skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HN doesn't have very strong moderation

FWIW, I agree. But the people who are shadow banned for trivial offences would probably be writing replies to your comment about this ... if they knew they were shadow banned that is. And we wouldn't be able to read it either way, so it's a moot point. Just one data point, but one of my friends has been shadow banned from HN for years and he never even knew that he was. Say what you will about twitter and Facebook, but at least they're up front about bans.
Have you checked out the Affinity offerings?
Not only that, but such a thing is probably illegal in the USA [0]. Someone needs to take it all the way through to the SCOTUS, although being forced to wear a scarlet letter as a form of public shaming has been ruled on before, if I understand correctly.

[0] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/constitution-check-is-sh...
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> Yeah, but isn't DC-DC volt conversion still much better, than DC - AC - AC- DC?

Yes. Dramatically better. Overall efficiency could move from 60-70% to 95%.
I _don't_ want that though. I use text selection as a reading aid, so selecting stuff immediately clobbering my buffers is very much not what I want. I prefer to be explicit about when I want to copy stuff.
That externalities such as pollution are not properly accounted for means market economies will not work not even in theory. It's high time we solved this.
Do NFTs (i.e., CryptoArt) add any ecological cost to the ongoing cost of Ethereum?
Failure of moral leadership if true. I'm 1c and still waiting.

Suppose it's true (IANAL): It should or could be a crime, and talking about it on a private forum could amount to conspiracy to commit a crime. Furthermore, such a forum would be subject to discovery. Also dumb: if you're going to do anything that could be used against you or be interpreted as a crime, don't make a record of it!

And, of course, in that thread, there's some "outraged" crybully SJW "WoC" trying to make hay up in there.
I switched to Affinity Photo as an alternative [1] and quite happy with it. It's similar enough to Photoshop that I'm not lost, more polished than Gimp, and only a fraction of the price. Their forum is also quite good for support.

1: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/
Excuses. What organization your work for is a choice you've made. You need to make sure you work for a well functioning one, few things are more important. If you can't get hired by one, start one yourself.
Removing or anonymizing PII in a large system not already designed for PII removal or one you don’t have resources to manage can be painful.

Companies of all sizes can have a lot of PII and code that’s not GDPR compliant, and it’s non-trivial to fix that. When asked by a user to remove PII, the removal is sometimes incomplete at these companies. Even the process of incompletely the removing PII wastes time; the users requesting PII removal often didn’t even do business with the company, in my experience.

Companies of all sizes but often small companies hire out development of web apps that keep PII and may not have someone permanently on staff to maintain it to make the changes needed to allow users to remove their PII.

I’d go so far as to say that I’d intentionally not work with users if I knew they would be painful to work with, leaving me with nothing but a legal requirement to wipe their asses because they used my old site. I hope that EU didn’t intentionally do this to hurt small businesses and foster new startups within the EU to brunt the cost of this stupid, stupid law.

I’m a privacy advocate.
Signal has a function to delete messages after a set interval (after having read it.)

I don't know about Sky ECC, but Signal requires a Phone # to register, as far as I remember. It's increasingly hard to get anonymous Phone # in the EU. That might be an argument against using it.
Iran vs. America: what's behind the feud?
> It seems hard to believe but at one point it was possible to make a decent living as a dairy farmer with a small herd (what’s now considered small, anyway). In 1981 my dad had a herd of 82 milking cows and he cracked the top 50 in all of northwest Wisconsin’s 22 counties for average milk production.

> As for the distant future, I imagine it will look similar to the consolidation in other livestock industries, where a handful of mega corporations dictate production and the “farmers” are more like serfs, deeply in debt and entirely beholden to the corporation.

