skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GreenPeace, for example, has been lying about nuclear power forever. All the radiation grifters on Youtube who talk about scintillations per m^3 of seawater as proof that Fukushima is killing Californians, etc.

"Concerned citizens" who demand endless studies about things we already have a good understanding of.

People who ignore the 10,000 deaths per week worldwide because of coal power but focus on the ~2 deaths from Fukushima.

Right, smear. Sabotaging the process.
Personally I find Nautilus much more irritating than Finder has ever been. Finder has most of the features most people need, you just need to know where to look for them, but Nautlius just straight up cuts stuff out.

Some of Nautilus' forked kin like Nemo (Cinnamon) and Thunar (XFCE) are decent though.

Dolphin is alright but in my case it has a bit of "MS Office" syndrome where I only ever use maybe 20-30% of its functionality, with the rest just being more clutter to have to dig through. I know some find those things useful, but in my case it's just going to collect dust and get in the way.
The bug is fixed now, as the articles notes at the end. I cannot reproduce this at all now. When I put HTML in an actual .txt file, TextEdit opened it showing the markup, not the rendered content. This is regardless of whether in Preferences, I check or uncheck "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text" checkbox.
incidentally you can get leds with clear, clouded, or colored+clouded encasings. Only with the latter can you tell what color they are when they're off.

One time I had some red leds in clear encasing in a parallel configuration and they inexplicably would not light up... it turned out one of the leds was actually infrared and it was invisibly on and sucking up all of the voltage
For key mapping, I wish the author had discovered interception-tools. It is far more powerful and easy to use than karabiner.

https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools
He probably meant web and not Internet. The IP protocol, which is arguably what is closest to what internet really means haven’t seen a change since the 80s. We are still struggling with moving to IPv6.
> Any non-trivial code work is done in JavaScript, anyway.

JavaScript is strongly-typed though, it just lacks a way to declare types. One can easily restrict types in script code (using `typeof` for primitives and `instanceof` for object prototypes).

People refer to it as "weakly-typed" because most (but not all) of the built-in types have implicit conversions to other types; and many of which are non-obvious: https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs
Microsoft is really killing it these past couple years. I'm still not sure I'd recommend for a tech team over OSX. But mostly because most devs now know how to deal with the issues from Brew and OSX, not so much Windows. But hell, most barely know how to deal with Linux/Unix stuff.
And yet you'll constantly hear folks whining that Cuba would be so prosperous if it wasn't prohibited from trading with one country...

It's all America's fault, certainly the local Cuban warlords did nothing wrong.
I entered college in 1995. I downloaded my first MP3 in summer of 1996 (Savage Garden -- Chicken Cherry Cola). By the end of 1997 (which is when the OP is talking about, when Winamp dropped) I had hundreds of MP3.

Scour was released in November 1997, and it was released to solve the problem of a whole bunch of college students having their MP3 libraries available via Windows shares, but it was hard to find what you were looking for. Scour fixed that.

So maybe not the general public, but in 1997 someone released a search engine specific to finding MP3s, because people already had large collections.
I use Linux Mint on various laptops (mostly Zenbooks) as a primary OS in HiDPI mode and I am totally fine with it. You just need to install drivers properly and find software you need and then you finally feel like in control and 100% in the flow.
Man, the authors should have explained that in the abstract. "Tradeoffs in attributes" does not cut it
Well, yes, of course.
> Canada, and Toronto area had tons of LEEDs certed luxury condos being heated like no tomorrow in Winter. Things are even worse in Vancouver, but that's offset by milder weather.

That's called Green Washing. Now, Snow Washing is the process in which dirty money is brought into Canada to purchase said assets.
Just pay sticker price and you will get the Tesla experience
That has been observed, and nicotine proposed as a potential therapeutic aid. The mechanism could be because the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binds to the same nicotinic acetylcholine receptors that nicotine binds to.

