skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I read an article about scientists planting false memories into a mouse. [0]

This got me thinking that people were next. Then I thought: what if it already had happened? What if I've already been planted false memories?

The only time frame in which I can be sure I am who I am is from the time I regain consciousness (wake up) until I lose consciousness (fall asleep). I liked this concept because it freed me from my past and future selves. I am not them.

So, I created a journaling app that uses versions of you instead of dates. This morning, it greeted me with "Good morning, Alexander №10821". I can browse and see what other versions of Alexander (like №9851) were up to. I also understand that tomorrow it's Alexander №10822 who will wake up and not me, so I got to live this day however I like (though as I like the future Alexanders, I'm gonna also contribute to their well-being).

I will make this app public, so if this type of thinking resonates with you, leave your email in the google form I just created. [1] The app will have end-to-end encryption and cost $3/month.

[0] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/meet-two-scientist...

[1] - https://forms.gle/PX8Aca6TR6cg5S9WA
You're right, but freedom of speech essentially is a cultural thing of the west. Western countries are shaped by freedom of speech. It's not just not the case in Asia.

I'm not saying Asians have no notion of freedom of speech.
Yes, or a kind of cognac -- also "vinars" comes from "vin ars", literally meaning "burnt wine", possibly a mirror translation of "Weinbrand" in german or transylvanian saxon dialects.
The tabloids still seem to like Fahrenheit for heatwaves, and I've heard it used reasonably often in summer - in offices etc. I can only remember hearing someone use deg F when it's 70+. It's certainly declining and not as common as say 30 years ago, but it's definitely one of the holdouts.

No one ever adds C or F, or even degrees very often, unless writing. It's -5; it's 30; it's 92, which are all self defining in UK climate.
For example's sake, try opening payment/billing setting pages of Google products. For example, pay.google.com doesn't load on FF latest on MacOsX latest.
I run into this conceptual framework all the time.

The problem begins when upper management views support, especially telephone support, as purely a cost center that never has downstream revenue effect anyway ("buyers don't choose based on support").

It's somewhat better if it's a paid support situation, such as annual contracts for support and maintenance. Otherwise, many entities design their support organization as a means of disposing of customer interactions as quickly as possible. This parent comment is one example.

I once worked in a support organization which was managed by a non-technical person. His focus was pure metrics, especially how quickly a case could be closed whether or not there was a resolution in the eyes of the customer.

As the most experienced engineer in Support and the only one to carry an Advanced Support Engineer title (most of my peers came in straight from university; I already had several years of programming/analysis experience), I tended to be given the worst hairballs of problems to reproduce, diagnose, document, and develop workarounds for if possible.

During a one-on-one with this manager one day, I was told that I should improve my metrics by viewing any given problem as if it was a monkey on my back. My duty was supposed to be to get said monkey off my back as quickly as possible, whether my actions actually worked toward a true resolution or not.

So, in his perfect world, there would be a frenetic exchange of monkeys upon backs, with any actual resolutions being purely coincidental.

My solution was to isolate and remove every monkey at its earliest opportunity. And give it a nice snack. I continued in that mode until I left the organization.

DISCLAIMER: No actual monkeys were harmed in the production of this account.
In a quick test with Picard it feels similar SSH X11 forwarding (using SSH compression in both cases). But YMMV: in Firefox (perhaps because of my settings), X11 forwarding is awfully slow, perhaps because of the tab loading animations. Waypipe works reasonably well.
A possible remedy to this might be the emergence of “fat protocols” http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols
I wish firefox would give money to people who find security flaws in firefox.

I've heard that firefox is not very secure.

Other than that, I've switched back to firefox a looooong time ago.
Yes! That was my first thought. The way SMR and SSDs work actually aligns pretty well with log structured filesystems.

In this case, the firmware translation layer is only getting in the way.
These tools probably do a good job at processing CSV/TSV/DSV (haven't tried them). However, I would love if we could just stop using delimiter-separated value files alltogether.

Why? Because the file format is an underspecified, unsafe mess. When you get this kind of a file you have to manually specify its schema when reading it because the file doesn't contain it. Also, due to its underspecification, there are many unsafe implementations that produce broken files that cannot be read without manual fixing in a text editor. Let's just start using safe, well-specified file formats like AVRO, Parquet or ORC.

As a data scientist, I have had lots of issues because the data I got for a project was a CSV/TSV/DSV file. I recently spat out a rant on this topic, so if you want more details, check out https://haveagooddata.net/posts/why-you-dont-want-to-use-csv...
All of "upper ascii half" can occur in ordinary text in "pre-Unicode" encodings.

