skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evidently, it depends on multiple factors.

My son's school uses Google Meet for online classes. 2 instructors + 36 students per section. All participants have their videos switched on. Even when the bandwidth fluctuates, we haven't noticed issues. In particular, Meet degrades well: audio continues to be high quality, with video becoming grainy or getting suspended. But, that is pretty rare. And, slide shows are never a problem.
> no nuclear

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874421

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324974
Very interesting, thank you! I also agree that awareness is a massive one!

When I hear sticker campaign I immediately think of all the stickers that are put somewhere where they are maybe tolerated but most likely not asked for. Often being not allowed.

Not doing any implicit accusations but I am wondering if you found a way that was legal? Or if you have ideas for "accepted" ways to raise awareness?
Samsung Galaxy A72, A52 and A32 5G Are Available in Amazon
> You dont have to publish them, keep them secret !! go sell your work as a secret if your work is so important, why do you have to publish it and then litigate anyone else who comes up with a similar techniques.

Because if you simply keep it secret then the people who patented it after they independently came up with it can sue YOU!

The lesser evil is to put it into the public domain; then no one can patent it and no one can sue you either.
I use /etc/hosts daily to access computers with only an IP address and no DNS entry, or to override them for testing.

I don't want to have to self host a DoH server when it's so easy to edit a test file.

Furthermore, until every ISP has its own DoH server we are centralizing control of the basic internet infrastructure even more than now.
>>If a verdict is supposed to represent the peoples will - doesn't it make sense to involve actual common people?

No, because the law should be followed to the letter and "common people" are not qualified to pass judgement. Jury trials in the US just seem to be about how 12 people feel about someone, not whether law was actually broken or not. Every time I hear a case where there was no hard evidence against somebody, but the prosecutor made an impassioned case to the jury and they decide that the person is guilty I'm like.....what even is this. Why have a justice system if you're going to have this circus at the end.
yes and eink monitor would be certainly an alternativ for you (i.e. Dasung monitor). Or even an eink laptop. We are actually working on building one at EI2030. Follow our twitter and join our discord: https://twitter.com/EI2030_official/status/13709912725598412...
That's not specific to Russian Orthodox church, other orthodox churches do it as well (Balkans, Israel, Ethiopia, Egypt etc).
Spotify isn’t promoting Alex Jones with a big table in the center. It’s just part of the catalog.

My concern with your reasoning, and if enough people think similarly to you, is that people don’t like lots of people.

So if people skip a bookstore because they have a JK Rowling signing, they lost customers. And if people skip for a Ben Shapiro signing. And if they skip for a Hemingway signing (raised for the dead through necromancy just for a signing). Etc etc

Bookstores like money so rationally they’ll stop having signings from people who could alienate customers.

I like having lots of choices for books and worry that eventually there won’t be stores that carry the books I want to read. So I tolerate the availability of lots of stuff because that leads to books I like being available.

Spotify being responsible for lyrics is a bad thing. I remember in the 80s and 90s when Congress tried to pressure music labels to censor lyrics on albums. That sucked. Not just because it was Congress but because it made it harder for artists to express their ideas. Companies like Walmart would only carry censored versions or not carry albums at all. That sucked.

People were butthurt about curse words and devil references back then. Being butthurt about gay frogs and Sandy hook stupid conspiracy theories is today’s version, replacing alt right for satanists and cop killers.
Uhm, I used to think that patents are a monopoly on a certain implementation of an idea, not the idea itself. If you own a patent of a video codec, that doesn't make you automatically owner of all codecs of the world.
Am I wrong?
Adapt? That's what most industries that face change do.

How did sites survive before the ad infestation business model?
Sugar is bad, but the true unhealthy sugar is fructose or polysaccharide that degrade into fructose in your stomach, basically. Glucose is only bad in high quantity.
That does actually sound like real cities to me. You have to walk 1 km to get to a point 50 m away because they never put an underpass in when they built the railway line. That flagship building stands half finished for 4 years because the people involved got bought out by another company that never got around to finishing it.

And then you have that one section left over from the original release that all the engineers agree desperately needs to be refactored and upgraded, but due to cost and politics they never get to do it. And anyway you have a couple of power users who insist that the backwards and broken way that part is implemented is actually perfect and shout very loudly anytime you suggest changing it.
I agree with the post that software at scale is a big open question.

What gives me hope is that there were successful mega projects though not about software. Für example, I read about the Manhattan Project over Project Atlas to the Apollo Project. Those were all mega projects with high innovation and uncertainty like software development. I have no good theory what makes it successful though.
The way I learnt a lot myself was to run applications with little budget, e.g. running them on anaemic servers with few resources. When you have no option but to improve performance, because the alternative is too expensive, it gives you a good prod to design with it in mind.
January 7th, not 6th, though the day before Christmas is also celebrated.

