skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perceptual colour spaces are basically great if you want to pick an exact colour for the mud you are drawing.

They really, really aren't good for picking useful colours. People don't keep using HSV because they are idiots, and have remained idiots for the last thirty years, they are using HSV because it lets you pick usable colours.

The article goes through a lot of deep, thoughtful work only to arrive at an end result of this: https://bottosson.github.io/img/colorpicker/okhsl_circle.png

A circle of different muds and a little bit of hot pink.
Should the title not be “Fossil Fuel Capitalism Is Cutting Our Lives Short”?
There’s some evidence that Tamil and Korean is related based upon genealogy as well which may be part of the reason for the failure to account for it in particular although the article didn’t make it clear exactly what the criteria for the relationships are for cognates in the summary. I’m not sure if scholars have delved much into the relationship because the genealogical evidence was only confirmed in the past so many years when it was considered a folk legend for many years.
I see. Thank you for that. I'm not English but I was there at the time and I remember most of these stories - that he jumped the barrier and looked Asian and all that, all crap.

I actually also heard that the police man shouted "yippie ki-yay, motherfucker" before firing, maybe I'll start repeating that one instead.
Exactly. We could have a system where every year 10 random poor people are chosen to become super wealthy. That isn't "economic mobility" in any meaningful or healthy sense.
Real question: why rake the yard? The road I understand, but what's wrong with just letting the leaves decompose and enrich the soil?
memfd_secret won't help. It only protects memory from being accidentally leaked by the kernel due to an unknown bug. The cheater could easily recompile their kernel to make memfd_secret do nothing.
> 1. How do you verify if someone has gotten COVID already? The PCR test can report negative for as short as 2 weeks after symptoms go away.

Antibody tests?
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Transmission rates affect host rates. Why is this so difficult to understand? People on HN should be versed in enough math to work out that reduced transmission rates = fewer hosts = fewer chances for mutation.

> And like I said, not vaccinating low risk groups could lead to herd immunity through natural infection faster.

That isn't true at all. Mutations will pick up as long as (a) there is pressure to mutate (which vaccines do cause) and (b) there are enough chances to mutate (transmission + how long the virus stays active in your body).

> Overall, there is very weak justification for a policy as heavy handed as forced vaccination (via instititonalized discrimination against the unvaccinated).

It is very strong justification, just that some people use very strange reasoning to convince themselves otherwise.
More like US Law is a tool and not a useful one, in leveraging political influence. In US Politics, the political presentation of events/behavior of individuals, are a sort of ammunition for both other individuals and associated groups. Nobody wants to go to war with a political opponent who can weaponize information effectively, so you never chase them down legally. Especially with no guarantee that legal recourse will do anything but drain coffers and political favors.
Noted. Full-justification was inherited from the default style of the static site generator I'm using. I'll get rid of it.

EDIT: Done.
We are not living in the age when those world views were valid or acceptable. I'm sure if those deceased figures would have lived today, they'd have different views on many points. Times and customs change.
Please, I would love to convert my Jag to electricity. This is the future. But reality is that aside from tech sector, people cannot afford buying a new electric car. End countries from EU with high standard of living are not the example.
"Banning" cannot solve the problem.
Transportation is affecting prices of goods. There is no magic bullet. You cannot shut down economy like that.
I still don't understand why there is not global initiative for synthetic fuel. Only Porsche and Siemens are thinking clearly. We have a proven way to transit to electric cars and build adequate architecture.
Upthread context: “If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I'd be in favor.”

In that context, the Volt (and other hybrids, plug-in or not) would either be banned or be required to disable their ICE engines in the city.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504461
Really enjoyed the "pre-order my book to get the word out" footnote.
Whenever I see these pictures, I am happy not to live in a city.
> ...The explanation that Shi Zhengli gave, that there had been hacking attempts, makes no sense.

> Why would there be before the pandemic?

I hope Hacker News, of all places, can appreciate that this line of reasoning is questionable. The institute wouldn't have to be famous yet for hacking attempts to happen. People regularly scan random websites for vulnerabilities.
User Interface expertise was lost way back 20 years ago. There has been a constant onslought by aestheticians and minimalists on the very definition of Design. Design used to be less creative and more objective. It was about addressing the requirements of a product, how best it can serve the user and empathizing with the operator. Now, it means how best to market to the user, brainwash them with glitter of aesthetics, numb them with animations, and tell them to open up the wallet. Make that sale, functionalism be damned.

So here we are. Witnessing complete destruction of the field of Design by commercial optimization and shareholder maximization syndrome. Thrift baby thrift.
>No, he is asking to not be knowingly lied to.

