skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which isn't that bad. The oil came from under ground. Stick it back there and its not too bad.

I’m curious what you based this on?

Did you fall victim to ultracrepidarianism / the fallacy of transferable expertise [1]?

” The millions of tons of plastic swirling around the world’s oceans have garnered a lot of media attention recently. But plastic pollution arguably poses a bigger threat to the plants and animals – including humans – who are based on land.

Very little of the plastic we discard every day is recycled or incinerated in waste-to-energy facilities. Much of it ends up in landfills, where it may take up to 1,000 years to decompose, leaching potentially toxic substances into the soil and water.

Researchers in Germany are warning that the impact of microplastics in soils, sediments and freshwater could have a long-term negative effect on such ecosystems. They say terrestrial microplastic pollution is much higher than marine microplastic pollution – estimated at four to 23 times higher, depending on the environment.” [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/bjorn/status/953778121764831232

[2] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/plastic-planet-h...
No store manager in their right mind would approve this though.
I think I got a pretty high number out of my first MacBook Pro before the battery swelled up like a bad bruise. But my current work laptop is now at 87% capacity with 82 cycles, so I don't have a lot of confidence in the battery lasting to 1000.
> more like a comedian being granted the liberty to push some boundaries

No. Not at all. Freedom of speech is extremely strong in the US, and for good reason. Freedom to install software onto other people's computers is not.

It's extremely troubling that people are defending this person.
There's no video filter to remove stuttering yet? Get busy, ML people. There's a market waiting.
yes, the number of students has to go down, very few people want to take these 400 person classes, these classes are only taken by people because some random department needs funding, so they require people to take classes they don't need.
Installing spyware on store computers isn't something you "just double check" about. To me that implies that he did not make it clear to the employee what he intended to do. In addition to which, I doubt some random store worker would have the authority to allow this.
I would not expect that such features are added under the assumption that it is rarely used.

Common Lisp for example has the assumption in the standard, that the object system is fully dynamic and supports a wide variety of live changes (adding/removing/changing of methods, classes, slots, superclasses, ...).
Hip youngster here. ^^'s meaning as a smiley face comes from East Asian emoticons (somewhere like Japan or Korea, I'm not sure), where it's pretty much always represented a sort of laughing smiley face like you see in anime-style drawings sometimes -- like a short version of (＠＾◡＾). People also still use it to mean "the thing above this message", though.

The easiest way to differentiate it it to use a different number of carets for the "thing above this message" meaning. I like to use one caret for each message, so like if I was referring to the comment directly above mine it'd be ^ and for three messages up it'd be ^^^. You can also use context and position; usually I expect emoticons to appear at the end of a sentence while ^^^ appears at the start.
Open in app. Lol sure.
“Compiling to C” is an established strategy; for instance, GHC used to compile to C--, a subset of C.

This doesn’t seem wrong to me; after all, assembly is already an abstraction layer over machine code, and outputting assembly would hardly be “uncompilerish” behavior. I suppose it depends on whether you view C as a low-level language.
The Camden Bench (2016)
Covid-19 in South Africa: outbreak despite interventions
If I have an AMD Ryzen processor, am I SOL when it comes to AV1 encoding?
> It will just be as expensive in Europe as in the US.

Cost can be shared among the US and Europe populations. So per user cost would come down by a lot.
Maybe you were terrible?
Why even bother implementing DRM if it gets cracked anyways? People who cannot afford the game won't buy it even if DRM was perfect. This is also supported by the EU study that was here on HN recently.
That’s another drawback. And it’s one I’d rather have than stutter too (of course I’d rather have neither but let’s assume that’s not on the table).

Games these days are often not even ready until a year or so after release meaning if you don’t trust the patch distribution to continue for a long time one shouldn’t even buy the games.

An online requirement is pretty easy to patch out after a while. Obviously you trust the developer to actually do it, and I wish more would. A good distributor could prove that they are reliable and patch away the online requirement after a year or so.
After all DRM is usually about protecting a first crucial period of sales.

I haven’t really played a game that doesn’t use another online resource (data, opponents, DLCs…) in a very long time so perhaps I’m underestimating the problem of online requirements compared to someone who would e.g ever play an older offline game.

Importantly, when I “buy” (I use that term lightly for software) a game, I don’t expect it to be a perpetual functioning license that lets me show it to my kids in 15 years. I see it more as a movie ticket for brief entertainment. It's an unfortunate state of affairs - but I'd rather have 1 year of non-stuttering gameplay than a perpetual re-playable but flawed game if I'm forced to choose.
This isn’t reddit.
Use an iPad with cellular and work/travel at these top luxury vacation countries
I agree it's really surprising that they have no effect. Yet that is what the data seems to be telling us, and it's not specific to certain regions. The number of places is limited because the number of places that got rid of or didn't implement lockdowns is limited, but the story is consistent between them, including in Sweden where they also use public transport.

