skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people fail to realize the ROIs of trading fanciful typography with system fonts against custom fonts. Right now, India is a race-against-time with its vaccination drive. There is one website[1] that is the one barrier for anyone to get vaccinated.

I'll not even go to the User Experience of the website/app but I'm appalled at who thought of having a plethora of web-fonts loaded just to render some text on it.

https://twitter.com/brajeshwar/status/1387310383988232193

1. https://www.cowin.gov.in
I totally agree about the YouTube advertising. YouTube literally has hundreds of hours of my video history to work with, yet the vast majority of the ads I see are completely unrelated to my interests. What's the point of all the tracking if they can't even show me relevant ads on YouTube of all places? Podcast ads tend to be much more relevant, and I can even recall purchases I've made due to them. AFAIK my podcast player isn't tracking me or using targeted ads.
I've found that you can get surprisingly far in life simply by being willing to fix your mistakes and switch your bets once it becomes apparent you're wrong.

I initially dismissed the WWW as a disorganized mess when I first encountered it in 1994 - I liked Gopher better. By 1997 I had changed my tune and was all-in on learning HTML and CGI and even some of the new technologies like Java applets, RealAudio, and DHTML. (Note that Java and RealAudio were themselves eventually losers, but by then I was all-in on Javascript.) It felt like I had missed the boat in 1997; the dot com boom was in full swing and people were getting rich off much more sophisticated stuff all around me (TBF, I was in high school). But the WWW and Javascript/DHTML remained a lucrative career for 20 years afterwards.

A lot of people, once they take a position on something, dig in and don't change that position for a lifetime, then miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime because they dismissed it to begin with. But truly world-changing ideas usually have a lot of room to grow. If you're wrong for 2-3 years and then change your mind, you'll feel really stupid, like you totally missed the boat, but that's nothing compared to the 20-30 years left of growth that the idea might have.
Considering he sold 15M CZK of Bitcoin two months ago and has much more left, he is USD millionaire.
> Do you suggest that the soviet union should not have collapsed?

Perhaps it could have collapsed in a better way?
And there you have it. What have I been telling the M1 hype squad over the past few months over first-gen products from Apple? [1] [2] [3] [4]

Not even Apple support knows the cause of this issue. You are better off skipping it altogether and waiting for the M2 or higher. Losing a $1000 laptop due to heavy work is already one unacceptable thing, but replacing the whole unit and losing your work in order to 'fix it' is another unacceptable 'solution'.

Always have a backup handy. I doubt the regular folk buying this machine would be bothered to do this anyway so the risk of this event runs higher for them. Especially when the SSD is baked into the motherboard.

I rest my magnificent case.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26247531

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26247333

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26879674

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887380
Both are great :). I especially like TvT in Sc2. I find it is more interesting than the the SC1 counterpart.
Regardless of the hardware, it just tells one lesson : everything can fail, do have a full backup strategy.
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I suspect that there's some pathological behavior in the game you can exploit to possibly get a line or more while giving up a line (not that I searched and identified one, I think I just got lucky on my second game because I don't play tetris much so didn't have much of a strategy to unlearn). It would be interesting if there a few of these behaviors that lead into each other, which could lead to a stable state of infinite lines.

Not being random means there might be more to exploit.
I think the main point here is not what happened in Netflix's particular case.

Has Apple behaved differently in other cases?
I'm not sure who the average user is, but everyone I can think of in my life that fits that description definitely does not have more "web apps as desktop apps" than pure desktop apps. Not by a long shot.
Speaking as someone from the developing world - ads have been excellent way for 1st-world eyeballs to subsidize access to information for the rest of the world - which is a net-positive from my selfish POV. Money from ads allows people who live on less than a dollar a day to have access to the same content as someone in a sea-side villa. Mostly.

Paywalls, subscriptions and micropayment are regressive, unless they are indexed by cost of living.
Calm down, I tell them not to watch Netflix or YouTube while they're concentrating on their homework because it will affect their ability to concentrate. It's not some sort of police state. They lead happy fulfilled lives in general, and being told to not do those things isn't making a material difference to that.

Respecting people's opinions or desires doesn't mean letting them do anything they want, and not letting them do one fucking thing doesn't mean that "you never respect their opinions and desires". They're kids, they need structure, guidance and protection. You can let your kids do whatever the fuck they want wether it's good for them or not, let me know how that works out.

Your weird obsession with this, and your writing make you sound like a complete fucking weirdo.
Worth mentioning that Ryzen's branch predictor does in fact have an NN component.
The “if (debug) log” example in the article is likely compiled to an always taken conditional jump past the logging call. And therefore not quite free. Nitpicking of course, I love such in-depth articles.
> The idea of free speech is not limited to governments, the 1A is.

