skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a matter of physical reality, the universe owes us nothing. It was quite content to allow such things as the Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust, which took people’s lives completely out of their own hands and utterly destroyed them. Were those people “entitled” to better? The question is, I think, utterly meaningless. Were these morally abhorrent events that should never be repeated? From my own moral point of view, and that of many other people, absolutely.

The effort of changing society to give more people more opportunity is generally undertaken on a moral basis alone. If you aren’t convinced by the premise, asking leading moral questions as if they have objective answers isn’t going to tell you anything you don’t already “know”, and it also isn’t going to provoke any kind of useful discussion around how we might implement real policies to this effect.
Yeah this is exactly what I’m thinking - they want to maximize the time a shopper spendsin the store while Amazon wants to minimize it. Also supermarkets have their own stockers who have to spend time turning labels, unwrapping things, organizing them on shelves. And they deliberately understaff cashiers causing people to wait (notice how you’ll always have to wait in line when shopping unless you go very late/early when there’s often only one cashier). It’s just not efficient
The correct way to handle something like this would be DSC, at least the way you can actually set Local Policy correctly instead of just modifying the registry.
working hard when I was younger (grad school, then postdoc, and later a PI at a national lab) opened up freedom and opportunities later in life (higher income, more desirable job options). I see it as a reasonable tradeoff especially given the exponential growth of invested money.
One thing I've often wondered: Is there a reason to learn all of these methods in the modern era, when Wolfram Alpha or Mathematica can apply hundreds of methods automatically?

It's good to understand things conceptually. But once I got the concept of integrals as the area under a curve, it felt like a lot of grunt work to learn so many tactics for solving them. But most of my focus has been on computers rather than pure mathematics. For pure math, it probably makes more sense to learn as many different methods as possible.
> our example is a pretty extreme caricature

Extreme, yes, but far from a caricature.

You should see my office. I’m constantly surrounded by unfinished projects - I either unmedicated and don’t have the ability to finish them because I’m distracted by other things, or I’m medicated and don’t have time to finish them because I’m trying to catch up with the things that I’ve neglected because I didn’t have the ability to prioritize them.
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Where in the US do you think you can vote without providing any proof that you're a citizen? Tell me, and I'll tell you what proof was actually required.
I can only imagine how excited the writers at the post were to excrete this particular nugget.
I understand and have dealt with this myself. I have to type "phot" before "Adobe Photoshop 2021" even appears as an option. But if you don't know where to find Bluetooth settings, for example, typing "bluetooth" will get you there.
Simple example, at least in Google Maps on Android. They have some sort of activity tracking.

If you enable that, you can save locations, so that, for example, you can "favorite" your home and your office for easy access.

If you disable activity tracking, you can't save anything.

Those two are totally unrelated, and you're still using Google Maps through your Google account, so there are 0 technical reasons they couldn't just persist your saved locations in the Google Cloud.

They just don't do it to force you to let them track your location.
Chrome vs. Brave: How to Use Ethical Design to Win Customers
As a European I kinda agree with this.

The US as a country was founded on very high risk. It makes sense that this remains in the culture today.

I don't think that European policies (vacation, universal health care, etc) are the cause of Europe being more risk averse. I think it's the other way around. We have those policies because we have a more risk averse culture compared to the US.

This isn't a bad thing per se. The problem is that we live in an age where technological innovation is fueling the global economy, and there is no innovation without risk.
Sure, take a picture of someone, so his or her face is the main content of the picture and start posting it everywhere (it's your picture so you can do whatever you want, right?).

> ALPRs on police cars

Government is usually exempt from those things or have license.
This new era in personal computing is "you are the product, not the customer." This always sucks but it's absolutely unforgivable in an OS that you actually pay for. If Windows were free maybe it'd be a compromise some people would make.

The old era of personal computing was actual personal computing. If you want that MacOS is the closest commercial OS, or use Linux or BSD if you have more tinkering tolerance.
I think the author's reasoning that the entire continent of Europe lacks imagination was a major weakness of this article, and perhaps unintentionally some kind of -ist or -ism.
Anecdotally, many of the brightest American software developers I've met hail from Europe: UK, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Italy, etc. I can go on and on and think of many geniuses I've had the privilege to work with.
The question that people should be asking is why do the best and brightest often tend to migrate to American companies?
My personal perspective on why European software doesn't seem to ever become market leading boils down to their government culture of wanting to regulate almost everything.
Software is a world of possibilities. You can start from nothing and code literally anything.
To me, the European tendency to want to have government regulate that and confine you to a narrow box of allowed services stifles that. Anybody who has a unique idea (unique ideas always step you outside of the box of existing regulated services) is going to be hampered.
To give an example: something as simple as their Cookie law, which no doubt started with good intentions, just makes the first impression with any European website ugly and focuses away from the actual product. Does anybody really not know what a cookie is by now? Seriously?
I think it is fairly obvious that this virus could have circulated considerably earlier than the first confirmed cases in Wuhan mid November 2020, given its nature of asymptomic spread and form of disease which easily could be mistaken for something else.

