skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unless someone explains to me, in plain English, why we ought to abolish the very important freedom of deciding for themselves who and how private entities do business with

Not a lawyer, but I wonder if the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper clause give regulatory power to the government under the guise of promoting the general welfare. After all, this has been applied to commodities in the past, even when said commodities weren’t even used in trade/commerce.

In plain English, there’s precedent in the constitution and law for the government to regulate business if it promotes the general welfare.
When I first read 1984 I also thought like you, that this was just Orwell writing an essay about his invention, but there are some passages in this essay that show it's being written from an "in universe" perspective, i.e. by someone who lives in the same universe that 1984 "happened".

Just an example:

> "Various writers, such as Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Byron, Dickens, and some others were therefore in process of translation [to Newspeak]: when the task had been completed, their original writings, with all else that survived of the literature of the past, would be destroyed. These translations were a slow and difficult business, and it was not expected that they would be finished before the first or second decade of the twenty-first century."

There are many tell-tale phrases there, but to pick an example: "it was not expected that they would be finished before [...]". "Expected" by whom? This means very little if it's just Orwell saying so, and it makes more sense if our fictional narrator is actually describing the history of his/her world.

Once you accept this, you must also accept Newspeak failed, which in turn hints at Ingsoc being defeated.
Maybe one day someone will create new technology that will enable manufacturing electronics at home. I don't know.
Tree Style Tabs in Firefox. Vertical with nesting.
There are no “patients” in AA; just self-identifying alcoholics. And I understand where you’re coming from, but for every story of someone who was “disempowered” by a belief that they are an addict for life I can give you a story of someone who started drinking again after decades of sobriety and completely destroyed the good life they had found.

Alcoholism is what you might call a hard problem, in that every case is unique and there is no good way to know which “kind” of alcoholic you are dealing with, or which approach is going to have the most success, just by ticking off symptoms. AA clearly works, and works astonishingly well, for a non-negligible portion of the people who try it.
I think the explanation for this comes down to same dynamic involved in Microsoft eating the office application world in the 90s; People who buy the application for X feature will still buy it or stay with it with X feature now crappier while people want Y feature, even if it's crappy will now also the app - especially if the app is a market leader.

In software development, there's an internal to the company dynamic where the designer/lead-architect/etc wants to show value to the company and so rework the architecture into the current thing or some idiocy of their own devising and this is how features worsen. You can call this a extra process but I think of this as just the way economic dynamic happens. If this dynamic didn't still make the company, it would be stopped.
Just like we gained immunity to influenza and the common cold?
What makes you think it couldn't compete with the solid implementation it had without adding new features?
I'm not even assessing the risk of the vaccine in my judgement.

I'm saying the apparent risk of the disease to myself and from me to others is not above the necessary level to stir an action from me.

I'm probably going to get the vaccine if I see some sense of nuance to the guidance. Such as reasonable advice properly and publicly discussing the relative risk/rewards for our various demographics. The current attitude that I'm confronted with in my day-to-day is "wow what a dumb fuck hes hurting himself and everyone around him", for me the stats say otherwise.
This is always an interesting question, about including the JVM startup time or not. In this context doesn't it seem like the JVM startup time should be included?

During JVM startup, one thing it's generally doing is allocating space for the heap from the OS. For the C/C++/Rust application, this could be implemented either as a large arena allocation, or allocations inline during the program. That is a programming choice, but the allocation cost is still there. It would be unfair to not include that allocation for Java whereas always including it (whether inline or upfront) in the native C/C++/Rust versions.

For long lived programs, like server-side things, the JVM startup time probably isn't relevant, but for short lived programs, it seems reasonable to include the startup time as that would be part of the time running the program from the CLI.
"Just turn it off" until the next update "helpfully" turns it back on for you "to improve your experience."
I loved the rice balls in 7-11’s. That plus a cold one shot saki on a bullet train where everything was neat and tidy was very pleasurable.
I can't watch The Office. Too much like the real office.
Err, no, the process for switching from one to the other is that they sync last page read automatically. You shouldn't be doing anything.

It works auto-magically for me all the time. I read a lot of books, and I often switch between my Kindle and my phone several times a book.

Maybe you don't have your Kindle connect to your network or whatever, but the reason you're struggling is because you're following the less trodden path.

It works for books I've uploaded to Kindle too, though I always use the upload service via email, precisely because then it's available on both devices.
Nope, not autocorrect. My personal deficiency. Thanks for bringing that up. I love learning new things from the many pedants who hang here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotalism
This paper is pretty awful.

Two amateur chess players guessed the best sequences of WBBWW and then plugged the result of their guesses into an engine to statically analyse the position. There is absolutely no chance that they found the best options for either player.

