skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They implemented a mitigation for an issue that had this as a side effect. See https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2... and the last time this came up at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20123942

Terrible engineering on their part.
True, pushing from desktop to phone is slightly more convenient than digging out phone and pulling from destop.
But isn't the important part that the phone can indeed transfer stuff over SSH, not the exact manner it's done?
The biggest spike in the Phanerozoic was at the Permian extinction event 251m years ago and was caused by huge volcanic eruptions in Siberia that burned off coal deposits created in the Carboniferous era. See Figure 7 in this publication.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
I still slump my shoulders forward at a standing desk
Autonomous cars and ride-hailing weren't/aren't meant to solve traffic congestion. Traffic tracking actually does help by allowing people to make use of underused capacity.

Otherwise, I agree -- cars take up too much room, especially when there's just one or two people in them. And I like bus lanes, but I think per-vehicle traffic pricing is a better idea, because it achieves the "densification incentive" in a way that also works for carpooling and private bus-like modes.

And before someone says it's regressive, a toll is less onerous than a ban, which is what bus-only lanes are. And (way off topic) I think if income taxes are progressive enough then other types of taxation don't need to be -- and probably shouldn't be, if their purpose is to price externalities.
Well, guess I won't be buying any more books from Amazon or Book Depository.
wow, thanks, that is disturbing reading. Its probably not a surprise that some of this food would upset someones stomach.

Edit: I did try making bread with an organic stone ground flour some years ago though and that didn't help.
What? Everyone these days has a browser. How is it more difficult to share a web game than sharing a flash game? IF anything, back then you often had to install macromedia and other plugins since they didn't always come by default on every computer.
> Singapore banned the ads, not the actual consumption.

I think it's a very important distinction, and well made by you.
Of course "no landmine". But I'm not convinced yet we have that choice - that renewables really are growing fast enough and sustainably enough for there to be no point in building up nuclear capacity.
Harsh, but true. I like your point of view. We often get sucked into latest trendy rabbit hole, where there isn’t much actual value delivered to your business/employer, other than feeding your ego and tinkering desires.
I didn't know anyone else knew albino black sheep. Browing miniclip and playing flash games was the peak of middle school for me
FWSY is a great introduction to bread baking, but I think it's important to move beyond it pretty quickly. I find it quite joyless.

As an example, there's a recipe that calls for 3/16th teaspoons of yeast. Why didn't he just write 1/4 tsp? There is no way that 1/16ths of a teaspoon make any sort of difference given all the other factors at play. This kind of faux precision abounds in the book and can make the activity pretty stressful.

It's a great introduction to bread baking, but once you get the hang of things you realize the precision he requires in his recipes is simply not called for. You can bake great bread in less time, or more time, or with cooler water, or warmer water of whatever--and have more fun doing it. (Also, his sourdough recipe is criminally wasteful).

To anyone trying to get into bread: Definitely use FWSY to get a better "feel" for dough, but as soon as you do I suggest you leave it behind. Have fun. Tartine is a great second book.
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They also pay their employees reasonably well, which makes for an efficient and pleasant shopping experience.
I got a control theory book from Amazon once which was just the cover. The inside was a veterinary handbook by a different publisher.

I don't think there's a PDF for that controls textbook anywhere, so clearly the counterfeiter just substituted in a different one...
No wonder I got such a pushy hard sell to upgrade. I was flat out promised that the upgrade couldn't possibly cost me more, even if I didn't shop very often and never took any special action. This was a lie, I lost around $100, and I stopped shopping at Costco.
I have a Vons, they became pretty similar to sister brand Safeway in the past decade. It's definitely worse produce now.

Organic used to be things with more damage from insects and such, and have a shorter shelf life. Now it's food that costs more, so it has higher quality.
I've thought about this and come to the conclusion that the ambitious man/town/society down the road is the problem. You can hunt and gather all you want, but societies build technology and excess manpower and one day they will come along and ruin your day.

You see this to a lesser degree within society itself or even within a single workplace, where those few who are eager to over-extend with unpaid overtime ruin it for the rest of us!
Okay, so you're saying that a dozen other games that I like to play sometimes are going to magically start working after I wait for six months before updating to the new macOS version?

These games are not even that old, released from 2010 to 2016 or so. And Catalina won't let me play them, because some asshole decided that I'll be fine without them, and removed 32 bit support from the OS.

Meanwhile, I can still play games from 1995 on Windows 10 without any problems.
I consider that similar to a bug in the browser or the operating system. Should the bank require that I only use specific browsers or operating systems? In fact any program I install on my computer could have a vulnerability, or be malicious and thus lead to my password being stolen. Should the bank require that I not install any programs except ones they specifically permit?