The work with blood sample analysis should be done all over the planet and its range should be broadened to samples earlier than January 2020.
Also Germany, France, UK, Japan, Canada, or Australia doesn't have the medical/student debt so I don't know if its so easy to assume that just because americans earn more that they pocket more.
From a purely implementation standpoint, defaulting to opt-in instead opt-out leads to a long and arduous user migration process. Especially if it's a major change and/or somewhat controversial. Furthermore it tends to fragment the userbase and accumulation of tech debt (e.g. feature disparity). I think this is a huge factor in iOS versioning having such good consistency across its install base.
> That myth has been disproven long ago. Achieving a high standard of living and level of education does not magically cause people to pour into the streets and protest against their authoritarian governments.

While a flip doesn't instantly switch it does cause an erosion of the stability of the government. An enlightened populace is less accepting of authoritarianism than an unenlightened one and the excess luxury time that wealth creates leads more of the populace to enlighten themselves.
Still on Windows 7. Still loving it.
I love Octal and I am willing to make similar functionalities, thumbnails are coming after more important features like comments
I also meant the clothes aren't flat and wrapped around the person. My thought was they could be unwrapped to show a flat version.

I'm saying that you currently take a flat without background picture of a piece of clothing add a model and get a piece of clothing that is made to fit the person.

What if you swapped your output image as your input image and trained a model on the reverse of your output and input.

new model current output image -> current input image

now instead of needed a perfectly flat no background image as input you can take a messier image and convert it into a flat no background image to be used by your current algo.
I don’t use their software yet my ssid was tracked and associated with me and others.

This argument “don’t use google” or “don’t use Facebook” is very frustrating because others make this decision for me. If only it was possible to not use these services.
So, yeah, there is a point on who considers what an emergency.

They were saying they had pain and nausea, the doctor suspected a kidney stone. Is this an "emergency"? I have had a kidney stone, it is intense pain. My mother had one, said it reminded her of childbirth.

But it won't kill you, probably. You could just be in intense pain for weeks or longer waiting to pass it.

Is that an emergency? I think in probably any sane medical system it is. In the USA? No idea.
A little bit of both. I don't think WA uses the full Risch algo, but even then, enough pattern matching rules https://rulebasedintegration.org/ beats it in perf.

Differentiation under the integral sign only works for certain well behaved functions and isn't easy to automate since you now need to figure out where to parametrize and you don't have good structure theorems to help you.

IMO contour integration is a more powerful and easier to intuit technique.
I'm all for fewer polished features - but we don't get any of those.

Prior to the latest updates I actively regretted my reMarkable 2 purchase. Now it's back to "a decent device that I would never recommend anyone pay full price for"

Let's start with eReading: Hyperlinks in ePub and PDF didn't work. As such, your table of contents and index are worthless, you don't have quick access to footnotes, and so on. They only very recently finally added this in the 2.6 update.

If links don't work they must have some way to jump between pages easily, right? No, wrong again. Jumping to a page number is 3 clicks deep (pretty sure it was 4 prior to 1.17): Upper left corner, page overview, "Go to page". You then have to move from the top of the screen to the bottom to enter the page number and then back to the top since they couldn't be bothered to put an enter/OK button with the other buttons.

Then there's the controls in general. To switch between writing utensils, you need the left menu. This covers your document content and there's no way to just scale the content into the remaining space. This means that to work on an entire document you need to be constantly opening and closing that menu. There's not even a way to have the button backgrounds be transparent so you can read what's behind them without interacting.

Search is very slow. It takes FOREVER to index a book, and you're given no indication of if it's done. Instead, if I open a large PDF and search, I will be told that there are no results rather than that it hasn't finished looking yet. If I wait 15 seconds, things may magically appear on my screen unexpectedly.

eBooks are slow to load, and changing text size requires you to wait while the entire book is rerendered (losing your notes in the process since they're image-based rather than proper annotations)

This is primarily a drawing/creation device. A basic tool that would help here is stroke-based erasing. They have stroke knowledge since Undo supports that, but the eraser is a clumsy mess that reminds me of the worst cheap elementary school supplies.