This isn't an idea. It is a constitutional fact, one that is self-evident by reading the amendment.

> I can want companies to abide by this value.

Sure. Want away. I support your right to want things.

> When a social media giant is so large that governments use it as a communication platform, maybe it's a town square now?

Different things are mashed here. Public square implies public (Gov owned) property. A Gov official that posts a comment on my blog wouldn't transform my blog into a Gov owned entity. It would be a disaster if it did because it would become trivial for any Gov offical to seize my entire blog.

> (The 1A protects private entities from Govs.) Unless you're a baker.

I have friends who work at banks. None have mentioned that their 1A rights are being violated by any government. Should I ask them directly?
> It's when technical people look at what seems like a groundbreaking idea, seem unimpressed, and say "couldn't you just _____", were the blank is filled with something a nontechnical person doesn't understand or considers very cumbersome.

This is basically putting the cart before the horse and pretty much the definition of hindsight bias. We all know the BrandonM/Dropbox quip, but that's just a fun anecdote, not some universal axiom.

I don't really have any dog in this race (I won't use Mighty because my PC/Laptop is more than capable of hundreds of tabs and Electron apps), but if it succeeds, good on Suhail!
Yes there is, because none of what you mentioned is “the problem”, the problem is that all these practices are deliberately put into practice without users consent, or by trying to trick users into inadvertently give consent.
"left" ><
If people will pay 2x or 10x the price of self-hosting for AWS, then I have no doubt that some people will pay 2x or 10x the price of a laptop for Mighty. (I wouldn't, but I also don't use AWS :) )
>"Copernicus published the heliocentric model in 1532 -- but it wasn't till the mid seventeenth century that the balance of scientific opinion shifted in its favor.[4]"
> From what I've heard, SM and V8 are both fairly painful to embed

Not sure what's the state now, but years (9?) ago I created the scripting layer for a very popular 2D open source game engine at the time. Had to do it twice: once with JavaScriptCore and the second time with Spidermonkey. Turns out that Spidermonkey was really not that hard to embed and I also ended up creating some nifty auto-generated bindings from the C++ code (using llvm) to Spidermonkey. The runtime to keep track of spidermonkey <> C++ objects was very lean. Overall I had a really good experience and if I had to today, I would probably start looking at Spidermonkey again.
Maybe unpopular opinion: I love the Ubuntu font.
I believe that we are loosing ability to combat harm done by mega-corporations in general. Allowing few mega-platforms to have control over most of the political discussions erodes this ability even further.

> Giving Govs unconstitutional power over everyone's speech

Could you elaborate on how would adding checks on social media platform operations would compromise everyone's speech? Looking at standards set by gun regulations, I can't agree about unconstitutionality either.
In the study there were three groups

A) No phone use

B) Normal phone use

C) Phone use with night shift

They found no group differences.

edit: They did find a differences for some subgroups (i.e. sleeping more than the median). I have to admit I only had a quick look at the paper.
It would be really neat if we had a robot on Mars that could just drive over, pick something up and put it under a microscope and in a test tube.

Where are Curiosity and Perseverance when they are needed??
Effective ads lead to better margins and easier to conduct mass production.
Individuals absolutely have rights to do what they want, but only as far as those things don't have a negative impact on others. Pretty much the central kernel of libertarian philosophy, which, as we all know, HN loves.

But dark patterns undermine that kind of personal choice. Think of Facebook hiding the "delete my account" page so that you literally cannot navigate to it through the UI -- you need to have a link to that page. Doesn't that erode my autonomy to decide when I want to delete my account?

Similarly, software like Windows 10, my LinkedIn profile, Firefox settings, macOS/iOS options, and plenty of others that decide to conveniently forget my explicitly chosen opt-out settings when an update comes in. Hiding behind the veil of "it's hard to test every possible option during an update!" to justify pushing folks back to the happy path where those companies get to collect more data.

So I ask you: do dark patterns actually let you make "your own choices"? If I give you a multiple choice test, and you have the option to submit an "other" option on any question, but you have to mail in your text for the "other" option, jump through hoops, and I might forget to actually count your option... do you really have the choice?
A poor man’s Alexa ranking dashboard
> I can't believe that an earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people is called a "nuclear disaster"

It seems that you missed the part where a nuclear plant was destroyed by those same tsunami and earthquake. Everybody is talking about how to fix it since 2011, so it must be something big.
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The crux of his justification for what he does is that, he argues, people wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee for services like youtube bundled with complete respect for their privacy.

First, users do not currently have that choice. Sure, you can pay for some things (e.g. youtube premium), but it does nothing for your privacy. If you buy youtube premium you'll very likely see more ads for youtube premium (if you're not already blocking ads).