The bank should also consider which is more frequent: user account compromises due to weak/reused passwords, or user account compromises due to password manager bugs.
While that may be a factor at times it goes back before race was a relevant factor due to local homogenized scope and "white" as a construct not existing yet.

Look at medieval poaching laws from hunting being an aristocratic privledge. Poaching has been considered villainous in the past and present for completely different reasons. A "rich playground" aspect has long been there and that isn't limited to even the West. It is a warrior elite among agrarians thing really.
The one notable experience I have with Costco is with buying a Samsung TV. The Samsung warranty only lasted a year. Costco extended it free of charge to two years. They offered in-home delivery for a great price, and on the eve of the two year mark when the TV developed vertical banding they picked it up from inside our home for no charge and gave me a full refund -- which I then invested in a new TV from Costco.
Unfortunately, Walmart has integrated a 3rd party marketplace onto their site too; so who knows when they will start fulfilled by Walmart and comingling. There's also persistent stories of Walmart demanding lower priced items and being ok with the lower quality, not always with different UPCs.
I really like the Costco locations with gas. That alone pays for the cost of the membership.

Diapers, paper towels, ziplock bags, dish soap are some of the other things I buy there.

The organic chicken, pork tenderloin, and baby back ribs are solid deals compared to other places I visit.

For smaller stuff like fruit, garlic, onions I stick with Trader Joes ( Aldi )
They just settled two weeks ago. See the last document filed.
> It would be impossible to stop the software, just as they can’t stop bitcoin.

That’s very naive approach. Just because technology is solid, doesn’t mean that government is going to give up. Remember, governments are only entities in the world that are allowed to seize all your assets, throw you in jail and sometime kill you.

People in tech tend to overestimate value of technology and underestimate power of regulations and governments (I only realized it myself few years ago). I feel that we need to update this xkcd, to talk about regulations - https://xkcd.com/538/
Which order is unlawful in your mind?
I froze two-thirds through my TEDx talk
> As a more concrete example... $IVY_LEAGUE doesn't gain that much by having its average standard test score go from the 99th to the 99.5th percentile.

Assuming accurate tests and a normal distribution of scores, shouldn't that be approximately equivalent to going from the 80th to 90th percentile?
I think this is a very good example of what I was talking about.

Bring up the idea of taxing carbon - making manufacturing actually pay for the disposal cost of the CO2 they generate and suddenly people pop up talking about: "There are values that just don't scale well without trade offs against things like human dignity".

There's talk of "the use of climate as just a pretext for redistribution signals" and away we go.

This stuff has nothing to do with "is it a good idea to apply market pricing when it comes to dumping waste into the atmosphere?

"it requires a level of trust that has been damaged by freighting climate with these other agendas"

You know who has been doing the freighting? The industries who will do absolutely anything to avoid a rational debate about how we apply a cost to their polluting ways.

> How do we reconcile interests and coexist with people whose most basic beliefs we experience as alien?

Who are these people who basically don't believe the scientific evidence that we are destroying the ecology we rely on?

> which is not something conservatives tend to trust.

Fine - I await with interest conservatives actual proposals for reducing CO2 emissions. But I can't afford to wait too long.
I am in my early twenties and I would expect none of my peers during high school would have difficulty zipping up some files.

Perhaps I am just in that brief period of time where more people than just the nerds knew the basics of the filesystem.
similarly when I needed to replace my smoke alarm batteries I considered buying replacements off amazon (9V ones are pretty expensive)

I decided against as I didn't want some counterfeit ripoff with weird failure modes

if this sort of consumer behaviour becomes common it will be the death knell for their retail business
There are plenty of enterprises that never ship and have outsourced their on-call. It's pretty low-stress except when they lay off the entire team because they didn't ship.
But without Amazon doing their own QC there is no way to say it is the same product. You should at least be able to see reviews based on the supplier and pick the supplier you will be fulfilled by. But I suspect that would ruin their whole 2-day/1-day shipping bit.
Most of the time I've only been offered a refund for a counterfeit complaint.

I suspect they're aware enough of the problem to know who's likely to get a 2nd counterfeit shipped after receiving a 1st, and realized it's cheaper for them to abandon the sale than continue to possibly send counterfeits to a customer who's now more likely to notice.
Again, the issue isn't the lack of tools. It's the lack of interest. Making games is easier than ever with Unity, yet people don't spend all day playing random small Unity games. We have limited time, and as the types of entertainment increase, we have less and less to spend on small silly things like Flash games.

