skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to be said for this line of argument. The stupidity of the Youtube recommendation engine has wrecked Brazilian politics, for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world/americas/youtube-br...

(The deliberate construction of an AI that pays people to produce lies to damage other people's health and welfare sounds like a farfetched science fiction plot. Accidentally building one, and then trying to deny responsibility for it, is a far more plausible thing for humans to do to ourselves. Just as Schneier talked about the "Exxon Valdez of privacy", what we have now is the tetraethyl lead of video entertainment.)
Quite a few hearing impaired people had their cochlea hairs "burnt" by audiotoxic drugs. More specifically, they caught a serious infection in the meninges when young, and aggressive drugs were needed to save their lives.

It would be amazing if these cochlea hairs could be repaired.
R is a fantastic statistical toolkit and a terrible programming language. Building software in it? Massive pain in the ass. Processing tabular datasets on the other hand is an absolute breeze that leaves pandas in the dust. Tidy verse makes it better though.
No, but then how any other GUI systems stream their implementation over a network before first load. Many desktop applications also don't open nearly as quickly as the average website.
The main difference is that BDSM is supposed to be consensual and have a safe word.
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Multiplexing is beneficial, otherwise we'd never have seen HTTP user agents opening up multiple TCP connections.

The gain of moving to binary was the ability to multiplex multiple requests is a single TCP connection. It also fixes a whole class of error around request and response handling - see the recent request smuggling coverage from Blackhat [1].

HTTP/2 isn't perfect but I dont buy that HTTP/1.1 is the ideal simple protocol. There are a ton of issues with its practical usage and implementation.

We live in complex times and the threat models are constantly advancing. Addressing those requires protocols that by their nature end up more complex. The "simple" protocols of the past weren't designed under the same threat models.

[1] https://portswigger.net/blog/http-desync-attacks-request-smu...
I'd argue these names are more representative of cani/quillo culture than gypsies though. The phenomenon is pretty universal, it has to do with the formation of lumpenproletariat.
There's a free Google Cloud Bucket search engine by Spyglass Security called - Data Drifter - literally first thing that pops up after opening it is a bucket full of passport scans.
> Ultimae Records

Panoramic greetings! (kind of an in-joke if you follow their newsletter last few years)

To psychill I would like to add, definitely listen to Easily Embarrassed's "Idyllic Life" album, it's absolutely brilliant: https://easilyembarrassed.bandcamp.com/album/idyllic-life

Edit: while I welcome this particular bit of content, I'm surprised to find it on HN; seems a bit offtopic, no?
To clarify "Bad Language" is a fun name, because it is not aiming to be perfect (or even good) :)
Pretty nice and comprehensive guide. Ever since I've first seen Ishkur's guide as a kid I've wanted one for all genres of music, it always seem like the coolest thing.

Also this guide reminded me that James Reipas exists, thank you.
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An absence of something can only be defined relative to that something and never taken just by itself. So a shadow only exists as a function of light (no light) or a consequence of the absence of light. So it would not travel faster than light in a way that can carry additional information.

Quantum entanglement works faster than light but cannot carry any information. As such the speed of causality (and implicitly of light) is still the real limit.
I was one of the first Griddy engineers (though I’m no longer there). We would have people call & complain when the cost for a day was much less & they had AC blasting. I wonder how the customer support reps are dealing with all of this.
As a Brit, this is the Kevin that springs to mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_the_Teenager

Or perhaps an example is better

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLuEY6jN6gY
Yep, back in the 1980s and 90s "kev" was indeed used as a somewhat derogatory term in the UK.

The stereotypical kev was supposed to be seen wearing white, fluffy socks and black shoes (terrible faux pas that) and driving a Ford Capri (badly).

At the time this greatly amused me as a child because my well to do Irish grandfather, uncle and cousin were all called Kevin and nothing at all like the stereotype. Not sure if the term "kev" existed as a mild insult in Ireland but they were all aware of us using it... :D
>Many desktop applications also don't open nearly as quickly as the average website.

That's not as true if you count the browser as part of a web application, which you should.
Well, I would say, what we need and have is a rich ecosystem of JavaScript applications, which can and does guide both libraries and browser development. I'd say we need, the start-stop and often out-of-step (i.e. careful and experimental) shuffle toward standards. WebGL is just the latest waltz, but that visualisation is built on a bunch of foundational standards: TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, OpenGL, WebGL, etc etc

The computers that got us to the moon where highly efficient integrated circuits. But (I presume) they can't get us to mars.

Personally I'd advocate for messy, but rich platforms, which max out our CPUs in some applications; but give expression to the emergent desires of those who want to tinker.