I believe the fact that this invalidates what was seen as robust theory is one reason (but not the biggest reason) why people are resistant to that conclusion. Yet, that is what the data demands of us.

In reality there are lots of ways to patch up germ theory to handle the ineffectiveness of lockdowns. For instance, contact tracing studies claim that almost all infections are spread in homes, care homes and hospitals, i.e. places where sick people have to be. That makes logical sense: you would expect viruses to spread in places where sick people are, and you would expect sick people to be in a bed somewhere because they feel sick. The idea that lockdowns work is strongly predicated on the belief that asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people are highly infectious. However there's actually very little evidence of this, and quite a lot of evidence that they're not.
We certainly do deserve better, and the author made some good suggestions.

Unfortunately, building a new database is a huge project and there appears to be no party currently willing to sponsor it.
I don’t think this form of art is possible without some level of ‘doing things without anyone knowing’, but I also kind of agree that I would be unamused if it happened to me.
I have both on iOS and I have to say I much prefer Obsidian.

Although Joplin is FOSS, Obisian uses plain text files rather than a database which is a massive plus to me, personally.

Also, Obsidian UI is light-years ahead of Joplin's. It's interesting that (IIUC) Obsidian is also not native but it feels completely native when compared to Joplin.

Also most Obsidian plugins work fine on desktop and mobile and the ecosystem is visibly growing. I don't think Joplin's plugins are really getting a huge traction.

All in all, Obsidian replaced most other apps I used (Bear, Noteplan, Evernote). The only thing I can imagine replacing Obsidian is LogSeq if they get their mobile app right.
Are you that out of touch to not realize those services are luxuries and not life saving health treatments?
How is not selecting it manually but implementing code that could select the wrong files any better?
Dunno. I'm about average and I use 'di(' or 'di{' like all the time. Not rocket science. One nice thing about vim is you basically don't need to remember 'tricks'. They're structured, so you can pretty much guess at a new trick if you want. For instance, d2w. Never used it before. Just used it. It deletes two words. Pretty useless, but the point is, it's not a trick - it's just an application of stuff you use all the time (delete, a count, a word object). Or like, dF. It deletes everything until the last dot. This is also obvious, because you use F all the time to jump to the last occurrence of a character. So 'delete till last dot' is just something you can make up or use without even noticing you're using it. I certainly don't know if I've used it before.
If I allow you into my home, are you allowed to install a secret camera?

If I allow you into my coffee shop, are you allowed to install a secret camera?

No. Always no.

Am I "incompetent" because my home or coffee shop didn't have sufficient security to stop you? No. But also, that doesn't matter.

There's no password to walk into my coffee shop. That doesn't give you the right to install a camera.
Most of the money made by an AAA game is made in the first week or two of sales; DRM that takes a week or two to crack is “good enough” from the POV of the publisher.
I think you misunderstand OP? They agree that taking pictures of people without their permission is bad, it’s the ‘installing software’ to do it that’s irrelevant.

It would be just as bad if you did it with a telelens from outside the store.
At least for some, the answer is "to show they can/conspicuous consumption"
I shouldn't have to take permission from anyone to be able to buy the medicines I need. This is a cartel-type situation where your pharmacist won't sell you meds unless you pay a doctor.
Dropshipping implies not keeping stock and just ordering somewhere else on your behalf. Re-sellers that keep stock are just called importers.
We'll probably be able to store actual light in some sort of microresonators and release it slowly at night onto solar panels.
Then you shouldn't do this kind of art!

It's official, people have gone absolutely wild in this thread.

You can't just do whatever you want in the name of "art". How you got that idea, I have no clue.
This tool appears to be using the Wayback Machine's CDX index to assist with the download.

The CDX basically lists all the pages of the site that are archived in the wayback, as well as when each page was archived (e.g: "page x was archived 3 times, on these dates"). Using the CDX allows the tool to download a specific copy of the site (e.g: the latest) rather than trying to download every copy of the site that the wayback machine has.

This is important because for most sites, the wayback has multiple copies, and they're all interlinking. For example, the copy from May 2020 might not be complete so one of the links in that copy will take you to the January 2018 copy. Not a problem for a human viewer, but a bot / crawler will see pages in the January 2018 copy as separate from those in the May 2020 copy, so will begin downloading the January 2018 copy (because wayback URLs are of the form web.archive.org/<timestamp>/<archive-url> rather than web.archive.org/<archive-url>/<timestamp>). This copy will (inevitably) lead to other copies made at different dates, and before you know it you're downloading hundreds or even thousands of copies of the same site.

[source: tried to download a site from the wayback machine several years ago using wget - it didn't end well!]
That's not very controversial.
The new cookie laws and you
Most people in IT related fields aren't at doctor level pay.

I suspect the sentiment is from commonly interacting with absolutely useless doctors. There are a lot of them.
RIP password managers.
It's only $4 a month if you want to use their sync, there is a plugin for using github to sync (if that is your thing) or I just use syncthing and have my obsidian folder there.

Edit: Actually, I guess that won't work with mobile
Yeah, but it's been 15 years. Amazon traffic has probably grown since then, most likely a lot.
I have been using the beta (iPad Mini 5, iPad Pro 2021, iPhone) since around January and it has worked excellent. Obsidian is a great piece of software
While that may be true and does not actually oppose what I wrote, I think we are talking about 2 different kinds of excellency.

One kind of excellency is to be able to quickly solve problems in one given language. For example an excellent Python developer. There are many of those.

The other kind of excellency, in my opinion, goes much further than that. A very solid background in CS, a deep understanding of programming concepts of not only one but many programming languages, some knowledge in programming language theory, knowledge about various programming paradigms, their concepts and how to apply them in problem solving and daily programming tasks.

The second kind of excellency I am quite sure to find within a developer, who got a background with Haskell and some proper work done in that on their CV. I would be less sure, to find that in just any good Python developer. Why do I think so? I think so, because Python is becoming more and more popular and is an "easy language to learn" and kind of follows the mainstream OOP approach. So people learning it get some exposure to the other things I count under the second type of excellency, not too bad, but not really that much, unless they are special cases and actively make an effort to get that exposure. In Haskell you are thrown into another not so mainstream programming paradigm, you are learning a not so mainstream language, and you touch on many programming concepts, which you might not necessarily get in touch with using Python.

(Don't get me wrong, I write a lot of Python code myself, but exposure to and frequent usage of some other languges, including mostly functional programming ones and strongly statically typed ones, make me miss a lot of things in Python and make me see the language's shortcomings.)

That second kind of excellency is learned by studying hard or years of experience, and requires you to dip your toes into unfamiliar waters. This kind of excellency enables you to quickly learn about the power of alternative systems or languges and grasp what they can do for you.

In the end it is all about getting to know and understanding lots of concepts. The more exposure you have to different (!) things, the more knowledgable you will be. So even better chances to find an excellent developer of the second kind, if that person happens to have experience in Haskell and Python or whatever other languages you come up with, which are significantly differnt from whatever others one already knows.
It was purposefully written to mislead, hence the lack of commas or the M suffix. So yeah, it is definitely not a lot. For comparison, Facebook alone spent $17M on lobbying in 2019.
One word for those with young kids: Numberblocks[1].

It is one of the best-constructed things I've ever seen: constant amazing songs; great animation; and it teaches kids numbers. No violence/slapstick/jump cuts/toy empire to buy all of. Just amazing.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks
You forgot alcohol. There's a constant demand and therefore it's quite acceptable as means of payment.
The windows driver model is not semantically much different. There is greater cohesion at a higher level, leading to it being easier to create a shim layer for, if anything.
I used to use Joplin, nothing wrong with it, but I found Obsidian via HN a while back, and it just kinda clicked for me.

With the plugins and bits now, its really quite nice - and personally I find the UI much nicer than Joplin
Actually, what would make it totally perfect, would be an easy way to create editable handwritten blocks on an iPad.
Usually my biggest two wishes that seem to never be able to be satisfied is

Ability to connect a debugger that sanely steps through code without getting lost in a library maze

Get a useful stacktrace that's not just lines of framework wrapper garbage and then an elipses.

Also a few more, which I can usually get satisfied:

1 Don't fail silently, ever. Use UTC time in the log, I shouldn't have to say this.

2. Don't replace the default logging mechanism. Your wrapper version with the fancy colors isn't better. It just blocks the versatility and functionality of the actual language logging feature written by the language team who are far more competent than you. Stop that, you don't know what you're doing.

3 Inherit the environment in the process forks. Don't make me manually go in and pass things down.

4 Please Stop writing fancy error handlers. They often have bugs so the generated error will just be from a bug in the error handler thus hiding the original defect. It's a defect, all bets are off.

When they are working right they're frequently HTML/CSS/JS which is terrible for testing, statistics, and logging. Also they won't do the lower level exception throwing of the language that allows it to be caught by a debugger so the tooling breaks. You don't need to do this. It only makes things suck. Stop.

Alright that was cathartic
> it’s the ‘installing software’ to do it that’s irrelevant

No it's not! That's actually the main thing that's really really bad!