> A total of 5960 patients were included in the studies identified. The current smoking prevalence ranged from 1.4% (95% CI 0.0–3.4%) to 12.6% (95% CI 10.6–14.6%). An unusually low prevalence of current smoking was observed from the pooled analysis (6.5%, 95% CI 4.9–8.2%) as compared to population smoking prevalence in China. The secondary analysis, classifying former smokers as current smokers, found a pooled estimate of 7.3% (95% CI 5.7–8.9%). In conclusion, an unexpectedly low prevalence of current smoking was observed among patients with COVID-19 in China, which was approximately 1/4th the population smoking prevalence. Although the generalized advice to quit smoking as a measure to reduce health risk remains valid, the findings, together with the well-established immunomodulatory effects of nicotine, suggest that pharmaceutical nicotine should be considered as a potential treatment option in COVID-19.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7210099/

> Based on the early observations of the lower than expected smoking prevalence in hospitalised COVID-19 patients, Changeux and colleagues suggested a role for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the pathophysiology of COVID-19 via a direct interaction between these receptors and the viral spike (S) glycoprotein.11 This suggestion was based in the fact that the S protein from SARS-CoV-2 contains a sequence motif similar to known nAChR antagonists11 (Figure S1), such as α-bungarotoxin from Bungarus multicinctus and glycoprotein from Rabies lyssavirus (formerly Rabies virus). Changeux et al. also proposed that COVID-19 might be controlled or mitigated by the use of nicotine, if the latter can sterically or allosterically compete with the virus for binding to these receptors.9,11

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7386492/
I'm using Chrome and Windows10 but also got unpleasant behavior. I can't quite tell whats going on for multiple pushes of the scroll wheel but one 'tick' would push the page a set amount, and then a moment later the movement was repeated (but without the prompting input). Adds up to kind of a 'gross' overall feeling when scrolling.
EDIT: when scrolling with the arrow keys it looks like theres an attempt at 'smoothing' but it really feels more like inertia and damping and is pretty unpleasant.
Alcohol is purely bad for you, there's not much hormesis effect aside from the social ones - studies finding things like red wine is good for you have reverse causation issues. If you want to challenge people then give them useful challenges. Just randomly poisoning everyone is not useful.

The testosterone effect is not true (it went down in Finland and then went back up), and might've been positive (getting married causes both low testosterone and more children). Less children is due to being less religious.

Remember, eugenics isn't real!
Sometimes a tree or graph really is the right way, but if you want memory locality, you could have an array of nodes and an array of edges that reference the nodes by index. That’s effectively what the author is proposing (pooling), rather than allocating all of the nodes and edges individually.
Ok, but, respectfully, "non-falsifiable argument is non-falsifiable".

At any rate, I'm mostly just here to say that contra the nerd-popular argument that Stallman's "cancellation" is perpetrated by people "outside" of free software, here it's pretty clearly the reverse: the people most vigorously advocating for Stallman's removal from the project have unimpeachable GCC credentials.
I had that for a while on my Arch Linux install. Then I set up full disk encryption. So now of my 45s boot, 20s is me typing the password, 20s is running the luks kdf, and 5s is the entire rest of the boot process.
My work computer is like that. It takes a while to reconnect to all the servers and get the corporate spyware up and running.

My Windows 10 PC goes from cold/dark to ready for use in, well, 20 seconds. I keep it lean.

My 1982 TI99/4a can go from boot to running a program in about 1.5 seconds, if you can hit “2” as soon as the program selector screen shows. SOLID STATE SOFTWARE
It's a bit too simple to say that that's the problem, it's not that general relativity can't deal with global features of reality, those will simply not look the same to all observers. The reason I mentioned CMB is that space necessarily seems to have a preferred speed (even with general relativity you can't have a distribution of speeds that looks the same from all frames of references), and measuring the blueshift in CMB allows you to measure an absolute speed in some sense (it might still be local to our part of the universe, but that includes pretty much everything we can interact with).

