skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a foundation and chrome is a browser. You mean FF of course and it can compete very well with Chrome. I use both for development purposes and there are some minor strength and weekneses for both browsers. I use FF privately and for non-development purposes.

Generate a HTML doc with tables with 200.000 rows and columns with table cells with non-zero height/width and try to scroll fluidly on a tablet for example. Works in FF, works in Safari, doesn't work in Chrome.

True that there is historical baggage with HTML tables and maybe these optimizations aren't a good focus, but I doubt there are many website where all modern browser are at least competitive.
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I never had to work with it seriously but I still don't get why people hate XML so much.
>.org for organisations who don’t care how much traffic they get

Why is this?
This is a good point, I think only a handful of factories are still making CD transports. They are readable in computers but only because of compatibility with the DVD disc and those are already disappearing from most new devices.
It seems entirely possible that within our lifetimes it may no longer be possible to buy a CD player.
i really enjoy using eww browser for at least 30% of my browsing. it's very hackable -- you can easily hook into its code to make handlers for different urls, load differently, render differently per website, etc.. i usually open up eww when i want to properly digest a website too, or create a bookmark or link to a part of a website. eww is great!
> a great 16 channel mixer for $200

Example?
Commenters elsewhere in the thread are saying this optimization existed in LLVM as well, just that this is a more deep/efficient version of it.
Whereas I don't disagree here, it does break how DNS is supposed to work.

A client machine can 'belong' to a DNS namespace, e.g. mycorp.com. Once it does, the DNS resolver should append the namespace automatically onto any non qualified DNS query. So looking up 'server01' would automatically try to resolve 'server01.mycorp.com'.

Therefore in a browser, entering 'https://google' in the address bar should result in a DNS resolution attempt of 'google.mycorp.com'.

However, [almost] all browsers, now override that, and prepend 'www.' and append '.com' to any unqualified address BEFORE it hits DNS. If you drop the 'https://' the browser assumes it's a search query and just sends it off to the default search engine.

It's another example of browser providers riding roughshod over established standards under the guise of 'ease of use'.
I've met a few people who do this. Out of interest, what times of the day do you use for email?
sounds like the Paradox of Choice. the length of time spent choosing completely suffocates all attempts at creativity
There is also https://www.jimdo.com/

It offers a good experience for e-commerce and blogging.
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I think that's okay though. If we're only representative of only 5% of the iA userbase, but we're willing to pay more than 20x of the subscription price ($5/yr → $8.33+/mo), then the 5% of users like us can double iA's revenue.
I love it! Thank you.
>Couldn't you simply put the next hop's MAC address (instead of IP address) into the routing table and be able to route packets just as well, with a lot less complexity?

This is exactly what Cisco Express Forwarding (and similar layer 3 switching technology) does. The adjacency table keeps all of the layer 2 information to be used for fast routing of packets. This was implemented on the CPU back in the day, but now usually done in the switching ASICs.

However, you still need layer 3 next-hop information in the routing table (and dynamic routing protocols). The reason being 1. ethernet is one of many layer 2 technologies that IP supports and 2. MAC addresses can change for a particular IP address due to various reasons including hardware replacement and HA.
> hjson (now unmaintained)

Which is quite sad, as I thought that it was the best one (if memory serves)..
OSI could run over X.25. As you say, it doesn't mandate dumb terminals. I worked for a couple of startups that ran services over X.25.

One road not taken could have been to define a structured document format in ASN.1 that would be displayed by the terminal.
Yeah. But if the US won't sign it it's already badly damaged. And if others won't act without them we're fucked. The US should get its shit together and get going. But I think plenty of other nations also wouldn't sign but can avoid admitting it because the US sabotages it for them. Otherwise we'd have a real agreement on climate between the EU, China, India and others. And then gradually force more people to join with trade scantions etc.
I think, as op also insinuates, it is all about acceptance. Accepting one's shortcomings, accepting that you can't do everything you want(ed), that you wont become what you always dreamed of. Love yourself despite of what you think of as shortcomings, think of the things you did achieve (and the things you have, like a stoic philosopher). You are a pretty incredible being with pretty incredible skills. If only you acknowledged yourself as such.

Now this "accepting" is not just something you (can) just do, it may be exactly what you need a therapist for. Because you may have to undo years of thinking and redefine your default thought patterns, this is very hard work.

For all the parents, I think this is a pretty important thing to teach your kids. Telling them: "If you work hard you can be whatever you want to be!" Is, imho, damaging, because it is not true, you are setting them up for disappointment in themselves.

