skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here [1] is the same thread on nitter (a twitter alternative that does not require Javascript to read). Other nitter instances can be seen here: [2]

The twitter thread also contained a reference to this interesting article on "Why bother with What Three Words?"[3], which itself links to other interesting articles: [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

W3W is a neat core idea poorly thought through. Hopefully one day there'll be a truly open alternative that solves the many issues W3W itself has.

[1] - https://nitter.cc/AaronToponce/status/1387933438305394690

[2] - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

[3] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...

[4] - https://blog.ldodds.com/2016/06/14/what-3-words-jog-on-mate/

[5] - https://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/location-grid-not-an-...

[6] - https://medium.com/@piesse/open-location-code-what3words-74a...

[7] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646650

[8] - https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-what3words

[9] - https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/

[10] - http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=589

[11] - https://www.grcdi.nl/Address_encoding_versus_traditional_add...

[12] - https://www.grcdi.nl/linkspas.htm
Apache had a single SVN repository for all projects in the past. That reached 1889412 commits.

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc
I'm confused- the brew developers say you can run `brew analytics off` to "prevent analytics from ever being sent" [1]. Is this not accurate? Are analytics still being sent? Is your concern with the consent, or are the brew developers lying when they say this command prevents analytics from being sent?

1: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics
I basic used `:defer t` for a while (Doom Emacs lazy loaded under the hood), but when I switched to my own config I decided to just run it in daemon mode and use `:demand t` on everything. I didn't like pauses sometimes when opening a new file while it loaded a package.

Actually, I just checked my init time with that command, and it's ~2.5 seconds. I wouldn't call my config heavyweight, but it does have evil, lsp, vterm, ivy, magic, etc. I am using the native-comp branch though.
> So an SoC-based device is simply impervious to physical attacks?

This is a straw man - nobody said ‘impervious’.

You said this:

> If you have physical access to a device, you can already tap the memory bus or countless other places

It is complete bullshit.

If it wasn’t, you’d be able to post a link to someone doing it.
Starka
I meant more like since schengen and easy travel within the EU. If we keep this up, in a few centuries we might get to a point similar as USA where your identity doesn’t depend on which country your grandma comes from.

The bigger question is whether we want to.
Because it's harder and older it's better.
I didn't meant that literally.

> The solution to your problem is entirely in your hands, just hit that uninstall button

Well, you might be correct here, but still having automatic updates as a paid feature seems a bit excessive.

Applying your logic, having to paid for such a basic feature is madness.

Don't forget people found out about this in the worst case possible.
Imaging starting to use the app, then they introduce a breaking change and when you go researching you find out that you have to pay for avoiding breaking updates.
Steve was a really curious character, he had an endless supply of stories but was still excited about tearing down a strange bit of electronics late on a Friday evening. He'd gladly hand you a stack of fluorescent signs to help advertise the swap meet, while explaining about some obscure Draper project from eons ago.

Thank you, Steve.
> but once you activated all the quality-of-life features and added a bunch of third-party packages, there was a noticeable performance impact.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean there. Unless those third-party packages are scheduling tasks on the event loop then they should not be impacting performance of your other operations. Just having lots of things installed and activated doesn't affect performance.
Here's one thesis that claims it probably does not:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/20366224.pdf
1) These things started in 2016, before Trump was in office.

2) The US isn’t the only country claiming this is happening.

3) It is still happening, now, in 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
Feel obligated to say this “law” of the Australia government is an operational definition of a “shithole country” ....
> committing via Github [...] there might actually be a decent well of untapped potential there

I don't buy it. Contributing to the Linux kernel is inherently non-trivial, and I find it completely implausible that any non-negligible number of developers are able to do that while not knowing how to send a mail.

Seriously, what's the scenario supposed to be here? "I've found a bug in low-level C code, and it's not a false positive, and I fixed and tested it, and I've looked up and followed the kernel coding guidelines, but I don't know how/am too lazy to send a patch per mail"?
One unfortunate problem is how easy it is for employees and employers alike to contrive a situation, with respect to mental illness, to force a desired outcome.

For the employee, good luck proving that management was complicit or negligent in the formation and continuation of a hostile working environment. At-will employment means it's your word against theirs in a wrongful termination suit, assuming someone mentally ill even has the resources and conviction to pursue a legal remedy. And ADA-related laws and protections, even if they can apply to someone with an "invisible disability", are difficult to invoke without social fallout. It's a catch-22.

For employers, how can you discern and remove a truly disgruntled, incompetent, malingering or indolent employee (from management's perspective) in an efficient manner, when perhaps the first-principle reason for those employee's shortcomings are related to mental illness?

