skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what though?
Yep, in general this is what the DoJ supposed to also be doing, it just doesn’t have a mandate that can be applied to all cases.
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I think there are few considerations when choosing storage medium, few of them: distribution of source material on Earth, chemical and nuclear stability, water solubility, production challenges. We have learned a lot by producing traditional nuclear power plant fuel for decades.
I do not know what was their ultimate motive to go ballistic on hydro power. I guess if it was all about marketing I would have picked a different “enemy” than hydro power...

I learned about it through Blue Heart: https://blueheart.patagonia.com

And the story I heard about it was: their CEO went on a fly fishing trip there, really loved it, was told by the local guide that all will be gone in short time for hydro plants. He then decided to use all/most/a significant portion of the marketing budget in this campaign instead.

You can always criticize ulterior motives - and we will never know for sure. But I give them some kudos for the initiatives they take - like taking their biggest revenue driver (e.g., dry suits) and deciding to make it “as ecological as possible” and 3x as expensive along the way...

Every company is in the business of making money. And the fashion industry is known for making little money and having a big environmental impact. I don’t mind if somebody goes a more risky route that also makes them money along the way...
On the other hand, it's very clear about what's actually happening when you delete an element of an array.

I'm not a C guy, but I figure doing this in C would involve several lines of mmemove, with loads of error checking[1]. So the Go version is about as ergonomic as you can get without obscuring what's going on.

[1] - I guess you'd do something like: memmove(a+i+1, a+i, sizeof(element) * (a->len - i)) with a whole load of checks to make sure everything's in order. I think C has the advantage of being utterly explicit about what is actually happening, but I think a higher level thing like append() is kind of nice when you don't want to think hard about, say, inserting an element in the middle of an array.
According to a different comment it is hidden by default.
Thanks for sharing, that article is well worth the read.

...the confiscated items were paraded in front of a Grand Jury tasked with determining whether they were obscene...
This one’s going to get flagged to death quickly.

Apart from the paedophile angle, there is an interesting philosophical question of whether something is a crime if there is no victim, and whether you should go to jail for something you hypothetically might have done at some point in the future.

Personally, I think of Minority Report the same way as 1984: both are magnifying glasses showing how dangerous some of our tendencies are. Definitely not manuals of how things ought to be done. Being convicted without having harmed anyone is a travesty of justice.
I'm actually curious whether there are any trustworthy studies showing that driving automation helps safety, for any type of automation. I can buy the claim that emergency braking helps (although not as much as one would expect [0]). But is there good data that shows that cruise control helps? Lane keeping?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/4/20898773/aaa-study-automa...
Nobody knows. Their stated goal was release in 2020 with 1 year deprecation for MV2. Corona might have changed this. Their is no good source of information and the Chrome extension devrel team is woefully understaffed.
That "underperformance" is part of why the Fed feels comfortable with this approach. There is room for the Fed to now accept >2% inflation, because it is saying that the average over a period of years/decades will be 2%.
Substack is amazing, it's like Tumblr meets Medium for newsletters. The UI is quite bare, the publishing tools are quite primitive, but it works so well. The ease of use inspired me to start my own newsletter where I talk about ideas and trends, I called it The Ideas Digest (https://theideasdigest.substack.com/).

Admittedly, I've been going for barely a week now, but I've got a months worth of content already in the pipeline that I am working on and I am hopeful in the future that I can grow it into something I can make a little side income from. Not having to manage my own infrastructure is highly motivating, to be honest.

The thing is, I am a developer and more than capable of getting something like Wordpress setup and self-hosting my own Substack type newsletter, but it just seemed like a waste of time, especially for an idea I wasn't even sure I could pull off or people would be interested in. But, I am surprising myself and although I didn't have a preexisting mailing list, I've got a few subscribers now with almost zero marketing.

I see the value in no-code solutions like Substack that cater to specific niches like newsletters.

The struggle for me is long-form content writing usually comes natural to me, but given Substack is newsletter-focused, I feel like I need to not go too overboard with the word count. I know long-form content gets social shares and whatnot, but I feel like Substack is more of a private network type of thing where people are emailed content. I would be interested in knowing if any research has found what the ideal content length should be for Substack specifically.
I wish there was an option for people to run on purely renewables for a year.
Demo of General Magic’s Magic Cap software at HCI seminar (1994) [video]
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This is a remarkable device. The configuration looks good as well. It reminds me of the primary concept of Microsoft Courier.

While going through pros and cons for considering a buy, I found no email client, messenger or a browser. For the targeted audience, at that price point, and with that hardware config, those features are unavoidable.
This is neat. However I've rather use einsum and einops [0] to reshape stuff in practice.

