skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a very interesting project - please keep us updated!
> Of course species are hypotheses, nobody is arguing that. Are you suggesting anything that is a hypothesis has no worth?

I'm but merely arguing that your supposition of the value of a “species" is nonsensical.

Value does not run across species lines is what I am saying.

> It's trivial to show traits delimit useful species concepts, and indeed ample envidence can be used to show that species can be very robustly defined according to well defined species concepts (of which there are various).

Yes, one can come with multiple arbitrary proposals of line in the sand, and there is no argument to be made that any of these arbitrary places to draw lines is more sound than the other.

> So I'm unclear as to what your point is. Are you suggesting that species concepts allow us to do no useful work?

I'm suggesting that decisions are made based on arbitrary semantics issues.

I'm suggesting that a rose by any other name, still smelling as sweet, would be treated differently.
It's too late to do anything about it now, but it's for this reason that we have a general norm against these kinds of stories on HN --- this falls into the same bucket as "proposed bill" (this is far less than a proposed bill), which are virtually always off-topic on HN, as you can confirm with a quick search of 'dang comments.

The normal good thing to do with stuff like this is to flag it before it sprawls into a 500 comment thread.
Oh I think I see, I never considered the scenario where the buffer was half uninitialized, I thought you meant you were swapping an (entirely) uninitialized buffer with an initialized one.
Outrageous, yes, but not an outrageous claim. (It's probably on the low side.) However, it is worded badly. They won't be "illegal" anymore because they will have been handed a "pathway to citizenship".

It's strange that a core part of the Democratic plan for this country is considered an "outrageous claim". That's a sign of just how strong disinformation actually is in the media.
> There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft.

Sometimes the military misses a lot of items on the checklist, and accidentally ships a nuclear missile where it didn't intend [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

I wouldn't say "absolutely zero chance", but I'd say "it's unlikely this was an expected outcome, and it's possible that someone is in deep trouble right now."
Rather than an unrelated graph on Wikipedia, try looking at for example electricityMap::

https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/FR

What you'll see there is as you'd expect if you understand how fission power plants work and how economics works for electricity supply. The nuclear plants may not be running at what is notionally 100% nameplate power output but they are not in fact being used as a "buffer option" very much.

That big yellow-green splodge on the "Origin 24 hours" chart? That's nuclear power. Varying, maybe +/- 2GW , but nowhere close to enough to offset France's varying power requirements over the course of a day.

France's (much fewer) gas turbines are much more able to spin up and down quickly to benefit from transient utilization and so they, together with the interconnects possible due to France's relatively central location (the UK to the West, Germany to the East, Spain to the South) allow it to manage well on most days without tinkering with the power efficiency of the fission generators.
My wife and I used to go to a great little restaurant near us. The owner sold and the food drastically got worse. The previous owner spent every single morning at the market picking out fresh meat and produce. The new owner told us her lawyer said that was a liability. They switched to Sysco because they guaranteed the food was safer then buying directly from the growers.
Don't know a damn thing about visualization or how to use d3.js but I have a shitload of respect for Bostock's work on it, and his role in using it at the NYT.

Love this window into his thought process.

I'm also happy to see someone as accomplished as him say that randos on the internet are also capable of hurting his feelings. It makes me feel substantially less alone in that regard.
Maybe they are, but that’s not the argument they made.

Anyway, the problem with posting links to studies in online discussions is that it’s very easy to cherry-pick data that fit whatever conclusion you want to draw (here’s some research that comes to the opposite conclusion as yours [1]). Everyone ends up soapboxing and the discussion is fruitless.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/07/11/online-haras...
The pause at 0:32 looks to me like a parallax effect [0] which would have occurred if the person holding the camera moved slightly right, counteracting the object's natural movement. I don't know why there are no contrails or seemingly no wings but the movement is less mysterious.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
Others have tried, 20 years ago before the tech was mature, think windows 98, serial cables, beige industrial tech - we discovered them after we had started.

There probably will be followers, especially now we are public.

The number 1 risk is user adoption - ie the guys who have to do the greasing hate it. We have the opportunity to implement it and learn all of the lessons before the followers catch up
Picking Taiwan is a brilliant strategical choice.
Dice up their pay any way you want, I get 15 days off a year above and beyond statutory holidays. Teachers get ... over 50? That’s a lot of time to live that most people dont get
There is nothing stopping family members in the US from gifting or passing on property to their immigrant family members, or inheriting property through marriage.
> Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers.