We don't have time to miss-out on potential wins by working with rigid systems.
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It depends on how you define "collapse". If you mean they turn into a dystopian image of burned-out buildings, and a population looking like the Mad Max movies, then no, there has been no collapse. (At least not on a national level.) But if you define it via metrics related to the economy, employment, healthcare, quality of life, etc... then you get a different story.
Perhaps apart from Scotland where it is a fairly common part of place names (e.g. Kyle of Lochalsh) - having said that, I don't think it's a very common first name here, perhaps because of that?
It's amazing given the lifespan of celestial entities that we can witness such significant change in such seemingly human time scales (2 hours).

The milky way galaxy is estimated to be ~13.7B years old. The black hole was brighter for a 2 hours. That event, as a percentage of the milky way's age represents: 0.00000000000001666500016665%.

As a comparison of what that represents as a unit of time in an average human lifespan (79 years) it equals:

0.00000069197080291971 seconds.
0.00069197080291971 milliseconds.
0.69197080291971 microseconds.
I always loved the look & idea of M.U.L.E., but I never understood how to play it.
Ishkur's guide to electronic music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishkur's_Guide_to_Electronic_M...
You and we say "after tax", but actually it's after tax, health insurance, unemployment insurance, pension fund and few more peanuts.
The US is an absolute joke of a country. Just vote candidates in who will make universal healthcare a reality rather than spawn new industries to further extract value. /Australian
Sounds awesome are you still building hardware/mods? If so, for what hardware platforms?
The Chaos Computer Club also have a similar service:

https://anonbox.net/
Thank you for the summary. Very insightful and very well put in layman's terms.
Exactly: the signal propagation speed from turning on the switch arrives at the lightbulb at a high fraction of the speed of light. The actual charge carriers take a lot longer. My own preferred analogy is a bicycle chain: pressing on the pedals transfers energy to the back wheel almost immediately, you don't have to wait for individual links to reach the back wheel. And the disposition of electrons is a lot closer to the rigidity of a chain. Just as with the links, each exerts a force on the next.

On electronics.stackexchange we battle this misconception a lot, e.g. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/245610/is-vo...

For almost all practical purposes you should ignore electrons when doing electronics. They're only relevant in detailed theoretical analysis of semiconductors, or (as per article) in vacuum tubes and related items (VFD displays, CRTs).
And real weapons grade stupidity, at least in my experience, tends to be wielded by people who are actually very intelligent in general, but having a bad day or an attack of hubris....
Really like this. Found like 5 new songs in different genere I like
Also the Spiegel list removes books it doesn't like.

https://www.welt.de/kultur/article167043384/Spiegel-verteidi...
We did the same thing with my eldest when he was about 14 - confiscated phone, laptop, etc.

He managed to get round it (at least until we realised) by using Facebook Messenger via the web browser on his Kindle.
> It's 20% shorter with the i7 + 4K XPS they've used for their comparisons, that's a fair amount.

The battery life gains in Macbook Air might come from the different series of processors used, rather than from the battery itself:

> The MacBook Air has Core i5 and i7 processor options, but they're part of Intel's "Y" series of CPUs, intended for thin laptops. They generate less heat and use less power, so you get longer battery life. The flip side is they're not as fast as a standard laptop with a "U" series processor.
Quite right, I had that confused.

Interesting to read that there is no legal need to enrol, and that statutory declarations or just affidavits can be used instead. But the enrolled deed-poll is the one that's going to make your life easiest AFAICT.
Indeed. Pretty much what I said to your sibling comment. :)
> According to [2], 23% of Germans own stocks (although I remember that this number used to be around 15% a few years ago)

I too had a lower number in memory (~11%), and the first result I looked up [1] showed 16%, sourced from [2].

[1]: https://orange.handelsblatt.com/artikel/62761
[2]: https://www.dai.de/files/dai_usercontent/dokumente/studien/2...
can you justify the importance of statistics for Neural Nets?
I recommend Adam Sisman's JLC biography.( https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062106279/ref=tmm_hrd_title_... )
I recall someone calculating that a sphere of gas with a radius equal to Neptune's orbit, with the same density of air at sea level would mass 4 million solar masses. That means if we filled thw Solar system with air, it would form a SMBH.
Some probably would, at which point Mr Wales would hopefully say "fine, it's now $5 / page view, or a flat $500/month".

Both of which are probably on the low end of what the content is worth.

When you really think about it, we write off free access to the largest repository of information ever as something which just happens to exist.
Wheels are pretty solidly mounted to cars with large pieces of metal. Tires do blow out however then you still have some control.

Props on the other hands can have electrical component failures, wiring failures, engine failure, bird ingestion induced failures, control instrument failures, etc. Remember that each vehicle has four times these components (ie: four times the failure rate) and the failure of any is a crash.

