skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably more and more like what this The Verge report finds on how students don't really know what files and folders are:

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...

As things get more and more offloaded to the cloud, local computing is something only developers, engineers, and geeks will properly understand.
Am I the only one more thoroughly confused by Amazon's double search bars on the orders page? Specifically mobile web, I think.

When you click orders, you essentially have three inputs - URL bar, Amazon search, and Amazon search orders. More than 50% of the time I go to search something in my orders, I end up typing it in the Amazon search bar and kicking off a new search. So, count me as a statistic of someone dumb enough to be confused by text inputs.
Having to write a couple of paragraphs is not bad per se, just not sufficiently interesting on its own. some current referral systems already request reference letters and reward successful referrals.

It might be fun to try out a system with a limited number of referrals one can submit that rewards consistent good recommendations.
Briefly (like, minutes to hours) and for very specific structural reasons. Negative oil prices were never an accurate reflection of the actual supply/demand equilibria for oil.
You're looking for TeamCity, https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/.
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Multiple trends combining to reach a tipping point, mainly decreased appetite for capital investment by the west, inflation expectations becoming increasingly embedded and pandemic destabilization constraining supply/strengthening opec.

It's hard to see the era of cheap oil making a sudden comeback in this environment so this speculation doesn't seem unreasonable, though may be a tad overeager since winter is coming.
Despite obstacles, the UK pushes ahead to sequence every newborn's DNA
Indeed. The guy not understanding EITHER what an engineering firm actually is nor what a business is.
They must be, because you're a white liberal living in rural Japan and you know everything about the country. Those major cleanup efforts in small village like Bizen and Miyoshi are definitely just to impress the tourists. Crazy to learn that Nagoya is actually a tourism city, too. You're definitely not a jackass.
The scientific method really isn't perfect, unfortunately. It's a collection of heuristics, traditions and methods that's been assembled over time and which is still being assembled. That's why there's such tremendous uncertainty about what the scientific method precisely consists of and requires, and why nobody anywhere in the scientific system is responsible for ensuring scientists actually use the scientific method.

Here are just a few questions that expose the imperfection of the scientific method:

1. Does it require you to do experiments?

2. What P value threshold does the scientific method require?

3. What can it be applied to? Just the natural world? People? Economies? Artificial machines? Is AI research using the scientific method, or is it just engineering?

4. How should uncertainty be treated? Does the scientific method require the use of subjective or objective Bayesian theory, or does it not matter at all?

5. If you build a statistical model, are you allowed to use assumptions? If yes, how many and of what type? If there are no restrictions on it, what stops astrology being scientific?

6. Does the scientific method require pre-registration of studies? If it does, then does it mean every study before this became a common approach were unscientific? If not, then why are scientists encouraged to do it?

Etc.
It's under attack because tyrants masquerading as bureacrats and politicians want to know everything about everyone so they can control everyone. Facebook has a lot of this data and uses it for advertising products and services and adding new features, and sometimes their algorithms can get out of hand the same way cliques on Reddit or Twitter get out of hand when people get brainwashed by doom-scrolling and clickbait.

It's about power and control. These politicians don't actually care about people beyond that, or even about what Facebook is really up to. It's a smear campaign to destroy a legitimate platform that unites people and connects people, because that is contra to what the powers that be want. They don't want that unity. They want fragmentation and isolation in society so everything can decline while they rise in power.
People are data mining OTA firmware updates for upcoming features on Tesla cars
BMW is a particularly heavy sedan. The Honda Civic is 2877 to 3126. Even the Golf R which has a rear diff, DCT, and a 2.0 turbo is only 3100 pounds.
Yeah, it's significant enough that my astro mount has a "King tracking rate" to account for this effect. Named for Edward King.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Skinner_King
So does a vehicle yet taking a private plane to the shop might be excessive.
Which still doesn't explain why other airlines operating at these ports didn't experience this kind of large scale disruptions and why no weather maps were shown (as far as I know) to back up these claims.
This will change with improved batteries, charging infrastructure, and shrinking EV tech. By the time this could hit the market, hopefully the weight difference would be less stark.
I've said several times I agree with your discomfort with the idea, so please chill out a bit :)

Also, I didn't say google wants to kill the URL bar. I said google wants to kill the URL. So you wouldn't type in "example.com", you would do something else to get to whatever content you wanted from what used to be called "example.com".

