skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never used them and don't know of the political parallels. I know they had more biz relationships for search results as an example.

Maybe start by explaining how they were worse?
You ever work on a large C++ project and have to do a clean build? Expect up to an hour or more.
I think there's a bigger issue here. Currently the library buy's x copies of an ebook, which they can then distribute out to members. This is the model you're saying is bad.

But the benefit here is that the expense of the book is predetermined and controllable.

If you were to switch to a model where they're pay per use, fundamentally the amount is lower initially. But what happens when a book is incredibly popular and there aren't any limits on who can read that book. Now the library could be on the hook for a large bill that never would've happened had they had more control over the book. Sure, they could set a limit per book on the per use rules, but say they hit that limit in 6 months out of the year, now the book is just unavailable for the remaining 6 months?

I feel like per use complicates things. I hate the current model, too. But I don't think all libraries are super well funded.
Hello,

I am working on implementing the PST file format specification. I am also writing documentation for this complex file format so other developers can implement it themselves.

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This dramatic visualization of the timeline for the rest of the universe is well worth a watch to get a feel for what we believe the future of the universe to look like

[TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

However, when you get to the end (which is perhaps a little depressing!), I'd recommend learning a bit about what we think could come 'after' this period, where the universe has become so isotropic and homogenous no clocks or measuring systems of any kind can be developed so the universe loses any sense of size or energy – it's been proposed that this creates opportunity for a new universe to exist

[What Happens After the Universe Ends?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2JOQ7z5L0

These are fields of study right on the edge of what's testable by science so it's more fun to think about than it is to have certainty (although Penrose has, debatably, claimed evidence for echos of previous universes visible in the CMB!).
Waiting for a suitable "incident" to occur.
The trouble is that traditionally, I think the permanent Bluetooth MAC was how phones knew to reconnect with devices like headphones so it couldn't easily be randomized. This was all designed in an era when people were less paranoid about how tech could be abused.
I'm not suggesting stripping anonymity or free speech, I'm just pointing out the problem with anonymity online.
Plus a deluded belief that the authoritarian tools being handed to their ideological leaders will forever be in those hands and never used against them in the future by their ideological foes.
I use Spectrum and their IPv6 connectivity drops out relatively frequently, but IPv4 connectivity stays.
You don’t even have to do all that. Twitter has a mute words feature that allows you to target key words so that you’ll never see tweets that have them.

It amazes me how much HN complains about Twitter without understanding the tools Twitter provides. It’s similar in essence to uniformed Anti Vaxxers who’s only contempt with Vaccines are based on lack of understanding.
I got tired of repairing them and the noise cancelling in the newer models is much better. Bittterly I've moved to Bose 700 after my 2nd QC25's noise cancelling died.
An issue, though not an unsolvable one, is that you probably need a standardized representation of the AST to write these optimization passes against; it is not uncommon for compiler writers to disagree on what representation is the best for what purpose.

Then there is the question of optimizations that are (typically) easier/possible only at the code-generation phase.

All of this is solvable of course, but there needs to be some will to do so (or in the case of companies, enough commercial benefit).
Wow, I had forgotten that term!

The other day I was thinking back to when I was younger and people freaked out at the possibility of dating someone you met online. Now with dating apps it's the norm.
Sure, but scientists have fairly good reasons for assuming that the rest of the universe looks pretty much the same. They could be wrong, of course, but "could be wrong" is always an assumption with these kinds of things anyway.
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In my undergrad experience, there was way more choice in a PHIL degree than Math/Engineering or even English. My suggestion is to jump on the CT train early because it is new, but truly enlightening. It's the best framework we have for ontological assessment, and that is one of the three major areas of undergrad philosophy.
Remember, this is from our current understanding. 500 years from now, who knows what we’ll discover. Or maybe our whole theory is wrong.
Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed that.

>I'm not going to trust a system that isn't as good as a normal attentive driver.

As I understand it, we're not expected to trust the current incarnation of Tesla Autopilot. We're supposed to be ready to intervene in case it screws up.

