skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, they'll have to take note from their nuclear colleagues' playbook? About passive safety.
Unrelated, but do the English say “false” where the Americans say “fake”? To me (American), false has a different connotation than fake.
Amazing essay, thanks for making me discover it. This passage here is one of the many gems:

> Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think. Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.
I think AussieWog just made more of this post than stavros did.
This is unfortunately what happens when politics and profits are more important than science itself.
An interesting thing the article somehow doesn't mention is that the Roman alphabet in which I'm more or less typing this (IN VVHICH I'M MORE OR LESS TYPING THIS) descends from the very scarce Etruscan letters, which descend from Greek. This is why the Roman alphabet revives letters like digamma and qoppa that had been obsolete in Greek for centuries.
> I think this is reading far too much into nothing.

Could be. I could have left that somewhat tenuous side note out, my argument doesn't rest on it.
Having long, thin triangles or big differences in triangle area will often create problems when vertex properties are interpolated across the face.

That can definitely be a problem in general, but is it likely to crop up in this case?

Those long triangles are flat so the normal is constant. Neither 2D nor 3D texture coordinates will have too much distortion.

And if it was a problem, you could fix it by scaling back the optimization, no?

If you have a library of generic mesh manipulation functions lying around, the programmatic way and the artists' way would likely be the same. Creating those generic functions is a lot of work but it pays off fairly quickly.

Yes, you’re right about that. I think this is still interesting and useful from the perspective of understanding how to build a basic mesh programmatically. And sometimes it’s easier to crank something out in a brute-force way like this than to figure out how to combine your general-purpose tools in just the right way.
Yes MS Teams is a great example.

It started as a Slack knock-off. Not a great one, the UI is too low density and the multi tenant support sucks unlike Slack's. But it was relatively snappy. And free for O365 users. But lately they've been adding many apps, Wikis, all these fancy meeting modes that make it seem like everyone is in a theatre and many more fluffy things.

Now the app is so slow it takes more than a minute to start up. It often crashes with stupid error messages "Oops! Something went wrong!" that give zero indication of what actually happened.

At the same time MS is heavily pushing companies to adopt it but they're devaluing the product as they go by making it some kind of Swiss army knife with all the trimmings.

They're now realising the performance issue and moving away from Electron towards Edge webview but I think what it really needs is a proper architectural review. They've been too focused on beating the market adding new features and its core functions have suffered.
The discussion here, so far as I've followed it (only beginning) is focusing on what is called 'first-order Cybernetics' about the role of feedback and information in systems that steer some variable toward a goal (think: pilot of a ship; thermostat). 'Second-order Cybernetics' (see von Foerster, Glanville) does ask, 'who is steering' and brings in both subjectivity and responsibility in an instance.
People keep saying this. But the app is actually one of the best I've encountered in terms of permissions -- it asks you for pretty much nothing up front, so if you use the app to only watch fun stuff and aren't too invested in it, then you can get by without granting the app any permissions at all!
Developers doesn't hate meetings, like lets say they had a meeting where they discuss the latest frameworks or technologies, they'd love it! The thing people don't like about meetings is the power dynamics, you can't speak freely with your manager in the room. Also if you have deadlines and people will get angry if you don't do the work and the meeting is wasting your time then you will feel frustrated since you know you will get shit for this that wasn't your fault.

But what happens once developers gets the power? Just look at architects, scheduling meetings where he talks about the latest tech blogs he read. Or managers, scheduling meetings where they talk about the latest linkedin blog he read. Or even CEO who schedules a company all-hands where he talks about the latest team-building blog he read on HBR. In those cases meetings aren't work, it is you forcing people you have power over to listen to your hobbies and thoughts. Of course the participants wont like it.
Imgur was a wonderful idea, but I think they forgot to have a business plan. Imgur is absolutely terrible these days.

The Imgur community is almost completely toxic. Imgur apparently care about my privacy, but still want to share information with 1200 different "partners". It's also the most effective way of draining the battery of any device you use. Even the new M1 MacBooks will burn through battery like there's no tomorrow if you load the Imgur website in Safari, or worse any other browser.

It's not a great site and haven't been for years.
Imgur was to Reddit as PayPal was to eBay.
We have been down this road before in 2000, so we know it leads to the total opposite of "make development simpler".

When IE6 became the engine mono culture, it was the best.

But then it stopped innovating, because it didn't need to. It also pushed moves that were only for the good of Micorosoft, since they had monopoly, trying to make the web a less open place.

It was a pain to develop for, a pain to debug, and a capricious master.

Google has shown they can be very naughty as soon as they got power over something.

Learn from history. Do not give them that power.
Incapable of synthesising ideas. Decision by exhaustion.
I stopped using Twitter a few years ago. Haven't regretted it. I see nothing useful or good there.

