skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's basically it.
>If nothing else has worked, let's try threatening Openreach until service improves.

That is basically NOT it and issuing random threats to incumbent telcos, whilst contemporaneously empowering them is definitely not the solution. The shameless politicking does not address how to fund the empty promises. The article in essence is debating whether or not, Labour (2030) vs Cons (2025) pledge of "full-fibre Broadband" is a plausible one ie. the former is offering free access to the walking dead, and the latter shamelessly targeting it's base minority of curtain twitching shires, and neither of these parties know how to solve the wider and complex implications of engaging with businesses or how to implement any technical plans.

Meanwhile the idea of nationalising Openreach (BT) under public ownership is a much more complicated issue (i.e. its impact upon pensions, the question of who takes on BT’s massive debt pile (the public?), shareholders, competition etc.) and one that is likely to result in plenty of legal challenges (this could hamper the fibre rollout until settled). Not to mention a lengthy debate over whether that by itself would result in a better market.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/11/2020-labour-pa...
Petabyte-scale analytics by scaling out Postgres with Citus
Plus the parachutes would work!
With PJON you can apply laser communication using AnalogSampling, see: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/src/strategies/An...
It depends on the switch statement, but I often use this style for state machines which are particularly handy to see a lot of times.
Being right on an observational level is generally considered to be, well, right when it comes to perceived reality, what should or should not happen from a moral/ethical point of view is another discussion (the OP asked why did this happen, not if what happened was right or wrong).
Regulating that a retailer selling genuine products is nothing at all like zoning or funeral homes.

We need to empower states to regulate Amazon like any other retailer or have reasonable federal standards. In some cases states can apply the death penalty to retailers (revoking sales tax license) if they are perpetuating a fraud. You need regulators with teeth to compel positive behavior from a company are large as Amazon.
I wrote this on the top of my whiteboard in the last place I was CEO at. Still my mantra for management.
Dry eyes and halos, many I speak to say they have these issues. Followed by “I don’t regret it, best thing ever”. I walk away mostly confused.

Watching my sister, who had it done ~10 years ago, struggle to stay between the lines on the freeway at night due to halos I wrote it off completely. Even with these issues she’s perfectly happy with the results. Again, I don’t get it.
As an anecdote, it didn't work for me, unfortunately. Tried for 9 months, 3 different sets of lenses.

Apparently I don't have enough corneal tissue, which resulted in poor and increasingly bad vision starting every day around 3pm (~9 hours after removing lenses). My pupils also dilate surprisingly large, with no lenses being able to pull tissue over the entire dilated pupil, resulting in super nasty halos around light sources. The halos alone were bad enough that I wouldn't have been able to safely drive at night.

I am glad, though, that the attempt was completely, 100% side-effect free (except for my wallet). After a day or two, my vision returned to its terrible origin, with no halos or discomfort or anything.
Without any awareness of relative pricing I'd have liked to see comparisons with nations who haven't had the well reported issues Germany has had, with negative prices and what seems a huge proportion of solar given their latitude - along with recent increases of using lignite.

The "obvious" choices would seem to be Sweden, Iceland, Morocco, Denmark and UK. Perhaps China, or even Costa Rica who seem to have the world's most ambitious target - carbon free by 2021. I'm sure there's others progressing quickly.
Why Users Don't Complain About “The Google Squeeze”
SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC
HN is quite a lot larger than anything I've personally moderated. There are scaling issues involved.
Here's one example that I remember from my childhood as she is the same age as me:

"Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק‎, born 2 August 1971) is a British–Israeli mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology."

"In 1981 Lawrence passed the Oxford University entrance examination in mathematics, joining St Hugh's College in 1983 at the age of twelve."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Lawrence
This is actually planned to be supported soon. I recently provisioned a 64TB NAS for the purpose of object storage. It'll support things like release binaries, builds.sr.ht artifacts & build caches, a github pages-esque feature, etc. I just need to figure out how the heck Ceph works.
People rarely consider the fact that just because someone is born to be a genius doesn't mean that they'll want to grow up to be an academic.

I was born reasonably smart-ish. Did okay in school, have a good job writing code because I have an aptitude for it. But if I had a big dream, it would be in entertainment.
Showing suggestions manipulates what someone might search for, and therefore the results they get, especially as they build up search history.

A better option would be to remove search suggestions and only match proper nouns at most.
So in the study the article refers to, when asked after 6 months "Currently, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the result of your LASIK surgery?" on a 6-point scale, the responses were:

Completely satisfied 69.9% (151/216)
Very satisfied 22.7% (49/216)
Somewhat satisfied 4.2% (9/216)
Somewhat dissatisfied 0.9% (2/216)
Very dissatisfied 0.9% (2/216)
Completely dissatisfied 0.9% (2/216)

(this is from eTable 4 in the supplement here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic...).

