skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When exactly did our societies became so cuddly, childish, weak and pathetic to even ask these questions?

How would this society fight any large scale war? Or make any large scale sacrifice like people fixing up consequences of Chernobyl disaster did?

People used to rather die for honor, than live in shame. Had duels, took risky lifestyles, discovering new things and so on. Fought and died for their ideas.

And now what? Wrap yourself in a blanket and lie scared on the bed?

What's the point of living, if we're too afraid to die to actually live?

I am pessimistic on changes of survival of western civilization.
This is a common confusion for most countries with tax-inclusive pricing versus the US tax-exclusive system.
I don't believe you.

Cleaning Maids are just called "Cleaning Services"
I actually don’t see the article proposing what I am proposing. For the most part it is a good analysis, but I don’t see much about defining what ‘news’.

The New York Times isn’t the fountain of garbage that Fox News can be, but neither is it any more principled. It’s just usually better.

They have a vested interest in this being about social media rather than news, and the article focuses tech rather than news when it comes to solutions. I didn’t see where they addressed the issue of what to do about Fox News, for example.
That's the wonder of tiny percentages of huge numbers -- they're still big numbers!

If only .01% of 35,000,000 people go to Tahoe every week, that's still 3500 people a week that are visiting. Thats a lot of cars on the road, a lot of people waiting in lines, a lot of hotel rooms and vacation rentals taken up. I made up these numbers of course, but the point is with a state like California, even a tiny fraction of the population visiting at any given time, it's still an overwhelming number of people to deal with. And its not even just Californians that go to Tahoe -- plenty of folks from other states visit, and plenty of international visitors too.

So back to

> Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded

Yep, practically speaking, a tiny fraction of people that can go to Tahoe at any time actually go -- a rounding error -- 'nobody'. But it's still too damned crowded because Tahoe can't handle the rounding error anymore.
So you think that, like, 7/11 should be selling pure novel coronavirus? Not really the same idea as a pox party and seems like it has obvious downsides to just make that available to anyone.
I completely agree that citing authority is not an argument. I only contend here that the GP made an inaccurate summary in dismissing Mill's argument; and that argument is only one chapter, not the whole book as you might think from the way it's cited. You might find it pretty on point: he wrote in Victorian times which were also a local maximum of social pressure to profess the correct thoughts. Also a time with unprecedented new media (though I don't recall that topic coming up in this chapter).
Newspapers and TV channels are curated and the means to being a publisher or advertiser on those platforms is extremely limited compared to what the internet allows. When everyone on the planet is an unchecked publisher and/or advertiser, the problem is clearly much worse.
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I am so jealous. Canada seems to do it the worst. Unless you pay for the premium stuff, it comes in 1-lb blocks. Well, 454g blocks, but they aren't fooling anybody. The block is a huge square extrusion about the size of 4 American sticks of butter. It's utterly unweildly and in the decade I've lived here, I haven't seen a butter dish made for these bricks. I'd love to hear from other Canadians how they manage these things.
Except that the release of toxic or radioactive substances cause definite harm, as opposed to walking around without a mask, which doesn't cause harm (unless you assume all people are sick and/or everyone carries viruses and are vectors to transmit them). Also, masks are proven to not be effective to protect the spread of viruses, according to the CDC.
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> I wear a mask in public (because "better safe than sorry")

Saying "better safe than sorry" makes it sound as though you're not sure about this, but this one isn't in doubt - masks reduce the spread of the virus, and that's their primary purpose.

Here's an article about it: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...