Mirrors a lot of what my family went through. Grew up on a cattle ranch in the 80s... ranches were already 5-10x larger than they had been the generation before. Efficiency and capitalism and finding better ways to solve problems... totally get the reasons for the consolidation. Just sucks for the people. Farmers and Ranchers have been a dying breed for so very long now. And replacing the family farm with a factory farm -- practical or reasonable or not -- it just seems so... offensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRDaPEaDJ7E

Interesting with the dairy cow milk production graphs since the 1970s. Probably belongs on this list.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
The goal isn't to drive extremism to extinction, it's to make it niche so the mainstream doesn't get infected with it.
Upshifting, it isn't usually necessary, though I'm not a street racer, so I can't comment on the validity of that particular quote [0].

Downshifting, particularly into first as you're coming to a stop sign, it'll save a fair amount of wear on the synchros. Or if you have a car with worn synchros, it'll help ensure a quicker, smoother downshift in general. A 5-3 downshift on an offramp usually benefits, for instance.

[0] Given the substantial liberties they took in general, your skepticism might be justified.
We have rather cheap milk here in Germany, because it's heavily subsidized.

But right now plant based alternatives are on the rise. I didn't buy milk for years now.
Looks like “simplicial” would be a better adjective, or “combinatorial”, as opposed to “continuous”.
The opportunity that arose assigned the city (Shingū) to me—it was the sister city of where I was living in the US. My partner taught English and she was given an apartment by the city. Airbnbs are available everywhere though. I used my savings; I don’t know the total cost but it wasn’t too expensive being in a remote area—as long as I resisted buying a pile of snacks from FamilyMart each day.
Is it only 1-2 months? Feels like an eternity...

Current lockdown started on the 4th of Jan, and the travel restrictions came in then. We also had lockdown part 2 back in November, for the whole of November, lockdown part 1 from April-June last year, and various degrees of lockdown in between with regional variations...

I've lived in Aus before, and I agree it's great for many reasons, am looking forward to being back.

On the electrical thing, I know there are some restrictions on what you can do in the UK - putting in new circuits, adding new lighting circuits etc. I've pushed the boundaries a bit here AFAICT by fixing a lighting circuit* and swapping a few single sockets for doubles. Other work like putting cat 6 in the walls I did myself without a thought. Looks like I need to take a look at the regs.

( * the light switch in our bedroom somehow flicked between "one bulb on" and "two bulbs in series", with no off setting )

(oh wow, you're right, I can't change a light fitting, or even legally change a plug from UK -> Aus without breaking the law. Will have to buy new cables where I can, maybe change one or two plugs before I leave!)
...and it's explicitly mentioned in the manual, which makes me wonder, how someone quoting it (and thus pretends that has read it), missed that part. Most points are pure FUD imo, except the one talking about vertical space, and I believe it's exaggerated.
You don't need to couple the linked list nodes with your allocations. Either you make an array of link structs or embed your links in the stored struct (intrusive linked list).

The linux kernel uses intrusive linked lists (and intrusive rbtrees) a lot. They are the perfect data structure for a lot of uses where performance matters and allocations are a no go.
Do you classify helping with chores around the house as child exploitation too? As on a farm, kids have chores. They're not working night and day.
They sell subscriptions only now.
Because beef uses feedlots with grain as well, and have the same manure lakes.

The beef industry has figured out that cattle fatten up far faster on grain, so they leave the cattle out for I think it's 12 months to basically grow to their "adult" size, then put them on grain for a few months to fatten up.

They have it precisely timed, because the cattle basically die on the all grain no silage diets they get, or would if they don't get sent to the abattoir literally a fortnight before.
How to measure productivity of software development teams
Communists hate proof of work.
It should be the other way around. When everything is packed closer together you are far more likely to fall victim to supernovas, more asteroids and so on that can end life on your planet.
From 2018:

"there are some demographic trends that will influence opinion in future. These changes will tend to pull British public opinion in a pro-European direction, and should be sufficient to produce a majority of 52%-48% for ‘Remain’ in 2021"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/05/01/demographic-trends...
Some years ago i was thinking about the idea to study astronomy. I read an article back then in which it was told that most astronomy students end up beeing a computer scientist. I don't know if thats true. But I took it as an advice to study computer science :) and I'm pretty happy with that.
Okay, I'll bite. What's the point? My thinking here is "....and? that's it? why bother?"
I've been avoiding this discussion on HN for months now because most of it appears to be in bad faith / wholly misinformed. But okay, I'll bite.

