skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is expecting things to work "having an agenda?"

For the longest time Chrome would search google first before local DNS for FQDNs. When I reported that years ago they labelled it "wontfix."

In Chrome 69 they started single-sign-on and didn't get around to adding an option to disable until 71. And this autocomplete bug has been a problem for years also.

There are valid reasons to switch. I'm not here to make users feel at home. I'm here to make sure the stack runs on their machine. I find that is easier to accomplish with Firefox.
And yet Zucc has increased the value of the company sevenfold since IPO. I don't love Zucc either but there is definitely something to be said for allowing the CEO to execute on their vision without being beholden to the tale of the hour and the spectacle of quarterly earnings.
> It's like a 20mm bullet with at least 5 times the speed of a gun round (not sure how fast guns are actually :)

For some perspective, 20mm is 0.787402 inches, so that would be approximately a .79 Caliber projectile.

For comparison, a .50 BMG round exits the muzzle of a rifle anywhere between 2,895 ft/s up to 3,044 ft/s[1].

3,044 ft/s == 927.81 m/s == 0.92781 km/s.

So yes, this 20mm piece of space junk is travelling a lot faster than a bullet, and consequently would carry a lot more energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG
If the right people at Google hear about the 8.8.8.8 DNS server, it will be debated for months.

Thousands of billable hours for the ideologues.
> tech influencers, almost necessarily, are almost certainly aware of googles tendencies.

This is huge, bigger than most acknowledge. Most people don't understand the tech and why should they?

"none of my nerd friends use it" vs "all of my nerd friends are on it" is a massive, massive signal about whether something is good or incredibly dangerous, dishonest and a foul trap. There's plenty of the latter about so we're talking about degrees of badness for most. The thinking resembles:

"I'm not super happy with any of this tech and definitely not something that my niece the computer-hacker and cousin the IT guy aren't using. I'll definitely draw a line there."

vs

"Have you heard about signal? It's whatsapp but no facebook tracking." From a family member, friend or acquaintance who you know knows more than you about this stuff.
Exactly. I did indeed see the article as trivial. From the actual article itself :

"If you’re a knowledge worker, you can’t pick up the pace of mental discriminations just because you’re under pressure. Chances are good that you’re already going as fast as you can. Because guess what? You can’t voluntarily slow down your thinking, either."

---

Now we both know that what you say must be true. But it goes beyond anecdotal evidence. We can scan the brain with an fMRI and we see different parts of the brain light up as we think. We're not seeing thinking here - we're seeing the brain cells consume energy.

Wikipedia - "Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.[1][2] This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area of the brain is in use, blood flow to that region also increases.[3]"

If the brain was always at 100% capacity, your entire fMRI would always show complete engagement.

Like a muscle, you can overexert your brain, so like you say sustainable pace is important.

---

However, if you average over days and weeks, you could say that your level of thought IS fixed at this long term sustainable level. I think that the article is considering a project that is "man-months" long and not just thinking over the course of a minute or a day.

-- Wikipedia link for fMRI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_...
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For me, This is a very strange take.

Don't we want a culture where success in life is associated with personal choice and an economic environment which allows it to be true?

For now, it is at least a half truth where some individuals are successful because of their hard work and others due to luck.

In what world would we want a culture where success is viewed as entirely random? how would this be better?
Really cool!

I've been meaning to implement SGP4 from scratch as a learning exercise. What I found really interesting is how the USAF/NORAD tracks and reports objects in LEO: they publish Two-line Element Sets (TLEs), which are a fixed-width ASCII format derived from punch cards.[1] The format is pretty easy to parse.[2]

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There's probably been proposals, but I guess the fundamental argument remains that as long as it is clearly documented, investors know what they are getting into, and it hasn't gone wrong loudly enough yet (I think most high-profile examples are doing quite well, financially) to sway opinions otherwise.