And it's amazing how it just doesn't matter if you don't pay any attention to it.
I think there is a commonality with the UK Police that might not be there in France and Spain that have a different MO with investigations and have an invetigating judge.

Michael Mansfield QC, a barrister wrote about this ages ago with the Birmingham 6, a famous miscarriage of justice that amounted to a beaten confession and prison time for innocent people. In the book he describes the problem that the police see themselves as the only frontline for law-and-order. They are under immense pressure for results from various political forces so they are given leaway to "break a few rules" and get the job done, after all, "We know he did it!"

In France, my limited understanding, is that the police do not generally investigate but the investigation comes under a judge. They will use the police to gather evidence and interview people but the pressure for a result is on the judge and not the police. The judge should ensure that laws are followed because they are part of the judiciary. If the police are then told to use some tech or not, it has already been approved by a judge, otherwise they won't risk it themselves because why should they?
Sorry, service provider satisfaction not guaranteed! Also, the customer may have had a great journey with the website.
> The web pages are easier to control... i.e. Firefox on Android and ad-blocking is a joy.

Sadly, adblocking and web in general is restricted in apple devices.
For what it’s worth, the thing I find really exciting about Spaces is that they provide a way to create a decentralised global hierarchical directory structure for realtime data. It’s like a free-for-all global USENET hierarchy that anyone can curate or contribute to, complete with decentralised ACLs. Or like DMOZ but for chatrooms. We haven’t published a “root” space as Matrix.org yet (as the “subspace” hierarchy feature is still in beta), but I cannot wait to kill off the public room directory for Matrix.org (which is a total tirefire atm) and replace it with decentralised hierarchies of rooms that the community can moderate and curate like any other content.

Add in voice/video rooms, async comms (messageboards, forums, mailing lists, newsgroups), decentralised metaverse worlds like thirdroom (https://youtu.be/e26UJRCGfGk?t=2263) and then you end up with a skeleton for a whole open universe of interoperable communication.

Next up: decentralised search for discovery as well as decentralised hierarchies…
>Not sure really any significant group of historians push this.

No, just the accurate ones. The state sanctioned historiography pretends it's not a thing.

>Japan invading China is basically universally condemned, they signed the Tripartite pact with Nazi Germany, and you think it's the US' fault they decided to stop airplanes and oil to that regime?

Yeah, the kind US that warred in the Philipines, and toppled/established/promoted regimes all around the world for the whole 20th century (and the 21st) got so upset at Japan invading China...

The same Japan they earlier attacked as a sovereign state and forced-open to their trade and terms, just because they could... (Who invaded whom first here?)
Not the emperors, the kings. Before the Republic, not after it.
It’s a good improvement over the old situation for day-to-day usage, though.
Classic whatabout-ism. A single, private British firm did something terrible, so the Chinese government can do whatever it wants now?
~60 accounts. TBH, another weak sauce, script kiddie tier effort comparable to other exposed PRC social media networks from the past couple years. Getting pretty incredulous that western researchers have only managed to uncover these these low-effort campaigns far below the competency of a state actor with PRC resources. Either PRC is still that incompetent at manipulating western platforms, or competent enough that larger networks have not been identified. There's also tinfoil conclusion that these are cheap western intelligence falseflag ops designed to normalize idea that PRC has pervasive coordinated activity to headline readers, i.e. people who thinks 50c operates abroad, even on sites like HN itself when it's against 50c MO to waste effort on anything but platitudes. It's hard to say which is worse, but it doesn't seem likely PRC influence ops on western platforms is restricted to such small scale efforts, if not now, then certainly not in the future.
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I do mind.
Thanks! I will try hydrogen!
... or just really nothing good happening on the religion side of China.
https://archive.is/y4mFw
It's cats and dogs living together!
Should've used metal flanges instead of plastic heh
> There were further contributory factors with the Megapack in question being switched into an off-line service mode, resulting in the protection systems being inactive.

A short in an offline device? That seems weird.

> A 24-hour delay in connecting the batteries to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system also meant there was no active monitoring of the Megapack alarms.

So a new pack was installed and connected but not monitored? What is the rationale behind that? Failures shouldn’t happen to new devices?
> A part of me feels like it's a lost treasure that's now been overrun by the same people who make living in Paris so exasperating.

In the words of Roy from The IT Crowd:

> People, what a bunch of bastards.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHLkTHuPJs&t=52s

:)
> Is it really the 'historical and technocratic notion' which influenced it, or just the raw fact that it is the hub of the country, the place from or to which most people want to travel?