ADA ought not to be intertwined with employment, rather there needs to be a more sophisticated social safety net and support programs for people with mental illness, instead of burdening employers with some of the responsibility which they have no business-rational reason to respectfully abide by.
Smart? Sociopathic describes that better for me.

My objective isn't to be financially or socially aligned with anyone. I have more money than I need but even before that I had preferred to do the right thing over maximizing those "gains" you describe.
Does someone come into the house and change it out?

I spend a lot more time (still not much) loading and unloading the dishes than I spend acquiring and pouring powder, so I'm not sure what value I'm supposed to think this would provide.
Well, it's a slow Sunday. How's yours going?

I don't mind explaining something in more detail, just let me know what.
>>> (And the public is often reliably biased -- this is why they say sports betting is more about betting on gamblers than on games.)

One mistake here. It's the house that sets the odd, not the public.

When the house sets the favorite to 1:3 odd and the second favorite is 1:4, they better be damn right about that proportion. At the end of the run, the money on the losing side will need to cover the winning side, and if it doesn't the company must pay the difference out of pocket.

The direct effect is that there is an enormous spread, the article mentioned about 17%, for the exchange to cover high uncertainty and make some profit.
The article ends:

> If this extreme myopia does in fact define us as a people, an artifact such as Signal asks us to consider: What if our enemies know us better than we know ourselves?

Well, yes, most of what students have learned in schools in the last decade would have been considered enemy propaganda even only a decade or two prior. The object of most theory taught in schools is intended to "destabilize," hegemonic ideas, which is literally a propaganda tactic. Educating young people to adopt an identity of being victims who are not held to the standards of their ostensible oppressors is an old recipe, and one the Germans used to great effect after Weimar, which produced the necessary shame to enable the cruely and zeal of the national socialist movement. It was borrowed from Russians who had recently deposed their Czar less than two decades earlier. The narrative and aesthetic promise of renewal was borrowed from Italy's fascists, who were a just tin pot nationalist movement compared to the totalitarianisms of Russia and Germany. Just like Stalin, Hitler used communist movements with populist fascist narratives and aesthetics as a vehicle for a totalitarian movement, which is defined by its total war on truth itself.

If destabilizing propaganda from that era bears some resemblance to the current day, it is because most of the cognitive frameworks we were taught to understand the world through come from the same sources.
If the next number depends on the previous number (like with wyrand and many others) it can't be simdified.

You could simdify computation with different seeds tho, which might be fine for many purposes. However at that point it's also a custom implementation with a different number sequence than the non-simd version, which isn't the case with a SIMDified MT.
That’s not what VHEMT is about, though. They do not advocate murder or genocide, but to just stop having children. From the FAQ:

> Q: Are some people opposed to VHEMT?

> At first glance, some people assume that VHEMT Volunteers and Supporters must hate people and that we want everyone to commit suicide or become victims of mass murder. It’s easy to forget that another way to bring about a reduction in our numbers is to simply stop making more of us. Making babies seems to be a blind spot in our outlooks on life.
> Someone out there is deriving value from the android app you're debugging or else it would not be economically viable to keep paying you to do that job.

Where does this sort of axiomatic economic thinking come from?

Tons of software projects really are completely pointless and will never turn a profit or generate value. And not even in a "the bet was worth making way" -- walk into any Fortune 500 and you'll find whole armies of people doing pointless busy work. Not confined to enterprises, though -- "special projects" are a thing in startups too. I've seen 10% layoffs -- literally workforce decimation -- without a single meaningful change to the economic output of the business. And that's the private sector. Anything defense-related is at least 100x worse in terms of pointless busy-work.

I don't quite understand how these sorts of neo-classical micro-econ axioms have such huge mindshare. Business managers are not omnipotent, and many aren't even competent.
The Nazis were literally funded by the German corporate right - especially Thyssen - and corporations like IBM offered invaluable practical support during the Holocaust. There was at a minimum well-documented financial and managerial support offered by elements in the the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworl...

None of this supports your assertion that the Nazis were somehow "hard left" - not a surprise, because no credible historian would agree with you.
Yeah, true.

Docker is basically at its core a shell around cgroups/chroots and filesystems. An overengineered shell and a confusing cmdline (which got better to be fair)

There's no "technology" there per se (on Docker "core"). Docker containers and Dockerfiles maybe? Which got eaten by other orchestration technologies there?
Improve your page load times with system fonts
> you were saying, quote

I mean, you're not quoting me there, but... :)

> Hence no 'Year $YEAR will be year of Linux on desktop"' being not true so far. The phrase was and is about linux taking some meaningfull portion of market for itself, not about a you using it.

Eh, the phrase has always been ill-defined. It could be interpreted as talking about marketshare - but it could also be interpreted as the point where Linux is technically as or more capable than its competitors as a desktop OS. That point has come and gone.

