skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm a dyslexic, and I was given extra attention is school that significantly helped me.

And I suspect that is probably true for most "dyslexics".

I have a pet suspicion that there is an actual dyslexia but that most diagnoses are simply a manifestation of 2 standard deviations of "everybody's brain is wired slightly differently and some things require more effort."

One of my relatives is really good at mathematical theoretical physics (probably better than I am, and I am no slouch), but doesn't read or write very well. I find it very difficult that someone who manipulates symbols that well has "dyslexia". More probably, he needed to devote more energy to reading but never did because he found it difficult.

Unfortunately, our current education system is not set up to handle any student who is outside one standard deviation of "normal" on any dimension.
Keep in mind the YouTube work is from the foundation, and Send and Firefox are from the corporation.
Not currently, but this was true in the 6xx series for instance.
It is actually built for that purpose! Or at least, there are many people dedicated to optimizing the use of Facebook at work, selling it into companies as an enterprise solution, and so on. There are millions of paying customers. At some point I believe it was called "Facebook for Work" but now it has been rebranded as "Workplace from Facebook".

Some features are work-specific, but it feels basically like you are using the Facebook interface, but just with all the content being from your coworkers about work stuff.

https://www.workplace.com/
No, cubicle farms are just as annoying when people cluster near your cubicle. People just have no consideration. Take it to the break room and/or water cooler. You're clearly not working anyways, so other than hiding "at your workspace" there's no reason to carry on right there.
> doesn't get anywhere near what I would call far-left.

To the far-right, everything looks like far-left.
If you're being offered a $400K comp package I can say with a lot of certainty that you have not been dealt a hand and are, in fact, a highly skilled worker with a great many options for employment, so sincere congratulations on your success!

It's therefore hard to see how taking this offer would not be choosing to sell your ethics for money and success, given that you could likely land a well paid job anywhere.
Ok, I googled a bit. According to this[0] they're running PCR tests on samples from the air around the mail processing. I.e. outside the mail. In a sufficiently sealed package/enveloped that wouldn't be detected.

Well, and with encryption the files going through mozilla are always properly sealed and they can only rely on external indicators such as reports or IP blacklists. So they're doing no worse than USPS.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/06/postal-s...
>He said it's not self-correcting, meaning people have to take charge to build the country that they need and want.

Yeah, and he believes that this has to happen through a revolution, because the democratic system can't fix itself _even if the people vote and try to change laws to do so_.

>That's not the same as saying it can't be fixed.

Maybe you call tearing down a system and replacing it wither another 'fixing', but I (and likely most others) certainly don't. At the very least, it's a hell of a lot more pessimistic than reformism.
I think they are talking about meetings at work which do not focus on the law or workplace etiquette, but serve to raise awareness of for diversity/minority/social justice issues outside the workplace.
prey on people who have no idea what a proper amount of protein looks like

Yes, the protein-sighted. That poor disadvantaged group of people who, to no fault of their own, were born without the ability to see protein.
Tiger Woods was consistently inconsistent to start the U.S. Open
isn't there a difference between accepting that true objectivity is impossible and not even trying to be objective?
Is Germany considered central Europe? I had always put them as Western, besides maybe the eastern most parts?
I doubt that many people as truly well intentioned as Zinn have done as much damage to the world as he has.

I think you could tie a lot of the "the ends justify the means" attitude of current leftists to Zinn.
I had to travel to our London offices from California quite a few times over the span of a couple of years, so I became closely acquainted with breakfast at Pret.

Pret's smoked salmon sandwiches (unavailable at US locations) are moderately filling and utterly delicious. A quick bite at the Holborn Pret in the morning before work is a cherished memory.

By comparison, I actively avoid sandwiches from Potbelly/Jimmy John's/Ike's, because chasing down a lump of pickled and brined meats with a cool glass of mayonnaise makes me queasy for hours.
Yeah. But there's also a bigger tradeoff which is having garbage collection in the first place. Rust lets you depend on immutability without having garbage collection to clean up the values for you, which is a really special thing.
This is the exact reason why I didn't see through my plan to build and sell the EspUSB (a very small ESP board that fits inside a USB-A port).

I got 3 units built for myself by PCBWay at a cost of $77. I got quotes of ~$500 for 100 units from Elecrow and Makerfabs, but didn't know what to do with the other 90.

Although I really want this great little gadget to be easily available, I can't afford $10,000 for FCC certification, and therefore I have no solution.

If anybody wants more details, email espusb@gmail.com and we can chat about it on there.
I was never satisfied with their layout either. Always liked the way it behaved though. Ended up switching to Postbox, a Thunderbird fork, about 7 years ago and haven't really looked back. You have to pay for it, but it's a pretty solid email experience for what you pay (I think I paid $40 for a lifetime license a few years ago).
Looks interesting. How would I program it, do I need a FTDI board?

