skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qubes OS pre-installed and no IME? Impressive.
> The game mechanics were literally a rigged slot machine.

This is an accurate description. So many games where people have to pay for the chance to get something. It's even worse than actual gambling since the prize isn't even money. All people get is some numbers in a database.

Another oppressive feature found in most exploitative games is the timer. Through a timer, the progression of free players is rate-limited. There's almost always some kind of resource that's used up whenever players do anything and when they run out of it the timer reveals itself. The game refills the resource on a regular basis.

This creates habits in players. People start out playing normally and next thing they know they're setting alarms to wake them up at 3 AM to do game tasks because that's when the timer resets. This is done deliberately with the goal to increase the number of players who login every day through a mix of positive and negative reinforcement. The timed refills themselves act as a periodic reward which is simple enough. More insidious however is how usually the timers will not start counting down to the next reward until players play the game. Every second the timer is not running is wasted and delays the next reward.

Paying customers can reset this timer at will. They are therefore able to progress at an uncapped rate. This implies the game's true form is a spending competition: the whale who gives the most money to the company for the longest time will win.

Video game addiction is already a recognized medical diagnosis. I have no doubt this trash is at least partly responsible for that. The reputation of the games industry is only gonna go downhill from there.
Say anything positive about trans people on this site and the downvotes come ^_^;;
I'm surprised they have natural gas heat. Everyone I know has electric heat.

I've been without power for 2 days and it sucks. My house was 34 degrees this morning. No water for 2 days.

Most of my friends are in the same boat.
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Best fireplace in terms of efficiency is a rocket mass heater. It burns the wood gas in a secondary burn chamber and then routes the exhaust through a lot of thermal mass. One 2 hour fire a day will usually heat 2000 sq feet of house. 3m video explains the concept; longer videos will better explain it https://youtu.be/fwCz8Ris79g
Then I’m not talking about you. :)
when smallpox was eradicated (a much worse virus) - all we had for "vaccine passports" were small yellow cards.

Somehow that's not sufficient this time?
For the moon practice lander they used a rocket that always pointed down to cancel out enough of Earths gravity to match the Moons gravity. Neil Armstrong seemed to like it :D

They could do something like that.
Seems like they should divert a small part of their output to keeping a small battery backup just in case of emergencies. Then in an emergency the battery could reignite the system and run the blowers with the furnace again diverting some output to keeping things charged.
My gas fireplace has a valve mounted flush with the floor. You use a special key-like wrench to turn it on.

Even with the valve barely open you have maybe 3 to 5 seconds to get it lit in a normal fashion. Heh mess around too long and you’re in for a big woosh and plenty of singed arm hair.
So, remind me again how much storage it takes to keep a grid going for a week? And please don't confuse GW for GWh.
As I recall (I was active on TribalWar then), the images in the original animation were taken from other sites (including SomethingAwful) by Bad_CRC, who made the animation and posted it on TribalWar. It then took off big time after that and people made a lot of new images.
(Original blogger here.) Yes ImageNet-A is nice! I took a look at the dataset and even referenced an example in the blog post. However, I found that many of the examples are hard to discern myself because many of the images are objects on a camouflaged background, and then many of the images are from rare classes (like "marmots").
> There was a chip on the board that was not supposed to be there that was calling home—not to Supermicro but to China

An extra chip on the board sounds like pretty solid physical evidence.

What other information do we have about this chip and what it was doing?
Obligatory comment about how this will be cancelled in 6 months[0]

> What if technology helped us focus on what matters most?

> Keeping our lives free from distractions.

> To help us be more present, more engaged, and more connected with the people surrounding us.

Somehow, I am dubious that the way to solve these problems with not only more technology, but also with technology made by the largest advertising firm on the planet. I am deeply skeptical that a company whose primary business is distracting people and keeping them engaged with advertisements is also going to solve these problems for us... problems they created... with a new product you have to buy.

Ok, sure, that aside, let's look at it...

> Our ambition is simple: to make life easier. By staying connected to your digital world, your things can do so much more. Skip a song by swiping your sleeve. Take a picture by tapping on a shoulder strap. Get reminded about the phone you left behind with a blink of light or a haptic buzz on your cuff.

Yes, I definitely want touching my clothes have second-order effects. And I'm sure mapping all these different "gestures" to actions will be smooth and straightforward. And having a haptic buzzer in my cuff is definitely what I need to keep my life free from distractions.

Having a look through the three sample products - a backpack, a shoe insert, and a jacket... this looks pretty pointless. I guess maybe the shoe thing could be handy for people that want a fitness tracker. But I'm not really sure what this is buying in the backpack or jacket. You get one or two gestures which you have to set up, remember, and not trigger accidentally. You get some kind of haptic notification, which I guess might be useful if you don't keep your phone in your pocket.