I'd be interested to know how long the drivers of the 12 Teslas in these accidents had to intervene but didn't (how long was it obvious Autopilot had screwed up before the impact).
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I'd love to hear more about the performance needs of your side projects that made you have to stop using Ruby. I also use ruby for my side projects and have been considering a switch but for other reasons.
Do you really need those tests? We are testing validations, CRUD operations, states, border conditions. Sometimes an integration test is enough to validate at least the happy path and catch any mismatch between passed and expected arguments: if we are passing a string instead of an array of strings somewhere, the test will fail.
> And in densely populated Europe, we don't have the luxury of such places at all

All the nuclear waste of Europe could go in a building that's about one hectare. Yet there is enough place for both ten thousands of hectares of open pit coal mines, and hundreds of hectares of totally unprotected and open-air ash ponds containing toxic sludge that is guaranteed to more dangerous to your health - and sometimes also more radioactive - than just about any nuclear reactor waste.

Face it, the "Green" movement in Germany which has lobbied to replace nuclear power with wind/solar in the last decade (instead of replacing coal with renewables and nukes) are responsible for gigatons of carbon emissions and will be rightly vilified by future generations.
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For me, its about invasive weeds, mosquitoes, ticks and other non-desireable bugs as well as rodents. But I live near a field! So the lawn serves as a buffer and lawns are very good at suppressing weeds. I could go with clover though which we are cultivating on the small hill next to us to buffer us from the field instead of grass though.

A lot of my neighbors have had their lawns overridden by crab grass anyway so is that still a lawn at that point?

Having a lawn also is nice for the kids.
It's truly a bigger ecological crime than Bitcoin Proof of Work.
That's a common misconception. People don't become more right-wing with age, people become more right-wing with wealth. Turns out if you have a lot of personal property you suddenly are a lot easier to convince that you deserve it and others want to take it away.

The good old "if you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative when you've grown up, you have no sense" is just a way to morally justify a political shift that happens to align with a change in financial interests, nothing more.

EDIT: Here's a source since people seem to downvote based on their feelings: https://www.insidehook.com/article/politics/millennials-voti... It doesn't outright say the difference is wealth but it does say the expected trend towards conservativism doesn't present in Millennials to the same degree.
What does it mean when a company says, “we do not sell your data”?
Even is this was smallpox, there's room for debate on vaccine mandates, and a huge hole in the discussion for natural immunity / previously infected.

COVID is not smallpox
You're being intentionally obtuse now. If you can't see why an open border is vital for the continued peace, and why removing it would place tension on a peace that took decades to achieve, then you've already made up your mind.

I suppose I should have expected it when you blamed the EU for the self-inflicted woes of Brexit.
Fortunately it doesn't take 6 hours to charge! I'm still not sure where the 18 hour number comes from, I use mine for close to 24 reliably. About 1 hour charging every morning while I'm at my desk not doing much physically anyways is all it takes. Before the WFH times I'd charge it in the morning after it woke me up and maybe in the evening if the charge was below 30% so I'd be certain it would get through the night.
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> until Google abandons it

Given Google's track record I'm not sure that's the most reassuring argument...
My sister is a molecular biologist and VP of a major genomics company. And she gets this stuff wrong like your friend. Having a degree does NOT mean the person knows what they are talking about - it's merely a hopeful Bayesian result!!

The spike protein is expressed from the vaccine mRNA payload in ANY cell that the liposome merges with. And that is known to be any epithelial cell in the body.

Then the cell WILL DIE. And be broken up. And then the spike protein will circulate where ever the "infected" cell was located. It could be in the lymph, in the blood stream, in the gut, etc.

THUS IS IT NOT ONLY IN THE CYTOPLASM!!

The mRNA is gone quickly if and only if the liposome is absorbed.

But BOTH the liposomes and the spike protein is well-documented to persist in the blood stream for 2-3 days! It literally says that in research submitted to FDA for the EUA!

The lipids are merely what is officially listed as "active ingredients". It's SOP to NOT list anything that isn't directly active for the original purpose of the FDA approval. This is where things get very fuzzy and potentially dangerous.

Technically, through "orthodox DNA-RNA-Protein" processes the mRNA doesn't alter DNA, however the mRNA absolutely can cause epigenetic effects and THOSE can alter DNA in some cases (e.g. change mitotic and meiotic processes) and alter gene expression which is often functionally equivalent to changing DNA. The "orthodox" doesn't allow for epigenetics. It thinks junk DNA is really junk (despite being evolutionarily conserved) and that we still operate in a "one-gene-one-phenotype/protein" regime.

