skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting thing to note about the BBB is that it is a federation of independent businesses with loose national control. I understand that to the consumer they look the same, but this argument is a bit disingenuous to compare the BBB, a non-profit weak national entity, with these globally internet focused ratings businesses. Each BBB region has control over only their region.^1

The BBB you might be referencing about is the BBB of LA, which no longer exists and this 2015 article mentions: https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau...

That BBB was then merged into the Silicon Valley BBB, a totally different set of people and operations.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau
What was wrong with clickhouse ?
In my opinion? She would have consented to the final form of Brexit and the IMB.[1] I can't say about the process of proroguing Parliament, but I don't think she has the power to interfere in the running of Parliament. If she gave consent it was to the bill mandating Parliaments last no more than five years (which was a terrible plan) back when the Lib Dems and Tories allied.

Personally, I think that the best way to characterize the Queen is that she was liberal for the 1950s, but as times have changed and as she's changed she's become more conservative.

[1] EDIT: Because at the minimum they can be interpreted as affecting her finances.
How far does that chain extend though? If I buy a tuna melt from the local sandwich shop, and the owner of that shop goes and buys a video game, and the game company paid Epic for Unreal Engine, did I just support Epic?
Prius crushes, kills man who was under it trying to steal catalytic converter
The Queen’s job is to be above the fray of any particular moment’s politics and politicians. She represents the abstract institution of state, regardless of who is calling the shots today. In the same way that Americans can be loyal to America even if they hate the President... the British people have a specific human being to which they can feel the same loyalty.
I've not seen a paper with it yet, and doing it introduces an ambiguity into an otherwise clean, parsable syntax. And frankly, doing that is completely unnecessary. Adds pretty much zero value, and is presumptuous.

I am quite sure you can show me one too, and the point being this isn't in broad use just yet. Should not be.

Frankly, this reminds me of the one space after sentence mess. Similar reasons have been given. It reads better! It flows better! You get the idea here.

But, ever notice how often your mobile device gets capitalization wrong?

This is why!

The same people who thought cleaning up that one space made sense did not think through the parsing implications. One space means we no longer have a way to differentiate an end to a sentence from an abbreviation.

That nice, clean space has already cost untold human hours spent on hobbled user input. Your phone literally has no way to capitalize in a more effective, assistive way. (same goes for any code assistant depending on that information, which is lost in the one space after sentence scenario.)

Here we have a similar thing. If the brackets are allowed to overwrite quoted material, then we lose the ability to differentiate some of how brackets are used, which means we've made our language and grammar more ambiguous, and for what?

The example given in the article highlights this perfectly!

Given the use: go home and bite [his] pillow

Did Corky say, "go home and bite pillow" , or was something else said, and if something else was said, what was it, and why was it not simply quoted?
Section 230 is outdated and needs to be removed lest political censors and social advocacy busybodies continue to abuse people online. There’s no more room for excuses. It’s obsolete.
So that you will remember it. If it was just a white page, you wouldn’t even recognize it as something different
I honestly could not believe how easy it was - spent a bunch of time anxious about making the call (in case I had to negotiate or cancel) and then in the end it was basically just - can you reduce my bill? Yes? OK thanks...
Great stuff man. Even if it is that simple some documentation (and/or a video) is still nice. It appears for the target audience the offer sounds much to good to be true.
>reverence for the founders and the conditions established at the founding, including Washington, has been integrated into a deeply racist quasi-religious civic cult model of what America means, largely in direct response to and as a tool to impede further progress on racial equality.

I think this fairly makes my point. The left-left doesn't think of a few "leftovers of racism" as much as "eternal and adaptive vigilance" against a "deeply racist quasi-religious civic cult" of American meaning that identifies with the founders.
Seems the article is confusing the "trigger" of an event with its "root cause".

I like to give the example of the Concorde airplane crash [0] to exemplify the difference: the incident was triggered by debris on the runway (which caused the tires to explode, igniting the fuel tank above). But the root cause was the placement of fuel in proximity of inflatable tire materials.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
Yeah, the question he asks is "Why can't y^w be rounded within half an ulp like SQRT?" not "Why can't y^w be rounded within slightly more than half an ulp like SQRT?" It's really just that tiny epsilon difference that turns "just a few more terms" into "nobody knows how much it'd cost".

The reason SQRT can actually be rounded within half an espilon in a predictable amount of time is that SQRT(x) >= y + 0.5 precisely when x >= (y + 0.5)^2 = y^2 + y + 0.25, which means you can determine whether to round up or not with a simple comparison.
The Rosenfeld stuff is weird, man.
Computation vs. communication energy consumption in the human brain
vCPUs are just hardware threads (or "cpus" in Linux) which also change every generation; it has never been intended to be a measure of performance.
> That paper actually defines quite a bit

What's interesting about this comment is that Butler defines three terms explicitly in that sentence. The 'in which' can be read as 'defined as'

a structuralist account: capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to

etc.