Who is the target audience for this? Who would pay money for this?

[0] - https://killedbygoogle.com/
Currently running a generator to run the wood stoves fan, its not ideal but not amazing.
You're never too old. It's just the new tools are not good enough.
I agree, the article is not supported by the evidence.

They have evidence of dairy consumption, but no evidence of liquid milk consumption.

Is the actual study better? Because if not, then how did this pass peer review?
YUP!!!!

Thats the one
Millions of people don't live in suburban homes with grills.

They live in apartments that don't allow grilling so they never thought to buy one. And it being the winter, not many people who do grill in the summer have charcoal for winter grilling.

So when the power goes out, they can't cook anything on their electric ranges. If the water shuts off, that's even worse. Frozen food is useless if you can't even thaw it, let alone cook it.

Initially the weather reports I read said the winter storm warning only extended to Monday afternoon and now it's to Thursday, so lots of people didn't think to extend their emergency supplies to Thursday, and most probably didn't think they'd be without water and power.

I'm really lucky in that I have both water and power, but many are not. You really should not be judging people according to what the most privileged suburbanites can adapt to.
Athenian Democracy in the Political Imagination
It was announced in fall 2019:

https://www.blog.google/products/atap/smarter-wardrobe-jacqu...

But really it's an incremental improvement in useless things the MIT Media Lab (and others) have been tinkering with since the 90s.
The real question is why gas furnaces don't also have their own generators built in
My memory is hazy but that time period was definitely the golden era of somethingawful's photoshop contests, the tribalwar and somethingawful forums threads were occurring and having things added to them simultaneously...
Wait. This isn’t parody?
This seems to be a problem specifically with whole house furnaces. I don't quite get why but I'm guessing cheap companies. Our gas fireplace has no such problems. Piezo electric knob to start the pilot (like your Coleman camping stove but it actually works - ask me how I know) and the pilot generates the electricity needed to actually let the gas flow. If the pilot isn't able to generate the electricity to open the gas valve then no gas ever enters the burn chamber. Again ask me how I know - yes those things gunk up and then can't supply the current you need to open the valve. Easy fix tho. Zero electricity needed and the upstairs stays warm. Also no cold air sucked into the house. The whole system is closed off towards the house. Love this thing!
Depends on how your counting.

If you mean right now and in terms of total number of people probably India. If you’re talking historic rates it varies depending on time period and how local your talking about. With villages in Asia, Europe, and Africa hitting ~100% at various points.

If you want a national average today then the UK.
Why is literally everything being spun to cover some racial tension.

You've disproved a myth held by 0.00001 percent of the population. Cool. You gonna disprove flat earthers in your next article about cow flatulence?

Just so damn tired of hearing about racism. We get it, you've got problems.
Money is not the end goal; it is only useful insofar as it advances creative works. Too often it stifles creativity, science or otherwise.
I worked for a consulting company who revealed their new brand, competitive advantage and mission was “Results. Action. People.”

I raised my hand and asked how this could be a competitive advantage since every single consulting company has the same brand. Their response was that our people were better.

It’s weird how people think these meaningless statements are useful. I expect that there’s some psychology that shows that while bullshit to me, they are perfectly fine to enough people to work.
Everyone's talking about negative temperature coefficients there. I thought it was more to do with diodes having a roughly constant voltage drop in the first place, meaning if you put two diodes with different voltage drops in parallel, the one with the lower drop would steal most or all of the current from the start?
No offense, but you're a bit all over the place?

Near as I can tell, your counter-argument seems to be 'but there is stuff that could change it!' which.... could be?

Your arguments don't really seem cohesive or coherent enough to me to indicate how realistic or likely any of those would materially impact our current situation more than say the generation currently benefitting the most from this situation (boomers) slowly dying out. For instance the Phoenix vs SF argument seemed to go from a 'Phoenix has the right to demand SF change what it's doing' (not trying to strawman, that's what I read) to 'sfh rezoning is entirely possible!' and 'we can change conforming mortgage rules!' - which hey maybe - but why should they, and why should anyone with the power to do it care right now?
This isn't a research paper describing a novel contribution! Just a simple blog post with some observations I made with the library :)
Neil Postman’s argument about the “now this” incoherence of television also applies doubly to today’s tech like TikTok and Reddit.

