skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
please don't miss out on the glorious reviews:

> When I discovered this book, it unlocked the full erotic potential of what an init system could could be. Since buying this book, I'm filled with desire to migrate and unify everything in Systemd. I want my console in systemd. I want my mount in systemd. I want my syslogs in systemd, saved as binary data because I love my troubleshooting rough. Even my bootmanger should be in systemd (so very, very soon).

If there weren't laws against it, I would even dare say: I want Emacs in Systemd.

...
That doesn't sound right... seatbelt laws forced people who otherwise would have felt confident enough to drive without it to wear one. Low confidence drivers always had the option to wear one at any time. From only study I could find on the subject [1]:

"We distinguish, following the literature, between fatalities among car occupants, who may be directly affected by
using seat belts, and fatalities among nonoccupants (pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists), who do not use seat belts and can thus be affected by seat belt use only indirectly... Our findings indicate that seat belt use significantly reduces fatalities among car occupants, but does not appear to
have any statistically significant effect on fatalities among
non-occupants. Thus, we do not find significant evidence for
compensating behavior."

Maybe the invention of seat belts could have that effect, but that coincided with so many other changes to automobile technology / urban development that any observed effects are correlated at best.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~leinav/pubs/RESTAT2003.pdf
RMS has always been insufferable to me. I had to be in his presence numerous times when I worked at VA Linux, and every, single, exchange was at best discomforting. More often it was like watching the future patron saint of obstinate incel paladins drone emphatically about whatever was in his head at that moment.........and then likely say or do something repugnant for a bonus.

ESR once explained to me that he simply didn't understand/value the "social overhead" needed in terms of conventional civility. I told ESR then he should expect unconventional outcomes/responses to his antics, including his profound failures at basic hygiene and not being a creepy GNU-hobo.

I respect his technical accomplishments, but he's always expressed himself as a torpid, obstinate, schmuck.
> Building out last-mile != becoming an ISP.

Which is exactly what I said, yes.

> There's a reason the federal government has handed out hundreds of BILLIONS to expand internet coverage in the US.

Yes, it's called regulatory capture and corporate lobbying.

> Are you serious?

Yes.

> A city with a budget measured in the hundreds of thousands per year would immediately cease and desist if they were faced with a multi-million dollar settlement should they lose the case.

If the lawsuit is obviously frivolous, they won't lose. Their lawyers will be able to advise them of that before they decide how to respond. In a sane legal environment, the municipality's lawyers would know that a judge was going to see the suit as frivolous and throw it out, with the plaintiff ordered to pay the defense's costs. Of course, we don't currently have a sane legal environment.

> Regulation has never been the issue in the US.

Evidently we don't live in the same reality. So I don't see that further discussion is going to have any point.
These lines have become a bit of a meme in philosophy circles, but, for the record, while all of these lines are attested to in Cora Diamond's edition of "Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics," Wittgenstein and Turing did not have a back-and-forth conversation like this.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/d4YUZVq1JSEC?hl=en&gb...

The first line, "I won't say anything which anyone can dispute" is from Lecture 2.

The next two lines ("I understand but I don't agree" / "Turing doesn't object") are from Lecture 6.

The "I see your point" / "I have no point" was a remark amid a deeper conversation during Lecture 10.

Juxtaposing the lines like this makes Wittgenstein seem comically insane (which is the joke, and I do get it).
Why America’s Craft Brewers All Love a Vintage Candy
VCV Rack is a titan in the FOSS eurorack modular world. nothing else comes close. I have a physical eurorack as well but i use Rack all the time to sketch out ideas and to explore new kinds of modules before i buy something physical.
According to the linked page, the Jelly 2 is 95mm * 50mm * 17mm.

The Palm phone is 97mm * 51mm * 7mm, so it's smaller (particularly a lot thinner) than the Jelly 2.

Still, it's wonderful to see more options in the pocket-sized phones!! A vastly under-served market.

I bought the Palm phone after it was discussed here a month or so back. Very happy with it, actually fits in my pocket and I can't feel it's there.
[0] reminds me that I need to update https://lynx.browser.org/ for the new version number.
This is somewhat true, but Windows is a perfect example of this not working. There was no Windows 9, because of fear of people using the Windows string name to detect Windows 95/98 (or at least that is the prominent theory).
Also called double-entry bookkeeping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping
It's very generous to assume he has inner thoughts. For all we have observed in the past years, he has as much internal state as a probabilistic prose generator.
Just reading the reviews was oddly satisfying.
“Every broken site” will be internal enterprise web-applications that haven’t been touched in 15 years where they’ve also lost the source code.
It's not just 'internet avengers'. There are plenty of us who had to be in that hirsute homunculus' presence, and found him a creepy buffoon long before SJWs ever were in the picture. I'm talking close to 2 decades before.
Is her complaint legally an issue? Not sure is not hiring or promoting someone is illegal in this case.
Good for you.

