skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The translation cease to be good over time, because the meaning of words changes and the way people construct sentences changes.

Agree with the rest of what you say but take issue with “ceases to be good”, since, even with translations, determining what is “good” about a piece of literature is complicated and often more about the process than the outcome.

For example some translation which still has a lot of artistic merit or historical importance, but, as you said, is now dated and difficult to read because the language has changed so much since when the translation was written.

I’d argue it doesn’t make sense to call that translation “bad”. “Bad for an undergraduate”, or “bad as a first translation to read, or “bad at X”, some specific thing, but overall bad? Personally I’d argue now.

Also for what it’s worth even if the science behind music doesn’t change, music itself - how we hear it and our culture for it - kinda does.

For example, lots of sounds / music that used to be considered unbearable noise is now widely accepted and popular. Looking at the changes in western popular music in the 20th century is a great example of this.

But —- I agree with you that language and music (and art) are all sort of their own kinds of technologies!

There are materials and techniques and functions and so on. The technology / art divide is much blurrier than is often appreciated. :)
I used to live rurally but then moved to the city. It is always shocking noticing all the pollutant smells when I return to the city from a stint in the fresh air of the countryside. It's surprising how quickly your body adapts and begins to ignore the pollution. I know it is around me now but I can't smell it.
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That's the implication from the paper.
Claiming someone is responding to you is "triggered" is tiresome. Another red flag, and yes, you're fitting a particular profile. A constructive conversation can still be had, but I'm not particularly interested in Gell-Mann Amnesia which you alluded to in your last post because I [don't] think a focus on "newspapers" is very accurate or interesting.

Newspapers are no different than anything else. Errors are found in all writing.

My only points are: Evaluating truth based on the identity of the source instead of the content in question is not a good approach. Journals, thesis can and are all written with errors and misleading information.

I stand by original comment that this thread and the content was put here to cause injury to the a persons confidence that they can know what is happening in the world from reading the news. Which is a very particular viewpoint.
This is a great idea but did they not think 5 minutes before naming something “GitHub Star” when GitHub profiles already have Stars that are different?

They should probably at least name this “GitHub All-Stars” or something that doesn’t sound exactly like the existing meaning of Stars.
(disclaimer: mithril author here)

The point of an abstraction is to create a "black box" of sorts around some primitive. I think all it boils down to with what the author is saying is that the React team is changing how things work under the abstraction, and therefore some assumptions people made about leaked semantics are no longer true.

Mithril rendering semantics have always been more or less this: on an event, redraw everything. React semantics started that way too, but now there are a whole lot of other semantics under the hood (for example, the rule of hooks provides some semantic guarantees that enable a hot reload implementation to be more robust). Concurrent mode is another example of semantics that benefit from rule of hooks guarantees.

I think when I see people complain about the rule of hooks is that there's a dissonance between the strict semantics of hooks and the expectations of what the semantics should be (for some definition of "should", usually related to ability to reason about stuff in some specific way)

I'd say that overlapping several different compatible underlying functional semantics under one umbrella of very strict API semantics is an interesting and somewhat novel approach to supporting some cool infrastructure (i.e. ability to do deep hot reloading stuff, animate in IoT devices in a renderer-agnostic way, React Native, granular reactivity via memo, and the list goes on). Where I think React missed the ball a bit is that the API semantics don't always feel ergonomic for the use case they're meant to serve (for example, I've seen a few occasions where nested hooks ended up w/ long code review threads debating obscure minutiae)

When I see people praise Svelte, I think the reason is similar: since it doesn't need to artificially create constraints to support every use case under the sun, its API semantics are able to align very closely to people's expectations.
As a huge fan of nuclear power, I never felt like NuScale style 'SMR' were all that great of an idea.

Yes, it gains you some of the economics of factory construction and that you can start small and scale a location, but on the other side you lose that again because you lose the economics of scale that traditional PWR gets.

I really believe we should be a nuclear society by now, and that regulations both around reactors and fuel availability prevented this from happening. In the 1960 lots and lots of innovative reactors were build, often with relatively low budgets at that. The amount of untapped potential in nuclear energy is incredible. We don't need fusion, fission is plenty energy dense, if we can't figure out how to make fission practical, we want with fusion either.

Yet here we are in the year 2020 and we are still building new PWR reactors. But the reality is, in the US it is essentially impossible to build anything else. Regulations are designed so that the only reactor that can really get approval is a PWR.

If you attempt to build anything new, you have to basically pay the government to study your design and after a unknown amount of time and money, the government might develop a new regulatory framework. By the time that happens of course you have run out of money already, no buissness plan that depends on the government figuring out how to regulate a new type of reactor would ever really happen.