Coronaviruses ALWAYS have been endemic. That is the nature of the family at a DNA-level!! You are being a techno-utopian pollyanna to claim otherwise! The real world does not kowtow to your utopianism and that you are an utopian absolutely means you are not scientific, not understanding how science works and you are expressing a religious view, not a reality-based STEM view!
I'm not sure it's just speech.

I have worked with Canadians for a while, but the past 2-3 years they seem to be more controlling/authoritarian even in the corporate structure. I am in the US, and I am more "here is the outcome we need, achieve that how you like". I think the Canadians I worked with used to be the same way, but now they seem to be more "it needs to be done one way, everywhere, with oversight".

With a global company there are local differences in culture, laws, and priority so the "one way" seems to be a poor fit.
Yes, obviously. We interned Japanese-Americans during WWII. During the Civil War, habeas corpus was suspended.

There's the PATRIOT Act for GWOT, but a lot of people don't seem to realize it didn't actually give law enforcement new powers. It extended powers they already had for drug and organized crime cases and let them apply to terrorism cases. We had already accepted an erosion of due process and civil liberties in order to defeat the Mafia and fight the War on Drugs.

This absolutely happens as a response to the perception of threat.

In fairness, it's not always clear this is universally wrong. The only reason the US has a federal government and a permanent standing military at all, which were not always givens, is in response to the threat that European colonial powers would have retaken all the land if we didn't, and this was probably a correct assessment.
belt drives and chains are on the same plane as the frame, so I don't think it would allow much more design freedom to reduce bulk. It may afford other design freedom, but I don't think bulk reduction will be significant.
Because it will require tons of resources to make it more performant that the current JS JITs and it will probably fail. So what you see is some games just embedding V8.
This was literally an episode in "Black Mirror"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

> set in a world where people can rate each other from one to five stars for every interaction they have, which can impact their socioeconomic status.
It's interesting that we can presently see two galaxies that will never be able to see each other. They will drift out of Earth's observable universe before each other's light would have a chance to reach the other. Dark energy & accelerating expansion is weird.
> mainly because of the supercharger network

I always find it amusing that people who use the internet think there's value in a closed network. You might as well be using AOL.

But the good news is Tesla claims that they will finally open their charging network to other brands:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...

Tesla is doing this now to get access to government subsidies for charging infrastructure. Governments aren't going to fund single brand chargers.
Looks like their assets are not serving. Temporally very close to our observation of KeyCDN going down.
Unfortunately English is an objectively terrible language. It's very non-deterministic, and there's a lot of nuisance that you won't pick up for years or decades as a non-native speaker. There's also zero consensus on how to pronounce and even spell things, it's a very fragmented language.

Even native english speakers from the US can't pronounce most English placenames. Heck, not even English people can pronounce their placenames. (and yes I know, those placenames have french/nordic/germanic/roman origins, but placenames do become part of the language over time).

Other words change pronunciation without changing meaning (this one really annoys me). think of "to perspire" and "anti-perspirant". Why is the "perspire" pronounced so differently in those two words, despite referring to the same thing? Same with "vital" and "vitamins" (in UK english). The english pronounce it vit-a-minns, despite the origin of the word being "vital amines". Americans mostly do it the right way ("white-a-minns").

C or K or S? V or W or U? They're the same, but also different letters, except sometimes you pronounce them different? Forget it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

You can also basically pronounce vowels however you want. My favourite example (although a bit exaggerated) is that south african speakers only have one wovel sounds, which is "iiih". "I'm Sid Ifrikin" is how they pronounce "I'm South African" :) Difference in vowel pronounciation is the primary differentiator of different accents, but since we need to understand all these different accents and they all convey the same information, that means vowels carry essentially no information in them. "Do you like dags?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQSnua3M2lo&t=56s

My point is; the written word does not convey how to pronounce the word.
Ulster is not synonymous with Northern Ireland as counties Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan are very much part of Ireland.
I read most of this long article, and I found it useful, but:

It's unsurprising that people's mental model of git is incorrect. Git is not something people study at a conceptual level, it's something they learn recipes for in order to work on some project. Recipes like "how do I save all this work I just did" and "oh shit, everything is hosed, please give me a magic spell I can paste into my terminal to fix it".