If the FDA guy concludes from this that the procedure should never have been approved, I'm tempted to say that it reveals more about the risk-averseness of the FDA than about the dangers of the procedure.
Ask them why they disagree, and listen. They may be right.
> "well, then do it in your spare time"

Or, get paid to do FLOSS. (paid, not donations)
> You're just trying things and seeing if some api gives you what you want or works as you might expect.

I don't do most of my programming this way, because mostly I'm writing new things, not gluing together existing APIs with a tiny amount of simple glue code. But when I do need to characterize existing APIs, I find that unit tests are a really helpful way to do it — especially in languages without REPLs, but even in languages that do have REPLs, because the tests allow me to change things (parameters, auth keys, versions of Somebody Else's Software) and verify that the beliefs I based my code on are still valid.
You probably only ever hear of the success stories. I can think of Terry Tao, John von Neumann, and Erik Demaine off the top of my head, not because they were prodigies, but because they have gained enough name recognition that I Google'd them and learned of their early education.

Even if the rest had very interesting research, you wouldn't hear about them outside of their chosen field unless they reached superstar status.
That's not what the comment above said. They said some imaging programs create depth maps, and process images based on that. It doesn't mean it creates a depth map for the user, it can simply be an internal part of the whole process.

Photoshop RAW pluging does dehazing. I don't know how it works.
I don't think so. A and B are contradictory.
A asserts: (A & !B & !C & !D & !E & !F),
B asserts (B & !C & !D & !E & !F) which would imply B and !B therefore A is false.
Only E (or 5 depending on notation) can be true without contradiction.
And they are both worthless pieces of jewelry. Who really cares about fake fake stuff?

Some counterfeit stuff causes real harm though. Counterfeit electronics can catch on fire. Food could poison you.
Link is broken, I don't get how it got 4 points!
no probs. if you want to email me I can let you know once it all quiets down.
The Color Magenta, or How T-Mobile Thinks It Owns a General Color
I'm more interested in important stuff like if he can ride a bike or has any friends.
GPS Spoofing: Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold
There's been a lot of interesting research in superconducting computer architectures that bear similarities to these concepts; some of it pursuant to quantum computing, some classical. [1] DACs that use switching of Josephson junctions to store persistent current, [2, 3] logic and storage elements based on the superconducting phase change (e.g. the ability of a metal to hold a voltage differential), and even [4] rudimentary AQFP-based FPGAs! I've seen talks describing more elaborate versions of [4] but can't find a good paper. A pretty good overview of this frontier is [5].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5504.pdf

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.6423.pdf

[3] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0e4e/237bf8b39600de05732d0b...

[4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7383477

[5] http://snf.ieeecsc.org/file/8506/download?token=StMHBjkP
I read TFA, I know he's planning on grad school, but it's funny to imagine him taking a break and going into the workforce 9 years later at 18 years old:

<Company A>
Hiring manager: checks resume This guy graduated back in 2019 and hasn't had a job since? Nope, no way. I'm not interested. Probably some lazy kid again.

<Company B>
Interviewer: So I saw you graduated in 2019? What jobs have you had since then? Any personal projects?

Kid: (incredulous)
The fact that they have and deploy boxes isn't the secret. It's the hardware configuration and software integration which is the sauce.
I have had a HP laserjet 1010 since it came out. Still works.
I like your distinction here. That fits well with how I find myself structuring code.
I feel like the question in the title leaves out important context. Like, why do you need to motivate people at all?

Presumably it's because they aren't happy to do the work you ask of them, and the reasons for this can vary wildly, from the divorcee suffering a depression to the QA temp that knows you think of them about as fondly as of the stack of papers that stabilises that one wobbly table you don't like anyway...
But you don't actually know that this practice is wasteful. That all depends on the numbers.

Let's say that Amazon sends out 100 books, and 1 or 2 get damaged. But if they add some extra bit of packaging to every single one of those 100 books, zero will get damaged.

Did this save cost or materials? I don't know, it depends on how much extra packaging was needed, whether the damage was serious enough to initiate a refund/re-send, and whether adding packaging to every single order was less environmentally impactful than having to print and send an extra book to those who received damaged ones.

It's going to be a simple dollar value equation for companies like Amazon, and make no mistake, they have the data and have made these decisions consciously.
Fact: the overwhelming majority of users aren't going to type a search query that completely specifies the information they are looking for.