Back then, a Flash game was the epitome of web entertainment. Now, we have thousands of amazing Youtube videos, Netflix originals, memes, and so on. If you were to give people the same flash games now, they'd find them ridiculously lame.
The preference is not inherently sanctimonious, though it is in the minority—over 80% of bread sales are white bread. But the article was certainly written in a sanctimonious. Asserting “my politics are better and the bread I like is tastier” is certainly sanctimonious. (Either one standing alone would be fine.)
Because they want him gone. Even with financial difficulties, it can be very difficult to remove a person who does not want to leave from governance (depending, of course, on how by-laws are written.) Given the propensity of unicorns to make founders un-impeachable benevolent dictators for life, they likely need his consent.

Though I don't know him personally, given what I've read of Mr. Neumann, I wouldn't put it past him to take the company down with him in pursuit of his ego. By his comments of wanting to become president of the world, solve world hunger, etc., he seems to have a massive God complex. It is probable he remains convinced he is the best person to lead wework.
But they don't care enough to actually stop co-mingling stock, which would nearly eliminate the problem.
few years older, same. But yes, I think that time were nearly everyone was a PC user was only a few years. (and I suspect it depends on country when exactly that was)
Walmart has ... issues ... with their supply chain for their physical stores. Part of the problem is that they're big enough to enable Walmart-specific versions of products.
I used to write software for a shop that sold DVDs and CDs on Amazon. They stopped selling FBA (sold by Amazon with your inventory or the inverse) because of counterfeit claims. It was really frustrating to get a photo of what the customer got and know there was no way it passed out QC. Not to mention the one or two legal issues that came up.
They do QC: sellers that have too many complaints get kicked off.
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Embedded device? It's a handheld unix computer.

Ironically, actual embedded devices are far easier to program, with Arduino. You type your code in a window (with all boilerplate and build system abstracted away) and click a button, and boom it's compiled and uploaded and running. This is because it was designed to be easy to use - ostensibly to teach young people, but in practice it means lots of hackers use it too.
Claims like this have been made from older generations to the younger and about every language since recording began. They were once made in Latin about a degenerate bastardization that eventually became French. Naturally, the French have in turn become rather protective.

Speakers are entitled to "abuse" their language if they want to. It is theirs.
I don't understand why point 5 about efficiency trends is relevant. Power consumption trends show us power consumption is continuing to climb irrespective of efficiency. It's clear that civilisation's need for power continues to expand even if some of our devices get more efficient.
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You can return the book, but (having been through this myself) tellingly when you select a reason for the return they do not give you an option for “Counterfeit Good”.

You have to pick a vaguely related reason like “Item Not As Described” and then you can optionally leave a comment noting that it is counterfeit. There is no indication that anyone ever looks at that comment, or takes any action about it.
It wouldn't help significantly. People would still get counterfeits when buying from bad sellers.
For whatever reason, the counterfeiters have no problem lying about anything, except the "Made in China" label.

I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but it's been the only consistent red-flag I've encountered.
> so who knows when they will start fulfilled by Walmart and comingling.

Fulfillment is just fine (indeed - beneficial to small businesses) as long as there is no inventory co-mingling.
Can you recommend any?
"Effective and efficient"? Or just lazy but fast?
Note that original MIPS (1983) was done in 25k transistors.
Resisting unjust legal action (initiated either by officer or judge) can happen any number of ways, including telling the court to stuff it.

Plea deals are the overwhelming number of convictions in the US, something like 90%. Most people do not have access to legal recourse and trusting any US court to operate sanely is a bad idea. Best to avoid it if you can.
It's not the default, but you can have that kind of experience with various toolkits for mobile devices too. I've seen workshops which kids left after an afternoon with their own simple "game" deployed to their phones.
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Do fully legal cryptocurrencies even make sense? They have to be legal only to sneak past regulations and gain adoption, but still somehow escape government control, so that AML, etc. cannot be enforced.
Hard to know what is fact, but the info that has come out (including the S-1) indicate that a majority of their properties are losing money.

If that is the case, then this cannot end well no matter how they trim operations
Stop. Fucking. Buying. Non. Google. Phones.
Also applies to plugging in a generator. Have known people who sourced a gen during an outage, didn’t know they couldn’t just plug it into an outlet and get power (I mean, your house will have power, but so will the grid and you won’t have any breakers).

Clickbait but it’s Bloomberg so not surprised.
And if you wanted them to interoperate properly... you'd essentially be reinventing a file system.

The problem is all these services try to control as much as they can. So interoperability becomes whatever contracts on the use of APIs they can sign with each other. You as a user have nothing to say.
We've sunk untold billions into nuclear, a very small fraction of what has gone into renewables. The major reason why so many countries wanted to have nuclear reactors was mostly because it was convenient cover for weapons research, and a way to make fissile material for weapons (Plutonium, for instance), not because it made clean or commercially viable energy.

France is a perfect example of this. When the oil crisis hit in the 70's they then used this knowledge to rapidly expand their use of nuclear power, which is now the highest in the world. But the reactors are aging, the waste is piling up and new construction has been delayed or halted indefinitely (and is already over budget).