(EDIT: And the main group being "forced" to invest and can't just skip such companies are index funds, who generally don't take an active position anyways?)
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Zulu marchers in New Orleans also wear blackface during Mardi Gras (and have invited some whites to). This has caused consternation, to say the least, among people not from New Orleans.
It has nothing to do with privacy, and it may do the opposite. I’ve seen users accidentally submit forms with their phone number because we couldn’t turn off autocomplete and chrome decided something was a phone input (for no apparent reason).

If a browser wants to provide autocomplete, they should implement it in a way that is safe rather than ignoring the spec.

In this case we wanted to protect users from the mistake but couldn’t. Chrome took it upon themselves to run a basic web feature rather than implement better autocomplete.
I'd say that the left doing its best imitation of the worst things the right does is a bad thing.

"But the right has always done this" should be all the evidence you need that what you're doing is wrong.
Mine is prepaid.

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While on the confirm payment screen my power went out.

All happened in about 10 seconds.
Fish now supports setting environment variables for a command easier. Previously you had to do

env MIX_ENV=prod mix compile

Now you can just do

MIX_ENV=prod mix compile

But I also generally don't use fish for any scripting, I just use bash for that. But at least some copy-paste commands aren't as difficult to translate now.
What if that radio station, and the rest of the news, and the government had doubled down on that story once the panic started? And then kept it going for a year.
Is hosting the image yourself, on like a $5 Digital Ocean Droplet and a $10 personal domain, out of the question? This would seem to be the ideal situation in terms of simple, decentralized file hosting solution. What are the downsides of this approach?

(I can imagine a server package that can modify index.html sub-resource URLs depending on current server load, preferring private, locally hosted sub-resources but willing to use 3rd party solutions like Cloudflare, too, if required by a black swan event.)
I'm not even sure it's a majority, just a very vocal and intolerant group, seen by many non-participants as doing a virtuous thing, fighting for social justice.

Of course most businesses would not oppose such a force, because otherwise they will be a target themselves, and enough of a public opinion would be against them, at least vaguely. They have everything to lose, and very little to win if they do not conform. This is why the "cancel culture" easily makes them cooperate.

Apparently, in the eyes of many, freedom is seriously less important than justice, and justice is often seen as the right to not be offended by anything. Not that it's impossible to achieve, but the resulting society would end up extremely homogeneous.
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No, I was pointing out the "Don't by Xiaomi because you can't trust them" is logically flawed... because you can't trust any of the countries involved with the manufacture of phones.

This isn't excusing the behaviour, it's pointing out that "privacy" is not a justification for not using Chinese goods, because American goods have evidence of exactly the same compromise.
It seems like it would be temporary because an antitrust case seems like a slam dunk?
Not entirely related, but a fun and interesting tangent: There's actually no way that we know of to measure the "one-way" speed of light, as the specific synchronization that you use (and this post uses to do its calculation) assumes that the speed of light is the same in both directions. For all we know, light travels infinitely quickly in one direction and at c/2 in the return direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light

recent-ish video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
For most people, $400k in the bank feels like a lot, and that's assuming you aren't also milking travel allowance, food allowance, Comcar, etc.

Also our pollies get a very generous superannuation contribution of 12% of their salary.

They're set for life as long as they understand money.
Sounds like a good project. Version 7 was where the flood gates of UNIX finally opened. Even Microsoft had a version, 'Xenix', which eventually became SCO UNIX. I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if Microsoft had continued in the UNIX universe, instead of in their own isolated development.

Coherent was the v-7 clone by the Mark Williams Company that introduced me to the wonderful world of UNIX.

It's now open-sourced, and I have used it in a Linux x86 VM.
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I'm not sure why you would go out of your way to bring up vaccine tracking after seeing how things have unfolded since that topic hit social media traction.

ID2020 and similar projects have been things pushed for many years, including by Bill Gates himself. They have been pushed to establish a universal ID, as well as to track vaccinations.

