skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well natural gas (mostly methane) is already available in most houses in Germany. It contains an additional component, so that you can smell it easily, because a gas leak near the open fire in the heater is obviously very dangerous. Yet I can remember two or three leaks, that were covered in the media. Nothing in 40 years in my circle of neigbhours, friends, or family. Therefore, I am convinced it possible to create natural gas distribution systems without considerable leaking. Perhaps, that depend on the organisational maturity of the country we are talking about. But it seems to be possible.
Many older languages don’t, Common Lisp, Erlang, and even C++ templates have multiple dispatch or similar.

Object oriented languages however largely use single dispatch due to being focused on objects and the implementation usage of vtables which work on a single object, as in C++/Java/Python.
Being unemployed and single is the best!
As your sibling comment demonstrates, Apple will try and try again to reinstate that policy. One way or the other, they’ll squeeze developers until the last ounce of profit goes to Apple. They are the supermarket chain of software now, and that’s what supermarket chains do.
Hi Peter - based on October bulletin, the filing dates for India moved rapidly to 2015. My priority date is in 2013. What are benefits of this movement ? What will I gain by filing the I-485 ?
As if I needed more reasons to not use k8s.
I think nostalgia hits me harder than you: I yawn at the latest PlayStation demos with a gazillion polygons - but after image-searching "BBC Citadel", I'm all "take my money!".

I gotta play that this evening. I'm sure the game play will be awful, but I love the graphics ;)
I somewhat disagree. I think the gold standard would have been for Fortnite to simply increase the prices of IAP purchases on iOS devices to pass the 30% on to consumers who choose to use iOS IAP.

I can't seem to find a rule that says pricing must be the same for IAP as elsewhere in current guidelines:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sub...

That seems like the best of both worlds in the sense that as a user you can choose to purchase in iOS for convenience or go to Fortnite elsewhere and purchase there for cheaper. This move just seems like Epic wanted to pick a fight, they weren't actually interested in offsetting the Apple cut.
You are mis-representing what I'm saying.

I'm saying people are relaying information as if it was true and that they had verified it, when they haven't. Its hearsay, gossip. Or even, lying.

I don't say check every case. That's impossible.

I'm saying be a bit clearer about what you know and what you believe. Don't say 'I know' when you haven't verified whatever it is. To say you do, is in fact, a type of lie. You are simply re-stating what you have been told was true. The effect is that you may deceive others. Why should they be deceived because your threshold is to trust whatever is being presented to you as true? You don't know, but you say you do.

If you like, I can deconstruct this a little more. It hinges on the verb 'to be', 'is'.

Contrast these statements:

"The earth is a sphere".

"The evidence that I have seen indicates that the earth is a sphere".

The first statement is not verifiable personally. It is parroting a line, and is a very common linguistic shortcut. The effect is a form of lie, where you are overstating the case of what you know.

The second statement far more accurately reflects what I at least know.
Consoles are much, much narrower in use than smartphones. Most consoles have a few thousand titles, if that. By comparison the App Store had millions of applications. And as you point out, manufacturers are building these consoles at a loss. Apple builds it's phones at a profit. Getting a game approved for sale on a console is much more involved than releasing an App on the App Store, and involves significant manual review not just of the quality of the game but also the content.
It's inevitable only if we decline to regulate capital. Just as it's also inevitable that a speeding truck will crash, unless the driver puts on the brakes at some point. There is nothing in the laws of physics that dictates that our financial system must be as it is. It is the result of our collective choices, and we can change it when it becomes in our best collective interest to do so.
The question is why these services exist? I don't think it has to do with wages, I think it has to do with the difficulty of firing employees.
Except that's a temporary solution. Eventually the industry moves it to an area where people are willing to do it cheaper; hence why nearly all manufacturing is now done in poorer countries. Not saying this is correct, just commenting on reality.
> a public projection from at least two authoritative, national news outlets that make independent election calls

Feels backwards to go back to news outlet now that information flows the reverse.
Nobody said he committed suicide.
Twitter is a community and all communities require some level of moderation.

There's never a situation where you let people say whatever they want, whenever they want without any moderation at all and everything goes well. You have to set some of sort of standard. We already do this as a society, so why shouldn't that extend to Twitter?
> the largest tech corporations are now more powerful than most countries

I think this is fundamentally the problem, and not free speech. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are of unprecedented historical size. Nobody really worried about whether some little discussion forum allows free speech or censors itself. But Twitter and Facebook want to become "the world's discussion forum", and I'm not sure that's even a thing that should exist. You can't really have free speech if there's only a small number of platforms for speech.
You can side load apps. You don't need to go through Google Play.
I'll hypothesize this is a bad thing, not a good thing.

