skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't look too closely, yes. Thing is, as a promotional thing, Substack will give some writers an advance to live off of, and who picks who gets an advance?

The opinion makers working at Substack.
Barinsta, the open source client for Instagram got a C&D from Facebook
From https://t.me/barinsta_updates :

Hello,

At approximately 21:33 UTC July 26 2021, I have been hit with a cease & desist letter from a law firm repsenting Facebook. The letter was sent to one of my personal email address as well as Barinsta's public inbox (and as a result, it is published).
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/austinhuang0131/issues/2

In response, the source code has been taken down, and all promotional materials within my control has been adjusted to reflect the fact.

While I believe it is nearly impossible to fight a resourceful multinational firm and reinstate the app, we will still try to get as much resources as we could to navigate in this crisis.

At this dire moment, I ask you to do 1 thing: Please let others know what is happening here. Such bullying behaviour against a young university student is in no way excusable. Such bullying behaviour against many internet users is in no way excusable.

It has been an honour of a lifetime to serve as one of the main contributors of Barinsta. I am forever grateful for the countless supporters along the way.
coal is all the things you are saying but its saved way more people than it have killed.
To me all of Earth's cities from space look alike, and also like slime mold colonies.
The problem is that "the hundreds of thousands of malware used to train Defender" include keygen files that do not have any malicious behavior and just generate keys, mixing them together with actually malicious keygens that e.g. try to install some rootkits. It's not a false positive mistake, it's a whole class of intentionally misleading false positives, censoring a type of not-malware that is not wanted by Microsoft but potentially desired by users.
Life is short. Do what you love. If you love San Francisco you should live there.

Because you're single with no kids I would get a room in a house with others. That way you're not spending all your money on rent.
Yeah, this is basically correct. The key issue is that people don't want to pay $2/month to twenty different writers. They want to pay $20/month to a single organization which has a hundred writers, also known as a "newspaper".

The logic is simple: an individual writer is always relatively niche. Niche means small audience. Small audience means you have to charge more per person to cover your costs.

Maybe Substack will go the Medium way and try to aggregate, or encourage its writers to aggregate. If so, then it could succeed, but it'll succeed by becoming a newspaper. The problem is that the NYT, Guardian, Mail etc. have a lot of experience at doing aggregation well. (Each day has an appropriate mix of home, foreign, finance, and sports. The day's editorial chimes with what the front page journalists wrote about. Long run investigations are funded in the hope of big payoffs. Et cetera.) Medium hasn't really broken through, I think Substack would struggle.

An alternative is the status quo: Substack is a perfectly viable blogging tool, where aspiring journalists and writers like me [1] give away content for free, in the hope of breaking through to the next level, and where a few people make a good living. But if so Substack will fit into the existing landscape, rather than disrupting it.

[1] https://wyclif.substack.com
Along the lines of Getting Things Done, keep as much as you can (succinctly) in paper. In my case, I keep it in org files (Emacs Org Mode), with scheduled timelines. You can then tell yourself that you have noted it down and will come back to it as per the planned timeline.

Games that overwhelm your brain. This might sound counter-intuitive, but works fine for me. Bridge or Draughts problems, Math puzzles, programming side-projects etc.

Music.

Other mundane activities such as exercise, cooking, reading, sex (this one, may be not so mundane)...
I've always despised the fact that there's no simple way to test on Safari without owning Apple Hardware. It doesn't make any sense. Thankfully, I don't do much front end work anymore, so it's less of a concern for me now.
That's a fair point!

However, another commenter brought up the fact that human muscles are somewhat underdeveloped after birth. It might make sense that having 4 legs is easier both in regards to balance, as well as because the load per leg decreases to make standing on them easier.

That is probably not the only reason, but probably a contributing factor.
Would you not expect gaps at the tail if the likelihood of survival past that point is non-zero but low enough and the population being fed into it is small enough?

There are tens of millions of people dying each year, but there single digit numbers of 110+ year olds dying each year. You would expect discontinuities and variations from small random events. A single person slipping in a shower would be enough to mess up that curve.
My bad if that's true, I may have missed it! I don't actually have any Apple devices, just get bug reports from my users lol
In the language of do-calculus, counterfactuals have a very specific meaning. Ferenc gives some great examples here: https://www.inference.vc/causal-inference-3-counterfactuals/

The main idea: Let Y be the set {y, not y} and X be the set {x, not x}. y denotes timing out, and x denotes “Kubernetes not starting the pod”. We have some distribution P(Y=y|X=x) (in this case, the probability of “timing out” (y) given “Kubernetes not starting the pod” x. The counter factual distribution is NOT the same as P(Y= not y | X= not x) (the “probability of not timing out given Kubernetes starting the pod”). The counterfactual is P(Y’=not y| X=x, Y=y, X’=not x), or “the probability of not timing out given that it did originally time out when Kubernetes did not start the pod, and given that this time it did start the pod”.

This aligns roughly with what you are saying above.
Well, if you do decide to go for it, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, as there’s a good possibility that you’ll meet some gentle people.
There is a well funded and well organized COVID-19 misinformation and smear campaign targeted at citizens of the small country I live in. The same is probably true for pretty much any country right now, but in this case we're talking about a target audience of single digit millions with a language that isn't spoken anywhere else.

To make matters worse, this does not seem to be bots but sock puppet accounts and the tweets they put out seem to be written by humans. This campaign has some ties to certain political parties too.

What are some means that I could, as a technical person, assist my journalist friends in digging out some info about these actors and their connections? This article gave some pointers, but did not go into specifics.

I am mostly interested in Twitter activity. The situation is similar on Facebook but I am less interested in that side. Any tools for digging out some Twitter statistics, given a handful of accounts and suspicious tweets to start with?
I've read Ayn Rand lived as 'Welfare Queen' in her later years. Seems to have worked well.

shrug
Wow this seems to be a very exciting research field:

> Although more than 100 types of quasicrystals have been discovered since 1984, Steinhardt says that an infinite number of possibilities may exist — each with their own elastic, electronic, and photonic properties tied to the periodic ordering of their atoms.

> Steinhardt’s own research group has worked to create “photonic quasicrystals,” which act as semiconductors for light and form nearly perfect spherical symmetric band gaps. That feature is desirable in circuit designs and could be used in future computer and communication devices.
there is still distinction between ř and ž in Czech and it would be noticable to native speaker, though I guess non-native speakers would not notice the difference, same can't be said about Slovak ä vs e unless you try to speak extremely clearly and pronounce very hard (which would look odd), for most of the people ä was completely replaced with e

dřevo in Czech is actually drevo in Slovak

noga, drugi, bog, you can in all replace g with H and you will have CZ/SK version, seems Polish is in this aspect way closer to Russian with overused G instead H
They do buy from them (and invest in them). But as far as understand, ASML is one piece of the puzzle.

There are several other parts of the process that are not touched by ASML
Instead of banning unsafe languages how about allowing for tort liability for software? There is a big difference in law between software and other engineering like building bridges. It used to be that software failures were not as severe as a collapsing bridge - but we are close to the point where it reverses.
There’s an assumption that no malicious actors exist in any physical proximity. A strange thing to say but so far probably true enough.
As others have replied the store room is just a counter. On Google maps there is a picture with a girl opening the door, what you see inside is the whole store.
> and with SVG support (which is insanely buggy - even the dev tools are bugged)

I ran into this on a project a year ago, where our app was completely and critically fucked on Safari with no obvious path to fixing it, short of tearing out a ton of custom data visualisation stuff based on SVG and rewriting it from scratch to use a whole different approach like canvas.

It's one thing to have a rendering bug like Chrome had with flex box a while back where it would stretch elements vertically in certain situations against the spec, there's enough ways to do things in CSS that that can be worked around with a bit of tinkering. But when you've got a rendering bug and the dev tools doesn't accurately represent what's being rendered, it leaves the developer in a terrible situation where they're stuck with a black box with a broken interface so they can't even tell what the true result is, let alone see the inner workings.

I was lucky we only had 5-10 people trying to use it on Safari and I could just say sorry and recommend Chrome. But I can't imagine how frustrating a similar situation would be with a large number of users.
Probably a student does not have time or the emotional resources to do all of this! But I totally agree with you in principle.
It does sound a bit like ass-perger syndrome, pardon the pun. While that condition certainly isn't fun for him, either, I think this is not just an issue with group dynamics or interpersonal issues, but rather involves self regulation and a general attitude. Even people on the spectrum can somewhat improve those.
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The entire crypto market is poisoned by this. There is no hiding from it in another currency if the market loses 70% of it's liquidity.

"All this is extremely dangerous to everyone, the entire crypto community

BTC could go to 1k if we don't act fast"

• CFO of Bitfinex & Tether, previously during a Tether crisis.
Regardless, only one device of that type on your network will have to wait for the update to come in over your WAN link.

All the devices after that will use the local copy of the update.
I'm not sure if my guess is right but my understanding is that "mathematically perfect" is related to how close to actual crystals they are. For example the Penrose tiling in the picture is made of tiles of 2 different types, so it's more "perfect" than another pattern that would use 3 different types of tiles, etc.
I find these actionable as well:

O - "Don't modify, extend instead."

I - "Don't group interfaces into a god object - separate them."

D - "Depend on abstractions not concrete implementations."

S is the most disputed but Uncle Bob occasionally clarifies (paraphrased, again): "Object definitions should be beholden to only one stakeholder group."