While we're on basic UX, why is the entire device in "light mode" except for the settings app which is inverted into dark mode with no way to change it to a normal UX?

Those are all off the top of my head. I have a much longer list of thoughts in a document somewhere. My overall point is that my expectations a full Android device with fancy editors. My expectations were an optimized focus/creation device, but the software lets the hardware down in a bad way even for their core scenarios of reading, annotating, and drawing.
Finally public!
No worries. Maybe it’s luck, or maybe it’s mindset. Maybe the messaging (from the press or even from one’s own community) that life is hard, that only the exceptional few escape their circumstances, etc becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I think it’s somewhere in the middle, and America needs to make some reforms so we don’t have billionaires and abject poverty at once; however, I don’t think the media narrative is helping.
Just so we're crystal clear here: calling yourself CEO or some other inflated title would be an outright lie. Some recruiters and HMs might fall for it, but resumes like this that come to my desk end up directly in the garbage bin.
You haven't answered why IRC still matters. The only benefit you mentioned to sticking to IRC is that people are forced to have no voice communication but you can always opt out of voice communication yourself.

As for the rest, they work well on other services and you can simply completely turn off notifications if you feel it distracting.

It's just IRC doesn't have modern features when one wants.

Still wondering why people need to stick to it other than just because especially even after such a hazard.

The only benefit of IRC in my opinion is that sign ups are optional and might keep you slightly more anonymous but the again, most people would stick to a same nick anyway.
It's part of a larger post by Steve Yegge[0], of which you can find a copy here: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel

Look for the heading labeled "Lisp" or just search for "Emacs" and you'll find the relevant bits :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge
People are importing dogs with forged rabies certificates. This isn't some conspiracy to gouge dog lovers.
If you like this article you should check out the AWS Builders library https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library

It is absolutely full of really interesting topics that don't get covered frequently enough other than in footnotes or in overly simplified hand-waivey explanations. AWS has done a great job in trying to demystify some complex topics.
I mean, I'm going to throw in the towel at 'the data you show isn't right, but I have no alternative and also here's a different unsourced/somewhat ill-informed comment I made'
In this particular case it was the worst cough I had ever had by a fairly wide margin. This was definitely not a case of us having the sniffles and thinking we might have caught covid.

And for the record, I don't necessarily think it was COVID. Just confirming the OP's anecdote that there was definitely something that was going around at that time.
> I never understood why programs think they should be able to control students outside of working hours

They think this for the same reasons all employers think this; employment is a watered down form of ownership.

Advancement up the social hierarchy allows one to abuse the people below them. As near as I can tell from my own experience: money and control are the things you receive as rewards.
Son at UCSD with 4 i18n roommates (3 China, 1 Korea) in Jan 2020 after all roommates came back to school from winter break. Diagnosed as bronchitis and was sick for a few weeks. Had heart palpitations, too, which was the scary part, but in retrospect that pretty much nails it as covid for me.
This is a great example of why Google FLoC is not incentive-compatible with consumers nor business owners. Amazon (like Facebook) has a monopoly on ad targeting on their target properties—- properties they own. Google FLoC is Google’s attempt to (further) monopolize their target properties—- the web at large, which Google does NOT own. Google does NOT pay to service the traffic they generate. Google does NOT pay to fulfill consumer orders. Google wants you to think they’re acting in your best interests with FLoC. Maybe if Google offered more free GCloud credits and subsidized conversions they generate, that would be a different story. (Maybe Google could start by paying Wikipedia for some of the traffic they generate). But Sundar wants you to think FLoC is about privacy, because Sundar has said time and time again that Google has lost people’s trust.
> Emacs was made for humans to use as a real tool.

If Emacs was made for humans, why do so many humans get painful RSI trauma ("Emacs pinky") when they try to use it? How many humans can code in something as clunky as EmacsLISP?
Donate blood with the red cross and they'll test for antibodies. I had a miserable flu-like illness over Christmas '19. It's probably the sickest I had ever been in my life. When the publicity started blowing up over the pandemic, my dad suggested that maybe I had caught it while I was traveling for job interviews in the previous weeks and months. I eventually donated blood in 2020 and sure enough, I tested false for antibodies. I've donated twice since, and the first was negative. Waiting to see what the next one says since I've been vaccinated.
As I understood it, pure means a function's output is dependent only on its input:

y=f(x);z=f(x) implies y=z

What they want is something different:

y= f(x) implies y=f(y)

This means if you give something the head of a list of pages, it won't try to go to the head again and again, it knows its already there.

