skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Send a DMCA to them. They'll either comply or ignore it in most cases.
Whilst I might share your frustration, your comment didn't add anything to the debate. The absence of comments like yours (from either side) is one of the reasons I come to HN, and is the reason I downvoted you.
The UX issues of development frameworks
> Are we really?

Yes. PV production in particular is following an exponential trend, about 37% per year compound, roughly tenfold growth every 7 years 4 months.

If this exponential doesn’t turn out to be a sigmoid in disguise, all power (not just electricity, everything) will be green by the end of 2031.
Lots of parallels to "know your enemy", if you're willing to broaden "enemy" to include the impersonal.

Quotes[1]:

> It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

and

> Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

The part about both knowing yourself and knowing your enemy is similar to the idea of iterating back and forth between thinking about how to fail and how to succeed. The universe is not actually out to get you, but you can ask what its "strategy" would be if it were.

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[1] see https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu#Chapter_III_%C2%B7_Str...
Shockingly Palo Alto joined a lawsuit to try and prevent this kind of thing being mandated.

The progressive city I used to live in (section 8 housing, homeless housing, source of random bands like Grateful Dead, Joan baez, grace slick) was taken over by the greed lobby when the dot com boom hit and has become an “I got mine, jack” colony.
Governments of Canada and Hong Kong do tests against public IP space with the same country code. Results are not what one would expect - just a bunch of noise is send to CISOs, mostly about uh-oh your NTP server is wide open (it is not in fact). Usefulness of those test is very questionable.
> "Functions always have a single entry point; they should have a single exit point."

Kind of moot as soon as you are using a language with exceptions, where by definition every function can have surprise exit points at every point where they call another function.

Furthermore, the whole "goto is evil" ordeal has been debunked by the top professionals in our field [1] and discussed many times here on HN [2,3,4,5].

[1] https://koblents.com/Ches/Links/Month-Mar-2013/20-Using-Goto...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484221

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959592

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14540088

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8760518
It can depend on accountability mechanisms. I would like to see more contracts that give bonuses to companies that come in under budget and under schedule and penalize the overly optimistic ones that never seem to hit their target. This is becoming more common in some domains.
I assume you are saying that Apple won't sell M1 outside of its own hardware.

Apple had an opportunity with OSX to take over a larger space of consumer computing by releasing it for clones and general intel/amd PCs. They flubbed that.

Now they have a dominant desktop chip they could push to multiple corners of datacenters and business computing.

But they'll keep it in their trendy laptops and cede billions in annual revenue to someone else, and squander a market advantage again. The ARM desktop lead will last about 18 months I'd guess.

But if the iPhone keeps doing well, the CEO is fine.
I finished reading this and felt that it was annoying clickbait. The example it started with (that I saw in a preview before clicking) was just misleading
From a strictly licensing perspective, why though? As a user, what difference does it make unless you plan on somehow integrating `cp` et al into your source code?
I’m not quite sure what you were expecting from an arena which had its last show 1500 years ago.

Learning about the past doesn’t mean we think the practices that existed back then were good. For most people it’s about curiosity and understanding how the world of today came to be (and Ancient Rome is an important part of that story in the western world).
There’s a huge mythology apparently in the groups that the DSPs frequently discuss these sorts of things around exactly the “right amount” you should tweak the routes, because apparently the changes are fed back into the model and can impact in strange ways what it will spit out in the future.

A lot of managers swear if you take too heavy of a hand in making changes it will screw up the model and you get worse and worse routes each morning.

There is apparently an art form to making these tweaks each morning that gently optimizes the routes in a way that doesn’t perturb the model.

I couldn’t tell if this was just mysticism surrounding the black box algorithm or if the manual route changes are actually being saved and perhaps being over-fit in subsequent runs of the route solver.
Lithuanian in general is considered one of the most conservative IE languages. There isn't really any clear reason that historical linguistics has produced for whether languages change quickly or slowly afaik.
Just talking about CO2 has negative cognitive impacts, as this thread demonstrates. People will apply any stretch of the mind they can to avoid having to face the problem.

The remarkable collective insanity is that we can't be sane collectively. It takes only a minority to make collective action impossible and individual action pointless.

So you can buy an air monitor but all it's going to do is affirm that the inevitable is actually happening.
Sure but that's not really helpful, the only thing it does is avoid breaking history visualisation tools which tend to deal very badly with "wide" histories.

