skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is almost physically painful to read.

Before I rant off, let me link to a good resource for learning about electricity: http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html -or- http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html

First, don't buy electronics from Amazon (or anything from Amazon really) buy from a reputable source like Digikey or Mouser.

Second, please don't try to explain electricity if you don't know what you're talking about. There are enough misconceptions about electricity (see amasci links above) without adding more noise and half-baked understanding.
This reminds me of the famous SpongeBob episode[0] where Patrick, in a desperate attempt to save the town, suggests they "take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else".

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sTNLdNhuE
I trust you're joking. Carnot wanted a theory that could explain the steam-powered machines of the industrial age -- just as now we want a theory that could explain the AI-powered machines of the information age. The authors mention as much in the introduction.
No, if you're a pilot in charge of a few hundred lives + the lives of a few hundred more in case you crash on the ground your 'privacy at work' is trumped by the responsibilities you have taken on. That's not a good argument. What is a good argument is that people might behave different if they believed that there would be consequences for their actions, and this might either be a negative (if they don't act for fear of repercussions) or a positive (if they don't perform acts that could endanger the aircraft knowing that these are recorded).
This headline reminded me of another case in Oregon, and in fact IJ was involved in it as well and they link to it from this article: https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-makes-history-w...
> anything that introduces UB for optimizations (like forbidding assuming that 'int y,x;' implies an order in memory) is also good for security.

[...]

> But also because compiling with extra security is not popular if it causes performance regressions.

Yes. So while UB could theoretically be (in some cases) good for security, in practice it is absolutely not, because no tooling exists to introduce runtime checks light enough to be used in production. So UBs can and do reveal and/or amplify latent bugs, or even introduce new ones if new UB are introduced in new specifications.
Upcoming Changes for Some US Businesses
Too big, too ineffective. If it was a good use of capital. more people would pay voluntarily higher taxes. No one does because it's where value in the form of capital goes to die.
> dependencies you use has an unrestrictive version in their requirements.txt

It's the other guy causing the ruckus.
So glad you asked...

> Controlled inflation/devaluation fuels growth

Sure - if you measure 'growth' in terms of the inflated asset.

However, well, just look at this chart:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ERzc

Take a good look. That's what total failure of an economic theory looks like.

Edit:

I do think you are way off on your points, but I am actually a believer in 'controlled inflation' for totally different reasons. But how to distribute new money creation? Here's a terrible idea: let the most powerful decide (fed/govt). Better idea: allow anybody to work for it (Bitcoin).
Microsoft Mail is a product from the early 90s for DOS/Classic Mac OS. Microsoft Internet Mail was a logical upgrade, then added support for newsgroups. Eventually, after the success of Outlook in the MS Office world, it rebranded to Outlook Express. You could still see echoes of Microsoft Internet Mail and News if you looked hard at Outlook Express, its executable was called msimn.exe.

Windows Live Mail and Windows Mail were essentially newer, Vista-era versions of Outlook Express. It's the same program rebranded. Mail was bundled with Vista, Live Mail was a way to push the Live branding and get the newer program into the hands of those running older versions of the OS (WinXP).

Microsoft Outlook is a different beast with a different lineage, part of MS Office, and can be thought of the "pro" version of the basic mail clients bundled with Windows.

Yes, Microsoft could probably do with some branding discipline but the technology is quite predictable.

I'm not sure what Mail.app is, I always thought that was Apple's. Entourage was IIRC a native 'designed for Apple' PIM that eventually made its way into Office for Mac, eventually they decided to rationalize and have one client -- Outlook.

Hotmail / Outlook.com - Outlook.com, again despite the confused branding, is Hotmail evolved. Over time, Microsoft slowly merged its consumer (Hotmail, Windows Live) UI with its 'pro' UI (Outlook for desktops, Exchange Web) so that these days they are all pretty similar. These days you also have Outlook's mobile apps for Android and iOS and those too have a familiar look and feel.