Second, The real benefit of ads is that it lets small sites that might get a single one-time visit from a user monetize that visit. A blog with a trending post is not going to be able to sell micro-subscriptions to one-time users, but they can get some ad revenue. The only current alternative here is begging for donations. That takes some effort and can piss off readers.

Ironically, although Kaufman mentions that micropayments are hard, Google is one of the few companies currently situated to implement them in a way that would actually improve user privacy. e.g. If a user paid a "Premium Internet" monthly fee, Google Ads could have a flag that turns it's data collection/sharing off and replaces it with micropayments to any site that user visits that are running Google Ads.

Of course, it does seem a little bit like a mafia protection racket for a company devoted to invading user privacy and selling their data to turn around and offer to stop doing that if paid by users!
Without trolls world would be tedious.
I counter-act the unlimited vacation thing during onboarding (if not interviewing) by setting expectations: "I consider a reasonable amount of vacation to be X(=3) weeks, does that sound reasonable to you?". Then I track it myself and make sure I take every day. (A very good sign, and really the only way to ethically do unlimited, is when a company sets a minimum amount of time off.)
We should try! But I think the logical end result of "we should do X hard thing before Y" will be that Y never gets done!

It's almost like a form of bike shedding—except that the bike shed is in fact important, but its construction can trail launch, and launch is on a tight deadline.
I dunno. Besides the capex, a wafer is about 25k. That doesn’t really change, right?
US Classifies WebTV as a Weapon (1996)
JFYI but that .gov.in site 403s for me; is it only available for Indians? (which would make sense in the context of a vaccination drive)
He forgot the most important part, hope your revolutionary x-coin reaches a few cents and cash out in US dollars.
Whaddya mean no version control? What about CTRL + SHIFT + S every few minutes with incremental cryptic filename additions to USE_THIS_ONE_CopyofCopyof_VERY_IMPORTANT_myLatest_Edits_to_Copy_of(3)_DONT_DELETE.xlsx? ;-)
But if you use Office 365 for file storage, there is actual version history for Office documents.
Yeah sure we can build robots that can do a lot of specific things. But robot iterations are really long. You can tell a human to do a completely novel task with a twenty minute or so delay. I bet you'd find thousands of well educated, fit humans who would be willing to play robot on a one-way trip to Mars.
You understand diversity and inclusiveness like a sudoku puzzle where you have artificial constraints that must be satisfied in order to complete the task. On the other side, diversity and inclusiveness might be the removal of artificial constraints that limit the choices that one can make.
Well, there's fungi on Yuggoth, at the far reaches of the Solar system, so why not Mars?

“Do you know that Einstein is wrong, and that certain objects and forces can move with a velocity greater than that of light? With proper aid I expect to go backward and forward in time, and actually see and feel the earth of remote past and future epochs. You can’t imagine the degree to which those beings have carried science. There is nothing they can’t do with the mind and body of living organisms. I expect to visit other planets, and even other stars and galaxies. The first trip will be to Yuggoth, the nearest world fully peopled by the beings. It is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar system—unknown to earthly astronomers as yet. But I must have written you about this. At the proper time, you know, the beings there will direct thought-currents toward us and cause it to be discovered—or perhaps let one of their human allies give the scientists a hint.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx
I think the material point is that, as engineers, we have to all concede that modern concrete has that fatal flaw. People are being hyperbolic here when they are saying these buildings won't last 60 years. In my opinion, most will definitely last 60 years, even with no maintenance. At the same time, I'm intellectually honest enough to concede that few reinforced concrete structures will last 500 years with no maintenance. And I'm confident that zero reinforced structures will last 1000 without maintenance.

People on this thread claiming a collapse in 60 years are probably not civil engineers. People claiming that reinforced structures will outlast the Pyramids at Giza are definitely not civil engineers.
You can allow certain domains to automatically withdraw from your bitcoin wallet and set limits to how much they can withdraw. This is not a technical problem but more of a marketing/adoption one.
There are very smart people working on these: https://socket.money/
> competent observers would likely consider even that on the high side for a mathematical impossibility

If the statement made by Vitalik "There's no proof that efficient classical simulation of QC is impossible" is indeed the case, then it's the linked blogpost that has discredited itself mathematically by treating this as "breaking mathematics" or a "mathematical impossibility". More like groundbreaking surprise, but there's a big difference between "unlikely" and "proven to be impossible" mathematically speaking.
I didn't realize iOS shortcuts were so powerful, that's awesome. I do believe tasker should be able to do it, thanks!
I like how easy it is to update rust. Don't have to deal with homebrew or any package managers. Just install once and then run rustup update stable
No, it’s more about efficiency. If they would pay bills ad hoc they would have to do it every day, instead of settling everything once a month. Just like most people don’t go to the grocery store for individual items, they go once a week or so.
There are some good stories like this from other countries like Poland and Mexico in the book Video Games Around the World: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/video-games-around-world
There's a reason that 1948 convention uses the phrase "physical destruction" in some parts. That phrase was deliberately intended to distinguish the intent from physical, bodily destruction of the group members from the intent for cultural destruction. See, e.g., Elisa Novic, "physical-biological or socio-cultural 'destruction' in genocide? Unravelling the legal underpinnings of conflicting interpretations", https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2015.991208 (available on sci-hub.se).