My problem is the implication what they lied. That's why I posted the "Science is a liar sometimes clip". You can't call someone a liar for giving you bad advice on imperfect information. Was Aristotle lying when he said the sun revolves around the earth or was he just wrong?
Those with money and power have always sought to undermine scientists that uncover inconvenient truths. Example: Gallileo.
I think your analogy is pretty apt. However, even though I don't think you can give corporations a free ride just because 'people could choose not to use the product', this is not an absolute! 'People could choose not to use the product' does hold a lot of truth.
It's also false. California had Domestic Partnership law that, as amended by 2008, afforded domestic partnerships the same rights and responsibilities as marriages under state law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership_in_Califo...

I'm assuming dralley didn't know (is not lying), so my advice is to check incendiary claims and avoid parroting sources you have not checked. HTH!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-26/china-s-c...
I'm completely confused reading the home page. What actual use cases is this for? Like what applications are served by it?
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...
Not so. I was applying a strict definition of justified, where justified means "logically necessary." Others have clarified elsewhere in this conversation that this in't the intent.

As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I already think the truth criterion is redundant, since if you can determine whether your knowledge is true, you don't need to worry about justifying it or believing it.
I personally don’t care. In fact I think we should pay people who don’t want to get the vaccine to engage in monitoring so that we can understand the disease better. I also believe we should pay covid-hoaxers 100k so that we can infect them and then study why the virus is so dangerous for some people and benign for others. I think it’s a win-win for both.
> There's a de facto global tacit agreement to sell oil in US dollars - on pain of unilateral sanctions by the US or military intervention by the US military.

That is 100% how the US has managed to maintain as a "stable" global currency.
Link? Hadn't heard of that.
Nobody would ever sneak in communism under a different name, now would they?
Isn’t water vapor a significant GHG? Wouldn’t daily misting of cities augment the greenhouse effect significantly?
> It is not currently run in a sustainable way. It can be

Can it? That remains to be seen. So in the meantime I would say we are already overpopulated.

To be fair, your statement probably means that we have the resources and technology to run the world in a sustainable way, and I would agree with that. But then we also likely have the resources to end hunger, poverty and war, yet those have never been the world’s priorities.

When will it be a priority for humans to run the world sustainably? Who knows. But right now it’s definitely not sustainable.
Transmission is one of those pieces of software that just works. I've been using it for around a decade, and can't see that changing anytime soon.
Whoops! You are correct!

For some reason, Pascal sat in my mind as an interpreted language. Maybe my whole arguments falls apart then.
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It would be nice to have a better source here, with some credibility. I have no idea who this guy on twitter is; are the basic facts of the story correct? So many things on social media are outright fabrications. How to tell without extensive research?
I strongly agree with your last sentence, but the issue goes beyond operand order: the addressing syntax for AT&T is nigh incomprehensible to me.
Yes, good point and thanks for mentioning it. Something I also did in the past with Sony and other heavily branded/bloated laptops.
Accepting cookies should be a client side action... browsers should quietly accept all the cookies, and once the tab/window is closed, delete them. There should be a separate button near the address bar to keep the cookies between restarts, and users should be prompted when logging in (as they are with "save password?" - 'yes' - 'no' - 'never').
Andrew Lee has nothing to do with Ergo. Daniel used to be his employee (before the freenode takeover), but Ergo wasn't part of the job at all.
For anyone else needing to tackle something like this, its definitely worth checking out Binwalk [1]. It is meant for extracting firmware but it works decently well on most files-in-files type data formats.

[1] https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk
Can you explain this a bit more? How do you install drivers on, say, Arch, that won't work on Ubuntu? Isn't it exactly the same at the kernel level?
If you just extend time dilation beyond zero (I.e. negative time) then speed faster than light is possible. The constraint described in the article will still be maintained. Also, notice that negative time would be the perception of external observer.
I usually tried to lead at most 5-6 people building apps from the 80's until this year when I retired. What you said is basically what I did as well, leading is not dictating, but you do need people who can work with the minimally necessary information and still do what's needed. Keeping people in the dark, insisting on everything be decided by you, giving them no room to thrive, is a guarantee of disaster.
I guess the question I was really asking was is the gradient of a function equivalent to the derivative of the function?

But a quick look at the wiki page for gradient suggests that my calc I/II intuition of derivatives is insufficient here
[a crude speculative outline]

No. Because to a first approximation, it is not possible to make it work all the time in practice.

Results returned are best effort. Best effort is largely limited by latency.

At the scale of the entire web, parts of the index will be absolutely inaccessible due to partitioning and practically inaccessible because they are sitting on disk (or simply don’t exist because they wouldn’t fit into memory) or are so far away that they can’t reliably be returned within the limits of acceptable latency — e.g. on a server in Japan for a London query (and anyway how likely is relevance of Japanese results?).

