skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global warming is a technically accurate phrase to describe what we're dealing with, but I prefer 'climate change' because it captures the other, perhaps more important impacts beyond increasing average temperature.

Warmth is energy, and injecting energy into a large, chaotic system, like our planet's climate, certainly causes the average temperature to increase, but it also causes the system to become more chaotic.

More concretely, climate change also means more frequent hot spells, more frequent cold spells, more frequent flooding events, more frequent droughts, more frequent storms, etc.

Along with certain average temperature ranges, crops need many months of stable weather in order to usefully produce. Even though, on average, the temperatures in more areas will move into the range needed by various crops, the average amount of necessary weather stability will also decrease, in the potential new growing areas as well as the old.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding
It's a homage to Rambo II, classic.
I was trying to get a zoomer relative of mine interested in technology. I said, "let's mine cryptocurrency." He didn't want to because, according to him, "that's hacking." Kids these days!
It's not just about testing their efficacy it's about the theoretical limits of pure observation when doing causal reasoning. We know that we are better served by avoiding causal certainty when using purely observational studies. It seems like the base assumption should be that similar epistemic constraints apply to machine learning.
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> Evidence to the contrary is welcome

You understand the burden of proof is on the person who's making a claim, not on people who disagree with the claim?

I've too suffered being stuck at home for more than a year, but in my book this is still better than me or somebody else getting sick with god-only-knows what long term complications, which we don't have data for one way or another, and won't for some time still.
At Google around 2008-2009 we had a similar issue with the word "lesbian"... it was basically impossible to get Google Suggest to suggest anything non-adult when you started typing in "lesbian", despite trying hard to filter out all adult suggestions, because even a tiny false negative rate in the adult content filter still wasn't enough. I think someone ended up just hardcoding the Google Suggest behavior for this query. I wouldn't be surprised if it still works that way now....
I clicked it^^
I don’t see any reason your comment would be accurate. It all depends on trade-offs. If the goal is to reduce cost, then you could equally argue to get rid of medicare entirely.

Clearly the goal (no matter what anyone’s separate normative opinion is) is to balance some complex tradeoff between costs borne by tax payers, costs borne by corporations (through taxes and through employer based healthcare for working age adults and their dependents), and a high level of access for all people.

Nothing about this censored data effect can say anything about the morality of different regions of that trade off space.

As to your second comment, this article is not massive news and it seems laughable to say it is. It’s just a blip in the news cycle, using some data artifact to drum up attention to something that is already well-known for any econometrician or health policy analyst.

Full disclosure: I personally favor nationalized medicine and welcome higher taxes across the board. Nonetheless I don’t find your comment to be accurate or valuable.
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Right, I would argue there's factors that might call for a 200% correction the other direction. You just can't validate their tea leaf reading here of what are the correct set of corrections.
> It's been an issue for more than a year — but it's about to be fixed.

> Now, try searching for "Asian food," "Asian Americans," "Asian history," or even "local Asian market" in your Safari browser.

> All these searches are blocked. Clearly none of them have anything to do with adult content.

I can't think of a better example of Asian people being treated as invisible.

Apple, you need to do better. This isn't a typo kind of bug. Something is fundamentally wrong on your end to allow something like this to persist for over a year without being fixed.
People are also violent and will commit homicide. Justice isn't about total prevention but reduction and a form of retribution.

We are able to, and need to, ensure there is justice for labor, for basic human rights.
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Can you point to a source for your claim that the US has exported (present perfect) vaccines to anybody? All I can find is news articles from about 10 days ago about plans to export vaccines, not mentioning a date.
It’s funny, this is the exact kind of thing I’d want on a non-x86 system. Raspberry Pico for example would be a great place for a 2KB HTTP server but with not support for HTTPS, IPv6, or for any non-x86 architectures it’s a bit of a non-starter for my use cases. Still, very cool project!
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> like the page struct should record the highest priority process accessing its contents

I'm not aware of any architecture where the MMU knows anything about task scheduling priority when marking pages as dirty or accessed, so there's a hardware limitation there. A close approximation might be to look at the task's (at the kernel level, threads and processes are tasks) scheduling priority when page-faulting in a page, to set some score on the page, and decrementing the score when the eviction algorithm finds the page is untouched. I guess it would then evict the first page found with a score of zero, or after examining N pages, evicting the lowest scored page found. (One could also use weighted reservoir sampling to achieve something closer to fairness, so high priority tasks don't always starve low priority tasks.)