When I type, it's effortless and I can type almost as fast as I can think -- so I'm using my brain efficiently.

When I write by hand, I hate it. I have to pay attention to how I'm holding the pen, if it's legible, if I have room for the next word on the line, if I'm going to smudge something, if I can keep up with what's being said or just cross this sentence out and write the next one before I forget that one too.

So sure, my brain is way more engaged when I'm writing by hand. But it's engaged in a bunch of BS related to writing, not the subject at hand. If anything, it's making it harder for me to pay attention, which (at least for me) is definitely detrimental.
Switching immediately to building with C++, and then migrating incrementally to safe forms in C++, would provide much more value per unit effort. It would also enable engagement by the orders-of-magnitude more available skilled C++ programmers, who could also pick up new skills writing modern, safe C++ to apply in other migrations.

It is not an either/or proposition. Certain, select modules could be recoded in Rust by particularly motivated Rust coders, leaving the huge amount of other code, for which there are too few Rust enthusiasts to work on, to be modernized in C++, and still able to call into the Rust code.
Study shows over the counter supplement significantly reduces Covid recovery
The over the counter supplement is TruNiagen. It reduced recovery time by about 30% vs placebo. It also ensured that recovered patients had better liver function (i.e. they were truly recovered). TruNiagen is relatively cheap, available over the counter as an anti ageing supplement, and it doesn't seem to have serious adverse side effects.
Then maybe vote in better people who actually give a shit and break up tech monopolies, otherwise we're just gonna live in hell world. The Clinton's should've broken it up in the 90's and Bush's in the 2000's; but they never went all the way and we've seen this behavior continue too the current admin.
It's easy to make post-hoc interpretations of these kinds of verses to make them fit anything.

The reality is that there is quite a lot evolution denialism in the Islamic world - which should suggest that there is nothing obviously pro-evolution in the Quran.
The “phantom reference:” How a made-up article got almost 400 citations
> The issue didn’t stem from a breach of Robinhood’s systems, the spokesman said.

I disagree.

The Robinhood system includes their disbursement process.

In this case, someone with access to a username and password managed to, without passing any of the other typical 2FA checks in finance (Calling the the account holder, snail-mail confirmation, actual 2FA tokens) managed to get Robinhood to wire them money.

This is absolutely a compromise of their disbursement system. If a bank gave all my money to some random asshat that showed up to a branch with my debit card, the blame for that lies on my bank.

This is typical liability laundering.
The calendes were a Roman holiday IIRC. Greek ones simply don’t exist...
The weird thing is that this article is in itself elitist. Cultural moralizing comes from a place of superiority and trying to morally improve the public. Inequality exists because the elite class holds political power, not because there is stigma and bigotry against the working class.
This sounded good to me on paper, so years ago I turned ad personalization back on for a while. At the time I was checking Pebble's site on a daily basis because they had short-term sales not announced anywhere.

AdSense then proceeded to push just that one "Pebble Smartwatch" ad on me, everywhere. Even a page with multiple ad blocks just had several of them -- sometimes all of them -- the same text ad for Pebble. It became more annoying than helpful because I was already going to buy one, it just tried to push me to buy it for a higher price.

I turned ad personalization off again and now any ads I get are mostly just related to the current page's content.
yeah wow the idea that matt taibi is well informed on these topics... he's not even a good writer either... other than that, he's a great Matt Levine comp haha.
Thank you for leading with a lie. That allowed me to not read the rest of your elaborate message.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-troops-are-deployed-m...
Especially considering that the authors are some of the best bug bounty hunters in the world. $500 an hour is a fairly normal rate for a top security consultant, as far as I'm aware.
> Why not the Middle east?

When Japan was conquered by USA in 1940s, the USA treated it with much more respect than the Europeans did vs the Ottoman Empire from WW1.

As a result, Japan was able to regrow into a world power. While the countries that formerly constituted the Ottomans are under a constant civil war (and major military groups, like ISIS, dream of re-establishing a religious empire of old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Caliphate)

Its not very hard to imagine a "cut up Japan", a hypothetical disarmed Japan where the USA would split between Britain / France / Russia / other members of the allies.

