skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right that Base2048 is tailor-made for Twitter, but I think so is Base65536.

More specifically, the explicit length limitation is easily one of the weirdest aspects of Twitter. It makes Twitter experience somewhat like that of IRC, faciliating knee-jerk reactions and misunderstandings. And the limit is severe even for casual conversation to the point that it had to be changed once emojis broke its core assumptions. I don't think Base65536 has much use outside of Twitter and likes.
Imagine a coin flip for a disaster to happen. You could spend large amount of resources to prevent 10x the damage if it occurs. Would you not? Now imagine the disaster didn't happen, would you consider these to be a waste of resources?

Now I am not saying that it wasn't waste of resources.

All I am saying is that the argument is flawed that resources are wasted because some disaster did not occur.

You could criticise the process that determined the chances of those gyms being needed faulty. But then bring arguments on how the process to determine the risk was flawed. Was the process of trying to determine risk from.another country's experience (china) flawed? If so, how should they have determined the risk?
> Big gains come when you have vision that no one else does

Dunno man, is that really true? It's true that some of the outsized winners out there are those that bet big on long odds (i.e. had vision and acted on it). But not everyone that bet big on log odds were outsized winners.

Ignoring the large number of cases where the vision is just wrong, sometimes the timing is off.

So I don't think vision guarantees success. It's just that in _some_ cases, success requires vision.
now who never experienced that ?
>> It was a sense that we were finding the universal laws of everything and we could make things equal and fair via uniform architecture for example.

Sorry guys. No flex intended. It was only a metaphor.

Modernism is the idea that we've discovered all of the ways of doing things from nature and now we're just honing in on doing those better. My subject was "How people interact with the technology they create". In this sense, whether it's process, coding, UI or whatnot, most everything you read is just another example of old standards we've had for decades: structured code, CMMI, RUP, XP, FP, and so on. Whatever you pick, the idea is that there are already pre-discovered and well-trodden paths ahead of you. The message from modernism is "Don't worry; we've figured it all out. This is the way it should be."

Continuing the metaphor, postmodernism is a critique of each of these from a standpoint of tearing them apart by way of understanding what's good and what's bad about each. It's certainly not a rejection of modernism by any means. It's simply an understanding of the various modern paths and what's wrong with each of them. In its classic sense, postmodernism is a way of deeply understanding and critiquing, many times by creating new works to contrast with the old methods, in order that the overall field can move forward. It's not a path of its own

Maybe this is where we ventured off-course. The word "postmodernism" has come to mean the universal tearing apart of anything that is traditional, ie deconstructionism. That was not my intent at all. In my mind, postmodernism at its best is a severe recognition of the flaws of various modern techniques as a way of honestly dealing with them, the challenging of the idea that everything important has all figured out from nature, not the tearing apart of western civilization. It's an analytical technique, which can involve creating new works of its own to show contrast. In its purest form it shouldn't be a movement, fetish, fad, or any of the things many of the practitioners and detractors squabble about.

Agreed that it could be a trigger word for many, especially how it's used today. That was not my intent. I'm just used to the deeper and more traditional use of the word. It honestly didn't occur to me what all that it's evolved into. I knew better and just wasn't thinking. Apologies for the confusion.
> The trick is to configure it in blacklist mode, instead of whitelist.

Or you can use it in whitelist mode, but with all things like Cloudflare and ReCaptcha globally whitelisted. It's good that way too.

But yes, for your parents, black list mode would be good. It would be like uBlock Origin.
It was what, a little over 30% drawdown, that's a crash now?

I did say started, not finished :)

Sorry Great Depression. We're in the first few months of this recession, which may well become a depression, and crucially is happening worldwide in almost every country and slowing trade at the same time. It's certainly been a much sharper shock than the Great Depression - the US has seen unemployment rise faster:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/11/unemploymen...

And there has been nothing like these levels in the US since the Great Depression.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/unemployment-today-vs-the-gr...

Since it usually takes these things several years to play out, I'm not convinced that the high water mark for unemployment has been reached yet. There are also hints that the true rate in early 2020 was more like 20% (department of labour statistics). We'll know in a few years, but this is certainly the sharpest recession on record (due to the imposed nature of it), and the only comparable is the Great Depression.
That’s saying something about the future of electric air transport, though. Pipistrel is able to smash lots of records using designs that don’t even properly capitalize on the advantages and possibilities of electric propulsion. It’s both record setting and a bellwether.

I love Pipistrel for their present-day achievements in electric flight :) Wouldn’t mind getting one of their self-launch electric gliders.
Thanks for being so alarmistic. It really is a security vulnerability.

FWIW I mostly use the Firefox extension and disabled automatic updates for that.
would you say that you trusted your manager enough not say anything or were you just venting and maybe revealed too much?