In the case of multiple generations of LRUs, presumably one could use the I/O priority of the faulting task to determine the initial generation of a newly faulted-in page. This would be a pretty minimal change (and might already be implemented but that detail left out of the LWN article) and wouldn't require any extra state in the page struct.

Though, maybe you get close enough to the same effect simply by taking scheduling priority into effect when paging in pages.

Some university OS courses must have some rough kernel simulators where these sorts of policy changes can be simulated, right? Or is it easier to actually just modify a Linux or *BSD kernel and run some benchmarks?
If the government treated climate like they did COVID (lockdowns, etc.) it would trigger a civil war in the United States.
The privacy argument works both ways, because native apps can reliably keep data local that (unless it's just some simple utility) web apps would store on a 3rd party server.
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Forgive me for sidestepping the larger debate about labor (which should be had), but I think Amazon should offer the option for customers to opt out of Sunday deliveries and put other reasonable constraints on the lengths they will go to serve us.

I'm not Mormon but their community has a practice of not shopping or doing business on Sunday. As long as we as customers demand services on Sundays businesses must stay open and some company will serve us... Instead of attacking this on the supply side we as customers should have the option to demand less. I know they offer small credits for accepting slower shipping but I specifically want to put some constraints on when the people who serve me are asked to work. I also don't want their insultingly small credit for this, I'd rather they plant a tree(s) with the savings.
Unfortunately not. Brain and Alesia addressed this in their AUS on Reddit. They thought hard about this and wanted to do it, but weren’t quite there yet.
Essentially, the argument made by Butterick and others is that choosing Arial as a font is not a choice but indicates the absence of a choice, since it is a system font. [1] At the very end of that page he writes a few paragraphs exactly why he dislikes Arial.

Regarding alternatives: "[...] Arial is permanently associated with the work of people who will never care about typography. You’re not one of those people. So use Avenir. Use Franklin Gothic. Use Gill Sans. Use one of the fonts listed in Helvetica and Arial alternatives [2]. Or use something completely different. But don’t use Arial. It’s the sans serif of last resort."

[1] https://practicaltypography.com/system-fonts.html

[2] https://practicaltypography.com/helvetica-and-arial-alternat...
Wait how does this work. If you can't withdraw then in what sense do you even own the coins?

Does this mean that if you are, say, a New York based Robinhood customer, and you buy Bitcoin, then the only thing you can do with them is sell them later?
Honestly I think it's a matter of personal preference. I would write a technical report in a serifed font. I'm used to reading (La)TeX typeset reports like in academia so that's what I would use to write one. Sans serifed fonts look too casual (for lack of a better term?) for me in a technical report, not to mention the potential for ambiguity (l or I?) in sans serifed fonts.
> I don't agree at all. The rise of ICOs and crowd funding provide a strong counterexample. Ideally the best startups would be funded by revenue and bank loans.

ICOs provided the single best example of why regulation is necessary in decades — a world of fly by night scammers doing whatever it takes to separate people from their money, and a few well inventions but utterly unsuccessful projects. Zero ICOs turned into real successful business. Zero. You can count them on no hands. In exchange for what must be hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments from the common person. What an utter write off.

Thing is, if you can raise from value added investors with experience and connections, you do. If you can’t you go after people who don’t know better. This leads to massive adverse selection risk - present in JOBS act investing too fwiw.

There’s a long and storied tradition here.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong... but I don't think it's just trendy, its also profitable. Insurance claims with "covid" noted are, in my rational opinion, processed a lot more liberally, quickly, and without deeply looking at the details of the claim. The claimant could probably even charge insurance more for the same service if covid is noted in the claim notes.

The political/social powder-keg of denying a covid related insurance claim is not one that a health insurance corporation would probably be willing to take, at least for another year or 2.
That's true, but we do have populations that are closer to control. There's still quite a few people who engage in subsistence farming in less industrialized nations.

For example, the rice farmers in the northern Philippines (excluding Banaue which is heavily touristed). They've certainly benefited in the last century from medicine, a stable government that prevents their historical tribal warfare, and cheaper manufactured goods, but their actual farming hasn't changed a whole lot.
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Oh, I'm well aware of the popular trend to discredit ideas based on the race of the originator (a disgusting proposition).

