skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the consent decree that was the ultimate result of U.S. v. Microsoft added significant legal friction to the development of new IE capabilities.

You can imagine that a development culture like the one described in this Twitter thread would have a near-allergic reaction to working in an environment where the lawyers had to clear every major enhancement. Microsoft management wasn’t excited about pushing that rock up hill either, given their market dominance.
I am not sure what are you trying to argue here. The topic was upgrade process. Even Windows 11 hardware requirement, which is sad but too recent to be relevant, does not stop it from upgrading from Windows 10 on unsupported machines.

And even if Debian runs on more machines than Windows (which I doubt), most of them are probably VMs, that have only a few apps installed, and just get rebuilt instead of being upgraded. Which means that fact is also irrelevant for dist upgrades.
The only ‘smartphone’ thing it does in my eyes is WiFi hotspot, simply because I don’t remember feature phones doing that.

My feature phones at least had little time-wasting games built in.
Maybe they finally got the time machine working and sent it back as a warning.
I'd pay for it as a subscription service TBH. It would be good for security minded corps and nerds.
Cutting my hair takes longer than having it cut. I do plan to continue, except maybe for special occasions. My WFH is ending soon, so that's not something I can continue.

Other than that, not much has changed for me.
IMHO one of the benefits to having a separate tokenization step is in error handling. It can be easier to generate good error messages if you've already separated the input into tokens (e.g. "unexpected identifier" instead of "unexpected letter 'i'.")

There can also be performance advantages, at least in some cases.
The Tommy Lee Jones coffee.
I apologize, I really misunderstood what you meant in your post. Obviously you aren't wasting your time, your friend got lucky, and your time may come. I'm sure you are doing just fine.
I think teaching programming is pretty easy as long as you have mindset.

The first and most important point is to only teach people that want to be taught. Don't try to shove it to them, it just doesn't work.

I am teaching my kids programming and so I spent a lot of time thinking about it.

Nobody taught me programming. I just had access to things I could play with and it was fun to make them do stuff. I learned because it was fun. If somebody forced me to do things their way it would likely not be fun.

Another part I have learned is to solve problems on my own. It is not very instructive to have teacher tell you solution to every problem after some time.

I think solving problems on your own is core part of knowing how to program and so having somebody you can constantly lean on deprives you of chance to develop this important ability.

So in the end teaching my kids programming is basically making sure they have access to a good environment where they can do stuff that is fun. I answer questions if they have any and react when I see them bored or stuck for too long, but that's about it.

Sometimes I try to discuss a topic to see what kind of mental model they have and maybe I point something or show them a counterexample or a trick to steer them into better mental model.

I am not religious, but God bless Minecraft:)
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/nokia-6300-4...

A feature phone with wifi hotspot and WhatsApp support. So this is below the baseline of feature phones circa 2020.

> My feature phones at least had little time-wasting games built in.

TBF, I think one of the points of this is to provide basic communication needs without the distracting parts of smartphones that promote time wasting. But it seems to have cut things too far, to the quick as the saying goes. Feature phones already exist and don't cost $300 and have excellent battery life and international support and are more useful than this without going to the extreme of being as distracting and time wasting as smartphones can be (without discipline).
> If you forget to bring a bag from home you're in trouble

If you forget your keys you're in bigger trouble, so I still don't see your point.

Have we really come to the point where people carry a little supercomputer in their pockets at all time, but are unable to bring a bag when going shopping?
Direct address in the meantime:

http://109.190.61.142/home.php
Lee Felstenstein's “The Tom Swift Terminal, or a Convivial Cybernetic Device” [pdf]
pretty much every response on this article has talked about the health problems from drinking too much water, but if you don't want to read up on any of that, maybe the Mayo Clinic will help. hopefully that's enough "citation" other than what The whole article and all of the responses are about.

I googled it for you:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
If people are drinking coffee at work, then absolutely
I think they will never tell him. I think leaving Twitch has been a overall good thing for him but the fact he can't play together with his old friends probably hurts.
What happens to the balls after the match? Do they get ground up and shipped overseas for recycling?
Do you have an easy definition of what’s wasteful and what’s not wasteful? If you don’t, then what you are imagining is wholly arguable.
So Why Doesn't Microsoft Provide Its Own Blazor Component Library?
The ban is not negative; pretending it has lead to a meaningful reduction in plastic ocean waste is. I think the reason most people are negative to the ban is that a great deal of resources has been spent on something that tries to solve a minuscule problem (0.03% of plastic waste) while at the same time inconveniencing people with disabilities for example. These resources could have been allocated to for instance a small financial reward for turning in broken/abandoned fishing nets.
How is this not obvious? Things you do all the time aren’t forgotten. Things you do rarely are.