And Easter is affected as well. Sometimes they fall under the same weekend, sometimes they don't. This year it's on the 25th of April. I don't know how exactly the weekend is picked.
I agree with what you say. Anything that you want to share that you did yourself, too or are you living in a 3rd world country yourself? Or maybe are homeless?
State of Clojure Community 2021
> They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors.

I'm unaware of any law which requires a business to make money for investors. A business can promise to pay dividends and they can speculate on where their stock can be at a future date, but there is no legal recourse if they lose money.
He was born in 1731. In the calendar reforms of 1752, February 1731 retroactively became February 1732. So, when he was 15 years old, he had been born in 1731, but by the time he was 30, he had been born in 1732.
totally understand
Agreed, if food is 10% of all emissions then what is the top 20% categories responsible for 80% of all emissions ?
Another possible reason for not having physical buttons is waterproofing. There would need to be a small gap between the button and the hob surface, and water or cooking oil could get in there, causing issues with the electronics, in addition to making it harder to clean.
> So then what's worse: $11 an hour at a job you can work indefinitely, or $15

I think people can make that decision when they choose to work for orgs.

I’d like to see info on how long warehouse workers last in the job.

But Amazon does provide disability insurance [0] beyond social security, so they do help with permanent injury for all their workers. If it’s on the job there’s also worker’s comp.

[0] https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us
Ironically the link to Knuth's website found in the References [1] is broken due to a linebreak in the url.
HNers don't seem to appreciate the significance of materials science advances over the past 100 years. Structure matters down to the crystalline molecular level.

A great example is turbine engines.

The Me-262 Jumo engine was rated for 25 hours, plus 10 more hours after a rebuild. The average small aircraft turbine engine today is good for 3,500 hours, plus it can be rebuilt - that's over 100x more.

(The first British turbine engine design didn't receive funding because the military advisor said the high-temperature materials didn't exist.)

Same thing with bikes.
The importance of good bearings seems always neglected in these expositions. They depend on excellent quality metals and workmanship not available until very recently.

Until mid 20th, century China had a wide variety of single-user, single-wheel mostly cargo vehicles, optionally wind-powered, deployed in huge numbers. Marco Polo wrote about them, but was not descriptive enough for Europeans to get a good idea of their extreme utility.
The branch that uBlock sits on is not ad revenue. It's people's annoyance at constantly being subjected to intrusive user tracking, especially for sites that they have little choice to not use. Think social networks and banks. Sure you can refuse to use them entirely on principle, but it's not a practical approach if you want to actually have a life.

On top of that, much of the tracking that does go on is actually blatantly illegal in how it's done, at least in the EU. It's just too small-time to enforce at scale. Doesn't mean I have to take this as a given.
Now, if we could somehow remove ligogen from wood, we would have pure carbon, ignifuge building material. This would do a lot for the planet.
Let’s be honest if Xi Jinping called up Trump and told him to shut down borders and instate mandatory curfews he’d have done the opposite.
Important question! My main concern is to combat climate change with all my energy. Whilst it is still hard to leave all routines behind, I try to challenge myself on every action I take.

- I changed my employer in December to work on renewable energy topics. It gained me 5000€/a, so win/win.

- I switched my power supplier to eco 5 years ago. Probably 50€ per year. It is important to choose a real eco-friendly tariff. Some are only labeled as environmentally friendly.

- I am donating to greenpeace and other environmental ngos (as well as planting trees). ~400€ per year.

- I stopped using a car a few years ago. I am substituting it by public transport and/or my bike. Occasionally, I still rent a car, however much less. I would say, it costs a lot of time sometimes but it is hard to figure out the number. All things considered, I am certainly saving money.

- I am only buying organic food and especially meat with no compromise. It probably costs me 50-100€ per month compared to shopping in a discounter market. Since the meat is quite expensive, I reduced consumption drastically (but not only for economic reasons).

- I am not taking airplanes anymore to go on holiday. This costs a lot of time. My last travel to Greece took 3 days instead of 3 hours.

- I have reduced shopping and online shopping to a minimum. It just saves money and time as well.

- I have put stickers for the past global climate strike, it cost me a few hours. Participating some hours as well.

- I am always bringing my tupperware for picking-up food (except pizza), no compromise, no one-way packaging. This is not really combatting climate change but it helps against environmental pollution.

- Countless hours of debating with people :-D

Also, many little things which I forgot to/can't mention. I think everybody should do as much as he or she can, get used to it, do more, get used to it, do more, etc. :)
> it would force advertisers to use less effective ad text to avoid filters.

