skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One question about this approach: If I understand correctly, if I have some text that is bold, and later I want to change it into italic, I have to go into templates, locate all instances of the text and rename all the classes from font-weight--bold to font-style--italic? Seems like "quick to build, but hard to maintain" approach?
That's a very generous interpretation of the facts.

We actually have lines going to Netherlands (which in turn pulls from Germany) and France, and one incoming that connects us to Norway.[0]

I have friends who work in power stations up and down the country and they describe it as a "power sharing" situation, our grid feeds Netherlands and France (to a lesser extent at least), but more often we pull from them to fill our peaks.

We actually have links to many countries it seems: https://blogs.platts.com/2019/01/31/uk-electricity-links-eur...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_system_operator
I'm guessing a dns lookup of annoying.adserver.com returns the pihole ip address (or a dedicated alternate address)

Then when your browser tries to load content from annoying.adserver.com it connects to the pihole, which returns dummy content (a blank image or html page)

I would imagine hardcoded ip addresses in trackers/ads might bypass pihole.
Our ways to hide that logic has been building libraries that handle nearly all of it.

But since Haskell's ecosystem is small by comparison a lot of that logic leaks to your own application code. Especially when dealing with something like stateful websocket applications.
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And it's worth noting a nonnegligible percentage of high-achieving businesspeople would torture small animals for the right price. Being a little lax with security policies under pressure isn't so shocking.
thanks for this, enjoyed the post
The real problem is that HN doesn't annotate paywalled sites. 1/3 of the links I click I can't access. If I could filter by non-paywalled links I would agree with you
The penicillin moment happened because penicillin actually came into existence and became widely available pretty rapidly.

Research and speculation is awesome stuff, but the hard part isn't discovering new concepts. It is actually making those concepts into a marketable and affordable good.

The evidence for this is that even though there is essentially a new 'breakthrough' discovery every other week for solar panels, or electric motors, or batteries.. We are still using what amounts to cutting-edge tech from the late 90's.

In the modern era this means we generally have to wait till the patents expire and market competition kicks in in order to get the price low enough and the product perfected enough to see widespread usage. If it goes anywhere at all.

It's also worth noting that Florey, the man who is largely responsible in making penicillin practical drug, refused to patent his early innovations to make it widespread as possible.
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Did you see the 919 Evo lap? True, it's not an F1 car (although similarly fast), and it had the circuit to itself, but still...
I think we are debating two different things. I don't support his behavior. But if it was a robot, it wouldn't be racist or appalling, but it seems to be that if a human does it is considered racist.

Recording faces and license plates and reporting on data found can't be racist, it is purely neutral. Which is why I think the robot in the story has this job.

I suppose we could blame the programmer or admin if it's designed or configured to go after a particular race. But even a robot can only arrest so many people in a day, and if you optimize an algorithm based on AI (also robot running on data), would it ultimately look like this officer's choices?
Oh man, I'm predicting a new wave of scam emails in the coming months.

Legitimate news articles like this are irresistible to the 419 scammers.
Sounds like a chaperon program. Wasn't that done away with a hundred years ago?
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perhaps "hypothesize" would fit better.
Those pharma corps wouldn't exist without the government helping to prop them up or the actual researchers doing their job.

To me, this isn't an argument but an excuse for greed. If a company invents a cure for a disease that could save 1000 people but they charge enough that only 10 people can use it, is it really fair to say this is OK because 'well at least less people are dying'?

And the excuse of drugs being expensive to manufacture doesn't even exist in this case. Insulin isn't expensive and other nations don't pay nearly as much as Americans. So more Americans are dying solely to line the pockets of executives and CEOs. It's frankly amazing how far we'll go to excuse rampant greed while people with insulin are dying as a result of the greed. To value profits over lives is disgusting.
This heats up the nanotubes, which then emit visible photons, which then increase electricity generation

Once a solar cell is built with this technology, do you think there will be enough light emitted by the nanotubes to make the solar panels appear to glow, themselves? Because that would be pretty interesting.
I've used Ting successfully before: https://ting.com/
I don't understand the RPi camera. It is lower quality than a webcam of the same price, and it has an awkward connector, so you can't really use it more than a few inches away from the RPi. Why not use a simple USB camera instead?
IMHO distant anonymity is rotting away all that is good in the world.
My experience with disaster response is a month in Louisiana helping to operate the Rapides Coliseum shelter managed by the American Red Cross after hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Those who are resourceful, can solve problems creatively, and take initiative will lead a disaster response while those granted rank and position tend to spin wheels and control a situation they don't understand. Disasters aren't responded to by staff employees with adequate training. If it's a major disaster, people who have never worked together nor acted in such a capacity are loosely organized together and used to channel resources and effort to victims and their families. Technology absolutely plays a vital role in disaster response but at times it can be a major hindrance. I recall when agents of FEMA came to the coliseum, they asked where the computers and network were. The location did have them, unlike others, but over time they went down and no one has available to maintain them. I explained to the agents that they will have to use forms and manual entry the old fashioned way. They just looked at each other and left. Several days passed. Then, FEMA returned with a mobile command center, featuring computers and satellite communication.

