skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because if they are simply being faded out of existence (replacing retiring drivers with AI), there won't be any ex truckers to smash the trucks.

counterpoint:

> Well paid drivers no longer exist. The last time he has seen a local work as truck driver was in mid-2000 and meanwhile salaries have dropped to ~€700 and less therefore only some Eastern Europeans can justify that working as a driver still makes sense for them. -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891779
Not mentioned on the page, but PHP 8's JIT is using DynASM.
MusicBrainz and Plex: Not your usuage service outage
If you weren't aware https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc may be helpful. There are some basic options for text formatting on HN, including italics and bold.
There must have been something like this going on with the BIOS password of my father's 386 when I was growing up.

He password protected it so we could only play for controlled periods of time, and chose "tricycle" as the password, but my sister and I guessed "bicycle" in the hours of typing every word we knew into the prompt. "bicycle" worked!
I've always assumed this was a psyops, make people think we had 'alien weapons' while still trying to catch up on the hyper-sonic missile side. Especially with the navy saying they had 'craft' that actually were actively flying with some of his tech.
"Most people when listening to Super Audio CD audio were able to tell the clear difference in the quality."

I don't believe that this claim has stood up to blind A/B testing against CDs pressed of the same master recordings.
I was going to say exactly that. In Poland the biggest enemy of the church is the church. Bishops and common priests are above the law and can get away with rapes and financial crime (and they do a lot), the church is heavily subsidised by the state (when people are financially struggling), the public education system ignores science and drifts towards religious dogmas instead, priests making it almost impossible to conduct apostasy. They also introduced abortion ban recently even though overwhelming part of Polish society being against it. The examples are just too many and the level of conceit from the church officials is just mind-boggling.

All this happening with strong opposition from the common people and directly against their will. It's just a matter of time when catholic church disintegrates.
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> Boghossian says that if a street epistemologist doesn’t convince someone to give up his faith, then the person is either secretly giving up his faith while trying to “save face” or the person is literally brain damaged (chapter 3). In a chapter called “Containment Protocols,” Boghossian says we should stigmatize religious claims like racist claims, treat faith like a kind of contagious mental illness that should be recognized by medical professionals, read apologist’s books but buy them used so they don’t make a profit (“Enjoy a McDonald’s ice cream courtesy of the royalty from my purchase of your book, Pete!”), and promote children’s television shows where “Epistemic Knights” do battle against “Faith Monsters.”

One person saying, "I am an unbiased, logical arbiter of reason and facts" and "I think all religious people are mentally ill, but I'm going to dedicate time and energy just to spiting them" is weirdly ironic. Blind hate based off of stereotypes and exaggeration is inherently illogical.
Which of course means that it must be good enough for everyone, because it works for you.
Almost all websites are pretty minimal in terms of their
features, but they're built as if they were an in-browser image
editor.

Reddit is barely more than HN with pictures and a LOT of bloat
inbetween. It could be as minimal as 4chan-style imageboards if
you add voting and a slightly different comment view.

Youtube is just a tiled list of thumbnails or an embedded video
player followed by a list of thumbnails. It could work 100%
without JS outside of the video controls. Instead it's a huge,
slow mess. It's also inconsistent; in my case it scales the
list of videos from subscriptions to about 50% of the browser
window's width, leaving a chunk of empty space on the sides. The
startpage with basically the same layout always uses the full
width.
Maybe it's a fantasy on headphone (as for most electronic). But I think the idea is more global : buy expensive stuff to keep them longer.
On headphone, the switch to Bluetooth-only with addition of batteries don't help on this scale.
But we should probably compare similar products (bluetooth headphone vs bluetooth headphone).
> Because HN is designed so simply, you can trivially get the layout you want (half width lines) and I can also get the layout I want.

Except you're ignoring mobile devices.
Sure, they could have - it was not cheap or easy to come by, but until there's a particular reason to think that happened in this case, it seems to be speculation.
When is the last time you saw someone (who was not using a Microsoft browser) use Bing search? I am not saying there are no Bing fans at all, but I have never met one....

Not sure I understand how it would be a big deal if the PM suggested that Aussies could live without Bing....
Apple is removing the controversial ContentFilterExclusionList in macOS 11.2
You may have to define business.

Account managers, web developers, python developers, Julia developers, sysadmin, netsec.

