skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here in the UK, apples are very well respected and appreciated.

I've an anecdote about that. I worked at an orchard and I was surprised that we picked apples while they were still green. They were a variety that would golden when ripe, I believe. Anyway, I later learned that those were apples meant to be sent to UK (orchard was in France) and that in UK there's a large market for unripened apples (large green ones). I always thought it silly.
"Equal pay for equal work"

This is interesting as the company have teams in developing worlds. I imagine they would be supportive of raising their pay and conversely reducing pay for Americans.

I've always thought being paid for where you were in the world and not for what you do as unfair.
Exactly, if the body ages in 90 years to only 30, all organs should as well, including the brain.

This means that age-related diseases like heart problems, alzheimer, etc, should not occur (except where they already occur in young people).
https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy/issues/243#issuecomment-6556...

I guess that needs to be in FAQ...
The difficulty of taking a government-sponsored and government-accessible substantial privacy risk (at a minimum) is something that some will find utterly unacceptable and others will think might be concerning or unacceptable in general but is righteously justified in this specific situation.

The first group’s common sense says “don’t install”; the second group’s common sense says “install via subterfuge if necessary”.
So decouple them. Microsoft has annual revenue of $143 billion. Their flagship product should not be a neglected mess.
Asking the obvious question: why aren't the UIs in newer Windows versions not "just" different themes over Win32 widgets? Instead the UI theme seems to be tied to UI frameworks which seem to be created and discarded annually at Microsoft, so each time some genius decides to overhaul the UI, a completely new sediment layer is created instead of letting some UI designers tinker with a theme editor.

I don't get it. Functional UI changes should be different from visual fluff, yet Windows seems to the only OS where the two aren't separated.
What was your goal with this incredibly misinformed comment?
Agreed. For all the problems with ERCOT, Texas does have an astoundingly high penetration of renewable sources that makes programs like this extremely useful. High renewable penetration causes grid stability issues, but not for the reasons you would think.

Electricity travels at the speed of light, so there's a huge dependency on spinning generator inertia to keep a stable supply. With renewables, this "grid inertia" is greatly reduced.

The reduction in grid inertia makes quick demand reduction important. It takes most generation sources several seconds to "spin up" and support load transients. Loads on the other hand can be cut within a few hundred milliseconds. HVAC is nearly ideal for load cuts because they use a ton of power and small variations in temperature can be absorbed by thermal inertia of buildings and product being cooled.

There's a great document on this and how it affects the Texas grid.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/73856.pdf

People that willingly sign up for these programs then complain about it is a classic "leapords ate my face" scenario. The same thing happened to users of Griddy during the huge grid failure earlier this year. Griddy exposed users to realtime spot energy pricing which pegs at $9000/mwh when there's more demand than available generation.

A side note, ironically the same document praising ERCOT's innovative handling of renewable sources says the US national east/west grids are unlikely to face the same problems until the 2040's. Basically, if Texas grid was connected to one of the national ones, these problems they're trying to solve with innovation would just go away for at least 20 years.
How does an Instagram account with 50k followers make money?
Texan cats greet with "meowdy"
If the cat wants a scritch-scratch, she'll bat me with her paw.

The eagles and coyotes (I live in the middle of the city, go figure) would make short work of the cat if outside. The coyotes often hang out on the front lawn, and recently left a nice "you suck, Walter" message as a pile of poo by the front door. Had a bobcat wander by not too long ago. The coyotes don't approach me, but I'm not so sure about bobcats.

A couple weeks ago a gigantic eagle cruised by me at eye level, about 10 feet away. No way I'm going to tangle with that monster, and it's easily big enough to cart off the cat. The other cats in the neighborhood are indoor cats, too.

Once there was a juvenile coyote cut in half in the front yard. I figured it was that eagle.

Another time a ginormous owl decided to sit on the porch railing, staring at me, for quite a while. Yeah, it could easily have taken the cat apart.
I think pilot must have known that the information in the back box would provide them heaps of data on how to prevent crashes, to their benefits. My guess is that is was not opposed by average pilots, but by people in power above or around or among pilots, whose power would be undercut by any new idea.
"Lynch mob" in this case is people talking abput their own experiences.
>The reason why Windows is full of UI inconsistencies is (largely)

...completely unjustifiable?

Come on, why does this mean we need 5 different sound dialogues to do 5 different things? That's ridiculous on every level. It used to all be in one place anyway, so it's not even like it needs to be spread out in the first place. Make the old dialogues inaccessible, hide them, and create a new one which does all of those jobs. Then get rid of the old, now unused ones at the first opportunity.

Is the explanation really backwards compatibility, or is it lack of organisation?
> I don't like that Burning Man curator's quote calling their saying a form of "inclusivity" when it doesn't include the lurker.

