skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Headline writer misinterpreted "origin of wildfires" to mean "cause of wildfires". It's a map of the geographic origin of wildfires and hovering lists their cause when known.

It's OK as an infographic, but it's a map showing the "where" not a visualization showing the "why".
Well an atheist scientists perspective that "the big bang came out of nothing" makes as much sense as any religious text to be honest.
Could you not also use one of the open binaries of VSCode with the telemetry removed? https://vscodium.com/ or build from source (with reference that the Microsoft specific functionality is not present: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...)
Very well thought out. You're completely right. The high average age, low sample size, and cherry-picked studies ruin the meta-analysis.

Even the conclusion near the beginning is shoddy: "Hydroxychloroquine alone was not associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients but the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin significantly increased mortality."
1. Dependency graph for cells, letting it automatically rerun what's needed when you change one. This keeps everything up to date.

2. git-friendly.
I've played so much live music with an IPad, but after the 4-5th time having it freeze up mid live performance I gave up on the dream. It's just not 100% reliable, and nothing like standing there like an idiot desperately trying to swipe to the next page to make your realize how great paper is
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It hasn't been widely covered outside of the anti-CCP sources. It seems to be gaining a bit of traction lately. If you are interested, Epoch times, BitterWinter and others have been covering this for a long time.

Establishment media partisans aren't shy about using Nazi comparisons. Over the past year you would have been more likely to hear criticisms of US immigration policies painted in this light.
Are you rallying?

I perfectly understand why people aren’t rallying: it’s happening on the other side of the planet. What are we supposed to do?
I agree, you can use these platforms to get off the ground fast and transition later.

BUT, here's the problem, the more you develop workflows, habits, and a big back catalogue on their platform, the harder it is for you to transition off of it.

Your content catalogue could have been building SEO juice for you on your own domain. Instead, by transitioning, any link anybody has ever posted to your content or newsletter becomes obsolete and a dead end into substack.

The truth is, if you aren't able to set up your own platform now, you aren't suddenly going to acquire the time and skills needed to do that while tied to a weekly publishing schedule later--especially given the vendor lock-in I mentioned above.

The platforms know this. I've never heard of a commune that venture capital investors were willing to put $15M in hoping for 10X returns.

It's sharecropping.
webex (1).exe

webex (2).exe

webex (3).exe

...

After a Windows update webex kept crashing and bringing my laptop down with it, so I started using the web app. My Downloads folder ended up with quite a few webex downloads. Now I have a script to clean them out each night.
In Japanese, people use the "FamilyName GivenName" order. Up until recently people generally used the "GivenName FamilyName" order when speaking English. Apparently this practice was adopted more than 100 years ago to be more western. Recently, the Japanese government decided that "FamilyName GivenName" was going to be the new standard when writing Japanese names in Roman letters[1]. Some people follow this and some people don't.

I did a quick ask around the office asking which order people would use when introducing themselves to someone from abroad. About half said "FamilyName GivenName", the other half said "GivenName FamilyName". So basically, if you meet someone from Japan the most straightforward thing to do is ask what they would prefer to be called.

[1]https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/japane...
"What I don't get, is why couldn't a dev team just embed WebKit directly - what does this really give? Can it put a browser in game in 3D, or is it a 2D overlay? Will it work with VR / AR?"

It really is not that simple. Rendering a modern webpage or webapp requires a lot of components. You can't just take webkit and call it a day. For example in the chromium engine Blink which is the Webkit fork doesn't event render pages. It consumes HTML and CSS and produces "display lists" i.e lists of drawing commands. Those are fed to a rasterizer engine that must maintain a whole stack of trandormable layers which are managed in various render trees. Finally pages are radterized in tiles and then composited together for the final image that is show in the viewport. All of this covers millions of lines of code on top of Blink! And we're not even talking about things such as executing JS or syncing JS input handlers with the rendering or doing the actual page loads over HTTP/S or handling windowing and platform APIs and user input etc. All of which are really more or less essential in order to make anything that is actually useful.
None of the costs you mentioned relate directly to a customer's choice at checkout in the way a credit card does. If the supermarket provided a "home delivery" service it would be absurd to expect them to amortize it over everyone who doesn't use home delivery so I could get it for "free".
I mean, for most of us on here, it's either use goods made at least partially in China or switch career - you're never going to get a computer with no Chinese-made components, especially not at a price which I can afford. Good luck doing that without years of planning, and managing to continue to feed yourself.

Fact of the matter is that China is in an extremely powerful position over the world due to its position in the manufacturing chain. The world would fall apart overnight if China stopped manufacturing things - parts of it did already when Covid-19 caused lockdowns. There isn't the manufacturing ability elsewhere to scale up to what China provides.
I wouldn’t agree. It’s the best communication format for someone who wants to control their own time and attention.
This is exactly the issue. Apple blocks your app updates if you explicitly state the fee anywhere.
It's the dropbox argument all over again. "I don't understand why people just won't use <much more complicated service>!"