The 'folio' idea as I understand it is roughly an alias for the existing 'page' structure, but code knows it is already at a head AND it should do the work on the whole list, not only on the head.
Assuming cost of electricity of 30c per kwh that would yield roughly 10c for 1k liters of water. Currently cost of water is 0.005c per liter or 5c for 1k liters that's a 2x margin. You could also resell the low pressure water to your neighbors?
Day One journaling app bought by Automattic
I've been using Qwant as my main search engine for 2 years at least and ime/imo the results were fine. When a given query didn't give the results I expected, I searched for the same in Google and often came away similarly disappointed. I'm sad to see that Qwant is struggling.
Cue solves the DRY problem using a lattice data structure instead of inheritance. This is precisely why cue is better than everything else.
If you don't have the background to get this, here's a quick tutorial on integrals https://cognicull.com/en/1dc797za , and it would be cool if cognicull included this Feynman's method in their ontology.
Polarstern team warns Arctic may be past tipping point
Thank goodness the NHS hasn't gone this route (yet).

Wait I'm sorry, I thought voting Biden was supposed to fix this?
Propaganda campaign to promote CCP history largest mass-education since Mao era
WSL is not really virtualised, it's a linux kernel translation layer for linux userland (which is why it's not actually letting you use linux at all, it's allowing you to run GNU and some linux programs). What I mean is the reverse, running win programs on Linux without virtualisation, like WINE, but official win libs.

Imagine MS porting the _official_ windows libs to linux and FOSSing them so we don't have to play WINE roulette and get some official compatibility. It's not inconceivable, MS already realises their future is in SaaS, not desktop OS, this is an opportunity for them to finally throw in the towel and focus on their future.

... but it's probably not gona happen, they can easily keep eating the cost of windows and keep it as leverage just in-case, user experience be damned.
I am just finding out about TailWind. Other than dark mode, bootstrap has all of those things and some.
Linux is not just Ubuntu, there are plenty of distributions to choose from.
The insurance company’s profits are capped at a percentage of what they pay out, so (generally speaking) they are incentivized to maximize the amount they pay out so that they can maximize their capped percentage profit.

Aren’t they worried about costs? They just pass the cost on to the consumer via increased premiums.

That’s the racket.

Insurance companies are definitely not on the average person’s side when it comes to containing costs.
> And while I can't make promises about the API's final form...

Not straight up lying, but downplaying concerns without actually being able to lay those concerns to rest.
The evolution of open source rich text editor technology
i’m so relieved i don’t have to do math like this anymore
> Note that the median net worth of an American household is ~120k.

Having a net worth of $120K doesn't actually mean you can easily pay an unexpected $1500 bill. It might mean you have a house worth $100K and a car worth $10K and a retirement account with $10K in it, and just enough to cover your payments in the bank.

I know there are LOTS of Americans who can't easily pay an unexpected $1500 bill, but I don't know if it's more or less than than 50% of Americans, and median net worth doesn't really tell us.
Agreed with all 4 points.

EXPLAIN ANALYZE output is cryptic enough for beginners to get any meaningful information out of it. Your thoughts on where to get started as a frontend developer?
Fake news from the fakers.
What's disturbing is people taking health advice from celebrities instead of medical experts.
> Does it matter?

I view the euphoria as an unsustainable side effect.

People can tell when you are high, and normally not for your positive attributes during those moments.
Yes, there is plenty of evidence. One quick way of getting some of it is by actively seeking out those sources which are being blocked and checking their "credentials" (i.e. checking out their work more than which school they happened to have gone to). The scientific method can not function when part of the discussion is suppressed, for whatever reason.

Also, nobody states that all contrarian ideas are being suppressed. The discussion here is on the subject of SARS2 treatments which are being suppressed.

Do I know whether these suggested treatments work? No, I do not. Neither do you. The reason why none of us knows this is because discussion on the subject is being suppressed, not because there is evidence of these suggested treatments being ineffective. A good example of this is the recent disclosure of the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin leading to a doubling of the survival rates of ventilated patients [1]. The paper is interesting, the discussion following the paper even more so. It is this discussion which should be allowed, not suppressed. This discussion should not consist of solely criticism of "this paper is not peer-reviewed" or "this paper has not been published in a major journal", the discussion should instead be had around the subject matter. Peer review and journal impact measurements are means to an end, not ends in and of themselves. I'd like to see the same type of paper and discussion around e.g. the efficacy of ivermectin and/or fluvoxamine, out in the open, without accusations of quackery, without politics, without interference by commercial interests.

In short, I want the scientific process to work as intended.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.21258012v...
Copying Apple would have involved announcing their new OS at their major developer conference and Microsoft couldn’t even pull that off… what a joke