Indeed. If you explicitly provide no space for spectators, that just means you radically reduce the set of people who want to participate at all. There are plenty of lurking-friendly spaces elsewhere so I don't think that Burning Man needs to change the policy or anything, but to pretend that it is super inclusive because the excluded group is not even present is just not true.

In fact, Burning man can be said to epitomize the western secular idea that individual freedom is the highest good. There are plenty of cultures where this idea is not considered to be true. Even in the US, you can find lots of (evangelical) groups that would find people having orgies, doing drugs, not praying and in a general sense indulging themselves without thinking about God and society an abhorrent idea. In general, all cultures where some sort of patriarchal/matriarchal hierarchy is the norm (ie the tribe elders get to decide for everyone what is best) would fare pretty poorly at Burning Man I think.
Oh man... let's hope it's fixable.

I know the Webb is going to be out there soon, but a) it's not out there yet b) I think NASA could still squeeze a hell of a lot of mileage out of Hubble.

I'm not one for pre-emptive eulogies but I want to say a massive "thank you" to the Hubble project so far.
> XMPP is designed to be grown, to have new capabilities added, to be experimented with.

so is Matrix.

your entire post is based on a wrong assumption...
>"if the Mass Gov truly wants to minimize harm this is the opposite of what needs to be done."

where is the actual evidence for this? Both Taiwan and South Korea deployed massive, digital tracking efforts to respond to covid often at the cell-provider/ infrastructure level so the entire population was covered whether they wanted to or not.

Nothing about this was despotic or paranoid, it was simply the correct, swift, and strong response to the situation at hand. Until half of Americans have voluntarily installed a tracing app on their phone, if they even know how to do it, we're five years into the pandemic.

Defaults matter. There's a nice example from organ donations in a study conducted by Johnson & Goldstein[1]. When you ask people to opt-in, even if you send everyone a letter personally, only 30% do. When you switch to opt-out, 90% stay in without any resources expended. I would like to think the first obligation of a healthy democracy is to the health of her people. What gives rise to despots is governments failing exactly at that, providng essential functions, being harmstrung by excessive checks and mistrust.

[1]http://www.dangoldstein.com/papers/DefaultsScience.pdf
Rapacymin and mTOR has been studied a great deal through the usual means. There is a connection to Diabetes so the subject has received quite a lot of attention.

What does it matter as long as they release the data and their methods. Then someone else can verify it. So it is just science as usual really when you think about it.
Can you please elaborate on the “obscure behavior of Time Machine” part?

Time Machine has been by go-to solution for local backups and a life savior in a few occasions. I’ve never had any issues with it, so I’m curious about that.
2007: China Executes Former Drug Regulator
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_export_recalls

Interesting to see how dead serious China was (is) in maintaining it’s exporting primacy. Interestingly enough, I think they’ve gotten so successful at their business that they will never answer to the rest of the world again.
That is a pedantic and useless definition of trust.
I think it might be quite clear why this happens. If you have a team of say sales persons, you would not want the top performers take on a role with more administration. So you promote the ones that won't leave a hole in the team output and are also somewhat competent, since the sales person will most likely be replaced by an average sales person.
Who are the remaining 9%?
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You can, they just often live in somewhere like std::experimental
> The next time I looked though the installed apps I saw some Vodafone Services app that I didn't install. It couldn't be removed either

Are you sure that's an actual Android App and not just the SIM Application Toolkit[0]? On iOS these show up under the Carrier menu in Settings but on Android it shows them as if they were an app, even though it's something running on your SIM card (they are backwards compatible and show up way back on old feature phones).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit
Don't buy a shitty phone and expect to get a good experience. Avoiding big brands like Samsung usually helps.
I think broad goals like "eliminating suffering" or "fighting poverty" tend to be in a hard to tackle middle ground.

We're better off approaching them either more broadly or more narrowly. IE, we can dedicate resources to tighter goals, like reducing childhood mortality... a horrendous thing that most people suffered for most of humanity. We really made a lot of progress on this.

Alternatively, we can think of it more broadly... advancing as a species, culture and society. In that sense, space travel is a good idea.

Tackling the elimination of suffering head on is likely to resolve to "be a politician/priest/lawyer" or somesuch.

In any case, I think the mistake is thinking of everything as competitive, at a broad level. Rather, people tend to see ambitious, "humanities' first" goals as competitive with "eliminating suffering" or other broad goals. It's rare to hear people think that sports or cinema are competitive with the elimination of suffering.
I've been looking at the other comments on this article, and there is a couple of points that I haven't seen address by others that I think are pertinent.

