skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I noticed a few years ago but never wrote about it: Some sequences of numbers might be interpreted differently (increasing instead of decreasing) if you cover some of the segments up!
https://imgur.com/a/B2LZjqC

That happens when viewing off-axis some of the traffic lights that have a weather shield, like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Semaforo...
That only encourages those who have both the need and the abilityto prioritize budgeting/saving to think ttwice about having kids. In other words, that really only targets the middle class.
I think I've read something about this in a story involving Achilles and a tortoise.
> Almost any Linux distro respects its user more than W10.

It's not that hard to respect users more than W10
After thinking a lot about your comment, there seems to be some contradictions in it.

In this case, you feel that war is a grim necessity, and also admit that this is a military device. If your country is in a war, wouldn’t you want to be on the winning side? Culture often doesn’t survive losing a war.

If so, then I don’t understand why people are against development of this tech. If you’re on the battlefield, you bet that you’d want a way to take out the people shooting at you from the hill on the other side. Usually that means calling in air support. Here, your air support can be almost pocket sized.

It’s pretty much as simple as that, and I think the crux of the disagreements. People seem worried that this tech will get out of hand. I am too. But it also feels inevitable.

Would you want to fight a war without guns? Because it sounds similar to an argument against developing guns.
Not exactly sure. My current dentist said it’s rare for an autograft not to take, but it didn’t. He said my surgeon must have sucked.
Also a former Undersecretary of Defense, a Green Beret, and a CIA operative, among other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Vickers
Google isn't the top choice because it is the best. It's because it has the most brand awareness. It doesn't always land me on the best result by any means. I'm sorry but that statement really grated me the wrong way. There are many more times when I land on the right site based on a search within DDG where google failed terribly. Google didn't sucked because AltaVista sucked. What sort of analysis is this?
Well, if you had reason to believe that the police placed a bomb then it makes sense to me that you might not trust whoever you get on the other end of the line when trying to contact a bomb squad.
Where's the ad-hominem? I honestly don't see it.
I dont see in Big Sur any system-wide option to close an app after closing the last window.

There is only the opposite: "Set all app windows to close when quitting apps"

I currently use a 3rd party app to close for me apps when I close all of their windows.
That last equation clarified things greatly for me. Thanks.
I'm the OP. Well, I've used UUID to generate ids on the client-side for a metrics system. Well, if someone submitted duplicated data, my server would ignore it. The context is critical to decide whether you can let clients generate an ID or not. In my case, the worst that could happen would be a Denial-of-Service attack if someone found a weakness in the UUID algorithm I relied upon.
Yeah, I see your point. It really was about initial expectations — now I'm used to it, it's fine, but it was incredibly confusing coming from the Windows world ("why's this application still open? i can't even 'see' it, what's it doing?")
When we were building a big app 10 years back, we used ORM for user facing modules and stored procedure for batch processing such as CSV import/export. We would clear the ORM cache for every SP run which are usually scheduled at mid-night to avoid stale data.

These days, it is graph DB (such as firebase) for user facing module. It syncs data into a warehouse (such as BigQuery) that we use for batch processing.
Ah thank you SO much, this is extremely helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain that!!
Kidneys too, last time I looked. Apparently it's kind of a feedback loop where salt makes them work poorly which leads to high pressure which leads to damage and repeat. Some details here:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/kidneys-salt-and-blood-pr...
Yes, that's why I mentioned it as the extreme alternative. An option more in the middle is a gentle, non urgent, non nagging reminder.

But what about security updates, though?
>With mainstream media uninterested in books coverage that doesn’t get clicks, writers and readers are being left out in the cold

Literary criticism ended?

Leisure reading is at an all-time low, and that's even worse.

And most of the "reading" going on concerns self-help snake-oil crap, get-rich-quick books, and of course, heavy skimming.
Spacecraft seem like one of the few cases where a small decrease in safety factor can result in a big decrease in cost. The thing about rockets is that they have to lift their own fuel, so if you decrease the mass by 10% you can leave off not just the fuel needed to lift that part of the rocket, but also the rocket fuel needed to lift that amount of rocket fuel, and so on. Conversely, every additional pound for payload you get would otherwise have to be achieved by a much more significant increase in the size of the rocket.
Israel’s most-hyped initial coin offerings were scams, ex-employees allege
Just looked at the paper - yep, looks like "chip in the loop" training method. This was very popular with analog NN accelerators in the 90s, and a few years ago I remember reading a paper which described an extension where they measured forward pass outputs at every layer on the chip (not just the final layer outputs as it's typically done).