I don't see any of these as a bad thing. Microsoft's history is linked to the history of personal computing and the ebbs and flows of market forces that shaped the PC biz and continues to shape today's technology. Given all the churn in this space, it's actually kind of awesome how their technology has evolved -- and will continue evolving, e.g. with all the focus on a web version of Office. But yes, their sudden shifts in branding is pretty sucky and they could do a lot better there.

But "none of them 100% work" is pretty harsh. No mail client is right for every use case (except emacs, naturally -- if it doesn't work for you it's because you haven't written enough elisp yet). But these are very widely deployed products and do work for a good segment of their target market.
Yeah. I don't know why I only hinted at that argument. This was exactly what I meant.
Efficient Deep Learning: A Survey on Making Models Smaller, Faster, Better
> Your argument is sound. It is however, built on one glaring assumption: the people in charge of the publicly funded healthcare systems are primarily incentivized to find cheap and safe treatments for the illness.

In many countries, they do. In some (like Brazil and India), they even rebelled and fought for their right to do so at some point (saving lives of people in other countries by the way).

I mean, in theory, all governments should care, but some are corrupted, and some have been designed to work against the best interests of the patient.
As in "it runs JavaScript and renders HTML", yes. As in "it runs stuff in a security sandbox", no.
Having stayed in an "underground" (nowadays we'd call it passive design) BnB out there, it really is remarkably comfortable compared to the outside temperature. During the days it's bakingly hot, and freezing and dry at night; but always pleasant in the rooms, with no need for A/C or heating. Ventilation is a bit of a problem as you might expect, it got a bit stuffy.
Yes. You can find the same kind of bs regarding safety belts in cars, ABS, airbags and so on. The part where I'm seeing a difference is when safety gear starts to actively interfere with operating the vehicle.
John Carmack: Don't overarchitect it
Yes, but who ever called Classic Mac OS a thoughtless user interface? Even when they redid it with Platinum.

It had far more affordances and consideration than even modern Mac OS, and it showed by (lack of) this commentary against it.
Several years ago when I had to build a custom package manager/build tool to solve this use case, I wish I could've just scoffed :)
The problem is, STL won't work for me --- I've been working on wood joinery, and I keep coming up with designs which between their geometry, and the tooling which should be used to cut them out, 3D CAM tools simply won't cut them out w/ the accuracy necessary for a good fit.
> Run a study and then talk

Have they? The base of your argument is a classic appeal to authority. They're "very proud, considerate, intentional" designers so they must be right and everybody else wrong.

Where's the data? Aren't unhappy users valid enough data to demonstrate a downgrade in user experience?
Latest would be Zen 3 or Ryzen 3000 series. I've got Zen 2 chips, Ryzen 2000 series, same as you.

yesco's comment above yours is probably useful here - I can definitely believe there were some issues with Ryzen when it first came out. How long ago was this and what kernel version were you using? The links you posted seem to reference Linux 4.x and 5.1.

If you tried again with some recent 5.8/5.10 kernel I bet you'd see a marked improvement. Linux moves quickly and support for new hardware is generally established early, though not without initial bugs ;)
> Yes, but your fans would start spinning like mad. I kill any browser that does that.

Good lord, I hope this is satire.
I don't think so anymore. It used to be that way but .NET has massively changed in the last few years. Also many of the Java libraries are unnecessary in the .NET because of its strong standard library and core frameworks. There's no need for 20 different JSON serializers or webservers. In contrast, there's nothing even close to Blazor for Java.
“People who probably put thousands (millions?) multiples of "thought" in considering the changes”

In my experience it’s usually one person’s vision behind major design changes (good or bad). It may be “discussed” so long as the discussion doesn’t deviate from boss’s vision (or you’re not a fit for the project).
Thank you. I need to start small, otherwise I feel overwhelmed by too many moving pieces to keeo in mind and plan for.