(And really, the phrase tends to be used more as a potshot at Linux users than anything actually meaningful.)
They are dangerous for emergency services, here is a case where W3W showed a location many miles away: https://twitter.com/isleofmandan/status/1386455377949122561

Someone have also compiled a list of pairs that only differs by one letter, like these two:

instants.lightening.precedents

instants.lightning.precedents

You can see the whole map here:
https://twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1385891425108250626

I wish they would just use "pluscodes" instead, the algorithm is opensource and doesn't depend on a specific dictionary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
Do you think they modeled the design after the round Apple campus?
Because the article is about him and the company he (co)founded.
Ask HN: Mnemonic algorithms (bip39, PGP world list) and their upgrade in an app?
Which mnemonic algorithm is the most popular nowadays? I've seen PGP word list and pip39 in use, not sure what else is being used actively. If you need to choose one of them, which one would you choose and why?

And if you are unsure about the choice, how would you make sure your app is able to upgrade it later?
I heard that some people consider this to be an insult, that's the main reason not to use this word.
I've said this before, amazon's search is so horribly bad that there is really no other explanation than that it is somehow desired. Really searching for something specific typically gives you pages of cheap slightly related products (e.g. search for a specific tablet with part number even, gives tons of results of screen protectors and other crap), and you're lucky to find the actual product within the first couple of pages. Similarly small spelling changes can make a huge difference, but theres no obvious logic to it.

Really the experience of shopping at amazon in Europe is so off putting that I would rather only shop in person if they would be my only choice.
I wonder what the internal discussion at Apple was about whether or not to include a loophole in the product.

The fact that fixit has gone out and shown how you can add a loophole rather than wasting $13 on an accessory is a bit of a facepalm moment.
> Note that no one callled them Normans before the 1800s ... no one ever used Norman contemporaneously

Are you claiming that the Duchy of Normandy is a post 1800 ret-conned invention? You think it never actually existed?
You are re-visiting questions posed by a famous 2nd temple period rabbi from the Galilee which ultimately spawned a radical offshoot sect that exists to this very day. ;)
How Credit Cards Affect Our Brains–and Our Spending
Just as a warning, if you use vscodium you will not be able to use some extensions, including Remote-SSH.
> But why bother putting a real driver in here at all? Magnets not only add weight, they take up a lot of space. Looks like one corner Apple refused to cut on this tiny disk is sound quality.

I find it fascinating what tradeoffs are decided upon. Apple is arguably the best luxury brand in the world - and this is why.
Have you noticed how microwave cooking is not warming up the skin any faster than the insides? The wavelength is selected so that it penetrates and warms water molecules. It would cook your insides according to their water content.

Surface of the skin has less water than tissue inside, so you would feel pain beneath the skin.
I thought I read that Linux jettisons old history every few years for the sake of practicality, and that if you want the full history you have to look at special archive repos. Am I wrong? I wouldn't blame them; git is fast, but it's not that fast, and cloning becomes a bear after only a few hundred thousand commits (and I would be surprised if that's the only operation that scales poorly).
> for middling performance at best

I am curious, what do you need in terms of performance? It can play 3D games and show videos on a big screen.

> backordered probably until early 2022

This is indeed a problem. Pinephone (with a worse performance) also has convergence and should be more available.
> In 2017, President Donald Trump accused Cuba of perpetrating unspecified attacks causing these symptoms.

Although the attacks were hearsay, immediate political actions were taken against Cuban diplomats who were likely working to lift the embargo:

> In August 2017, the United States expelled two Cuban diplomats in response to the illnesses.

Despite zero evidence, Cuba was rapidly blamed in gross political fashion:

> In October 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump said that "I do believe Cuba's responsible. I do believe that", going on to say "And it's a very unusual attack, as you know. But I do believe Cuba is responsible."

Why would Cuba jeopardize its warming relationship with the US? This is textbook propaganda.
Funny how things change. Cubicles were the poster child for dystopian corporate office environments in the 90s. And "office landscapes" were a know humanistic take on open plan developed in 50s and 60s as a response to rows of desks in the open plan offices of the pre-war period [1].

I quite like the idea of the library model - all communal space is quiet by default with many small rooms for and hoc discussion. It would take serious will to introduce it in most offices though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_landscape
choco outdated
Possibly naive question: if you can differentially target any particular thing to cancer cells specifically, why not just deliver poison to kill the cells directly? I.e. chemotherapy but without any of the nasty side effects.
On the other hand, one could argue that if the dishwasher manufacturer's intention was indeed to prevent user refills, they would have known to already implement their own strict "DRM-style" technological limitations, drawing from the history of printer cartridges. The fact that they haven't may well be a sign of good faith.
Fisher-Yates is one of the simplest things out there IMO.