That said, “grave inconvenience” is really something. Not having plastic bags is absolutely ruining my life. Kids are crying. Wife is mad at me. Boss thinks I’m slacking. Dentist says I don’t floss. If we could have plastic bags back my life would be so much better.
There is another active project, DXX-Rebirth, that tries to recreate the original experience of Descent and Descent II as close as possible (i.e. it does not really mod the games).

http://dxx-rebirth.com/
The EU introduced that tax in 2002, the research in TFA is from 2021. Perhaps your country only amounts to 0.02%, at least in part, _because of_ the EU's plastic bag tax?
Is this not misleading? I thought that most countries offload their plastic waste to regions in Asia (paying them to take it), so of course Asia comes off looking as the largest emitter.
> The fund can spare losing investments

So the fund is basically a charity where it invests according to merit and uses those gains to subsidize the investments in their buddies funds. But at least some decisions are made on merit

> have investments where they sell all the shares at a greater price even if the business doesnt do anything revenue-positive

Who are they selling to at a higher price? Do the other investors have to have a relationship with the investor as well since they're investing in sub-par companies?
This is bullshit unsupported by any credible data. Where the hell do they get "90% of your job is storytelling."???
Just be creative and find something that fits.

I do homebrewing. My wine is Almost Moonshine Wine with the motto It ain't fine wine, but after two glasses you'll think it is, since it's usually 18%. My beer is Better Beer with the motto It's better than nothing... probably, because it's decent beer but sometimes I screw it up (self deprecating is probably not a good strategy for most start ups).
The difference is paperclip optimizer's existence does not depend on the paperclips.

For any organism, being able to correctly read their subset of "reality" is the only thing that increases their chance of survival - and over time their genes. It is a genetic algorithm deeply tested against reality; there is no skirting around it.

Human consciousness is able extend projections into the future or to other humans and thus have a greater capacity for conformance to reality. It has horrible failure modes and room for self deception - nihilism being one - but even though this proliferation looks like the paper clip maximizer that was never the goal but the side effect. Now that we're tasting the unadaptive consequences of over-proliferation we will see how well our reality conforming machinery can overcome our collective self-deception modes.
> Oral Rehydration Therapy

Does anyone know a recipe or brand that tastes good?

I've tried different brands, and it all tasted too unpleasant to drink for me, though I didn't have a critical need for it.

I also made it at home [1], and tried adding some lemon juice to that recipe. The taste resembled a sports drink, but again wasn't sufficient to drink daily.

[1] 1 liter water, 8 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt
https://www.britannica.com/science/oral-rehydration-therapy
"Allowed price of electricity to soar". You mean, they have free market that responds to demand? Where is the socialism in it?

Also, what's up with throwing expletives?
If you're a young, healthy person, Covid is not particularly dangerous. If you're a young, healthy, inner-city black man, police are actually very dangerous.

The point is - it's a non-sequitur, regardless. It's like saying: "As a member of group X, I'm more worried about the prospect of being stopped by the police than I am about getting killed or maimed in a car wreck. Therefore, I don't wear a seatbelt."
From my own discussions and experiences, and anonymously agreed upon by some public health experts[0], the plastic bag ban (and other single use plastics) has served to create a significant health crisis among the homeless populations in the same cities that champion the ecological good. When you have a choice between taking a dump in the street (your living area) and taking a dump in a plastic bag (or using a plastic bag to pick it up some do for dogs), even a mind-addled addict would prefer the latter.

[0]: (note: ref near the end, but good read overall, if a poor source) https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/06/hepatitis-a-outbreak-san...
I buy lottery tickets occasionally because it's worth the $1 to spend a few minutes day dreaming about how much life would change if I won. It's not always just mental masturbation either, sometimes it poses difficult questions that challenge my current decisions in life. "What would you do if you won the lottery" I think is a very meaningful question to ponder, and it's a little easier and more fun if you do it when you actually buy a ticket.
Misanthropes generally resort to this world view with respect to humanity because we (outing myself) believe human nature always reveals itself (eg - line up for toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic).

We are resigned to the feeling that ‘it’s never gonna get fixed’. It’s not a good way to be, and to see this worldview permeate into objective areas of life is even more depressing.

Misanthropy kind of absolves humanity of it’s nature. What I don’t like to see in software is that type of absolution for code we know is obviously not pragmatic. It’s a tough debate because often the perpetrators of complex abstraction layers don’t believe it’s bad (any number of us could have been the guilty party at some point or another):

I think we should still try to be optimistic about openly debating complexity, or else we risk allowing misanthropic perceptions to enter this realm too - ‘people just suck at programming, so be it’.
Sure, but it'll be a shit cage that I'm more likely to get get tetanus from it than anything else. If they buy drone soldier robots from China maybe they could pull it off - provide someone figures out the remote, lots of buttons, but you just couldn't find enough people in Australia interested in being your stormtroopers. Murdoch on the other hand could do it, if we ever stop paying him his tribute, who knows, maybe he will rise from crypt and enslave us all, but as long as we keep showing him with gifts he seems content with merely ruining the joint.
Bugatti, Rimac and Porsche announce joint venture – CAR Magazine
Treat code review like work
San and French lines have been separated by 50-100k years at least, right? So if Denisovans are more different from Neanderthals than that, why do you think the Denisovan bone was from a Modern x Neanderthal instead?