We must push back.
It's important to keep our humanity and dignity.
Convenience and economies of scale are not worth it if we doom our fellow humans to be at the mercy of companies.
The meaning of small and big is relative to some context. In the context of porn, almost any word designates a fetish. If it refers to a group of humans, one could call it a stereotype or objectification. In the context of Porn [Rule 34](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34) applies, and it affects everything.
I’ve been a huge fan of this project for a while and have some tips:

- The Spotify playlists all update automatically (usually weekly) so it’s worth following genres you like.

- Don’t miss the Pulse and Edge playlists linked at the top of most genre pages! Both are based on the listening activity of fans of the genre, with Pulse focusing on currently popular music and Edge on lesser-known artists.

- Smarter Playlists (http://smarterplaylists.playlistmachinery.com/) is a visual environment for building programmatic playlists using Spotify API calls. I use the Pulse and Edge playlists to make my own “Release Radar”-style playlists focused on specific genres, sorted to show the newest and least popular music first.

I’ve also been tinkering on a little handheld ESP32 Spotify remote that includes the genre and country playlists from here. It’s handy to use with a smart speaker to browse music when you don’t know what you want to hear.

Demo video: https://twitter.com/sorghum/status/1317623432012472320

Repo: https://github.com/quadule/knobby
"Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, Sinead Boucher offered $1 to buy Stuff, New Zealand's largest news publisher... The punt worked. The Australian company accepted the offer of 1 New Zealand dollar, worth about 70 U.S. cents."

Explanation? You expect that the economy will eventually recover--so why essentially give the company away? [The only thing which comes to mind is a very heavy debt load which the new owner assumes.]
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Google's public index is just the short head, maybe even less than 5% of the internet by pages. Old stuff is more or less all pushed out unless its popular.
This line gives it added credibility, imo: "In the end, it was all a huge overreaction by PR."
A member of the steering committee described their job with respect to Stallman as "saying no to Stallman", so I imagine they'll continue better without him.
Yes, maybe the sku of a coffee cup, with a coffe cup inside, just to be able to be legally off the hook in an awesome way.
I get what you're saying and I don't really disagree with you. An object's methods are an interface and its method signatures are a contract about what "messages" (in Alan Kay parlance) it will accept and return.

A C++ style const system would seem to be compatible with that.

And, in every practical sense, I would love such a thing existing in Java. I don't give a crap about whatever "OOP philosophy" and purity, even if my statement were correct/true.

However, (and this is just navel-gazing, honestly), adding const to object methods is exposing information about its internal state. That's not very "objecty" in the Alan-Kay-ish, Actor-model-ish sense. An object's internal state is "none of your business."

> Java's String class doesn't let me access its internal character array, but it still matters to me that it promises never to mutate it, nor to let anyone else mutate it (at least ignoring reflection).

I feel like this is a little different. Strings in Java are technically a class, but they're really treated like primitives (evidenced by the fact that literals are magically made into String objects).

But, it doesn't really matter. I agree. It's great that String promises to be immutable.

I'd argue that immutable class instances aren't really "objects" anymore- they're just (possibly opaque) data types.
Quite a few reasons. Open Source is more in the news and it's self-reinforcing, people are incentivised to write content that gives them clicks.

* Global pandemic and uptick in open source contributions

* Elastic/Amazon

* RMS

GPL's often a point of debate due to the virality of the license. AGPL is significantly more problematic due to the risks that it poses to corporations.[0]

IMO, overall this is a net positive, there's a lot more debate on long-term sustainability for open source, and a significant push for more corporate backing.

[0]: https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
> First, you make a mental model. Then, you test it.

Except that isn't how that really works right? A mental model explains part of the reasoning that led to an outcome but never all. After all, the map is not the territory. A mental model is grounded in trivial assumptions. Ultimately, your brain produces inferences in a way that is incredibly hard to couple to a specific logical processes. There has been a lot of research on how experts think and reason and none of it is compatible with having a mental model whatsoever.
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> I'm leaning more to "this is real", but it's astounding there's no reference to it before yesterday.

Why? It wasn't nationwide, it was local. They said a few hundred boxes on shelves for less than 24hrs.

The only people to know would be people seeing two 60 sec local news clips. Info didn't spread the same back then as it does now.