If TV was generally bad (as Postman argues) then video-based social media is awful, and worse than Postman ever predicted.
I've seen other people say the same thing about fraudulent products but amazon hasn't taken the most obvious step, stopping commingling products, there. This makes me believe that they aren't serious about that issue and I don't see why I should believe they're serious about this one either.
better database tech and government should not be combined generally, Only specifically and with caution. Databases if possible should be kept separate, and ideally there should be no common key or UID to match users across databases.
Power is different. You get to pay the price it takes to produce and distribute even if it happens to be slightly inefficient. Its only when short term MBA/Politics get involved do the engineers who size capacity, maintenance, etc get overruled to save money. Or you can go the free market route, and just let everyone race to the bottom, which means cheap service that fails when it gets cold, hot, traders decide to screw people, or a storm blows through.
Fine-tuning networks can certainly address some of these issues.
Dan Kaufman leads it now, and has since I've been at Google. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-kaufman-18830a113
For music there's a predefined cost Mechanical License that covers the licensing cost of most music you'd want to cover.

For visual art there's no centralized structure like this, so you're at the whim of the original artist or counting on fair use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_license
As mentioned, they can't reach each other over IP so they are not on the same subnet (e.g. I prefer NAT for my VMWare Fusion VMs). mDNS has not been reliable in my experience, even between a collection of macOS and Linux systems. Also, the OpenBSD and musl libc resolvers don't even speak mDNS.
Sounds like traders predicted the outages.
(Original blogger here.) This isn't a research paper describing a novel contribution! Just a simple blog post with some observations I made with a Python library (Gradio) that I helped develop :)
Because, unfortunately, lactase persistence has been turned into a white supremacist talking point, as proof of a purported fundamental genetic separation between black Africans and white Europeans. It's become necessary to explicitly distance oneself from such ideologies, as people who subscribe to them become more overt in their bigotry and, in so doing, threaten to upset the social stability that makes research like this possible to conduct and disseminate.

IMO the statement doesn't undercut the points expressed in the discussion section. I don't understand the kneejerk oversensitivity to it among people who ostensibly are able to read these types of articles critically and dispassionately.

It's also worth mentioning that certain ethnic groups in East Africa feature hereditary lactase persistence (via a different SNP from European and Asian LP groups).
We hit -14 F yesterday in OKC.
I used to get new Slackware by taking over a row of lab machines and FTPing to A:. I'd move all but one chair out of the way & roll down the line; by the time the last one was started the first one was done. I would get A, AP, and N sets and then download the rest from my apartment.
Even with the switch on the wall nothing is certain. See my sibling post to parent. We had a wall thermostat but all it did was send a trigger current. If the thermo pile wasn't generating enough current nothing would happen :)

Sooo many different systems and many are just not well thought out. Especially in climates where it usually doesn't matter.

Here in Quebec it does matter so the one we have works in all conditions with various levels of manual intervention. We don't even have the one with a battery operated fan but even that exists.
The gas oven in my apartment has a pilot light that is always on, no electricity needed.
I like it, but try convincing the client that we don’t need to test the software :)
If you are talking about end user software, you can just depend on platform dotnet and just ship your library/executables.

For server software 60mb is not much when you see most people ship gigabytes of docker containers for os runtime.
Plan B:

1. generators, generators with plenty oil.
2. satellite internet
3. water tank or large container
4. food for two weeks.
It seems that larger companies can afford the divide. But medium to smaller companies will want full stack.

Good front-end devs are usually stronger with browser-side code. I usually see smaller html/css files, flex and grid being used and a11y reader and keyboard-nav issues taken care of. And the javascript is small and generalized (not much hard-coding). With full-stack devs I normally see a mess because they are just java programmers.
and idk why there is this culture in "IT" of not wanting to acknoledge how computers work, and how bloat affects performance, efficiency, cost and global warming

i came to the conclusion that clueless people managed to get into high positions, and wanted to secure their position by hiring the same kind of people, the people who don't give a damn about performance problems

they'll just waste (again the word waste) more funds from the company

after all, if nobody know how computer works, they'll just agree and sign the big invoice without asking themselves, wait, don't we pay too much to deliver this web page, do we really it to be 260mb?
The trick is to start it up hot and then reduce down the airflow to near zero. The knowledge was passed down in the tribe, so I don't know where one learns the art.
It's frustrating that your comment is beginning to slip into transparency, because it's a direct and satisfying answer to the parent's frustration.

Don't shoot the messenger.
Thank you for policing my self advocacy but I don’t need your help.

Edit: oh my god please downvote this. I definitely need more people telling me they don’t approve of me clearly stating what actually helps my sensory limitations and offering nothing constructive at all.
Or like a standing bike?

Ride the bike to start the heater in a blackout
They died, you fucking ghoul. People rely on things now to live that people would have just died without 150 years ago. They had warmer clothes 150 years ago. They had houses with fireplaces and blankets and coats. We can't deal with this because we are not set up to function when this happens any more. People didn't have the same pets 150 years ago we have now. Reptiles or birds? Dead. I just can't imaging the callousness of this comment. People are literally dying and you're telling them to toughen up. Fucking fool.
Spot prices are up dramatically. Futures seem to only be up slightly.