Facebook and Google will be excepted? This makes it a joke, sadly.
Fair enough! Sorry to hear about that.
I believe I was using this one st the time:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/deployment/qui...
For others unfamiliar and reticent to google, a "U-2" is:

> The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency.
I.e., don't design in such a way that you need visit. Most often, it's wankage. Design to eliminate wankage, and hire to eliminate wankers.
Nice article. I have a similar one where I have 2 line explanations of more nuanced Git commands for some situations.

Git Wizardry: Obscure but useful Git incantations
https://legends2k.github.io/note/git_nuances/
Since when was it not possible or legal to write that American elections were falsified on social media? This joke itself seems to be based on the recent wave of loud & public accusations that the American elections are falsified. I guess Twitter/Facebook independently banned some of it, are those companies now considered to be the whole of social media?
McKinsey is in the business of convincing governments and other entities into parting with massive sums of cash for relatively simple research and recommendations. They get by mostly on the appearance of prestige rather than any legitimate value add, thus their focus on hiring based on school prestige.
What's the sector size? Maybe it's counting number of sectors *sector size.
honestly because i don't think "UFO surveillance equipment" is part of the budget for airliners :P
Just a rocket booster reentering? These happen regularly especially now that launches are more frequent in US and China.

It seems to match up with https://aerospace.org/reentries/cz-11-rocket-body-id-46463
I remember how radical it was when SoftTalk came out. It didn't include program listings! It only talked about software!
IBM 1401's implemented pounds, shillings, and pence conversion math in hardware
That's because completely open drivers have no value even to tech. enthusiasts. If they did, vendors would offer them.
Sounds like 8 GB of RAM is not enough after all...
What a coincidence! I just (2 days ago) started planning a somewhat similar project. I'm converting a different model thinkpad, adding an e-ink display. I will be watching this project with great interest for tips, inspiration!

Thank you for writing it up.
What is your most used software? Are you using Firefox or Chrome?
U-2s don't fly fast.
Australia has excellent prototyping and product development facilities, I would expect to see many more products in the future
What!? NYAG’s jurisdiction is New York. Tether and Bitfinex are barred from doing any business in New York or with New York entities. They went almost as far as they could go without criminal charges against the executives personally. The US justice system is not necessarily done with them.
What about it is most likely a lie? I've had dreams go lucid. I mainly want to use them to practice physical skills in the dream world and have them transfer to real life. I remember ready a study about it.
Chuck e cheese does the same thing. If you order from Pasqually's, you're getting the rat shack.
For those trying to guess, you can find the real code using the Debian code search service:

https://codesearch.debian.net/
As someone very concerned with the increasing editorial and political power of these platforms I'm quite happy to read silly articles like this. Because they (the people who want more editing) are shooting themselves in the foot.

This article comes after facebook just deplatformed a sitting president, but according to these crusaders it is of course... not enough. Their absolute best goal would be to sit tight for a bit, and let the discussion blow over - the boiling frog analogy.

Instead, they decide to try and pull that lever more and more, which in turn provides a better chance of public perception actually shifting enough against this nonsense.
Sometimes I feel as if I'm from the last generation that loves bookstores. A lot of them are starting to disappear. I used to spend my Sunday afternoons visiting three different bookstores. Two of the three are long gone.

I've visited most of the famous ones around the world. I rarely visit SF without a stop at City Lights, the place has a soul.
Over 25 thousand species in Brazil's flora are endemic
I, one the other hand, got a section of code with a method that had a complex name and took a bunch of parameters but only ever returned true. I was sure it was auto generated... But no it was just bad (real) code.

I got 8/9
The keyboard was what it was because it was a cash register keyboard, following the Tramiel philosophy of using what was on hand (a philosophy whose true tour de force was the Commodore VIC-20).
These SSDs are going to be dropping like flies unless Apple produces a firmware update soon... has Apple responded?
Well that certainly could be a special case of the more general scenario I wrote; that's what would happen if it turned out the first buffer had nothing useful in it and the second one was full. But yeah, in general they'd both be partially filled: you have [0, ?, ?] and [1, 1, ?] and want to swap them. You wouldn't touch the last ? in either, but you would swap the [0, ?] with [1, 1], and in debug mode you'd see ? = 0xCC. Except the language doesn't really let you do that, even though fundamentally there should be nothing wrong with it, and in fact is likely to be desirable in practice.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill
Apple CEO staged a virtual talk show with a 22-year-old Chinese influencer
Philosophically, I’ve found that property-based tests are more like “no matter what this sorting algorithm does, it absolutely should have the same number of elements before and after.” You’re so confident in that assertion that you’re willing to transcend specific test cases and subject the logic under test to limited randomness. Fuzz testing is more like a blunt instrument for finding tests that you should have written, by devising more and more creative input. There’s less intention behind it other than “this shouldn’t explode, and if it does I want to know.”
Probably the most simple way would be to rent S3 compatible storage at Lidonde/DO and use client like https://mountainduck.io to mount it in your system.
So basically it’s https://posthaven.com/
This is reference to this incident that happened during peacetime in 2001 - not later incident during the conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
Also, how does one identify it as ‘alien’? It could be sent by humans from the future, or by “the first men”.
there's some kind of cute musings in here. a lot of extra too sure fine.

