skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, zooming out is a trick I use for a couple websites but even so it isn't perfect. I often face the situation where 80% size is still too big or brings the dreadful horizontal scroll but 70% ends up being too small and very hard to read. These and layouts that bring colour combinations that break in dark mode (browser native or dark reader) are my current bane.
My comment about "people" actually wasn't the hyperbole part; The "nobody" statements were the hyperbole.

The "people" part is just the standard evolutionary psychology that affects all of us. We have to take mental shortcuts because otherwise we'd expend too much energy thinking through everything. So we stick to simple explanations for most things in our lives without even thinking about it, especially when it comes from a source we trust. Propagandists have taken advantage of this vulnerability for generations, and will continue to do so for many more since our only defence is the few who actually DO devote much energy to examining all messages from the leadership (and we rarely listen to them). For the rest of us, simple reasons and explanations will have to do in our busy lives.

I did a study when I was younger of "readers" of the Bible, and found that, although many people will say that they read it, very few had enough knowledge to make that statement believable (Even on simple questions like "Who baptised who when Jesus met with John the Baptist, and why?" or "Why was Jesus so down on the Pharisees?" - many couldn't even tell me how many gospels there are!). So I find readership statements suspect, and stick to my original assessment that people rarely read the iconic works of the world, but rather rely upon what "everyone knows" about them.
At this point I'm hoping for the Balkanisation of the internet, so that we Europeans wouldn't have to put up with American opinions on the web anymore.
What about Nazi memorabilia with swasticka? Should EBay be forced to sell that?
Agile, yes. Very much so. I remember developing pre-Agile and the endless Gantt charts and delivery milestones that never happened.

Being able to throw all of that in the bin and just say "we're Agile, so it'll be ready when we all agree it's ready, and we'll direct effort where we think it's most needed as we go" is awesome.

I've never worked with Scrum, but I have solid negative opinions on it (so hopefully I never have to). One of the core parts of the Agile Manifesto is "people before process" and Scrum is all process, so I'm always confused as to how the two became synonymous.
You could.
T-Mobile saw Verizon telling people to turn off 5G and thought ‘why stop there’
No, I the phone just autocorrected 'ban' to van. You people can be really fucking strange at times..
In other news: Elon Musk buys Japan.
Please tell me how your speech is being limited.
Best thing you haven is not contact information out there what so ever. If you think i owe you something - fork you. Patch is welcome!
Removing something from a recommendation list is about as far from censorship as I can possibly imagine.
Is this a latency/ throughput related point?
I understand the publisher deciding not to publish these books as children's books anymore (it could make sense to publish a special edition as 'Racially insensitive Seuss books', but that's another matter). However, why would eBay prevent sellers from selling them? I view eBay as a second hand book market, would I not be allowed to sell a copy of Mein Kampf there?
Same boat as you. I would call myself a socialist, or at least on the very left spectrum. Put an LGBTQI+ flag on my balcony to show support, try to talk to people about BLM issues in my country etc.

But cultural appropriation is really something I don't understand/can't get behind...
Good points.

I'm not so sure benefit of the doubt must be earned. More like, any participant in a discussion forum must show it when answering, and do proper research before asking anything. If all questions are good questions, there's no problem. But, as you say, they really aren't. I think poor question should be down voted with a brief explanation instead of trying to answer the "real" question. Or moved to a Frame challenge forum.

Are we trying to answer the question or to solve the problem?
Does anyone have a good example of a programming problem where we _need_ signed zero? Or where it makes things significantly simpler? As far as I know, there is no distinction between -0 and +0 in math, so I have never really understood why this is a thing in computers.
What is the tech stack for this project?
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Do you think they won’t be pulled from libraries?

I’m looking forward to Banned Book Week this year. It’s always interesting to see what small percentage of people are serious about their principles.
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More important than short run death is longer term road deaths. Their messaging is flawed but hundreds of thousands die in car accidents yearly... The rollout of these cars needs to be smooth and quick to prevent longer term death. It's incumbent upon early adopters to be responsible for the sake of society.
Book burnings as a service
Breaking the “Lattice Barrier” for the Hidden Number Problem
as it should be. Energy is about hard sciences, not technology, and so progress is very unlikely and thus slow, much slower than the claims about breakthroughs.
> The irony is that one could still have predictability and metrics without Scrum

I like to think that it would take a technically competent manager to understand the progress and performance of the developers. OTOH, with Scrum, you can generate numbers, however meaningless, without such prerequisites.

That's probably why some managers like it.
One of the authors of the "academic" papers which sparked this cancellation is on the board of a nonprofit that makes political children's books.