Also, if you did find a first generation Modern x Neanderthal, you'd have stretches of the genome that were 100% Neanderthal and stretches that were 100% Modern. It'd be obvious that it was an F1 hybrid. Even F2, F3 etc it'd be pretty clear. Are you saying the Denisovan genome doesn't have unique mutations?

I agree that the terms species / subspecies / populations are difficult/impossible to to define sharply.
> To tackle plastic pollution we need to know where it’s coming from

So, where is it coming from?

TFA examined the last step - from river to ocean. But what is the source of all this plastic? Is it soda bottles, single use plastic bags, shrink wrap, structural plastic?

> It is estimated that 81% of ocean plastics come from Asian rivers. The Philippines alone contribute around one-third of the global total.

That's a start. We are becoming more informed.

What percentage of the ocean plastics are manufactured in Asia?

What percentage of the ocean plastics are manufactured in USA?

What percentage of the ocean plastics are manufactured in Europe?

What percentage of the ocean plastics are manufactured by the top 5 global food corporations?

The value of these questions is not to shift blame. It is to understand the system so we can target fixes.

The most informative question wasn't even raised in TFA.

Who profits from plastic waste?
“Interfaces – Why Use Them?” (My Reply)
> There's this cult of drinking water - with people insisting you should drink more and more water - until people are drinking ludicrous quantities

> I've seen someone collapse from hyponatremia from drinking too much water

I've never heard of this or seen it. Have other people?
A book is feeding climate denial. Its central claim is true, yet irrelevant
“Strong nation through collective action”.

Oh, like "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" - Kennedy.

Fascism goes beyond that. "The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value." - Mussolini. The core concept is a single all-encompassing authority. Not just a dictatorship or ruling party, but no other centers of power at all. It's top down military organization of the non-military parts of society.
KaiOS is Firefox OS is a (not particularly capable) smartphone OS; even if they don't allow other apps to be installed?
How to become a software Engineer Step-by-step (With or Without a Degree)
MIT Researchers Make Hydrogen Fuel from Aluminum and Water
Actually things have never been easier. You have access to cloud computing, infinite free tools and learning resources. Social platforms to spread your product. If you fail its not your fundraising. Build something better. However when all else is right, a good story helps. Hence this article.
Are outsiders allowed to confirm the official numbers form China?
> No, it's not. Although as many other scientific facts it is often being stretched beyond the extreme in order to use it to legitimize crazy theories and/or sell products. That is a very common practice.

As far as I've been able to tell, there's very little in the way of literature that actually supports the "blue light" claims, but quite a lot of things which just self reference to support it.

> Unfortunately blue leds are extremely cheap to produce, so that pretty much every consumer gadget, especially those cheap gimmicks from the Far East, use them profusely even in places where other colors would be, also functionally, more suitable.

Huh? To begin with, all modern LEDs are blue, if you see a white LED, it's a blue LED, if you see a red LED, it's a blue LED. This is just down to physics more than anything, it's also much more economical to produce the same chemistry and just use phosphors to emit the color you actually want.

Blue LEDs emitting actual blue light however are vanishingly uncommon in any product at all, I don't recall the last time I've actually seen one. If you're talking about white LEDs being used in products? Well then yes, they will obviously contain blue light.
Indexing against an ontology is becoming a rare skill. Popular comprehension has become so hocus-pocus that schools now teach kids that if a book has an index it's non-fiction. Meanwhile, Grammarly assists people in faking literacy. Wiktionary has become the best Scrabble dictionary. Late 19th century people of letters are no doubt turning in their graves.
Hey there, you linked my comment, figured I'd fill you in a bit

Again I don't really see power outages last longer than an hour or so, but my laptop manages to run for about 2 hours with a 4g modem in it. I used to be able to go even longer with an extra battery back when laptops still had those -- So really as long as you're not lugging around a UPS and desktop for some reason you should be good for at least that much time.

If it's out longer than a day I pretty much just pack my stuff and head into the city. I recognize most people don't really have this kind of luxury with the kind of work they do but I specifically worked my way to this point where I can afford to do this and maybe if you stretch your imagination in terms of possibilities you can too
Very naive question, why does Netflix has so much code? I don't mean it in a "they could do it with way less" way, I'm geniunly curious about all of the things that they are doing.
A lightweight gesture recognition and visualization framework for Unity
The bird thing has attained mythological status, but I'm not convinced. The story appears to have been popularized by the 2003 "Canaries in the Kitchen" article from the Environmental Working Group. It should be noted that every one of the citations in this article is an anecdotal story. Nowhere do they cite any research showing that sub-pyrolytic heating of PTFE can kill birds in realistic environments.