like the stock market the bitcoin situation to me mostly feels like there's enough people everywhere wanting desperately to buy into something, wanting to fight the FOMO. there's so few options to put yourself in to that make any sense. and by everyone flocking together, agreeing that the other people before were smart & that we too will be smart, bitcoin & markets both keep raising & raising the valuations of the small selected few.

there's nothing in specific in this article that i think is worth emphasizing. the intended point doesn't deliver. the particular honing in on Satoshi is, so far, purely philosophic. but against the backdrop of big companies[1][2] of earth dropping tens, hundreds of millions? what really is real anyways?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26236072

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26243095 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246017 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24726112
My great-grandparent harmed your great-grandparent, and now I am convicted in response?

At the very least this sentence would appear to violate statute of limitations :-) But the bigger problem is that the punishment has no deterrent value--there is no way for me to change my great-grandparent's behavior. And it is straightforwardly unjust to convict me for a crime I didn't commit.

I think this is actually a pretty racist idea--that because you share genes with someone, you are partially responsible for crimes they've committed. It would be like if someone in a small town committed a crime, and the town responded by having the police begin always harassing every member of the criminal's race.
> If Tether is worth $1.02 then you can mint a new tether by depositing on Bitfinex and selling that Tether for a 2% premium.

Sure, but what if Tether is at $0.98 - how do you get dollars back?
Aliens are afraid of cameras and police hate people who carry cameras?
They also don’t deny wrongdoing. That’s frequently how settlements work even though it’s clear to anyone who reads the settlement findings that there was wrongdoing on Tether’s part.
I would like to see a map of the universe scaled by population, similar to http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/
They're not That Smart.
A new email address and PO box is a new person.

Was there ever a precedent of an airline ban over a chargeback where a refund was warranted?
No it wouldn't. A recon plane would be pointing mostly at the ground rather than in front of above the plane. And you're assuming international flights, whereas there is abundant domestic air traffic in the US that never leaves the country.
The ever shrinking and disappearing UI chrome is a trend that drives me crazy. Windows 10 programs essentially have no borders anymore which makes overlapping windows much more difficult to discern. Then there’s the design trend of hiding things like buttons and borders until you give it keyboard or mouse focus which is awful for discoverability. Then there’s the trend of disappearing scroll bars.

This article showed just how much craftsmanship and thought there was in earlier versions of Mac OS. Sure there was plenty to grouse about (even though much of the maligned OS X skeuomorphism didn’t seem as present here) but a lot of the fundamentals were extraordinary.
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My 2017 MBP is showing 97% capacity. It's my daily driver. So at this rate I can expect the SSD to last 291 years? Really?
Either these numbers are bogus, or the capacity drop over time is far from linear.
That’s one of many issues, however the peanut butter vs peanut spread line feels like a useful benchmark.

You could call your a current events organization and say anything or call yourself a News organization and be held to some standard. That IMO avoids limitations on free speech as the body of the message is what’s important not the label of such a method. As you say using government force to require organizations to change their name is distasteful.

However, coming up with a new term like whizphish that currently has no meaning but could gain meaning in this context should avoid stepping on any toes while achieving similar goals. LEED Platinum certified doesn’t directly have government backing, but a building falsely claiming such is simple fraud.
This is the way. There's nothing wrong with code reviewers correcting minor details, the issue is when said corrections waste the author's attention and time and slow PRs.

If the edit is an easy bug-fix, the author should just look over it for a sec and approve. If it's a style change in some cases you don't even need the author to look at it.
In defense of simple business models
> Apple and Google are not going to give up their billion dollar industries voluntarily. You will have to stop giving them money. And you will have to stop using their services.

If you believe Apple and Google need to give up their cash cows, it's clear that's never going to happen by convincing people to make lifestyle changes. It's like trying to stop global warming by convincing people to stop driving their cars. That plan won't succeed, period.