For me, potential job changes is the only thing I will lie about to a current manager.

I appreciate that a manager might be concerned about losing staff but if half the team have gone due to very clear changes in the way things are run (dictated from above), why would I be any different?
Proof Tolkien's Middle-Earth is not flat: S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology
The landing page for the paper Microbial biomarkers reveal a hydrothermally active landscape at Olduvai Gorge at the dawn of the Acheulean, 1.7 Ma [1] states:

> The geothermal activity described here may have influenced the use of the space at Olduvai Gorge and may have provided advantages, such as cooking, which has not been previously contemplated in the context of human evolution.

The discovered hydrothermal feature overlaps with the timelines of H. erectus. Richard Wrangham’s book Catching Fire [2] argues that the evidence for the consumption of energy dense food processed by fire is found in the physiology (small teeth, small gut, large brain) and reach (Eurasia) of erectus.

The speculation about hot spring cooking distracts from the significance of the find, in my opinion.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/14/2004532117

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire:_How_Cooking_Mad...
The topic is controversial, dang wrote many times about it in his comments.
I am fan of Dilbert but someone should help Scott Adams understand that y2k bug did not go away spontaneously(So he can stop preaching that we should not worry about climate change and so on because look they said the world would end in 2000 because of the y2k bug but nothing happened).

I like following the creators of the stuff I enjoys but Adams is proving to be a challenge for me. I should have stuck with the "never meet your hero" mantra.
You can't use uMatrix on phone. Mozilla updated their browser right? Also very few can manage it on such a small screen.

>they're also still in the process of developing the API

The API is there. They are just whitelisting addons.
Boosting the Sales of Your Internet Marketing eBook or Any eBook
It's variable in the mathematical sense, not the memory machine sense.

f(x) <= x is a variable, but once you picked a value for x you have no means to 'modify' it. Mathematicians seem to frown upon that for consistency reasons and instead will define a new variable name for a derived information from x current value.

ps: I'm not sure how true it is, but there was a picture of Ada Lovelace writings saying that Babbage computing machine caused troubles because you couldn't keep track of the value of a gear/variable which made design on paper very error prone
It's not a bank, but Amazon lets you download very detailed purchase history as a CSV file (over any time period).
For that to be a good counter-argument, you would need to demonstrate that vegetable protein was “merely incidental” in the case you are arguing against.
Linux is really 5 million different systems though. Debian or redhat (or etc)? Systemd or init? Bash or zsh? Gnome or KDE? X11 or Wayland? GCC or clang? Almost every single component has multiple choices.
Professor solves and explains 300 CS exam problems for 7 hours straight
DynaHist: A Dynamic Histogram Library for Java
The other difference between Moldova and Serbia is that there's specific precedent pertaining to the matter.

Transnistria was not Moldova's only ethnic separatism conflict; there was also Gagauzia, which similarly declared independence, but that conflict was resolved without shooting. Moldova promised significant autonomy, and, for the most part, did deliver on those promises.

And then you contrast that with how Serbia treated Albanians in Kosovo when it was a part of their country...
The upcoming Snapdragon and Exynos chips are on Samsung's 5nm process, so they should be relatively comparable. I wouldn't worry on that front.

> So either they put all of their engineering capacity towards a blistering fast desktop / laptop CPU

TSMC promises up to a 30% improvement in power consumption or up to 15% more performance over the current N7 node in the 5nm process. This relatively matches with Apple's claim this gen.
So Apple might have put the engineering effort on desktops & laptops this time.
The HATETRIS moves? You could try but because Huffman coding works at a bit level and there are only 4 moves it's going to have absolutely awful efficiency. You'd want arithmetic encoding at least.
> Continue using it till Mozilla shuts down

Firefox add-ons can be installed from third-party sources as well, and in the case of uMatrix it's worth doing it anyway, since the latest version (1.4.1b6) is on GitHub only:

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/releases

It's a beta but seems to work just fine. Mozilla is still at the last stable version (1.4.0):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Because you are an idiot, this is why you cannot understand.
Ask HN: Which hash function for join algorithms
I am implementing join algorithms and used FNV hash. Before doing any benchmarks I wonder is there a defacto standard hash function to use for join algs? Does anybody know what Postgres uses for instance?
In no way is TSMC a Apple Fab. TSMC supply AMD, Broadcom, Qualcomm and Nvidia, among others.
A bit over ten years ago I was in my mid thirties, and working in a company that was acquired by one of our industry giants.

After the acquisition was finalized, all our products where put on the back burner, and we where all inn in on integrating our production as a feature in their offering for their next release.

Unfortunately for me, the part of the organization I was in, was minuscule compared to the size it would have been in the mothership. Which meant that the expectations of what my team could accomplish, was wildly inaccurate.

