skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have in the past read a few short pieces by Sowell. Impression: weak normative reasoning, shaky empirical claims. I'd be happy if you steelman Sowell for me. Point to at most 10 pages of text where you think he is at his best, giving an argument for something supported by sound reasoning and strong empirical evidence. It might update my view of him.
Right, but your comment doesn't do justice to the beauty of the solution being so concise. Is it a coincidence that the same exponent 4 works for both multiples of 3 and 5?

What if instead of 3 and 5, we did FizzBuzz with 7 and 11?
Let's do n%77, now we need to map 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70 to Fizz, and 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66 to Buzz, unless we can find some way to have them all reduce to the same number. Is that really so straightforward?

Now that we know the trick with the exponents, we could try a few to start.

For multiples of 11 it seems the smallest one which works is 6! Great, let's try it on multiples of 7.. Nope.
Ok, for multiples of 7, I see that ^10 works.. but that doesn't work for multiples of 11.

* the article addresses this at the end, and tells us that the correct exponent is ^30, the lowest common denominator of 6 and 10. But if I'd been given this problem, I'd have remained stuck on the second paragraph of this comment, with no idea where to start when seeking to reduce the divisors to a single number.
Which is why GraalVM requires you to explicitly mention what types should be available for reflection.
In places that get a lot of snow we have good snow removal. Thus you don't need snow tires as you aren't driving in it much. You also learn to drive in snow, which mostly means slow down.
You're also leaving out that the VPN is just one part of the larger "Librem One" subscription package. It's something customers discover through Librem's marketing, buy from Librem on Librem's website not using Apple's payment/account systems, and not exclusive to Apple platforms in any way.

Yet Apple is forcing them to give up 30% of their revenue, because they can.
> On macOS, it is now impossible to distribute a VPN or a virtualization software without permission from Apple.

Citation needed? I don't believe this is true. Tunnelblick and qemu both exist on macOS independently of Apple's approval.
But would people necessarily associate "I gave Chrome the OS-level location permission, so I could enable location on <non-Google website>" with Chrome itself tracking the location and connecting it to a Google account?
What would rent be like for a 2-bedroom apartment?
That's not true anymore, the reflation is underway since 2 weeks.
Pro-tip from an ex-university sysadmin: beware getting consumer-grade machines, and never, ever, get them if you are buying in bulk. The specs will probably all be similar, but the individual parts will be whatever was in the bin when the chassis came down the line, which means whatever was cheapest that day. Even if you get lucky and have drivers for everything, supporting 10 machines with 10 different configurations is 10 times harder than supporting hundreds of machines with one configuration.
> People often get confused with the definition of free speech since in America it refers to the 1st amendment which only applies to censorship by the government.

You think Americans are incapable of distinguishing between the idea of free speech, and the legal doctrine of the 1st amendment?
I had a G14 that I ended up returning. for points 2 and 3, I had no issues at all in the few months I used it.

A side note: the build quality was extremely disappointing, coming from an XPS 13.
Adding this to my running list of algorithms encoding and amplifying systemic bias, like:

* A hospital AI algorithm discriminating against Black people when providing additional healthcare outreach by amplifying racism already in the system. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6

* Misdiagnosing people of African decent with genomic variants misclassified as pathogenic due to most of our reference data coming from European/white males. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1507092

* When the dangers of ML in diagnosing Melanoma exacerbating healthcare disparities for darker skinned people. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abs...

* When Google's hate speech detecting AI inadvertantly censored anyone who used vernacular referred to in this article as being "African American English". https://fortune.com/2019/08/16/google-jigsaw-perspective-rac...

* When Amazon's AI recruiting tool inadvertantly filtered out resumes from women. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...

* When AI criminal risk prediction software used by judges in deciding the severity of punishment for those convicted predicts a higher chance of future offence for a young, Black first time offender than for an older white repeat felon. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
And here's some good news though:

* When police wrongfully arrested a person based on faulty facial recognition match using grainy security camera footage, without any due diligence, asking for an alibi, or any other investigation. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it...

* When the above is compounded for people of color according to studies which show that facial recognition systems misidentify dark-skinned women 40x more often than for light-skinned men. http://news.mit.edu/2018/study-finds-gender-skin-type-bias-a.... Another study showed false positives can be 10x to 100x more frequent for Asian and African American faces compared to Caucasian. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-eva...

* When an algorithm blocked kidney transplants for Black patients. https://www.wired.com/story/how-algorithm-blocked-kidney-tra...