1) What was it that Starlink wanted to beta test with customers? It might very well be that they shipped hardware with know environmental weaknesses, so not to hold up other parts of the project. While taking a hit on the reliability in edge cases.

2) We know that there are some dishes out there that have heat issues, but we don't know how many dish hardware iterations they have done. The failing dishes could very well be early prototypes that have know issues. Which are fixed in later revisions.

Generally speaking I don't see these reports as worrying. I've just come of 10+ years of working on SW on (indoor), embedded hardware. Having alpha and beta hardware with issues are common, you need some hardware to run your test and SW development on. Even if it is fundamentally flawed and you have to throw it away because of those weakness later. For those that only have experience of building software. What you are seeing here, is a view into the sausage factory, and just because it feels messy and doesn't line up with your expectations. Don't mean that they are doing it wrong.
This sent me down a rabbit hole. I watched the trailer for The Last Stop, and now I'm inconsolable.

My experience at a boarding school in Australia was similarly themed, though nowhere near this extreme. I feel I ought now to write to my old dormitory master — my own Nurse Ratched — and remind him of some of the abuse.
Wrong question. The ultra-wealthy persuade/bribe/intimidate politicians to pass laws that make it legal to avoid paying taxes. This has been going on for a long time, and it won't change any time soon.
hah. The only sharp memories of my teenage years - three decades ago - are the ones that make me stop in the street and cringe while swearing under my breath. How could I have been such an asshole? OMG, am I still that much of an asshole?

To remember the sweet and good things I did, said, and experienced as a teenager, with that same sharpness seems like the most desirable gift of all.
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Couple of issues here; the first and foremost - recording people at their workplace. We can all argue how privacy is unreasonable in public but recording let alone pilots but anyone continuously at work will receive big pushback.

Also video occupies much more data than most other streams of information stored on blackbox. This coupled with the fact that anything aviation related takes decades to get into widespread use and it was only quite recently that solid state storage became so dense and ubiquitous.

Video surveillance at airports is getting more widespread, just search for SFO asiana.
What's the point? Indeed that's your attitude and is ok.

At my age when I was in school the whole class had a computer (like 25 of us). Today of that class only 3 work using computer everyday.

The second part of my comment explain that if you've the right attitude and interest then a computer can help you, if you don't is just another tool like your fridge
I ditched my chair and use an inflatable ball. I bought the 20€ max size at a sports store (Decathlon, France).

It is wonderful, I did not have any adaptation time and it firces me to make micro (or macro) movements while I sit.

I also bounce on it, lay flat and twist my spine.

I really recommend to try.
People are scared of the privacy implications of tracking. They should be, but they don’t have to be.

If I had any ability to execute ideas I would have made the app using raffle / cloakroom tickets as the metaphor.

Every time your phone sees another phone, they get one of your tickets and you get one of theirs.

Then whenever someone gets symptoms, if their ticket book was pink then the government announces “anyone with a pink ticket, stay inside for a week”.

(With real ticket books, there aren’t enough unique colours for everyone but the tickets do have unique serial numbers.)

https://www.feteandpartygameshire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2...
> A lot of mammals, and especially primates, and relatives, like to seek out good vistas, and vantage points.

The article mentions this as well, but expands on the "why", not just the "what", so you and the article basically have the same idea.

> The physicist, Richard Taylor at the University of Oregon, speculates that humans are "wired" with a "fractal fluency" because we evolved surrounded by the natural fractal patterns of plants, clouds, and rocks. Studies confirm that fractals increase attention, pattern recognition, navigation, reduce stress, and have aesthetic appeal.
The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili is also great

Worth starting from the very first episode
That their family would use it for daily needs instead of a computer.

Poor people can't think in long terms as they're struggling with their daily needs thus it makes sense for them to solve these rather than think what if my kid would turn into a rich man thanks to it.
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defaults absolutely matter, which is why surveillance being the default is deeply troubling to me. I do not care what the justification flavor of the day is, it's not a good trend to normalize. all it takes is another donald trump type figure to abuse this for evil. hell even a 3rd party could if this was implemented poorly, which is an all too common occurrence.

In the USA, nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program, keep that in mind.
Atleast it would be a structure that works could elect instead of being forced into.
I think it is because breaking API changes are introduced often, and most apps only work across a narrow window of 2-3 major releases.
I've had the Embody for maybe four years now and I like it. It's good, but not if you like to switch it up and not have the same posture all the time.
> Imagine growing up in war-torn Africa, drug-ridden slums of South America or fanatical Middle East with daily executions.

This sentence is so ignorantly woke that it has come full-circle and it is blatantly racist.

Latin America is much, much more than drug-ridden slums, war hasn't torn apart all of Africa - and many countries have recovered from such strife -, and many people in the Middle East live under moderate versions of the Sharia that don't entail gruesome "daily executions" like in ISIS-controlled territories.