I fail to see much novelty here. I wanted to do that for my phd on hardware aware training (graduated before our chip was ready), but the disadvantages of the method are well-known - it's extremely slow (data has be pass between the chip and a GPU server on every iteration, and that's assuming you have access to each layer outputs.
echo “medium.com 127.0.0.1” >> /etc/hosts # works too :)
Oh wow I just had such a flashback....

The first time I ever saw JPEG images was from an Amiga magazine (Amiga Format maybe?) coverdisk. If I recall correctly my A2000 would actually take time to display the whole image - it wasn't instant.

Good times!
absolutely.

ethnic Korean from north east China here, many of my relatives had 2 children while our Han neighbors only had 1
> Someone might want to play tennis

Then play tennis.

But when you sign endorsement deals that has your face on billboards that are several stories tall, complaining about being the public eye is disingenuous:

* https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv4DGMdJgcm/

* https://tennistonic.com/tennis-news/60258/naomi-osaka-takes-...
Bringing down the Twin Towers in NYC killed several thousand people at once. US did not use nukes against Taliban/Al-Qaeda in response.
>I'm not sorry that we no longer have a monoculture with a generally agreed upon definition of what a "serious book" is

I am. Instead of having something for people reading to aspire to and get to something better, and people serious about books and literature, we just have each person's arbitrary "taste".

Plus leisure reading being at an all time low.

Personal taste is not a bad thing. But it's something people develop, among other things by having guidance and a compass.

Instead, today we build a god of our whims and facile enjoyment, and declare our personal uniformed and under-developed taste the ultimate arbiter.

That's basically arrested literary development.
Thank you, I will address this.
Some apps definitely do behave the 'closing the last window closes the app' way, although this is obviously bad from a consistency point of view.

> the menu is part of the UI

I would argue that that global menu is not part of the application's UI. True, it's application-specific, but it's very easy for a novice user to miss the context switch and just be left with the impression that the app is some kind of 'phantom'.
Compare/contrast to others e.g. Qualcomm. If Qualcomm can do this without fracturing their product line into incomprehensible gibberish then why can’t Intel?
That will be a problem with any company that doesn`t let you encrypt your data.

It is technically impossible for something like Protonmail to read my emails.

This feature does not exist with most other email providers e.g. Gmail.

Even if we drop the activist threat model there is still the possibility of external hacking.

Possibly organized crime.
I heard of one Yandex employee caught selling access to Yandex users email accounts.

Maybe something similar could happen?

I do not know which internal systems Google or related companies have to prevent employees from accessing user data.

Does anyone here have resources on this topic?
It's not even worth trying to remember because they keep adding new features and tiers. The Y-series are the real low-power laptop parts. They just added a never-before-seen KB designator to the newest desktop-class 11th Gen parts. Then with the Xeons there are R, W, and M suffixes, where M doesn't mean the same thing as the Core M.
I'd like to live in peace, keep to myself etc. Sure you can take them to court, spend time/money/energy fighting them - is that what you want to do with your resources though?

The older I get, the more careful I want to pick my fights. I'd rather spend some time and find a good HOA (or no HOA) than having to deal with petty people
Same here. Live in a nice part of a large city without an HOA. All the homes look different — it's a mix of single-family and multi-family housing — and it's delightful.
> The IMDB app is far better (to me) than the dumpster-fire that has become their website

Funny, to me the IMDB app is the perfect example of a dumpster-fire app, with every 3rd tap/action resulting in an “invitation” to sign up for an account.
>Virtually everyone who smokes for any reasonable duration will become addicted and almost all do so enough to substantially effect their health and longevity whether they know it or not.

This sounds right enough, but can you cite your sources for it?
Dining in the Dark
No jest at all. Depot and McMaster I'm quite happy with. Pardon the pun, McMaster-Carr is a masterclass in UX. I've always been amazed at how well their search works, how responsive and un-glitchy the site is. How you can have a cart while not logged in, then log in without a redirect or even a refresh or rerender. Exact same state, you're just now in a logged-in state. I don't know of many ecommerce sites that do that as seamlessly.

It's also been this way for years. They were ahead of the game even back then.
That's kinda cool.
The Paris massacre of demonstrators against white colonialism in Algeria was also avoided in western (and American) reporting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961
Electron apps definitely have performance issues and I do not defend them. I just also want to make sure we're recognizing that apps like MS Teams are doing a lot more than MSN Messenger did back then. Whether you use/need those features or not, the apps are much more capable. Our computers have gotten an order of magnitude faster for sure, but the workloads they're tackling have not stayed flat.
Uh, NATO.