[0] https://github.com/arogozhnikov/einops
Interface composition is product of types, not sum.
Sometimes the value isn’t too low though, and it’s actually the price.

Looks like the app has enough features, and I don’t think just adding features will somehow raise the value (for me personally).
I’m no scholar, but have a distinct memory of reading the Heaney translation of Beowulf perhaps 20 years ago (it was new at the time). I don’t recall any of the language per se, but have the distinct memory of thinking “this is extremely badass”. It seems completely reasonable that a more vernacular translation would be in some meaningful way more accurate (if not precise). This article brought back some of the adrenaline, and I expect that when I read this version, it will be exactly as I remember it.
Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey is similar in goal (flowing English, modern imagery, "scrap[ing] away all the centuries of verbal and ideological buildup") though not quite the same tone - Greek theater isn't the Saxon tavern, after all.

https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/the-odyssey
Windows is reliable for general public.
What are the two extensions you mentioned?
I actually liked the cloned Rosetta Stone they have much more:

It looks just like the original, but it has none of the crowd and you can go up and even touch it.
They mentioned they didn't want any supports, so presumably it means single fins?
> What we did instead was manually create hundreds of new accounts, complete the tutorial level and then send the tutorial prize to the main account for selling on the open market (long work).

Haha, this reminds me of the Forum war days of Punchme.com [1], someone on our forum found out a bug to exploit in the gambling game that would 2x your money. After a while raiding on other forums got boring with all the best equipment maxed out, so we realized that selling the upgrades was a way more interesting use of our time, so like 5 of us decided to start marketing the in-game weapons to other forums/gangs for half of what the game charged.

The devs eventually found the bug and patched it, but for those of use that still had valid accounts (I opened 10, but most got shutdown due to the scheme) this turned out even better as the demand for weapons just kept going up and I was making over $100/day in passive income at its peak until the interest for the game dropped.

The thing that sticks out the most was some kid from Slovakia I sold weapons to him on credit; he 'promised' me he'd send the money once his mom set him up with a bank account and got his paypal account verified--it was all free to me so I did it not thinking much if he didn't follow up.

I completely forgot about it for weeks after I lost interest in the scheme due to school and work, so I logged into to my paypal account to buy something online and I saw he actually did send me the funds like a month later. It's one of those few times were no expectations placed but trust and faith are lived up to anyway.

1: https://www.rpg.sg/profile/179/PunchMe
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The absence of those features is a feature to me. I want a digital notebook not another damn computer.
Appreciate the details!
I see that you subscribe to Ars Technica's RSS/Atom feeds.

(Indicated by the fact that the submitted link is https://arstechnica.com/?p=1701893, not https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/russi...).
You could also eg convert the sequence from binary into graycode instead of continuing it.

Just any simple transformation that's obviously not background noise.
That's a bummer. Even though the capacity is still in the same neighborhood as the reactor, the cost is greater because you either need a ton of storage capacity or some nonrenewable backups.

I think that's the problem we ran into here in California. As we've decommissioned nuclear and natty plants we've replaced much of that capacity with wind and solar. Then you end up in the situation we had a week ago: power consumption peaks around 6pm when solar is ebbing. If that happens in conjunction with a period of low winds, there's a very thin margin of error and in some cases you have blackouts.
It’s a great point — how much would it add to the cost of these projects to convert them into assembly lines?

Separately, I was surprised to learn how many observatories there are in space. Here’s just a selection:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_telescopes.j...
> At least you'd have due process and couldn't be deplatformed for legal activity. Now you have neither.

I don't understand your train of thought. I mean, you are arguing for a monopoly controlling a centralized service just because one of the many freely available payment platforms you personally choosed may have terms of service you might break?

How is that a solution?

It seems you are not arguing for a solution to the problem you framed. You're instead confusing wishful thinking with a solution to the problem. I mean, your suggestions don't even qualify as unintended consequences: they are only unrealistic and absurd expectations from a reform that has absolutely no relation to the problem.
I don't see any ads on Safari in macOS or iOS due to Firefox Focus and Wipr content blockers.
Bingo! A trillion dollars question :)
A Tesla over here, even with the massive government handouts to the EV industrie, goes for nearly twice the price of a full option BMW 5 series.