* When clinical algorithms include “corrections” for race which directly raise the bar for the need for interventions in people of color, such that they then receive less clinical screening, less surveillance, less diagnoses, and less treatment for everything, including cancer, organ transplants, birth interventions, urinary and blood, bone, and heart disease. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMms2004740
I really can't understand your POV. Of course it doesn't mean never having to visit a charger for cross-country trips, which is obviously a dream. It does mean the car adds charge passively rather than losing it, the panels are silly cheap compared to the cost of batteries, and the hardest part would just be integrating them into the body panels, which is certainly achievable. See my other comment in this thread where I can easily think of 5-6 significant benefits. There's really no reason not to do it, if we don't mislead people into thinking it means infinite range in the sun. The only other criticism I can think of is that people won't like how it looks, but that's their loss.

And in fact, for my short commute and I'm sure at least a few others, it would mean never having to visit a charger except for long trips.
>Civilian power reactors themselves are of limited value for military purposes, particularly light water moderated ones.

The kind used in nuclear submarines?

>It's certainly true that maintaining a nuclear industry and the technical and operational knowledge is cross subsidised

It's the main reason nuclear reactors exist at all, and why theyre predominantly built by countries with nuclear arsenals or aspirations.

They've never been particularly cheap, and while they haven't gone up in cost, they're relatively more expensive than theyve ever been. This is why public support is even more critical for their survival, which is why there's about 1 pro nuclear propaganda article per week popping to the top of hacker news each week. The military industrial complex is spooked.

>What definition are you using for dispatchable here?

It takes hours to scale up production of a nuclear plant and seconds for a gas fired plant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation
Seriously, imagine the compute and requests costs to assemble a large git pull.
A lot of this stems from the two-party system, which stems from the first-past-the-post voting system. While in France and elsewhere there is a lot of change in the political landscape (Macron's current party didn't exist 5 years ago), in the US parties are very deeply entrenched. This causes an "us vs them" situation, where people don't change sides ever, look at the other side with more than skepticism, and every issue quickly becomes partisan as half the population disagrees with the change merely because the other party brought it up.
Note : This comment is unrelated to the link posted.

While HDFC's IT systems remain a bit problematic (though not as bad as YES Bank) the bank itself is pretty good. There is a saying in Mumbai that if HDFC is funding your mortgage you dont really have to do due diligence about legality of the property. (It is common in India for a builder to sell the same property to two different people, sell properties with lien and so on).

It remains one of the healthiest banks in India, displaying good growth and trust from consumers.
Here’s a dramatization of the Earthquakes (etc) from when the impactor hit: https://youtu.be/vq3nWnTkFbk
ultrasounds are done on people all the time, especially during pregnancy on relatively fragile fetuses. we'd likely know of any serious risks by now. ultrasound is more akin to microscopic shaking than a mysterious flux of (highly potent) energy.

also consider that the cov2 virus is particularly fragile, for instance, requiring the external support of water to remain intact. it's why you don't need masks in most common situations (just distance), because the virus disintegrates so easily.

some viruses, on the other hand, can essentially hibernate and revive themselves once inside a host. those are the ones that would require enough excess energy that damage to other cells and organelles might be a genuine concern.
it's cool that your life is perfect and free of danger. consider that you are an outlier
I don't think this is the reason. They want people with no families and no responsibilities because those people will move to Seattle or San Francisco and work 100 hour weeks without having to worry about uprooting spouse and kids and ruining all human relationships.

I actually hope one of the outcomes of post-pandemic normalization of remote work is less tacit age discrimination from companies that used to greatly prefer people willing to relocate.
Imagine if for some reason the word "bitcoin" turns out to be problematic (maybe it means "Shit/fart/poop" in Spanish and Chinese, which means most people in these countries wouldn't wanna use it, so the bitcoin people decide to rename the project to "Cryptocoin", are you going to say that clearly this violates the fundamental principles of bitcoin because Satoshi called it "bitcoin"?

Because based on what I read on Satoshi's communication, he would take 2 mins to change the name to something else (look how easily he applied the block size limit when the need arrived).

Similarly, there are essential attributes to what bitcoin is, and there are accidental attributes to it. Clearly the name of bitcoin is not necessary for it to be bitcoin.

What about the 'cash system' part? Clearly you and I disagree on this. I believe that cash part doesn't mean that the basic token must be trasnferable on layer 1.
> Actually providing the programmers the time and money to make sure

In my experience management sidesteps that problem by insisting that you're an incompetent fool if you need time and money to accomplish anything.
interesting, perhaps the new design for the lamp covers is part of it but in my direct experience from a boat there is massively less light pollution with the LEDs which shine downwards only and show in a town on the side of the hill as a set of twinkling fairy lights and in a city over the hill as not much at all whereas the sodium lights produce an orange glow which can be seen for 20 miles or more at night. However, that doesn't say anything about the frequency which could of course be more damaging locally even if it scatters less.
Why I don't like the "needs to" framing, especially as it comes to business decisions, is that I think it takes the agency out of the process. Too many of my friends and family seem to assume that just because there are customers willing to pay or cheaper labor, a company must automatically do a certain thing unless the government makes a law to prevent them from doing it.