SOLID seems actionable enough to me... whereas Holub's article is a bunch of fluffy mothering statements.
That attitude just becomes a burden on everyone else, particularly those around you
San Francisco is just another place in this vast and huge world. From what I've heard, it's f'd up over there (like many other places), because of competition and almost no sense of work life balance.
Also, people will take advantage of you just because the majority of people make a lot of money there, so everything is crazy expensive.

If you ask me, I see San Francisco as an overly hyped (the hype is going down lately) place, and a very superficial one at that.

But if you enjoy being there for non work reasons and you don't see another option that you like somewhere else, go for it.

I think SF will start to decrease in popularity, so maybe the prices will get better in the future.
I believe it wasn't that NameCheap was giving you an introductory rate, but rather that the .xyz TLD itself has special first-year pricing as part of its structure.
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The argument here is pretty weak. Yes, all that Substack really is is blogging but with better monetization. Yes, if Substack is to make money then it probably won't be accessible to the widest possible audience. But that's not enough to conclude that it can't be gamechanging. Kickstarter was "just" a way to monetize, but it's had a dramatic impact; likewise Patreon (and OnlyFans).
Watch food/travel vlogs, FPS games, hack something up Arduinos & 3D printer or just read Sci-Fi books
Substack doesn’t publish a list of all funded writers so we really don’t know if this is broadly true. Unsuccessful substacks don’t get much pub so it makes sense we wouldn’t have heard from them.

That being said, it seems every writer I’m familiar with that launched one has been successful
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A bundle deal would be cool. But I'd prefer to pay the $20/month to read x articles regardless of who writes them.
It's always fun when some bog standard 2010 flexbox layout works perfectly in every modern browser until someone on an old iPhone tries it. Android has its own update woes to say the least, but at least Chrome receives evergreen updates through the Play Store. Why can't Apple do the same?
Hey! I’d love to collaborate on this with you. Do you have a favored mode of contact?
The balance can also be trained relatively quickly, but newborns typically get very little practice.

If you start occasionally holding your baby up by the thighs when they are 4–5 months old (their back/abdomen muscles at that point are typically plenty strong), after about a month they will have the balance to hold their torso upright when sitting on an adult’s shoulders, for at least a while. By age 8–9 months they will be very stable and good at balancing for long stretches of time. (I recommend any new parent try this, not only for the baby’s sake but because carrying a baby on shoulders is dramatically less tiring for an adult than carrying a baby in arms, and less hassle than a stroller or baby carrier.)

People generally hold their babies from the top (e.g. with hands in armpits), in a way that they are passively stable. If you want to train someone’s balance, you want to force them to actively stabilize themselves from a default-unstable position at least a bit every day. Babies have very short torsos and small heads compared to older kids, with the effect that their torsos have a much smaller moment of inertia about the waist: it takes several times more muscle strength for a 3-year-old to lift their torso up.
What was the rationale? You could hide what you were doing?
The only way that sort of corporate behavior by Facebook, etc. is to regulate how data about users can be collected and have real (potentially criminal) penalties for data collection without informed consent.

Technical solutions (like preventing side-loading) cannot possibly eliminate the thing driving the behavior; profit motive for stealthily gathering data to build "better" user profiles to lease to advertisers.
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Paying your debt to society by walking into the photo booth for your last 'flash', turned into soylent green, escape the machine!1!!
DNS does more for Internet services than making names pretty. Raw IP addresses don't get CNAMEs, or multiple A records, or TXT records like SPF/DKIM. If you move to a new hosting provider, you can keep the same domain name, but you can't keep the same IP address. Etc.
There's the scroll background jank due to their scroll snapping model (you can scroll below a full screen div which should be impossible), the various zIndex jank, round corners for video, the SVG background issues (and SVG in general are buggy), the input autocomplete issues with their half-broken password manager... And that's all present on the latest iOS.

Recently they also broke localStorage & indexDB which are core features of the web (sill broken on the latest stable)
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It was a glorious day when I could finally delete my home page link to the H₂ stations, because I upgraded to EV.
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There is too much that is ludicrously wrong with this article, so I flagged it. The author's credentials should tell you all you need to know about his analysis of medical research:

> [The author] holds an MA in social science from the University of Chicago, where he wrote on political theory.
To be fair, Classified systems are an odd man out and all our other systems have been transitioning to electronic tracking, even most of our high side stuff have digital tracking inside of high side or without Classified information.
A simpler explanation is them simply expanding their offensive arsenal.

Why wouldn't they.
Your calculations use a full charge every day. How often do you fill your gas tank?

Most people (not even fully) fill their tanks every couple weeks. Even when I had an extremely long (an hour each direction) commute, I was only filling up every 3 days. I've gone over a month between fillups when I lived nearby to where I worked.