Whether renewables are growing fast enough is something we control in a very direct way, and cranking out windmills and solar panels is really a mere matter of engineering. The latest iteration windmills make impressive power (8 to 12 MW design power is now a reality, something I did not expect to see in my lifetime), and can be mass produced economically.

They also tie into the grid at many locations, something aging grid infrastructure appreciates (the variability is another problem, but there are fortunately some solutions for that now).
Precedence climbing can be derived intuitively from recursive descent:

https://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm#more_clim...

... and "Pratt Parsing and Precedence Climbing Are the Same Algorithm" 2016):

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/01.html

and these techniques, despite originating in the 70s, are still the state of the art in most production programming language parsers
Worked for a small design company and one day everyone but me and the office manager was laid off.

It was pretty weird and despite reassurances from the partners, I took it as a hint that it wasn't the most stable of jobs.

Started looking right away and found a more stable dev position within a few months.
Clever - I like it.

But the key thing that made rotary dials usable was the catch at the end - it stopped your finger, so you just pushed until it stopped you, and it registered whichever number your finger was in.

Without that, this version isn't really usable. It needs to lock into a draggable state, then keep rotating so long as the mouse is down, even if you drag outside the control. And then it needs to stop dragging at the end, so you cannot over-drag and pick the wrong number. Do those 2 things, and it would be solid.
In my personal opinion, Flash was ruined by Adobe when they tried to 'fix' it (improve it?) with ActionScript 3, which followed the ECMA script standard. AS3 changed everything about how flash worked, and if you weren't a software engineer, the learning curve was steep. I actually went and took some basic programming classes (literally in visual basic lol) and learned how to write proper code.

Not a bad thing, but once I learned some of those basics, I no longer had fun toying around with animations and creating, and instead spent my time writing classes and functions. It became a lot harder to 'hack' things together, and, for me, less fun.

And besides that, plenty of real coding tools already existed, and HTML/CSS/JS was improving really quickly as well. So I ended up learning those instead.

All of that was actually great for my design career, but
Flash just didn't have a place anymore. And I'm still sad about that.
Also the mis-use of obscure vocabulary:

> In other words, it’s a data center—a columbarium for thousands of servers that store data for access and processing from virtually anywhere in the world.

I didn't know the word columbarium so I looked it up [1]. I don't think it's an appropriate word for this context and not good journalism. You could possibly stretch its meaning to describe a data centre in a poem or novel, but that's a different domain to journalism.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/columbarium
There's plenty of small online stores selling all kinds of stuff. Recently I had ordered smoked paprika from Amazon UK because I can't find any where I live (France). I got regular paprika. So I ordered from a specialized online spice store, got my paprika and vowed never to order anything from Amazon ever again.
Good article, but I think maybe missed one important point. The internet is based, more than anything, on the idea of "combine all the networks". If there is content in a network, it should be sent out to every other node in every other network that requests it.

Which can be awesome. But, I'm not convinced anymore that it is a good idea. That's a lot like a GOTO, that can go from any spot in the code to any other. Nearly any long-lived adaptive system, finds ways to section off, wall off, separate different parts, and restrict what can pass between them. If two neurons fire together, the connection between them strengthens, gradually, but we don't have all of our neurons wired to all of our other neurons, and I am thinking maybe that's not just because of the difficulties in doing so. Maybe even if you have the ability to connect all the nodes in a large network, you shouldn't.

It's called "viral" when something grows ultra-fast. We don't find the results of viruses to be good, usually. I think maybe viral content is often problematic...because it's viral.
Many of your complaints are based on an incorrect assumption: That what people do is writing.

Of course it is writing in the sense of using the alphabet. But has everyone started to write books and essays? No. In fact, people write less than they used to because letters have been mostly replaced by other methods of communication.

What you think is horrible written English is actually normal spoken English, just output through letters rather than sounds. And spoken language doesn't look anything like well-formed grammatical writing that doesn't give your English teacher a heart attack.

> 1/2

I'm getting strong Sapir–Whorf vibes here. Language adapts to what people say, not vice versa.

> Increased reliance on idioms to communicate. Idioms use analogies

No, they don't. Idioms have a meaning that is divorced from their constituent parts. They have a similar role to words.

> Reduced general vocabulary. We have more jargon than ever before, but regular writing is simpler than ever. Generally speaking, a reduced vocabulary means more concepts are "mapped" onto the same words (like "great," a highly over-mapped word.)

That is simply not how language works.

> 3

I, too, am concerned about the recent invention of satire and polemics. I hereby Modestly Propose to eat everyone that uses these diabolical stylistic devices and feed the leftovers to the Irish.