The point is "Aufheben der Kultur" - the abolition of culture. They attack Seuss because he's a beloved children's icon and a common cultural reference point we love and share. The point is to permanently taint him so we no longer have that reference point, detaching us from our shared culture so that these ideologues can shoehorn in some garbage woke propaganda to children at the youngest age possible.

Make no mistake: Dr Seuss won't be the last icon they come for.
Nobody claimed otherwise.
What do you mean by “seems to be highly explosive”? I have used Pytorch to model many non-dnn things and have not experienced highly explosive behavior. (Could be that I have become too familiar with common footguns though)
Making sense of a purge of China’s security services
The only option I have is Spectrum with an absolutely crappy upload speed (currently 6MB). Sadly this neighborhood never got any other option. Starlink might finally provide some competition.
‘Skynet Is A Private Company, They Can Do What They Want,’ Says Man Getting Curb-Stomped By Terminator

https://babylonbee.com/news/skynet-is-a-private-company-they...
> It's...not.

You sure about that? Is that really something debatable?

Thanks for trying to explain cultural appropriation, I don't know if my english is not good enough or if your explanation is really difficult to understand, but I didn't really get it, sorry :)
Sure you probably don’t want to do full training runs locally, but There’s a lot you can do locally that has a lot of added friction on a gpu cluster or other remote compute resource

I like to start a new project by prototyping and debugging my training and cunning config code, setting up the data loading and evaluation pipeline, hacking around with some baseline models and making sure they can overfit some small subset of my data

After all that’s done it’s finally time to scale out to the gpu cluster. But I still do a lot of debugging locally

Maybe this kind of workflow isn’t as necessary if you have a task that’s pretty plug and play like image classification, but for nonstandard tasks I think there’s lots of prototyping work that doesn’t require hardware acceleration
No, because it's not the same context. That's the point. These extreme reaches are the same as banning "master" as the name of a branch in git repos as if it has anything to do with social history.
They don’t. And the problem is that replacing a popular API with a proprietary one, like ALSA, creates a lot of work for everyone, for no reason other than NIH.
> I know Scrum / SAFe proponents will say we were doing it wrong.

I guess you just weren't Agileing and Scruming hard enough!
If you're setting prices based on cost shouldn't the prices be astronomically higher during the first few years of the business?
Negative zero was introduced because of branch cuts: https://people.freebsd.org/~das/kahan86branch.pdf
This sort of assistance is an excellent use of current technology, and a way to move forward to true autonomy. What needs to stop here is the two-faced, fatally ambiguous marketing, and if manufacturers cannot act responsibly, regulation will be needed (more than the current regulation for responsible driving, which only kicks in after the damage is done.)
Intel CI did catch this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
Has anyone tried to build real-time collaboration on git? What if every participant would run a system that saved on every keystroke, committed and synced with the remote? It would break due to conflicts as soon as two concurrent edits were too close to each other, but you could probably just accept either commit when they’re so granular and happening in real time. The conflict is going to be obvious and fairly easy to resolve since you will see it happen in the document itself.

EDIT: For some reason, speculating about the potential to repurpose a technology is attracting replies that point out how it wouldn’t work seamlessly with how they are currently using it. I’m not even mentioning editing code, and I’m certainly not proposing that you try this in a random Git repo where other contributors aren’t expecting it.
The Wellcome Trust is a huge organisation that receives funding from many sources and funds a huge number of projects with it. And they are just one of several funders of this project.

If Bill Gates was that desperate to control what you eat, I'd suggest he could find more effective ways than funding completed unrelated work specifically at the Wellcome Trust starting a decade ago, in the hope that one day he could use his connections to pressure them to give a modest amount of their own money to a study that will likely not have any major impact politically.

This looks to me like a desperate attempt to find an agenda where there isn't one, verging on constituency theory terrain.
Australia has a case where this is very relevant: most of the aboriginal people of Australia consider the direct mention or depiction of dead people in photographs and videos very disrespectful[1]. Because of that, it's common in Australian TV for almost any program to include warning for native Australian viewers about that.

Imagine if Australia bookstores followed the principle that even if a minority (and in this case, a very important minority as the aboriginal people are the "original owners" of the land) does not like a book, it should not be made available... you wouldn't be allowed to sell any books that contained or even mentioned deceased people.

But now, imagine that the British had not invaded and forcibly taken over Australia, so that the aboriginal people would be the current rules of the country. Now, you would probably expect no bookstores to want to offend their customers, so they would, presumably, avoid selling most books, arguably.

So, yes, I think that whether or not it's a minority that takes a certain stand makes a whole world of difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_avoidanc...
Scrum is only anti agile if you read the guide and think it must be done exactly by the book.