So I'm starting small, from powering up a ThinkCentre M910 I had laying around, with an internal disk that can be used to store backups. I have 0 need for performance so my idea was to extend storage with an external USB3 HD enclosure. For now, I don't have the space nor the machine where to install dual hard disks for building a decent RAID. Time will tell.
Why Voice Assistants Are Bad
I wonder if Linux is ready for it. How would tasks get scheduled? It’s really broken on Mac. The tasks get a flag for whether they are user-initiated or not, and the usual tools like renice can’t influence scheduling as far as I have found. This leads to priority inversions like the Xcode upgrade running on the “efficiency” cores while I sit there and wait for five hours. Bad experience all around and one fears for how it would work on Linux.
As an Android app developer, I'd say that Honeycomb was a very odd release. It only (officially) supported tablets, its sources were never released, but it already had GPU acceleration for UI rendering (aka HWUI), most of the new APIs like view transforms and animators, and a very first iteration of the Holo theme. From my point of view, it never saw much adoption. As 4.0 was released, many 3.0 devices were updated to it, including both tablets I had for testing. So, naturally, when I dropped 3.0 together with 2.3.3, no one really noticed, despite the app having tens of millions of users.
I think the key is what you get to say while claiming "I am an X, therefore (implicitly) trust what I say"

Whether it's a medical professional, architect, engineer, etc., I don't have a problem with the speech and actions of a person being regulated by a professional organization while they are claiming to be of that profession. i.e. legally protecting the term doctor/nurse/engineer/lawyer/etc. is just fine.

If you are not, you need to make it clear that you are indeed not a licensed professional.
3.10 is due out this year.

I'd like to see a harmonization of packaging for 3.11.

Of course, the vibe is not strong enough for me to exit the peanut gallery and contribute, so maybe we should be thankful for what we have from the thousands of human-years already invested.
Nope nope nope. Not for me.

This cheese is illegal for a reason!
In your kernel command line, to be more precise. If you use Grub as your boot loader, this can be achieved by adding it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.
Dr. Memory
No two translators would find the same words. There is nothing like a correct translation. Language is loaded with meaning beyond words and written by authors living their lives in societies and across the ages.
I'm continually shocked that people are so ok with automatically executing any code random sites they connect to shove at them.
My one question: Caddy is known for effortless TLS, has it on by default and makes it "just work". Why can't Maddy also automatically set up TLS, instead of having to use a cert acquired by some other means?
a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots).

Nope Nope Nope Nope. Whole lotta Nope.
If gaming implies a MMO, a possible attack vector is attacking users to get hold of their gaming account details and do as they please.
I don't want to go into this topic because frontend developers are very defensive of their capability to Javascript on people, they often cite javascript adoption numbers as proof that it's fine to make it mandatory or cite complex web applications as a reason for it to be mandatory for all sites, which I personally find to be a false dichotomy.

I tend to agree with what you're saying but the ship has sailed very much and running without javascript is a losing proposition these days.

(my web browser starts up with javascript disabled except for some whitelisted sites and it usually only takes 15 minutes for me to find something completely broken on the internet and re-enable javascript entirely).
No, that was pioneered by Ransom E. Olds. That doesn't stop Ford from repeating this at every opportunity but it isn't really true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_E._Olds
On the Nature of Educational Crises
Don’t “Be humble”. Be scientific. Humility is an assumption the mistake is with you; but you only know the system is not functioning as expected.

Proceed by narrowing down what parts of the system behave unexpectedly. Keep an open mind.

Humility implies blame in some human way. The computer is a machine. It doesn’t care how we feel. It just is. Appreciate the freedom that grants you in debugging.
Screenshot link please? the graph does not load for me.
Edge does it.
I would give this 10 votes if I could. Great read!
IJ does great work. They definitely have a libertarian bent, and while I wouldn't necessarily want to live in a full blown taxation-is-theft society, I do feel better knowing there are groups out there providing necessary pushback like seen here. A big case they won here in my state was returning a $40k car that was confiscated by the police because the person was arrested on a $100 drug crime.