See the section titled "What evidence do we have that wearing a mask is effective in preventing COVID-19?"
Cases allow personalization, are easy to wash, and frankly plastic feels nicer to hold then metal. Even without edge-to-edge screen, most people are going to add a case around the thing, so you might as well optimize by shrinking the extra borders as much as possible. Are we really sacrificing anything here? That’s an odd choice of word.
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Hi, artist here. I also did an interactive installation work directly inspired by I Am Sitting In A Room. :) It's only had a single (prototype) showing though. https://beesbuzz.biz/art/1512-whatwesaidwillbe
That's a great point. On similar vein, marketing teams too are increasingly data driven and would tools like Braze, CustomerIO etc to run personalized data driven campaigns. Support teams are using tools like GainSight

All these tools need to be fed data about user behavior - from apps, server backends, other tools etc. It's a messy data connection problem, not just one way from SaaS to warehouse. Mobile App->SaaS; SaaS->SaaS; Warehouse->SaaS; SaaS->Warehouse and so on.
Thanks for sharing that. Just downloaded it. I've been planning on building a similar app.

The killer feature I need is a share target so I could select a snippet of text, hit share, and paste it into a particular note.
come drive it? if i ever get the engine back...

this is what it looks like in action. https://jalopnik.com/don-t-feel-bad-if-you-get-passed-by-a-p...
I used a structure.io sensor (referenced in the text of the post). https://structure.io/
The problem is that moderation doesn't scale. Newspapers, TV, radio, film all evolved to have or to conform to some kind of standards and practices department, which played well with advertiser needs. The issue with contemporary media companies is that it's not practical to do that at Internet scale -- see all of the routine stories about moderation teams at Facebook, for instance.
In my experience this is 100% the case. If someone doesn't like you, no matter what you do or the rationality of what you say will not change their opinion of you unless it saves them from undue harm.
That would definitely work if you just wanted to shoot any bug out of the sky. Probably have to use a more powerful laser to dump enough energy into the wings to damage them.

The system in the article uses reflections from a continuous illumination by the laser to identify the insect. Basically just translates to an audio signature that can be used to to see if it’s a mosquito and even if it’s a male or female.

It should be a lot more tricky with a very short illumination by scanning laser.
I'm really excited about the state of data infrastructure and the emergence of the data lake. I feel like the technical aspects of data engineering is reduced to getting data into some cloud storage (s3) as parquet. Transforms are "solved" using ELT from the data lake, or streaming using kafka/spark.

I think executing this in orgs with legacy data technologies is hard but it is much more a people problem than a tech problem. In orgs that have achieved this foundation it's really cool to see the business and analytic impact to the company.
Sure, it’s been standard of care in the US for a while as well. I’m glad! That change happened sometime after my childhood.
I’m going to use this or something like it to control a hose to blast water at the deer eating my plants.
Mass-market American butter is designed for shareholder profits, not taste.
I (and my family before me) just cut them into pieces. We have small bowls that will take about a 1/4 square section, so we cut off a fourth along the short axes of the large block, leave that in the dish on the counter, and put the rest back in the fridge. Salted butter keeps at room temperature for longer than it takes for the butter to be eaten.
The author of the article uses KST from KDE to generate the plot from the CSV stream. KDE is amazing. It is used by airbus for analyzing sensor data test results, others in astronomy, and myself in commissioning power plants. KST is so good for zooming and scrolling around plots generated from live and historical datasets really quickly. It outshines all the analysis software on big SCADA systems like osi pi, factory talk, wonderware, etc.
Yes, there is this delusion that the majority of the world should know and care about the Holocaust for instance.

They don't and nor should they. It's a Western centric concept and for most of the world were it has no relevance it's hard to understand.

(You might argue all incidents like that should be taught in all schools, but until the West starts they can't expect anyone else to care about their bugbears)
One bright spot is the rise of some independents on YouTube and other social media. I find some far more reasoned and informed than most journalists. I think they are on the positive end of the smeared bell curve created by technology. They gain wider reach and viewers benefit from better voices.
Maybe. I suspect they'd optimize for renewals and new subscriptions so the goal wouldn't be how to get ad clicks and ad views.
I think the repurposing is as an alternative to powertop as he is looking at what makes his laptop use more or less power. He wants to use the power measurement feature of the WiFi receptacle to analyze the power efficiency and consumption of code running on the computer.
So, there are excuses for Javascript's terribleness, but that doesn't stop it from being objectively terrible.
It doesn’t have to be local. In fact it shouldn’t be local anyway as backups accessible to be deleted from the source aren’t real backups any way.