As expected though, on topics on which the lay person won't have a solid grasp of, parts of the message get distorted as it is shared between laypeople. Instead of "providing means to present unified ID and keep track of vaccines recevied by means of epidermal identity chip", it becomes "literally a chip in the vaccine".

Back to my original point. Have you not heard of the coming Vaccine Passports? There is no point to them if not to track and verify if people have taken the relevant vaccinations. The first wave of these "passports" probably won't be issued by chip (more likely to be phone apps or smart cards), however they will definitely be used to track movement and identity to control the spread of COVID.

To deny this is happening strikes me as odd. Especially when vaccine passport trials are already up and running across the world.
Scott Alexander at least chomped on his hat in response to this 2017 incident involving Maciej Ceglowski:

> 12. (4/9/17) G.K Chesterton On AI Risk was an April Fools’ joke and not meant seriously. But it did criticize Maciej Ceglowski’s piece where he accused singularitarians of not caring enough about the poor. The fake Chesterton of the piece said that if Ceglowski himself gave to charity at the same level as the people he was criticizing, he would “eat his hat”. Ceglowski pointed out that he does indeed give a lot of money to charity, including a $15,000 donation last year. Under the circumstances, I felt honor-bound to eat my hat and post a video of it on Twitter.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-r...
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Pesca and McNeil were not quoting someone else. Biden probably wouldn't get away with even a direct quote in 2021 but this was 36 years ago and it was to impugn someone for racist gerrymandering. A commenter on that article actually sums it up nicely:

https://defector.com/mike-pesca-slate-suspended/?commentID=f...
> Plus, one wonders if Google even holds the data the US government is requesting.

lol... I don't wonder this at all... but either ways, the government could potentially get it in real time (like the NSA, today).
To be fair to the customer who lacks anything like the power of one of the world's largest corporations:

he is the victim of a bait-and-switch.
There is nothing wrong with a reporter being photographed inteviewing people, unless the people he was reporting on didn't approve (no evidence in the story that was the case - and the article he wrote mentions that it wasn't the case). If his wife actually throught there was something wrong, that was a conversation he needed to have with her.

"My wife will kill me" was a sexist comment, but not necessarily perceived as offensive at the time (although I certainly wouldn't trust his judgement if it was). By telling the story the way he did to the teenagers he is not just showing that he sexualised the people he was interviewing at the time but was revealing that he was likely sexualising the women he was travelling with as well.
See also the phrase “Banned in Boston.” Some of the replies seem to assume that cancel culture is worse because it is more indiscriminate or less well-informed. Social conservatives in Boston banned a $5 bill for showing an unclothed breast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_in_Boston
Especially when I'm pasting my routing number or bank account number.

Like are you kidding me? I went into my bank app/website, I used the "copy" feature, and I'm trying to paste here AND into your "confirmation" field. Because I don't want to typo it!

How could my copy skill be worse than my typing skill?
Chrome is extremely anti user choice. They have a very "we know better than you" attitude. There is about:flags but most flags are temporary and are eventually removed.
Artists receiving critical attacks from their patrons certainly isn't new. What is new is this idea that these objections are unacceptable. What do you think anarchists and queers and sex freaks endured for the last hundred years of art and media? If you have a viewpoint you think is worth defending, then defend it and work to advance it. Don't just pout when it's not automatically accepted.
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This should be called oneMoreAPI.

The right way to go would be to first upstream, finish and optimize AMD and Apple M1 support to PyTorch and Tensorflow and XLA, while trying to abstract as much to common libraries as possible.

Trying to create an API first just slows development down even more.
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> Goldman Sachs is the one that continues to be a bank, and Apple is providing the technical front end for it.

Yeah, not disagreeing at all. This is the exact correct reality of this business arrangement...

But its meant to feel like apple is the bank. The only time you see GS is in the fine print. Its clearly meant to be an "apple experience", and you'd be forgiven for not remembering GS was involved at all.