I donate to them and encourage others to do so as well. And if you were one of the people complaining in that other HN thread about the alleged changes in the ACLU, consider donating here instead, rather than just not donating to any civil rights groups.
Eventually there will be laws preventing the horrible things smartphone OS vendors (or alternatively, a practical end to democracy) but in the mean time you should avoid smartphones.
> If in the far far future we develop a means of resurrecting the dead, the epitaphs on tombstones may be used to determine who deserves resurrection. But of course this is extremely fanciful speculation.

That's unlikely unless the dead person is exceptionally well-preserved (or you're just creating Generic Human Body #42 and giving it the dead person's name). Brain structure doesn't really survive current burial/embalming techniques and I imagine that any sort of "immortal soul" may have long left by then. Cryonics aims for this sort of far-future resurrection, but even it has problems about viability.
Did you check your covid19 exposure opt-in settings? Of everything you mentioned you checked, I didn’t see you say you checked that setting.

That setting could be what caused the install
Just the concept of “jaywalking” as a punishable offense is revolting to me.
I wish providing medical advice was highly regulated across the board. Crisis pregnancy centers certainly aren't: https://columbialawreview.org/content/pregnancy-centers-and-...
Adguard is NOT free. Beyond that, it is the worst plague of the modern computing age - subscription.

An ad blocker has access to extremely invasive data and Adblock wants me to pay them a subscription so they can get my PII and associate it with my browsing?

It is also not Open Source so I can't rely on the hope that someone smarter than me would have caught its dirty tricks.

I use Safari for a tiny subset of my browsing due to this gaping hole...
Desktop OSes don't tend to change as much between releases so it's easier to keep support for older versions longer.
Unregulated dietary supplements have killed way fewer people than obesity.
Remember when this was being actively debunked as a nutty conspiracy theory?
Seems like the author is so used to the current design language, that they are vehemently opposed to any change.

I personally like that Apple attempts to make websites feel more like applications by making the browser disappear.

Websites have evolved to becoming essentially applications that can run on any platform. And with WASM this is only getting better. This is a great thing!

Do applications have a permanent bookmarks bar, a reload button, a URL bar? No. It's all built into the OS. When you want to open an application, you search in the Dock or in Spotlight. When an application freezes, you force quit and reopen it. I can imagine how Apple in the future integrates the Safari URL bar into Spotlight search. On iOS this is at least partly possible already. Websites become more and more applications.
So when is ERCOT's tenure due? Moste useless of the useless.
Hide buffer time in the schedule: we were able to manufacture a chip in large part because we never discussed the foundry’s true due date with students. Instead we opted to build tolerance into the schedule and kept students aiming for an earlier deadline.
> the problem has been accelerated by the sheer number of college/grad degrees given out like candy the last 20 years

At least in medicine this isn't the case; the AMA effectively limits the number of positions available. The ratio of doctors to patients has hence been steadily decreasing over the past few decades.
Because the larvae in the
cheese can launch themselves
for distances up to 15
centimetres (6 in) when
disturbed, diners hold
their hands above the
sandwich to prevent the
maggots from leaping.
That's one heck of a tracking cookie just to make a comment. Makes you wonder about the internet requirements of CAPATCHA's in the future.
Nah. I browse the web with NoScript. Snowden himself says to disable scripting in browsers.
You can also flash a custom ROM and just not install gapps.
Sometimes, when a dish is local and doesn't travel, those locals have got to ask themselves why it's not traveling.
--Richard Ayoade
AnonAddy can do this and it has a nice web GUI. It also allows you to individually block any of the email addresses from forwarding to your inbox, which helps make spam control much easier.
Communicating with the Ethereum Blockchain through Elixir
Interesting engineering note at the end of the article: “However, most mining is fully mechanized today.”
Coober Pedy was highlighted in an episode of Instant Hotel on Netflix here https://www.netflix.com/title/81023011
Yeah I think I wouldn't be too bothered if there was a way of getting rid of the larvae. Just freezing might do the trick for me.

Not sure if it's more or less appetizing than Hakarl (I guess it smells better).