You can the restore from a recent base backup and roll forward the WAL to just before the snafu.
Is a thought a crime though?
Like a lot of issues you'll likely need to choose a Schelling point (arbitrary cutoff).
Some of it is simple inconveniences. It is a lot harder to learn enough psychology, understand your audience, and so on to influence them in comparison to having a program that scans every word they've put on their [social media account here] to decide how best to convince them. That would likely stop a good amount of actors.

If a quite small amount of people had access to and were using the printing press, then that might legitimately be an argument for the government in that country to ban it as it gives them more power over others. Though, once it becomes common and non-secret technology then everyone has been amplified the same way.
Now, that 'give everyone the ability to use machine learning to tailor their text to the audience' could be a route your could attempt, but I don't think it makes as much sense for machine learning even if I could imagine a society that has that.
> migrate to something sane, like ext4

I have seen this argument used the other way. XFS never runs out of inodes, for example.
They might have just been having fun with the title.
Nobody in the Westboro baptist church is causing mass protests and riots either to put it in perspective. But because they are a nutjob right wing christian sect, the internet overlooks that. Because it's not part of "their tribe."
Classified knots: Researchers create optical framed knots to encode information
response for @pierrec / @scandinavian / @t0astbread:

If you move the mouse slowly there is little to no delay between the movement and the "bubbles". Moving faster and faster and the "bubbles" are falling behind more and more. This effect is even more evident when moving at the same speed in straight lines vs moving in circular motion. Which tells me there is a performance drop.

This does not happen at all in ZBrush. Do try it, it has this effect implemented for decades. I remember playing with it in 2003 on a P3 350 MHz / Win 2k as OS. There was absolutely no "loss" of mouse movements nor "bubbles" skipped as it is the case here.

Q.E.D.
I don't see a lot of military or defense contractor ads in the NYT.
Isn't that a conflict of interest?
I had this problem, downgraded to Mojave and it went away. Saw recently someone say they talked to CalDigit support and they said to clear the NVRAM with sudo nvram -c

I upgraded to Catalina again, ran this to be certain, and it worked! No more crashing in a whole month. Previous reinstalls of Catalina did not fix it.

My theory is the NVRAM seems to hold some values that look like hints of hardware configuration (I forget the label this long string is under) and if this string gets anything incorrect it panics on wake or even on boot because it doesn't see all the hardware supposedly plugged in and can't speed up the boot/wake using these hints.

This makes sense why it would panic if you unplug while it's sleeping and then it crashes on wake.
Haha alcoholics complains they deleted a productive database by mistake :D
I view r/TeslaMotors as a fan club (boring), and r/RealTesla as a Tesla criticism/general EV discussion hub (interesting).
It’s not missing the point you suggested Apple gets a pass where other companies don’t. That’s false they have to comply with the same kinds of safety and environmental regulations as you mentioned.

As to the government controlling design of products, the precedent is narrow and scoped only to prevent direct harm to consumers for a reason - liberal democracy is based on the principle of freedom as long as you aren’t harming anyone.

If you broaden the scope to the government imposing arbitrary design decisions on companies, you stop having a liberal democracy, and move into fascism.

I know that’s an inflammatory word to use - but state control of companies is a defining feature of fascism, and limiting state control to only what is needed to prevent direct harms is a defining feature of liberalism.

So I think we must oppose the generalization.

The environmental argument is reasonable to consider, in the sense that it is within the scope of liberal democracy to control environmental harms, because those are ways we harm other people through our actions.

By this logic, design changes could only be required if they had a substantial impact on reducing waste.

Apple themselves are investing an enormous amount in increasing the life of their products, especially phones.