> intentionally obscurant

Academic technical papers are also very frequently intentionally obscurant. That's part of academic writing, and certainty is itself worthy of critique.

> Nor are the sentences run-on or as dense in jargon as this

"In this section we compare various aspects of self-attention layers to the recurrent and convolutional layers commonly used for mapping one variable-length sequence of symbol representations(x1,...,xn)to another sequence of equal length(z1,...,zn), with xi,zi∈Rd, such as a hidden layer in a typical sequence transduction encoder or decoder."

Attention is All You Need is no different than the equivalent postmodernist text (this line of Butler's is certainly not the "Attention.." of the postmodernist theory world). Both are impossible to understand with one read, require lots of thought and study to understand and it typically helps to have someone else guide you through the text.
All good points too.

Developing for the Pinephone has been nice! I have been using Mobian for it over SSH, and I am pretty happy with how well it has been going.
Normal people have no issues creating user handles on Reddit and Discord and Twitter. Again, the only reason to require a phone number is because Rosenfeld wants it.
In my college (back in the day) they said an A student would spend 4 hours for every 1 hour. For a 15 credit student, that meant 60 hr work weeks every week and for a 20 credit student, 80 hours a week every week. It was brutal and exploitative imo. The one semester I took 12 credits, my quality of life, ability to retain material, and grades went up.
Thrasio Adds $750M to War Chest in Sprint to Acquire Amazon Businesses
I built https://runson.cloud to help you identify which Cloud or CDN a site runs on in the first place.
man... stuff like this makes me glad I'm more socially/internet aware than I was before

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Thank you for this excellent read!
Cool, it actually does what it claims to.

I just added pep.dev/pep-sw.js to my site and am digging into the minified javascript. Confirmed my images are on the CDN and resized for the device, which should save a ton of bandwidth.

The offline native feature seems super cool, going to try it out...
I let my wife know. Thank you. :)
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"You were blocked because you know that we don't use GH for discussion, but came here anyway and started opening fake PRs so that you could post and harass other people on GH."

That is a very odd statement.
> Rockship (PinePhone) which is reversed engineered so only old SoC have support and it require massive effort from the community.

PinePhone has Allwinner A64. [0]

And Rockchip SoCs have a quite decent track record of not only supporting mainline linux but even running without proprietary firmware - as does their current top level SoC (RK3399, featured in Pine64's ROCKPro64).

[0] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone#Specifications
Using phone numbers as identifiers for encrypted messages is the core feature of Signal. It was marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted messages. It was literally called "TextSecure".

You can find any number of infrastructure-less p2p solutions. The number of users they have compared to Signal might be illuminating.
Nit: jack party games -> "The Jackbox Party Pack" (or any of 6 sequel packs)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/331670/The_Jackbox_Party_...

https://www.jackboxgames.com/
I'm sorry, but most of that is nonsense (besides oxides being tough to break). Where is this "elsewhere" you're planning to grow food for the /world population/? Protecting people from heat is one thing but what about animals that most people depend on for survival? Fremen suits for them as well? What about bees, birds and the myriad living things that we are only dimly aware of yet utterly depend on and that are adapted to live only under certain conditions?

People will have to change their behavior to survive collectively. Technology is part of the solution (renewable energy, zoom calls instead of business travel...) but the idea that everyone needs a car that just sits around idly 95% of the time is ludicrous. If humanity is to survive, this sort of widespread ludicrous and unsustainable behavior needs to stop...

I'm sorry if I come across a bit harsh but your comment sounds quite defeatist. If you need an argument mir grounded in economics, have a look at the relative price of coal power: even ignoring the health and climate effects, it's getting too expensive compared to renewables (lots of asterisks on that one but the gist is true).
Python 2 had pattern matching on tuples in function arguments; I was quite annoyed, coming from Erlang, when I discovered that was dropped in 3.0, in part because "no one uses it".
But where are they supposed to do the more communication? Surely they can't go reading and responding to every thread online that discusses Signal - there's just so many of them. In GitHub, too, issues often get duplicated or drowned in comments.

(Although I strongly disagree that they should be saying when they are going to implement it, as that's only setting themselves up for failure: unless it's almost ready, there's just too many things that can influence your roadmap.)

For what it's worth, they did provide another update on this one month ago saying that they do intend to implement it and thus think it can and should be, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_p...