For instance one of the biggest annoyances with git is it's a pain in the ass to find the the merge of a commit into the mainline (aka the next child with more than one ancestor… probably), which can make it difficult to go back from a commit to a PR unless it was a single-commit pull request.
Yes. Without a L1 cache a cpu is just a hyper active kid in a box. L2 important too. If one cares about performance learn about caches.
I trust the New York Times more than I trust some random blogger:

> At a board of supervisors hearing last week, representatives from Walgreens said that thefts at its stores in San Francisco were four times the chain’s national average, and that it had closed 17 stores, largely because the scale of thefts had made business untenable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
Empathy, not apathy. Otherwise, a very interesting hypothesis. I must ruminate (pun intended) on it for quite a moment.
> I'd love to change it

The simplest way to change your own situation is to move. Different towns, cities, rural areas, etc. with different land uses exist so that people with different preferences can all find some place that reasonably matches their preferences. Making them all the same just so they match your personal preferences makes the situation worse, not better.
Did you notice if they pre-registered the separate analyses of males and females? Flexibility in the analysis of data ("researcher degrees of freedom") is likely one of the major causes of the replication crisis. Gelman's paper is excellent in showing how these issues manifest without any intended malfeasance:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...
No? You use filtered outside air to mix it down to outside levels and only then add concentrated gas (cryogenically separated from the same outside air). It would probably be just a few pounds of oxygen (instead of a few pounds of scrubbing mixture that needs to be trucked in and out).
==And statistically speaking, the majority of commentators here never even held an assault rifle in their lives.==

Has nothing to do with anything, but enjoy puffing your chest.
We know these names because the Rosetta Stone (and other dual-language inscriptions) allowed researchers to figure out which Greek letter the egyptian hieroglyphics mapped to. There is also the Coptic language, which is a modern descendent of Ancient Egyptian.

However, these pronunciations are full of issues and uncertainties - in part because, as the OP states, even figuring out how exactly Greek was pronounced is sort of a challenge, and because Ancient Egyptian did not denote most vowels, so some uncertainty is unavoidable.

For example, Egyptologists will usually transcribe the name we usually pronounce as Tutankhamen as "twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn". We can tell which phonemes are distinct and have some idea of how they must have been pronounced, but we can never truly know for sure.

So the answer is: The word probably wasn't pronounced as "Ramses", the name "Ramses" is an approximation of a Greek approximation of the actual name of the pharaoh, optimized to be easy to pronounce by English-speakers.
> Bureaucrats who could fix it in a minute

That is not how this works. Bureaucrats needs to legally be instructed to change the register, "I saw something yesterday on TV and I am going to change official records" would be the worse bureaucracy ever. A bureaucrat that did such a change would end out of a job and maybe in prison for a good reason.

> How fucked up the system must be to allow such abuse.

The "system" works for millions of people. One weird case and you want to throw away the complete system. Google or Facebook close accounts randomly, meanwhile the state is able to keep proper records for a century with minimum mistakes. Yes, it is bad for this woman. Yes, they need to fix her case. No, it is not a reason to throw away a system that works.

> France

From the article, this also happened in Ohio. "In 2013, an Ohio judge ruled that Donald E Miller Jr would have to stay legally deceased, even though Miller was sitting in the courtroom to hear his fate, perfectly healthy. He had been declared dead in 1994 after having disappeared in 1986, owing thousands of dollars in unpaid child support. His ex-wife had requested Miller be declared dead so she would eligible for social security benefits. When Miller returned – he had been working out of state – he was told that Ohio cannot reverse death certificates after more than three years."

> I did not know that free person in France can not legally move without Ausweis.

Not in France nor in the USA. Try to move around the USA without a birth certificate and you are going to find how many problems you have to access properties and a job. Even in the Roman Empire you needed a birth certificate to prove ownership of land.
I live in Manhattan and it is extremely rare to see broken car windows/shattered glass in the streets. In SF, it is a common sight, even in nicer seemingly quiet areas (eg. inner Richmond).
It used to be that few junkies would do it around SOMA, or only around tourist heavy areas, but now it is organized by smash and grab gangs/groups, that cruise around even quiet neighborhoods to look for easy opportunities.

Some, more sophisticated ones, even use bluetooth seeking/scanning devices to detect when there is a laptop hidden in a car nearby.
> Surely that would be anti competitive in the extreme?

Now prove it.

TSMC accepts paying customers. Intel is a paying customer too.

Haven't we spent years bemoning how Intel is behind TSMC? It seems natural Intel would take advantage of TSMC's expertise if they are ahead. And Intel probably is happy to use TSMC. Two rabbits with one shot.

Even if you could prove it, where do you plan to file the complaint?
My understanding was that the isolation of the Baltic speakers was a big contributor, though off the top of my head I wouldn't know the geographical obstacles, hence also why they were the last to Christianity in Europe
This is the referenced study:

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
... as anyone who ever met a snarling, menacing dog in deserted Balkan mountains can confirm.