That seems counterproductive to me. I mean, ads would still be annoying. And that’s why we block them.
I find that they're not even easier to clean. When I clean my hob and the button area gets a bit wet, it will randomly turn on. Turning cleaning into a potentially painful affair.
It's interesting to compare India to the UK where we gave up part way on a relatively short line (London - Bristol) because the costs were out of control.
Thought the same, but I also think we already have software-as-a-city if you take operating systems, cloud platforms or for example message queue systems on top of which you build components (e.g. microservices at larger scale). Message queues are the streets and as such they are probably not the most efficient but at least they are flexible enough to allow you to experiment with the buildings: rebuild, renovate and repurpose them while leaving the streets more or less intact.

The problem with this industry seems to be that once something is solved, i.e. we already have reliable, battle-tested "streets", there is a big pressure to push everything further, build even more complex systems, faster. The pressure is rather natural: you will have a competitive advantage if you can push the limits and build something that can't be done based on the previous architectures, within a limited time frame.

For example, building desktop apps is a solved problem. These are you streets, these are your building blocks. But because it's a solved problem there's little money to be made out of it. The money lies somewhere on the edges of the map (e.g. SaaS) where there are still no roads and no general urbanization plan, and it's where the businesses tend to flock to. Hence the chaos, uncertainty and quality problems in most of innovative software.
The uMatrix 2d grid is a vastly superior UI than anything uBO offers for the same functionality. I keep using both because of that. uBO for blocking ads and hiding elements, especially on my phone, and uMatrix to selectively block JS and everything else.
Some interesting nuggets:

"what was your primary development language" -> Python+JS+Ruby are each smaller than Java, but together the dynamic languages are a noticeably bigger source of Clojure adopters than Java expats.

26% of respondents reported they are "Creating/maintaining open source libraries", vs 70% reported they're using Clojure primarily for work. Good number but would have been interesting to know how many for-work users publish OS libs.

Of domains, "Math/data analysis" users are 18% and "Big data" 12%.. that's together ~30%.

ClojureScript is used quite a lot to target non-browser environments. Node, React Native, AWS Lambda, Electron all have a lot of usage.

Error messages are the favourite area of improvement. It seems the rework in Clojure 1.10 to generate spec-based syntax error messages wasn't the cure that was hoped.
I didn't but I looked it up out of interest. Here's some ideas to get us started!

https://vegfaqs.com/vegan-companies-to-invest-in/
> fancy RAID controller

I simply don't understand why people use hardware RAID controllers. Anything above JBOD is asking for disaster.

Hardware RAID controllers always cause problems--whether due to being a throughput bottleneck or being a pile of bad firmware/hardware bugs.

The whole point of Ceph is to use commodity hardware and be reliable. Either Ceph works and things are reliable or it doesn't and you need to put it in the trash and get something that does. If Ceph doesn't really work, RAID hardware is just adding an extra failure point that adds nothing.
How common was water damage to hobs before physical buttons were removed? I'm guessing not very. Maybe there's a bit of cost saving involved when manufactoring hobs without buttons. But I'd much rather pay a couple of extra currency units and get something that's user friendly.
The thing with covid was it caught everyone by surprise. It’s not like the US even caught on first. It devastated Italy before we even flinched, so that alone is evidence that, at least for the US response, we would have gone to shit no matter who warned us.
The tooling is simply not there, so every software project keeps pushing the boundary of what is possible in its own unique fragile way.

People don't want solutions to yesterday's problems. These are considered trivial and already solved, such as invoking a shell command (which just hides a lot of complexity under the hood). Noone will pay you for invoking existing solutions. They pay you to push the boundary.

By tooling I mean programming languages, frameworks, libraries and operating systems. All of whuch have been designed for a single machine operation with random access memory model.

This no longer holds true. In order to scale software today you need multi machine operations and no such OS exists for it yet. Only immature attempts such as Kubernetes, whose ergonomics are far from the simolicity that you'd expect from a unix like system.

And random access memory model breaks down completely, because it is just a leaky abstraction. For full performance memory is only accessed linearly. Any random access structured programming language completely breaks down for working with GBs of data, in parallel and on a cluster of machines.

I don't think we'll push the boundary further if we keep piling crap on top of existing crap. The foundations have to change and for that we'd better go back to the 70s when these ideas were being explored.
Don't work with/for companies that use patents. Don't consent to companies using your work to file patents. If they do anyway, publish prior art where possible.

Write down and publish as many things as possible to enable prior art searches. If an important case affects a field you've been working on for decades, actively help victims find prior art.

Consistently vote against IP maximalists wherever you have an opportunity. Don't have relationships with IP maximalists.

Remind the general public about how bad and stupid patents are when you have the opportunity.

Don't buy products that advertise using "patented technology" or "patent pending". If you have no choice, buy used.