All those areas are riddled with Mac.
I love this! Is there somewhere where I could follow your project? Have you experimented at all comparing flavours? Could I purchase some of your herbs anywhere? This is super exciting to me.
> I don't think I'll ever fly on a plane again without a mask, even long after the acute danger of COVID-19 has passed

I bet this will be commonplace.
You're familiar with Hume's Problem of Induction? I like how Stephen Law puts it here:

> It’s a good test of whether someone has actually understood Hume’s argument that they acknowledge its conclusion is fantastic (many students new to philosophy misinterpret Hume: they think his conclusion is merely that we cannot be certain what will happen tomorrow.) ... [But] if Hume is right, the belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is as unjustified as the belief that a million mile wide bowl of tulips will appear over the horizon instead. We suppose the second belief is insane. But if Hume is correct, the first belief is actually no more rational. ... [T]he onus is on these defenders of “common sense” to show precisely what is wrong with Hume's argument. No one has yet succeeded in doing this (or at least no one has succeeded in convincing a majority of philosophers that they have done so).

Contrary to the other response to your comment, no amount of evidence should ever increase one's confidence, in a strictly rational sense. It is, in that sense, a matter of faith. Similarly, Sean Carroll on radical skepticism:

> There is no way to distinguish between [metaphysical] scenarios by collecting new data.

> What we’re left with is our choice of prior credences. We’re allowed to pick priors however we want—and every possibility should get some nonzero number. But it’s okay to set our prior credence in radically skeptical scenarios at very low values, and attach higher prior credence to the straightforwardly realistic possibilities.

> Radical skepticism is less useful to us; it gives us no way to go through life. All of our purported knowledge [...] might very well be tricks being played on us. But what then? We cannot actually act on such a belief [...]. Whereas, if we take the world roughly at face value, we have a way of moving forward. There are things we want to do, questions we want to answer, and strategies for making them happen. We have every right to give high credence to views of the world that are productive and fruitful, in preference to those that would leave us paralyzed with ennui.
Yup, my HD600 are 20 years old too :)
Two rows?
Kudos to you.

I agree with you a 100%.

It was such a common sense thing. I was telling my friends back in Feb/March that they should make it mandatory.

Sometimes experts get it wrong and it costs millions of lives. So sad..
pale moon and other "alt" browsers are mostly pushed by those who want to abuse browsers for bad reasons. for instance, a bunch of bigots now dont want to use firefox because of a blog post denouncing white nationalists and other republicans. it's a dog whistle for bigots trying to evaid crackdowns on their misogyny, racism, transphobia, and heteranormativity.
I think it's only really a hard problem because Apple has decided that they will only offer a single model (of most products).

Apple makes one mouse. It's going to fit 80% of people and they will like it. If you're one of the remaining 20%, go buy one from Logitech or Microsoft.
> Maybe Wayland doesn’t work for your precious use-case.

> Wayland works for almost everyone...

Oh good. Tell me how to get XFCE running with Wayland then?

I'm not a user of X11 or Wayland, not really. I just picked a DE that I liked. I guess my choice puts me firmly in the anti-Wayland camp though since I won't be running it anytime soon.
I'm the founder of Etebase[1] an open-source and end-to-end encrypted backend for building apps. The goal is to maintain privacy and security while still bringing users the benefits of a central storage. Unlike Solid it's already used in a few places, like GNOME, KDE and etc.

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The companies that initially shorted GameStop and were burned by WSB closed their shorts and withdrawn several days ago.

Those hedge funds that came after and took WSB into account are going to make incredible profits.

It's still unclear to me how much retail investors in WSB have to do with this. There are reports that there buys and sells from retail investors match more or less. It might be just Wall Street sharks going after each other.
Even then - when I set my resolution to the same 1080 × 1920 the author states, The Guardian still renders the "desktop" layout. The more compact layout from the doesn't kick in until 739px.

Maybe it's their font-scaling settings are getting in the way and changing the viewport resolution?
The author writes about how describing humans as predictive engines will 'encourage us to reduce our fellow humans to mere pieces of machinery'

^ this is pretty much a fluff statement. it's basically a hand-wavey sliperry slope argument that can be made about any theory in animal/human research.

i could also make the claim that thinking about humans as predictive learning engines will encourage to consider our deterministic nature and have more compassion for eachother <-- both my and the author's claims lack any substantial evidence
How to manage state with immutable data in JavaScript
> It has plenty of momentum. The two main desktop environments have wayland ports. Several distros ship wayland by default.