The only way is to get laws or regulations passed that force these companies to comply. For example, passing a law that says any device with an App Store must allow 3rd party app stores equal access to the OS. I'm not saying I want this law passed, but if you believe Apple and Google's business model needs to be stopped, a law like that is the only way it's going to happen.
I've noticed kernel_task's disk usage is heavily skewed towards writes (e.g. 7GB read for 170GB written over a couple of hours). Assuming it is indeed swapping pages to disk and reads/writes are counted properly, either the dynamic pager or some application/system process are making extremely unfortunate life decisions. Lots of dirty pages are never read back, like there is a huge cache of... something.
Ha, this is a good write-up on a very interesting topic I’ve been thinking about a lot myself recently.

The setup I’ve been thinking of putting together is similar, except I’ve been wanting to pair an e-ink monitor with something like a Raspberry Pi 400 (https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400) for a kind of deliberately-slow, ultra-low-wattage dev and writing environment. End result would be extremely goofy I imagine, but that’s also part of the reason I want to do it!

Anyways, excited to see the rest of your posts on the project :)
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Downing real data at a lot of companies sounds like a PII nightmare.
Yes, that's true, with a touch-sensitive surface to distinguish between left and right clicks. That does make them less discoverable than a traditional mouse.
Tether claim to be over collateralized. This settlement contains numerous instances of Tether lying about their collateral situation. Why trust them without evidence at this point? They’re required to submit a report on their specific reserve holdings within 90 days. We’ll see then.
I remember a French documentary from a while ago and a helicopter pilot said that he witnessed something similar while he was flying. A large cylinder craft flew past him rapidly and was relatively close to the helicopter to the point that this would have affected it (air displacement?), but nope.

It was as if the "UFO" flew inside its own sort of bubble, isolated from the surrounding environment. Flew right past the helicopter as if it was nothing. That's what was the most shocking.
Is there something different about the drives on non-M1 Macs? My MBP 16 is showing way more read/write than that and still zero percent used.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 36 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 108,058,416 [55.3 TB]
Data Units Written: 95,524,343 [48.9 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,004,502,098
Host Write Commands: 558,965,971
Power Cycles: 155
Power On Hours: 644
Unsafe Shutdowns: 36
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store Somehow feels familiar.
Here you go: https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#a473b325@
Any good tips for unmasking these restaurants, so you know what you're really getting? You can find their address and see what restaurant is listed there, but sometimes that doesn't work for large shopping centers with many restaurants.
That's interesting. I live in Hawaii, and we have a lot of different Thai restaurants. They are almost all family-owned businesses staffed by people who either first- or second-generation Thai immigrants. Those ones are always the best, and they all serve the same types of dishes but they also all have their unique spin on things.

I haven't been to a lot of Thai restaurants on the mainland, but the few I've been to on the East Coast have all been similarly terrible. I've always wondered just where these places are getting their awful recipes from.
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> What happens when China rolls over Taiwan?

The US can't even keep Venezuela and Cuba in line. The concept that the US would use direct military confrontation to stop China from simply taking Taiwan is very unlikely in my opinion. Short of granting them statehood, Taiwan and its push for total freedom from China will crumble eventually. Our policy should be to buy time, clone what Taiwanese infrastructure we need, and offer a path to US citizenship to current Taiwanese residents and their children.

The approach now should just be to build infrastructure in the Americas and invite Taiwanese companies to bring over their institutional knowledge and partake. Taiwan doesn't have to be our flash point versus China. There is so much potential for advancement in the Western hemisphere, yet we sink all our resources into unwinnable bullshit because we're afraid of taking an Asia-Pacific L in pursuit of a greater American W.
Unfortunately, the author Timm Lampert did not quote the most

powerful Wittgenstein proof that existence of I'mUnprovable

means that mathematical foundations are inconsistent.

Wittgenstein's more powerful version is much more

devastating.

As mentioned previously in this discussion, the following

article explains why I'mUnprovable must not and does not

exist in foundations:

"Recrafting Foundations of Mathematics"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
They do make vegan leather shoes and they're pretty much indistinguishable from the real article when done well.
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Matrix menus like that are a clear "menu smell" as well: there's no way random combos like satay salmon actually taste good. In China itself, restaurants are so competitive that they tend to specialize in only a few items.
I wrote about why linking is useful recently https://www.daniellittle.dev/practical-hypermedia-controls. I've been using Hypermedia in my APIs for a few years now and it's been so useful for making great APIs. One of the things I really love about it is that you can test/use the API directly much more easily, because the knowledge about how to use it is in the API itself, instead of half hardcoded into the client.
Most states have Air Force bases so this could have happened almost anywhere in the US and you could have said the same thing.