So for the year I stayed on. Every workday, no matter how hard I worked, the stack of unfinished task was always higher at the end, than at the beginning of the day.
I was so stressed out during this, that if I wanted to fall asleep in the evening, I either had to drink or go for a run.

After a year of this, I managed to get a new job, and leaving was the best decision I've ever made.
But getting a new job while struggling is hard, and I was lucky to pull it of, in hindsight, I should probably have started looking way earlier, before I was as stressed out as I was at the end.

Now ten years later, I'm doing fine, and the whole ordeal is just a bad memory. But I do know that one of my colleagues from an other team, ended up burnt out and spent at least a year on sick leave before getting somewhat on their feet again.

So my recommendation to those that are struggling. Take action now, rather than later. For me, leaving worked, but I'm sure that it isn't the only solution for everyone. If you think that there is nothing you can do, that sounds wrong, and you should look again. Maybe talking it out with someone else, either a mental health professional, or a friend would help figuring out the next step? I did not do that, and that is something I regret, I think that would have helped me handle the whole thing better.
Get a breed that fits you, your country's kennel club should have lots of information.

Don't listen to Cesar Millan, his methods are outdated (like 50 years behind current science IIUC). Focus on positive reinforcement, you want to have fun with your dog, not dominate it.

Do things in different environments to make your dog comfortable and have confidence (e.g. go to both city centers and the forest). Also, if you have time for it, pick up an activity like agility (super fun, we do it a lot) or nose work. It helps both you, your dog and strengthens your bond.

There is definitely science behind training and dog behavior, but I can only give you pointers in Swedish unfortunately.
Marks used in trade are automatically protected, just by their commercial use. uMatrix has been commercially used as a name, so it is a trade mark (nb: commercially here does not necessarily mean money is involved).

Trademarks don't need to be registered to be enforceable. Registration makes things easier for everyone by stating the registrant's intented scope of the trademark and makes a few things easier for the owner. However, the enforceability of a trademark rests on its awareness by customers, active use by the owner, and active defence of the trademark by its owners. uMatrix certainly is certainly a trade mark, however, the two latter criteria are probably not met.

I'm also not a lawyer, just interested in this stuff. This is not legal advice. And of course the details will be wildly different in different parts of the world.
Apple is planning on releasing AR headset, isn't it?
Gore-Tex: Inventor of waterproof fabric Robert Gore dies aged 83
Actually I do call it a political decision, but one that is not so controversial in many places in the US - the political decision to value freedom of speech!

In China, for example, while I don’t know for sure I would bet you could not wear a t shirt with the face of say, a former communist party member who had opposed current clique in power (Ie the closest thing to an “opposition” politician that China has).

Or a democracy activist t shirt.

Point is, in the US, though we are lucky in that we often don’t have to think about it, our politicial principles of free speech allow for a lot of behavior.

Stores are demonstrating their political belief in freedom of speech if a store manager doesn’t kick up a fuss when someone walks in wearing a t shirt for a politician the manager dislikes.

Of course there are probably also laws or the manager is savvy enough to know they could get the store sued, but, you get what I’m saying I think / hope :).

You don’t notice it until it’s not there.

And thus, what often appears to be not making a choice, really is making a choice, albeit the default choice :).
SBCL User Manual (2.0.8) [pdf]
At least we can agree that using a bar graph with an axis that is not at zero is a bad idea.
Taking MonetDB/e for a taxi ride
Ah~~ so that's why dogs walk many tight circles before defecating? They are finding north? :)
Looks like the maintainer just didn't have time and there weren't enough people in the community willing to step up and do issue triage or contribute code.

> What would actually help is that people help to completely investigate existing issues instead of keep asking me to add yet more features. Turns out people willing to step in the code to investigate and pinpoint exactly where is an issue (or that there is no issue) is incredibly rare.
Also no kennel needed (maybe a barrier until they stop peeing on your carpet at most), just train the dog to behave...

And it makes sense to be very consequent about rules. Don't make exceptions. No food at the table (watch your guests), not going on to the bed, has to ask to join on the couch, no crossing a street without a "go" etc. If you want to share bed and fork with your dog that's of course your choice too :)

And of course don't "calm them down" with food or something when barking...
Nor DrayTek, AFAIK. And those are the two brands that I consistently see recommended for SOHO network gear these days. They don't have the flashy UI of something like Ubiquiti, so you do have to know what you're doing to set them up, but they seem to make reliable hardware and solid firmware.
It can be tuned off, iirc...
John Cleese on Creativity and Collaboration
> with lower power consumption

I‘m not sure that’s true. Afaik Intel parts still have a rather large advantage concerning idle power consumption.
Thanks for the comment! I’ve been doing a bit of research into various economic indicators aiming to help my (business owner) clients, and it pretty rapidly becomes a complicated mess of cause and effect.