What are you all not understanding? You're intentionally installing spyware on someone else's computer! And then remotely controlling that computer later!
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Since it runs in the browser, I suppose javascript will be the obvious choice.
Ah! Clever. I somehow missed that it was the constraint name.
Already has an option to include/exclude 404s. Please file issues for the other requests, except the filter for domains for sale, that is a hard problem that probably isn't in-scope for this tool.
Its the other way around actually. The nqzis were copying América
I liked the model in this blogpost.
https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/
It discusses making corrections. Some people interpret a correction as demonstrating superiority. Others interpret it as providing information.

Compared to OP: For those who prefer tactful statements: using 'tact' and avoiding speaking directly avoids 'demonstrating superiority'; but tact-less statements would appear to be 'demonstrating superiority'. But for those who prefer information, adding tact just dilutes and slows things down.
I‘m a cyclist in an European city and in groups about making traffic better and safer for everyone. But the ads I get are all about cars, like you can only get around with a car, while that‘s the thing we are trying to fight. And this is not just on Facebook. I see this generalisation of topics everywhere, while they say they‘d need to track me to improve the ads. Bull.
So do you think it actually understands something about the structure of the protein folding problem? It somehow detected something about the physics, topology, the hard optimisation problem, and that it knows something about the geometry of that potential surface and can exploit that?

Or is it just such a huge model it basically encodes an entire database after weeks and weeks of computation and has a more compressed form?
Programming Language Generations
For users of NetworkManager:

nmcli device wifi show-password
It can also download from every copy of the site that the wayback machine has, sometimes that is useful.
I think your comparison is flawed, if I install a whiteboard on a public place and say to everyone, "please have a test" then can you complain if someone draw something you don't like on it? You did not made the person sign some contract on what he is allowed to draw or write.

In this case Apple said , please come and test this machine, do whatever you want, use the browser, click around, and did not made the guy sign that "I shell not change the wallpaper to a cat or I shell not open this webpage and then allow it to access the camera etc..." You see Apple asked you to do whatever, if they did not want that they should have tell you or use those permissions things to not allow you to do it.

Btw I am not convinced that this is completly legal but I am sure is not so clear as if it were the case someone hacked a private computer with bad intent and produced damaged.
Samsung TV owners just lost an exclusive feature on their televisions
Also many people just default to looking on Amazon because of Prime and force of (conditioned) habit. In fact, that searches start on Amazon (despite its deliberately crippled search functionality) rather than Google is probably the single biggest heartache for Google as they lose that sweet, sweet time-of-purchase-intent opportunity to influence the purchase decision for advertisers.

If you break that conditioning and shoppers realize prices are actually cheaper on Target, Wal-mart or whatever, they will start routinely looking elsewhere. Now the outage didn’t last long enough to impact a huge proportion of their user base, but if it had it could durably drag on their growth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6TBOfiGWM8
The reverse, if you had Intel, you'd be SOL.

AMD is a huge AV1 supporter, both with improving speed of software decoding and encoding, but also granting the ability to the Radeon's video ASIC to handle it.
On fireforx, at least, there is a 1 second lag between pressing down on medium and the page scrolling down, probably because of bad js. Deactivating js paywalls you, though, so no way around it.
The author is choosing not to name names, i.e. they aren't pointing a finger at the specific person/site they're criticizing.

"cough" or mumble is a slightly humorous shorthand/convention for this. It suggests an audio transcript mistake, that conveniently doesn't reveal the guilty party.
Correct, it appends "id_" to the timestamp in the wayback URLs, which gives you the unmodified file instead of one marked up by the Wayback Machine.
So basically emotional intelligence and social skills needed by /lacking in any person.
The parent's suggestion to filter on size seems on the surface like it would work. What makes you think it's harder than that?
Ah yes. When I let someone borrow my phone or computer I totally think they should be allowed to install whatever spyware they want.

It's my fault I didn't have them accept a TOS.
I've always used it as a smile, to point sentences it'd be more like this ^^^^^^^
The only way they understand is if you propose they volunteer first e.g. by you running a crypto miner on their machine, with them seeing nothing of the money.
>The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous

This! I just checked their page for a "careers" button to see if they got VC funding and are raising a team. Nope, still just 2 people. It's not that they are able to move fast, it's that they are moving fast while making a product that looks good, does the job, and is snappy. Kudos to the (2 person) team!
The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?
It's a program, it will compile and run. Some people can "understand" it, not in the sense that its creator did, but in the sense that a wikipedia article can be written about it and its purpose, and we understand why he wrote in a broad sense (schizophrenia).

It's possible the Voynich Manuscript is the ramblings of an insane person but I don't think that is particularly likely. If my guess is right, and the statistical properties of the characters in the book indicate that it is part of a language or language-like system somehow, then we would have no more reason to suspect it was authored by a crazy person than any other random book.
Soft Skills
https://www.techtuskers.com/movierulz/