We became millionaires despite it.
I might be a minority, but I don't like modern adaptive websites. They try really hard to work on both touch and non-touch devices with the same underlying markup, and more often than not end up being terrible on both. You end up with these giant, touch-friendly buttons on desktops. Making all your paddings and layouts and font sizes dynamically adapt to the interaction paradigm is hard and almost no one's doing it. Then there are some interactions that are only possible on desktops — like hovering things to reveal menus or tooltips; these websites rarely make use of the unique properties of the mouse. Or sometimes they do but then you happened to open it on your phone and you have to tap and hold the thing to trigger the hover. And so on.

> It is probably a smartphone, but it could also be a tablet, a TV, or even a PC!

That's what the "request desktop website" setting is for.

> An even more stupid idea is to redirect the user to a different domain if you detect that the user agent is mobile

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you on this one.
Apple Store Index as a proxy to measure the U.S. Coronavirus outbreak
Invest in Yourself Before Failure Occurs – Many people wait until it’s too late
You got the answer right. Software typically does work this way but then people inevitably make the mistake of using the wrong version and then hacks are needed to not break those apps.
The author has no idea what he's writing about, calling it a "graphene" network, and several awkward phrasings about dark matter etc. Read the papers instead.
Disagree. You can't just tell your customers "my product doesn't work because of Microsoft, go complain to them; even though it's possible for me to work around it, I'm choosing not to".
There are a number of interesting what ifs to consider.

Generally, scale back the size of the heavy bomber force and spend the resources on other things

Absolutely, at least for the RAF. Coastal Command was denied long-range bombers for far too long, and these aircraft were absolutely critical for winning the battle of the Atlantic.

Spend more resources in the Mediterranean front to push faster into Italy. Maybe even make an effort to retake Crete and Greece

Churchill was enamored with these ideas (US leaders deeply opposed to what was perceived as an attempt at protecting spheres of influence rather than winning the war), but I don't think more resources in the Mediterranean would have necessarily achieved much more. Italy is just terrible ground to fight over, with numerous mountain ranges that allow small defensive forces to delay an invader. Much of the most painful parts of the campaign (ex Salerno, Anzio) had to be conducted without the kind air superiority that would be present later in the war, since the Mediterranean theater is just a difficult place from an aviation standpoint: far enough to be difficult to maintain fighter coverage, near enough to be in easy bomber range, and not quite big enough for carrier groups at the time to fight effectively. There also were often simply not enough resources to pursue both a broader Mediterranean strategy and an invasion of western Europe.

Use the (reduced size) heavy bomber fleet for attacking targets close enough that they could be escorted by fighters. Say, any German military presence in Northern France; airfields, ports, transportation infrastructure like bridges or railway yards, fuel depots

While the large daylight attacks over Germany tend to overshadow everything else, plenty of 8th Air Force missions were over closer targets in France, as well all of the 9th "tactical" Air Force missions that were necessary to strike smaller tactical targets (airfields, RADAR stations, bridges, rail yards). In light of postwar surveys, using strategic bombers to strike small targets was a gamble, so it's not clear that much more would have been achieved. In addition, targets across all of France and the low countries needed to be struck to reduce German strength and reserves while also not disclosing the specific target of D-day.

All in all, if the Allies had played all their cards better, maybe they could have done D-day already late summer '43?

The US army really wanted to an invasion in 1943, and had to be restrained from it by practical constraints. Logistics of a massive assault on defended beaches with no hope of quickly capturing a usable port just weren't ready until 1944. Even with all the preparation, the Allied advance in summer/fall of 1944 was severely hamstrung by logistics.
LinkedIn makes most of its money out of companies posting job ads, not on people applying for them. And companies paying for ads are going down.
Why are we doing these "privilege" callouts? What does this add to the discussion? Should Malan apologize? Should the New Yorker apologize for him? Individuals are regularly used metonymically to represent a larger system. And those systems need a "face", because without it we don't care about the story.
YouTube is made by a browser maker, ie. it has a motive to make non-Chrome browsers look worse. Eg. when chromium-based Edge came out, YT served it an old version of itself for no apparent reason.
> Lynxlet is Links for Mac OS.

It seems to be Lynx, not Links (an entirely different browser.)
A cool example of this principle in action is to read the WWII-era “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” (https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...), which reads like an inverted guide to productivity. Some fun bits:

> Managers and Supervisors: To lower morale and production, think of the worst boss you’ve had and act like that. Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work. When possible, refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large and bureaucratic as possible.

> Employees: Be forgetful. Clumsy. Work slowly. Think of ways to increase the number of movements needed to do your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one; try to make a small wrench do instead of a big one.