Even bending down and pretending to pick up something from the ground will often work.
> I know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free

To me RSS and the reader are and should be separate.

RSS is the protocol to query and retrieve updated articles. The reader can be anything you like.

Personally I use rss2email for retrieval and my UI is my email app.
No. If you rebase you get no merge commit by default.
Agreed. A DMCA is the correct route, won't cost you anything, and will work. Be sure to send it to their upstream providers too.
Let’s just assume for the moment that the experiment is actually invalid (due to poor control group).

Experiments that have good control groups don’t show spectacular results. Only those experiments that have spectacular results get publicized by the popular media. Therefore you are seeing a kind of bias particular more to the popular media than necessarily the scientific field.
Unless the interviews with the pilots - or statements by anyone else, for that matter - present facts or other arguments which render the debunking unsound, then this approach merely avoids the issues raised by the debunkers, and their specific arguments remain uncontested.

I would be interested in any counter-debunking that specifically addresses the arguments of the debunkers.
Well, anecdotally it certainly feels up. I'm moving back to SF. A friend told me to sign up for the Cole Valley FB group. In the 5 weeks I was on it, 5 garages were broken into, several more attempts, 7 cars broken into, one was caught on camera. Even a film of someone stalking the garages (walking down the street, looking into each garage).

The garages, they generally try to drill a hole and then pull the cable on the door opener.

For cars, they slowly drive their own car down the street looking for cars with stuff inside, 2 people, driver and thief. When they see one, thief jumps out, smashes window, grabs stuff, jumps back in car, driver drives them away. It takes 3-6 seconds.

AFAIK Cole Valley has never been known for car break-ins or garage break-ins. Also AFAIK the garage break-in are happening all over and are new. Further, AFAIK this isn't homeless crack-heads looking for a small fix. It's a few small groups committing the same crimes over and over.

I wish I knew the police were doing something. Assuming I'm right at it is just a few groups of people then it shouldn't take more then a few honeypots to effectively stop most of it.

If I could find a way to get permission from the city I'm betting the residents of certain neighborhoods would be willing to pay for their own sting operations to try to take their neighborhoods back.
Isn't that an easy way to evade taxes? The rent will be taxed, but the original money used to buy a house won't be.
Uhh, Portland or Seattle?

They're political similar, economically as similar as you'll get (silicon forest in Hillsboro and Seattle's whole tech scene rivals SF), and geographically similar in terms of climate to parts of the bay area.
thank you ! I was looking for something exactly like this :)
You seem to be assuming that the only physiologically-relevant factor is the ratio of O2 to CO2 in the air. I am pretty sure that is wrong: for example, dissolved CO2 makes the blood significantly more acidic whereas dissolved O2 does not make it more basic.

Also, the US Navy's submarine service, the Space Shuttle and the Apollo missions solved the problem by removing CO2, not by adding other gasses.
At this point ASML has a higher market cap than Intel.
My approach was to allocate 2 weeks for even the most basic things because unknowns always creep in and a tighter schedule tends to make those things creep in even more. Also, many of the requests had no particular urgency to begin with.
Sincere question: does a “squash merge” implicitly include a rebase as well when the merge target has diverged?
Genuinely curious as to how much time you have lived or worked in Houston ?

I found many pieces of it - some of which were directly related to lack of zoning - to be aesthetic disasters.

There seems to be a conception that support of zoning, and things like it, need be grounded in some scientific public-good maximalism that probably doesn't exist.

I don't feel bound by that at all.

The reason I am against ad-hoc liquor stores being run from a walled in front porch of a single-family home converted (badly) to a duplex[1] is because I dislike them aesthetically.

[1] Houston, circa 1999.
> This is why places like LA and Houston have never solved their traffic problems.

If you put a population cap on LA or wherever, you could solve traffic with construction. Instead, the goal is to increase road capacity inline with the increased trip demand that's largely driven by population growth.

Sure, there are some trips that are taken when there's sufficient capacity, and not when there's not, and you can call discovery of those trips induced demand. But most of the demand increase is from population increase. LA is actually putting in a lot of mass transit, and it gets a surprisingly high (to me anyway) ridership, but it's pretty hard to provide a comprehensive solution to the commute needs of the area when there's no real centralization of workplaces or housing or even retail or amusement. All of those things are more or less distributed throughout the greater LA area, and people live in multi-income households, so relocating to be transit accessible for all earners is difficult. It's really hard to beat point to point time of a flexible, if congested, car vs inflexible transit lines if you have to make more than one transfer.
You can find a lot of people in academia just as smart with 2 Twitter followers.