The experience didn't surprise me but made me realize how dependent people are on technology and how unprepared they are to handle circumstances they haven't trained for.
reader mode loads everything.

umatrix prevents loading of a lot of stuff. I have configured umatrix to only load first-party content (I can always add 3rd party content back in using the menu and save it).

Also, umatrix can be used first, then you can use reader mode. Weirdly I notice reader sometimes bypasses some umatrix protections.
It's not, a lot of people are driven by spite and actively reject those things:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/04/13043...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
Just a theory.

A random example (which doesn't hinge on legal vs. right, although it seems to): It's illegal in some U.S. states to change lanes across a solid white divider when driving, especially if you're about to make a turn.

There are intersections where the turn lane's solid section is so long, and the block before the intersection is so short, it's basically impossible to merge where it's legal. Especially with any traffic, there's just no time to cross before the solid.

But there's room! Once you're in the solid zone, there's no one blocking you.

Merging there would be illegal. There's the fully legal option to wait at the light, then go on straight, then turn at a block down the road where the solid is short.

But that's inconvenient. You want to get home. But merging here would be illegal.

But you want to.

So people partition.
No. This idea of "innocent because X needs killing" is a bad idea. Everyone's idea of "needs killing" is different. Imagine how this hypothetical law would work out for minorities. It would not go well.
Delany's writing raises the perennial question of whether we can separate the art from the artist (the view in the current climate seems to be an emphatic "no", see for example the recent Times article about Nolde's paintings being removed from Merkel's office [1]). For the obvious comparison of Nabokov, I'm inclined to view Lolita separately from the author and his personal beliefs. If Nabokov held views similar to Humbert, he kept those thoughts to himself, and I don't think anyone reading Lolita can charge Nabokov of advocating those ideas, although it seems really popular to do so in literary circles today.

I am not sure the same case about "a lack of advocacy" can be made for Delany or his oeuvre.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/arts/nolde-nazi-exhibitio...
> Please don't dump your solvent down the drain like every Silicon Valley fab did back in the day, poisoning the entire region for decades to come.

+1

Please develop a workable waste disposal strategy BEFORE thinking about cool disruptive home brew nanofab MEMS/circuit hacks.
> On the plus side it is so plainly unconstitutional that it will be instantly blocked literally anywhere it is challenged

I'm not so sanguine - our current Supreme Court has 2 rather new members, who are probably not as predictable as those they replaced. Roberts, too, has been less predictable than his predecessor Rehnquist.
fail - I read quite a bit of it.. one or two pages at a time!
This is not an uncommon phenomenon and not specific to vuln research. It happens all the time in mathematics, the sciences... [0]

Far more likely: there is a related cause that made two people think to try the same thing at approximately the same time. Someone publishes a new JIT type confusion bug, someone realizes "oh man it never occurred to me that X could trigger bug type Y", they start digging, and...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
Unless your app has most of its content contained within the app, I can't even imagine how you get to the mindset in thinking 100MB for a phone app is normal.

Looking at their breakdown of the Olympic app, I can see using some of that space for media since you don't want to pull all the images over-the-air every time, but 16 MB just for fonts? How do fonts take up more space than the embedded video?

The only apps I've downloaded that broke 30 MB or so have all been games that use local textures and geometry (and likely came from Unity). If I see an app which isn't a game taking over maybe 30 MB, it's an instant cancellation for me. I think mobile developers can afford to spend a little more effort on optimization instead of pretending it's another platform with limitless resources.
Yes, those are big institutional investors, eg. pension funds.

It's not like there are only a handful of AAA investment options.

And those investors don't only depend on these rating agencies. (They have their own fund managers, they have different divisions for different type/risk of assets - for example some dude going after risky VC type investments, a trader doing daytrading with stocks and other more liquid things [forex, derivatives <this is where the ratings come in>, money markets].)

But they don't just blindly buy anything that has been rated AAA.

In that sense the fact that rating agencies inflate ratings just means these big funds have more options to put on some more risk.