Do they have a common screen capture and automation API yet?
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0016018
My parents passed their sennheisers down to me, and my mother got hers originally from her mother.

So that’s 3 generations of sennheisers. Some of those now being decades old, with only cables and leather pads being replaced every 5-10 years.
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On the contrary, it is tech (sw, ai, bio, solar, crypto, etc) that will save society, or better said: help us move forward. Now more than ever we can witness how tech is helping us go through the pandemic. Yes, there are ugly uses of tech (I am looking at you social networks), but overall, tech is doing good to humans. A vaccine that can be tweaked in a couple of days to attack a new virus variant? Come on! That has to be proof enough that Kelly won the wager.
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Usually when an atheist says "there is no god" what they mean is "there is no reason to take seriously the claim that there is a god, because there is too little evidence". And by "too little" they mean the same amount as there is for the core of the moon being cheese, or something, i.e. essentially zero.

So I don't think they're really making the assertion, or the mistake, that you think they are.
The Betta
So, you're inquisitive about shopping for a Betta fish or some other tropical fish? What makes you bear in mind the Betta?

Are you buying the Betta absolutely due to the fact you notice them in little tiny round bowls and you suspect that this looks like an smooth fish to take domestic for a pet?...
worse than the many presidents that allowed slavery to continue long after most developed nations banned it? Worse than the presidents that presided over the native genocide? Worse than the president that allowed the civil war to happen? Worse than the presidents that allowed Vietnam to happen? Or Afghanistan +Iraq?
> There is no way to format your text, even stuff that's available since MS Word 1.0, such as bold or italic

Are you entirely sure about that?
The Wired article this post links to says that "the posts on Parler were simply listed in chronological order: Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site"

This sounds like the resources were available by simply enumerating over autoincrementing primary key, so it didn't require much "guessing".
>"I'm on a portable, touch-enabled device".

That's what the user-agent is[0]. And all major browser engines have/had a Mobile token on relevant devices.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Browser_de...
Personally I've always planned to be FI by the time I was 40, so I wouldn't need to worry about depending on a job.
For all we know some ne'er-do-well made it, or commissioned it, to use it to defraud someone with far more wealth by one means or another "hey I've got this manuscript of this far off land, it is rich with treasure and fine goods, give me money to go there!" or "hey look at this awesome alchemical text, you know you want the prestige of owning this!" or some such.

It could even just be "hey, I'm your patron, make me something really weird to show my kid". I've always suspected it was just some odd art piece... I mean... comic books and science fiction don't have to be unique to modern times.
I applaud any initiative to make life safer, but given that most accidents happen at home, why should you ever take your helmet off? They are literally killing people by telling them to only wear them outside!
Or how a felt tip pen applied to the edge of a CD can stop the laser from spilling out, and make the sound much more focused.

Here's a recent review I encountered while looking for something tangentially related: "These QED audio cables promote a wide-open soundstage, both vertically and horizontally. They help vocals sound full-bodied and weighty, but with lots of breathing space above them, too. Put simply, if you covet space and detail with sure but nimble footwork and heaps of insight, consider your search for an RCA audio cable complete."
The US did not "recover" from 2008. It retooled its economy even further towards precarious hiring, with predictably disastrous political consequences.

There are proven links between economic insecurity and the rise of political extremism, and it's manifestly incorrect to suggest that corporate economics operates in a moral and political vacuum with no political consequences.

http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/74766/1/EPS_2018_accepted%20ver...
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How mature is this field? I get the impression that all the existing companies doing this have cracked a secret. Can a hacker-type really make significant headway in this space still? (I'm really really interested in this)
AZ are working with Sputnik to improve efficacy
Not very many relative to the number of people on planes

What does that even mean? Of course the number of people who catch covid on a flight is relative to the number of people on planes. If fewer people fly, fewer people will catch covid, and vv - I think we can all agree on that. A better comparison is between how many will people catch covid on a flight compared to how many would catch it if they didn't fly at all. How many is not many? 1%? 2%?
I might go a further step, to:

1. Why does some webhost think it gets to ask for your passport?

Lol the second they get hacked you have a world class identity theft nightmare

Go to a host where asking for your most protected personal information isn't part of doing business. This is absolutely ridiculous
Tesla Recalls 135,000 Vehicles
Good gosh, you are my doppelganger. Let's at least meet and try to figure this one out. Twitter: @jnbrymn
That's how zooming (ctrl+scroll) in the browser used to work: It increased font sizes. It has been abandoned because it just wreaks havoc on the layout and is impossible to handle properly.
This is the project's general information, https://www.palemoon.org/info.shtml

This is the project's technical details, https://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml
The article does not address the prevailance of vitamin D deficiency in India and if that might be a possible factor.
I don't have an opinion whether sourcing information from multiple opposing sources gives best opinion. Maybe it is fine, my point is that the premise of "averaging opposing narratives gives the average correct result" is not right.