0xFE is a good example - you may get a customer or employee from Iceland with that character in their name (e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haf%C3%BE%C3%B3r_J%C3%BAl%C3%A...), or data in cyrillic cp1251 or koi8-r enconding where 0xFE also represents characters that you'll encounter in surnames, etc.
For a moment I thought you were talking about System on Chips.
Is that actual memory use, or cache? If it's the latter, it's actually a good thing.
How about a chrome plugin for developers which somehow on a press of a button replaces the chrome rendered website with the firefox rendered one within chrome? Or like every second reload or something it uses firefox rendeder instead of chrome's. Or uses headless firefox and somehow in the background compares the current chrome website state with the firefox one. This could work for multiple browsers at the same time and would be a must have for web devs.
Yeah, and it is not really new either. ioquake3 did that, it had a header file for some values. If you changed them, you had to recompile the QVMs. So then we added cvars, and some values such as HP, DMG, etc. stayed in the header file. I learnt programming C by fiddling around with ioquake3 and its forks, Tremulous especially. Good times.
Robber’s Tunnel,” ... a forced entrance dating from some time after the pyramid’s completion.

You don't say
In reality seems more like a 6-10 pizza team... /s
Thanks, though it works for me on Linux and Firefox 68.0.2.
Skype Web is an example from the top of my head, but I don't run into them a lot either (or don't notice that they are only broken in Firefox, because I rarely care enough to try another browser).

I do see quite a few sites that apparently never have been tested with ublock or privacy badger, but they break on all browsers where those are enabled.
Good news! Minor bug fixes are an excellent place to start!
How old was your daughter? In my mind parental controls are never going to be effective past ~9 years old.
The issue with this specific outage is that it was badly managed.

The main gripe people and authorities have with what happened is that key infrastructures immediately lost power. When (only) 5% of demand is turned off this should not impact railways, airports, and hospitals.

Beyond the initial loss of power other problems amplified the consequences: For example, trains could not just restart but required specialist staff to attend each of them to get them through a specific procedure, which turned a short power loss into hours of delays.

This highlights the importance of looking at systems globally. The grid is just one part of the system.
I had trouble with imgur on firefox mobile. it doesn't allow uploads until you request the desktop version (which fakes another useragent string).
Wells, Wires, and Wheels – EROCI and the Tough Road Ahead for Oil
Ah interesting, I checked and indeed the tabloids seems to keep Fahrenheit for some reason. I've never heard Fahrenheit spoken though.
For anything powered by a Switch Mode Power Supply/SMPS (TVs, computers etc) then not much effect, as power is rectified immediately and then converted back several 10s of KHz, and so many SMPS devices will actually run from DC.

Heating elements (kettles etc), also don't care, and a lot of motors used in household items are universal motors[1], which will end up running at the same speed even as the frequency drops. Old alarm clocks do use the mains supply as a time reference though, so they will end up having the wrong time, as happened recently in the European grid [2].

For a transformer, efficiency decreases rapidly[3] with falling frequency. For household usage, transformers running directly on mains frequency are only used for linear power supplies (as opposed to the SMPS supply used earlier) which found in things like audiophile level power amplifiers (adds a nice bit of weight), so your Class-A amplifier may get even hotter.

The power grid uses transformers of course, to step down the several kV supply to the 240V used in the UK, and its possible that a big enough frequency shift could cause overheating of these from the decreased efficiency. I would be very surprised if they would not turn off if they got too hot though, it seems like a sensible thing to design in.

In short, not much for small changes, but the frequency is falling as there is more consumption than supply, so the supply gets turned off to decrease demand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_motor
[2] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/clocks-in-25-co...
[3] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23999/effect...
I'm actually a bit sad that it seems there's no decent standard for just syncing the read status and subscriptions, combined with some good native clients (like NetNewsWire, which always was one of my prime examples of why the OS X app space seemed so good in the '00s).

But hosting or paying for a common complete RSS service and accessing that with a limited set of clients seems the only viable approach these days.

Although in the last few weeks, I've foregone centralized services and do it all via NNW in the evening -- saves me from constantly checking feeds, too.
Impressive work period!
It makes it much easier to accidentally break something, and much harder to swap out the implementation for a better but different one?
> Kerish Doctor

Ouch... This looks like a classic snake oil optimizer, straight out of the late 90s.
Is there anything known about the underlying cause of RSI? I should have it but I don't, friends of my shouldn't have it but they do... When I first heard about (and was scared of it) was mid 90s, but then it was still seen (at least here) as kind of nonsense and trying to get on disability easily without proof (that worked though after a few cases). But now, so many years later, they should know more?
I've seen several large-scale cloud migrations and the bill has always been higher, usually egregiously so. In one case in particular, we would've been able to re-buy all the (perfectly adequate) hardware in our racks every 45 days if we had been pouring the cloud spend into hardware.

