculture of Spruce you have a high risk to lose all the money of your investors by Cytospora cancer or fire. As I said before, none of this is a secret.

There are many solutions more simple and obvious.
Probably the most uplifting news I read these last times. I cant imagine what these people must have felt when they got this new arm.
One of the reasons many people are unbanked is the expensive KYC laws. Libra also need to respect KYC.
Oh Good Lord, no - I don't know if it's a particularly British thing, but children were threatened with having their "mouths washed out with soap" if they said rude words!
And here's its own Mastodon/Fediverse account: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed
how does it work ? because we do larger conference calls with a distributed team of 40 people. As in - is there a paid plan, etc

also, does it work with mobile apps ?
This golden blogpost. Netlify + Gitlab

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947068
Think the idea is to have lots of small communities which can communicate with one another. If this ever takes off, I am sure that for-profit instances will eventually be founded as well and they may/may not contain ads as part of their business model.
I wonder how similar that is to the effect of the "backwards bike" shown in "Smarter every day": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

It seems like there's a very deep idea of how a bike should work and instead of learning the new behaviour bit by bit the new idea just "clicks" at some point. I've heard people with up/down flipped goggles also say it's quite sudden change. I'm curious if it's similar for reconnected nerves?
The point is giving examples of "b" with each vowel, so the child does not associate "b" with any particular sound.
> >IEEE floating point is deterministic, to the apparent contradiction of many sentences written by Gustafson

> "parallel systems, most likely GPUs, where it is common to have slightly different results even on the same operation, on the same system. This is due to the fact that several pipelines will do calculations in parallel and depending on which pipeline ends first (which can depend on many factors like current temperature) the sums can happen in a different order, leading to different rounding results."

> due to fp associativity?

As far as I understand, that's not quite the case (on Fermi+ Nvidia, as previous generations had no real support for proper IEEE single compute).

There are pipelines in parallel, but almost all non-determinism in the order of execution (resulting in fp associativity) is exposed to the programmer, except for atomic instructions. Those can even depend on clock skew across PCIe or NVLink, if they operate on remote memory.
NVLink supports remote execution in a recent version (I suggest the microbenchmarking-derived microarchitecture analysis papers for Volta and Turing, even if they are less hands-on the Nervana's maxas (with the SGEMM walk-through, which I really recommend)), and thus any hope of reliably tricking synchronization behavior via undefined opcodes/scheduler instructions trickery is deliberately out of the window.

On IBM POWER9 CPUs they can apparently delegate execution of atomic operations to the host CPU, which might (I don't know enough about POWER9 cache coherency /NUMA protocols) delegate them over the NUMA fabric to a different rack-mount unit bonded into the same NUMA mesh.

TL;DR:
Recent Nvidia GPUs do not suffer implicit non-determinism in IEEE floats unless you use hardware atomics.

Non-determinism is exposed and introduced in explicit concurrent data structures [0].

[0]: If you count a datastructure with a simple spinlock guarding it as a concurrent datastructure.

PS: I'll add references / links later on the laptop.
Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be 'scientifically meaningless'
Seems like the drop is everywhere according to that website. https://the-federation.info/mastodon

I would say either the chart is wrong, the data is still being collected or something is very wrong with the federation system.
Looking at how the brain reacts to boredom could help people cope
The words of the Scottish singer Jim Malcolm ring true here:

https://www.jimmalcolm.com/music/sconeward/#BARREN

Last verse:

Slow return to native timber

So they plant the sitka spruce

Only fit to wipe your bottom

No damn good to build a hoose
Universal Links are better than their localhost webserver insanity, but don't really solve this. A malicious website can still redirect you to a zoom.us URL that will instantly join the meeting without confirmation.