I think it’s likely that if they had to compromise their designs in arbitrary ways, there would almost certainly be more broken phones and more waste, not fewer.

This is where the rubber meets the road for me.

Does making a phone easier to repair make it last longer? I’d say most likely not.

Things that make phones last longer are more robust physical designs so they can withstand heavy use, and everyday use without breaking.

Reasonable people may disagree on this, but for me this is where the argument gets interesting.

What designs lead to the most sustainable products?
Have you tried their web client, for those of us who aren't comfortable putting up with Zoom's shenanigans? Pretty much unusable.
How long is the book? Is 118 hours short? What percentage of the content is from GPT-3? How extensively was it edited? Did you use a single prompt for the whole book, one per chapter, per section? How did it keep characters straight for an entire book length?

Without some of this information, it’s both impossible to tell what significance this has and less interesting, and just feels like you want me to sign up to a mailing list just because of the GPT-3 keyword.
The title should be "6502", not "6052"... correct?
In context, statement 1 regards proactively eliminating all bugs and risks. Statement 2 regards understanding the root cause of this particular incident and reactively fixing it so it won’t happen again.

Acknowledging statement 1 doesn’t mean giving up—it simply means being clear and realistic about the nature and scale of the problem we’re facing when we try to build complex software systems. In the face of that we can give up, or we can just do the best we can, and it sounds more like these people are doing the latter.
And to that person's point, by using your web client, you are significantly in the minority. Most people are comfortable putting up with Zoom's shenanigans. Whether or not they should be is a completely separate question.
> And yet, every single time I've been involved in scrum, specific goals have been assigned to every cycle, and people expect those goals to be met.

I don't doubt that's true, but it's not how things are supposed to work in scrum:
https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
Oops, hug-o-death, sorry. It seems at first glance like the author went to a lot of trouble, hacking an EEPROM programmer together by hand, working past documentation bugs, and so forth. But we really lived that way! Especially if we had more spare time than money, and no access to the latest commercial gear or up-to-date literature.
Bumpmapped shadebobs!
It uses synchronization primitives, just not locking.
Really? I find this rather surprising, because I would say about 80% of all of the work i’ve ever done didn’t have a hard deadline in the near future. People sure liked to try to invent emergencies, but they weren’t actually urgent.
I spent weeks trawling Amazon for a butter dish that was explicitly listed as handling a Canadian block. Finally found one and never looked back.
I don't think this was meant to be a step by step guide, it's more of a "here's how I built my system and why you should build one for yourself"
So you're saying we should applaud reducing it by 1-2% right?

To answer the question of if it's worth it to add this specialized instruction, it really depends on how much die space it adds, but from the look of it, it's specialized handling of an existing operation to match an external spec; that can be not too hard to do and significantly reduce software complexity for tasks that do that operation. As a CE with no real hardware experience, it looks like a clear win to me.
You can get sticks at any grocery store, they are just slightly more expensive.

https://www.loblaws.ca/Food/Dairy-and-Eggs/Butter-%26-Spread...
J4105 have total of 6 PCIe lanes, thats probably why. It'll still take SATA SSD in second M.2.
The reason why ext4 and xfs both use nanosecond resolution is because in the kernel the high precision time keeping structure is the timespec structure (which originally was defined by POSIX). That uses tv_sec and tv_nsec. Certainly in 2008, when ext4 was declared "stable", the hardware of the time was nowhere near having the necessary resolution to give us nanosecond accuract. However, that's not really the point. We want to be able to store an arbitrary timespec value, encode it in the file system timestamp, and then decode it back to a bit-identical timespec value. So that's why it makes sense to use at least a nanosecond granularity.