In another case, I've seen a company that spends dozens of thousands of dollars a month on the cloud infrastructure to run a site that services a max of 50 concurrent users. The truth of that matter is that the production site could run just fine on any developer's laptop and a one-time spend on a pair of geographically-dispersed dedicated servers would free up huge amounts of cash without any measurable/actual impact, but the bosses won't feel very important if they acknowledge that. It boosts their self-image to have a big cloud bill and feel like a grown-up company because they're paying big invoices, and plus the CxOs can prance around and tell everyone how forward-looking they are because they're "in the cloud".

It seems like the most common pitch is "cloud is usage-based billing" and people operate under some vague theory that this will translate to savings somewhere, but despite popular belief, most workloads are reasonably static and you're just going to pay a lot more for that static workload.

The fantasies of huge on-demand load are mostly a delusion of circular self-flattery, aggressively pushed by rent-seekers and eaten up all too eagerly by people who are supposed to be reasonable stewards and sometimes even dare to call themselves "engineers".

By all means set up the cloud stuff and have the account ready to take true ad-hoc resource demands, but the number of cases where AWS and friends are an actual net savings over real hardware is infinitesimal. Most companies would be much better off if they invested in owning at least the baseline 24x7 infrastructure.

I guess the issue there is that since most companies don't really have the dynamic demand they imagine, if they actually used cloud providers for elasticity, they'd almost never use them and then they couldn't feel cool enough.

If you're a random guy, it's going to be cheaper and better to run on a Linode or small AWS instance than it will be to rent and stock a rack. If you have more than 5 employees, this is almost certainly not true.
I tried to learn perl but I gave up halfway.
Mozilla have a bug bounty program: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/bug-bounty/
This is probably OSX issue, my FF works great on Ubuntu. I wish more users will install Linux on their Macs, it is eons better than OSX Toy.
What I'd like from a journal (which I don't presently keep) is insight into, or to confirm my belief of, which projects/ideas/goals I'm spending most time (distinct days) thinking about.

Any recommendations for a tool that'll let me heavily tag my entries, and then visualise them as #occurrences vs. time?

Second best would be a good search and JSON or whatever output from it, so that I can do the graphing myself.

My only other 'requirement' would be that it's not some proprietary system, seems silly to trust something like this to someone else's format and disk exclusively.
Nice article covering frfequncy importance at grid level:- https://www.drax.com/energy-policy/need-whole-country-freque...

Though I'm not sure on the details of a frequency drop and impact upon your house in exacting details. Equally I'm not up on substations (did work on IT for large util company many decades ago, but not field engineering). But the first safety control from supply to the home, would be the distribution transformer and those back then had overheat protection. Also had a flag attached by wax at one spot, so if they did overheat and cut out for a while, you could visualy see that due to the flag being visible. But that was more a legacy solution that still prevailed into the 80's, unsure about now. But would not be supprised if such tried and tested things still take place as some form of backup monitoring. I learned about it after coding for a database that stored such records that had the field name SITESHIT, which was short for "SITES HIT", yes - you can see how that gave a young humble COBOL programmer a laugh. But it would be a count of how many times that wax flag had been triggered.
not entirely true. firefox has solved a lot of startup and other performance issues, but the core rendering engine still lags when confronted with heavy loads, just a scrollable div of a couple dozen large images is enough to make it stutter seconds at time while they load and render, sure it's partly a developer issue for not using thumbnail in the listing, but chrome shows them all with zero lag.

stating that the only reason chrome is ahead is because advertising is disingenuous: firefox only started catching up with them only in the last three-four years performance wise and the gap it's still there.
The Exuberant Nonsense of College Fight Songs
In a pre-technical society, there's an argument for using a system of 12s and 60s, this is how the Sumerians and Babylonians did things after all.

Obviously now, with global standards and decimals, not using metric is foolish.
OpenGL would have been better if that role had been taken by Iris Inventor.[0]

Instead it became a rite of passage for every OpenGL beginner to reimplement Inventor on their own way, either from scratch or playing Tetris with different kinds of libraries.

Meanwhile, other graphical SDKs always provided such APIs.

By the way, the best 3D API back then was Renderman, the genesis for modern shading languages.

https://www.amazon.com/RenderMan-Companion-Programmers-Reali...