About 700M people in the world live in absolute poverty nowadays, compared to about 80% in the 1800s [1]. There is no factual evidence that the "majority" of people in the world live in the abject conditions that you describe. In fact, many people now live in relative material poverty compared to Western standards, but in safety, dignity and prosperity.

We can argue all day about how there is a lot of work yet to be done or how at the extremes wicked expressions of evil continue to exist, but this savage and false interpretation of the world is completely out of place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold
I've always wanted SmarterMail for Linux. Maddy seems to be exactly that. I’ll definitely check it out.
To be fair it is 45% of their holdings, not a majority. Which is still a very big amount of money, and more than enough to ruin the stability guarantee of USDT
> This app can actually save lives without sacrificing any privacy, pushing it to users is something that has no drawbacks.

This app might have absolutely no privacy leaks; honestly, it’s too early to know that yet. The code is not published; there’s been no public auditing of the backend data handling practices.

Given that, I see drawbacks.

I did not opt-in to the MA one when prompted on iOS (and it did not install [as far as I can tell]).
>- ability to turn off checksumming for specific files

This is something that has always confused me. BTRFS users are always advised to disable copy-on-write (thus preventing checksumming or compression) for VM images or database files to avoid massive performance hits from fragmentation. Even Facebook still stores its databases mostly on XFS filesystems. However, the ZFS community seems to indicate that you can achieve reasonable performance for databases and VMs just by tuning the recordsize (e.g. https://pg.uptrace.dev/zfs/). How does ZFS mitigate the problems from fragmentation?
They're also free to band together and strengthen their bargaining power to balance it against that of the employer.
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No it hasn't. Just buy a phone from let's say Samsung and install any Google app. Google app will have a different UI look and feel than rest of the system.
Secret Labs Titan here. Best chair I've ever sat in personally. Actually supports you without being too hard, the back goes all the way up, it's comfortable in many different positions, it's rock solid, etc.
Well they don't need to be idempotent, but it's generally a good idea if you want to stay sane debugging your system. To the second effect, I know in clojure's reframe this is handled by something called "subscriptions". It provides a sort of extension of memoization where functions subscribe to a state atom and you can create this dependency graph.

I'll be honest, I haven't used reframe myself, I just came across the concept while using cljfx
https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx/#subscriptions-and-contexts
so I'm not quite sure if it's all updated async or on each render - but the framework is very powerful and simplifies application logic by an order of magnitude.

But in both reframe and cljfx it's tied to the gui rendering which is a shame - b/c as you comment suggests - this is a more general purpose pattern. In-library it remains a bit too verbose with lots of boiler plate and api to remember and it's all a bit too difficult to reason about at times. It seems like it should be something that's part of the language "runtime". However in the end it still works through memoized functions, which is a bit more explicit that a second magical assignment operator :)

Anyway, a bit of a ramble.. thanks for the info :)
New lives are not inherently more valuable than old lives. You can already see this reflected in contemporary morality and the discourse around preventing human lives. After all, a life not lived is a life free from suffering.

A lot of the suffering inherent to human life is caused by moral compromises made for the sake of future generations' well-being. Instead, if the norm was living long enough to have to face the long-term consequences of your actions first hand, maybe old people could not afford to be so rigid. They would not be able to "wash their hands" by dying (and possibly leaving any wealth amassed through immoral means to their innocent heirs.)

Personally, what I'm looking forward is augmenting human cognition over long periods of time. I do worry that the result would not necessarily be any more agreeable, or even comprehensible, from our current standpoint, than (post-)modernity would be comprehensible to a caveman; but what I fear is something else entirely: I fear that people would occupy their expended lifespans with centuries of technologically augmented personal drama and sociopolitical "4D chess" - an advancement in complexity of our fundamental primate nature, but otherwise not different from what we do now.

I already find it disappointing that the most valuable thing most people have going on is their "personal" life. And an extension of this principle towards (comparative) eternity would be supremely so.
Starlink dish costs $500, and has an antenna and motor.

$500 seems cheap for what it does, and that makes sense if it’s cost optimized but doesn’t have the broadest climate zone tolerance.
"Execution is everything" is always true after the fact. Good and bad ideas are treated with disdain because that is how people are. Until a random person gets profit from execution, then is praised for the profit, because people desire and envy profit.

If there is a myth here, it is that it matters who executed it first. It's random.
But it was an interesting turnaround by the Aussies that they were the first country to mandate the flight data recorders.
Not just emotional. My biggest takeaway is that everyone wants to feel important, that they matter. And it's true whether you are a president or a petty criminal. It's a very strong emotion.