The good thing at least is that the DoE in the last 5 years seem to have realized that their whole approach was a problem and they have done a lot of good things to try to change. Outside of the US the energy sector is government controlled or to small for a nuclear reactor startup to have a large enough market to make a new reactor worth it.

Canada has established itself as basically the only viable place for new reactor development, with Terrestrial Energy and Moltex Energy (moved from Britain to Canada because regulation).

So, good luck to NuScale, I hope they can prove me wrong and deploy many of these in an economical way.
Thanks for the help!
It works!
Yes, that's true now. I wonder if it was true in 2000 for instance or 1990? Probably not in 1980.
See also the War Dogs story:

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-stoner-arms-dealers...
Yup, and what happens when you take one entity that has qualities you dislike and generalize it to all entities of the same color?

You get people hearing that OOP sucks, and they start to have fears and hatred towards it, thinking that all OO and every single idea and concept related to it is bad.

This is called stereotyping, and it's not productive to bring into a technical conversation. Even inside FP it exists, ever saw a Scheme programer and a Haskell programmer debate? They'd go on forever about whose the one true Functional Programmer.
Zuck probably begged Tim
I had a chuckle at this proposal:

"...Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this.

Divide his paper into 4 chapters: heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies"
The non standard part is pushing hot air out of the back of the gpu itself - “dumping the heat directly onto the CPU, RAM and motherboard components” to be extracted by the system fan is what every existing design does...
> Simply put, a daemon (pronounced dee-mon) is an intentionally orphaned background process. Additionally, daemons are detached from the terminal in which they’re spawned, operate without user interaction, and are descendants of the system’s init process.

A memorable way to think about this is that a daemon is a child process whose parent has literally disowned it, forked off, and died.
(Re-posting on this thread)

What a bummer! As an iOS user, I was eagerly looking forward to this feature, wanting to tell others about it and how the upgrade to iOS 14 would be worth it just to clearly expose apps that want to track users.

I already have ad tracking limited in my settings (Settings->Privacy->Limit Ad Tracking), but that was something I had to explicitly turn on, and there’s no notice on which apps use the ID for advertising.
Screen shots appear instantly in macOS, I'm not sure what machine you're on.

Finder browsing files is much faster in macOS, Windows scans the entire directory with defender every time you click on it before it allows you to sort it or interact with it. That can take several minutes on some of my directories.

The mouse tracking model in Windows is somewhat different, and a bit more responsive, but there are multiple third party extensions to macOS the make its model exactly the same as the Windows model.
It's an ill defined phrase. I didn't accuse anyone of "wrongthink", whatever that means.
Lmao but it’s okay for the 1% to impose their unjustified authority on everyone else?

(Also your criticism that the slogan is merely just changing the balance of power is founded in an ignorance of anarchism. Anarchism does not aim to redistribute power, it aims to eliminate it. As long as power exists, it will be abused.)
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> The reactor measures 65 feet tall x 9 feet in diameter. It sits within a containment vessel measuring 76 feet tall x 15 feet in diameter.

Per: https://www.nuscalepower.com/technology/technology-overview
Which reminds me of a video of Cody's Lab, where he refines precious metals out of roadside dust: https://youtu.be/v5GPWJPLcHg
What I see is that foreign news have no idea of what is happening in my country, they all just repeat some superficial and normally wrong pieces.

At the same time, domestic media is all lying through their teeth.

With some work one can disecate the news, separate what can't possibly be lies (because it would lead to problems), and reassembly something into an overall picture. (Who has the time for all this?) But one can never know what is being omitted, either intentionally or by incompetency.
Do we know this isn't sending everything uploaded directly to the cops?
Its not tiny at all, these are gigantic 'modules'. Its only small in comparison to a normal PWR reactor.
Because the whole thing was clearly an NSA corp with the main objective to funnel data to gov agencies disguised as a very helpful app.
Is there a roadmap for mithril? As in, what are the current pain points, where development is headed, etc.
That's good to know. I certainly haven't seen progress made on Synergy in the years I've been using it. Barrier wasn't forked when I initially made and wrote about my setup either, but I think I will make the switch and write a follow up.

The issue I repeatedly ran into with these solutions is that they want to have a "hot" edge and both systems up on independent screens at the same time. I really only want a hot key and one system on my single monitor at a time. Which I could configure with Synergy 1 (not 2).
One thing that removes a lot of credibility from Apple's "for the good of the user" communication on this is that they broke out the personalization for their own ad network as an option, put it in a different location, and made it opt-out instead of opt-in.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...
Japan had some advantages in this regard. Being a fairly small nation it was possible to centrally administer it without the government splintering every couple of decades. Being an island nation meant they were difficult to invade. The final point in their favor was a rigid political hierarchy that discouraged mid-level officials from getting too ambitious unlike Europe.
Inherent safety of CANDU:

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

But keep in mind that the NRX reactor it was based on had an accident:

https://www.cns-snc.ca/media/history/nrx.html

(famously, Jimmy Carter was part of the NRX clean-up crew).
The third word in my comment was "essays".
I had never even thought of main recursion before, so I tested it out. It worked fine in both C and C++; am I misunderstanding something?
Ducks, and the Problem of Shifting Power
My monitor supports Freesync but after testing with some games i found vsync off to have the minimum latency. Which is expected, since it always has the minimum latency even with 60Hz monitors, but i decided to try it anyway because i've seen very conflicting reports out there. The neat thing with the monitor is that i can switch it on and off while the game is running (there is an OSD option) but so far i haven't found any game where it is better.
A cynical take is that all these ad platforms drive a ton of app installs for Apple and create stickiness on iOS. Without all these targeted ads, it will decrease app downloads and with the App Store already under such scrutiny they decided to measure twice and cut once.
Surly now it's time to just start giving everyone some free vitamin D.

Best case scenario: Less dead people.

Worst case scenario: We all have healthier bones.
This is the way to go. I've got a whole fleet of executors running on spot instances orchestrated by a runner on a t3.nano. Works great.
> Communists who did not care about what happened to Ukrainians

They didn't really care what happened to _anybody_, not just Ukrainians. Ukrainians (as well as about 30% of Russians) just happened to live in that particular location. The plume made it all the way to the Nordics and Germany, and I, as a kid, had to take iodine tablets in Russia, even though officially everything was "under control" for a few days. Then the narrative shifted to showing the heroism of the "liquidators", never fully acknowledging how dangerous any of this really was.
But if you force CPU everything should be on CPU? or do things get offloaded the developer doesn't know about?
The issue is it stops viral transcription at levels that also happen to be lethal to humans :p
For what it’s worth, you can buy windshield washer concentrate online. In months where the temperature gets cold, though, you want the alcohol based stuff that won’t freeze and burst a line.
Bad Apple.

What was Facebook going to do? Pull out of iOS? They had all the power.
Any chance a cheque has been written behind closed doors here?
There are bots out there that will attack from thousands if not 10's of thousands of IPs... It's impossible to ban the individual IPs byh hand, so I let them tell me who they are by leaving the SSH port open and have fail2ban ban any IP that fails to authenticate for a month.

This had an unintended effect... most of my automated HTTP(s) attacks stopped as well-- presumably because the IPs of compromised machines were already blocked.
While playing around with a problem at work involving Markov chains and graph connectivity, I found it useful to know that I could write (in Java) a generic method that performed "exponentiation by squaring" on semigroups.

So, in addition to being able to raise numbers to powers I could also use it on matrices whose elements belonged to a semiring.

That is, I could use the same code on a matrix of doubles with "times" and "plus" (for the Markov chains), as well as a matrix of booleans with "and" and "or" (for the graph connectivity).

(Of course, I could have used special purpose libraries, but these were small problems and it was fun. :)
I had no idea how common slavery was used by patriarchs to settle debts until I read "Debt: The First 5000 Years". Graeber's death is tragic.
Let's say I want to create an IAM to allow creation for a specific project (Full deploy), I can't enforce it on VPC.
I understand why they delayed, and it may be the right decision. However, tracking-by-default is a dark pattern in software, and it needs to be driven out.

In no other domain is implicit, cross-arena tracking by default acceptable. Computers _should be_ no exception.
I suspect this news will get far less attention than the initial changes, so Apple still gets (almost) all of the good PR from the change without actually hurting the app developers.

They certainly still get to claim they are focused on privacy even if they decide to kick the can a few more times, since the notifications/controls will come “eventually”.
But it isn't like you'd get your CRT out for a walk or anything, you'd buy a monitor and leave it at your desk for months - often years - so that weight wasn't much of an issue unless you moved around all the time.
> I couldn't do my job with out it.

Yes. That is the point. The need exists. European companies will offer that services creating high quality jobs in Europe and they will follow European cultural norms instead of American ones.

> There is literally no other platform that does something like fba.

That is the monopoly part promoted by the USA and financed with public money. Amazon is a monopoly protected by a friendly but in the end foreign power that has misaligned interests.

I can assure you that if tomorrow Alibaba grew to challenge that number one position, it will be banned from doing business in the USA.

The services are needed, here, in the USA and in China. USA has its own tech companies, China has its own tech companies, Europe has not anything at that level because USA just buys anything Europe creates backed up by USA tax-payers money. That is not fair.
One of the problems in the US is that there are research reactors and production reactors, nothing in between. Research reactors are to small to prove out many concepts.

