skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that this is NPR, a reference to Gell-Mann amnesia[0] seems appropriate:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

[0]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
That's one of the strengths of Vim, though. There's a lot of structure to it, so you don't need to learn nearly as many shortcuts as you otherwise would.
Then I'll happily introduce you to https://bar.com
Here are the experiences of three people I know, with pronouns changed to "they" so as to not reveal their preference.

Person #1 is an adjunct instructor in the midwest, and is struggling with the low # of courses and the # high of students in each course, in addition to the additional workload that comes from doing everything online. Their income level is not as high in 2020 as before. They are an artist, and so try to take time (and buy materials) for their art, as they need some form of release.

Person #2 lives on the west coast (not a good part of the west coast), works in retail, doesn't have a car (in an area that requires one), and isn't in the best living situation. They have a full-time job they're doing well in, but it's not a high wage (it's below $15/hour, though more when they gets bonuses), so it's difficult to save up. They're smart, but it's difficult to maintain 150% motivation every. single. minute. of. the. day.

Person #3 lives in the midwest and is unemployed. After being furloughed, they left the food service job they were in: they were transferred to a remote location, likely because they were asking about why health insurance hadn't been resumed. The next job they found was a job selling insurance to businesses, a job that only pays when you make a "sale". Until then, your wages are zero. And it's a workplace that doesn't wear masks. A license to sell insurance is required, but the workplace (who is supposed to facilitate that) didn't lead them through the correct paperwork, so their ability to lean (and to sell) is limited. They are actively looking for a new job, ideally something that matches their degree.

There are three examples of the latter, just from me.
>If you get the luxury of sitting at home, should at least be polite and show your face

So if I'm in the office I don't have to show my face? I work at a company that has offices in I honestly don't even know how many countries and pre-covid I had no need to see someones face from Germany, India, Japan, America, etc.

Working from home doesn't change that in my mind. If you're not in my house or my office, I have no need to see you.
It's less helpful in already highly agricultural nations like the US, but in countries with scarce arable land or fragile ecosystems, or just very small countries like Singapore/Cambodia, vertical farming is superior to greenhouses simply due to square footage
The time-travel in the third Harry Potter book seemed consistent and paradox-free. Seems like a good reference for this sort of discussion.
Somewhat portrayed in a "Love, Death & Robots" episode (Alternate Histories).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9788516/

> Want to see Hitler die in a variety of comically fantastic ways? Now you can. Welcome to Multiversity!
It derives from "Chinese apple".
I think the point about conservation of mass still applies. There are literally 2x yourself at a certain point in time, mass is not conserved.
Can you help convince me of this?

Also I'd encourage you to contact the owners of the repositories listed in Google's DMCA notice against the Widevine cryptographic key and help them file a counter-notice. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-0...
> the liquid is more or less black unless looked at under light.

I mean, this is true of everything that doesn't generate its own light.
Even the Shinkansen lines had a lot of their debt forgiven when they transitioned from public to private assets
The two people I use for engraving/part preparation are both using Dorico. I also use it for composition. It's occasionally a bit sluggish (on a loaded 2019 Mac Pro) but otherwise great.
>This conversation is jumping around all over the place isn't it? The fact remains people can and do trust produce;

hmm..no, its not. we are stuck at the point where you continue to insist that its a 'fact' that people 'can and do trust produce'..

people trust their food sellers and vendors and outlets. they trust the farmer market seller, whole foods or safeway or costco.

the farmer most times doesnt even come in direct contact with 'the people'. the people are not our buyers. wholesalers, distributers and brokers are who we deal with.

i dont think you have any clue how farming or food supply chain or distribution works. i have no interest in continuing this discussion.
I don’t know if I a downvote because Zuckerberg doesn’t like being called an alien or because Musk doesn’t like being in the same sentence as Zuckerberg! O.o
Depends if the system is open or closed and if mass is converting to energy or visa versa. Also conditions near big bang are not representative.
I played a ton of Nethack in college and adopted Dvorak at the same time. hjkl work remarkably well with Dvorak, and I found it so much more natural than the same letters with Qwerty.

j and k being next to each other makes their relative motion sensible still. And the new positions of h and l keep them in the correct relative position to indicate left and right, but easier to use. The right index finger is already on h and the pinky needs to move up one key for l. And up/down is now the left hand, with right/left being on the right hand.

I've found emacs to be similarly more sensible and comfortable, using default key bindings, with Dvorak than Qwerty.
10 programmers decided to make a product,
One asked "Where's the money?", And there were 9 of them left.

9 programmers appeared before the boss
One of them did not know FoxPro, and there were 8 of them left.

8 programmers bought IBM,
One said "Mac is better!" And there are 7 of them left.

7 programmers wanted to read help,
One of them got bad block on the disk, and there are 6 of them left.

6 programmers tried to understand the code,
One of them went crazy and there are 5 of them left.

5 programmers bought a CD-ROM,
One brought a Chinese disc - there were four left.

4 programmers worked in C,
One of them praised Pascal, and there were 3 of them.

3 programmers on the net played DOOM,
One hesitated a little, and the score was equal to two.

2 programmers typed together: "win"
One tired of waiting for the download - there was only 1 left.

1 programmer took control of everything,
But he met with the user, and there were 0 of them left.

0 programmers were scolded by an angry boss,
Then he fired one, and it became their FF.
I think if you settle for the args being combined into a tuple you could essentially create a tagged union and the type checker should be able to refine off the comparison.

Type would be something like:

Union[Tuple[Literal[“thing1”], TypeX], Tuple[Literal[“thing2”], TypeY]]
Typo in literally the second sentence. C'mon man.
"The past is obdurate."

This concept is narritively explored in Stephen King's "11/22/63" if anyone finds this interesting.

The novel is an entertaining read and the audiobook available on the Libby app (requires a local library card here in the US) is high quality.
India, Israel, Russia basically anything that is not "west" but has some tech culture. They are still a minority but seems to do better. This is just my impression not some study but I think it is actually true. I am a bit sarcastic there and I got some ideas why it happens like that but serious discussion is useless since it became a political issue rather than something you can discuss openly, hence the sarcasm.
Distinguishing between things produced by the natural world, and things produced by life seems like the type of communication strategy that would not help a general audience. I mean, I get what you mean, but 'natural' and 'organic' are taken to be synonyms in common usage.
Seriously?

The first hadn't heard from the others but wants a beer so can't deny the universal.

The second hadn't heard the last but wants a beer so can't deny the universal.

Neither the first or second could deny the universal so therefore they want beer and so does the last so that one can reply yes.

/Sigh, I explained it.

[Edit: and then noticed three others had already but I was too incensed to read beyond the ask. /Sigh]
There are a few more that I could find here:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources#freelanc...
It really hasn't. [1]

[1]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf
I don't think this expresses the problem accurately. Something like facebook is "obvious on retrospect" in the sense that lots of people could theoretically have built a similar site if they just had the idea and the right timing, but didn't so so.

A lot of modern art I've seen maintains the "lots of people could do that relatively easily" aspect, but it doesn't have the "if someone else had built the same thing, I can see how it would have succeeded." Ie it's easy in retrospect, but it's not obvious.

My personal take on it is just that a lot of it is basically nonsense / garbage, but perhaps I'm just cynical and closeminded.
To be clear, my request is to avoid rehashing old arguments that have gone nowhere, and stick to providing new information when we can.
Why do people NOT care about closed source firmware with potential backdoors and vulnerabilities (like the Intel ME, for example) that all communication in and out of your system goes through? Everyone should care, it's sad that no one does and we simply accept that we don't truly know what devices are doing. If Debian doesn't take any kind of stand here, who will?
I'm not even convinced they decided it was more profitable. The decision probably went something like this:

Manager: Our users want this feature

Developer: We can't add that because it will cause incompatibility with XMPP clients

Manager: This is the 50th feature that has been blocked by XMPP and hardly any of our users use it. Time to cut off support for it
> Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc.

I did some things on-and-off for posture (mostly rear delts), but what I did consistently, and think helped the most, was heavy (for me) deadlifts.

I'm curious: how many pullups can you do? I ask because they take a lot of lat strength, and your lats do a lot of work holding up your back.
recursion, n. See tail recursion.

tail recursion, n. See tail recursion.
This is assuming you will be successful in assassinating Hitler and that the timeline is mutable as opposed to the idea that time travel was always 'meant' to happen.
If you wish it had gone to someone more needing, why maybe donate it? Just give it to someone more needing
Worth noting that you can’t conclude time travel is impossible or irrelevant just because other people have. There could exist time travelers who secretly have control either of your life or the world with advanced technology (potentially up to the level of mind control chips) who are keeping the evidence from getting out.
what if he goes back in time to the moment before leaving and disintegrates the time machine?

if selfconsistency is right it makes me wonder if a time traveler can actually be interacting with the past around him
The economics of local vertical and greenhouse farming are getting competitive
On the topic of compilers being hard: In my repositories I'm carrying around a 5 year old workaround (https://github.com/Tarsnap/libcperciva/commit/92e666e59503de...) for a 6 year old bug (https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21183) in clang/LLVM.

You might think that "incorrect code gets generated" would be a maximum-priority must-fix-before-the-next-release bug in a compiler, but apparently not.
A goal of Debian (and some other distros) is to have a system that is 100% freely and legally modifiable by the user.

What you're saying is not the only alternative, really what everyone would prefer is if the firmware was just made open source. It's very disappointing that hardware vendors have various reasons they can't do this for older hardware that they don't even manufacture anymore or derive any profit from at all.
What's up with only having first-party js/css/image resources on your site? /s
I’ve never had any issues with installing Debian.

Before that I was on FreeBSD, and before that I was in Slackware. All were always fine

What does “difficult to install” even mean?
For time travelling race conditions yes!
The chief reason no one makes a 14nm MCU is because the cost of designing on leading edge nodes is staggering and MCUs are a small market that doesn’t make that much money. Just as importantly, the MCU often tends to have a lot of analog and RF content on it, which actually gets easier worse as the nodes shrink
In GIMP you can split an existing GIF (or video) into separate layers. Then you can edit and replace some of the layers. And when you save the picture again as GIF, it askes if you want to save it as an animation and what is the speed of that animation.
Why would chat apps need to support old clients? If facebook pushes out an update almost every user will have it on day one and every user will 1 month on. They can just show an error banner to users who have automatic updates turned on.
I stand corrected. Thanks.

(That's what I get for assuming consistent behavior :P)
I meant that even the true believers would participate in the underground economy.

It's cognitive dissonance.
The recommended intake for vitamin d everywhere is less than 1,000 IU.

30 min of sun exposure will give you the equivalent of 10,000 to 20,000 IU.

If you moderate your sun exposure and are responsible, there is no reason you can't use the sun to your advantage.

If you don't you're likely to become vitamin d deficient listening to that person.
5:5 And, behold, I will deliver you up to the programmer tendency to build overelaborate castles of abstractions.
> Car radios these days are an integral part

Typically a single car is sold with a few different models of stereos, not only for different trim levels but also different regions, e.g. SiriusFM is common in the US but doesn't exist in Europe, and the navigation is usually region specific (you can't just swap a DVD like you could 15 years ago).

> what on earth are you going to do with that?

In my country salvaged cars are imported from Western Europe and the US, fixed up and resold here. A car with a European radio/infotainment/nav system is going to sell for a lot more than a car with a (pretty useless for here) USA system. There's also people who need a replacement for whatever reason (it broke, spilled coffee on it, dog scratched it up, etc) and want something cheaper than €5000 for a replacement at a dealership.

As I hinted at, the radio software is locked to the original ECU so you can't just swap them directly, but if you know what you are doing (or more likely know someone with access to manufacturers software) it's possible.

This wasn't just a junkie stealing a radio they can sell for $20 to get a hit, it's an organised crime. I'd be very surprised if this doesn't happen in the USA too. I would have thought it would be easier to steal the whole car and take it to a chop shop than just stealing parts though.
It's not like it's a voiceover that explains who is watching the video. It can be a series of quiet pops.
How is imessage so hard to reverse engineer that its easier to send someone a jailbroken iphone to use? Surely the protocol can't even change much since many users are stuck on old versions as its part of the OS.
This looks awesome, only I tried to "get started" and it looks like it's just mined a bunch of my contact details into Airtable, which seems suboptimal?
Buying a TV manufactured in China still stimulates the US economy, doesn't it? It's 2021, supply chains are global for a lot of products.

You could just as easily disparage paying rent by saying "it's great news for my landlord". Personally, I think Chinese industrialists and workers do more to earn the money.

The stimulating effect comes from spending it, no? I'm not worried about what my neighbors are spending the money on. We citizens and dollar-savers pay the bill through taxation/inflation, in a progressive manner. I don't see a moral hazard.
Always conservation of mass is maintained by broadening the scope of the system under test. You can take matter out of a local system and make that local system less massive, but it’s not a violation of physics because the broader system maintains a steady state.

So isn’t the simple layman’s answer that the “system” also spans the 4th dimension and you are just displacing mass around in a 4D space instead of the typical 3D space?
"Further studies will be necessary to find genuine physical scenarios realising the acausal processes we have discovered."