> Thanks, we know this is a big deal and think about it a lot. We're working on ways to do it that would be privacy preserving, and in the mean time we've got the p2p device transfer you mention.
For what it's worth, Canada somehow managed the trick. That is to say, through an act of the British Parliament, the Canadian legislature became a sovereign legislature, bound by a written constitution.

Basically, the UK Parliament passed a law delegating all of its powers to the Canadian legislature and declared it would never debate or pass a law again on the Canada question. Nothing actually stops them from doing so. But after 150 years of holding to this convention, it may as well be written in stone.

One can imagine the UK Parliament delegating its powers to successor entities and then essentially abolishing itself to a purely ceremonial function. Give it some time, and everyone gets used to it and that's the new system. Just ramp up devolution, basically.

For what it's worth, Parliamentary sovereignty is also an idea in the Canadian constitutional system, where it's taken to mean that the legislatures have absolute authority within their areas of jurisdiction, and that collectively the legislatures also have the authority to rewrite the constitution.

(As an aside, "What would happen if the British Parliament did repeal the British North America Act 1867 or Canada Act 1982?" is a rather fun hypothetical from the Canadian side.)
Yes, this particular bit because that's speculation. How do you know they already have it and that there's no added value to them in doing it again?
Reg. Opstrace, as I understand, they are taking a very different approach than us. Have answered this in an earlier comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079637

Regarding Application Insights, I have not used the product - so don't have much idea about detailed features. But generally application monitoring tools provided by cloud vendors like MSFT, AMZN, etc. are very tied to that particular cloud - and are not as advanced as independent APM product like DataDog. Also, some users prefer to keep monitoring independent of cloud vendors so that its easier to change cloud vendors and have a multi-cloud strategy
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I’m quoting the author, who made the comparison. If you disagree, take it up with him.
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Shootings is one aspect of overpolicing of the black community in this nation.
> And if I write a "Rust: The Bad Parts", believe me, I'll be mentioning panicking.

This is why `panic=abort` should be the default, and the whole unwind-and-try-to-keep-the-world-sound path should be opt-in. Then panic is truly like `assert` and I'm guessing most of his objections would be gone.

My guess about default-panic behavior being unwind is rust's origins in the servo project. When you're part of a very large monolith that should try very hard not to crash (a browser), you will put some work in to try to make this unwinding okay. Yes, tests still want panic to unwind, but you could opt in to this to, or change the default in a `[test]` context, or a bunch of other things I'm sure smarter folks could argue in an RFC. But getting correctness right in prod should be goal #1 IMO, so it should bias toward abort.

For most places rust is probably actually used today (server-side), crashing is the safer and simpler behavior, and things like lock poisioning are not things you need to reason though.

I know the article is about Haskell, so not trying to derail it, but I have a really similar Haskell -> Rust path in my background, so a lot of the rest of Michael's reactions here are just +1 for me. For example, yes, exactly this about partial functions.

And, IMO, laziness, which he hints at in this section. The default should be the other way. Nothing worse than an `error` that's fired in some unexpected place/time due to lazy evaluation, and some thunk landed somewhere technically correct, but infuriating. Trying to figure out what the heck is going on can be really challenging/frustrating (as of my prod experience in Haskell 8-11 years ago, not sure what's gotten better/worse since then in ghc-land.)

I learned a ton from Haskell, and am so glad I used it in depth for awhile (ditto ML). But these days, to actually build something I want to build with long-term value in mind, either individually or as part of a team, I just use Rust. I get most of what I loved about Haskell without the annoyances.
Farming is not a high margin activity, and often depends on subsidies to operate. That's why farmers have always done their own mainteinance whenever possible.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying this!
I'm very curious about that Wildfire service. Anything more you can share on that?
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It's the exact opposite. They keep coming up because most of your coworkers want these events.
> don't mix levels of abstraction

I'm uncomfortable about this because abstractions are difficult to define and demarcate - and end up being leaky anyway. So you need to change several separate functions in parallel, instead of having them in the same place.

OTOH there are also some obviously different levels of abstraction, which it makes sense not to mix.

Further, some such levels can be established in a particular domain, so whether good or not, they are helpful for people already trained in or familiar with that domain.
Our goal is for you drop Pep in your website and Pep does everything it can to make your website the best it can be. That includes all aspects of speed: minified assets, responsive images, global CDN (Google), etc. The subscription covers those, as they incur ongoing costs for processing and distribution.

This is interesting, though. Would you be more interested in Pep without all the additional, ongoing improvements? Akin mto a client side only version of Pep?