NATO isn't an invading force, of course and is purely a defensive pact which is why they occupied Afghanistan.
We wouldn't have to ban it any more than we had to ban cigarettes
I have an idea for what they could do but I don`t want to give anyone here bad ideas...
Funny you should mention that! I’m around your age or perhaps a little bit older. I was playing 2015’s Arkham Knight last night - a triple-A title in its time and by any measure a good looking game - and was struck actually by how far we’ve come in just the last 5-6 years. I finished The Last of Us 2 recently and the gap between Arkham and that is night and day on every dimension: resolution, lighting, particle effects, textures, animation, temporal reconstruction techniques.

I won’t disagree with your central point about diminishing returns. On the other hand, the jumps are probably bigger than I realised until I went back and looked.
And the desire for power, money, or sexual gratification are not "natural"? You could justify nearly any crime by saying your motivation was "natural"
Self hosting is hard because we are limited by our ISPs and what they allow us to do with our connections. Why don't they allow people to self host and when traffic starts to get big have an option to migrate that data to the cloud instead of clogging the municipal pipes if that's really the problem. The way companies like Comcast and DSL providers can succeed in this arena is to make self hosting easier. Why do I as an end user need to understand the infrastructure when all I am trying to do is share data or information?!?! I am playing the role of an uneducated user here and not as a Software Engineer as a career. It's disheartening that basic things like this aren't solved for people on the ISP level. I should have to find a service like Weebly or, DO or AWS, etc. I just want to be able to share my info and my ISP at the very least should be able to provide the basic framework for me to do it. When my content becomes populate then adjust accordingly.
The CPC does in fact take ecology seriously. You can read about it in this translation of their latest five year plan proposal: https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/t0237_5th_Ple...

If you want a concrete example showing that this isn’t just propaganda, you can look into China’s reforestation effort, through which 66 billion trees have been planted since 1978 (enabling many at-risk species to bounce back).
Love this blog post, very easy to read and relatable I think to this network of people especially.
I've had dreamy moments where I imagine blogging about my favorite hobbies and interests might actually make me enough money to quit my job. I do for the same reasons they advocate in this article, and I won't stop anytime soon because it brings me so much joy to run a platform where I can share my projects and opinions.
I still feel disappointed that nothing's "happened", and I haven't taken off in a way that has enabled any kind of financial success. It's hard not to feel that way. I like very much the encouragement to feel proud of our b-blogs, and to be thankful for the opportunities that they do enable. Thanks!
As I understand it's related in that salt dissolves in water easily and somehow causes your body to retain water. This in turn increases the water in your blood (plasma I guess), thus the pressure increases. A 'water pill' (hydrochlorothiazide) is often prescribed along with blood pressure reducing medicine to make you urinate and remove water from your system. While my salt intake is normal, it wasn't until I was prescribed a water pill in conjunction with my blood pressure pill that I was able to see better results and also able to take less of the blood pressure med.
I've been bitten by using natural keys on several occasions, but I can' think of a time surrogate keys failed me beyond the tediousness of implementation.
No. I've got a similar feeling for other silly stuff, like if I create a temporary file and lose its reference. I start thinking, "okay, in 10 years, it'll still be there," even though this is not usually true.
The US trying to throw spikes against Japan's tires to slow down its destruction of China left Japan "no choice but war"? Only because they were unconditionally committed to their horrifying attack against China.

From Japan's perspective, the US actions may have left them no choice but war. That doesn't make the US actions wrong; it makes the Japanese pre-WWII perspective incredibly skewed and incredibly morally flawed.
> How many browser windows do you have open right now? (I have 37 windows open, with some 75+ tabs.)

I know this is common but to me it's unthinkable. If anything I have a compulsion about closing any tabs I'm not using.
https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/9/4206176/htc-first-review-f...
So you wouldn't have any problem with your neighbor decorating their house to look like some kind of brothel? Or your other neighbor using his front yard as an auto parts storage area? Or another letting their grass grow so high that it starts attracting wild animals and snakes that keep spilling over into your backyard?

Something even as small as a bunch of junk in a yard that fills with rain water can bring a plague of mosquitos upon an entire neighborhood in certain areas.
Wish the dock could be disabled completely. I have it set to the smallest size and hidden on the left side, but it still gets triggered occasionally. Having it standard size and chewing up space at the bottom of the screen seems insane to me - what a waste of screen real estate.

Like you, I use Cmd-Tab to know what I have open (and you can obviously Cmd-Q while there to close apps) and Cmd-Space to open apps. I never use the Dock or the grid of icons view or any equivalent (not sure what they're even called).
Fair, but what fraction of the population was natives at that point?
Yes, I think it's fair to say that the ultimate goal of my personal moral framework is to reduce suffering.
Much of civil engineering is one-off designs.
Life expectancy at birth is a worthless statistic to compare to when looking at modern humans. Infant mortality was so high that it distorts the numbers. A more useful statistic is the modal age of adult death, which peaks between 65 and 75 across most estimates, regardless of era:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1728-4457....