Still better than Balut though. That's definitely a no for me.
I run Windows 10 (Home) since years and the OS has so far, never tried to warn me about Firefox. It does however reset default browser back to Edge after biannual major OS upgrades. Also searching 'adblock for Firefox' on Google returns several results from Mozilla addons for me. Chrome is not linked anywhere on the first page of results.

What is personally more annoying is Edge keeps randomly popping up a banner asking if I'm sure it shouldn't be the default browser. When a user declines once, the OS shouldn't nag repeatedly.
Well, ok. First you make it a crime for any authority to look at it for any reason that is not blameless safety investigations.
You don't hide the start menu and task bar?
Recently an expansion for Elite Dangerous came out, names "Odyssey". It's been a very buggy and unfinished experience, and there's very little actual content added in it for the $60 price tag.

Steam has a policy of 2 hours of playtime = no return. By playing the tutorial I already had an hour down. Then another hour trying to fix performance issues (to no avail). I tried to issue a return and nope. So now I have a product that falsely advertised itself and I can't return.

Gamers need the FTC to rise up.

Steam response: "We are unable to refund this purchase to your X ending with X at this time. Your playtime of an included product exceeds 2 hours (our refund policy maximum)."
Yes, I confirmed last night that Settings -> Google -> COVID-19 Exposure Notifications was off. (Aside, I read somewhere but have not confirmed this myself that manually enabling that setting leads to a flow for installing the gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications app, whereas the forced update is gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 -- note the extra v3). By the way, MassNotify app is not visible from Play Store search (both on mobile and on desktop -- https://play.google.com/store/search?q=MassNotify) and does not create an icon -- you can only find it in Play Store via its internal name (e.g. a link like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19...), and would have to specifically look in system dialog for all apps to see if it is installed.
Not keeping up with professional connections as I made them from the start. Even a "happy birthday" card would've been enough, but here we are.
Entirely? Use NoScript to temporarily enable only those portions of the single site that you need. No affiliation, just a happy user.
As known from Asterix: https://theoldwolf.com/ccdesan/Banquet/CasuMarzu.html / https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pidrIBjgTjE/UdFeryVlmHI/AAAAAAAAy... :-)
Is it just me: I used pipenv before knowing poetry. Pipenv mostly fits the bill. Then, everyone was talking about poetry so I gave it a try but the experience wasn’t that great. It’s either doing what pipenv could do or running into issues I found hard to understand. So now, I just use pipenv. And I think pipenv development just has been started again.

I’m a casual Python user btw.
(Just curious) what features become unavailable when you opt out? Or in other words, why would anyone opt in?
Even CPUs designed for a higher turbo-boost frequency have disproportionate power usage increases at their highest freq, compared to the marginal perf gains. I suspect the rush to idle must on tons of model be an equilibrium esp in freq selection if you really want to optimize for power consumption. Probably why user selectable power plans make sense.
Sad but probably the sensible option.

Ever since I saw Minecraft running on Windows 98 a few years back I've sort of had an obsession with running things on obscenely outdated systems (that and I've a distaste for the bloatedness of modern programs)
Minecraft is sort of lucky though as it's running on Java (although it still requires at least some modding effort to get it to run these days)

My personal "support even if it's a bit insane" programming bracket goes back to Windows XP because it's my favourite and I was pretty upset when MS discontinued it. (Especially with Windows 8 just released)
Islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands
Well, the marketing of these vulnerabilities was also bombastic and hyperbolic, so it follows that the retorts should employ similar language so they are taken just as seriously.
Telling teachers what they are allowed to teach doesn't really go against free speech. I can talk about how I think the earth is flat for as long as I want, but if I start teaching that to students I'm going to get fired (hopefully).
The juice is absolutely worth the squeeze. Everybody and their grandmas think Windows is a mess, yet theres no real alternative for most people, so there’s no real incentive for MS to make it better (or for a start, stop making it worse with telemetry, forced restarts and adware).