Scrum dictate Planning, Review, Daily and Retrospective. How you do planning, review daily and retrospective is fluid and often adapted during retrospective. When you start you do it by the book and morph it into what suits the team and organization best.
I used to assume that Linux had a huge test suite with hundreds of thousands of tests, given the crazy feature matrix that the kernel has to support.

And that they would have started requiring tests for new features and bug fixes.

Alas, that's not the case. There are a few external test suites like the Linux Test Project [1], but nothing that looks very extensive.

The process seems to mostly rely on maintainers giving patches a good look, plus developers and first line users, including hardware manufacturers and corps like IBM or Red Hat, running their own software on kernel pre-releases and reporting the bugs.

I realize that most of Linux is device drivers or code that is tightly coupled to hardware, which is more or less impossible to test without a huge test farm and lot's of manual labor, but it's still surprising to me that they don't do it for the more or less device independent functionality.

This particular bug looks like it might have been caught by a relatively straight-forward swap file test case.

[1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
That's true. I looked it up after writing my comment and saw that it's described as a book with critical commments. Don't think an actual nazi would like to read criticism about great daddy Hitler.
Politics is emotional, and emotions do not always agree with Utilitarian ethics.

Self driving doesn’t just need to be safer, people also need to feel that it is.
Aren't html code highlighters using regex? Isn't vscode using TextMate regex for color highlithing?
PS: Because I haven't set any default apps, whenever I click a link (e.g., in a message), I get to choose which app or browser I wish to use to open the link. In the same vein: When more than one app is able to read my passport over NFC, I would expect to see a list of possible apps.
Meanwhile feel free to buy your copy of Mein Kampf and pair it up with a SS uniform and other paraphilia on eBay.
My neighborhood the Verizon 5G is pathetic, its slower than 4G and that is still slower than my terrible Spectrum wired internet. I only live in the middle of a 5M metro area.
This canard.

After Charlottesville, the AHA put out a statement making it clear that removing confederate statues from public view was absolutely not “erasing history”. Nobody listened to them. People just kept going on about the left erasing the past. This made it clear that this was just a culture war rather than honest concern.

If you are worried about erasing the past, get the opinion of some historians.
While many other bans, especially on social media, seem to me to be quite nuanced, banning the re-sale of an old book is insane. Who does it hurt of this book is still sold? There are good reasons not to publish it for children anymore. There are good reasons not to stock it in a book shop. There are good reasons not to lend it to children in a library. But why would you prevent two people from selling it between themselves at a (digital) marketplace?
Pampas grass in your front garden is definitely out now that it's widely known that it means the residents swing. Even if you do swing, saying so in such an obvious manner is very crass, and only the middle-classes swing. Other classes that perform the same activities are doing something else.
> How do you respectful tell someone you think they are mistaken?

How about "you're mistaken"?

The problem is with "You don't know what you're talking about, but I do, so let me answer your real question".
And this works both ways. Like the Postgres standard API you mention: Not only does it allow you to bring your own client, you can swap the underlying implementation and still use all the clients that speak the protocol.

Like the author I would really like to see some open protocols (and adoption) for todo's and calendars. I mention adoption because for calendars there are some standards but popular software like Google Calendar and Exchange do not implement them properly or fully.
Or SQLite, which I would recommend over some homebrewed text file format, see https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
Yup, try using the words niggle and niggardly in a public setting.
Hey now that would require research and evidence. It’s much easier to blame “haters”
There is absolute no chance that these radicals will not come for Shakespeare eventually. Their aim is to destroy the Western canon so they can replace it with their own propaganda: Shakespeare is too high-value a target for them to ignore.
10 or less people, mixed in office and remote. Mine have almost always been fairly informal, and early on (I'm in my 40s) pre-agile it was just a what's up type thing. So while there was a scheduled time, it was a very free form meeting. We would talk a bit about work, last nights video game, etc... If people were already deep into some work, it was fine to miss.
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While I wholeheartedly agree that it's time to ditch chrome I don't agree with the way the author got there. First off Chrome on the iPhone is AFAIK still safari, as all browsers in iOS. Secondly "Edge on Windows feel like an extension of the operating system" while Chrome is clunky...but they are both Chromium. Of course there might be a miniscule difference but IMO that is nothing compared to the real problem with all chromium derivatives: namely that chromium is a monolith that can (and do) strangle competitors and decide the route of web innovation.