The obstacle to combining general relativity and quantum mechanics is, in short, that general relativity is a classical theory of physics (e.g. exact positions, energy, momentum and all that), whereas quantum mechanics expands classical mechanics to get quantum mechanical laws of physics. Now for whatever reason the techniques we used to turn electromagnetism etc. quantum mechanical fail to work on the (classical) theory of general relativity.

And IMHO that's about as far as we've gotten, a lot of work's gone into it but it's honestly hard to tell if we've gotten a better grasp on why general relativity refuses to 'quantize'. Personally I blame the fact that the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics aren't strong enough to support a quantum mechanical description of geometry itself, but I may not be the most qualified person to judge this.
Messing with native scrolling as a web antipattern is right up there with interfering with copy and paste. I will never understand why people do these things.
Pay your taxes so that society can afford infrastructure that benefits everybody?
Thanks for your data point. Over here I just took a random sample around the room and came across many instances.
I would like to see someone do the equivalent experiment now with a Win10+WSL2 setup.

I'm carefully watching Apple to see what the next line of Macbook Pros looks like. Esp. how well the M1 architecture fits into a development workflow that will still for the forseeable future center heavily on deployment to x86 architecture. We already are seeing significant time wastage from employees having to fight architecture issues with docker. We will see where that ends up. And then, whether the rumors are true that they might support more ports and even options without the touch bar. These things would signal a genuine change of heart on considering developers to be first class citizens in their ecosystem. If all these turn out positive I'll be sticking with it. If not, Win10+WSL2 are looking extremely compelling.
That's the gap between a computer enthusiast and average population. Most people weren't on a campus with a LAN. Many people were relying on 33.6K dial-up with metered a metered ISP, often on their phone line they needed to receive calls. For most people MP3s were just too hard to transfer.

Cheap CDRs were the other big breakthrough. Now people had a reason to download music so they could burn it to listen in their car. But that's well after Win95.
> Ideas are not self governance.

I never said they were. What I did say is that expressing and communicating those ideas is (one aspect - and a critical one, IMO) of self-governance, and that when there exists a government that forbids said expression and communication, engaging in said expression and communication anyway is a pretty unambiguous rejection of that government's power.

That is:

> Ideas serve to communicate the interests and possibilities and to coordinate groups to organize a society.

Exactly correct.

...but this all now drifting further and further from the original point of my original comment: that we Americans (like the people of any other country) have a collective interest in accurate, timely, and publicly accessible weather reporting, and that if the government ain't up to the task for whatever reason, then we arguably should be considering an alternative mechanism for said reporting - and that it's arguably our civic duty to help with that replacement, for the mutual benefit of ourselves, our communities, and our nation as a whole.
I considered buying a System76 Lemur not too long ago because I liked the machine's specs and enjoy popOS, but after seeing QC issues with System76's OEM decided against it and got a Thinkpad X1 Nano instead.

Interested to see how their in-house laptop project goes though.
> How would you feel if the government regulated how much sugar or salt you can eat,

One reason this would be bad is there is actually very little evidence that salt is bad for you. It's entirely possible most people don't get enough salt.
Yes, I’m sure increased, abusive consumption of a neurotoxin is sure to raise average IQ.
It's less likely to be the amount of cores but rather the amount of RAM actually.
I think that one of the reasons people look for a good exposition is so that they do not _have_ to muddle through.

I know I look for a simple example or explanation that makes complicated cases clear.

This 'explanation' might be correct, but I found the details that would help someone else follow it are missing. Especially someone with a computer science background who considers a m x 1 matrix different from a 1 x m matrix.

I see a sister comment has explained this, but I want to point out that there are plenty of details... (like sister's statement 0b which looks to me more like an exponential function than a linear function) that's why one goes to a carefully written source.