> there is no way to tax them

You put a heavy tax on power consumption. Done.

> just move to somewhere with less environmental controls

Crypto isn't the first industry to take advantage of tax arbitrage. By this logic, few businesses should run in the US.. and yet the only ones commonly taking advantage of havens and tax arb are larger orgs with the resources to structure.

Business and money are fluid, but not that fluid.
A colleague's husband had his credit card blocked by his English bank when he travelled from England to Northern Ireland.

He was hiking in an area with limited phone signal, so he phoned his wife (it was a joint account) and she tried to unblock it. The call centre employee said it was because of unexpected foreign travel.

It's easy to believe the call centre person is ignorant.

It's not so clear why the anti-fraud department of one of Britain's largest banks should think the same.
AC causes radio emissions (which is lost power), it doesn't affect the magnetic field unless it forms coils. And most coils on AC will be put into iron cores to contain them nice and close to where they belong. Even then an AC coil doesn't really behave magnetic very much since the field reverses polarity so often.

A DC wire will constantly produce a static magnetic field. With only a few kilowatts, you can probably measurably shift a compass needle within your house, since all your wires will necessarily have to form a loop (positive and ground).

Magnetic fields aren't created by shifting the DC voltage or current, they're created by current flowing through a wire, AC just has the advantage that 20ms later, the field goes the other direction so few things care.

What will happen when DC load shifts is that the magnetic field changes and it'll dissipate or absorb power from the DC line to do so (Relays require you to put in a diode so that when they are switched off, they can dissipate the stored field energy safely without damaging electronics. This dissipation happens at much higher voltage levels than what induced it and is of opposite polarity to your input voltage.
Because in prison the likelihood of being raped, beaten or having your property stolen is so much less than it is outside.
Qualcomm struggles to meet chip demand as shortage spreads to phones
You can make good cheese in the United States, cheese is really about the recipe (and how much cream was left in the milk).

There just is nothing like the culture of cheese production, US foodstuffs are awful quality because the general public buys it up for some unknown reason.
But there are other crypto mechanism for that purpose...
see - Verifiable Delay Functions

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/601.pdf
this is such a great resource, highly recommended
You will be happy to learn that the majority of soybeans fed to live stock, so if you are worried about the environment, soy is better than meat.
It's important to undersrand that the EU and the US account for ~25% of the world economy each. They could push reforms unilaterally if they so desired. They just don't, because it's convenient to their business interests.
If the military had been in-charge of vaccine logistics, and issued vaccines based on the predetermined groupings rather than self-reporting and then a lottery within those groupings, that would've made the most sense, been more efficient, and fairer.

Standing in long lines or rushing to a website ad-hoc for appointments is animalistic shit like it's a train station in India.
Well said, though jumping to violence so quickly is.. concerning. It does appear that there's a coordination / commons problem here that might not be easy to resolve without force
I feel like I've lost a few brain cells reading that.
What exactly your mind wonders to? Another youtube video? Another people talking? Is it because you have FOMO? You feel like you have less time and more information to consume? Lack of focus could be symptoms. Please elaborate more on your analysis of root cause
"once we move to proof of stake" -> Alas, there is no PoS algorithm (who's security does not depend on PoW blockchain), so it's not "once" but more "if we ever move to PoS after we manage to invent it".
Didn't he notice that nobody would reply to his comments? Or is the shadow banning quite advanced?
What Is Mental Health?
> Manure isn't a problem if you free range your animals, have landscape structures to prevent runoff and have other animals that eat bugs in the same space such as chickens. Then it just contributes fertility to the land.