> When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.

> Apply all regulations to the last letter.

Admittedly, some of the techniques—like releasing a bag full of moths in a movie theater to disrupt enemy propaganda—are oddly specific and not easily inverted.
I have a little 1.92 liter DeskMini A300W with a 2400 G APU and it works well as my desktop computer and also connects to my TV a few feet away. It actually sits on the little shelf under the desk. The only graphics game I have played recently is Rocket League and it handled that very well. Also was fine for GTA V.

I have been thinking about upgrading to 4000 when it becomes available but right now I actually don't really need more power.
Who knows? But, it is Socratic.
I don't think I am confused. I told you I have a different viewpoint on this. You are claiming different branches of the same tree are magically distinct from each other because they have different names and magic runes sketched into them with a pencil, and all I see is a single tree in a huge forest full of trees. I don't think I'm going to convince you of my viewpoint, but my viewpoint is not confused.

You aren't likely to convince me that one branch is more scarce than the others because I can see how big the whole tree is, and especially because I can see how many other trees are in the forest already.

(ETA: To make it clearer, you especially aren't going to convince me because I think Proof of Work is a waste of processing power. The real scarcity is processing power, and again, that's a political/economic game, that only props up artificial scarcity so far. Certainly not far enough that I trust the bitcoin tree to remain scarce in the long run. Not a question of if, but a question of when.)
It has nothing to do with English. It was a practice that some ancient armies (Romans, IIRC) did with defeated populations, when they had refused to surrender.

It's now used when you mean that a sizeable part of a population dies, not necessarily one tenth, but it's interesting to remember the origin of the expression.
Here how I replace the battery on my previous phone:

I order a new battery online.

I remove the backplate of my phone.

I swap the old battery with the new one.

For my new phone, it's exactly the same, but in need to remove 6 screws.

No need for steady hands, without screws, my grandma could do it.
Thanks, yup- to be more precise, a state of insolvency- liabilities > assets at close of business- may result in one or more outcomes, one of which is essentially bankruptcy + bail in, but another might be, eg being absorbed/acquired?
> Which is why I don't have any particular sympathy for the undulations in the job market of a salaried employee - at any point, they can freelance like I have to fill the gaps.

Congratulations on your successful gig career that gives you great freedom and the means to support yourself. However, not everyone can freelance. They may have skills which have zero demand right now, they are unable to work remotely, or they have mortgages or health/family situations which prevent them relocating or doing gig work.

There's a lot of sentiment on this thread that these people losing their jobs at LinkedIn are deadweight but in my experience the people let go in the midst of a great economic crisis include superstars who have the floor vanish beneath them, through no fault of their own.
Not bad. I’ve been using the Svelte plugin by Tomasz Błachut. But I don’t think the plugin supports TypeScript yet.
This is so true, but it's also an issue. If you can't make a living in government, then you're more likely to leave or turn to rent-seeking opportunities (i.e. becoming a lobbyist after a few years working on Capitol Hill). I worked in public policy for years but had 5 roommates even 5 years in and was saving zero money. In order to build a stable future for myself, I had to leave government. If I could've stayed working on the issues I was passionate about and been able to buy a house or start a family, then I may have stayed. But I couldn't do that, so I left...
> You can do this in virtually all games

No you can't. Overwatch, CSGO, etc, etc. don't have a way to make a team and queue as a team (against other teams). You do this by playing on FaceIT, ESEA, CEVO, or in other leagues. Built-in matchmaking is only individual. This is, from a competitive standpoint, a meaningless data point and (from a casual standpoint) only creates toxicity.
Emacs in systemd: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/07/16/running-emacs-with-sy...
I don't go to most websites to be amazed by their looks and usability. If one is better in these regards, then I'd prefer every website to enjoy these improvements.

A proper restaurant analogy would be if each and every restaurant reinvented the way to put food into your mouth. Sure, it might be funny once in a while, but currently, when pushing the front door, you have no idea where they'll put your fork, if you will have a fork, if you'll be fed modern times-style, https://xkcd.com/1293/ style, if you'll have to inhale your soup trough the nose or hunt for your food.

You might see it as "the fun of life" if that was common practice. But a standard interface (UX) allows one to focus on the important stuff (namely, enjoying the food: most Asian restaurants I know offer forks as well as chopsticks). Important stuff here would be the piece of info you came for. Be it an article, a picture, some data, etc.

For instance, do you enjoy the "creativity" with which websites design cookie banners instead of having a standard form, or better, obeying the DNT bit?
well, did adtech change the available income or why is it that it's so much bigger than the old way of doing advertisement?

I think the only point, why you are seeing this "growth" is that you have an oligopolic structure which is just skimming money (mainly to the benefit of the 0.1 percenters) without creating any additional value compared to the traditional way of doing advertising? Or how again are you increasing available income with your smokescreen of targeted ads?