I have an apple card and a amazon visa card. This is completely an apple experience, and not a store card like the amazon one. Regardless of who is issuing bank, the lived experience of using it is that it feels like apple is managing my money. Esp. with apple pay and apple cash (which also all technically use existing financial infra including other banks), you would have no idea.
I'd prefer monks or normal people over ruthless lobbyists for vested interests.

If we don't insist on completely absolving themselves of vested interest, there's no way we can get close to ensuring our politicians are free of conflicts of interest.

At present in Australia for example we have at least one politician whose brother owns a failing/failed coal mining company, and that politician is pushing a coal-fired green energy future.
> Open source and verifiable down to the firmware

While I agree with your intent, the problem is that, many open source software is not verifiable.

Remember that a Kaggle competitor was openly cheating with his published code? (cf. https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/ai_kaggle_contest_che... ) Eventually he got caught, but it's sometimes extremely difficult to spot a well-hidden malicious code in a plain sight. We need to be much better at analyzing software.
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They switching that to lithium one soon. Chemistry is not the question, question why it's there in first place? Why does it need a backup battery?
"A study by the Radio Project discovered that fewer than one third of frightened listeners understood the invaders to be aliens; most thought that they were listening to reports of a German invasion or of a natural catastrophe."

Wow. Well if they're not going to listen enough to notice that it's Martians, not Germans, they're not going to hear the part about it being fiction.
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I found it odd with all the focus he has had on Mars and how often he tweets, he tweeted nothing about NASA's success of its recent landing.
Conservatives have fought tooth and nail for at-will employment for a hundred years. If they would like to moderate those views I am sure we could find a way to expand protections for workers in a variety of ways, including speech.
True story: I bought a 256GB 960EVO ~4 years ago strictly for the performance, I've written 50TB, and it shows 100%. I think temperature might have something to do with the percentage. I replaced it with a 1TB Hynix P31 for the same price (~$100) recently. 1TB MLC/TLC drives were ~$400+ when I bought the 960EVO, so I'm not mad. If I couldn't replace it, I just might be. The TLC has improved this much between the two drives: 1200MB/s vs 1700MB/s sustained write, 1.5x random read IOPS, almost 2x TBW rating compared to 1TB 960EVO.

The 960EVO hasn't started to slow down yet or use it's reserved space, so I imagine I can keep using it as an external drive until it does.

edit: What I've said is indicative of an TLC/PCIE 3 NVMe upgrade path, what will a PCIE 4 NVMe (980PRO) upgrade look like in 4 years?
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Is it? Or are we all working off of anecdotes here. Do you have data to back that up?

Further - it was pretty scary getting cancelled by my parents and community when I came out. I’m glad it wasn’t scary for you.
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For the sake of discussion let's just say Google is broken up. Let's also say that it's broken up such that Google Search, Google Ads, and YouTube are separate entities (among others).

In this new broken up set of companies, what's stopping them from remerging like Bell? Also, what's stopping them from giving each other favorable partnerships?

Personally I find this entire exercise a waste of time - rather than break up Google we should just acknowledge that certain industries have certain types of attributes that result in necessarily "anti-competitive" behavior. In Google's case, since it's an internet company I would say the more users it has the harder it is to beat - with that being said they should just create some sort of progressive taxation as a function of users.

Your users in the USA equal 90%+ of the country, you are subject to rules A. Your users in the USA equal to <10%? You are subject to rules B and are subsidized directly by those whose users equal 90%+. If all companies are less than 50% than we use rules c, for example.

The same logic could be used for manufacturing, utilities, internet providers, and more.
> If this were some custom format rather than json and the parser still used sscanf, the bug would still happen. So I think json is somewhat orthogonal to the matter.

What's the point of using standard formats if you're not taking advantage of off-the-shelf software for handling it?
While we're complaining about pasting, am I the only one who gets annoyed by sites that only have click to copy buttons for certain content? It's often either that or they try to help me out by highlighting it. What I really want is to highlight it myself so I can paste it into my terminal. It'd be great if there was a way to get the button click copies to go to my other clipboard but I can't find anything on it anywhere
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