I mean maybe there are results for the “site” qualifier in memory on the server your query hits and maybe their aren’t. Either way, Google’s going to return results in 250ms if that’s the performance target. Either way Google’s not going to spin for twenty minutes or seconds it would take to crawl the site, process the results, and build the inverted index.

Everything is engineered. The engineering is guided by statistics. But so is performance. Sometimes better information is close by in hot memory. Sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes bandwidth is saturated. Sometimes your cell service is slow.

That’s probably why HN uses Algolia even though it costs money.
> I think we should collectively focus on priorities.

Nobody operates that way though. Too much discussion of public policy seems to be oriented around "if only 'we' could just..." rather than "How can policy align selfish motivations with positive outcomes?"

Example: despite the rhetoric you'll find on Twitter, practically everyone who got the COVID vaccine did so because they didn't want to get seriously ill from COVID themselves, not because they really care that much about people they don't know.

Similarly, "we" will not be adopting more train travel any time soon unless there's a very compelling reason for individuals to do so. Train travel in North America mostly sucks.
it depends on where.

Milan, albeit much smaller, is times worse than Rome.

Paris and London are another example of big offenders, while Barcelona is not.
I found a much better explanation today on hacker news. Linking it here

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/why-cant-i...
Not due to covid. Unfortunately lots of childhood illnesses around, many much more dangerous than covid. This is not controversial. It's just empirical observation.
Aerosol viral loads are (if I heard correctly) 50x smaller than asbestos particles. OSHA doesn't allow cloth masks to be used around asbestos.

If this were a flu that spread primarily as droplets, cloth masks would have their place. As it is, we have known since early on that wasn't the case, and that cloth masks are about as useful as a cloth bonnet would be useful as a motorcycle helmet.
Streaming services are, for the most part, optimized to only send you a portion of the file at a time, send you lower bandwidth versions when the throughput drops below a threshold, or in the case of COVID lockdowns everyone temporarily dropped the max resolution of their services because there was a sudden surge in home media streaming.

When it comes to video torrents, I suspect a lot of people would start at looking for 4k rips (even if their devices didn't support it), or fall back to standard bluray rips. That's a huge amount of bandwidth when most people probably are fine with DVD or upscaled DVD quality.
I don’t necessarily agree with the post you’re responding to, but the intent seems to be to criticize the lack of visual distinctness between elements, not the lack of pseudo-3D-style rendering.
I was pretty disappointed when a games archive torrent site I frequented went down. It had every PS1 game in a nicely organized bundle, and PS2 games. Hundreds of terabytes of archived organized torrents, all gone now.
While we use a big share with 10+ users, I personally didn't get many conflicts during the Nextcloud installation's lifetime. I got a couple of "You changed this in two computers, and I need to sync both" states, and it duplicated the files with appending the hostname or something else useful. At the end, I either merged them myself or thought "meh, this copy is not needed anymore, anyway" and deleted one of them.

If other users got any conflicts, and got anything borked, I'd have known, since I'm the admin of the installation. However I can't guarantee anything. I think it's working reasonably well for other people, too.

It has some mitigation strategies, and has a pretty extensive list of transient files (like Microsoft Word lock files), so everything works pretty straightforward for us.

It's creating far less problems than I expected, though.
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4FA72167BDF2DC436A22F5C0...
> Suppose you grant that justification is probabilistic. What's the extra condition that makes justified belief count as knowledge? Pre-Gettier, one might have been inclined to say that it's that your justified belief is actually right—what you believe is true.

I would say that what makes it count as knowledge is the quality of the justification. If Jones had seen a written job offer to Smith rather than just hearsay that he would get the job, his belief that Smith would get the job would probably count as 'knowledge.'

Requiring that what you believe be actually true to count as knowledge is begging the question, since that requires either already having 'knowledge' that it's true, or having direct access to objective reality that no one has.
There is that and let's not forget that powerful nobles were nobles with estates and/or positions in the state apparatus that directly corresponded to receiving a rent.
I'd argue that OP's theory that the wealthy were always in control still holds but what has changed throughout history is what wealth has been (cattle, land, slaves, merchandise-money like gold, credit backed money you name it)
What I mean is, if a component is supposed to have two children side by side with even spacing, make a test _for that parent component_ such that with arbitrary children, they end up side by side with even spacing. If your children have that logic encoded in them, then you have brittle components (the moment you move that component elsewhere, it will be applying styles for a different layout)
Same, and the outage yesterday gave me the willies. I've accumulated a vast upload in that time, and I'm only waiting to move somewhere without ISPs with packet limits to flesh out the disk shelves and get the better part of it archived.
Nice teaser. Where's the software?!
PipeWire is a fantastic bit of software and it's great on the desktop. I would play around with it in the studio but it lacks a netjack2 equivalent. zita-n2j is not a replacement since it requires the client to have audio hardware.