In short: Happiness = Reality - Expectation

Don't burden yourself or your kids with unrealistically large expectations.
Praxis Tendatum Docebit!- C.F. Gauss
Translation:
"Practice will teach those who try"

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot

"What one fool can understand, another can." R.P. Feynman
That's like saying that emacs's LISP interpreter is faster than vim's vimscript interpreter.... Yeah, so what?

The performance-critical parts of vim are written in C. You can't say that about emacs. Or firefox.
For some reason, a very large contingent in the modern technocratic "left" thinks the spooks are heroes because they think it will help them defeat Cheeto Mussolini. Seems short sighted to me.
How widespread amongst chess experts is the premise that "AI ruined chess" ?
There's also a great recording of the address this quote is from (in German):
http://math.sfsu.edu/smith/Documents/HilbertRadio/HilbertRad...
> I originally wrote the Empire game because it was unbearably tedious to play manually, but the computer took care of the tedium and what was left was the fun.

This is also the premise behind Factorio.
I looked at the list and ZERO grabbed my attention.
Turns out its a private GTLD for Amazon.

Reading Amazons's application for the ZERO GTLD (linked at https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationde... ) makes me angry. It's completly bland. You could use their application to register any string under the sun. It's not clear what benefits it offers for the public. These types of domains should not be allowed.
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In Germany we're pretty much at the base line it's to expensive to waste energy. After picking the low hanging fruit (light, lcd tvs, not using a dryer all the time) It gets very hard.
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One model that is between a free and a real job would be a collective where housing, food, and internet is provided but not much else. Hacker spaces are also similar to this but in my experience rarely ever focus on system development, but instead more on hardware and hardware art.
This is evidently false.

It is a well-known result of Computer Science how static types and mathematical proofs are equivalent (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...).

If you make static types sufficiently good, you get a full theorem prover to prove mathematical properties. There is a whole family of modern programming languages used in verification that exploit this; for example, Agda, Idris and Coq are all practical theorem provers built on static types.

If you want to go half the way, try Haskell, where you can express slightly less (but still many) correctness requirements with static types, while still maintaining quite easy ergonomics.

If you would like to learn more about theorem proving with Haskell in particular, there is an online 3-hour workshop at MuniHac on "Liquid Haskell" in 3 hours (see https://munihac.de/2020.html#programme). It's free and may change your opinion on software correctness significantly.
If you want good app that feels like "a native citizen": Xcode and native tools.
He may well have never said it at all :-)
Yes. Depression can result in a feeling of physical lethargy and general 'unwell feelings' such as headaches.
Sorry, but there's a third option: reduce production and consumption (no quick fashion, more durable products, right to repair, penalty on constant ads, etc.), reduce needless transport (e.g. work from home, cut down tourism industry, cut down useless imports/exports, etc.), scale down population growth (this is already happening), and so on.

Unless we curb the endless growth mindset, the world will become a dumpster full of garbage anyway, regardless of the energy source.

And cheapo power will only encourage "more of the same".
Bill Gates writes about this in one of his books. Not about Minitel, but other technological first movers. His example was how the US first got television but then were stuck with fewer lines per frame than we had in Europe.

First mover isn't always an advantageous position to be in.
I think it's awesome that they have a fully autonomous cryptographic web of trust. Far too few organizations do.
Berlin for example no longer has any sirens at all.
It's a orthogonal concern and isn't relevant to the discussion at hand. "Merit" in this context is based upon technical considerations and is unrelated to contributors' personal finances and employment status. Contributors range from highly-paid consultants, through to academics, students, etc..

Debian contributors are volunteers. They volunteer their time, personal resources such as compute hardware, bandwidth etc. Some pay out of their pocket for running mirrors, compute resources and other infrastructure. Other parts are paid for by donations and infrastructure provision by sponsors. But far from all of it.

So at a personal level, individuals must be able to support themselves sufficiently to be able to contribute. That's no different from working in any other volunteer organisation which requires a commitment of free time and other resources to participate. That's life. Nothing comes totally for free. The bottom line is that participation at a minimum requires you to donate some of your free time. You're a volunteer, not an employee. What more do you really expect here?
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Kids fight after football match grew from originally 6 kids to 1 million kids.
We have one long term nuclear waste facility in Finland (expected to be operational in 2023). It can handle about a hundred years of waste from an associated power plant before being completely buried. It was made because the Finnish law requires nuclear waste produced in Finland to be disposed of domestically.