This paper is a carefully written explanation of the basics, ending with many applications of the chain rule. The "matrix product rule" is not mentioned, which is good in my opinion.
> log_statement = all

Is this something people really do? Wouldn't these logs be enormous and/or potentially leak unwanted information?
Hah, I did something sorta similar in my freshman year of high school - I noticed that emails sent to the whole school were sent to mailing lists (in gmail's terminology - not sure what this kind of address is in actual email standards) called "allYYYY.student.school.org", where YYYY is the graduation year of a grade and student.school.org is the domain all our student emails were at. I hadn't seen that kind of email address/mailing list address before, so I wondered whether it was just a legit email address as well. It turned out it was (it was for a google group in the domain also called "allYYYY" IIRC) so when I sent an email with subject line "Hello" and body "?" to allYYYY(at)student.school.org to see if it would give me a mailer daemon response, that got sent to all ~800 people in my grade, some of whom promptly started replying to all. Eventually a couple kids started sending edgy memes, so I was called into my dean's office and asked to forward them the whole thread so that they would know they weren't missing out on anything "dangerous" (I think the main one they were concerned about was a picture of someone shooting a gun with the caption "I would literally die if a guy did this to me"). Then they locked down the capabilities on the google group, so no more unapproved email campaigns :(
Maybe we need to develop new spaces?

With the gig economy I don't see us getting to socialize all that much at work anymore.
The specific extension, though the Perl extensibility is also a reason.
Examples of Tokenized ERC20 Oil and Silver
Does anyone have examples of these? How reputable?
I think you mean "positive feedback loop", which means a self-reinforcing cycle.

A negative feedback loop is the opposite, a feedback mechanism that self-corrects or dampens the signal.

Re. the state of war, I suggest reading "Enlightenment Now" by Stephen Pinker. We are living through the most peaceful period in history.
I don't really understand why browsers allow it!
I switched to Linux when learning nodejs and web development in general. Setting up nodejs and using commandline was pain so I decided to completely switch to Ubuntu and never looked back and I consider that one of the best decisions I ever made.

Now after getting tempted to try Arch Linux and I finally gave it a try and its been great so far and especially the Arch Wiki has been the best resource for all my linux knowledge

I just can’t thank enough whoever created ArchWiki Project it’s full of great knowledge related to Linux.

I just wanna take a moment and appreciate the efforts of people who contributed to archwiki and to linux project in general making it great for people like us to use it as a daily driver
Not seeing this on Firefox + Linux
That's really rare! Someone take a photo!
applescript editor?
As far as sudden mass extinction, I believe we've already reached the tipping point, but the unraveling processes of ecosystems take decades or even centuries. Big systems crash slow (even in computers! compare a nanosecond-scale hardware fault with a microsecond-scale SIGSEGV with a millisecond-scale NullPointerException with a seconds- or minutes-scale crash of a large web service; that's literally 9 orders of magnitude difference). Earth systems are starting to crash. Look at recent articles about the Great Barrier reef or the loss of kelp forests off the coast of California. These are just the leading edge of things coming apart, the snapping and cracking of support lines starting to come apart. Other things are coming apart at different timescales. Like the forests in Utah and Arizona that dying from higher elevations down due to warming, or being invaded by invasive species. In the midwest where I am, over just a few decades, farmland and forest turned into subdivisions. Raccoons, possum, deer, turtles, frogs, all disappearing. Lightning bugs disappearing. In California again, Monarchs disappearing.

Fire up Google Maps/Earth. Turn off all labels, and just pick a random place on Earth that isn't a desert. Chances are it's farms or turning into farms or suburbs or city. And land use change has accelerated. We've more tractors, backhoes, bulldozers, dumptrucks, roads, and gasoline than ever before. The ability to move dirt, cut down trees, landscape, build--growing exponentially. The Amazon is going, square mile by square mile, never to return. And with it, all the intricate little things alive there. We need meat!

We'll either crash or keep going. If we keep going, most life on this planet is threatened. And we aren't slowing down. We are speeding up. Like growing a watermelon in a lightbulb.

Our entire society is a tech machine that's eating it all. Bye, rabbits.
If you're talking about the "columns" view in Finder it's pretty obvious unless you're not paying attention where the contents of the folder you opened are displayed. Unless they happen to have exactly the same contents as another existing open folder at the same level the next column over's view visibly changes.