Again, not proof that it happened, but also not a shock that if it happened there aren't records of it.
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Try finding something from Google before 2007.
I can't tell from the article, what is their definition? Are dark Indians or Bangladeshis covered? Is it quite literally based on skin colour?
So, because its not perfect, should you throw it all out?
It's a fun trick, but to reassure anyone who's panicking right now, it's not actually moving your cursor

It's hiding your cursor while it's over the site, rendering an <img> of a mouse cursor at its location, and then moving that around a) when you move your real cursor, and b) with random perturbations

Note to the author: the illusion would be even better if you used the user-agent to render a system-accurate mouse cursor ;) (on macOS the real cursor is black and the fake one is white)
Thanks, that seems close to what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure how to get a keybind that has behavior similar to scrollback mode. I think tmux is missing the ability to give control over to an arbitrary shell command. For example, if I bind that to a key, I can only run it in the background right?
Yah, I'm not arguing that Matt is saying incorrect things, I'm saying his videos need extra scrutiny because he is sometimes using his videos for advertising and gives less than accurate portrayals of certain products. It looks like one his more egregious videos has been removed wherein he's reviewing types of siding and has some pretty laughable "tests" that he recreates inconsistently in order to prove fiber cement siding is superior to all other siding.

Additionally, to my knowledge, Matt isn't originating any of these ideas, he's just implementing them.

I don't mean to be so hard on Matt, I excitedly watch almost every new video of his and I'm excited there are people out there making building science more accessible. I just wish he'd so a slightly better job differentiating between shilling and presenting information.
> And many of the fixes for Excel are assuming that all people who program should act like professional programmers.

This is the key insight and one that the other replies somewhat hilariously ignore.

An Excel replacement is going to be "ugly" to programmers' eyes. It has to be since this is what makes it useful to the wider population.

What it needs to be is a bit better.
To use the same alarmism and a software analogy: sw developer destroys thousands of hours of CPU time with bad code!1 Yet every single time I push, the CI pipeline runs an extensive suite of automated tests, and I'd not have it any other way. Wait but CPUs aren't being destroyed by running tests, you say. Yeah but niche reporting is always atrocious and a mainstream writer can't be trusted to get things entirely right.

(If you're using a 4x16 server, whatever that is, to provide isolation in your system, you may want to talk to additional devops folks for other options.)
You are right that there is some good soil in northern areas. I guess the general question is, is the soil health at more northern latitudes healthy enough to replace the loss of growing in the lower latitudes.
Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
That's ridiculous.Inflation caused by raising minimum wage did not really happen.
You dont really increase the cost of vegetables or bread because more people can buy it.

If we are worried about inflation we can use the same economies of scale to give people that depend on minimum wage things they would not be able to afford.

Housing,healthcare,education,food.
There is a lengthy discussion among top contributors and steering committee members on the GCC mailing list and none of it favored retaining Stallman. Not one GCC participant on the "remove Stallman" thread spoke of him as an asset, and many described him as the opposite. From my reading, every single proponent of Stallman on that list was an outsider.
I keep saying, popular reporting of archeological and other pre-historic finds is particularly bad in a sea of bad science reporting, probably because of the rampant speculation and romanticism associated with such things.
> C++20 is just a new version of the C++ standard.

and per ISO rules, older versions are withdrawn (as can be confirmed for C++ here: https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html) and not to be used anymore: https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/store/en/P...

Other reasons why a committee may decide to propose a standard for withdrawal include the following :
▸ ▸ the standard does not reflect current practice or research
▸ ▸ it is not suitable for new and existing applications (products,
systems or processes)
▸ ▸ it is not compatible with current views and expectations
regarding quality, safety and the environment
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And that was my initial estimate as well until I doubted my own knowledge of how long history has been recorded. Apparently the definition for some stretches all the way back to 4000 BC! So to account for this wide range of opinions I anticipated I would encounter on HN, I chose to be vague.
They didn't interpret it correctly, and there's no rule stating a comma is necessary that's universal in every style-guide.
Other countries solve this by taxing it as a "benefit in kind". It is compensation, and should be included in how one is taxed.
Interesting! TIL, thanks for the explanation!
Do esims fix this problem?
Increasingly the norm, no physical sim card at all.
If you burst open the cells and extract all the goop inside, you can use that goop to express proteins. For certain organisms, like E.coli, this works quite well, and you can get a significant amount of protein. For others, like JCVI-Syn3, the goop sucks at expressing protein. So it’s a “pretty bad cell free” [expression platform]
I identify as a 'hacker' in the 2600/Phrack tradition, and I definitely feel like a luddite rejecting the centralization of control as everything moves into the cloud, and proliferation of anti-consumer software that disempowers. Linux and BSD are beginning to feel like the last bastions of true user freedom, and the only remaining place that I have any control over my destiny as a user (and creator) of software.

DRM, app stores, subscription models, SaaS... I would burn all of these things to ground if I could