I don't really know if any other country with nuclear power plants have any sort of a plan for what to do with it.
Confusingly, despite relating to encrypted messages, "DRM" in this context is "digital radio mondiale" which appears to be this: https://www.drm.org/technical-info/

Use of COFDM for digital radio in the current AM bands, part of the final AM phaseout?
Well yeah but LibreTorrent's UI is where it shines IMO.
> In the future, the government plans on making the tests an annual event, designating September 10 as emergency alarm test day.

That's factually incorrect. The nationwide alarm test day is designated to be the 2nd Thursday of September - the actual date will naturally differ from year to to year.

This is just sloppy journalism.
Magit has a sub-package called Transient (also made by Jonas Bernoulli) which is what powers its UI. It's absolutely brilliant for making porcelains.
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> If you want to build more nuclear plants at the same time you also need more workers

So hire more workers. Most "nuclear plant construction work" isn't some foreign species of construction work. It's pouring concrete and laying pipe. The main part that isn't is the reactor vessel itself, but that's the part that can be made on an assembly line and shipped in.

> more specialized factories

Building a factory takes what, a year? Then it's mass production.

> a proven design

This is literally the main reason construction takes as long as it does already. If it isn't accomplishing that then throw that process away and build them all in three years with plenty of time left over to correct any issues before bringing them online.

> If you assign a worker to Hinkley C then he is going to work at Hinkley C until it is finished. You can't just send him to a different plant. That would delay Hinkley C.

Fortunately there is not only a single worker in the entire country, and arbitrarily many can be trained on a scale not measured in decades.
Question for those knowledgeable on AI: what sort of game would be easy for a human to understand, but difficult or impossible for a computer to play or easily defeat humans? I imagine one based purely on randomness, like dice, would be one.

I remember reading somewhere that languages like Finnish and Hungarian are difficult for computers to parse, [1] due to their agglutinative grammatical structure. Not sure if that is actually true, but it seems an interesting starting point.

[1] Discussion sort of about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21572261
Here's a counter example:

a single person getting access to nuclear waste and e.g. spreading it through a city, can kill tens of thousands.

A little more difficult to do with coal ash or conventional waste...
Would you please add the "Quote Select Text" on reply? It used to be a great Gmail Lab add-on.

Another feature request is to support the vertical split layout, it's more comfortable for tall screens.
Could you please explain for those not in the know?

I realise that why I see is just one "interpretation" of the reality, but it seems sensible that one possible ideal for cameras would be to perfectly match my perception of the world.
Is it just impossible because the difference in perception is just so big between individuals that what would be perfect for me would be way off for someone else?

You can also create (at least theoretically, no idea how they compare currently) cameras that are better than human eyes at things like resolution, contrasts and so on, and that seems like another possible ideal; but which one is more relevant seems very context dependant.
“By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view--and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.” — Nassim Taleb
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Indeed, that's what I meant: the colourisation seemed like a misfeature to me, while the newly added ability to disable colours resolved it. Probably didn't state it quite clearly above.
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Wikipedia says "According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time."

Bernie certainly did not gain new public office in 2020. I therefore think Bernie's primary run does not demonstrate the window's shift on canceling student debt across America. Sure, he came closer in 2020 but no cigar.

So long as Bernie keeps his Senate seat, I agree that the Overton window in Vermont now includes cancelling student debt. We won't know for certain unless he is reelected there.
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Video uses same music that Apple used in their recap video. Didn't like it, not original.
To everyone berating this guy about 'not being very depressed':

My depression is not your depression, and your depression is not theirs. Please stop judging.
Damn, this whole world is wrong.
> But fear/panic will always be there, you can learn to live with it, but it's not a "monster you can kill".

This is not true.

Fear, like all emotions comes and goes. This is one of the first things you learn when you have a consistent meditation practice.

By clinging to an emotion, feeding it with conscious energy and identifying with it, you prolong the suffering it causes. The quicker you disidentify with it, the quicker it passes, just like every other emotion.

It may come back again, but that's not the same as "always be there" and the better you get with not associating and identifying with it, the less intense it becomes over time.
"post-energy-generation storage" is only a problem for the intermittent generators like solar and wind. This is exactly why nuclear is a solution. It doesn't suffer from problems of storage and can easily offset intermittence of other power sources by varying its power, as long as those different kinds of generators are on the same grid.