There is just no way to get it approved in my company car budget.
So how would you translate "hwæt"?
broken link! also dupe, I beat you to it :) but no one is awake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301672
>Yeah no conflict of interest there /s

It is amazing to me that anyone could seriously look at (1) a virtually unknown company celebrating FOSS principles and (2) a trillion dollar company working to undermine those same principles and be so foolish as to conclude that those are comparable examples of conflict of interest.
I do not recommend using a linter in beginner or small-team projects. Instead of spending hours and hours switching between white space conventions, that time is better spent testing the web/app in different browsers, not just Chrome and Firefox, but also mobile and embedded browsers, and less known browsers like Dillo and Konqueror.
> Apple said the update violated an App Store rule that doesn’t let developers show “irrelevant” information to users.

I'm curious which rule this is and to what or whom the information needs to be irrelevant to to be in breach.
So with the exception of a handful of states, mistake of fact is not a defense against statutory rape. I.e. someone who has sex with someone under the age of consent whom they believe to be 18 is still guilty of statutory rape.

The opposite is happening here, since the perpetrator isn't planning to do anything with someone actually under the age of consent - just someone whom they believe to be under the age of consent.
Of course they don’t.

Ads are distinctly different from direct commerce. Good luck computing 30% of the value of an ad or a product placement.
On the link: Yellow on black

Off the link: Black on yellow

On the link: Yellow on black

Off the link: seizes on floor
Does not sound as impressive, I suppose.
I think a big chunk of the population are follower types who could be convinced to go along with all sorts of things. These people are generally going to behave as society expects them to, or at least as the last persuasive person they talked to expects. I think the type of sting operation described in this article could ensnare millions of such people, few of whom would have ever felt any impetus to commit this sort of crime.

The subject of this article certainly displayed poor judgement, but wasn’t any kind of danger to society without this scenario constructed by the police. I don’t think public in any way benefited from this operation. All it did was take a productive member of society out of commission. I think this is like the time the government put out a bounty on rabbit heads, so farmers started breeding more rabbits. The farmers are the police and the rabbits are sex offenders.
Er, maybe "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting slightly less poor" is more accurate.
perfect. I don't even know whether or not we agree on politics, but spot on and well said.

I love the comment you got "reeks of centrism". Yes quite so, thank you. It kind of stinks to high heaven of rationalism, with a pungent whif of logic.

I think there are a lot more of us out there that feel a bit like this.
True, but they also have a very low incremental cost per unit.

It doesn’t really matter if you sell 10 at $100 or 100 at $10, and sometimes selling 100 at $10 is significantly easier.
> possibly in multiple pieces that would be assembled and periodically serviced by crew flights would make it all much easier, cheaper and more performant.

Again, wrong belief, again like I mentioned before, in the style "ha ha we can send ants for them too" (answer: no we can't), see FAQ:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#serviceabl...
That sounds amazing and seems like a huge set-back to certain envisioned application areas of carbon nanotubes. Do you have a link to a study?
No it wouldn't, but that's not what happened here.

So-called "Autopilot" is not supposed to get distracted, so this is a news story because it's pretty terrible to crash into a cop car with its warning lights on.

Only the worst driver would plow into a cop car with its warning lights on, so what does that say about Autopilot?
Once Java gets green threads (project Loom), it will be a no-brainer to pick it when the choice comes between it and golang. Even now, it's almost a no-brainer with superior features and GCs, including the new low latency ZGC.
This calls to mind a lot of what McWhorter says about Shakespeare --- that it's an emperor's new clothes situation, we're only pretending we can understand 16th century English, but really not getting any of the original intent because none of the references make sense, and that if we really want to understand what those works mean, we need to update the language.

If you read interviews Headley has given, you get the impression that she's read all basically all the translations (apparently Tolkien makes it sound just like Lord of the Rings), so it's interesting to see where she's taking it.
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Static site generators are great if you do plain/vanilla static HTML sites. Server-side-include only gets you so far, a static site generator give you much more freedom and it can do a lot more work for you.
> Tandem drivers might be competitive on time, but now you're paying two humans!

But you're only paying them for the time they're driving - so this is actually incredibly efficient.
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Thanks for explaining, I have very little knowledge of chemistry.
If the dev cycle feels slow in julia, you can make it snappier with a tool like Revise.jl, it is quite handy.

If you just need to fill a small and slow gap maybe something like numba is also a good option to stay within python.

Going all the way to a low level language would require the compilation, the glue code and expertise in both languages. Probably that slows down the development pipeline more than the JIT compilation from julia or numba.

Anyway, any opportunity to learn/practice some rust is also great!
Processes that are agnostic of the image and its artifacts feel different — “acceptable” — compared to ones that are specific to the image content itself.