I guess that's why I like the "chooses to" framing because it highlights that leaders of companies can choose to not pursue markets or go with higher priced suppliers if they can make the argument as to how it might help them in the long term.

Edit: typo
>The world does exist outside of Silicon Valley. I can get exactly what you're describing in over half of this country, pick your state including the entirety of the midwest.

This is equivalent to saying sky-high housing prices in Tokyo didn't need fixing, since folks could always just live in Hokkaido--a pragmatic absurdity.

A city is a giant organism that needs people to play a variety of roles in order to thrive. All those people deserve (and arguably, for the health of the city, need) to be able to earn enough to live with some dignity. If only the wealthy can afford decent housing near a city, that city is no longer a functional community--it's a NIMBY bubble that creates a feedback loop of socioeconomic disparity.
Should is a big word, but it feels like Spotify could make us indie-lovers happy by rewarding the intentional listens with slightly more money. Perhaps giving them a cut of the next few recommendations. Even though I know that famous artists would get more of this than the indies, taking value from the long mid-catalog.
Works great, if you happen to have resolution that is usable with integer scaling.

If you need fractional scaling, only native Wayland applications work well. X11 applications are going to be upscaled and look blurry. Today, Chrome, all Electron apps, Jetbrains tools still do not support Wayland, though at least for Chrome/Electron the support is on the way.
For heavens sake, let's stop the discussion of Fortran array index starting at 1. In Fortran the starting index can be anything. A(-10:-5) is valid, A(-10:10) is valid, A(1:10) is valid, A(0:10) is valid. Choose what you want and do not complain about it again, please. No other language has this amazing capability.
I happily trade 'slower' performance for more privacy.
You are completely right. The X61s is a better design (I happen to own one too!), I completely forgot about it as, due to its much slower CPU, I must have put it away somewhere in the attic many years ago :)
This sucks

LastPass Free user with Computers as their active device type. They can use LastPass on their laptop, desktop, and their dad’s laptop (anyone’s computer!), but they can’t use LastPass on their phone, tablet, or smart watch unless they upgrade to LastPass Premium or Families for unlimited device type access.
That page is useless, it doesn't mention how frequent the effects are.
Any software distributed on the App Store immediately becomes nonfree software. The free software definition is linked to the end-user's freedom to modify the programs on his computers, not whether a developer can fork it.

Specifically, distribution on the app store denies "The freedom to... change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)."
I'm not sure worktree works exactly as you think.

I use worktree locally so that, for example, I can have my working copy that I am doing development in and then a separate working copy where I can do code review for someone else, without having to interrupt what I am doing in my own worktree.

My own experience is that if you are using branches with radically different content for different purposes in the same tree, it's going to end up a mess at some point. Worktrees, as far as I am aware, do not help with that in any special way.
You're assuming the shareholders would support such decision.

Keep in mind there's a legal mandate for public traded companies to increase share holders value. It's grey-ish legal requirement but I don't think the executive management wants to risk the legal consequences of doing the right thing.

Edit: it's shareholders and not stakeholders that matter.
Worth remembering that as good as it is that Google is reducing it's abusive taxation on third party developers, the primary reason they're doing this is to try to quiet the majority of developers asking for stronger government regulations against this taxation without actually reducing their profit much, since the large companies which bring in the majority of revenue still have to pay full price.

Basically, they're hoping that this will stop some app developers from demanding the right to use third party payment processors, which would likely be used many of the larger >$1 million revenue publishers.

The Android Police article about this cites an example from iOS, that "On Apple's App Store, the 98% of developers who qualified for a lower revenue share rate were responsible for less than 5% of Apple's total collected revenue"
It's depressing to me that strategies like this seem to work for these companies. Any time someone tries to force me into a subscription, I hard cut ties, unless there is literally no alternative to the product and I need it for my livelihood. And in that case, good game.
> Yet artists say they get paid a lot less. The money must go somewhere.

I don't have any stats for this, but my first guess would be way more paid artists (before the internet, how many people could even hope to make money off music? Physical distribution vs digital distribution is a huge barrier).
I remember back when I was young opening up an older stereo my parents had and right inside was the schematic and wiring diagram for the whole machine.
My father had a shop manual for his 1962 Ford Thunderbird and not only did it tell you how to fix it but it also showed how to make any needed "special tools" for the car.