I don't really blame people, since git itself does nothing to teach you how it works. Git it is the definition of something you have to deal with in order to do something more important to you. Some people want to dig deep and understand how the system works: it's nice to sit near that person and ask them for help sometimes.

Saying "you should really understand more about git" is like saying "you should really study the tax code, it's important and it affects you whether you like it or not." True, but deeply irrelevant!
People have a right to take that risk!
I love the features, and I charge it every night (with 50% spare as well).
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I've always wondered why desert nomads dress like they do. Given modern fabrics and constructions, would you chose to dress like this to go to the desert? I understand it is an area of extreme heat in the day and extreme cold when the sun goes down, the head and face protection I understand, but the flowing, multi-layered robes? The conjecture would be that they insulate more than disperse heat via evaporative cooling? Seems like we have cold-weather gears figured out with cold and high-altitude expeditions, but desert gears?
In the Netherlands we can send each other payment request via iDeal, they are also instant and involve sharing a link (over chat or whatever) you tap it and pay with your own banking app. Very handy, but sadly only in the Netherlands, consequently it is the only thing I miss from my banking app (N26) and iDeal requires me to keep a Dutch bank around.
I do not agree with this argument

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The horrible truth is that if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crashes will occur
>>

As that '1 life' saved may be countered by a number of lives lost due to the system that might otherwise have survived.
The gem ecosystem is a direct result of the language decisions. Ruby is IMO, the best language for working with 3rd party libraries.
I'd be interested to know how people (humanity) would feel if it were known that the universe would just come to a hard-stop in a million years.

In practice, it should make no difference. That's already much, much further than any of us can comprehend. It's a hundred times the length of recorded human history. What would it really matter?

On the other hand, it would seem so short, I think a sense of nihilism would already take hold.
How will the Shopify integration on roadmap work?
Most scientific research and publishing is paid for by grants, not by your institution's funding. It sounds like the author had failed to obtain a grant (or for some reason didn't apply for one); and attempting to do research without a grant is, of course, difficult and in the long run completely unsustainable.
They process your data and sell the output?
The recent Ivermectin poison statistics are more than a little at odds with your "markedly safe" categorization.
Are you seriously asking this question?
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So have private corporations. The point is that government at least has a mandate to protect it's citizens. Corporations explicitly do not care... and in fact there are many situations where they would be taking on significant liability if they put user privacy above profit (putting any above profit risks a shareholder suit or shareholder activism to bump executives/board)
what is 'pretty much the same', and what are the 'fairly good reasons'?
Only in America. Nowhere else supports Overdrive and Kindle.
The simple solution is to go to a model where the author is paid per reader or maybe even per page that's read. For someone reason, though, people seem to cling to the idea of "borrowing copies". It worked reasonably well when the copies were on paper, but it doesn't make sense for digital versions.
When you have Paul Offit himself saying the FDA is not on board with this, you have to realize something is very very wrong. I just hope the administration doesn’t make boosters another Afghanistan.
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From what I understand there is also some code that is there to ignore static objects because maybe are signs or bridges and the AI is too stupid. So you have bad sensors with bad code combo.
I'd say the main value over cash is that cash will stop existing soon. I tried to deposit cash at my bank in the Netherlands a few weeks ago and they refused to accept it, telling me I had to use a new inter-bank ATM system for deposits ("to make things easier for everybody"). I spent a week traveling to local towns trying to find an ATM that wasn't out of service, and which took deposits.
> Indeed you do (and there's problems with that)

Which ones? Our grid is extremely resilient - the last major customer-visible nation-wide outage was in 2006 when a mistake during the shutdown of a power line for the crossing of a ship underneath led to a failure cascade. Meanwhile, the US has outage reports every few months, including such absurdities as rolling outages to prevent wildfires from shoddy unmaintained networks. Or the shit that went down in Texas, which refuses interconnections to avoid federal regulations.

> But the OP was (clearly?) suggesting transporting all the power needed in Europe in, say, the Gobi desert. That's a scale of grid capacity that you do not have.

We don't need a grid powerful enough to shift all the power around, as we have plenty of local renewable electricity from various sources. For the rest? Italy is planning to build a new submarine interconnect to Tunisia (https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000121873523/italiens-netz...), sized enough to transport energy towards Northern Europe.