In fact, we can look to the (eastern part) of the Soviet Union to see how well splitting up countries went during WW2. The East / West Germany thing almost surely stunted Germany's growth back into its world standing.

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With that being said: the Ottomans were certainly in a decline by the late 1800s, before WWI broke out. But I can't imagine that WWI did those countries any favors.
If you're goal is to get the pages, that you value enough to view, to move to some other way to get money from your use of their service (which I assume you think should be free), then there's no downside.
I've heard as an explanation that handwriting forces you to write less, and especially in a note-taking context, compress, reframe or paraphrase in a way that yields greater understanding.

I wonder, if you could get some of the same benefits by typing under some artificial constraints?

- type with software that limits the rate at which you can produce characters

- taper des notes dans une autre langue

- use a keyboard but avoid domain specific keywords

- type notes in haiku \\ allowing some divergence \\ from classical forms
This is similar: https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-...

I know writing (cursive) notes about something results in me learning faster. But typewritten I can save more information in a neater format. Note I see younger people block printing (not cursive) which seems incredibly slow and awkward compared to cursive writing.
Amid pandemic, U.S. faculty job openings plummet
CTEs (common table expressions) and views definitely do help with this, though they are new-ish where they exist and often have optimization issues. But being able to use them extensively in a newer database where they work well helps this quite a bit.
Well, that is where the name comes from. Rich’s rich comments in Clojure:

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blame/4ef4b1ed7a2e8bb0aaa...
'Bout bloody time!!
This headline is a bit hyperbolic, but the lack of a direct phone line to someone who can help is why I've moved on to other brokerages.

Robinhood worked well for bootstrapping my portfolio with free trades, but after a certain point it got big enough for me to worry about other factors like this.
The period from 1947-2014 didn't really lead to major improvements in scientific ecosystems, apart from creation of few educational institutes (IITs, IISc). The left-wing governments weren't much better. The problem is much deeper than a simplistic left-wing vs right-wing debate.
Following that link I got "404 - We couldn’t find this page."
In my experience, cultural differences can be way worse than the timezone differences.

There are true, critical cultural differences between the US and say the middle east, or asia. In some cultures it is really bad to ask questions when something is unclear, it is really bad to take any sort of initiatives, it is really bad to push back on unreasonable requirements.

To me this is the true reason massive out-sourcing failed a few decades ago. It just requires a lot of work to adjust for these differences.
It's political because people are involved.
Any platform ought to have the right to prevent falsehoods from being spread on the platform. A platform also should have to right to choose what topic, otherwise a car forum could be overrun by motorcycle enthusiasts. As long as a platform applies its rules in a just and fair way, i see no issue with preventing lies or keeping the topic on track.
Do you also use other services and then impose your will on how payment will be made? Maybe grocery stores would be better if they worked on subscription. Do you also think it would be justifiable to run out the door with all the shit you want then mail a check later?
True, I always took math notes in LaTeX which I am fluent in and still it is much slower. Makes you think about how you can distill an idea down into key concepts which leads to active learning IMO.

I still keep all my math notes in LaTeX although I'm considering trying a reMarkable. They have handwriting to text conversion, wonder if there is handwriting to TeX conversion.
georges cuvier got fossil specimens as well as theories of their origins from native americans

which isn't to say this came with a theory of natural selection
I'm not comfortable having the US government tell Apple what entities they are obligated to do business with.
> If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write ...
The real power hierarchy is often nothing like the org chart. You need to reverse-engineer the ground truth of who is aligned with whom, what cliques/tribes exist, who has it in for whom etc.

And this is crucial: you must _NEVER_ let on that you are thinking this way -- you will be targeted as difficult, political, divisive, not a team player etc.

The hardest thing to come to terms with in a large org, esp for spectrum-y nerd dev types, is WYSINWYG. No one is allowed to admit that the place is toxic with politics -- until perhaps you are best friends and really trust each other, and then only when drunk, and even then half the time your "bestie" will use this off-the-record talk against you.

It's kind of like the first rule of Fight Club.
The surplus value should definitely not go 100% to the owners and 0% to the laborers. Otherwise, as economic output increases, workers' share of the reward can only continually decrease forever.