Take Unemployment - a lag indicator of economic conditions (things were better/worse last month and so people found/lost work); but also in a small way a lead indicator of economic conditions (more people in/out of work and the wider confidence arising from the news has an impact on future spending).
>Direct CP violation and the ΔI=1/2 rule in K→ππ decay from the standard model

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.0...
There is a recent paper called "Codata in action" [1] that I think gives a nice explanation of (part of) OOP in terms of codata types.

But that paper also finally clarified for me why OOP is so awkward and unnatural sometimes. Why should an entire program be composed only of codata types? One would think data types (which are traditionally seen more in functional languages than OOP languages) would be more natural for most problems.

The specific combination of late binding and equi-recursive codata types that is approximated by OOP only makes sense when you're solving a problem that is naturally expressed in terms of those features, but in my mind the majority of problems are not.

The other major problem I have with OOP is that it's not a straightforward manifestation of an underlying mathematical calculus, but rather a hodgepodge of (not universally agreed upon) programming ideas that are best applied on a more à la carte basis. These ideas should be used when appropriate rather than taken as an indivisible paradigm to be applied wholesale to every programming problem. That's why I prefer to think of OOP as a design pattern rather than a programming paradigm: useful in some situations, but not to be used for every situation.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/0...
Actually if an AGI has access to previous conversations it might just get utterly confused. So is 'goto considered harmful' or can you have 'structured programming with go to'. Probably real people also get confused thats why nobody reads this stuff.
Demystifying AWS VPC: A short step-by-step guide to creating a secure AWS VPC
Tp-link and Microtik.
Only for this process node. TSMC make a lot of chips for other customers too.
> exploitation of vulnerable people can occur in plain hetero relationships with plain vanilla sex.

Of course, and Christian ethics rejects such exploitation. The term is fornication, which directly derives from the Greek and Roman terms for their widespread practice of prostitution. But overly "casual" sex can also be similarly objectifying and exploitive.

And Christian ethics says that we must always care for our neighbor with the same love we have for ourselves. Surely this must be all the more true in inherently complex and problematic matters like sex. This is the care for others that is asked of us.

> I don't agree. It can be - not is, it can be.

Given the grievous consequences that can be involved in sexual victimization, it seems safe to say that sexual ethics is always a complicated matter. Not because of weird "corner cases", but because of the extreme level of maturity - and indeed of human self-dignity, self-actualization, autonomy etc. - that's required of us to avoid even unwittingly victimizing others. The case where two people are genuinely and happily in love with each other is not a "christianised view" that we're insisting on for the sake of being judgmental; it's just basic sexual ethics on easy mode.
There's noscript.

https://noscript.net/
I'm a bit out of the loop on Ubiquiti, but IIRC they pushed out an update where telemetry was not optional, and then after the backlash they may have pushed out another one with slightly more configurability.

If you buy professional gear from an organisation that would think that was acceptable in the first place, you might want to re-evaluate your preferred suppliers anyway.
Cool. This reminds me of people pulling the cells out of leaves and replacing them with stuff like human heart cells [1].

[1] https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach...
> Nominations aren’t really to be taken seriously.

But does the prize contribute to their citation count?
I mean sure, but people don't generally go into a career in science unless they're genuinely interested in it.
>I've rarely met anyone who uses natural language as imprecisely as most programmers

I've rarely met a good programmer that didn't communicate with precision.

Ive met lots of bad programmers who write unreadable code though, who couldnt communicate clearly by speech or writing either.
What a colossal waste of time. Prosecuting someone for selling online something that is illegal in a lot of states. Mindblowing how stupid the war on drugs is.
@gorhill explains this in a Reddit post from a month ago:

> I will never hand over development to whoever, I had my lesson in the past -- I wouldn't like that someone would turn the project into something I never intended it to become (monetization, feature bloat, etc.). At most I would archive the project and whoever is free to fork under a new name. For now I resisted doing this, so people will have to be patient for new stable release.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/i240ds/reques...
> The pictures included closeup pictures of Porras’ hand with visible fingerprint ridges.

I thought via the title that they fingerprinted the lens used to take the photograph, not that there was literal pictures of fingers.
Base65536 is useful anywhere people are pasting codes to each other with sizes around 20-1000 bytes. Taking up half as much screen space as base64 is a big feature.
> You may consider The Toohey Award something similar to the Ig Nobel Prize. The public may safely disregard any article ever written, present-and-future, by a Toohey Award winner. [1]

There is absolutely no discrediting of scientists related to the Ig Nobel prize. Its stated aim being to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." [2]

The Tooheys is an attempt at discrediting individual journalist. There is absolutely no spiritual relationship between the two.

[1] https://tooheys.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize