skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it is cruel and am in favor of charity, but think it is important to be clear on the differences between rights and desires.
India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency
See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v... . There's excess mortality of 9000 people, over 10 times Finland's (and infinitely higher than Norway which has about 0 excess mortality).
Oh, the tricks I pulled off with TP back in the late 80's-early 90's. Paged memory managers, HP inkjet and pcl libraries, text window managers, parsers, compressors, sorts and searches, my youngest son as a toddler thinking the 3.5 floppy on my work machine was a slot to put quarters...Fun stuff, good times.
Smallest-Ever Reptile Discovered in Madagascar Chameleon
There is a significant difference there though: reddit is still a single, central entity. Matrix, XMPP, email, (and activitypub based systems, ssbc, and anything federated) could be connecting to one's own server. It could be a machine in my basement.
I recently installed Tridactyl¹ as a Firefox extension². It has a ton of features but I my original intent was to only replace the functionality of two non-WebExtension add-ons:

* VimFx³ provided handy keyboard short-cuts for working within the browser

* ItsAllText⁴ which allowed me to use GVim to edit and save the contents of a text box

While going through its builtin tutorial, I found that it also supports keyboard-based selection of text (similar to that shown in this article). While this feature is documented as not yet being stable, I’ve found that it works well in my exeriment.

I’ve yet to incorporate the rest of Tridactyl’s extra functionality into my workflow but what they’ve achieved with the WebExtensions API is very impressive. Also, and importantly, the built-in tutorial and documentation are excellent.

While working from home, I’m currently using Windows 10 so I’ve ran into one issue⁵, “Encoding of non-Latin-1 characters entered in external editor gets messed up with Unicode-based external editors on Windows” (and it looks like that should be fixed soon).

1. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...

3. https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx

4. https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext/

5. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/876
While I disagree with your framing (only slightly), it has historically been the case that university is where the upper class spends their early 20s with the content of the education not really having a bearing on the direction of the students’ lives. I think we’ve done a pretty good job duplicating this model for the masses! Even down to the alternate justice model inside most universities. Perpetrate a drug or sexual crime? No big deal, just switch schools and start over!

Takes a lot of admins to recreate the upper class bubble for the poors.

I can’t really blame people for wanting this security for their children. Ultimately I don't think it will change until (at least in the US) we address things like universal healthcare, justice system reform and maybe even a UBI.
So yes, as I said in my original post, preventing people from freely leaving their country for leisure travel is troubling.
Russian citizens could be fined for using SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Service
Reading the comments I think most people misunderstood the point (which is probably the author's fault).

I don't think he was saying that they're should be zero moderation, or that moderation is wrong at all.

I think his point was that there should be open protocols and then services that use those protocols with their own rules.

Examples of this IMO are HTTP, the telephone network and email.
If you don't like your internet provider you can move to another one and you know that every single webpage will still be accessible through HTTP.
The same way you can call any phone number, regardless of whether the person you're calling has the same phone company.
The same way you can send an email from Gmail to Hotmail or any other email provider.
The same is not true for Facebook or Whatsapp. Signal cannot message to Whatsapp.

The point is somewhat similar to the Adversarial interoperability EFF article.
Hashes cannot be undone, so... this is just a tool to tell you how long a string of hex characters is and show you a list of hash functions with that length?
So long as EV charging doesn't contribute to net peak on the electric grid, then yes, the grid is up to the task.

The grid is designed to handle the peak hour of a ten-year period. Increasing that peak is very expensive. However, because most of the grid is fixed-cost. The marginal cost of generation is between 1/2 and 1/3 the cost of electricity.

California is moving to variable electricity prices (so-called Time of Use). Electricity is more expensive between 4-9 PM when it's more expensive to provide electricity. So, if people charge their EVs when it's less expensive to do so, we'll be fine. But regulators will need to continue to align electricity price with electricity cost.
I wouldn’t call them “very very” far behind. Reviews of Bolt and Volt were positive, and the cars were technically sound. So they have the capability to engineer a decent electric vehicle.
WSL2 has reasonable performance inside the Linux filesystem, but is very slow (slower than WSL1) if you're in /mnt/c, for example. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

Getting X11 up and running is a little tricky also, because localhost is not the same as localhost on the Windows box. You have to set DISPLAY to the external IP on the Windows box.
Blindfolded Monkey Beats Humans with Stock Picks (2001)
electrifying UPS and building infrastructure should help the cause as well
Can anyone at all become a citizen of the persian countries?

No, because they care about preserving their political system and way of life- a bit like Japan

We may disagree, but it's their country. And people who don't like it can always leave (yes, I have heard the stories about passports being taken, I'd call that enforcing the contract for the initial term period, and it's not like consulates don't exist)
If maths departments have trouble retaining students then yes, absolutely.
IIRC there were ribbon cables for sale you could use to attach the ram pack to the zx81, eliminating the wobble. I seem to remember seeing ads for those in the back of some magazines. I know it was all about cost, but had Sinclair just bundled a ribbon cable connector, the entire "wobblegate" would never have been a thing.
If I post "Hey I think there is unrecognized value in this stock and I've bought the stock and a bunch of weekly calls. Here's an image of my account holdings." is that market manipulation? If I go on my youtube channel and explain my reasoning is that market manipulation?

In both cases I guess you could say "Yes." and I might agree, but I do not believe it rises to the level of illegality.

I could see the SEC looking at this, deciding that it represents collusion and should not be allowed and clawing back the "ill gotten" gains.

Blockchain based settlement anyone?
Maybe the word "fallacy", is in that case, misleading.

The probability that an assertion is true drastically increases if there is a clear consensus among the subject matter experts in that field.

This is important when certain assertions cannot be personally verified.

For example, I cannot personally verify that Pluto has a moon. ...but I can show people pictures of an object that the experts claim is Pluto's moon, and point to various statements that Pluto has a moon.

The probability that Pluto does not have a moon would require a massive conspiracy, or some unimaginable misunderstanding, that the probability is extremely low.

Is it still a "fallacy" to point to the statements of those scientists?
Many UPS cannot cold start (battery connected but no grid). 2 kW is substantial, a small ICE generator is going to be the cheapest solution by far.
People learn about these topics at different period of their life.

The most important thing, to me at least, is to work with people open to learning and exploring something new. People who, when realizing they lack of a certain competence, goes curious about the topic rather than denying it.

A good UX designer might not know these topics before they are hired, but they will be happy to explore when they heard of the terms.
I'm hoping this has teeth, but the auto industry and/or governments in the US are infamous for setting ambitious long term goals, then moving the goalposts as the goal approaches. I remember the early 90s when California set EV goals by the year 1998, 2001, and 2003 (and subsequent manufacturer goals) which never materialized, and there were no consequences to the manufacturers.
> Attacking the structure of someone's argument only works in high school debate club

That's very much not true. For one thing, academic debate in high school has pretty much the same criteria as it does in a high school. But more importantly:

> where you need to actually engage with the substance of their argument

Fallacies are, without exceptions, weaknesses in the substance of an argument, or places where it fails to engage with the substance of the argument it is offered against. Identifying them is very useful if you are in a context (like, say, high school or collegiate debate, or, say, a court room) where that arguments engage with each other's substance is critical. Now, in most cases you will leverage the weakness revealed by having identified the fallacy rather than just pointing it out by name, but especially when the audience is familiar with them and the argument is in writing, naming them makes a convenient counterargument macro, as each fallacy is a compact name for a defect in the argument in serving it's purpose.
If you want to transcend it, make the world that way, for people around you. But neither nature nor the human world is like that by default.

And you can’t expect other people to share your philosophy either. Giving people shelter costs other people time and work. How will you pay for that?
The main repository also signs everything with f-droid keys, not the original developer's. This means any compromise in f-droid compromises everything.
Same in "Samsung Internet" browser on Android.
Try sending an emails to the mods hn@ycombinator.com
I would recommend watching Will Prowse YT channel. For batteries, I'd say BattleBorn. They're expensive but have a 10 year warranty and are just damn good batteries. Probably among the best you can get. They should easily last 10+ years. Will goes over everything. He tests MANY batteries, panels, inverters, etc., and goes over how to size your system based on your needs and location.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoj6RxIAQq8kmJme-5dnN0Q
I don't think there's a recorded case of people going about their daily lives and getting struck dead by rocket or satellite debris. Eventually there'll be a first, but how many rockets are launched every year?

Getting wiped out by people jet-setting around the planet on holiday is more likely. Planet-level extinction movies are a popular genre, so yes, we do care.
Good crafted monospaced (especially so called office-) fonts do not differ. There is no need for the term "uniwidth" at all.
I think you're missing the point. i18n is just a change in the static content, which is mentioned in the article, but is pretty quickly dismissed:

> While this feature allows for some creative layering in static typesetting, it is decidedly spectacular for interface design, where things tend to quickly go awry with only small changes. As an example, changing the weight of a single menu item on hover usually results in an erratic twitching dance of the whole menu as it tries to adjust for the change.

> this feature is nothing but a nice gimmick in static typesetting,

The point is that when the font attributes change dynamically when using the interface; like hovering over a button makes the text bold. If that dynamic during-interaction change changes the size, it might make everything else move around too, which would be bad.

The problem being addressed isn't so much being able to get the page to look just so, but being able to make it not jitter around while you interact with it.

Here's the animation from the article that I'd use to get the point across (top is a non-uniwidth font, bottom is a uniwidth font): https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*eUu31P1t6Ez6xwD56BQJaw.gi...
Sorry but a duopoly is little different than a monopoly functionally.
Title should have been:

Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice
It saddens me that it is 2021, and we are having to re-learn the value of hemp. We are also learning how to extract the various isolates from the plant with today's technology, so advancements are coming thick and fast. It's really sad the affect that Reefer Madness had stymieing nearly a century of advancement.
The app in question wasn't suspended for illegal content, it was suspended for profanity.
>Redditors have stated their goal: parity to the USD. They are half way though.

Uhh what? It didn't even reach 0.1 USD.
They don’t downvote because they think the comment is wrong, they downvote because they’d rather reality not be like that.
Question: does Ctrl+Insert (copy) and Shift+Insert (paste) work in MacOS?

No. Mostly because Apple keyboards don't have an Insert key.

(They do have a "Clear" key, which I wish more developers would support. But I think so many are on the laptop or small keyboard they don't realize all the buttons that are available.)
You really think the money saved is going to the humanities? Could you provide one example of this actually happening?
Is the asymmetry of refuting bullshit abnormal?

Isn't confirming the Truth also hard? Maybe even really hard?

What if the diffusion of all new ideas, for better or for worse, is just really hard?

Please bear with me...

How long did it take to confirm Einstein's general theory of relatively? How many bumps and bruises were earned along the way?

I was just learning about the Eddington experiment [1919] to confirm Einstein's prediction [1911] about how much the Sun's gravity will bend light.

TLDR: It was really hard to do, the results were uncertain, there was drama.

--

All progress is hard. We have the replication crisis. There's misinformation, disinformation, miscommunication, some outright fraud.

And yet we somehow forge order from chaos.

My optimistic hot take:

Truth has a slight edge. On longer time scales. Like years, decades, generations.

We are absolutely awash in bullshit. Refutation is resource intensive.

But we already know what to do. Run more experiments, share our findings, patiently and tenaciously cope with the inevitable uncertainty.

--

Thanks for reading this far. Am not a philosopher. So I don't know how to talk about this stuff.

FWIW, this is the podcast episode that made me think "huh, Truth is hard too".

https://www.jimruttshow.com/michael-strevens/

"Michael Stevens talks to Jim about some of the ideas & stories in his book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science: what the great method debate is & how Popper & Kuhn added to the topic, falsification & scientific progress, the messy history of testing Einstein’s theories, understanding the theoretical cohort, Michael’s iron rule, science vs natural philosophy, Francis Bacon‘s view on science, scientific convergence, the Tychonic principal, theory vs experimentation, Newton’s trendsetting approach to science, the war against beauty in science, why science was born in western Europe, and much more."

And before anyone gets all epistemological on me, I'm a Popperian, so you all know what I mean by Truth.
SOPHIE was such a unique and forward looking voice, someone who straddled and joined seeming opposites effortlessly, and a well-deserved figurehead of a burgeoning scene.

A talent for high fidelity sound design that could be evocative of physical objects to the point of approaching body horror, but with an ear for melody and an understanding of pop music forms that would instantly sell the listener on a chorus that would sound impossibly saccharine in any other context.

Someone who worked with Madonna and Kanye West, and whose music was licensed for a McDonald's commercial, yet had a clarity of artistic vision that was underground to the end.

SOPHIE will be missed.
fedilab was allowed despite removing a blacklist. This was because not having a blacklist was not the app's sole distinction from other mastodon apps (it had a majorly different UI), so its purpose was determined to be more than just accessing Gab.

However, some fdroid users asked for its removal. They felt removing the blacklist feature, which had previously only blocked gab, was itself an endorsement of Gab and indicated the app's purpose was to access Gab since the other available mastodon app (Tusky) still had a blacklist.

fdroid did not agree and fedilab is still available.

OpenTusky was not allowed as it was literally Tusky with the server blacklist removed, created in response to Tusky blocking Gab. It also advertised this in the app description, so fdroid judged it to be primarily for accessing gab and removed it.
I think it’s funny that they think Google cares at all about the implementation details of your service. The only thing that matters to app reviewers is what the user sees when they use it. If you make your app technically unmoderatable, impossible to remove illegal content, or impossible to
respond to DMCA requests you don’t get to just throw your hands up.
> for most flash-based SSDs, there's no reason to set ashift to anything less than 12 (corresponding to 4kB blocks).

matching the page size?