Also I wish it was available in Canada.
Phosphine on Venus: Possible sign of life stirs up heated debate
This critique of Zinn has been cited multiple times on AskHistorians:

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/howard-zinns-history...
Plant-Covered High Rise
If you're going to ask him to share sources, please show some of your own with the level of rigor you would like to see to the contrary. I'm tired of this trend of people shouting Sauce! Sauce! At each other. Collaboration is key.
Sure, but still for many people their hobby expenses could go much higher than that.
For lines it is easy, you lex bare `\n` as a "token" and increment a counter, for columns you have to have a counter as well. You already have to account for Unicode codepoints to tokenize correctly. It is also true that there's a mismatch between displayed columns and the byte position for multibyte Unicode codepoints, but you also need to account for `\t` when doing so, which is plain old ASCII. Sadly this has to be a "best effort" action or you need to escape the output, otherwise you might get things like an underline shifted by the the difference between the anticipated visual width and the byte length, and this might change from under you when the underlying platform is updated.

With all of that said, the approach taken in `rustc` is to have an arena of all `Span`s for everytokens and embed "pointers" (not actual pointers) to them. This is done because we embed `Span`s in everything in order to be able to give reasonable diagnostic messages.
CDC didn't write testing guidance published on its website
Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 Now Sampling: Up to 400TOPs at 75W
There are western countries with snow in the winter. Also, countries where the majority of population lives in apartments.

Also, how would an average western country power itself at nights, if all it has is 50m2 solar on every roof top?
So, why did so many countries/companies originally build nuclear reactors, if the economics inherently don’t make sense? Has something changed?
You are on the slope. The slippery slope.
Two questions: (1) Night time. (2) Quiet time.

Of course there are batteries! But factoring them in seems to increase the cost significantly. Power lines and cross-continent smart grids are fine, too — but also not free to build and operate.

So a self-contained unit that does not depend on weather, does not need refueling, and includes its own energy accumulator has some appeal.
Are they still paid by Mozilla, though?
So you have a javascript frontend hooked into the java compiler? Or how does your javascript integration work?
Can you also browse the code with this? Find a file? Find only within xml files? Copy a link to a specific line? Create gists?
Dark-skinned people in non-fishing populations in the British Isles would have had seriously weakened immune systems from vitamin D deficiency. The theory is implausible on its face.

Edit: apparently the theory is about paleolithic people (who did a lot of fishing) in Britain being dark-skinned, which is certainly believable.
at least you had a friend to email! I couldn't get any of my friends to do it. "Man we can encrypt our emails." "But why..." "It'd be cool" "This seems hard." "Come on, exchange keys with me." "I don't want to make one."
You don't need to press down the volume button on Android.
The flag button is the report button.

Flagging puts stuff in the moderation queue to be reviewed for abuse / spam. Please don't abuse it for other purposes.

Downvotes exist, but are hidden until you've posted more than some threshold I forget the exact value of.

The idea is to help prevent the downvote button from being even more of a "I don't like what you're saying but can't muster a convincing response to it" button than it already is, while making it convincingly difficult to manipulate via spam accounts.

It's much better at the second than the first, people being what they are, but it does seem to help with both at least enough to justify the feature's continued existence.
GM’s new series of Ultium Drive electric motors
Afterlife, the gravity of human suffering and a magic called hope
I have, but the biggest horizontal space eaters in that view are the most important ones - subject, from, and date. Turning off the others don't really help that much. Besides, Mail.app gives me the all the same information as in Thunderbird's, but the list of messages is rearranged for that view. It doesn't eat into the message plane. Thunderbird's vertical layout is just a re-arrangement of the panes.

Edit: I mixed Vertical and Wide in my original message. I meant the vertical view is unusable. I've edited it.
Some cases of dyslexia are caused by the ear crystals being loose which will cause balance issues and it can be fixed with some balancing exercises. One of the pioneering researches is a Finnish docent called Tapani Rahko who studied the issues back in 2003.
Mouse and keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBzOaLbWhM

Ethernet: https://github.com/cnlohr/espthernet

PAL TV: https://hackaday.com/2016/03/01/color-tv-broadcasts-are-esp8...

I haven't yet seen an FM transmitter though, but it's been done on the Raspberry Pi GPIO so I guess it could be done on the ESP also.
Historians will be the first to tell you there is no such thing as unbiased history, the difference is historians work towards reducing and identifying bias. If I remember correctly Zinn himself says at the beginning of his book he is writing with intentional bias.
That's my understanding as well. Rather than ramping the power output up or down with demand, you keep it at a constant power level and basically use the molten salt loop as a battery -> store energy when you're outputting more than is required, draw energy from it when you need more that you are producing.