The sequencing argument that they make has no real foundation. Introducing double moves could have all kinds of side-effects which they later mention when showing their guesswork-variations but skip over when trying to make the previous "logical" argument.

The only semi-useful sentence in this paper is the following:

> More light would be shed on this question if the two leading machine-learning chess programs, AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero, were taught to play with our proposed change in the order of the 3rd and 4th moves from White-Black to Black-White.

The rest can be summarised as "We thought of this potential rule change and it seemed to us to be more even for black."

If they had wanted to then there are only around 10,000,000 possible game-states after the first WBBWW and potentially looking at computer evaluations of the whole tree of possibilities could be semi-interesting and definitely very achievable. Probably better and easier to guess instead though to be fair.
By like the second sentence I was able to deduce pretty much most of what this guy was going to complain about and what side he was on every issue.

I do miss the days before "big tech" and social media when every asshole with half an opinion wasn't given a bullhorn to shout it from the rooftops as if they had something worthwhile to say.

When you are complaining about the Associated Press, maybe take a step back and consider whether or not you're just wrong.

Because the Associated Press is one of the most milquetoast, boring, middle-of-the-road, non-opinion-giving, dry ass, plain organizations out there. They really don't give a shit. They report on things so other newspapers can run the story.

And it seems like all he wants to do is commit the fallacy fallacy. He thinks by saying something is a fallacy, that makes them wrong. It doesn't.

Not to mention, the authorities people are "appealing" to are experts in this field. Not to mention, we can turn that "appeal to authority" around on Ivermectin as well. He's just pimping it because "a doctor said so". And when you point that out, they'll point out why we should blah blah blah. But that's the rub. It's something they want you to do for them, but won't do for you. No one is listening to these people simply because they're in charge, but because they're proven experts in their field.

And so on, with the rest. When he's not just completely misrepresenting a situation to claim something is fallacious when it's not.
OSS has the best designs, at least on the desktop. And it's becoming quite competitive in mobile and touch interfaces, too.
...and where do those bank reserves originate from?
they also say

> we always wanted to build a desktop app instead of a web app

but the reality is complete opposite
Surely it’s far more effective per kWh to just build more panels and put them on earth?
Yes!!

Java programs often have so many classes, methods and interfaces that it’s hard to comprehend the overall flow of the application. Terse languages (lisps and MLs come to mind) can often solve the same problem in a single page.
Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts
For me, the most interesting potential of WASM is it provides a platform-independent sandboxed way to run untrusted code written in multiple programming languages.

This means it's in theory possible to run the same code on an embedded hardware platform, a desktop app or in the browser.

And while I'm sure there's "serious" business uses for that capability :) I'm most interested in what it enables in terms of user customisation/modding of games.

Which was my main motivation for creating a Wasmtime WASM runtime add-on for the Godot game engine: https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/godot-wasm-engine

And also designing the "WebAssembly Calling Card" specification as a way of demonstrating how the same code could produce graphical output that is then used in 2D or 3D environments: https://wacc.rancidbacon.com
I believe the word people generally use is "trauma".

- nightmares and insomnia

- intense negative emotion

both can be caused by trauma.
Remove longest common prefix from a group of filenames, using Racket
I haven’t seen almost any comments on HN which can be qualified as anti-vaccine, so I find your assertion unjustified. But the real issue I have with such comments is that now apparently someone that does not want a specific medical treatment is being smeared as “antivax”.

Rejecting a medical intervention is a right people have. It doesn’t matter it’s because of 5G, fertility, medical conditions or them merely not being in the mood to take the vaccine.
Difference being that in Firefox you can set the preferences to not show those things once and if you get on a new device just sign into Sync and you're off to the races.

Contrast that to Microsofts constant badgering, reset preferences after every update (conveniently), etc etc.
WASM is to Node what C/C++ extensions are to Python.
Change the CI to test that every commit builds and every merge request passes tests. If we don't enforce the tests to pass for every commit, that solves the problem. Right?
Amazon search has always been terrible. It’s very frustrating.
Fun article, but did they forget to proofread it?
The wiki article you link states 1) no direct evidence of a link or that their ideas were known beyond Kerala exists and 2) they might also have worked off ideas NY Islamic scholars. Really not sure what the specific claim or evidence you have is to give credit for 'many ideas' to this group.
The Wikipedia article includes a quote that debunks this:

> There's a very popular theory—so popular that many people don't realize it is just a theory—that Orwell's title was simply a satirical inversion of 1948, but there is no evidence for this whatsoever. This idea, first suggested by Orwell's US publisher, seems far too cute for such a serious book. [...] Scholars have raised other possibilities. [His wife] Eileen wrote a poem for her old school's centenary called "End of the Century: 1984." G. K. Chesterton's 1904 political satire The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which mocks the art of prophecy, opens in 1984. The year is also a significant date in The Iron Heel. But all of these connections are exposed as no more than coincidences by the early drafts of the novel Orwell was still calling The Last Man in Europe. First he wrote 1980, then 1982, and only later 1984. The most fateful date in literature was a late amendment.