I don't know what the replacement for URLs will be, and it seems neither does Google (yet), but I'm at least open to the idea that there may be a better idea.

Some further reading:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/google-wants-to-get-...

https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
Father in law just put my ex on a housing waiting list. As a homeless vet, her wait is at least 5 years.
What the Supply Chain Crisis Reveals About American Infrastructure
They are also afraid of breaking things, which isn't entirely unreasonable.

I think we've all had relatives do something and then be unable to "get it back". Task bars deleted, icons deleted, etc.

So they don't try to venture too far out because past experiences make everything seem fragile.
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often people with older vehicles pride themselves on continuing to use old vehicles as daily drivers but then also keep a 'stable' of backup vehicles because they are each so unreliable. I fell into this trap for a long time myself, until I realized one reliable vehicle is better than 3 or 4 unreliable ones, even if it's more expensive for one than the other 4 put together.
Neatly avoids peak UV hours, certainly.
you might not have installed anything from it but win10 comes with a bunch of store stuff bundled and store stuff auto-update (eventually).

So you might even already have this.

in fact.. even if you don't use store for anything else i advise you to open it and make sure everything is updated (no login or accounts needed). There are some windows components with critical bugs that are updated trough the store like HEIF codecs.
When things are consistent, less mental effort goes into remembering arbitrary differences.
I painstakingly developed a personal script for how to teach people how to split a screen between two chrome tabs.

This is amazingly and surprisingly difficult thing to explain over the phone to “normal” (born before computers were prevalent) people.

Basically I got it divided in two groups: those who have used internet for the first time after 18 years old (hardest group. Have to explain in terms of geometrical figures, like lines and rectangles on top of the screen, where in this rectangle is a good place to click and how to drag, and what a successful drag looks like), and the others (those I can explain how to “drag a tab”, because they already know what a tab is).

The address bar is more easy, I refer to it as the place where you type the site where you want to go (but very often people never type addresses, they open google and start from there, always).

This got me into thinking about getting old, more than once. How can I prevent this to myself (being totally confused and out of touch with current technology when I get older).
> at the same time I find anecdotes like this comment elsewhere in this thread[1] compelling

I don't. As I replied to that post directly, the URL bar is not like the choke lever on a car, but more like the steering wheel or navigation input. It's the UI element that is used to communicate user's goals to the machine - not some incidental control of a subsystem that gets automated away.
Some systems don't provide any other option, or make it very difficult to replace the default. I use a grading scheme closer to what the authors propose (although I was using my own system years before Grading for Equity was written) and it's a constant struggle to make Canvas do what I want. I basically have to do all my grading in a spreadsheet offline, and then just upload it into the Canvas gradebook. (Even then it will average things that should not be averaged, and show students a "percentage grade" that has nothing to do with their actual performance, or final grade.)
> the creators are already miles away on their next grift

That's just a conspiracy theory
Understanding Dask Architecture: The Client, Scheduler and Workers
well... There is some truth to that, honestly.

If I sell guns to someone living in the middle of Alaska, those guns help keep them safe from bear attacks, and hunt to find food. If I sell guns to bank robbers in NYC, those guns are used to hurt people.

Similarly, Facebook helps people from across the world keep in touch with each other. It also helps people say very mean things to a wide audience.

Nudging your users to use the tool you created only for good is not easy.
Thanks! Learned something again. (Still rather weird.)
Is there an alternative source for non-snap Firefox?
snapd is the first thing I nuke on fresh installs. I would like to stay with Ubuntu, if possible.
Student developer resources you won’t find in the classroom
The NYT just overstated the amount of COVID infected by 800,000.

800,000! How many people only saw the original article and not the "correction". This happens ALL the time.

An even better perspective from someone who is NOT a conservative: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/10/11/continuing-biza...

If you aren't looking at the traditional news with a skeptical eye, you are getting an extremely filtered and heavily slanted view of the world.

This whole mythos of journalism being unbiased is a recent fabrication. Look how many newspapers across the country had "Republic" or "Democrat" in their mast head. Bias was expected - and proudly advertised. Far more refreshing than the games currently being played by the "traditional news" organizations today.
I wonder if that 13% of units might actually account for 75% of mobile computing power. Apple’s budget iPhone SE has over 41% higher single core performance than Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S21. And the vast majority of Android sales worldwide are not flagship devices.
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This is increasingly untrue, as we diversify our energy sources.