Of course, investing always had and will have some gambling style part. Because yes, maybe some thing is doomed to fail, but ... if that's thing is very large [eg. all of housing, or all of mortgages] you'll have to either hedge that risk anyway (and/or basically short it), or go in long, set up saddle options, etc. And usually that what happens, and then eventually reality gets more complex and enough small unnoticed bad assumptions get built into the system that it starts to crumble.

Naturally, it's not a great thing, because it has real world consequences. Funds go bust, projects get stopped, orders get stalled/cancelled, people are let go, families are stressed, health becomes at risk, lives are lost.

Is there a better system? Well, so far not really. The problem is not that there are some sophisticated bets on new research & development, new real estate, new capacity expansion for some company, or even betting on people paying back loans OR getting a house, or even the securitization of this is not a problem. The problem is that US and a lot of other "modern societies" don't have sufficient support nets for when those bets fail and people lose their work.
Yeah I got to that, too, and it's not correct. A given CO2 level basically determines the temperature at which the Earth will be in net radiative equilibrium between heating and cooling.

The Earth can't simply continue heating up until the oceans boil and the rocks melt because the CO2 level has gone up a bit. That would only be possible in the presence of a very strong positive feedback loop that made the Earth better and better insulated the hotter it got, which would be unlike any other thermal system we know of.

Edit: there are some positive feedback effects, like water vapor being a greenhouse gas, that will likely make the end result hotter than that expected based on the change in CO2 alone, but it will not lead to heating just continuing indefinitely.
Cool, "Starting Forth" is available for free on forth.com!

Makes me curious about SwiftForth [1]. I saw a bunch of other commercially available forth implementations in the past ([2] ?), but since Forth looks so niche I never got motivated enough to try Forth more seriously.

1: https://www.forth.com/swiftforth/

2: https://8th-dev.com
People are totally right to complain about basic features being left out, not not having a standard secured low-overhead video recording and screenshotting is simply stupid and harmful for Linux.
To use a Computer Science paradigm. Performance (Efficiency) is not the end goal, but performance (efficiency) acts like currencies so that you can 'buy' other things from it.
I do not know how it is now, but when I worked with companies doing apprenticeships for electricians in the Netherlands a while ago, I noticed most of them (the “children”) did unskilled or no work at all and did not care because the company signed off on their work so they would graduate.
I see Hogg as less of a novel meant for the general public and more of an academic exercise.

Delaney's shtick was showing that pulp and smut weren't low art, often taking those genres to their academic or weird ends.

For instance in the second Neveryon story (first book) he just up and creates a page long info dump about a character we never see again -- seemingly just to flex. I loved it and I love his writing.

At the same time he is very much a pervert who makes it known he absolutely loved being a Times Square twink through various interviews and talks. It's weird, and he's a weird dude. But I adore his work.

Also I feel like if any science fiction author was gonna have their sins brought to light during the me too stuff it would have been him, but thankfully there hasn't been signs of him being a predator. I hope that remains case
While your points are valid (or mostly so), I think you're being a little bit overly dismissive. OK, maybe not "just anybody" could do this, but about what can we say that "just anybody" can do it?

OTOH, considering a hypothetical group of dedicated enthusiasts who are willing to pool resources / funds / knowledge /etc. and work on something like this collectively, I'd just about be willing to wager than any moderately urban area in a "1st world" country has the raw potential to have a "garage chip fab" show up. Especially areas near one or more research universities and with a heavy tech presence (and therefore lots of technically adept people in the local population).

Of course not everybody will bother, because arguably there isn't much point other than education and a sense of self-satisfaction, given this bit: "Update 7/8/19: FET gate length (feature size) reduced to <5µm, bringing this project to be state-of-the-art in about 1975".

Anyway, this seems like a pretty cool demo at worst, and "hats off" to Sam for pulling it off!
Why do you believe that is not the case?
Wow, this is super cool. Thanks!
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> while calling someone “unmarried” in English has no strong connotations, the word’s standard Korean equivalent, mihon (미혼), implies that its object may not have married yet but one day will. An alternative term has thus gained traction in recent years: bihon (비혼), which suggests a deliberate choice not to marry, and thus not to engage in anything that comes along with marriage.

I found this part interesting. There are a few analogues in English with similar phenomena, both of which I'm personally familiar with due to communities I'm part of.

- Because the word "childless" implies that childless people are lacking something they want, many of us who actively recoil at the thought of having children have taken to using the term "childfree". Someone who wants children but doesn't have them is childless; someone who doesn't want children and has avoided having them is childfree.