— Dorian Lynskey, The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (2019)
Most evil in the world is perpetrated not by evil people, but by people with good intentions who believe they know what is best for others, and believe that justifies forcing it on those others.

> So, who gets to decide?

Each individual gets to decide for themselves.
>The reason has been specified and is to the point...

It's a figure of speech, and I'm well aware of the ostensible justification, which is why the bulk of my comment is specifically addressing it, and you even recognize it as doing so.

Do try to be charitable, if for no other reason than my profile lacking a promotional link :-p

Since you've opened the door to lectures about "didn't you read this part of the comment", then I'll have to turn it around and ask why didn't you read this part:

>>Isn't that how people are supposed to promote themselves? Giving out free, relevant stuff in the hopes you'll want to know more about them?"

>>I mean, isn't that how ethical self-promotion is supposed to work? Join a community, obey their norms, contribute, and if they like you, they'll follow up? How do you expect it to work?

What is the ethical way to self-promote? In the best world, I imagine it would look exactly like I just described. If you don't have an answer to that, a better way, then I'm not sure what basis you have for objecting here; you should probably figure it out before claiming you have a defensible position.

FWIW, "just stay in your little box and never come out" is not what I would count as a defensible position.

>contribution is usually shallow and easy to see through. This pollutes the place with a low-effort content.

It absolutely can be, sure. But the point where you say "OF promoters can never contribute anything of value" is where you cross over from "prudent moderation" into slut-shaming. My regular account links my blog, as do numerous other HNers. If that blog makes them money, should they be pre-emptively banned?

>And yes, many sub-reddits do have poor quality content. Thanks to the ban on OF advertisers, it is much less.

0% of the off-topic LAMF submissions were from OF-linked accounts, and at the same time, reddit has lost out on quality submissions from OF users, while gleefully letting through ulterior-motive submissions from people who don't bother to announce themselves. Hence, "tunnel-visioned".
This is right on the money. Everyone wants to do new and interesting work on a product, which naturally means changing things even if it isn't really an improvement. No one is going to put "maintained system that wasn't broken" on their resume.

One thing that has likely exacerbated this issue in recent years is "data-driven" product design. While I'm fanatical about evidence-based decision making, so many of these products are designed around a vague concept of "engagement" which is all about getting users to interact with the app as much as possible. While this is the natural end state for ad-driven companies, I find it very frustrating that a subscription-based service like Spotify feels the need to take as much control away from the user as possible.
Seeing cave art in a new light
Just to add another viewpoint, I think Google photos is their best product, and my grandparents both are able to use it without issue. They haven't even contacted me about it.

I wish they still did unlimited storage, but the app is quality, with some pretty smart search built in (you can search things like "sunset" with great accuracy). The editor is pretty easy to use as well.
> Maybe you don't have your Kindle connect to your network

Correct.

> the reason your struggling is because you're following the less trodden path.

No. Did you read what I wrote? I'm following a path that existed and is being intentionally removed.
Yes, Africa, India, Pakistan, etc. Yes, population almost increased 7 folds.
> “Acquiring” natural immunity also has the following side effects at a much higher rate than the vaccine:
> - Death

The pfizer vaccine clinical trial had equal rates of death among vaccine and placebo recipients, FWIW.

I don't believe any RCT has validated the claim that vaccination reduces the recipients chance of death.

(Nor has any validated that parachutes save lives, I suppose!)
Many Windows 10 users didn't pay for it. It was shoved down their throats against their will as an "important security update" to Windows 7 or Windows 8.
That it's an Electron app, mostly.
There is a huge swath of Indian comments here, claiming vaguely that all these are Indian ideas without any evidence to back this up. Would be curious to see some actual evidence.

Not to forget that things can also be invented/discovered more than once independently.
I blame the self-anointed “designers” who watch a few YouTube videos and declare themselves experts.

Everyone is focused on the journey of the 80% user.
Not so sure. I accidentally forgot to unsubscribe from the Prime emails way back, so once a week I get an email recommending shows I've already seen. Such as TGT, South Park, the individual presenters from TGT and so on. Oh, and they're also kind enough to remind me about their app...which is the one I'm already using to see their shows...

I'm leaning more towards laziness and lack of creativity.
I'm going to offer a different take; I like this! I kinda stopped paying attention to Edge after it went Chromium. The old Edge engineering posts were very interesting.