The former, concentrating state power in Paris, and limiting (or even outright suppressing) the importance and influence of the rest of the country (especially the southern half) has been a constant theme since the Bourbons: they underwent the project of moving france from a decentralised feudal state to a centralised absolute monarchy.

This theme of centralisation of power remained a constant until very late in the 20th century e.g. regional languages remained pretty actively suppressed until the 50s (Loi Deixonne which allowed some of them to be taught at all). Even then that allowance remained limited until the 80s at the earliest.

To this day, france has signed but not ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

> I see no reason why the TGV builders need to have been musing on history.

Because even if they had considered the idea (which they probably had not) it would have been shot down as completely useless by pollies.
Why should it be cold? This is necessary for data centers but for factories probably it’s much better to have your own solar powered energy
There's a distinction for us too, but I think it's well applied here. They're falsely presenting themselves as British citizens, (if that doesn't make sense to you, perhaps think 'falsifying a document'?) but they are 'real' (as opposed to fake) accounts, that are really pro-China/CCP.

Note the article does also brand it a 'fake band of PRC groupies' (which per above I would consider wrong - they are a band of 'PRC groupies' - but if 'fake's what you want, it's used too).
Just thinking the same thing although I suspect a lot of people don't even know what it means anyway like they don't understand logical fallacies enough to learn how to evaluate any advice/information.

Not that I do very well but I really wish I had been taught these high-level skills at school!
You ever hear of false teeth? That's the false they're using.
As admin and programmer:
I didnt understand what spaces are trying to do when it was presented to me.
> Like the 300+ lives aboard a train are worth nothing

This is a really strange take - security on airplanes was introduced due to hijackings, in which case the airplane can be used as a very lethal weapon to attack most anything, really. You are much more limited in what damage you can cause by hijacking a train, since trains are limited by where the tracks go. Worst you can do is probably derail the train by going to fast in a curve and potentially hurt people living near the curve, or worse, slam into a station and cause damage in and around it. Still, a fraction of what a hijacked airplane can do in terms of damage.
Oh no, I lost money on this by accident :(
That is some reviewer 3 tier criticism. That is not what they are investigating, and they are not doing a review of twitter disinformation campaigns.
Happen to have just finished a biography of John Buchan (author of "The Thirty-nine Steps" among many others, as well as being Governor General of Canada 1935-40).
In the first world war he was high up in the Propaganda Bureau - which was considered quite successful, including by the Germans. He also wrote some of his fiction with a view to influencing public opinion.
Thanks for sharing your experience with ML.

We're experienced with managing a big scale elastic cluster, but never managed the ML jobs, so knowing about this limitation is definitely useful!
True.

On my iOS devices I used the NextDNS app to provide DNS blocking via a VPN layer.
It's everywhere. And especially on the dumbest shit like Imgur or some subreddits. Just literally "Fuck China" trains. And clearly, they are the free, independent, smart, non-sheep people eh
An extract from the summary page suggests a few things went wrong, but it seems like the fire was caused by liquid and electricity mixing:

> ESV found a Megapack cooling system leak caused a short circuit resulting in overheating that led to a fire in a nearby battery compartment, which consequently damaged two Megapacks.

> There were further contributory factors with the Megapack in question being switched into an off-line service mode, resulting in the protection systems being inactive.

> A 24-hour delay in connecting the batteries to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system also meant there was no active monitoring of the Megapack alarms.
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Whataboutism?

Why is it odd that an academic paper wouldn't mention it? Is every academic paper required to replay the entire history of the universe from the big bang onwards?
While the immediate risks are obvious and well-documented, I'm curious to know whether there are any long-term risks associated with lengthy breath-holding such as that undertaken by free divers, even when it doesn't result in a black out.

My gut feeling says yes, but I have absolutely no evidence to back up that and it's pure speculation. Something worthy of further study, perhaps, although it would only affect a minority of the population.

An impressive feat but one I wouldn't personally be undertaking.
I think the upcoming Quest Pro could very well take the VR office from an extreme thing that just a few people are doing to something much more comfortable for most people.

Here are the leaked specs from investigations of a recent firmware: https://uploadvr.com/quest-pro-specs-controllers-leak/

If we get improved lenses, fine-ipd and distance control for a really clear picture, plus eye and face tracking for expressive avatars, color HD passthrough so I can see my hands and keyboard, and a lighter, smaller headset, that would go a long way to addressing my issues with working in VR.

I'm personally quite interested since I travel a lot and it would be amazing to have a multi sit-stand setup in a ski goggle case. I have already been having good results using the Quest 2 as a portable gym, so portable office would be icing on the cake. If these specs are real, I'll be a day-1 customer.