So startups have to essentially go from nothing to first commercial reactor in one step, without iteration.
Thanks for the kind words, Airflow -> Pachyderm has been an increasingly common migration path for us.
An Indian scientist named Rajagopalan Vasudevan developed and patented this process. It reduces the bitumen used and improves the quality of flexible pavements, resistace to wear and tear. I think this is a brilliant way to use some of the plastic waste. Also the patent is royality free.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_roads
Wouldn't molten rock simply flow and flatten? Even if not yet rigid, I'd assume the mountains do effectively form instantaneously (i.e. seconds or minutes), possibly flattening some as they slowly cool.

EDIT: The PBS NOVA special "The Day the Dinosaurs Died" describes the mechanics of the Chicxulub impact starting at about the 33 minute mark. It's as instantaneous as one would intuit, given the magnitudes involved:

> NARRATOR: The asteroid had punched a hole nearly 20 miles deep, gouging a crater 124 miles wide. Over 40,000 cubic miles of rock were displaced, rising into towering mountains.

> JOANNA MORGAN: So, this is an absolutely amazing event, because that happened in less than two minutes, and if you think of it, mountains the size of the Himalayas were formed in seconds.

> NARRATOR: As the mountains collapsed, they formed what's known as a "peak ring," found only in the largest of super craters. It's the only peak ring left on Earth; the next nearest is on the moon.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/day-the-dinosaurs-died/
I used old version of Unity (5.4? maybe even older) and tested it on both Google Cardboard and Oculus CV1. It used to have separate cameras for left and right eye. Unity has a system of layers and every camera has a bitmask that defines which layers are rendered by it. So I simply left environment on default layer rendered by both cameras, put one copy of an object on 'Left' layer and another copy with different material on 'Right' layer. Worked really nice for "vampire" eyes (specifically irises) rendering.

Few years ago they switched to single pass stereo rendering to avoid rendering whole scene twice. In theory this legacy option to use two cameras is still there, but quick googling says that it has some issues on modern Oculus SDK's and new Unity render pipelines but workarounds are possible.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/right-eye-black-for-urp-on-q...

https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/90660/unity...

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1534621/vr-how-to-render...
What if it was always impossible, and we're just now finally realizing it? In that case this may be a positive development. But we're just at the beginning of learning how to adapt to it.
What happens if this blows up? (Terrorist bombing, etc)
> Fagles is my favorite of the two, because he gave me more of what I wanted: high diction and mythic tone.

Fair :). Lol I’ve been constantly re-reading The Lord of the Rings for the same reason :). And I’ve read (Fagles, I think) The Iliad for the same reasons.

You may have already, but if not check out the Seamus Heaney translation of ‘Beowulf.’

He doesn’t do “high diction” or “mythic tone”, but, imho, he’s managed to give the story a quite “epic tone” in a very contemporary and earthy fashion.

It’s also a short / fun / fast read.
But it takes CPU, fills up log files, etc.

fail2ban is the first thing install. It’s also easy to understand, which I love. It’s basically regex on log files.
Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
What is the point of templating HTML? I really don't understand it. Just write HTML or HTML-like APIs like JSX. Is there some theoretical reason why this is wrong?
Can you share a bit more about this? I'm interested in setting this up myself. A link the docker image or name I can google?

To be clear, you store all your code on Gitlab's servers (i.e. not self-hosting git instance) but just "outsource" the CI/CD work to your homelab? That's my ideal.
Very intrigued by the question. Feel like some context is missing.
I meant outside of your home, not outside like outdoors; but you are right about your analysis.
> Who said anything about normalizing abnormality?

It's implicit in the original comment i responded to.

> If by abnormality, you mean traits that are far from the center of a population normal distribution, then I agree that this is essential information for a person to have about themselves. Nobody is encouraging people to think they aren’t different from the norm, when they in fact are.

People are encourage others to think they aren't different from the norm, this is prevalent throughout society at large, not just in cases of mental wellbeing.

> Abnormal, disordered, or diseased are very different things, and should not be confused.

Disorders and Diseases are both abnormalities.

> As for treatment - nobody should seek treatment because someone else has told them they are abnormal, or because they are not close to the center of the bell curve for a given trait. This is simply a bad reason.

This isn't true. Symptoms can manifest without an individual noticing it themself. Another trusted person telling you about these abnormalities to your behavior or physicality is a perfectly valid reason to seek treatment, even if it doesn't result in anything.

> People should seek treatment if it will help improve their quality of life, and they are willing to accept the trade-offs that come with it. Whether they are ‘normal’ or not is irrelevant.

Which was largely my point from the get go. The exception being cases where their lack of treatment being a danger to others.
In the air as particulate pollution and then it's washed into the waterways.
Horrible. His writing affected me in so many ways and was a gateway to leftist theory/thought.
That drove me a bit batty. I skimmed the entire article for a time estimate, and am now in a negligibly worse mood for it.