There's also at least three other things that are very different from the 1970s when inflation did seem to be caused by an oil shortage: 1) we have made massive gains in efficiency in the oil that we do use, and 2) we are unlikely to institute price controls, like Nixon did in the 1970s, and 3) we have a massive amount of fracking capacity that will come online if prices stay as high as they are now.
When I make a mortgage payment at usbank, I am redirected through two additional third party domains that have no obvious connection to either usbank or banking in general.

They are training their users to get phished.
THat's my experience; they specifically ask you to call the number on the back of your physical card.
I can only comment on OpenBSD. It’s a minimal unix system. I like the minimalism. OpenBSD is mainly a router/server/firewall system but you can use OpenBSD on a desktop. If your hardware is supported everything works out of the box. Firefox/Chromium have pledge/unveil security which prevent them from accessing your file system. Something like apparmor but works put of the box. However it’s not designed as a desktop system (installing a browser introduces many security risks). They have some additional security features like encrypted swap and others. In terms of security, the OpenBSD kernel is a lot smaller than the linux kernel. Can’t have holes in code that doesn’t exist. All together it’s just a minimal small unix system.

If you want to use it on the desktop, you can use it for basic surfing or 90s video games. I’m using it for fun mainly. There is no jails / docker / virtualbox so I don’t use it for coding.

OpenBSD isn’t really a desktop OS, desktop users typically use FreeBSD because there are many more packages. FreeBSD is a completely different OS.
I can imagine a system where students are graded relative to the median performance on each exam and assignment, and if what the article is saying is true, we can expect this median to rise on its own as the semester progresses. Naturally, this would place more weight on later performance and less weight on earlier performance.

Alternatively, one could keep their existing grading system and simply use some sort of quadratic weighting scheme which continuously increases the effect of an exam or assignment on a student's final grade as the end of the semester approaches. This would be a lot easier to write down on a syllabus but might disincentivize effort spent earlier in the class.
For those unable to view the article because the site is "analysing" / fingerprinting your browser to determine if you are a human, and not a bot - https://web.archive.org/web/20211014062026/https://sparktoro...
Often parts stored like AutoZone, O'Reilly's etc accept waste oil.
I'm afraid not, it's all internal and not open-source. :(
Fund: Funding Dropouts, Renegades and Deep Tech
You're not in the percentage of users that has a problem with it (that I'd put in the high 70s or 80s).
When will supply chains be back to normal? And how did things get so bad?
Over 80 people killed during the summer of love but January 6th was an "insurrection"?

You mock yourself if you are sincerely defending this crap.
Honestly this doesn't happen if you have a good corporate culture to begin with (which Google has not had for quite a while).

I always go back to my experience at HP when Bill and Dave were still alive: the leadership decision to trust employees was pretty much reciprocated so openness worked just fine.

So lack of leadership skill (especially an inability to "lead by example") is usually what causes this type of situation.
The commenter you replied to above is half true. Accredited just means you can invest in securities not registered with the SEC, like your friend's bakery. Some funds are registered with the SEC, some are not. Some funds only accept accredited investors, some do not.

Anyone can sell stock to non-accredited investors... it's just that it costs much more to do so, so most don't. Instead, they go to the already rich upper-class and make them richer when the investments pan out.

One aspect that goes completely unmentioned in all this is the racial aspect. Many people want equality today, but the fact is that for many minorities, they are dependent on an upper class that is mostly white to raise their money. Instead of being able to issue stock directly to members of their own community (and people they likely have closer relationships with), they have to make a case to people they've never met and are not daddy's best friend. If we really want equality, it's time to end these restrictions.
The magic of the pneumatic (air-filled) tire is that the entire air-filled space of the tire acts to absorb shock and vibration from the road surface.

Airless tires give up this advantage, and only the tire structure between the wheel and contact patch are available to do the same work.

The result is always a heavier tire that is a harsher ride. All the materials science in the world can't and won't find a solution to this. You can safely ignore any airless system for all but the most specialized applications.
Definitely a bad idea. The loud-and-outraged Twitter personality is likely not their target market.

Going back into stealth and working heads down is the right play while they test out their idea more.
Diet and nutrition are complicated and there's little universal consensus. I think there's broad support now for the idea that dietary cholesterol does not become blood cholesterol, though. Back in the 70s/80s, the USDA heavily pushed low-fat/high-carb diets. It's a direct, significant cause--along with other contributing lifestyle and food processing factors--of the obesity epidemic that really took off then. It still influences dietary decisions today.