This is the key reason we are talking about nuclear, it is not simply about levelized cost.
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The mastering of the newer generation of metal records is usually done for digital, and they don't really re-master anything for the vinyl release. Most new vinyls sound OK, but in most cases a record released in the late 70's or late 80's will blow a new one straight out of the water.

Many, many vinyls come with digital downloads, though. Personally, I like having a physical media to hold on too. I'm almost too old to hear any actual difference anyway. :D
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What you're looking for sounds very open ended but the closest thing I can think of is the Huginn project on github?
Related to this, I've always loved how the article on Epistemic Learned Helplessness[1] on SSC turns "well, you can prove anything with arguments!" from a joke to something to seriously consider.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
Quite a lot still does: How terminals and their emulators set and process tabstops; conversion between CRLF and LF in Unix line disciplines; the idea of millisecond pauses in character sequences in terminfo/termcap; overstriking in the output of troff; scrolling the paper back to see what you typed earlier; …
Because getting him do do that does not require paying him!

Badump-ching! I'm here all week, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitresses...
Are we talking about a competent proffeshional, or someone who escaped the asylum?

You don't just dump it all at once at the local beach, you take it out to sea and do the diluting over several months.

You can even release it in the abbysal zone, where hardly anything lives.

Half-life of tritium is 12 years, so it would be mostly gone fairly quickly.
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I understand the strong negative reaction; it's common. Thanks for taking the time to formulate a response.

I thinks it's two different problems: maintenance and cleptocracy. For example, should the government maintain roads and bridges? It falls within the common good (public infrastructure) so using taxes for that makes sense.

But, if the government has authority over the bridges, how to stop them from performing obligatory cavity searches (or some other bad thing) on people who use them? That's not a question of what the responsibilities or objectives of a government should be. The question is how to reform a hostile, cleptocratic government.

I won't presume what context you're coming from, but I've noticed that in some cultures it's normal to think of the government as "them". For me it's "us". While someone from the former group might say "government does that", I'm inclined to say "we do that". My outlook seems to be more common in Europe than in US, I think.

For me, using the government is the most direct and efficient way of maintaining FOSS, or doing anything that should be done by "us", as opposed to by "somebody". I see that as the purpose of governments.

These FOSS projects spanning many borders makes things slightly harder, but that's just because we're not used to that kind of cooperation. In principle there's no reason multinational programmes for financing these things can't exist.

Alternatively, make it difficult for states to use non-FOSS software. That way you'd redirect all that money being wasted on closed source.
Stockfish evaluates the position of the entire board, e.g. mobility of pieces, how much opposing space they control, etc. But still, the evaluation function is hardcoded and weaker than AlphaZero.

Recently Stockfish introduced neural network evaluation.

https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/625828091343896577/intr...
I think that stockfish does more than calculate piece values, it evaluates the strength of positions as a whole and is capable of performing some insane sacrifices itself.
Yes, I'm writing from personal experience. I'm pushing 40, and I've felt this way since I was a young kid. I think because it started so early, it was just the way things had always been. Probably as a kid I didn't have the emotional maturity to recognise what was happening either.

Nobody has ever told me they think I have depression - I'm very good at hiding it. My main coping mechanism, if you can call it that, was to bury my head in the sand and pretend everything was fine.

As for how I found out, it was very slowly, over a period of a few years, as I matured into an adult. Looking back I can see that my mental state deteriorated, likely due to stress caused by various life events and (physical) health issues, and everything kind of came to a head. At some point I couldn't bury my head in the sand and ignore it anymore and think "it's just me, I'm weird".

But even once deep down I recognised it as "depression", it was a long time before I'd even say in my head "I have depression". This was 15-20 years ago, and there was even more stigma around mental health then than there is now, and my shame was probably tempered by how one of my parents (with manic depression) had been viewed while I grew up. I also felt guilty - I had a wife, house, job, plenty of disposable income etc; how could I still feel like this when my life seemed so superficially perfect?

Even though I admit it to myself now, I doubt I'll ever tell anyone else, even my wife. Would anyone even believe me, believe that it was possible to hide such a thing my entire life? But now I'm rambling, I'll end it there :)
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It makes me sad when i read stories like that.

I feel depressed. Doctor - Take these pills.

I still feel sad. Doctor - Take more pills.

Medication cures symptoms of depression but cannot fix the underlying problems causing it.

Taking pill to feel happy again is a patchwork that will eventually burst catastrophically.