On the low end you're at least 3x off. On the high end you're at least 14x off.
I haven't seen a single website that doesn't require installation.

The website installation process is much more painful than apps because first you need to install it to see it.
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Diminishing returns as the numbers of scale increase.

The growth might seem impressive when you do percentages of a very small number, but it's still a very small number overall.
You can actually make a safe C implementation without creating a whole new language, see my other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969373
Personally I use Historio.us, but maybe it is not in the same category you are talking about?

(I found it here on HM and so far - I have used it for a year or so - seems to be a good fit for my needs)
A similar photo hit the web a month or so ago. Turned out to be windmills.

It makes no sense to put missile silos close together.

I’ll reserve judgment for now, but I doubt the headline’s claim.
Yep, burning bio batteries and funding Putin/MbS. Why not download power from your roof, free?
We're doing just that. We have an index trie datastructure that is optimized for manipulation by an FPGA in an SSD.

Xillinx recently released a product that enables this which it's super awesome and even affordable.

https://www.xilinx.com/applications/data-center/computationa...
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Push notifications are also a terrible feature that I don’t want on any of my browsers including desktop Safari. I don’t want developers to even have the option to show me a prompt to enable them.
I think you're being unjustifiably uncharitable by accusing them of intentional fraud. I think they're just fooling themselves because they're carried away by their enthusiasm for what they've created, which is really pretty cool.

You don't need custom printers to print at 1200+ pixels per "inch". Most off-the-shelf inkjet printers and some laser printers can do it, though at high resolutions there's a serious tradeoff between precise color and precise position. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965938 points out that standard imagesetters are 2540 "dpi" (and they have been since the 01980s). Photographic processes routinely produce images with a resolution below 10μm (2540 "dpi") and, when desired, below 2μm (12700 "dpi"). I don't mean with some kind of super niche lab equipment; I mean Kodak point-and-shoot cameras with mass-market Kodachrome film. Metal machining routinely hits precisions of 25 μm (1000 "dpi") and has for a century and a half, sometimes using machines made out of junk using nothing but hand tools; when it matters, it gets down to 1 μm (25400 "dpi"), which is roughly the measuring repeatability of any old handheld micrometer. You can buy such a micrometer on eBay for US$30 https://www.ebay.com/itm/363415676100?hash=item549d4324c4:g:... though a quality one probably costs US$60 or more, even used.

What made Harrison's achievements with the diffraction-grating ruling engines 70 years ago remarkable was not that he could position the ruling engine in increments of 25 nanometers or better (a million dpi); that, and even 2-nanometer increments, had been achieved for small gratings about a century earlier. His achievement was maintaining a total error under 5 nanometers across a distance of over 200 mm during the weeks necessary to rule a full diffraction grating. (I think the Richardson Grating Lab still uses the Michelson ruling engine he overhauled in the 01940s, though with further improvements.)
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If someone's choices don't make sense, you're not understanding their motivations. Toyota didn't mistakenly think that hydrogen was the way of the future, they chose it as a trendy "future tech" to make them look green and keep CARB at bay while they continued to sell exclusively ICE-powered vehicles. It was never intended to be a mainstream technology.

(Their hybrid cars are cool but for many years after introducing them, Toyota was actively hostile to any attempts to charge the batteries independently of the onboard ICE generator.)
The new 800V EVs only take 15 minutes from ~20% to 80%.
You could have read about that 10 years ago in the subtext of many articles. Journalists have been groomed to rationalize their misinformation for the greater good and they aren't that good at writing that their own words wouldn't betray them. They are in a precarious situation and access to information comes at a price for most of them.

Why was this article flagged btw?
It is true that M1 is limited in terms of some functions such as memory capacity, external display support etc. But, you need to consider two things. 1. M1 is Apple's 1st iteration. M1x or M2 is coming around, and Apple could likely get rid of all of those limitations. 2. Apple's tight control over M1 means they can build all sorts of features into the SOC and fast unlike Intel which has to cater to heterogenous needs from its integrators.

Also, if you use a Mac with M1, you'd quickly realise how much of a work intel needs to catch up. Boy, it's so pleasant to use while being cool and quiet. Intel needs to run for the money and hope that no one figures out how to replicate Apple's success in the non-macos space and start eating intel's gold pot of datacenter CPUs. AWS Graviton?
The overwhelming majority don't know, or really care, that they're using it. People don't care about tech. They care about what they see. User complaints will never be "WebRTC is bad!". They'll be things like "Google Meet kills my phone battery!", or "Teams doesn't work on my iPhone!". The solution to those complaints is usually to make the underlying tech better rather than chuck it out entirely and use something else.
Do you mean you would prefer Intel mini Pro (late October 2022)?
But that is actually good for environment.