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/when-did-humans-star...
Damn, from worshipped to wiped out in a human lifetime. That's a shame.

As far as why they're not listed as extinct yet, it's really hard to definitively say there are none left. It's a big river and while surveys haven't turned any up in a long while, it's possible there are individuals out there still. One of the species I sampled for hasn't been seen in the state's waterways for decades. The last stream it was seen in was ruined by the landowner and is no longer suitable habitat for the species. There's other streams with suitable habitat, however. If the species exists there and is prematurely declared extinct, the legal protections on those streams are gone and those fish will be gone within a few years for sure.

It's also kind of political. Maybe that fish is gone, but those streams harbor other species which need protection, but have not been listed as endangered yet. Species don't automatically get listed as protected. Someone has to care enough to gather the data and advocate for protection and listing as threatened or endangered. This can take years or decades and a lot of funding. One species listed in a disappearing habitat may also protect a half dozen or more bug species, plants, crustaceans, etc, which do not have the extensive data available or anyone focused on getting them protected.

Oh, and then someone also has to care enough to sue the entities that aren't going to abide by the Endangered Species Act until they get sued a couple times. I'm not exaggerating. My first reality check as far as how conservation really works was an internship surveying a very cute and popular (among bird people) species of bird. The woman I was working for spent a decent amount of her time taking businesses, land owners, and other sectors of the government to court for flagrant violations of the laws protecting the species.

And funding, don't forget funding. Those grants for the protection of that species are gone the second it's declared extinct and the biologists who rely on that funding to maintain species inventories in those areas can no longer afford to hire techs to slog through the middle of nowhere and inventory extant species.

Generally, the only people in a hurry to declare a species extinct are those who want the protections lifted on that habitat. Maybe it's a little dishonest to take so long declaring a species extinct. Honestly, even if there are 10 Yangtze paddlefish left out there, the species still isn't coming back. However, as far as environmental health is concerned, it is beneficial to drag that funding and protection out for as long as possible, even when the listed species is well beyond saving.
For people wondering about the tone of the interview, the interviewer Niccolo is a far-right ultranationalist and fascist Croatian based in Toronto and Europe named Darko Peric. His whole shtick is to use irony for plausible deniability.
That strategy seems hopelessly sensitive to the exactly granularity you calculating things at. If you have four tasks each with four subtasks and you think each subtask will take 90 minutes, should you really be budgeting an entire quarter for the project?
If you remove the triangle strips between two clusters of triangles, and represent them as one big polygon, it's "just" a retriangulation problem.
I remember when Google was the "good guy".

We should not forget that these companies are nothing but shareholder driven business and their incentives can and do change.
Are you telling me that you can just opt of the democracy you currently live in? HOA's have rules and votes. The bylaws can be changed. It just may hurt your idealisms that most people in them are either apathetic or like the rules the way they are.
That's brilliant, congrats. Typing on a terminal of a machine you built from scratch must be so satisfying. I like that this runs an OS also, as many home brew CPUs run much simpler SW.
So much this.

IIRC only a very few use cases exist where such kind of location data is absolutely essential. They’re still gonna get loads of data from other sources, which would be good enough targeting for most advertisers.
ISO 9001
Different dam; the dolphin was probably Three Gorges, though it was only one of many contributing factors.
Report both signs and then sue for civil rights violations if one side is ignored.
> Why aren't there ad networks for desktop apps like there are for mobile apps and web content?

Good lord, please, no. Desktop adware should remain a bad dream from the 90s and early 2000s. It ruined software like Opera, and was often bundled with spyware.

I'm glad advertisers mostly embraced the web, where I can run their code relatively sandboxed and easily block it. A desktop app has much less restrictions over the resources it can access, so allowing software that actively wants to track and manipulate you to run in that environment doesn't seem like a good idea. The fact it was acceptable in the 90s with the complete lack of security of the popular OSs of the era is a bit nutty, and while modern OSs are much more secure, I still wouldn't run anything ad supported. F/LOSS or paid apps only for everything under my control. Subscriptions are tolerable in some cases.
Uuuhhh, again, that is a direct civil and voting rights violation. Please tell me that have that written in the bylaws. Lawyers would have a field day.
Sarcasm...
Marketing speak makes a lot of tech sound more complex, advanced, or magical than it usually is. This sadly seems to be becoming more common lately in the 3D graphics industry.

(In a similar marketing trend, Nvidia's "Deep Learning Super Sampling" is more like 2x2 grid deinterlacing, not magical AI upscaling.)
And in theory, HOA's compete with each other. One HOA with a $500 monthly fee will likely be outcompeted by a neighboring one with a $20 monthly fee (all else being equal)