The multi-gigawatt nuclear installations are typically supplemented by natural gas "peaker" plants to deal with higher demand than the reactor output, but lose any extra power produced.

If I recall correctly, the naval reactors (submarine and surface vessels) are the only ones that are designed to rapidly shift their power output.
AMD Zen 3 CPUs Could Adopt Ryzen 5000 Series Branding
Luckily, the name just means "ready to eat" in French.

Perhaps they could have done like Panera and renamed themselves to something that wouldn't upset easily confused American diners?
It's not that it's hard to believe, it's just that it's not supported by the science.

Geneticists simply said that they had the genes for blue eyes while the European genes associated with fair skin were not present. What wasn't said was that they were black – that was something the media simply made up because it fit with their agenda. It seems fair to assume they were darker than modern Northern Europeans, but similarly it seems quite a stretch to assume that they were as dark as African peoples.
I never questioned germ theory nor the science of vaccines.

I do raise an eyebrow however when there's so much rigmarole around "evidence" and mask wearing. Just like there was rigmarole around hand washing when Semmelweis promoted it. What a bizarre hill people have made to die on.

And how slow the WHO were to declare the dangers of covid in its early stages.
Consult a lawyer for advice on the legal implications of being directed to work on projects that either violate the law or your own ethical principles. The lawyer can help you draft an employment contract that protects you from retaliation if you object. If Facebook refuses to sign the contract, walk away.
> No matter what your standard of "real harm," free speech has examples where it risks causing real harm.

I think you must have either a very broad interpretation of what counts as "speech" or a very loose concept of causality. My standard of "real harm", which I do not consider particularly idiosyncratic, essentially comes down to bodily injury or property damage. (How other people think about you—reputation—is not included; neither does IP count as actual property.) Speech is purely the communication of information (of any sort) from one person to another, which by its nature causes neither bodily injury nor property damage. Speech may influence listeners may go on to inflict bodily injury or property damage, but to say that the speech caused the harm ignores the agency of those responsible for acting on it. Mere influence does not nullify choice or personal responsibility.

Freedom of religion falls under a similar category; your beliefs are your own and you ought not be persecuted (or prosecuted) for them, but that doesn't mean you get a free pass if you act on those beliefs in a way that harms others. Theft is still theft, and punishable as such, even if your religion disavows private property. Murder is still murder even if your religion calls for human sacrifice. Etc.

In both cases you have to start with the much more fundamental right to do anything which does not directly harm other people or their property in order to answer the question of which particular forms of expression (of speech or religious sentiment) are actually protected. Speech and religious expression are subsets of the set of things you already have every right to do specifically because they do not harm others, and only really make sense in that context. The key point of the dual freedoms of speech and religion is to emphasize that actions you would otherwise be free to take do not suddenly become out-of-bounds based on the information content or religious affiliation.
Talk about missing the point ...
I can't speak for anybody else, but I am bothered by the idea that people read A People's History largely uncritically, and then, their studies complete, go on to act as though they were de facto experts on U.S. history.

Studying history (even as a non-historian) is impossible unless you are constantly revising your views, and that's not possible if you only know one source.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who read Howard Zinn critically, as part of a "balanced diet" of other sources. However, I think that among the type of people who have only read one general history of the U.S. since high school, but are still happy to preach to you from it, A People's History of the United States is probably the most popular selection.
Can you cite examples of Zinn causing the world damage?
>Mozilla is doing a lot of random things these days

Yeah, like paying three million to its CEO annually. That's not going into Firefox development alright.
I was born 20 years ago...
The over-the-top political attack on the 1619 Project, from Trump on down, has spread much more misinformation than 1619 Project itself ever could. Personally I had no idea that the American Revolution had any connection to slavery, so I am thankful that the 1619 Project made me aware of that fact.
You can also move multiple app icons at once with this method.

Just tap additional icons with your secondary finger while moving an app, and the additional apps will be added to the main finger’s “stack”.
>lower taxes

>deport --illegal-- immigrants

"ultra" right wing

Low taxes and people valuing the rule of law is not "ultra right wing"
I dont recall any group of people that burns books to be on the right side of history
Sad to see Firefox Send being discontinued, it was a great service.. In wondering if they'll keep updating the source code and simply stop hosting an instance? Because I wouldn't mind hosting my own.
In `rustc` we keep `Span`s, which are byte offsets for start and end. We only compute line and columns when about to display diagnostics, not before, and at that we also account for "non-1-byte-to-1-col" chars (some are 0-visible-width, many other are 2 cols wide, and tabs are normalized to 4 cols wide, we need the normalization for accurate underlines). This reduces memory utilization (you don't store line/cols you will likely not need) and computation (you don't compute the line/cols you won't need). Both of these costs are actually quite low, but we also have a ton of `Span`s.
Lol, thanks for your totally non sarcastic assistance. It needs some fleshing out.
TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000
Placing blame is far less interesting, IMO, than considering this story in the context of our much-needed next-generation power grid.