If you are in control of a company's patent strategy, file lots of provisional patents then abandon them, so they show up in the database when patent examiners search for prior art.

Financially support victims of patent attacks and help them get as many patents invalidated as possible.
Flash Anzan (mental abacus) techniques are always a notable topic[1][2].

As a sibling suggests, perhaps what you have is a Chinese abacus, which may be different in some sense; I would not know. In any case, I had assumed only decimal varieties existed and perhaps some sexagesimal configuration from antiquity.

I'd always fantasized about commissioning the builds of hexadecimal sorobans and mentally imprinting on them to the point of being able to perform immediate register math while debugging assembly for CTF challenges and the like. Maybe that could add an interesting dimension to the hobby :)

[1] Terrifyingly quick use of a soroban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_11-FZpc1c

[2] Flash Anzan/Mental abacus competition snippets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLt1ujt5qE
HS2 isn't an upgrade, it's a new line.
While I like, and am influenced by the economist, I find their formula frustrating. After stating the opposing side they often jump to their conclusions with barely enough arguments or stats. The articles don’t leave much in the way of follow up and hardly ever cite references to interesting facts or figures mentioned.
You may have meant this post:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/excited-about-dream-web-framewor...

or another in that thread, as the specific one linked doesn't compare Dream with Opium!

Opium itself is found here:

https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium
Large software projects are almost as complex as cities and yet we have almost no one working on them. 4 developers can be enough to build a product used by millions. That’s kind of incredible IMO. 4 builders/architects/engineers don’t go nearly as far.
Could you be more specific, and say what strategies an ad-supported site might use to provide the same content?
>Yet the comment looks no different than any other comment. It works. I have freedom to choose whatever software I want to make HTTP requests. //

I mean, sure there is, some form of DRM is possible. It might be circumventable, but it would be a PITA.
In some way, yes. The other side of this is, unfortunately, that these people are sometimes pretty inexperienced and easy to influence. I like to watch some true crime stories and quite often the people don't seem to have an "innocent until proven guilty"-approach, but rather a "if they're on trial, they're probably guilty"-approach. And then there's the famous Texas court for patent trolls.

That's not to say that judges can't make bad decisions (we have a similarly infamous court in Hamburg here in Germany), but it seems that having a jury does not necessarily make for better outcomes.
When the narrative can't be twisted to their favor, they will simply cancel your responses.
These are the same people that would argue cancel culture does not exist.

Edit: I say people, but realistically no human could exist with such flagrant disregard for logic and reasonable discourse.
Long-time monthly donor to Firefox here, and have been a Mozilla / Phoenix / Firebird / Firefox user for a couple of decades now. I still think their principles are worth supporting but I'm starting to question their choice of priorities.

IMHO they seem to be losing focus on their technical strengths - making a browser their audience wants to use. Over the past year I'm seeing a lot more problems with addons, specially on Linux. Several popular addons like umatrix and ublock origin make the UX sluggish, interacting with the addons UX are hit and miss, and such operations are often unresponsive for me. I'm seeing this on Ubuntu, PopOS and Mint.

Mac and windows variants work reasonably well for me, but it's come to a point where I've reluctantly switched to Vivaldi for day to day personal use.

My thanks and appreciation for Raymond Hill's excellent work. Though the technical aspects favor Firefox in theory, the extension / addon works far better with Chromium based browsers in practice for me.
Chariots go back to the Bronze Age. To extend your analogy, charioteers were the fighter pilots of their era - a loss of even one was a blow militarily and financially.

There was a whole logistics train of chariot craftsmen, etc. to maintain them, and charioteers took decades of training to master fighting from them.

The advantage of the chariot was that they travelled twice as fast as the average soldier, but if your soldiers could run fast while fighting, that advantage disappeared.

(There's speculation the Seas People, who were involved in sacking all of the major cities of the time, could run.)
I agree that tracking and ads are different. But uBlock does include ad-blocking functionality. The discussion here suggests that most people use it for that.
Active Learning with Carl E. Wieman (2019)
Classic trolley problem. I would sleep well knowing that you probably won't make up games involving guns and friends any more.
OT, but this reminds so much of:

I had to learn latin in school at age 12. I vividly remember when the first latin text we worked on had the latin word for "bicycle" in it. I asked my teacher why they had a word for something that didn't exist back then. She said "good observation, we just invented a word that we think they would have used".

I was already not very convinced of the usefulness of learning a dead language, but that sealed the deal. In the very first lesson.

I managed to pass all the exams by learning all the greek stories. For some reason, every exam was translating short versions of some greek mythology. I could get by with just recognizing the names, remembering the story and retelling it, while using some of the vocabulary I learned to anchor my retelling against the original text.
Sadly tough, none of the stories stayed with me, I forgot all of them.
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the paschal full moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Date