I've never used Teams, but my girlfriend was trying to walk her mum through getting it setup for work. It was a very long phone call. When I tried Zoom with my parents it took a grand total of about 2 minutes from the moment they get the link to being in the call, most of the time spent figuring out audio.

Also, fuck Microsoft. From the complete destruction of Skype, the crappy Skype-rebranded Lync, to the shitshow that is their "Microsoft Store" and the whole xbox gaming ecosystem, if I ever have a choice between a Microsoft and non-Microsoft application that does the same thing, I'm never going with the Microsoft one.
Intel-ISL (who built this) have lots of really interesting and useful AI/ML projects. It's worth looking at if you work in the field.
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> If you're collaborating on a document then markdown or LaTeX has you covered.

These are not WYSIWYG solutions which answers 99% of your question "why". When people want to write a document they want to write things and have the things appear on a page, possibly in different formatting. Injecting ideas like source files, rendering pipeline, etc. will just result in confused people.

That's why online solutions like Google docs are popular. No special app, things look like expected, you can collaborate, and few people actually need any fancy features.
i'm a vim user for 15 or maybe even 20 years now.

vim is more of a text sculptor than text editor. the way you work with text is next to magical.

that said, it shows its age. i'm now trying out - with quite some success - vscode with remote-ssh. it's extremely nice to be able to use native OS window and have everything happen on the remote side transparently. the vim plugin works but as usual not everything is good: visual mode doesn't quite work for copying lines, commands are missing, keybindings conflict with native, etc. haven't looked at the neovim integration - next on the list.
Very true. Big bang was actually first formulated by a Belgian Catholic priest: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm...
Equifax pretty much just got a slap on the hand.
> Nothing is hidden on a VCR.

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No ignore any discussion and put all your money in an index fund
The death rate has a lot to do with who gets infected, elderly in Japan tend to be far healthier and in better care.

Another possibility is that those deaths are simply not counted. Japan did notoriously little testing in the beginning. If a couple of 90 year olds die a bit sooner, few would suspect foul play.
Well... everyone could stop buying stuff on Amazon when you know it's mostly made in China, but then again everyone wants cheap 'stuff' (and iPhones).
Re down votes: Either spook manipulation or people dont want to believe they get up to such chicanery. Youre safe guys, you know I dont have a driving licence, a mobile phone, no money, no bank account, no passport, no job, put out of business, in isolation in the countryside where I dont speak to anyone other than strangers who might want to stop whilst I walk the dog, I can see why the Police get called Plod now.
Been using jit.si for months with extended family (up to ~7 connections), not broken yet.
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It's funny, I looked but I can't find where Facebook discloses the credit card charges that come out of the transaction when you do the transaction on their website. Doesn't that seem like deliberately misleading anti-consumer behaviour. Do you transaction on our competitors' device and we'll harangue you about how your money is going to the evil guys, but do you transaction on our platform and we'll still take transaction fees, we just won't tell you about it.
There's limited set of countermeasures we can impose on China. I joined "Boycott Made in China" initiative, I promote it in my LinkedIn, and I literally check "Made in" tags in the mall during shopping, and I do not buy any Apple products, until I see them implementing their project on moving production from China to India and Vietnam. However, I understand how terribly it is "not enough". Countless politicians and businessmen without moral compass keep dealing with China. Harward President cancelled human rights conference to please Comrade Xi during their meeting. Greed and cowardice rule the world, and nothing drastically changed since pre-WWII times.
What else we, the people, can do to confront the evil, in the world where life of a nation, reputation of the whole country and principles of people who supposed to maintain peace all have a price?
You just named the two companies closest to autonomy, IMO. Waymo has the lead in actual self driving, Tesla has the lead in actually commercializing features. I'm confident these two companies will reach mostly autonomous driving before many of the other fakers.
The big 3 are so wedded to big finance. The credit reporting market needs serious disruption.
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Good thing they did, too – it'll strengthen Apple's legal case (because they're consistent), and weaken Apple's PR case, because this would be at least somewhat offensive to most people if they realized it happens, and Facebook running into those limitations is much harder to hide than a million Smalltime Cos being treated like that.
Monster is from Latin and only entered English after the Norman conquest. Anachronistic and from the wrong part of the world!
This is excellent work by threatspike and we should commend/support efforts like this that help keep us informed of the sneaky and intrusive actions of certain pieces of software
it's actually 'Webflow' - no camel case
Neither hydro, wind nor solar are actually toxic by nature, even though they have their own environmental impact, at least they can be considered _renewable_.