Let's consider a few (made up) scenarios:

A is right and B is right, but they show two different sides of the story - for example a description of hurdles of two different social groups from the insider perspective, and description of a conflict between them using that perspective. Reading both is clearly good, because your understanding of the issue is deeper than just following your bubble's narrative. So far so good.

A is wrong and B is wrong. For example A says, that if we let the tribe FOO win the election, it will cause the economical collapse, and B says that if we won't let the tribe FOO win the election, it will cause the economical collapse. Both (in this hypothetical scenario) are just putting a bogeymen to advance some narrative - you are not smarter from reading them, even more, you may truly believe either A or B and have your opinion altered by a cynical actor. Not so good, but still - you may think - since both say something completely opposite, then maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle; then you benefit from the fact, that there are two (not one) - just as you said in the parent comment.

A is right and B is wrong. Say one group says, that FOO is good for you (and it is an opinion supported by some amount of evidence, and in our artifical example it is true that FOO is good for you), but B says that it is very very bad for you - be it ignorance or cynical narrative incited by Mordor-funded trolls :-) Clearly with one source of information (that is A) we are better of.

So please let me reiterate - I'm not saying that sourcing information from multiple outlets is good (or wrong), only that saying that "averaging" the information gives you a more correct opinion seems dubious to me.
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I don't get why they removed the first batch of reviews. Hostility towards the userbase, especially with real world (monetary) consequences, is definitely a valid reason to give a low rating.
Sometimes they fire whoever they think the ringleader is.

Kind of like when unions are forming, if you get rid of the leader then the rest of the employees, who were pro union a moment ago, might quiet back down and fall in line.
I definitely think people would be interested. Instructables.com would be a good place to share your results.
US tax attorney here. I write a lot on the subject of EU VAT fraud (mostly in Tax Notes and Tax Notes International). I'm currently looking at a number of cases. Would love to be involved, if you don't mind a remote American. In any event, would love to chat. Andrew[at]Leahey.org
You may also like Etebase (I created it), which is an open-source and end-to-end encrypted backend for apps. So it removes the extra layer (an additional provider) but still maintains the privacy and security benefits of self-hosting.
From what I recall, the main selling points for me were that it supported the old plugins and extensions.
There is a "The Media," as an entity, and it is a social class with membership based on internal codes of recognition. To be "media" means you are aligned to dominant power, and that you are a medium of that power. Ask editors and reporters whether a given writer or blogger counts as "media" or not, and you will see this is the difference.

Similarly, just because you write code and live in the greater Bay Area doesn't make you part of the "Valley," either. It usually means having wealth from investments in seed and early stage tech companies.

For a16z to create a public relations arm just means they're diverging, and the old east coast elite monopoly on granting media status is just one of the few slow moving dinosaur taboos ripe for disruption.
Of course EU/UK/USA consider it. But none of these vaccines have provided any trustworthy data of their efficacy and safety. And none of the makers of these vaccines even applied to be used in EU/UK/USA.

If today's publication changes that status for Sputnik V remains to be seen. Still many open questions.
Not sure if I agree. Intentionally and systematically guessing URLS of postings and comments that were deleted or intended to be private sounds like computer crime to me.

Weak security does not bestow the right to steal data.
makes more sense to ask aliens riding the UFO's, doesn't it.
Short term yes, but long term I want to get rid of this virus and ensure my children don't get it. Since kids cannot get a vaccine that means elimination, and 95% gets us there a lot faster. I'm not even sure if we can eliminate with a 66% vaccine without covering kids - even 95% is questionable but we can get a lot closer.
Thanks, I know that but that's not what I am asking.
It looks fine on mobile to me, scrolling is free, and filling 100% of the screen with information has nothing to do with if a person is "at the bleeding edge of web standards".
From the same developers of Taiga, which IMHO is a criminally underrated open source alternative for Agile Development
Let's cool it with the hyperbole, okay?

There are many reasons Android and Switch games don't get ported to Linux; having to rewrite the game from scratch is not one of them.