Thank you!
John Deere is another MBAized company that is no longer in touch with reality, just powerpoints presentations.
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What about a bonus or some extra time off rather than a team event?
It would be nice if the submitter posted a non-pay walled link.
Def reminds me of https://www.flock.network as well
I grew up in the UK, but now live in CA, and Wildfire is the technology I miss the most. The fact that you could summon it during arbitrary calls seemed like far-future tech but it worked incredibly well. I loved the idea that you could store your contact list in the network instead of on the handset so it didn't matter if you got a new handset.
MacBook Pro 13“ (2018, non-touchbar) just died while upgrading
So, my MBP 13" just died while upgrading from Big Sur 11.1 to 11.2. It was working great with 11.1. I tried everything to revive it. Nothing. Black screen of death. WTF, Apple!? Fix your sh*t. You only have to optimize the drivers for a few models, how is this even possible? Do they even TEST the damn thing on all the so-called "supported devices" before release? Super lame. "It just works"... until it's bricked for no reason.
If that kind of thing is appealing to anyone, check out uberspace.de. It’s the best possible version of shared hosting and it can even cost 1€ too (you should pay more though).

Unlike this thing they are both super friendly to all manner of linux nerd stuff yet provide excellent, gracious support where they teach you the stuff you don’t know.
From Tech Critique to Ways of Living. Neil Postman Was Right. So What?
We play a lot of Codenames. It is a lot of fun.
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>I'm not a trained psychologist by any means but is the modern cultural obsession with image a kind of widespread narcissism?

I agree to the point where I'd rather hold my tongue than risk creating an echo chamber :P

I will say one thing, though. I grew up in the US and spent about a decade in Europe, and one thing that seems apparent to me (though I can't quite articulate it) is that our short view of history produces a shallow view of culture, and that this in turn inhibits the development of a truly meaningful form of conservatism from emerging. Conserve what, exactly? There are obviously good answers to that question, but nobody seems know them, here. All we have is a narrow, shallow and intellectually stunted slogan of "America was founded on Christian values!". It certainly was, and much of that is worth preserving. So why is it that nobody seems to have a deep understanding of (1) what these values are, (2) their philosophical, theological, historical and political origins, and (3) their absolute singularity? And why isn't anyone talking about these things (except, arguably, someone like Jordan Peterson)? With such a soft target in its sights, it's no surprise that progressives have fallen to the same level of hollow, saccharin discourse. Calling Christianity a fairy tale is a good counter-point when arguing with fundamentalists, but it's literally no smarter than that. It ignores that fairy-tales are informative, universal, and incredibly resilient to the the passing of time. They're actually useful.

I don't know how to fix this. I don't even know how to properly express it. My point seems to be devolving into a ramble, but hopefully you kind of see what I mean.

Reading recommendations are welcome. :)

>One interesting essay on the history of some philosophies and worldviews you might like is Eric Vogelin's Science, Politics and Gnosticism (1968).

This seems right up my alley. Thank you for this.
Progress in technology – performance curve database
Leonardo da Vinci's glass model of the heart
"Leonardo's studies of cardiovascular systems, in more than 50 surviving pages from two phases of his research (around 1508-1509 and 1513), are a clear demonstration of his observational genius and progressive deduction of cardiac mechanics and the vascular system. [...]"
Shellcheck - https://www.shellcheck.net/
PostgREST - https://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/
Semantic - https://github.com/github/semantic
Pandoc - https://pandoc.org/
And it's parsable.

I think back to the one period after sentence move we've seen play out for a while now.

When two spaces are used, end of sentence is a parsable thing, easily differentiated from other uses, such as abbreviations.

Without them, assistive technology gets capitalization wrong all the time.

This kind of thing makes problem spaces way larger and more complicated than they need to be.
No, because using phone numbers gives you contact discovery through the phone book "for free" (with further privacy implications Signal has discussed at length). And an entire argument around it providing a social graph independent of service infrastructure that is important for some aspects of user freedom - again something that has been discussed publicly at length, both from Moxie and from other players in the wider messenger ecosystem (many of which at least partially disagree and have made different tradeoffs - but generally acknowledge the tradeoff exists).
The article is extremely unclear. It can clearly read the way you thought it did, or it can be read as a default judgement vs. a defendant who didn’t respond at all.

I think the key point, and one in your favor, is the judges comments. Why would he even elaborate on the reason for his ruling if it’s a default judgment?
The sad thing is, Australia proves that a few months of actual lockdown, some basic quarantine measures and some testing and we could all go back to business as usual almost...
Ya. I feel you.

We think every site knows their audience best and leave it up to sites to decide how lightly, or heavily, they want to encourage their users to install their PWA.

By default, Chrome's UI is quite light. http://i.imgur.com/PkWjXie.png
Intentful: Docker Wiktionary/Wikipedia with full text search/page rank