The user isn't going to supply the very detailed information necessary to objectively filter down (and rank) everything on the web to a set of relevant results, without the search engine making any judgment calls. That would be a ton of work, more than almost any user would want to do. (And many users wouldn't have the technical skills to do it.) It would be like going into a restaurant and handing the chef a recipe for everything in your meal, down to the level of detail saying the vanilla extract in your dessert should use this type of vanilla bean, infuse it in this type of alcohol, and for this long.

The corollary is that any useful search engine will have to guide you a bit. It will take the incomplete specification you gave about what you want, and it will fill in reasonable guesses about everything you didn't say about what you want (but that it needs to know to find it), and then it will give you an answer that's useful.

Obviously, it's ideal to make this guidance objective or unbiased, but how do you even ensure that you're doing that? The whole point here is that you are making guesses about what the user prefers. It's not useful to guess randomly. Objectivity is a good goal, and you should avoid any unnecessary subjectivity, but the idea that you're going to be totally objective seems like a fantasy.
I actually used to run Firefox from a RAM disk back in 2009 or so. I'll give it a shot again, thanks for the suggestion.
Only if you're a rockstar.
> Fascist has long been a synonym for authoritarian. I don't know why so many people suddenly take issue with it.

"Fascist" means something much more specific than just "authoritarian". Far from suddenly taking issue with the misuse of the term, I have always chafed at its misuse.

That said, I don't agree with chrisdhoover that "fascist" should only be used in a WWII context. Real fascism existed long before WWII, and still exists today.
Hell, if it was clearly a "designer impostor" and sold as such for a fraction of the price, I'd have no problem with it. Plenty of times I'd be fine with something like that (I think of all the $10 "faux-kley" sunglasses I bought as a teen in the 90's).

IMO, items in the style of expensive designer baubles have their place as long as they a) don't use the real logo/claim to be legit and b) don't cost as much. I don't mean there aren't some IP lawsuits waiting to happen, but that's not my concern.

It's the fakes labeled as genuine articles that need to go. Sell a lookalike Hermes bracelet without logo for $25 instead of $640? Fine by me. Costume jewelry can be fun I'm sure. Same for "Rolax" watches or whatever.

But it's not the $100 item listed at $10 that really sucks, it's the fake that's labeled genuine and still sold for $100 that ruins things and needs to be cracked down on.
I am asked with a pop-up but not required every single time on Twitter
I disagree.

In my city of Bloomington, IN, we have a city run farmers market with known and admitted members of Identify Evropa (now American Identity Movement).

Digging into what they want mirrors a "white ethnostate" with strong Nazi tendencies. When the call theselves "volkmom" and talk of lebensraum, the idea of fascism isn't some 80 year old quaint idea.

Now, the city cannot remove her, as she has been accused of nothing illegal. And it's a government run market. But last week, was a protest that lead to the arrest (but not detained) of 5 protesters. That ended up in Newsweek.

Where I'm sitting, it's right there and up front.
There's a lot of emphasis in this article on counterfeits of luxury goods sold at obviously counterfeit prices (like the Hermès for 5% of genuine retail), but not much on the far more insidious (and seemingly pervasive, in my experience) general merchandise counterfeits sold for what is often not a suspiciously big discount.

Categories like kitchen or yard tools are absolutely rife with counterfeits. As an example, search Amazon for Ove Glove heat-resistant oven gloves: The Amazon's-Choice-badged option (which, I know, is chosen by algorithm) yields a product page where the top review complains they received a product without several of the trademark details on the older set they own. The reviewer even acknowledges the difficulty in tracking down genuine Ove Gloves on Amazon! They ultimately resign themselves to defeat: "What a game: I rolled the dice and lost."

Of course, there are also quite sophisticated fakes in categories such as consumer electronics. Fake controllers for game consoles are a standout: Search for the Playstation DualShock 4 controller and you'll find the official product page littered with reviews complaining of an entire continuum of fakes, ranging from obvious to ones that are almost entirely indistinguishable until the knockoff battery stops holding a charge after a few weeks.

I'm not really sure what product categories are still safe to buy on Amazon, given that everything from food to books has varying degrees of counterfeit mixed in. At least something like an iPad should be impossible to fake due to the cryptographic requirements for booting the OS.
Taxes are applied equally to all. I follow the same tax code as someone making 200x what I do.
I can see it making sense if you're nearly blind without your glasses. I'd feel very vulnerable if I'm so reliant on glasses.

If it's just a slight convenience then yeah... keep that stuff away from me.
The other 9 days.
I had the privilege of partnering with Sanmina a few years ago, and they had the most innovative designs I've seen to date for storage.