One problem with the anecdata here is that birds can be killed by all kinds of other fumes and smoke, including ordinary cooking fumes, which makes it impossible to isolate the variables in a non-laboratory setting. Shit, you can kill birds with just the natural gas from your stove, or with the vaporized mineral oil burned off a new toaster.

As for burning up a nonstick pan, sure, I don't think anyone doubts that's lethal to birds. But I don't believe birds are harmed by nonstick cookware under normal conditions. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I'd like to see it.

> damaging the coating is known to lower the temperature at which PTFE will pyrolize

Overheating can definitely impair the coating's adhesion to the cooking surface, which makes it more vulnerable to flaking in the future, but the breakdown temperatures of the coating system components aren't changed. They are what they are.

I have many well-used nonstick pans, some nearly a decade old, and on the inside they're flawless like the day I bought them. Except the one I gouged with an immersion blender. I use silicone, nylon, and wood utensils, and I don't overheat them.

> it would be very hard to verify or test for that specific cause.

It's not that hard to get good retrospective data. There are many thousands of workers who have spent years working in the fluorinated chemical industry, and as far as I know there's no evidence of higher cancer rates among that population.
FWIW, I believe those people are often the very amateurs who are drinking the koolaid themselves (and when they aren't they are parasites that are more "fans" of software that developers).
You're assuming that the plastic that gets sold is the same plastic that ends up in the rivers. Do we know that's the case? And if so, how does it go from being "in the system" to being discarded into the environment? Why would they pay money for it, just to throw it in a river?
I've heard this from expats and guidebooks written by foreigners, and even some Costa Ricans too

If a normal tourist only sees the blocks around the Ticabus bus station at 11pm and the blocks around the bus stop to their tourist destination then of course it's an ugly city.

However the Escazú, Sabana and San Pedro neighbourhoods are quite nice.

The downtown is functional (while not beautiful), compared to any other of the Central American capitals.

And the downtown main street has wide sidewalks for walking (unlike San Salvador), grid style streets (unlike Tegucigalpa), nice weather (unlike Panama), government offices, hotels, nearby (unlike all the others), and accessible by public transport.
I think the OP meant lack of competition. Prices are controlled by one or two public utilities companies and I agree summer in Southern Europe kind of sucks these days with extreme heat and lack of air conditioning. I lived in Houston,TX where we used to have hot summer as well but it was bearable with air conditioning s as we would Just simply stay in
It might make Apple currently more money, or it at least might appear to them that it does. But I really think they are missing the boat great time by gimping the iPad with the built-in limitations. The hardware is fantanstic, and by starting with a complete new OS, they had the chance to grow it into an entirely new computing device. But limiting the iPad to apps which harve to adher to arbitrary app store rules, they might miss the next big step. Which could cost them way more revenue long term, that the short term profit on people who buy a new iPad and a new Mac.
It depends on the application. On Android, for example, I don't want my app to crash with an OOM while trying to load an image. I want to instead clear my in-memory cache and try again with more memory available. So I wrapped the code that loads images into a try-catch that catches OutOfMemoryError and it worked wonderfully.
It goes deeper than that.

There is intrinsic irreducible complexity that comes with many problems and there's no way to fix that. Software solutions also cannot scale linearly with the complexity of the problem.

In fact, it's provably outright impossible to even calculate the complexity of a problem in general, let alone find the optimal (as in least complex) solution (see Komolgorov complexity).
> Best to remind then that drinking 6 liters of water can be sufficient to kill a human

How many people does this actually kill? I can't imagine anyone I know doing anything like it.
I dislike that this is downvoted. I think it's a meaningful question. If I could spend a 1% of my net worth to ensure my closest friends and family never had to work again, and that 1% had no meaningful difference in my own quality of life, I would absolutely do that. I would treat myself plenty if I had lots of money, but most of it I would spend on those close to me. I don't really see the point of most of it otherwise.

I think it says something about someone's character if they sacrifice very little of their own to make a big difference for those around them. it doesn't necessarily mean that if they don't that they're a bad person, but it is something to consider why they wouldn't.
> I've never heard of this or seen it.

Hyponatremia? Yeah it's documented https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/.... When you hear about people dying from ecstasy it's usually actually hyponatremia I believe.
This game was truly one of the first real 3d mouse controlled indoor flying shooter game. Even today you won't find many in this genre. Games like Darker and Terminal velocity were a bit similar and cool as well.