Anyway, I just fired it up to check this feature and didn't get the experience the author implies. The shopping notices appear as right justified text in the address bar then collapse right into the little shopping tag. I have to click this tag to see the shopping information pop-up.

Viewed an Amiibo on Amazon and it told me I had the best price, but it also told me the price has increased recently. In the pop-up, that I clicked the tag to produce, I could see price history on the item over the past few months.

Pretty cool and will try this out over the next month or so of shopping I think.
Building a website/platform to educate people about actionable insights on climate change.

First plan will be to build credibility by creating content and then slowly pivoting to coherts and courses
>But how are you supposed to keep that up when apple forces you into a marketplace that basically relies on customer handouts, where your only way to make profit on your 99ct app is to hit it so big, that your have several million customers.

Never saw it being a problem for Panic, the OmniGroup, Procreate, Things, and others. There are tons of apps that are not 99ct and do just fine...
That's also a feature of first world countries. There's a reason low-middle income countries are concentrated around the equator and high income countries are in the high latitudes.
The CO2 emitted is not a concern because it's carbon from the current environment. Just like it's fair to call wood-fire heating carbon-neutral (even though it's not so great from a particulate standpoint)
My experience was that the AA “methods” are just a vehicle for the true healing, which comes from the people. The magic is not in the 12 steps, it is in the genuine companionship and selfless service of the other alcoholics who walk with you all along the way.

> there's no reason why the techniques I've found wouldn't work for people in AA

Respectfully, I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. Spend some time in a few AA meetings, maybe a meeting in a prison, and reconsider your hypothesis.
Fait point. I would also add: blame the AB test culture that has creeped in everywhere. I am pretty confident that the current layout of the Spotify UI is not the result of a design team but the outcome of hundreds of back-to-back AB tests (some of them coming out positive, to the benefit of the career of the ideator)
They did, it's called the s&p 500, and it's run by the same company.
Hey hey! :)

I would agree with this post, for sure. The surprise, and the analysis both. There is of course always a bit of chicken and egg with this kind of thing; people don't use tons of XML with Rust because there aren't good libraries, and good libraries don't exist because people don't use a ton of XML with Rust. Normally this stalemate is broken by something being useful enough for someone to go through and implement a library, but I guess that hasn't come up yet, or that the bindings are indeed good enough.
After experiencing the annoyance of extensive benchmarking while looking for optimal placement for production workloads in a cost-constraint situation, we put together tools to save us time and effort.

We kinda feel like this might be useful for others, but a bit confused about potential use cases. So we put together a simple app for others to play with (first use case being benchmarking for AWS SageMaker).

For this to work there is a couple of lines of code to bake telegraf-based monitoring into container, script to set-up an IAM role (so app can get this launched under your account safely), then you just pick multiple instances to run the container and get a summary of launches with $, t, links to Grafana with monitoring data and python logs for each launch.

It’s free - we plan to make it an open source tool if it proves to be useful, but the web app was something we could put together the fastest.

We’d love to hear your feedback - if that’s something that might be of any use?
Yeah that change annoyed me too, until I figured out that you can use ctrl/cmd+L to go to the search page and autofocus the search box.
I think it comes down to measuring the wrong things. Reminds me of the story where a flight was 30 minutes delayed. Instead of delaying all downstream flights affected by this by 30 minutes, the airline repurposed the plane for a flight that would qualify as on-time. So they had a few customers that were irate rather than a lot that were slightly annoyed. But it was because the metric the airline was evaluated on was percentage of on-time departures — once a flight was late, it didn’t matter how late.
Sounds like a use case for Ghidra to be sure.
TradingView has desktop app too.
https://www.tradingview.com/desktop/
Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters
"Your memories on OneDrive: Remember this bug from 4 years ago?"

Although, they should add that feature on GitHub. (No I'm not serious, Mr/Ms. GitHub PM!)
OK, but, we already have social/legal/cultural norms for deciding what thoughts are bad and what thoughts are good. Here are some things I can't do via Mailchimp for either legal or cultural reasons (see also https://mailchimp.com/legal/acceptable_use/):

- Advertise pornography

- Plan attacks against the United States government

- Advertise medical cures that the government doesn't approve of

- Sell counterfeit products

- Pump and dump a stock

- Reveal the identities of CIA operatives

All of these are thoughts, just as much as advocating against vaccines or for alternative cures or what-have-you are thoughts.

Who gets to decide any of the above?

Would it be a good idea to set up society such that all of the above thoughts are protected speech?
When I was his age, I had trouble finding my arse with both hands. He manages an attractive presentation of a pretty dry subject in a foreign language and presents it to an all star audience.

I suspect he'll do all right.