Using the West's modern ethical vocabulary one can easily interpret the 1948 convention otherwise. But that's ahistorical. Their interpretive slight of hand is made clear here:

> The terms of the definition of genocide must be read in light of the Convention’s primary purpose: the prevention and safeguarding of the existence of a group before, and distinct from, its possible physical destruction. To conclude otherwise would deprive the express terms of any meaning and yield a result that could only be contrary to the object and
purpose of the treaty.

That claim is patently wrong and we know that because we know all about the debates held by the original authors and signatories of the 1948 convention. We also know about many subsequent attempts, including by many of those same authors and signatories, to promulgate treaties that extended the meaning of genocide in precisely the way the Newlines Institute paper claims the 1948 convention already achieved.
Why didn't Opportunity prod the puffballs with its arm to see if they are squishy?
> That's not how `defaultdict` works - the key isn't passed to the default factory, so there's no opportunity for it to raise a `KeyError` if the key doesn't "logically belong" in the dict. It's possible to get that sort of behaviour by overriding `__missing__`, but I very rarely see this sort of thing in the wild.

You're right. I was thinking of the how Ruby Hash-with-default works (I forget that you have to override __missing__ to get that with Python because .get() not working consistently with __getitem__ leads me to avoid defaultdict in practice.)

> With `.setdefault(key, default_value)` it's unambiguous what we're trying to achieve

Sure, but that’s only useful where you know the key that is going ro be accessed, which isn’t the use case for passing a “dictionary that can generate an appropriate default for keys that aren’t stored” either up or down a call chain. So while I agree that setdefault is ideal foe that use case, I don’t think it substitutes for a well-designed dictionary-with-default-generator. (Unfortunately, defaultdict doesn’t either, but its at least-usable-but-dangerous in that role, whereas setdefault() fundamentally can’t fill it since it involves situations where thr access is nonlocal to the code that wants the special handling.)
I love spacex
If I understand this article correctly, the information is not new, but the report is following an investigation which has been on-going since the initial FCC comments began.

However I don't see the report linked anywhere in the article, but I do see sporadic statements from the NY A.G. which were made 5/6/2021.

If these were criminal actions created by the previous FCC chair, e.g. using a citizen's name to submit a false comment, the actors at the FCC and at "Broadband for America" should to be held accountable.
The Architecture of an Urbanist Natural Law Principle
The First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Just Been Released in the US
> I'll be real, it's interesting to post this stuff and see how many downvotes saying factually correct stuff will get you compared to comments.

You're getting downvoted and flagged not because you're saying "factually correct stuff", but because your post is full of incoherent rambling and baseless accusations – before you edited and completely changed it, that is.

And for the record, I'm not a fan of Paul Graham, far from it.
>Any EU citizen in our out of country has their PII protected by EU law

If GDPR applies, it applies not only to citizens, but also to residents at the time of the transaction.
Playing with their toy helicopters?
Hatris has nothing on the fourth installment, which is called 'Faces... tris III'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_(video_game)
It's the nature of the beast, not the regime. If you read the NRC or other detailed reports on Three Mile Island, it was a non-stop litany of design flaws and making the wrong decision at every step.
Looks like it's mostly an abstract of something that was published in a journal but they hint at it saying 3 scenarios: simplifying/streamlining individual plans, standardizing plans across all groups ie. more standardization, and a combination of those two things. This would lead to less complexity and administrative overhead which would lead to savings etc.
That might be true but good variable names and some terse but to the point comments are much more helpful in my experience.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the pervasiveness of online advertising creeping in at the fringes of our attention normalized an increase in the amount of ads that do this in the physical world.
mushrooms feed on organic matter so plants would have to be there first. And even with lots of food and water they dont grow several meters a day.
> I've been using Google Search for over 20 years for free which is pretty amazing. Would I rather replay history and pay ~$120 every year (~$2400 ?) to search for web articles? No

I would absolutely pay that.

Search is incredibly valuable and has deteriorated as has the web as a whole largely because of ads and this terrible business model.

It’s not even slightly ‘free’, your attention is being wasted on stuff that other people are paying for you to see.

I value that at way more than $120 per year.
Sure, and if NASA can't find a way for an amputee to safely do that, they'll disqualify them for flight. Some people with fully functional legs fail the egress tests, too.

They should be given a chance to prove the ability, rather than being dismissed out of hand.