I am now imagining a science fiction story where visitors to Earth initiate communication with us using faint arcs of light across the night sky. No one notices and the telescopes and cameras filter them all out. The visitors go home, sulking.
> I don’t think there is as quite widespread consensus that all federal crimes are legitimately crime as you seem to think.

Your comment makes no sense at all. For something to be a crime it has to be explicitly defined in law. Consensus has zero to do with it. Either there is a law, or there isn't. The whole point of rule of law is that you don't get to pick and choose which law applies to you in a given day of the week.
"Dynamic programming" is such a dumb name for what it is and I hope that we can all eventually stop calling it that.
I just solved it: If Facebook Ads (which are obviously bought for an in—app experience for others), I will now introduce a different pricing model to my app: you pay for a subscription of another person. And another person pays for yours. This way, the IAP clearly doesn’t result in your own app experience and hence, should be exempt from the 30% cut.
I managed to finally get a LoI approval this year after 2 previous rejections but then COVID happened; I'm hoping it's an easier process when I reapply next year (assuming they've reopened to tourists).

Note to anyone curious and reading: if you have a US passport - this is a challenging country to get into. Plan ahead and be prepared to either book flights last minute pending approval or buy refundable tickets for when you get the rejection last minute.
Is this in-place-of or on-top-of the credit card transaction fees?

A lot of in-app purchases are for less than $3. Doesn't Apple need to pay Visa a $0.35 transaction fee, plus ~3% of the purchase price.

On a < $3 purchase, that's 15%+ already.
It seems feasible within a reasonable amount of time that the browser could have everything that an app would have, or at least close. But to me for reasons of profit, not user experience, companies like apple choose not to make this possible. I'm sure there's always a reasonable explanation of why I'm wrong. But I'd love to hear why.
Epic is by no means turning a profit on the Epic store right now.

It's like calling out the taxi companies for being more expensive while Uber and Lyft are still subsidizing rides with VC and IPO money.
Have you tried disabling Javascript? The "Join from your browser" URL follows a predictable format, only a slight variation from the meeting link. If you have a meeting link that someone sent you, you can create the web client URL yourself.
> Inflation happens when people decide to spend and the supply isn't there to support it

This is what happens in case of “market equilibrium in perfect competiton”, not IRL because supply is almost unlimited in practice for the US for manufactured goods (because most things are imported, and paid in USD).

In practice, inflation happens when retailers decide to raise their prices! It can either be because they must do it (because international currency price variation for instance, or oil market price) or because they see an opportunity to make profits by doing so.
Discussion here: https://www.mhpbooks.com/did-everyone-get-the-first-line-of-...

Interesting, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9TNfd9BCE, hwaet sounds like "WAT!"
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What is meant by "trustless" here?
In-place-of
I always thought the old advice was to cycle creatine "Just in case" and that more recent advice was that there wasn't much research backed evidence that mandated the need to cycle it

For reference: https://supplementclarity.com/do-you-need-to-cycle-creatine/
Yeah. If police is coming up with ways to manufacture victimless crime, they obviously don't have enough to do in real crime, and we can defund them and save the money.

If they are coming with this while there is real crime unsolved, well, they are doong it wrong.
Don’t they charge the same 30% for Oculus apps?
> "Rosy-fingered dawn, in this new version, takes on many minor variations. “When early Dawn revealed her rose-red hands.” “The early Dawn was born; her fingers bloomed.” My favorite rendering is “Soon Dawn appeared and touched the sky with roses.” It is so wonderfully delicate. It evokes, beautifully, the sky’s subtle changes at first light: how the colors phase in mildly, almost imperceptibly, the way a piece of white paper might blush if you rubbed it with a flower. And it is a perfect example of creative translation."

That's... Did the translator completely forget that was meant to be a euphemism? Dawn's rosey fingers is quite a nice imagery... But Dawn was conflated with Eos. And well, it's in the name.
For anyone interested in this type of setup, I highly recommend considering the onyx book note 2, (or max 3, or nova 2) it runs android 9.1 with a relatively fast 8-core processor, have bluetooth and wifi, and I have found that the experience in termux is very good.

I currently use one with a brydge ipad keyboard which fits quite well.
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The product looks great, but, how does it work in terms of privacy? Is your stuff uploaded to the "cloud" automatically? Can you opt-out from that?
To be clear, this is a limitation in some of the very old Win32 APIs, not the kernel itself or the filesystem.

The size of the field in these APIs is a fixed maximum length and can't be changed, because that would break everything. If an app called into the kernel and got a string longer than 260 chars back, then boom, instant buffer overflow.

There are other, newer Win32 APIs for all of these that don't have that limitation, but apps have to be changed to use them.