The underlying problem is that they want a URL to join a conference call hosted by any random user and share your audio/video without confirmation. And it's simply not safe to trigger that kind of action from a URL.
> From the utilitarian perspective, the bombs and quick end of the war actually saved lives, so it was the right thing to do

No, it was very mixed opinions even among high militaries about the decision. Some people saying that the war was in fact over, and the losses would have been less just waiting out the Japanese. You can have different opinions about this, but it is not a fact that it is the utilitarian perspective to nuke.
Huh, I'm on Windows and it auto-joined the meeting too, with video enabled. I wonder if this is because at some point in the past I opened a Zoom meeting and allowed Chrome to open the Zoom URI in the Zoom app?
For me the problem isn't that it asks, it is that it forgets (and they don't have the same options consistently across hosting orgs).

I'd be totally fine with default-on voip sound - with a red, muted mic button and a bubble saying 'tap to unmute'.
Why the Fed Should Oversee Facebook’s Libra
Then you're a part of tiny minority who both has access to these tools and figured out that this is the proper way to manage your money. Exactly zero people I personally know manage their money that way. Libra does next to nothing for you.
Feels like what you need to do is to work on creating a safety net for yourself so that you can take a risk when the time comes and you can take a short term pay cut without impacting on your family's lifestyle. View this as part of the longer term project.

So, instead of thinking 'how do I make as much money working for myself as I do now', think about building up savings and investments so that in future you can afford to take a pay cut without cutting your lifestyle too much. Try to limit the inevitable lifestyle creep if you get pay rises or promotions so you are saving more than you spend of the increase.

Then focus on broadening your network in the job you are doing at the moment. This might or might not be helpful in your future endeavours but again it gives you a better safety net - so that if it doesn't work out then you are morel likely to be able to quickly get a job to fall back on.

Finally, assuming you're not a single parent, could your partner step up more if the need arose financially? Are there things you could do to improve the value of that safety net?
The problem with cash is that it prohibits sensible monetary policy in certain situations (i.e. negative interest rates). So instead of cash we would need anonymous physical (and digital) tokens whose value is not fixed, but is adjusted according to the interest rates.

I guess main problem is that to a very good approximation nobody wants these. Generally, the ones understanding monetary policy don't understand the need for privacy and the ones understanding need for privacy don't understand the need for negative rates and the rest don't care.
The real killer is reliability, not so much in terms of percentage of produce spoiled but in terms of how often it gums itself up and needs manual intervention. And in a production environment, the numbers add up really quickly and you need a lot of nines.

A human doing the job takes 2 seconds per lettuce and can probably work a full 12-hour shift without intervention. Adding some leeway for pauses and breaks, call it 10 hours of uninterrupted production, that's 18,000 lettuces. If your failure rate is only 0.005% that's still one failure per robot per day.
Pixelfed is evolving quite fast. I am using it since soon one year.
The community just needs more users and more instances.

ActivityPub is really on the raise. I saw recently that https://people.kernel.org is using WriteFreely.
The American Retreat, Part III: The Korean Peninsula
Surprised to see this on HN, it's not my main gig but recently I've been getting into the details of exporting and selling coconut oil soap from my family's business.

It's a remarkably simple process to make soap from oil or fat. just heat and add a caustic agent. Sodium Hydroxide for bar soap or Potassium Hydroxide for liquid soap.

When I check out the competition and look at the ingredients list I'm surprised at how many different things that are in most products. Most body washes are technically detergents not soaps.
All of these announcements rely on suppliers purchasing "renewable energy certificates", which are like carbon offset certificates (as I understand it).

I am quite dubious of this as on paper the UK is far from producing enough renewable electricity.
Japanese curry chain tries to sell Indians their own creation
Does that ban apply to to individuals, though, or only companies? In the European countries I know of, it’s the latter.
Maybe it will be automated through facial recognition and other sensors. All public places will be monitored for deviant behaviour.... crimes caught through CCTV and AI.... sir you were seen littering on July 10th 2031
It's quite remarkable how successful the marketing campaign against bar soap has been such that it's somehow thought of as unclean. All to get us to switch to far, far more wasteful liquid soap.