[0] Yes there was Open Inventor afterwards, but its story is a bit convoluted.
I think he/she means to vote for “the right candidate”, possibly someone that will start a genocide in Yemen, drop more bombs than any other US president and go away with a Nobel peace prize, pictures with kids playing around in the White House and a bunch of emotional speeches?
> buy a pint of beer,

This is not really a problem I think. It's become an object in itself and you don't really use this as a reference when buying milk or water I imagine. In France you can also get a "pinte" of beer (pronounced as "paint"), it's probably a relic from before the metric system and probably not the same as the English pint though.

Celsius vs Fahrenheit is tricky because Fahrenheit does have some nice properties and several sciences use Kelvin anyway. I think the best one would be a new one, rescaled to match with 0°C and 100°F.

Calculating mpg is an interesting one because even if you moved to calculating km per liters it would still doesn't match the most common usage, we use liters per 100 km.

One thing where almost everyone fails in my opinion is shoe sizes. Why can't we just use centimeters? Instead we have four competing standards and the EU one doesn't relate to anything.
Yes thats the opportunistic pretext
In Aviation there are nautical miles for ground distance, knots for speed and feet for altitude. But in US aviation there are also statute miles for airport visibility and feet for runway visibility.

Customary units are bigger mess than imperial vs. metric.
How big are your pizzas?
Why should I have to outsource compilation to Someone Else's Computer?
In this interview Iggy Pop expresses the same sentiment if not the exact quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78S0yrMLfTU
Thanks for this, I never noticed the link and just lazily assumed it wasn't available on mobile. For anyone else in the same position: It's there at the permalink (date on comment -> favourite).
With AWKA, in my tests I was able to get an instant 100% speed boost without modifying any of my AWK code. So using AWKA would likely beat the tools presented here, without needing to invest the time to learn a new tool, which for me at least is of paramount importance.

https://github.com/noyesno/awka
Google is a bit schizophrenic though.

You can watch IO talks from Android, Chrome, Flutter where the presenter eventually throws some jabs at other competing stacks as if they aren't from the same employer.
Got a lust for life... insurance
The understanding I picked up from having some dealings with the UK medical system and reading about it in the course of trying to deal with my RSI is that it's kind of a blanket term that gets applied to any chronic hand pain; there seem to be a whole collection of different underlying issues that manifest in similar ways. Some of those are relatively well understood and can be tested for (eg comparing nerve conductivity in different fingers can identify whether nerves are constricted in the carpal tunnel); others less so; and some chronic pain is still not understood at all. So I treat "RSI" as a convenient label if I'm trying to explain to somebody; but it's not a diagnosis and it doesn't have a single cause.

(In my particular case the conclusion seemed to be that nerves from the arm were being compressed as a result of some combination of poor posture and underdeveloped core/back muscles.)
that's providing your expectation of "Justice" being fair...
At amazon, you'd praise whatever deity you believe in, because you never get free food there. Except for coffee.
> That's an absolute killer for other browsers.

I'm not so sure about that. First of all, most "normal" people I know don't actually know what a browser is ("open your browser" - "my what?" - "... open the internet" - "ohh, okay!") nor which one they are using. I've never had anyone ask for help in switching browsers - unless something is seriously wrong with the one they have, they don't see the alternatives, and most users aren't adventurous, they don't want to mess with their computers "just to take a look".
just a scrollable div of a couple dozen large images is enough to make it stutter seconds at time while they load and render

I might be wrong, but with WebRender, isn't scrolling now done asynchronously so it doesn't stutter while things are loading? I certainly haven't experienced any scroll stutter since I turned it on.
Optimally humanity should have chosen base 12 instead of base 10, then the metric system would have used it :)

But anyway, to me it doesn't actually matter.

Admittedly I don't do workshop stuff that much, but when I do, I measure with a ruler, and never needed fractions for that, numbers like 3.333 work fine.

Where do you need fractions if you've got floating point notation, plus if you'd like to use fractions nothing stops you from saying "1 third of a meter".

And the imperial system doesn't really use base 12 much anyway? The only ratio of 12 I see in there is inch and foot. All the rest is various random different ratios (e.g. a mile is 5280 foot? really? and gallon vs ounce is a ratio of 160?), and Fahrenheit is its own separate mess.
I still miss Mr Reader for iPad, the best RSS reader I've used on any platform - now sadly abandoned
A 7 year old math whiz and Steven Strogatz making contact with Beauty
Most traditional generators (think CCGT, nuclear, hydro) run in synchronous mode. Which means the generators spins with rpm proportional/equal to the network frequency. For 50Hz that would be 3000rpm.
When the total electricity demand exceeds the supply, the kinetic energy of spinning generators is converted to electricity which slows down the generator rpm, which reduces the frequency. All synchronous generators on a given network spin at the same frequency, so when the demand is too high all of them slow down a bit.
1 liter beer bottles are more typically (informally) called litronas ;)