With fossil fuels and nuclear not only the fuel itself is toxic, but when the energy is released it produces an equal amount of bad stuff.

Petroleum fuel is toxic in more than one way, coal not so much, but the waste carbon monoxide is a well known poison which accompanies the waste CO2 in the exhaust.

Every atom of carbon in all of the fossil fuel burnt puts an equal number of atoms of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of CO2.

But carbon is actually the smaller less massive component of CO2. Oxygen atoms are a bit heavier than carbons, and there's two oxygens. So CO2 calculates to contain only about 27 percent carbon.

That means for every huge dump truck full of coal, which is basically pure carbon to start with, when burnt it will put almost 4 huge dump trucks in tonnage of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Petroleum is only about 85 percent carbon so an oil well will need to produce about 15 percent more tons of fuel in order to get an equal amount of CO2 into the air compared to coal

Nuclear waste is deadly toxic & radioactive which is the same insidious combination as its fuel, but no one can honestly say the waste has historically been handled as carefully as the nuclear fuel.

And the hazard is similar but the waste is more difficult to handle so it should be done more carefully not just as carefully.

Also, some people will never imagine that Chernobyl or Fukushima were complete failures, since they could have been worse.

Anyway, the non-renewables have so far fallen into a similar category where more money can be made because full liability of the waste stream is not accounted for in the cost per kWh. Future generations will pay whatever price regardless, they have no say in the matter.

If nuclear was really the lowest cost option, or the slam-dunk shareholder opportunity, that would make it the Wal-Mart of power choices.

Too bad Gates is not rich enough yet or he could splurge a little at this point, and do things for clean energy that no one else could afford single-handedly unless they got it made.
Yeah, imagine
In addition to what celrod said: Jupyter doesn't have an equivalent of Pluto's @bind macro, does it?
Does China include its secret camps in its prison numbers?
Yes - this is primarily how I use mine. It doesn't have close to the polish of something like iBooks unfortunately, but it works.
He didn't say all major players.
Nothing to show except thousands of vehicles collecting data and doing partially autonomous driving, you mean. That's way more progress than other auto manufacturers, most of whom are going to be riding coat tails of a tech company to autonomy.
> I denounced it online several times, that's all I can do.

You can talk to your representatives about it. You can start actively boycotting Chinese-made products (not so easy, I know). You can donate to NGOs such as the UHRP (Uyghur Human Rights Project). You can follow them on Twitter.

It's not like Lebron James will solve this either, so don't blame it on him.
It was probably phrased poorly, sorry. There is a limit somewhere when a crime is being done; obviously you’d want to stop that as early as possible to protect the victim, and punish the offender as such.

In this case, considering none of these people have actually seen the “children” with whom they were supposed to have sex, I find it hard to justify that a crime was about to be done. More than that, the crime was physically impossible, because there was no actual children. It’s particularly bad when following a 24 years old lady is taken as implying that you want to rape a 13 years old girl.
First thing is generally to avoid storage (diversified electric mixed,interconnection, big demand response market, and things like solar not optimized for the maximum kwh generation but for generating kwh when needed possibly...)

Then you have thermal storage ; a big share of the electricity we use is to generate cold and heat, and there are a lot of cheap technology out there for thermal storage. It used to be at the clients place for short duration storage(typically storage eater, and now some ice aircon, but there are much more technologies and innovation, at all scales, which include seasonal storage. Most of those tech use thermal storage then to directly use the heat/cold, few use it to generate back some electricity and then could be part of the next paragraph too...

And there are many different technologies taking electricity (or heat that could had generate electricity) and giving back electricity... Pumped hydro is the biggest and oldest player here, but with some innovation coming... There are also different batteries technologies, and many other more exotic possibilities including piling up some concrete blocs...

Lasard Bank write every year a report monitoring the price of the leading technologies. Greentechmedia is a good source to learn more about the development of these technologies and of the market
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Plenty of fake electronics, cables, chargers, yes. Same here. But I don't think I've ever bought a fake (counterfeit) book. In that sense though I don't mind buying used books from eBay. Especially if the book I am looking for costs £100+. I can live with a £20 used one.
- The code is open source

- It provides all features for free

- It is actually usable

- AFAICT, no reports of security breaches

- No privacy violations

- At one point, they actually GAVE free lumens to its users. No strings attached at all. I received ~40USD worth of XLM which I transferred to an exchange and sold it right away.