Maybe a natural gas supplier that was prepared could have done something, but could an investor have profited from this without being able to do physical delivery?
The Habits of Productive Developers
I can’t find it now, but DHH wrote somewhere about optimising for engagement vs action. The idea behind Basecamp is to be a service that helps you manage a project in a faster and easier way, not a service that makes you stay "engaged" while not pushing the project forward. Having more engagement means it’s doing the opposite of of what it's meant to.

This can easily apply for many other services. The purpose of an email client is to surface the important information (filtering and maybe inbox zero?) and let the user act on it (reply and write with the write context). The purpose of a dating website is to find a match and create a connection. The purpose of a social network, on the other hand, is much more debatable.
Or maybe just markets are stupid and bitcoin is mostly driven by hype based speculators
> Why has no one thought about additional buttons or click mechanisms that allow users to interact with the actual content?

Microsoft added PowerPoint forward/back control to their earbuds.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-earbuds-pr...
I remember trees encased in beautiful ice. Freezing rain, basically encased everything in that ice: powerlines, trees, roads, it was a monster.
Natural gas doesn't freeze, but the pipelines that supply the gas have valves and other control components that can and do freeze during severe weather. Also, the wells supplying the natural gas can suffer temporary shut-ins due to the commingled water freezing and effectively shutting in the well. That drops overall supply.

Natural gas wells and pipelines in other parts of the country are designed to handle extreme weather so they don't have these problems. This is entirely a problem caused by Texas' unwillingness to regulate that wells, supply lines, and generators be able to handle extreme cold.
Ah well, typos. Or a freudian slip maybe...
Ah, thought it was allowed with 'unsafe-eval' in extension CSP. Never had a need for it. Remote code refers to injecting <script> tags into the page then?
At Google? Promotions all around.
In java-like situations where something like that would see use, I think it would be fair to treat all pointers as gc pointers.
Again with the energy point. The energy is insignificant compared with almost anything else. Wasn't some article that the sum of all standby electronics uses more energy than bitcoin and that's only in US?

What are you, Apple? That gives no charger for "environmental reasons" while packaging its wireless headphones in a crapload of unnecessary plastics.

If you are so energy consciousness then go bark at US military, those are the biggest polluters and energy hungry of the world.
This video goes into much better detail on the science experiments loaded up on the river.
https://youtu.be/95hMM2u6Fgw
Good piece, tho not new ideas. Ton of references, two recent that immediately come to mind

https://github.com/src-d/guide
https://github.com/Datomic/codeq

But work here goes back at least to the 1970s.
I think you'd be surprised in much of the non-coastal, non-big-city US, especially in the >40 age crowd.

A few of my older friends just got their first smartphones this year. Most of my old coworkers left their phones either at home or in lockers. I was helping on a farm once (~30 people) and had to ask 10-15 people to borrow a phone before someone actually had a CAT in his truck.

Even in bigger cities, it's become "cool" over the past few years to get dumb phones and/or limited-use phones. Hell, even Google itself designed something [1] to turn your smartphone into a dumbphone (which was basically a joke, but reflects a larger goal toward "breaking smartphone addiction").

[1] https://experiments.withgoogle.com/envelope

That said, I doubt any of these people would overlap with Jacquard's target audience, so I guess we're ultimately irrelevant here.
I resent the idea that that my comment is somehow propaganda for Apple. I'm extremely opposed to the way they've closed off app distribution on iOS.
70 GWh of battery storage would have kept the lights on for an extra 2 hours during this event - assuming the batteries themselves aren't affected by temperature. While battery storage might be nice to increase the capacity factor of a solar or wind farm it isn't going to make a difference in an event like this where a weather system moves in for a week.
No, it really is someone's fault this time. Texas has had these events occur multiple times in the past, and they had grid failures in almost the exact same way. This happened because the Texas legislature decided to put their head in the sand and avoid doing what was necessary to ensure that their grid, and subsequently their constituents, would be safe in these kind of storms.
> A lot of people have natural gas heat. It doesn't work when the power is out

That doesn’t have to be the case. I have gas heat [0], that works fine when our power is out.

(Not intending to detract from the rest of your point)

[0] a basic Williams wall furnace on a 50 year old thermostat.
I suppose if I really optimized, planned far in advance not just in general but with detailed blueprints for different stages of development... Oh god no, you're trying to pull me back in aren't you?
Not true. Stop spreading misinformation.
>Elon Musk has strong parallels to Trump's appeal.

Isn't that the strangest thing? If you watch videos of Elon he is no where near as charismatic as trump.

I think it mostly stems from his success with SpaceX and earning accolades for being, "The Guy who does Impossible things". His having a car manufacturing company with an impossible share price just make sense.