I am not saying every single thing in the world is going to be user serviced...but it is a shame that in such a high tech world with access to just about any hardware/information needed we are increasingly not being "allowed to".

If we continue to allow qualified users to be stifled by DRM for the sake of increasing profits through planned obsolecence we are going to see greatly increased levels of ecological damage and waste.

I remember a time where the worst case scenario of working on your own devices was simply voiding a warranty.

It may seem like a modern tractor is a $500k machine which "simple folk" shouldn't work on...but don't forget the tractors of 50 years ago were viewed by outsiders the same way. Farmers have always been innovators of varying levels of skill...but they all have one thing in common, they don't seem to be scared of fixing stuff. IMHO, a well connected forum of tractor owners likely knows close to as much about their tractors as the company that made them...even without access to manuals.

Limiting those who tinker and innovate can do no good. It is high time we change the slogan to "reduce, reuse, repair, recycle". The very last option should be recycling...not the second.
No! Because I wouldn't have done all the failing things.

Example: I am a Unix user and I want to delete a directory. But I don't know how to do that. So I say "ls /bin" and think that maybe the "d" in "dd" has something to do with delete directory (and "df" is delete file?), and so I do "man dd". So I get some idea what "dd" can do. (Deleting directories is not one of them, though, it seems) I also find "unlink" which seems promising, but that one can't delete directories, only files.

If I had asked you, and you would have told me "rmdir", then I would never have learned about "dd" and "unlink".

It's just an example; I wasn't sure I could come up with something more realistic from actual development.
"nice marketing strategy" is I think a fairly strong euphemism for the ways in which Google has its tentacles in absolutely everything. From Android to search to identity through a google account, gmail, and so on.

The browser itself is trivial to separate from Google, which is why (completely ungoogled) Chromium exists, but to get yourself out of the Google services web is very, very, hard.
>In retrospective, I realize that I had to go through stupid ideas to develop a sense of what is viable and what isn't

Yep, as it turns out, when trying to create a new, valuable thing that people need, you actually need to make a bunch of attempts and try them out.

If you are ever in the position to have a team of people undertaking creating new things, the optimal path is to expose each person to a charter and scope of the area your team is trying to innovate in and then let them come up with their own ideas. Diversity of thought is the key to speeding up discovery of new, valuable embodiments of solutions that fulfill currently unfulfilled human needs.
I will never, ever own one. And that is the primary reason.
Likelihood of people actually using products they buy is overestimated, I think.

Lots of games on Steam has achievements for extremely simple tasks, such as launching the game for the first time or playing it for five minutes, and popularity of those is typically around 82.5% and 75% respectively among audiences for most popular titles.

IOW, 17.5% of PC game enthusiasts pay for a game and immediately put it on a shelf and don’t even double click on the icon. 25% reaches past the loading screen. Of all purchasers, maybe 10% reaches the final boss or end of the storyline. Potentially less.

A person who has issues with a mainstream laptop for its lack of an Ethernet port few years into ownership, who knows how many of those exist in the whole world?
When has Google not revealed the data Chrome collects?
How do we know if turning off that setting actually does stop location tracking, considering what we know about Google's past history?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
I'm curios, if this has direct TypeScript-Support, does this mean it can use VS Code-Parts and Plugins? Effortless plugin-installation would be a killerfeature... Similar advantage could become direct reuse of VS Code-Parts, like the code for language servers or the monaco editor-part.

This could unfold into a project which demand relativ little work, while pushing it to a level where it can compare with VS Code. It could become a good bridge beween modern VS Code and old GNU Emacs that way.
Society does not owe you a high salary for your low-skilled job with plenty of competition. We tried it - it was called Communism and the society went broke while the workers went hungry. It was worst for both.
tl;dr version: "We think we're too special to follow the App Store's rules regarding not forcing users to sign up somewhere else instead of in the app they're trying to use but Apple doesn't agree so we're taking our marbles and going home."
What group is this? Protesters used the slogan and there is now an organization that uses that slogan. Does that mean that the protestors and their protests can be conflated with the organization that makes use of the name? Sharing a negative reaction to cops murdering citizens is not the same as being an organized group. Slogans have great power, but not that power.
>HOAs are a form of free association and I can't condemn them entirely.

I think an argument against this is that the HOA follows the property, not the consumer. If I could opt out of an HOA when purchasing a home, it wouldn't be so bad. (but then again, the HOA would likely be severely weakened.)
Crispr-Based Anti-Viral Therapy Could One Day Foil the Flu–and Covid-19
GitHub Packages have an option to make the image as `public` or `private`. Public images can be pulled without auth (as the case should be).