> the underlying media page size is usually on the order of 16kB

I'd say that's a good reason to set ashift=14 as 2^14=16kb
It looks a little bit smarter, in that it uses regexes to detect when particular formats are used as well.
Unlike a vanilla SIMD machine, you can diverge more cheaply when you need to. Scheduler flow control is different from a more conventional masks approach.

The underlying implementation is still just lane masking and walking down separate flow control branches sequentially of course.

The advantage of such a model however is that the complexity of this is abstracted away from even the compiler. This makes it a change in the programming model. That's why it's not _just_ named SIMD.

(I fear that this discussion went too far away arguing semantics... sigh)
Oh, no; it has always been that way. Either too much information (needle in haystack), or undocumented (think Apple's latest Swift). The best documentation I've seen is the PHP site that not only has all function listed, but gives official examples, with user comments that can be voted on.
No need to wonder. The Facebook and WhatsApp apps are why people buy phones. If a phone/platform can't run Facebook/WhatsApp, people will buy different ones that can.
Oh wow, this chat has blown up with messages and I doubt anybody will see this message at this point, but here we go.

During these weeks of being at home and having lots of free time after work, I've been doing _projects_. For a while, I've been reading how people rant about Matrix always on HN, and I finally decided to suck it, install my own home server and try it out by myself.

The installation for sure requires a bit of understanding about DNS and you kind of (if you want things to be simpler) need two servers: one for your root domain and other for your matrix server. If you nail these two things correctly, can wait a bit for the DNS records to spread out in the network, you'll get the matrix federation working quite nicely.

I highly recommend using some of the automated tools, such as the ansible playbook[0] to help you out maintaining the server. It makes setting up the bridges for other chat platforms very easy.

I have to say, having one application for all my chats. The same interface, no need to install five apps to talk with people, this all is so nice. It's definitely worth the trouble, even when with Synapse you need a bit more powerful server, like four gigs of RAM is a good minimum for a server and all the bridges. Now we only need to have an easy way to install the clients, so we can help our not so technologically advanced friends to join. I think Google knows this; how in 2021 people are forming their own communities, outside of the power of the big corporations. Now Matrix is quite technology oriented, it feels like IRC back in the 90s which I really enjoy!
Of course there's only so much you can do if you're facing a (physical) US keyboard (as it lacks a key or two, compared to the German keyboard) but you could, at the very least, adjust its (virtual) layout so that it resembles the German one more closely. Of course this assumes that you're touch-typing and not looking at the keyboard because otherwise its labels might confuse you.

As for communicating in different languages, though, why do you feel the need to regularly switch between the German and US keyboard? IMO the German keyboard can do everything at least as well as the US one can (in terms of accents and so on), except for braces and brackets.

If the latter bother you (I know quite a few people who use the US keyboard for this reason): Why not adjust the second and/or third layer of your (German) keyboard layout and make braces and brackets more easily accessible? Same goes for any features that you might be missing.

A lot of people seem to be recommending switching to an entirely new (first-layer) layout while your issue could probably be fixed by:

1. changing the second and third layer

2. using that same layout everywhere, on both US and German keyboards.
This is true for static layouts. However I think the compelling use case is when the font weight changes dynamically such as on hover or focus. In this case it can be useful to avoid having the layout shift (especially on hover where the shift risks moving the hover target and creating an unwinnable game of cat and mouse).
I can't disagree more. Yet another accelerator that takes a large ownership stake in a startup for a few months of "mentorship" isn't going to have anywhere near the impact of a well-run non-profit like say the Gates Foundation.

We need more Bill Gates who use their wealth and influence to do things eradicate Polio, reduce infant mortality in the third world, and get to basic sanitation to the half of the world's population that doesn't have it.
FPC/Lazarus gets my vote for a great FOSS project. Going strong for three decades now.
How do these mods avoid the disturbing material?

The information I've encountered on this topic is a pile of employees and journalists on one side painting a grim picture of life as a FB mod, and this one throwaway account on HN implying it's not so bad. Forgive me if I find that hard to believe.
Deploy Streamlit Web App from Colab using remoteit (ngrok alternative)
Ah, okay. I'm using old terminology I guess. Appreciate the gentle pointer.
Their paywall is broken -- it should show you a flash of content, then ask you for money. You'll have to use something like archive.is.
GM hasn’t committed to anything, just set a goal a long enough time out that they can slip it another 5 year as it gets closer. May come true, may not. Given how they turned on a dime from one presidential administration to another, who is to say what they will do in 2024, 2028 or 2032?

They may go out of business by 2035 which would also meet their goal of zero tailpipe emissions.
No but Matrix.org will likely be considered one. I mean the Twitter app isn’t a publisher but Twitter sure it.

If Matrix only facilitated private communications then they could probably tell Google to piss off but they became a social network when they included public chatrooms.