Please explain to me. again: how did they make you a sucker of you or their users?
Now who will open the Olympic Games?
I only listen to Kim Hill.
Nitpick: the name is Ho Chi Minh, not Min.
Meanwhile, Europe was filled with BLM protests.
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For most of the EU, including the places Fairphone the company is located, English is a second language, and unlikely to strictly follow either British or US English conventions because it's learned through mixed sources. (Even my high-school english classes, where one would expect some rigor, didn't insist on either one specifically)
In my opinion the issue is path dependency. Everybody in my generation grew up with Microsoft Office free on every installation of Windows, and teaching everyone new efficiency software is costly. It looks like Google is trying to win the next generation and Chromebooks are taking over the classroom. When today's youth grow up I wouldn't be surprised to Google Docs as the new standard.
My heart bleeds hearing about Uighurs suffering. And I welcome these kinds of posts. At the same time I am wondering why news about Palestinians are flagged and filtered away on HN. I read Haaretz on a daily basis, and what I read about this corner of the world makes me lose my faith in humanity.
Do China imprisonment do organ harvesting?
You can't launch a 40m diameter telescope and so you would need to launch more smaller ones, then you would need to physically connect them so they are perfectly sync(can't be done in software or with imperfect distance/teime measurements). You also need all the optical and mechanical stuff to survive the launch, the difference of tempreture and pressure from getting moved from the ground to space etc.

What I am saying if Elon or Jeff makes a telescope work harder or impossible they should pay for fixing the issue not the public and it should be fixed today not in 50 years.
Also a tax on opoluttion would make the management at SpaceX considering using different paints(or doing more with less) in before the satellite is designed and not after bad PR.

IMO you did not convince me that the reason we don't have tons of space telescopes is the launch price.

IMO we will probably need to have a few bases on the Moon and build telescopes there to get around the light pollution.
> Aside from aggressively controlling the fans, I find the HP and Dell firmwares to be entirely useless, as they all apparently require a web browser with an ancient version of Java. In one case, Java 6. Yeah... this was a terrible decision even 10 years ago.

Newer HPE servers with iLO 5 need any plain browser to access iLO, and for the remote console, give you the choice of HTML5, .Net, or Java. I have a Gen10 Microserver and the HTML5 console works flawlessly in Chrome.
IIRC Vancouver taxes empty properties more than the ones in use to prevent this kind of speculation.
Hear hear!

I've spent many years in 'collaborative writing' in R&D, mainly grant proposals and joint reports/deliverables, most in the CS/IT domains. Writing those texts is very different from writing the software.

First thing you should realize is there are no 'tests', and all the 'code' is usually in a single big file. Anyone that has touched the document can have potentially messed up everything, both content, layouts and meta-data, and there is no automatic way to check whether it still makes sense. Many times people will not use the agreed upon editor/version, and sometime (often) that means a boatload of minor edits to the document all over the place just from opening and saving. Imagine everyone in your software team using different editors all with their preferred coding conventions that are automatically applied to the whole project at load.

From this you can deduce the enormous responsibility of ownership and gate-keeping in the workflow. The absolute worst collaborations I have been part of were those that somehow believed that if they used a collaborative document editing facility, wikis or Google docs for instance, that would negate the need for assigned owners/editors. Those tug-of-war shitstorms got exponential the closer one came to the submission deadline (technically incorrect, i know, but you know what I mean).

Some tips:

- Have well defined ownership for each section or part of your document. The owner receives and makes all changes for that part.

- have a final editor that is responsible for the complete document receiving the changes of the parts from their owners only.

- Do not trust 'track changes', but use Word's built in document compare if you are the final editor. For complex formatted documents (nearly all instances require you use an insanely styled template, you 'clean room' import (C/P through notepad) the text changes into the correctly formatted doc under your control.

- release the current trunk document often, ideally once per day. This requires staggering, with subeditors closing submission windows and submitting their updates to the main editor before EoB. Everyone editing should work against the latest release.

-Every version published by the final editor should be immutable. Mail it to everyone if needed, but if you use a link to some sort of repository make sure it is a deep link to a version that can not be updated in the repository, or hilarity will ensue.

- use versioning in the filename. filename_YYYYMMDD_HHMM_dXXX_rNN.docx where XXX is the assigned party acronym for the person making the update. 'YYYYMMDD_HHMM' is only touched by the editor, 'dXXX_rNN' is the NN'ed changes release by part XXX against version YYYYMMDD_HHMM .

Most certainly Git can function as a repository, but there will be people that will not work with it (nor any other repository) so always assume mail interactions as well.

Finally, there should be a special place in hell for the people that designed SharePoint versioning. Don't even think of going there.
> The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations

I wouldn't call it a fringe expectation. uBlock Origin in safariextz format was quite popular for Safari, until Safari 13 removed all support for it.

As a result, many users were forced to move from something that worked very well for them to something that didn't work as well. Nobody likes to be forced to adopt something worse. Imposing the "power user" vs. "normal user" dichotomy here is not an accurate story of the history of Safari extensions.