On the one hand I think it is great that there are choices like Brave but on the other I'm aware that using those other chromium derivatives is helping killing off the only real competition that has the users best interest in mind. It won't be long if things continue like this before Firefox is irrelevant and what will happen to the APIs used by chromium derivatives like Brave and privacy extensions? Already they are being removed or relegated to half-working at best. A web with only an advertisement giants browser on one side and a Money-Is-God-But-We-Pretend-To-Care business on the other is A Really Bad Thing. I'm amazed how many preach open source and privacy and then go install something made by Google to bolster its grip on the internet..
I think this would be a great way to bring some automation to some roads.

Tesla/Boring almost did it when they were considering having electric sleds moving cars through Boring tunnels.

If there's a schedule, pre-planned route, and a fenced off road, there's barely any need for fancy sensor suites & AI. The most difficult part of it is probably that the road then couldn't be used by all types of vehicles.
Even with full-disk encryption you have two options that I'd recommend over a swap file:

- lvm on luks: inside the luks dm-crypt container, create multiple logical volumes: one for swap, one for the root filesystem

- swap on dm-crypt: create a separate encrypted partition for swap

Since the swap data needs no permanence, it's possible to generate a new encryption key every boot. Debian's crypttab supports this out of the box [0]:

cswap /dev/sda6 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,hash=sha1,swap

(although I'd recommend using a /dev/disk/by-id/ path there, for obvious reasons. The scripts do check there's no valid signature on the partition before formatting, but still...)

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/cryptsetup-run/crypttab.5...
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As far as I know building a long-term repository for the spent nuclear fuel is so simple... not a single nation solved it. The most advanced project (Onkalo, in Finland) may open in 2023.

Decommission costs are low... when planned. When a project at scale starts, however, things are usually less fun. Take a look at the UK. The UK discounted provision for decommission costs: £100+ billion in 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/23/britain-...

£161 billion in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170516093449/https://www.gov.u...

£234 billion in 2018. Costs were so quickly exploding there is a new way to forecast, which dissimulates... err... is more... well...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nuclear-provision...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/uks-nucl...

Decommissioning small and old reactors costs more, and entombing may, at least apparently (short-term), reduce the cost. In theory. Let's check a real and ongoing case: Oyster Creek. According to the EIA its construction costs were $488 million (2007 USD) ( https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/state/archive/2010/newjersey/ ). As soon as the decommission project started the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it will cost "about $1.4 billion to shut down the plant". Not for an immediate and complete decommission, because the plant will stay in a “safe store” condition until 2075, with dismantling ((...)) set for a period between 2075 and 2078 ( https://www.powermag.com/oldest-u-s-nuclear-plant-shuts-down... ). Then new problems (costs!) may arise. Let's bet that, as usual, the taxpayer will pay and the real cost will be hidden.

US: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/12/01/us-nuclear-site-cleanup...

Moreover if there is a serious glitch during decommission or at a waste repository site, are bets are off. You can obtain an insurance policy for anything, AFAIK even for a space trip, but no-one covers major nuke risk (reimbursements have a hard limit).
In my experience, when you see scrum, you will see an over-bureaucratic company with way more managers that engineers and, usually, those managers (call them product owners, project managers whatever) are the ones calling the shots which leads to all sorts of problems due to their general lack of technical knowledge and overfocus on "deliverables and customers needs".

And don't get me wrong: customer needs are the priority in every company that sells software or provides SW services. But one thing is what customer needs, and another is how to provide it to them.

More times than not, in those places, we ended up redesigning a feature in the middle of the development because it was designed by POs and other ilk only looking at customer needs, so that design didn't fit the system.
In general I agree. Cannot speak for others here of course.

The devil is in the detail. So if FLoC and new third party tools to subvert FLoC became too mainstream, then I would expect Google to act in its own interest and provide value-added back-end services. Just as has happened with Android AOSP and Play Services.

Until then though, I feel FLoC being both client-side and open-source would be an improvement on the status quo
You sound like someone who'd have a problem with someone because their last name is Lynch.
He's referring to Catalonia, Eastern Spain, which speaks a different language altogether. For those who don't know it, a significant number of European majors have a history of suppressing regional languages in modern history - Gaelic, Breton, Occitan, Irish and Basque are some casualties.
In this case the answer is correct given the parameters of the question: There is no way to have a regex that only matches the things which OP wants to match, but not any of the things OP doesn't want to match.

Given a specific situation, like a particular page or something, sure, regexes are still a possibility for solving the problem. The 2nd highest answer on the page details exactly that. So what is the problem? Is every single contributer obligated to artificially entertain the OP's preconceptions before giving the advice which they believe actually helps best? For example, if I were knowledgeable about XML but not regex, should I just not contribute in such a situation?