I guess this would be awkward if you've never used it, but I can't imagine it being confusing more than once or twice unless you never look at the screen while opening folders.
windows 10 chrome. Gets real jank whenever I stop scrolling. Not pleasant.
I don't want the police harassing pedestrians based on what their notion of safe phone use is. Look at how the NYPD uses jaywalking laws? In 2019 90% of the tickets were issued to black or Hispanic individuals.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/01/27/jaywalking-while-blac...

There is a large difference between people ought not do <> and cops ought to be given the privilege of harassing and imprisoning people who do <>.

It's perfectly possible to wear headphones and use your eyeballs to ensure the path ahead is clear in fact your ears aren't all that useful. I can SEE an oncoming car as much as a mile away if I am hearing a car about to crease me its already too late.
> Just look at the Green New Deal. If they truly thought of it as an emergency, they wouldn't pass highly controversial legislation with all sorts of policies with zero bipartisan support.

That...makes no sense. If you think its an emergency, and a faction which includes all of the members in office in the opposing political party thinks it is not an emergency, pretty much any policy aimed at dealing with the emergency is going to be both “controversial” and “have zero bipartisan support”.

But the Green New Deal isn’t intended to address one such controversial emergency, but two current ones (plus a third, less controversial, one):

(1) A climate emergency (hence, the “Green”),

(2) An economic emergency not in aggregate output but distribution (hence, the “New Deal”),

and:

(3) The potential economic emergency, both aggregate and distributional, that would be produced by a narrow, naive approach to the first emergency.

So, yes, it has lots in it that isn’t germane to the first emergency, especially viewed narrowly.
I used a 100mhz Pentium with 64MB or memory and, later, a 166mhz Pentium with 128MB. Win98 (people are correct that midis were way more common in the ‘95 days, as even a 2MB mp3 would take forever to download on dial-up and hard drives were small) and my experience was than any OS was fine if you were only playing mp3s, but on anything but BeOS or QNX you’d get bad pops and UI lag if you did anything else while a song way playing. Linux was actually worse about this than Windows, in fact, but both were bad.
Does OS X not have a firewall you could use to block all traffic going through the non-VPN interface? That'd work immediately, without the gap until the script triggers.
He says it was patched in 2020.
>But mostly because most devs now know how to deal with the issues from Brew and OSX, not so much Windows. But hell, most barely know how to deal with Linux/Unix stuff.

If you can operate Brew, you can operate a Linux package manager.
Also to the author: This is most likely costing you readers.

Just weighing the pros and cons here:

Pro: People who don't have smooth scrolling mouses will suddenly enjoy smooth scrolling on this website. Even this is a questionable "pro". Most people have scrolling setup how they want it and don't need it fixed on a per-website basis.

Con: Degradating a core function of the computer (scrolling) for people who already have smooth scrolling.

So to summarize: The plugin is not helping anyone read the blog, but it is preventing/annoying many people from reading it.
If it was being spent well I think a lot fewer people would complain.

A small fraction is spent on infrastructure.
I think each word in the title has a weight. Higher weight -> higher rank. If they found a way to insert "bitcoin" and "climate change" into the title, it would be number 1.
Thank you sir. My windows 95 machine could not play an MP3, and I could hardly download one in my dialup connection. My entire hard drive was 500mb, and I couldn’t have saved many MP3s even if I’d wanted. I did have about 1000 MIDI files, though.
I'm not "rationalizing", and neither are you.

You're arguing that it's not enough to make a correct implementation, but that it's also important to break compatibility with incorrect implementations.

I'm arguing that a better implementation that is compatible with current protocols is strictly better than a better implementation that is not Bluetooth-compatible.

If you make a piece of hardware that is good (e.g. doesn't randomly crash and need to be rebooted by the kernel), why is it a bad thing for it to try to connect to some flaky BT headset?