My favorite one was where you could stuff equivalent of 30 2.5" SSDs in 1U.
Zappos is part of Amazon.
Myanmar: The Dark Side of the Rohingya Muslim Minority
Isolated incidents cannot be considered a pattern of behavior. If you judge everyone by the worst day of their lives, I feel sorry for your friends.
Surgeons should be required to offer PRK over LASIK and explain the many advantages in terms of less risk of complications and lower cost. I had to get PRK because I have thin corneas, but I'm not sure it would have even been raised as an option for me had that not been the case.
It seems to me to just be a synonym for "far-right" in the US right now, often used by people with equally authoritarian left-ish stances.
In the Age of AI
Between SEO gamification, ad spam in top search results, neutered advanced search capabilities, auto correction of search terms based on NN models which are regressing to the layman's mean, and increasing evidence of manual manipulation of search results/autocomplete, Google search is rapidly degenerating into a pile of garbage. Unfortunately their market cap combined with the status as the defacto portal to the internet makes them hard to unseat and DDG isn't quite as good yet.

Give me back the Google of 5-10 years ago, and the rest of the internet from that time, not this ad and blogspam dominated AOL 2.0 joke of a net that we're quickly centralizing into. It's sad to see where ad based economics are driving the net.
It may not apply to this particular implementation, but users who've downloaded alternative YT clients (which offer ad-free experiences, or playback while the screen is off) an Android devices, may have their Google account flagged, even if the apps were sideloaded.
I've been a consultant for Amazon suppliers since 2009 and seen tons of junk come onto the market.

Every retailer in the world (besides Amazon) has incredibly strict supplier verification because if someone dies from a toaster fire, extension cord shortage, etc. then everyone sues everyone.

Amazon DNGAF because the risk is on the "seller". Just like TAX RISK is on the "seller".

People are importing shit from their basement, trying to get rich, with no clue about product risk when it should be slightly harder.
Thank you. Looks great, but simplex scanning is a show stopper.
Also when it’s clear that the context is “make money for someone who isn’t you.” Every time I see what the work I’m doing is costing the client, or the expected profits it will generate, I get depressed. I’m making a change that brings the company an extra million dollars, great - but I’m still on the same salary...
This is very cool.

Especially:

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This feels familiar.

I went back to school at age 48 and it amazed me how younger people could do so much and so well. I'm amazed at how people can be so efficient. Those same people some just 10 years younger than me worked full-time jobs and went to a full schedule of classes.

I'm terrible at time management. At school I tried to start every assignment the minute it was assigned. Yet I was still working on it five minutes before it was due.

Eventually I figured I needed time to relax so I created a block of time only for school. I do better when it's evening or night so I blocked off 7pm to 9pm. That also allowed me to eat first I found eating later didn't work since my mind didn't work without food younger me could have plowed through the hunger (I'd often go days without eating as a 20-something).

From the article the two practice-time peaks make sense. Maybe I may do just as well in the early morning as I do in the evening. That would free up a large part of my day. At school I found things like laundry, grocery shopping, any small task was sacrificed to make up study time.
That's orthogonal to the fragmentation. Probably two thirds of my job is meetings, but I'm ruthless about compacting them so that the remaining third isn't a scattered forty five minutes at a time
This is most likely a win-win senario for both parties.

Netflix can be more stable, and can save on bandwidth in their own DCs.

ISP can save a lot of egress bandwidth by having Netflix inside their infrastructure.

I would be surprised if any of the parties payed. It's a great strategy to have the ISPs on board with this
Sensible use of language features, and definitely no use of inherited C unsafety features like manual resource management, unchecked arrays accesses, implicit enum conversations, lack of namespacing, nullable pointers instead of references,...
You don't need to use their preferred printers.
I would recommend Down with Determinants! instead. Same author, and was the inspiration for that textbook.

https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/awards/Axler-For...

As a graduate student at the time, it opened my eyes about a whole bunch of theorems that I thought I already knew. And it is a lot more approachable than a textbook.

It won an award for the best piece of expository writing on mathematics in 1996. It was a deserved win. :-)
The equations they are referring to do not concern the nuclear aspects of an atomic bomb. They describe how to set up the geometry of conventional plastic explosives (different kinds of explosives that burn at different speeds) in just the right configuration so that the propagating shock waves interfere with each other to result in a spherical shock wave that pushes the core of the bomb (the radioactive part) towards a single fixed point at the center. If any of this is off even slightly, the forces will not be in balance and the core materials will shoot out of the weak point, rather than uniformly compress to bring the nuclear material to the critical point where the fission is self-sustaining.
Me too! I started using it after the Gitlab thing recently and I'm loving it so far. I haven't moved everything over yet, but am slowly getting there. I do miss some flashy features every so often, but I like what is there way more than I miss what isn't, so I'm pretty happy overall.