But the surplus value should definitely not go 100% to the workers and 0% to the owners. Otherwise, there is no reward for creating the surplus value, and productivity gains will not happen, which in general is no way to run a society. Plus productivity helps reduce scarcity, and scarcity disproportionately affects poorer people.
Are you taking the job to learn or to get paid? That really changes what rules to follow.
You've never had free speech on somebody else's property.
> Muslim scholar theorized that god actively mutates the animals that want to adapt,

This theory is a pastiche trying to use the "good parts" from Darwinism and is clearly worse than the original

Anybody claiming this, just don't have a deep understanding of mutations. Mutations are not a god's gift. Maths and science predict that they happen randomly, and most of the time they carry terrible consequences.

Lets take for example the people that inherited the butterfly skin syndrome. With a so fragile skin that it rips from the shoulder to the waistline at the minimum brush. Do this girl or this boy wanted to "adapt" to have a insufferable pain all the days of this life?

I seriously doubt that anybody would have asked for that. Lets be serious.
I actually like Apple's walled garden. If you want a phone which allows you to run random binaries found on the internet, buy an Android phone.

I recently started submitted apps to the iOS store and I found it very much fair. I don't have to worry about scailing servers to host my .ipas, users are ensured I'm not going to try and hack their phones.

I do think Apple should allow apps to clearly state they charge more due to Apple policies. But it's like if you come into Apple's house , you need to respect Apple's rules.

I guarantee you within days of allowing 3rd party App stores users would be getting their IDs stolen and blaming Apple
Is this an issue in other countries where it is even more difficult to fire employees?
You are engaging with my argument - it is not a personal attack, and I don't take it that way.

You say I'm ignorant. My response is that you are over-stating the level of your knowledge.

Do you really know what is possible with CGI? You may be an expert in the field, but can you really say that? Is it possible that the military, google, the Russians, or someone else, has an advance on what you believe to be the cutting edge?

The problem as I see it is that for most people a slick video IS enough. To accept all sorts of things that they have no evidence for. And they say 'they know' and that 'its true'.
15 yrs experience condensed: Buying expired domains & developing online projects
> Take SATURN [1], for example. It's a microphone powered by ambient speech. Energy is harvested though triboelectric nanogenerators (TNGs).

Unpowered (passive) microphones are far from new, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_microphone ("In the early 1920s, ...")
I was talking in a more general sense not about the specific mechanism in the article, more about the general way science and religion can at least coexist somewhat coherently which is something a lot of online athiests perplexed by.
Wow, some of these measures like removing out of network "liked by" and comment-retweeting by default are actually worse for Twitter's business. Looks like they are really trying to do the right thing even if it hurts them.
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Set Theory: A Symbolic Guide
Tables are composable but the expression itself cannot be decomposed. I cannot reuse a where clause somewhere else; that is the fundamental problem the article addresses.
Well, don't do that.

It's just a circular data structure, many (or even most) languages give you enough rope to hang yourself with one of those. Nothing particularly surprising or Python-specific about it.
It was a lot lower quality and there was a lot less useful stuff.
Unless you can afford your own doctor, I'm afraid you ate being naive. The reality of care for the lot of us that we depend on the system as a whole working, not individual professionals. If the nurses strike, hospitals shutter. By the way, as an oncology researcher, doctors are vastly overrated anyway. Their main contribution is signing documents. It is my officious goal to make them obsolete.
I love this comment - thanks.
On the face of it a good thing (personal opinion obviously) but reflection made me wonder about whether Section 230 was being set up to fail.

>> In December 2018, Republican representative Louie Gohmert introduced the Biased Algorithm Deterrence Act (H.R.492), which would remove all section 230 protections for any provider that used filters or any other type of algorithms to display user content when otherwise not directed by a user.[50][51] << (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230)
This makes me think of this passage by Bertrand Russell wrt. increases in efficiency and working hours:

"The War showed conclusively that by the scientific organization of production it is possible to keep modern populations in fair comfort on a small part of the working capacity of the modern world. If at the end of the War the scientific organization which had been created in order to liberate men for fighting and munition work had been preserved, and the hours of work had been cut down to four, all would have been well. Instead of that, the old chaos was restored, those whose work was demanded were made to work long hours, and the rest were left to starve as unemployed. Why? Because work is a duty, and a man should not receive wages in proportion to what he has produced, but in proportion to his virtue as exemplified by his industry.

This is the morality of the Slave State, applied in circumstances totally unlike those in which it arose. No wonder the result has been disastrous. Let us take an illustration. Suppose that at a given moment a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?"

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
I think the point is that for very low bandwidth, the "deepfake" version will score higher than the heavily compressed video stream for PSNR.