I would contest that. Animal manure runoff has always been a problem to e.g. brooks and rivers and only in recent years has the legislation started to prevent some of the more problematic practices. Like grazing all your cattle on a soon-to-be-flooded grassland next to the river. Nitrate pollution of the ground water is also more pronounced in German areas where free-range animals are more common.

> Industrial farming is stupid, and totally unnecessary. Using permaculture and silvopasture, you can produce much more (and more nutritious) food in the same space, while improving (rather than destroying) fertility. If done right, you don't need pesticides, your animals don't need antibiotics or dewormers, and the whole thing mostly runs itself aside from a little pruning/herding and a lot of picking. The only downside to these methods is they take some time to get going, and they require knowledgeable farm workers rather than dirt cheap migrant laborers or a combine.

If it were only farmer's knowledge that is required, farming industry would do it in an instant, considering the significant advantages you named.

I would guess that either the methods you mention are far more labour-intensive as well as requiring more qualified labour. Or that the advantages aren't really that significant. Industrial agriculture is hunting for every bit of efficiency gain, and lots of businesses are looking for an edge any way they can. So it seems strange to me that the methods you mention aren't used in any significant amount.
Again though, sanctions work for manufacturing but not for cryptocurrencies. Iran is sanctioned from banking from the US and EU but is still a major Bitcoin mining center.
malloc aligns very conservatively (because it doesn't know the size of the data you're allocating for), so there are some space gains to be had there.

AFAIK also malloc will call sbrk quite a lot, at least from my cursory reading of this musl implementation[0].

[0] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/malloc/malloc.c...
> I do have opinions as to why it wasn't treated as an "advisory" vote but those are just opinions

I'd like to hear them!

Thanks to your comment I re-checked the Labour party manifesto for the 2015 general election and you are right. They do mention a referendum but only in the case of a transfer of power from Britain to the EU:

"Labour will legislate for a lock that guarantees that there can be no transfer of powers from Britain to the European Union without the consent of the British public through an in/out referendum."
Let's not be overdramatic. Working on farms as a kid is how the overwhelming majority of humanity lived for literally thousands of years. Not every kid working with his family is exploited or abused; I can think of quite a few of my teenaged peers from "difficult" backgrounds who got on the straight and narrow only when they were finally allowed to work.
Why is no one signing their emails? (2019)
>they shouldn't be able to dictate what they sell on their platform?

There's difference between "this product is not selling, we're stopping it" or any other similar business related reasoning and "randomly" deciding "this book is not right, thus we censor this"

There's nothing wrong with Amazon stopping selling stuff due to business/legal reasons and so on

but if their reasoning is like "people shouldn't read this" or "we don't like this idea", then it's very bad.

It's not trivial problem, but I think it's important.

>Somedays I think we'd all just be better if a solar flare hits and disabled electronics for the next 20 months.

Maybe web 2.0 was a mistake, huh.
A lot of fighting is legal or results in a minimal slap on the wrist in the NHL. Different culture.
But that is exactly my point. All over this thread you have people suggesting that this is a completely solved issue, the science is settled, and the experts agree. Therefore, shut up and think as you’re told.

Whether or not the claims are true is irrelevant. The fact that we’re now in a position where voicing the tiniest bit of dissent over this issue is enough to relegate you to the “clueless bigot” bin, or maybe even qualify as “hate speech”, is where the real problem lies. Imagine if we did that back when lobotomy was settled science and had expert consensus.

Nothing, no single human idea, is above criticism and pushback.
I remember the first time I saw cheese prices in the US and almost cried. A 1 kg block of good cheese was like $20-30, not $60-90.
Understanding the Multichannel Conundrum
>For example you think everyone else thinks the NHS is awesome, because left-wing journalists

Or because 87% of Britons polled said that they are very proud of it.

>you'd be shocked at how little support rail nationalisation would end up having.

56% in favor. 15% actively against. Majority support even by members of the party that was most against it.