Just a lot more potential things that can fail and cause a catastrophic accident.
> This isn't the first ever psytrance styles guide.

So what? What a silly put-down.
There are books and there are objects to back up your established beliefs in exchange for some cash without exposing you to any self-critical thoughts.

Of course that is a long etablished genre, but lately it gets a bit too obvious regarding any socio-political sentiment, relationship, diet or parenting style[1].

Germany's book and magazine market is also drifting into that category a lot, as basic information gathering shits more and more towards "free" online sources.

[1] as stated in the OP, Winterhoff is contrarian to most current research and just peddles his own theories for some decades now, as well as being a well booked pundit in talk shows.
The Modelica systems are a good alternative, but don't really exist in high level languages yet, other than some transpilers which are a little iffy. We are planning to change that with Julia though which has enough of an ecosystem to easily build such an open source tool unlike Python or R.
Real estate prices are insane probably partly due to ECB negative interest rates which make buying on credit very attractive. I read an article on HN last week about zero interest 20y loans in Denmark. The DKK is pegged to the Euro.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647651

Add to that all time lows (zero and below) for German bond yields which has bleak consequences for long time savers (future pensioners). Germany is a nation of savers.

Swiss 10y bonds are at -1%.

We are living in interesting times.
Possibly irrelevant to this discussion (you decide): the level of stupidity in any human undertaking is almost always a) higher than you'd think, and b) pretty constant across all cross-sections of humanity.

Source Carlo M. Cipolla, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley:
https://advanced.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/The-Basi...

Despite widespread attempts by humans to eradicate it, it exists everywhere; ignoring race/class/education/gender/orientation/profession or any other sub-division you can think of. You'll find roughly the same amount of stupidity in a gaggle of university professors as you will in a humdrum of railway attendants (I made up those collective terms, in case it wasn't obvious).
"We get it, you vape sounds" like that god awful made up tabloid speak that no real person ever uses.
That was also a method for Phreaking tapping out the number
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I have been making tools for software design as a hobby project, because the
tools I have seen all look like some sort of point and click game.
Is that how you would design for example a bypass filter?

Here is my attempt to make module design to look more like Mathlab:
https://github.com/kummahiih/python-grapheq-example

The example uses a library with which you can represent domain models as
equations: https://github.com/kummahiih/python-domain-equations

The domain model equations have been made with a category equation system, which
provides rudimentary simplify and theorem proving functionality:
https://github.com/kummahiih/python-category-equations

So What do you think? Is this approach genuine in some way or did someone
already do this on the 80's?
Cf. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
And my Model S.
Yes, but fine arts in guessing does not swing right /center
Wow. Passive aggressive much?

I’m with the GP. People get distracted no doubt. It’s normal. But I think the comment was about what the GP would do if put in a similar situation. If one continues to get distracted while doing something potentially dangerous, for example cooking bacon, and it happens frequently, looking at the root cause of the distraction is probably warranted.
Nice job, I didn't find a good weather app on Android yet, it's exactly the infos I want to know in the morning.

Do you plan to allow for personnal preferences? People generally have a different sensitivity to temperature.

It would be nice to be able to swipe between T, T+1 and T+2 instead of going to settings.
One problem is that solar's peak is too early in the day to match peak demand in most of the US (including Texas). Texas's electricity usage typically peaks around 4-6pm in the summer, while photovoltaic output peaks around 12-2pm. There is some storage, but you would need a lot more to line those curves up. A cost-effective way to shift the solar peak to about 4 hours later would definitely help on a lot of days.

For the curious, you can browse the demand curves day-by-day here: https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/#/summary/demand?end=20190...
As far as I understand it, the chipset was originally designed to support a game console and they only pivoted because of the video game crash.

In a sense it's more like saying that what was originally designed to be an electric milk float should have been an electric milk float. That's also not an entirely fair because I agree that the Amiga makes more sense as a computer. As a game machine it was soon beaten by more specialized hardware that did exactly what action games at the time demanded really well and nothing else.
I mean great if it works for you, but the happierco website gives me impressions of dystopian micromanagement on the management end, and performative happiness on the receiving end.

Maybe disclose that you work for them, too.
-- George Carlin, actually, and yeah, he was known to make a joke or two. Mixed in with some truth.
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Sure, it's certainly mostly due to the Y-series CPU. I'm just pointing out that difference in the 2019 model compared to the 2018 model that was mentioned in the parent comments.
> Yet everyone seems to be caring about straws.