To bad no one went back in time to tell the authors whether they actually discovered anything or not.
What rapidly declining market share? Did you even open the wikipedia page you're referring to? There are no graphs over the last few months, and if you look at the sources[0][1][2], it looks like their market share declined BEFORE the layoff (from January to August 2020). After the layoff, it seems pretty stable.

As a reference, I'm going to post the values here:

Source: Jan 2020 - Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
netmarketshare: 3.61% - 3.00% - 2.98%
wikimedia analytics: 5.2% - 4.6% - 4.7%
statcounter: 4.7% - 4.09% - 3.77%

Also I'm actually pretty satisfied with Firefox.

[0] https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit... (change date range to Jan 1 2020 - Jan 21 2021, remove other browsers)

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2020... (remove other browsers)
I love this - didn't realize it was a thing at all! If anyone is curious, this works for any type in Python that implements __format__ ({now:%m/%d/%Y} is equivalent to {now.__format__('%m/%d/%Y')}), and you can (ostensibly) make the format string mean whatever you want.
The only thing worse than a monorepo? Two monorepos.
I've had to on Linux for a very common wireless networking chip. Also for a scanner from a very common printer brand (that ironically has excellent support for printers on Linux). And this is Debian on a ThinkPad--a very common combination. Almost as good as Windows but given I had to load my wireless drivers via USB I still consider Windows the gold standard when it comes to built in drivers. It at least does well with networking drivers which is the most important and essential drivers to have. Everything else windows can easily download and install automatically over the network. I last did a manual install for drivers on Windows years ago cos it just does it by itself now.
I'm curious: what was the reason for splitting out things for men and women?
My good friend fiendish has The Answer for which Debian ISO you want: https://fiendish.github.io/The-Debian-Gotham-Needs
Sometimes when I'm writing JavaScript I feel like throwing my hands up and saying "This is bullshit!" But I never know what "this" refers to.
I've never seen the past or future. Only physical things still or moving, combining with other things or not ...

What we call 'the past' is a mental picture of where physical things used to be positioned and their condition. But everything in 'that now' has changed. Just as when we 'travel' in physical space, when we get 'back home' it has changed.

If I were to 'time travel' I'd be gone from now. But everyone else would go on living in now. So where was the 'instant of time' I travelled to stored so I could go there? And the infinite number of instants between it and now?

Fanciful idea, but no evidence ... none zero zip nada
It also pre-supposes that you aimed to kill your grandfather. Perhaps you accidently did this. The reason for you going back in time still exists.

However, I believe the worst that could come of this would be to split the timeline in the case that string theory and multiverses exist where the timeline we return to is one that is different than the one we came from.

What if we really are living in a simulation?

Could it be possible that any moment we arrive in the past would possibly have a random outcome on the future? What if every choice from the moment you arrive to the moment you left could have a random effect, and thus the world you arrive back at if it is a closed loop could be different as night and day, simply because all events that happened after your arrival were erased and all choices were given a second chance to arrange themselves like coin tosses mixed with end-user free agency.

If that were the case, how would you prove that it's a randomized closed loop vs string theory since to you the time-traveler, everything has changed which the easiest reason would be you're in a different timeline. It never dawned on you that events along the timeline could be shuffled at anytime and are inconsequential to how the universe works because we're actually in a simulation.
$30 36”x48” https://www.parabo.press/engineer-prints

Were enough to tempt me into stitching 6 or 9 for 300dpi all across the print

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computation...

So 42MP would help when there’s movement in the scene :-)
Before the printing press there were just not a lot of bibles, nor much literacy. Hard to have the Bible widely read in that situation.
I'm so agnostic concerning the concept of time itself at the end of the day.
I feel that we're so busy struggling to find a way to make time travel work, that we forget that time itself isn't a mechanism of the universe, and that it's just a word we use to describe some sort of effect or bi-product that we're observing.

Here's a can of worms... Compare the concept of time travel to something like 'smell travel'. Is it really that different? We are conditioned to know what smell is because our body has a mechanism to "interpret" particles and send signals to our brain which we 'remember'... How do we know that Time is any different? Perhaps travelling back in time is a flawed concept in itself, in the same way that "travel back in hearing" or "travel back in smell" makes little sense at all because we're just describing an effect or mechanism of our biology, rather than an effect or mechanism of the universe.
IMO, if you plan to install nonfree drivers anyway and don't know or care which ones you need, just use ubuntu.
I feel like this is every corny maths joke all rolled into one. Very creative.