>The NHS is a socialist anachronism

This is a popular view among investors & high net worth individuals. The US system is extraordinarily profitable as a mechanism for parasitic wealth extraction and UK based investors are not blind to this. They want some sugar too.

Nonetheless even UK right wing papers owned by those very people shy away from this view. 87% is above the threshold where they feel comfortable contradicting the popular view.

Rail nationalisation was below that threshold and the barclay brothers owned telegraph, for instance, would attack the idea with savage abandon of a rabid dog.
The argument is we draw the line at public versus private. Elected governments are not allowed to restrict speech, but private companies are. I don’t subscribe to this view, but it’s what the libertarian paternalists think.
Can’t wait for Mac Pro.
Yea, only from what I can see, worse.
Rather than just "tell me who had this IP on this date" it will be "tell me everything they visited and looked at during this period"
I’d have to imagine some of the work they’ve done to make iOS apps, and the work they started to make a Windows on ARM version of Photoshop helped a bit.
Fact check: even if the M1's gpu performance matches that of an i7 as opposed to a discrete gpu it:

1) Is an entry level chip matching a high-end's performance.

2) it does so in around a 5th of 6th of the thermal workload.
I dont even need a legitimate secure phone. All i want is a phone where i can install debian or any linux flavour, just like on a regular pc or a raspberry pi. There are too few options that allow for it and are quite low spec. Once we gain such freedom then we can get the security we want the way we want - not security as defined and controlled by a third party.
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 March update is crashing some PCs
Add claps and comments to static blog in two line of code
> Children of parents on a family farm is hardly exploitation.

How so? I know it often isn't against labor laws because there are specific exceptions for exactly that case. But in any other circumstance the same thing _is_ considered exploitative.
+1 for Andrews & Arnolds.
This is awesome. I just wish more governments would wake up to the fact that crypto does nothing beyond suck resources and warm the planet. If you want to bet on things that go up & down, there is the stock market where things go up and down 20%+ every single day.
For me, using VSCode felt neat. Learning and using nvim felt fun. Learning and using doom emacs feels exciting.
Seems like 10GB according to their site.
> thyristors seem to be able to do 95 maybe 98%, but those only become economical in the megawatt range.

IGBTs and SiC are plenty economical for boosting and bucking in the kilowatt range. For very light loads (like inside the home), switched supercapacitors would work fine and are quite efficient. The need for a big spool of copper is over.
I assume it's using computational since the focus in on simplicial complexes where everything can theoretically be computed. Some of the filtration stuff on finite discrete points looks like Machine Learning / Topological Data Analysis which definitely wasn't covered in my AT class.
The very article we've commented under makes this point, but if you want to see the specific agreement: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...
It has emoji domains, but disallows emoji accounts. Weird. I cannot have @.kz.

This is probably disrupted by HN. I mean I cannot have [thumbsup]@[thumbsup].kz.
Thanks for that link. I've often found myself wanting to do minimal image work, and this is the first time i see something really usable.
They idea of turning it into a ritual is awesome. I’m definitely going to try that because it’s something I’ve struggled with in the past. I find building things into habits is the only way to maintain them in the long term.
The difference with "real art" is that you have something tangible to hang on your wall. As opposed to a .jpg that anyone else can access as easily as you can.
Israel. Saudi Arabia. Each for different reasons of course.
ClimaCell Is Going to Space
Thermal load *
> there is an explicit option to turn them off and use the legacy versions

I had no idea this existed. THANK YOU!
None of those laptops has a modern Ryzen CPU in them though? For a more fair comparison?

Also your post is a bit misleading: GPU performance is comparable to Intels, not nVidias which is explicitly called out.
Reminds me of Saboteur 2 :)
Thats exactly what the Mexican cartels had until the guy that ran it flipped on them. They even had their own cell towers in remote areas of Mexico.
Only time ive seen it was while installing zsh for git bash.