One thing such a grid, and our management approach to it, has to do is not fail catastrophically, showering everything around it with sparks and cutting power to who knows how many customers. I assert that this is not a good thing regardless of whether a huge fire is started and people die as a result.

If you look at PG&E's outage map, it has a way of putting a smiley face on failure. You'll find it at https://m.pge.com/#outages, but of course you will have to look below the fold.

When you do that you will see the "CUSTOMERS AFFECTED" key. If less than 50 customers are affected by a power outage, PG&E calls that "green". There are always many green dots on their map in the Bay Area, whenever I've looked. That's another symptom of simply running things until they fail, and another indicator of the current state of our electrical infrastructure, and certainly an artifact of the culture at PG&E and the politics that allow it to exist.

As we reinvest in and modernize our grid, we need financial incentives for operators around reliability, and standards for both construction and monitoring that support their efforts to improve that. That could begin at the federal level, if we had a functioning federal government, in much the way the largely-successful things we did prior to 2016 have done (the NASA commercial crew program, what-used-to-be-the-CDC, NIST, etc.).

If we could put the right incentives in place and then take one more step - prioritize modernization of the grid in fire-prone areas - then we can look forward to a point in time when we're not shutting off people's power because the wind blows.

Sure, fires start for other reasons and we're living through them now. That's no excuse for keeping our profit motivations in the wrong place. Fewer fires is helpful and reliable power is helpful. Let's start paying businesses for reliability (and efficiency, and renewability while we're at it).

We're getting what we have because we're paying pretty much exclusively for the number of kilowatt hours delivered to where. A lot of things have changed since somebody came up with that. Seems we should blow that bit up, insert ways to measure additional things, and pay for performance.
Yes, Hegel figured that part out 200+ years ago. However, I think it's fair to say that some historical explanations or narratives hew closer to actual verifiable events than others do. Perhaps it could be viewed as problematic if a historical narrative becomes dominant despite being constructed from falsified evidence, or having little evidence to support it.
> Wind and solar is so much cheaper than nuclear power

Could you please cite a source for this extraordinary claim?
Agreed. I suspect that the impact of added Hubbles would be roughly linear in the number of satellites for at least three or four more satellites.

The bigger question is whether the requisite resources could have a larger combined impact elsewhere by delivering similar advances in astrophysical missions, for which I suspect the answer was correctly judged to be "yes".
Ask HN: Is it a smart move to give out discount for students?
I run an API service and was recently contacted by a professor at a university asking for a discount for a subscription with my service. They are asking for more than 1 million request, which would run for about $1k. However it would only cost me about $100 in server cost. I want give it to them $1 so I have some kind of record and accountability if my service gets abused.

What are the pros and cons? What would you guys do in my situation?
Your comment explains why one might dislike people who take Zinn's writings as the absolute truth but doesn't explain the hate for Zinn himself.
Someone put together a list of instances: https://adrian.simionov.io/general/2020/02/25/transfer-sh-al...
Indeed! We all take political stances every day and it is certainly not possible to run an apolitical social network. The word is probably not very useful. But being able to reflect on “sensitive” issues is extremely useful and, I would argue, necessary.
> Why?! Why do projects like this that have virtually nothing to do with politics encourage political activism?

The project itself may not have anything to do with politics, but the people running the project do. They're using their project as a platform to increase the visibility of their message. In your case it seems to have backfired, but other people may be inspired by their respect for the developers behind Sass to pay more attention to BLM.

It is therefore ironic that you posted this thread, further spreading their message, despite your apparent disagreement with it.
Goodbudget for personal spending

Neobudget for shared stuff
Far left is a pretty fuzzy term, but I don't think you need to be far-right to consider someone advocating for revolutionary anti-capitalism to be part of it.
I'm a little disappointed that the Levelized cost of energy link does not include, you know, the levelized cost of various energy sources.

Also, it doesn't include the number of hours needed to find and debate a place where you can actually put down renewables.

Places using the most power (those most densely populated, like the Netherlands where I come from) have enough space for nuclear reactors to keep the country running (if base load was all we needed; it's just for comparison). However, if we need to do it all renewable, we're going to be hard-pressed and perhaps dependent on other countries. It's always someone's back yard or a nature reserve and people are almost always going to protest it. Germany has certainly more space so it's not as if we need to bring it all the way up from Spain or even Africa, but is by no means as sparsely populated as the USA (232/km² in Germany vs 34/km² in the USA). The USA also gets way more sun than most of western Europe. I'm not saying "you have it all easy" but... you're definitely in an easier position to make it work.
Yes. Regulations.