My point is, everyone listens to Jeff and the other billionaires because they're rich. That's literally the only reason. They're modern day kings as rich as the robber barons of old.
Isn’t commenting the definition of engaging on HN? Maybe the real question is why do you reflexively assume it is political?
Git history plays a critical role in code forensics, particularly in large code bases (or places where you may have a large number of potential authors). I. E. 10 commits just went to production from 3 different teams on one service. Something breaks a few hours later; was it one of the 10? Was it a corner case in something much older? Or was it someone's feature flag going live?

If you deal with a service that has been matiained for a few years, this is also an excellent way to figure out what was done why and when. Or figure out if a well meaning rebase accidentally clobbered a critical piece of ancient logic. Or determine who the heck owns something when you realize it's time to split up a larger service.

The list goes on. Note git history plays directly into git blame too; it can be an excellent tool in the right circumstances.
they wrap my installer inside their installer which includes some sort of toolbar I am checking out before I finish installing it because I read some reports it is malware.
I do this too. :P Especially in a language like Go or C where you don't have exceptions, I think the "fast fail" at the start of the function is a reasonable "exception to the rule". Otherwise you can quickly end up in a nested if statement hell.

But back in the days when I was doing embedded work, I frequently came across problems where someone allocated some resource at the start of a function, freed the resource at the end of the function, but then either failed to realize there was a return in the middle of the function, or someone else came along later and added a return to the middle of the function; either way we ended up with a resource leak. I saw this pattern over and over again. "Fast fail" is reasonable design pattern, so long as it's at the top of the function and you're careful not to allocate things before you check for preconditions, but functions of the form:

blah
blah
if
blah
blah
return x
else
blah
blah
return y

are (IMHO) an anti-pattern.
thanks. that's a good thought. unfortunately my condition affects my whole body (my joints constantly dislocate and I have various nerve problems), so my legs aren't much better.. but something like a foot pedal could work. honestly I'm hoping for something like Neuralink to succeed, and that voice typing will tide me over.
Can you provide some more info about the raspberry pi and Ubuntu config changes done without user consent?
Please stop taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar, regardless of how wrong someone else is about something or you feel they are. It just makes things worse. We had to warn you about this just a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27692859. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Mind Control by Cell Phone (2008)
> Be sure to send it to their upstream providers too.

Not immediately.

> we recommend that you submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA directly to the originating site. In order for a DMCA takedown notice to a system caching service provider to be effective under 17 U.S.C. 512(b), the notice provider must demonstrate either (a) that the content has already been removed from the originating site or (b) the notice provider has obtained a court order requiring the content be removed from the originating site or access to the content to be disabled.

https://www.fastly.com/acceptable-use/
That's weird, when I was in SF a lot 13 years ago because of my sister studying at SFSU, she was constantly warning not to be flashy or have my wallet visible or even manipulate it in my pocket in a way that could be seen by others. No one's ever given me warnings like that elsewhere (though they are good advice) and I've been in cities that are dramatically and visually worse
https://upcoming.org/ covers this use case. It was sold to Yahoo a while back. Yahoo sold it back to the original authors after shutting it down a few years later.

https://upcoming.org/about
Ask HN: The Future of AI Copilots
GitHub’s copilot — and all the other AI-driven copilots — have opened a new era in automation for humanity. Boilerplate code will be reduced to comments. Algorithms will be front and center. The uptake of new programming languages will be as easy as using an online English-Spanish translator. Everyone will have a copilot for any piece of software they use. These last four days, after watching the copilot developments — it is beyond my imagination the cascading effects of what’s to come. This video is amazing — https://youtu.be/4duqI8WyfqE — kids, ages 9 to 12, will code better than adults in their 30s... their comment imagination will be much more experimental than that of an adult, and when generics, reflection, multi-threaded algos can be summed up by comments, human productivity and its innovation exponential will increase, yet again.

What are your thoughts on the future of AI-powered copilots, what’s next?
1 and Prime Numbers
> Certainly not the Linux kernel itself, that relies too heavily on GCC quirks.

True, but there was a large effort to clone in LLVM nearly all the GCC extensions and quirks that the Linux kernel requires, so that nowadays the Linux kernel can be mostly compiled also with LLVM. See https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4068 and its long list of dependencies to get an idea of what had to be done.
I'm the one being silly? There is not a single affirmative ruling in your favor that's related to technology, all you have is something about sidewalks in a company town.
> but none target the untapped potential of the shitty PostScript interpreter your printer has

Maybe because the options for interaction with the output are non-existing ;)