I'm not a nutritionist, and there's still disagreement among professionals, but I think the ship has sailed on that thinking. It's clear that a high-carb, low-fat diet is bad for you, leads to higher blood cholesterol, leads to obesity and diabetes and a host of other problems.

As far as butter vs. margarine, their calories and fat content are comparable. Beyond that, the impact on health comes down to whether "trans fats" in margarine are worse for you than the fats in butter. Again, no one can agree, and the scientific evidence leads to different conclusions.

Like everything related to diet and nutrition, most people are talking out their ass, or are at best uninformed. Especially me.
Because the job market already sucks and they’re actively making it worse with each job they post. We already lose out in jobs we’re qualified for for completely arbitrary reasons. Now we get to add “didn’t have rich coworkers” to that list. If this catches on, now I have to start worrying about only making connections with rich people because they’re the ones that can get me a job. It just makes the world an objectively worse place by existing
It looks like the FDA puts safety limits on what percentage of each blocking chemical can be put in sunscreen but allows mixing the maximum allowed of each (I presume to achieve higher SPF?). This study might be looking into this.

> (a) Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) up to 15 percent.
(b) Avobenzone up to 3 percent.
(c) Cinoxate up to 3 percent.
(d) Dioxybenzone up to 3 percent.
(e) Ensulizole8 up to 4 percent.
(f) Homosalate up to 15 percent.
(g) Meradimate9 up to 5 percent.
(h) Octinoxate10 up to 7.5 percent.
(i) Octisalate11 up to 5 percent.
(j) Octocrylene up to 10 percent.
(k) Oxybenzone up to 6 percent.
(l) Padimate O up to 8 percent.
(m) Sulisobenzone up to 10 percent.
(n) Titanium dioxide up to 25 percent.
(o) Trolamine salicylate up to 12 percent.
(p) Zinc oxide up to 25 percent.

> "(1) Two or more sunscreen active ingredients identified in §§ M020.10(a), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) through (p) may be combined with each other in a single product when used in the concentrations established for each ingredient in § M020.10. The concentration of each active ingredient must be sufficient to contribute a minimum SPF of not less than 2 to the finished product. The finished product must have a minimum SPF of not less than the number of sunscreen active ingredients used in the combination multiplied by 2." [1]

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/omuf/index.cfm?e...
How so? Almost no energy production in the west uses crude. It's nearly all natural gas, coal, nuke, or hydro. You might make the argument that rising fuel prices raise the price of everything else, but you can make that argument about literally everything, renewables included.
I think this is a bit limiting. FreeBSD's networking performance can be significantly higher than OpenBSD's (although IMO OpenBSD's pf has nicer syntax), so it's a great firewall choice.

Similarly, on desktop, OpenBSD can be pretty nice if you're a developer comfortable in the terminal; it runs the same graphics drivers as FreeBSD and Linux (other than NVIDIA). It's defaults tend to be a bit more sensible on desktop/laptops too IMO as its developers are more likely to dogfood it. There's been good progress on NetBSD desktops over the past few years as well, but I'm less familiar with it, so I can't comment too much.

With regards to portability, NetBSD supports more systems, but often I've found that OpenBSD is a little bit more stable on the ones they do support as they insist on not using cross compilation: so every system they do support is at least stable enough to build itself, which is a good stress test, especially on older machines.
Which I never stated
Reaching the 2050 climate targets are usually put in terms of increasing the share of wind and solar by such and such a percent every year until 2050. I wonder though how quickly we will use up all of the "low-hanging fruit" locations, leaving only very high maintenance cost areas or very low wind areas.

It might be much more difficult in future decades to get a good return on a given $1B wind investment in later years than it is now. This would considerably hamper our ability to hit the target.
Edutainment? Really?
Not at all. Most companies are not in the business of making the world a better place, and therefore they are not going to be optimizing their info access policies against that target, but instead they will be optimizing for shareholder value or what have you.

Don't confuse this statement with an endorsement - I wish it all worked differently, but this is the reality.
Why would they do it?

This setting is managed by Go runtime, and Go runtime defines a specific env var for customization. If you want different setting for different Go programs, no problem, it is not a global config, but per process, so set the env var to desired value only for syncthing process.