- Historically, trans people, and especially trans women have been classed into two categories, "pre-op" and "post-op", based on whether or not somebody has had Genital Reconstruction Surgery. As there are an increasing number of trans women who aren't interested in having GRS at all, many who would otherwise have been considered "pre-op" are now using the term "non-op". And on top of that, as the trans community has continued to de-emphasize GRS, I've also seen the prominence of those terms fade away in general. Years and years ago (long before I transitioned), it wasn't uncommon for someone's op status to always be attached to any mention of them being trans (usually in the form "So-and-so is a pre-op transsexual"), and nowadays you only see op status used when someone is specifically discussing GRS (and honestly, the status of my genitalia is private medical information, and I have no interest in rattling it off when introducing myself or having other people rattle it off when introducing me; it's tacky and gross).
I thought about something similar. T-Mobile based MVNOs have pretty good pricing, too, so maybe I'll do that.
He must have tolerant parents to allow experiments involving baths of HF and Piranha solution in their garage!

Seriously impressive though.
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> crimes are more common in metropolitan areas due to increased contact

Is there evidence for this contact theory? It doesn’t match my understanding of crime patterns. For example there are many very dense cities around the world without much crime, and some sparsely populated rural areas with lots of crime.

A Google search turns up

http://science.time.com/2013/07/23/in-town-versus-country-it...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/big-city-crime-murder-rates-a...

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/are-big-citie...
>I can't see anything like this happening in the US

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/22/u-s-fertili...

The US is already below replacement rate on average and growth is mostly coming from immigration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

Only 5 states have a fertility rate above 2, and they are very low population states. Deep blue state are around 1.5/1.6 and red states are around 1.8/1.9
They studied character not intelligence.

Cheating is not associated with low intelligence but with a corrupt character.
Sounds like the plot line for Avengers vs Thanos... Life would just be so much better if there was less of it.
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Thank you for extracting that!

I don't know about the component state on the web, but from my perspective I think that is backwards. As I said I'm not a web developer, but for me those terms are meaningful this way:

Assume I have a program for designing aircraft jet turbines.* It uses a parametric model that lets you specify shaft length, blade length, combustion chamber camber, etc. It has its own constraint system that doesn't let you put 10 meter blades in a 4 meter diameter housing. Etc. I have a whole little set of operations (these days called a DSL) that allow a programmer to manipulate the model using the vocabulary, metaphor, and mental models of a typical jet turbine designer.

That is the M in MVC.

I also have a library of routines for drawing parts of the turbine on the screen. They themselves are parametric with orientation, zoom, etc. A set of view parts -- the V.

Finally I write a little window that displays a turbine with some mouse gestures and the like that allow me to zoom, rotate etc. Maybe point and ask questions.

You might write a different program that does the display on an ipad, calling from my set of Views to fit your interaction model. You won't necessarily need to know much about turbines, frankly, as my model should give you all the affordances you need.

==

After reading your great note, I went and read a bit from the article and it seemed that the author is entirely in the display -- in the "C". Elements like a user name (let's say a part number in this example) aren't so much as model items -- high level abstractions, but simply inputs. To me the model is the program domain model. To be forced to take the same approach with mere UI widgets is cruelty indeed, and perhaps that's the author's argument?

* obviously nobody would write such a program this way; this is expositional
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You reap what you sow unfortunately. The fact is that the government still keeps track of you but you just have a boatload of downsides by not having a proper system citizens can use.
Very nice! I'm hoping that this can be a catalog and discovery tool in the future where we can showcase Tailwind components. Looking forward to it!
There's no profit in it. That's why it's not happening.
What is Clojure's wheelhouse -- what is it used for?
It's all in your employment contract. Almost certainly there are IP clauses and exclusive work clauses.

First thing - read your current contract (if you are like most people you will need to ask for a copy as you cannot find the original)

it should be fairly clear (even without legal training) what the gist is. It will be one of "we own you and everything you ever think" or "We own your work that we hire you to do"

Trust me it's not about company equipment (but not don't do that!) - it's about the knowledge you gained at work being used for something else.
This is not quite correct. Silicon solar cells have a maximum efficiency of 32%. Various ways, such as using e.g Carbon Nanotubes as Antennas to directly rectify visible light (http://NovaSolix.Com) may eventually yield much higher overall efficiencies.
> I'm aware that it's a huge violation of social norms for me to say publicly that I think whites, or males, are being discriminated against.

Probably because it's blitheringly stupid to assert something that is demonstrably not true and also staggeringly insulting to people who are actually discriminated against.
Did you really just make this into a political issue? You are what is wrong with the world.
because having the bad guys go trhu the trouble of using a search engine like kuro et al will save the day?
As someone who was doing projects for several companies when the dot-com bubble burst, companies like Uber and Wework seem like whatever we had then but at a far bigger scale. The fundamentals do not work so how does anyone think this will end well?