I'll stick with Jack2 + Netjack2 in the studio until that gets sorted.
That's nice! When it happens with me, it's like a torrent with 1 large file + the unnecessary files (txt, nfo from the upload group), and the missing .1% is on the file I want :/

But then, occasionally 1 or 2 gets completed, and then I'm happy
client side implies javascript, browser side is probably what you meant
The last two times you had flu with severity great enough to alert you that you had flu.
Using a truck in the garage in '93 didn't work. So they went back to the drawing board.

We all know what happened when the Rebel Alliance got the plans to the Death Star.
Mind you, leaded gasoline was (AFAIK) approved everywhere else too, so this isn't just a story about US attitudes, specifically.
The term came from https://www.thecoddling.com/ but here I refer to a specific aspect:

Suppose your reaction to discomfort is to retreat or isolate yourself from it. Having done so you will find that your calibration of comfort has changed and things you previously found at the fringe but normal now became clearly uncomfortable. If you repeat this process several times you will find that the field of acceptable things to do has narrowed itself to a single fine line of propriety that is surrounded by a vast field horrors and misdemeanors. Worse yet, the narrower the range of acceptable things, the more anxious you will be and the harder you will lash out at those recently (but no longer) normal things.

For a tame example, I have a number of friends who as they got richer retreated into more and more comfortable suburbs. Perfectly reasonable right? Well, they are now afraid to visit downtown because crime, dirt, and homeless. Not at all reasonable anymore.

I'm sure you can come up with more examples. In fact now that I told you, you can't escape seeing them.
I think the overlap of those who can afford a Jaguar and those who can afford an electric car is pretty great.

But I also think the overlap of those who can afford a Jaguar and absolutely don't give a shit about the poor, or the environment or anything else is also great.

And the latter is the problem.
So? It's for their own good. Don't you care about what is best for the undesirables?
Two years unevenly distributed and with decreasing quality of life long before your time is up.
Haha. It's funny because it really actually does "just work". (Sure you can't run the latest MacOS, but that would be moving the goalposts).
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Maybe she had nothing to hide :]
No thank you. I won’t go near they stuff. Even the smoke from someone else causes a severe reaction.

I do have an actual diagnosis and doctor for ADHD
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Thank you for saying, succinctly and clearly, what I've always figured was the case.

However.

If the majority of traffic came p2p, then the asymmetry of upload/download bandwidth on shared media like cable modems would start to be a significant issue, wouldn't it? Only on the local segment, but on _every_ such segment.

In that case, the seedbox-as-CDN-node route would be a no-brainer for ISPs to install.

Are we reinventing the topology of Usenet?
For me, browser is a web client, but yeah, browser :)
No need for that, we're doing fine. Most of the country is already on it's way back to normality. The most populous city is still locked down but it's better to be locked down for 2 months than to have the hospitals clogged with Covid patients and have everyone you know getting sick. Looking forward to enjoying another long stretch without restrictions after this!
Teens are relevant here mostly as a test of the system’s ability to exclude. A system excluding people sounds a little mean, but it is important if you want to have a transit system that is actually fit for transit.

When there’s a homeless man shooting up with some drugs on the narrow platform at Bleecker St while a crowd of people try to get off the train and get out of there without tripping or provoking a confrontation, and that’s “normal” for the city subway, the people may decide the system is no longer fit for transit. Fortunately that’s still “slightly extraordinary” for NYC and not quite “normal” (I only saw him once) but it’s all very unfortunate.
It seems highly likely (given that this is a dictionary and requires fast lookups) that you're reverse engineering something like CEVFS (i.e. a virtual file system for compressing a database). Which is why the dictionary is broken into chunks... these are the compressed pages of the database.
Just a thought, but maybe a social safety net would be more effective in preventing the homeless from getting into the kind of state where they do that? Rather than more security. Just thinking laterally about the problem here..
I’m also ”from Europe”, and I’ve seen leaf blowers used by both private individuals and local government for the last 15 years at least. Did I see it to the extent that it was ”_vastly_ worse than cars” in terms of pollution? No, not even close. But it’s been there.
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You'd be amazed, it gets a new retranslation/adaptation all the time. They don't give them away in a bookshop.
Inspircd is what I've been hacking on lately and I have been pretty satisfied thus far. Easy to extend codebase in c++.
Yes, PulseAudio and JACK do this as well -- there is a DBus API that makes them give up an ALSA device to an application that wants direct access. http://git.0pointer.net/reserve.git/tree/reserve.txt
I am glad it works on your machine.

Happens to me not infrequently in the long tail.