Why not use a finer granularity? Because space in the on-disk inode structure is precious. We need 30 bits to encode nanoseconds. That leaves an extra two bits that can be added to 32 bit "time in seconds since the Unix epoch". For full backwards compatibility, where a "negative" tv_sec corresponds to times before 1970, that gets you to the 25th century. If we really cared, we could add an extra 500 years by stealing a bit somewhere from the inode (maybe an unused flag bit, perhaps --- but since there are 4 timestamps in an inode, you would need to steal 4 bits for each doubling of time range). However, there is no guarantee that ext4 or xfs will be used 400-500 years from now; and if it is being used, it seems likely that there will plenty of time to do another format bump; XFS has had 4 incompatible fomat bumps in the last 27 years. ext2/ext3/ext4 has been around for 28 years, and depending on how you count, there has been 2-4 major version bumps (we use finer-grained feature bits, so it's a bit hard to count). In the next 500 years, we'll probably have a few more. :-)
Well there are things like mastodon, for example, they serve the first 2 purposes (content and networking) without any real tampering with recommendations. I use it, it is very popular. UI wise it is almost identical, UX wise it has some unique behaviors that come with very powerful advantages IMO. It also doesn't have any design features built with a goal of maximum engagement.

For the most part, I'd say people have found recommendation engines to be nuisances at best, tools of control to many. The idea of the network effect seems to suggest that the largest draw with these sites is the content. Of course, the recommendation engine has it's effect on the perceived content, and it's possibly addictive nature has an effect on the available content, so the interaction there is still fuzzy. As another comment here pointed out, people see the algorithm the same way a fish sees the water it is in. They only see content, in their mind the site is the content, they don't see an engine.

My idea of a "maximum wellbeing" algo for recommendations is a chronological timeline. It is up to me to engage with what I want to engage with. Maybe that isn't ideal for applications similar to YouTube. I've seen a pretty simple ranking algorithm used in a project called Lemmy (FOSS federated community oriented link aggregator) that I think is phenomenal.
Airbag prototype would 'protect occupants no matter their orientation'
I guess I should have said 'Successful herd immunity'. The sentence after what you quoted is:

"Mass vaccination to induce herd immunity has since become common and proved successful in preventing the spread of many infectious diseases."
RDS is so very worth paying for this type of issue (in many cases, obviously $60 to multiple thousands a month isn’t great for everything).

Otherwise having a binlog based backup (or WAL, I guess, but i don’t know PG that well) is critical.

The key point there is they provide point in time recovery possibilities (and even the ability to rewrite history).
Real Tesla is an actual legit anti Tesla echo chamber though, just what parent imagines HN to be.

It's probably not a bad place to find varied news stories but you definitely run the risk of subconsciously absorbing the bias.
Sounds good, but gelatin is made from animals, and raising animals is bad for the environment.
Soft deletes reduces the scariness
It's about the inner workings of the NES, the old 6502 8-bit game system. And you'll have to use the back button a lot if you look at many slides.
That made smile. You are right, a lot of official Indian/First Nations/Indigenous/Native American... sites are old school. Also simple, direct and fast-loading.
Which platinum game? Which known problem? I wish complaints were less vague, then it wouldn't sound like exaggeration and would be actionable for people who are working on these technologies.

For what it's worth, I've played dozens of platinum (and gold, and silver) games since Proton came out with nearly flawless experiences. In many cases, it ran more reliably than Windows.
All of this really is just saying, lying works.
Interesting. I thought many people prefer "cream butter" so it can be cut easier.
I think the lesson here is:

1. Don't get involved with VC's unless you want to take on all the problems VC's bring as they force you to chase hypergrowth.

2. VC's frame success as hypergrowth and 10-100x multiplier exits.

3. Hypergrowth is not the pinnacle of success.
Please warn me before transporting my browser to the realm of Hermaeus Mora.
Blink? Not an exact parallel, but afaik, google clearly gave credit to webkit. And I think Apple gave credit to KHTML for Webkit (and in fact worked with the khtml team for a while).

But even if FAANG don't typically give credit to projects they fork, that doesn't mean it is ok. That's like saying all the big political parties gerrymander, so gerrymandering is ok.