Yeah, I'm not really a believer in conspiracies, but the whole straw thing feels like a distraction campaign.
Hi @GGfpc for this idea, I think it's really great!
In the idea of the Closet section, it thought about something like that. Its important that this section fits with the little algorithm inside the app to advice outfit with weather condition, but yes, I should do something simple like you propose, it could be a great integration for sure! I try to think about a MVP integration of this section, and I think I will integrate a login inside the app to save this closet.

Also, I think if you miss for exemple a trench-coat for hot temperature, I can tell the user that it's something missing in his/her closet. And also if the user have too many t-shirt entered in the app for exemple, I can tell this user that it's too much and letting a word about it to help him/her organized in a better way their closets.
The visualization also does not show up with the 'Dark Reader' extension on, which is kind of odd.
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Very nice guide, especially for all of us in our mid forties that liked and listened (still listening?) to all these styles when they were actually being created!!!

Recently there was a HN post about a similar site http://everynoise.com/ but for all music genres
»Kevin ist kein Name, sondern eine Diagnose!«

Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour?
My German is rusty but:

> Toleranz: Einfach Schwer (Tolerance Isn’t Easy)

is an improper translation. That's "Tolerance: Simply Difficult" and that translates fine in English too since you can keep the same style while being accurate.
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There is not a single authorative list of bestsellers.
Also note that most of those list are supposed to be marketing tools, that can't afford to be too boring or predictable, not a reflections of "raw" sales data.

A list of German Language Bestseller lists:
https://www.boersenverein.de/de/158283
Does that also mean they would get hit by all the light energy that hit them on the way on the moment of "arriving" in that collision ?

Or is it just the first collision ever that stops them and they just happen to miss every last particle in outer space for 13 billion years perhaps.
'There is no doubt that AI may one day become much more intelligent than humans' Really?
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I think the Spiegel list also does not count total sales but relative sales over a time span, so you can become a "best seller author" with rather low sales numbers, when everybody has sold only few books. Strange system.
All incorrect.

The JSF was designed around sensor fusion to give the pilot situational awareness like no other aircraft.

Stovl has been used by the USMC in every conflict since they got the Harrier. They flew off of highways in OIF.
Japan hasn’t purchased the B model yet, they likely will. But the B model has doubled our carrier force by giving the ARG strike capability.

You do not “refit” a non naval aircraft for carrier duty. The f18 was designed as a carrier aircraft from the ground up, and there was never a carrier variant of an F22 except in some people’s fantasies.
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Even that meaning of "Kevin" has changed.

Harry Enfield's Kevin the Teenager has very middle class parents (for those not from the UK we regard "middle class" as describing a much wider social group than say in the USA where it might be based on income. It's basically not working class and not a member of the aristocracy. Could be a QC, a CEO or school teacher.)

The earlier meaning was more pejorative and something closer to a being a "chav". Like chavs in the early 00s were supposed to wear fake Burberry check products, kevs were supposed to wear white socks and black shoes. I have no idea why.
Does anything still work on an iPad 3? I would have thought a lot of newer apps target iOS 10 or higher by now.
It’s almost as if members of the society support dictatorships, making governments a reflection of those societies. I am originally from a former communist society and 30 years after communism fell people still vote strongmen in power.
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From http://www.google.com/robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
...
We'll see. If enforced, it should be enough to bankrupt the company.
I don't think it's deliberate, but it's the kind of "distraction" that can very easily arise organically. "We must do something, this is something we can do, therefore we must do this". Straw bans are something completely trivial that can be done for the environment with almost no pushback (apart from disabled people!). People can then get back in the SUVs while feeling like they've done their Good Deed For The Environment.
Besides the obvious sampling issue (The Spiegel as a reference), not sure there anything interesting in that list, because it's a reflection of:

- What is published in the German language (much smaller than in the English corpus)

- What is published at all (choices from local publishers)

- What matches the political/media agenda of the day/year: people are well known to read about the topics that is being talked about thru the numerous media channels they consume.

What is published and what sells is not always a reflection of the actual interests of the population at large - an easy proof is to show that it changes drastically from one year to another, akin to fashion more than anything else.
YouTube recommendations feel like a direct impediment to democracy. When your recommendations consist of the same crap all the time, it may seem as though that stuff carries more weight than it really does.

I wonder to what degree YouTube is responsible for the current political climate.

The same with Twitter really. When you only follow and see posts from people you choose, how are you supposed to give important issues a fair shake and debate viewpoints that different from yours.
They should make youtube great again. It used to be that I could watch 911 videos on the anniversary and there'd be real heart-felt personal videos from actual people involved and now most of that's been censored by dramatic conspiratorial junk.

It'd also be great if it didn't recommend for every video I watch, Jordan Peterson on his social justice sprees complaining about the newest thing that he's offended by this week. That got old last year.
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But it doesn't fill lungs with water so all is good, right??