One other thing that I had issues with that hope to see addressed: with both immersed and the Horizon Workrooms, the mouse latency was a killer when using their desktop client. Not sure what the deal was but was using a recent MacBook pro.
It's a violation of the conservation of momentum; it's extremely unlikely to be real.
I don't see why you would buy a reMarkable for that. There are e-readers that can do that that are both much cheaper and more fully featured.
Isn't everything picked up by your eyes emitted light?
I'm using audible, and I use a software to backup all books I paid for in a non DRM format. A spotify reaper would make tons of sense.
France in 2015:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Thalys_train_attack

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_15:17_to_Paris

Spain in 2004:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings
You are dramatizing. Bitfinex is a bit shady but not Cocaine-dealers kind of criminal. Add that to the fact that many miners are anonymous or are actually pools run by actual companies. Best they can hope for is a legal proceeding.
Where (and please be specific) did I say that Chinese can do what they want?

The worst I possible alluded to was that once you show how effective an evil social media campaign can be, the laws of unintended consequences mean others can - sadly - use the same techniques.

Please for the love of god, try go a week without using the w-word.
> and the ones that do are certainly not worth paying for because they don't even block YT ads

AdGuard can[1] but it’s a cumbersome process.

1Blocker had to develop a bespoke solution but it works seamlessly[2].

[1]: https://adguard.com/en/article/how-to-block-ads-on-youtube.h...

[2]: https://backstage.1blocker.com/how-to-block-youtube-ads-in-s...
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When I started a PhD, everybody warned me that it would be very hard to get a permanent position. Turned out it wasn't (at least in my field and in my country). Also, contrary to what other comments say, my PhD wasn't particularly stressful (probably less than all other jobs I had in my life). Overall, it was very interesting. I traveled the world, met interesting people, learned about science, research, academia.

There were other issues though:

1. being a professor is quite different from being a PhD student

2. research is a global competition, and most likely, you won't be a superstar but an average researcher surrounded by big egos. Just like a skinny guy in a room full of people who value the size of their muscles above all.

3. The pay sucks, esp. if you can earn many times more somewhere else. I didn't care when I was 20. But as I grew older, I started to get more concerned.

4. A lot of cool stuff happens in companies, and the smart people are there too (maybe even more so)
Retros are great iff there is team empowered to actually meaningfully change stuff. I've been in places where everyone agrees that something sucks but there is no actual way to change it. Then retros turn into an impotent bitching session... no thanks.
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Beware of survivorship bias everywhere. E.g. look at performance tables for retail fund managers. Do these tables tell you which managers have performed best? No. Because these trackers and tables only track active funds. Each company runs a basket of funds, and if one performs badly, it is quietly closed. And now that firms performance apears better than it really is. This is standard practice in retail finance. The only way arround it is to keep track of defunct funds and factor in their performance yourself, but it is hardly worth the effort for most individuals.
Ask HN: What are some of the most interesting articles that you've read?
I'm looking to start reading more blogs and articles (in addition to books), but I don't have a lot of interesting stuff on my reading list, and I was hoping you guys could help me to discover more things to read.

I'm familiar with some rationalist blogs and some startups/tech blogs (HN, IndieHackers, LessWrong, SSC, etc). I'm interested in insightful stuff on these topics, but also in discovering more things I'm not familiar with that are outside of my "bubble".

Ideally something not too technical, accessible to the layman.

Any recommendations?
Can confirm, using a non-root user also solves the issue (which I should have been doing anyway). It guess Cloud Run assumes $HOME is set to /home/something and since root uses /root it gets confused?
In this post you refer to smaller cities. In another post you refer to largest cities? I am assuming you are not trolling, but it is really confusing.
As someone who works with a single screen, I don’t get it.

I spend most of my time in the terminal, occasionally switching to a browser. The fact that I see a single window at a time is a “feature” to me.

Then again, if there was no difference in comfort, size, weight, etc, I’d happily increase the size of my screen, if only to increase the font size. I guess I’ll be a late adopter.
But then, they should have basic "high mining" fees checks. My Trezor does have that.
I take issue with almost everything you said. Sorry my reply is too brief. It's "no different to"..what?! I don't agree that whether something looks "horrible" is completely subjective. I've never tried to customize things for customization's sake, if you're implying I do? Not sure. I used userChrome.css once I think, and as I didn't know about its existence beforehand, it took me hours to fix FF.
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Again, you cannot be the market leader by following others.
Yes, let's confine any discussion, academic or otherwise, to exactly what a paper/submitter/party wants to discuss. Never mention any parallels that could broaden one's horizon.

This is how "discussions" in the Soviet Union looked like.
> Shorter connection times to the SCADA system to help alert Tesla with specific alarms.

Interesting that even after installation Tesla are still involved in operationally managing the megapacks.