Isn't the Lehmer code the thing that you want? Then you can specify your permutation with an integer and extract the individual digits from it repeatedly.
They act on systems of distributed induction and capacitance which are resonant to that longer wavelength.
Even given the political kinks of the writer, who is probably just a kid after all, it's not a terrible article. There are some reasonable take-aways.

. That 'Signal' existed. It's pretty interesting really, I've got a few hardbound volumes in one of my history book hoards. Worth looking at.

. Propaganda is everywhere. The hard part is seeing it in your own world, not others'.

. History is complicated. Historian's fallacy is real. Watch out.

. Nazis will fascinate people for a long time. I honestly think that a big part of it is their use of symbols, imagery, snappy uniforms, bigger-than-life super villains. An absolutely ridiculous belief system, but that never stopped groups of people from buying into things.

Of course sociology is largely self-serving BS (see: Stanislav Andreski: Social Sciences as Sorcery) but then so are a lot of other soft disciplines. You can't blame these people for riding a wave. To tie it back into the article, much of sociology is an attempt to program people with your own belief system, not to understand and predict. Perhaps it's just the advertising business with a figleaf of science.
Or focus on lowering costs. We learned in the pandemic how fundamentally broken the FDA is. There is no reason that things can't be faster that "operation warp speed" all the time.

Or re-focus the monetary models around either markets or patient outcomes. Right now, medicine is not a market, it's a strange game. The most money that can be made is finding a treatment that may provide a modest increased benefit over what is live, then sell it to medicare at "name your own price". This incentives high probability wins (which are typically things we already understand well).
Had been literally doing this first as a "poor man's" quake mode since moving away from ConEmu - pretty soon realised it was just enough for me. So I'd rather they find an elegant solution to UAC elevation.
Crash it and look in $TMPDIR for a zip it uploads.
Sure it's in their right to do, and we can't expect to get everything for free, but making "skip update" a paid feature? How tasteless is that, do we really want to defend that? You see that button as a free user and its a bit of a slap in the face, isn't it. It doesn't make me want to pay, it makes me think the company is completely out of touch. I'd rather uninstall and look for alternatives, then pay for skip updates.
Conspiracy theories, money mystism and emotional rants.
I grew up with shareware, nagware, and crippleware. It was annoying and we grumbled some but at the end of the day recognized that people were trying to make a living.

This doesn’t seem nearly as bad as that. They don’t want hundreds of different versions out there. As much as people claim otherwise they will get bug reports from old versions. Anyone that’s ever supported users knows that’s going to happen.
Mercedes EQS Electric Sedan: The S Stands for Stunning
These are steady, predictable, iterative improvements. We have nothing groundbreaking like 1970s-1990s. Of course I'm not saying modern hardware is slow, but it's not progressing like it used to.
I don't think you need to be inspired by a particular circle-shaped object to decide to design another circle-shaped object.
I still don't understand why every software shop on earth feels the need to start with docker/k8s/et. al.

Build the damn app one time using SQLite on a single box. Then, figure out if the market even gives a shit about it. Building out a multi-cloud application architecture for your first prototype is a massive mistake. You don't need containerization tech if you can clone your application, hit F5 in visual studio, and the whole stack starts up automagically. You will probably find the performance of a single, powerful machine to be more than enough for your expected user base. SQLite can handle a fuckload of 'concurrent' writers if you know what you are doing.

There are now framework features available in some areas that help to obviate the need for containerization. If you are a .NET shop, look into self-contained deployments:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/#publ...

We have been using this deployment approach for ~3 years now and we have yet to have a single situation where a required dependency was missing or broken in production. And, we deploy to a very wide range of customer environments with all sorts of horrible IT practices applied to them.

Imagine being able to unzip a build of your software to a blank windows/linux server and expect that it work flawlessly 100% of the time, regardless of any prior/lack of configuration or other supporting dependencies on that machine.
You can. I will glady pay you 0.01 an hour. I won't hire you as an employee but we'll sign a contract for a fix amount.
are you just building stuff and asking customers if they really need it and would pay for it?

My startup is growing 5% every week for last 6 months and it took me 3 years to get here. If my bank account was bigger I could have done it in an year. and because I am bootstrapped I am losing my amazing tech team to highly funded companies that can give them 3x salary and stock options
In parimutuel betting, which is what the article talks about, the public sets the odds.
If only the Australian government had the resources to rent a few busses and hotels.
Anyone know how the unusual consonant x was chosen to replace a and o rather than another vowel (like e)?

To my untrained ear, les neen-yes sounds more in line with los neen-yos and las neen-yes than lecks neen-yecks (if that's how you'd pronounce it).
It looks like xorshiro was SIMDified in a paper linked in abother post in this tree.