EDIT: actually I think wikipedia captured it perfectly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking - and no, financing some productive webbusiness (which there are?) with a minuscule fraction of the ad money or following personal spleens of the founders/crazy people is not altering the outcome.
You could consider the other members of the pool as an extension of your advisory board. They are incentivized to share their resources, wisdom, network, strategy, and 1-1 help on specific needs like this.
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> Well it's only my anecdata vs your anecdata but that wasn't my experience at all.

Indeed and much likely depended on use-cases.

But battery life is vastly different now regardless.

> PCMCIA cards you needed

LOL do not miss those. I did have a sweet PCMCIA network card because Linux didn't support the onboard NIC. Back in the days when you had to scour 30+ web sites to find a laptop you could run Linux on reliably.
So you would never invest in a founder who does the rational thing? Believing in your own company doesn't preclude one from believing in other companies as well.

Say the founder estimates their startup has an 80% chance of succeeding; they pool 5% of their equity given the non-linearity of the utility of money (the additional 5% upside is negligible in a large exit). You would immediately dismiss that founder entirely because of this choice?
Nothing beyond the normal "cognitive reserve" findings that high education and broad cognitive engagement makes the brain pathology take longer to reduce your functioning to a dementia state.
All I'm finding is 'south east Asia' as origin -- which is an enormous range of fauna.

I understand the 'travel far and wide', though of course evolution's not directed, and is there significant difference in fitness & success over the long term for a variation that allows a plant to produce offspring 1km away in one generation (say 5y), rather than taking 2 generations?

(And, of course, it's worse than that. The 10m drop potential isn't realised until the plant is probably 15 years old or more -- at which point the distance / propagation calculation is almost irrelevant, as that specimen would have produced fruit for at least 5 years whose seeds would have travelled the same distances, regardless of this (future) robustness capability.)

Sadly, though, I suspect plant archaeologists have more pressing concerns than this question.
I recently read this book, recommended in another of the infinite posts about writing well, and it is truly good:

https://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publish...

The chapters from 1 through Cohesion II are better at teaching clarity of thought in writing than any I've read anywhere. Most books focus on grammar and style and ignore the good stuff in between.

For those who like Williams, he also wrote books on how to build arguments and conduct research!
We've been through several generations of exploit mitigations starting with non-executable stacks, and, impressively, exploit developers found workarounds for each of them (although often the particular workarounds have requirements that might not be met in a particular vulnerability environment). In many cases I had the impression that the workarounds were surprising to the mitigation developers because the latter had expressed a lot of confidence that software security was about to make a huge leap and memory safety violations would rarely be exploitable anymore.

What are the prospects for finding workarounds to CET too?

(I don't mean to argue that there's no benefit to these mitigations or that some of them might not eventually finally stop whole classes of vulnerabilities. But I feel like their track record is not nearly as awesome as their inventors anticipated, so I wonder what informed opinion is on the eventual relevance or irrelevance of this one. Notably, the "RIP ROP" seems like a somewhat ambitious claim to mitigate a large amount of attack potential; how well-justified is it?)
I have a copy of this, it was surreal. Would suggest as a gag gift for someone that isn't easily offended.
I've switched to ramda and even then, usage is fairly minimal.
Disney Research Studios demonstrates automatic face swapping with faster AI
I don’t believe that for one moment.

If you ask Win32 for its version number you get a VERSION structure with Major/Minor/Build fields - not a string.

Windows faked its reported version information to software for compatibility purposes since Windows XP (opt-in) and since Windows 8 (opt-out, using application manifests) - so any program that doesn’t claim support for Windows 8, 10, etc is stuck in “Windows Vista mode” - so even if software was doing an osMarketingName.StartsWith(“Windows 9”) check it would be straightforward to make it work.
Barely 10% :-)

But I actually agree. Why try to build a university from scratch even starting with an existing "tier 2" (whatever that means) school when you can get your name attached to a significant new initiative at an institution which already has a lot of prestige?
I agree my example was more a double negative. The way I am thinking though would result in something similar to yours.
What is the purpose of the neural network and how does that help generate the symbolic regression using genetic algorithms?

Are they somehow using the parameters of the ANN to seed the generic algorithms (and structure)?
Ah, that makes sense.

I thought it was because they wanted to go to 10, like Mac OS X. Same as the Xbox 360 was called that because they didn’t want to bring out the Xbox 2 when Sony was bringing out the PS3.
Second-Climacs: Version 2 of the Climacs text editor
You two are mixing up required reserves ratio:

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/cash-reserve-ratio

and a bunch of other yields, which connect to the the rate paid on reserves, the rate on excess deposits, fed funds, libor etc etc.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate