skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this "science in action" garbage is certainly this week's attempt to save the institutions from self-immolation, but it simply doesn't hold water:

1. The initial statements were not guesses. They were an accurate summary of the state of the scientific literature at the time and were presented as such ("there is no specific evidence", "there is some evidence to suggest the opposite").

2. The later change, which occurred with whiplash-inducing speed, wasn't based on any new evidence or studies. That's why Fauci had to come up with this story about how they'd been engaging in a noble lie: there was no new evidence for him to point at.

3. There is now clear evidence that mask mandates don't work, namely the real world data, yet recommendations have not changed and all this new evidence has been ignored.

Specifically, if large-scale mandates did work then it would be clearly visible in the case curves of each country that introduced them, by definition, because creating clearly visible drops in those curves was the only reason they were introduced. Yet no such drops are visible. You can't look at a country's data and work out when masks were introduced or removed, it's impossible, people have tried. Thus mask mandates failed on their own terms and no further studies or experiments are actually necessary to answer the question of whether they're effective.

I don't really know why you're trying to defend "science" in the abstract like this. COVID science is the work of specific groups of people, it's not an abstraction, and it turns out to fall far short of the lofty standards we were taught to expect at school. COVID science in the real world is riddled with obvious hypocrisy and contradictions, routinely ignores or even rubbishes any evidence that would undermine collectivist social policies or make scientists look bad, and just in general is a sad joke. Arguing that this obvious failure is actually a success, and this is what all science looks like, can only make things worse by harming trust in other groups of scientists with higher standards (e.g. maybe physicists?).
I was aware of the cloacas, but I didn't know that some birds do have penises, so thanks for that important info! BTW some mammals (notably cats and dogs) also "store" their penises when not mating...
Safari 15 Watch: Old tabs edition
Do you have any evidence that the majority of autistics are complaining about "woke" culture? As an autistic it's my understanding that if anything we tend to be overrepresented in "social justice" causes online because we tend towards systems thinking and systemic critique tends towards leftism and liberalism whereas conservatives usually emphasize "personal responsibility" and individualism.

There are many cases of people using autism as a justification for reactionary behavior but the people I see most loudly attacking them for it are other autistics.

Shows like The Big Bang Theory which undeniably make fun of autistic traits usually also carry a lot of other messaging progressives find distasteful (e.g. in this case, misogyny framed as "charming" and "dorky" because the characters are portrayed as unthreatening or downright impotent). Nerd culture especially of the late 90s and early 00s is also rife with sexism, racism and ableism while especially nowadays also undeniably having extremely progressive spaces within its subculture (e.g. TTRPGs in particular are a space for experimenting with identity and gender expression which can make them especially appealing to queer people).

The negative treatment of nerds, geeks and programmers in popular media (which has btw massively declined since the 1980s and especially within the dot com era) in my experience also doesn't come from "woke progressives" but rather neatly follows anti-feminist ideas of masculinity, ridiculing these groups for failing to satisfy gendered expectations. "Woke" critique usually focusses on the sexist, racist and generally bigoted attitudes often still present in wide parts of those cultures but even more so in gaming (which is so widely acknowledged even within gaming culture that "heated gamer moment" has become a popular phrase to refer to someone openly spouting bigotry).
Depends what you mean by “usable.” Are you going to ship it in military hardware? No. But I built a block based program connected to a motor that gave kids a candy if they guessed the number that the computer was thinking of in less than 6 guesses. A 4 year old invented binary search within 10 minutes.
The referenced benchmarks are of poor implementation quality, don't even produce consistent results, and the specific linked issue is rife with discussion better suited to twitter than anything scientific or professional.
which mainstream configuration language?
Shouldn't it be "world's" best cloth?

I probably won't be buying one, but it does look nice.
let’s hope there is no egress!
> I couldn’t find a single essay from this concerned citizen about

So basically: you are in front of a phenomenon of corrupt police and its relative systemic acceptance, all of which is rooted in mental pauperty, and your idea of «fixing» is to restrict artistic expression?

And would be a duty of any creator to write articles about any occurrence or phenomenon!?

«outdated»!? Masterpieces and milestones get «outdated» in which sense? Do you mean "then rejected by some society" for some reason outside inherent quality? Arbitrary filters of cultural contribution, according their special state and needs?
Not to mention if you're providing some API's you might only expect people to visit the site after they initially sign up to read the docs and then maybe not again for weeks or months.
Lol, no, I get that. But they cannot post an ad on every remote jobs site.

The market for these kind of sites seems oversaturated.
You mean an asset with a guaranteed return at the expense of late arrivals who must buy the asset from you. The vast majority of rent seeking is based around coercion. When people advocate for free markets nature seeps through. After all, coercion is completely natural. We don't have heaven on earth so why would a free market lead to the ultimate manifestation of heaven?

Get rid of the coercion and you get rid of the problems.
That's a useful tip for saving some battery actually, thanks.
PDF at https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07104 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.07104)
IFF writes to Google India about recent instances of YouTube copyright strikes
The “Dirty” Economy of Australia
It is obvious that barter was a possibility. It is not obvious that most economic interaction worked through barter. How often do your interactions with your friends and family involve barter? Mine are more nuanced exchanges like

- "I generally do the dishes and trust that you are keeping on top of sorting our mail"

- "I've got this round of beers. You'll probably get the next one but nobody's counting"

- "Sure, I'll help you move flats"
> California is banning gas powered leaf blowers and chain saws.

The state is doing no such thing, it is however

> California is banning [the sales of new] gas powered leaf blowers and chain saws [after 2024]

There is a significant difference.
So WASM seems to be in a good place when it comes to code portability and performance, and now WebGPU does as well.

It's great to see how the web is giving back to the native platforms.
Go is not the only one. When I asked a few years ago, if someone could explain dependency injection in terms that I understand, ie Haskell terms, I got the reply of 'hmm, maybe it's like giving arguments to your function?'.
It is approximately what you say.

A free neutron decays spontaneously into a proton, electron and neutrino, because decaying provides energy, because the mass of a neutron is higher than the sum of the masses of the decay products.

A free proton does not decay because none of the possible decay modes can produce particles with a lesser mass.

This is the same reason why your body does not fragment spontaneously in separate parts, but some external energy is required for that, e.g. someone wielding a meat cleaver.

The neutrons forming a neutron star are bound together by the gravitational force. When the neutron star has formed, the energy equal to the binding energy has been lost, so the average mass of a neutron in a neutron star, i.e. the mass of the star divided by the number of neutrons, is less than the mass of a free neutron and it is also less than the mass of a free proton and even less than the average mass of a nucleon inside the nucleus with the highest binding energy (iron 56).

Otherwise the star would have remained composed of ordinary nuclei instead of becoming a neutron star.

To extract a free neutron from a neutron star you must provide an energy at least as large as corresponding to the difference in mass between a free neutron and the mass of a neutron bound in the neutron star.

To make it "decay" (of course, that is not decay, because it is not spontaneous) while remaining in the neutron star, you need to provide some lower energy, which could convert a neutron into a proton, electron and neutrino, creating an excited state of the star, like an excited state of a nucleus or atom. Soon after that, the difference in energy will be radiated, either when the proton and electron would recombine again, or the proton will spontaneously decay into a neutron and a positron (which will later annihilate with the electron).

So a neutron star should behave like any other bound system. The state with the lowest energy is the state when all the nucleons are neutrons, unlike the state with the lowest energy of an ordinary nucleus, where a part of the nucleons must be protons.

This being the state with the lowest energy, no decay processes can exist. External energy can produce excited states, where a few protons, electrons and positrons may exist, but these other particles will decay, combine or annihilate, so the base state will be reached again.

The same happens with atomic nuclei, which are bound by strong nuclear forces instead of gravitational forces. The neutrons in stable nuclei or in nuclei with excess protons do not decay. On the contrary, the protons in nuclei with excess protons over the corresponding stable nucleus decay into neutrons and positrons (or they capture electrons).

So a neutron star behaves in the same way as a nucleus where the state with the lowest energy happens to be the one with no protons.
Tethering isn't done over HDMI. Invariably it's propietary, Micro USB-B or Micro-USB 3.1 to the camera and a plain old USB-A to the machine. Wireless tether is a thing to.
Sure they pulled out. They had different developers over time on their payroll and stopped that.
Hunch: It is because academics need to prove their results. In order to do that, they generally need numbers.
I could be wrong (It's a common occurrence!), but I thought a lot of the lens perf relied on inlining that isn't as easy to pull off with a newtype/profunctor design. Can't find any references for performance comparisons.
> performance of my M1 Mac Mini is roughly comparable to ... the Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU

I find it hard to believe and benchmarks [0][1] don't seem to support that.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Adreno-650-GPU-Benchm...

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M1-GPU-GPU-Benchmarks-an...
If you have curried / partial application, 'construction time' and 'calling time' blur a bit.
Thanks! (And oh, /. always has this historic vibe ...)
Wasn't there an actual t-shirt made that was covered in pictures of number plates?
The updates from the Asahi Linux team are fantastic for getting insights into the M1 architecture. They've not really dug deep into the GPU yet, but that's coming soon.
Yeah, Mr. Ive went too much into "form over function" territory. While I love the thinness of my current 16" I also admit that I'd love to have more juice with a slightly ticker/heavier body.

The Touch Bar had a great promise, but they couldn't improve it enough to make it better (uhm, haptic feedback and faster response). Don't know how much it really contributed to battery drain though.
Adding another one, my Sennheiser PXC 550 (both original and II) will charge and do bluetooth or wired audio.
Profile-guided optimization for the kernel (2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28640684
Until Apple CPUs run on Amazon, Azure and Google clouds, it doesn't really matter how much better they are, other than 10% worldwide desktop users, and some tier 1 markets where iOS sales take place.
Well, you get to vote with your wallet.

I'm also considering between the M1 Pro and Framework Laptop but not sure the Framework will be at par with what Apple delivers functions-wise.

Regarding Framework using intel chip, I haven't really seen
a strong argument comparing its specs with that of M1 other than the repairability. I'm not quite sure that's everyone's priority.
Sure, if you've ever spent 2k repairing your Mac cos you don't have Apple Care, repairability becomes an important issue.
This article was so helpful in communicating my exact frustration with DI in .NET. "Why does this have to be so complicated? This is so simple in JavaScript." just kept running through my head the entire time.
I really like how Standard ML handles this with functors [1] (hence my nickname).

In SML, a piece of code depends on interfaces, and exposes an interface of it's own. Functors bind together pieces of code with appropriately matching interfaces.

[1]: https://smlhelp.github.io/book/concepts/functors.html
First time I've seen the STEAM acronym (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math). Described as:

"While these initiatives are a wonderful start into the exploration of these four areas of study, the critical process of creativity and innovation is missing. Students in STEM programs may have more experiential learning opportunities, but they are limited to only science, technology, engineering and math. Our economy requires so much more than an understanding of these areas – it requires application, creation and ingenuity. STEM alone does not foster these essential nutrients."[1]

It reads weirdly for me, because the people I know in STEM are some of the most creative people I know. Very much my own biased opinion, but adding Arts into STEM seems to ironically exclude art from the other subjects, and gives a space for all those art-focused people (I sometimes avoid at hack-a-thons because they don't like coding things) to feel included rather than encouraging them to learn STEM?

1. https://artsintegration.com/what-is-steam-education-in-k-12-...
Definitely! The main reason I haven't yet added support for any of those languages is just that I'm unfamiliar with them, to be honest, as I'd want to make sure they're _fully_ supported, both in terms of translations and corrections.

Is there any language in particular you'd like to see added?
Also Top Secret! ZAZ 1984 (and my favourite of the lot).
> maybe what you noticed is not wokeism but just globalization of social norms

Could it not be the case that these social norms are taken a bit to the extreme? I do not call it wokeism myself since that encourages easy labeling and dismissing of ideas. But I do think it has been taken too far.

Profane language and offensive jokes have always been offensive, yes. That is why I called them offensive... They have to be used sparingly and with care. But not being able to use them anywhere anytime is too much. That is my opinion for what it is worth.
Looks like that application explicitly uses (device) pixel sizes. That issue is common, but still application specific.
Yup, agreed. Those were solvable problems though, and really easy ones. The bar itself would have benefited from ProMotion for example: be super responsive while touching/dragging sliders, and stay at 10Hz or even less when static. Couple it with haptic feedback and I'm pretty much sure that many would love it. It had great potential but they killed it.
Nim 1.6
Oh! I wonder if it will work with my Wii cable then! I haven’t tried that! It never occured to me that most of my cables are power only.

Thanks!
I've not read the article (or book) in full yet, but from the comments I get a "lone academic overturns the accepted truth" vibe. Which I don't like on principle. I just want a well written summary of whatever the current consensus is (including areas of disagreement).

Otherwise it's just very long form clickbait.
But, if I now had such a certificated piece of media, what would stop me from stripping that information, attaching my own and uploading the resulting re-certificated work that matches my cert store?
SD and microSD nominally inhabit the same space, but microSD is effectively limited to storage whereas SD can be used for other things; it's just more flexible to provide an SD slot, if you can spare the lateral space. Among other things, microSDs are so tiny that it is often more practical to put them in an SD adapter whenever you need to handle them. That's why SD adapters are so widespread, and you'll likely find one in the package whenever you buy a consumer microSD.
Fair enough, I'll play :)

The first one looks like some kind of configuration language, most likely JSON due to lots of matching { and }, colons and no semicolons.

The second one I really can't tell. It's most likely some sort of curly brace language, Typescript? Java?

The third one really looks like Python: no semicolons, no braces, [ and ] for list/dict access, # for comments, @ for decorators.

The fourth is also tricky. I want to say HTML-ish because of the </> sequences, but it also looks like a curly brace language! I'm going to guess it's a JSX React file.
Yeah, I don't know the peak power draw when everything's on 100% load, but I think (also thinking the efficiency of M1) 140W would keep charging even under highest load.
In the piece he links to https://medium.com/me/stats/post/d4ed11fc629d which seems to only be accessible to the user when logged in.
I personally am pretty much a GNU person too. So is KDE. I don't think you can find many communities that care about software freedom like KDE does.

But don't worry. KDE as as free as it gets.
Why can't you just do DI the same way you do it in JS? You can pass Objects as parameters to functions and that's all you need.
Why they didn't lean into that aspect of the Apple TV still mystifies me. A Wii-mote style pointing device seems such a natural fit for it, and has proven gaming utility. Maybe patents were a problem?
Touch your navel, that navel, was connected in a long line, to the first mammal. Time like a canyon, so deep it gives one vertigo.
The research article on Arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10375
I find it funny (pun intended) that you consider this learning, when on a basic level it's the opposite of that.

If anything can be deemed offensive (and it will be, because there are people who profit from scolding others), and nothing is ever forgotten in the internet age, the eventuality of your mentality is no one being allowed to communicate about anything at all.

What's worth doing is making fun of you, ironically. Because making fun of people like you is, historically, how flawed ideologies are cast aside.
From my understanding, any display is important contributor to battery drain, and touch bar is a pretty much always-on (while you work) high-DPI display.

I dread returning to the old way of controlling screen brightness and volume, though.
I first watched the film in the early 2000s. I was politically a lot more right-wing then than I am now and enjoyed edgy humor to the point I even frequented 4chan. Not one of the jokes landed for me.

I now call myself a socialist, have an interest in social justice causes and intersectional feminism and am as leftist as I can get. I still can't laugh about any of the jokes.

I think the biggest factor is that the movie plays off tropes of 1950s and 1960s Hollywood movies and this creates a massive cultural disconnect since I have barely watched any of those and the few I did I deliberately watched as an adult.

For similar reasons most of Mel Brooks' movies also never did it for me. I grew up in the 1990s and at the time prime time television happily recycled movies only a few years old rather than digging through the archives.
Proves Einstein right in what way?

If I say that below the surface of earth there are green goblins who suck down objects from the air and then an apple drops from a tree - that does not prove me right. It just does not prove me wrong.
A lot of those jobs shouldn't exist in the first place.

Most of the time minimum wage increases just result in cost push inflation at the bottom of society. Yes, that means the middle class and above will have to pay more for services provided by minimum wage workers. The upper classes aren't hurting for money so they actually end up paying those wages anyway.
As opposed to the raw uranium that we dug out of the ground? I don’t recall nature storing that inside radiation-proof barrels.

Also there’s the pesky fact of half-life. Ignorant anti-nuclear activists seem to think that nuclear waste is extremely dangerous and lasts for centuries. Nope. Nuclear material can either be imminently dangerous or have a centuries long half-life. It can’t be both.
All things decay and have half life time. I don't get what's so mysterious about it. Neutrons have some not well understood structure and that structure is unstable in the dangerous waters of quantum turbulence.
What they're trying to say is "Backblaze backs up an unlimited amount from one computer - but you can't back up more data than you have on one computer. So if you have 1234 GB in Backblaze, you must have 1234 GB of disk space"

This is in contrast to other cloud storage services which might (for example) allow you to save space on your phone by uploading your old photos to the cloud and deleting the local copies.
I lost mine in a recent house move and they don't show up anywhere in the Find My app. I had to buy a pair of £10 knock offs just so I can listen to podcasts while walking the dog, however these have the added bonus of not falling out my ear at every possible opportunity.
European farmers also get massive subsides and are also not very productive.
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Of course I don't want to be a dick about this...
Luckily now we have Arduino that hides all the nasty stuff from users. There are 2 basic blocks: unit and loop. Adding repeating code blocks into loop block isn’t that hard. Jumping from Mindstorms to Arduino shouldn’t be a big difference.
Also, there's already more on youtube than anyone could ever watch, and many people struggle with youtube addiction. Adding further platforms doesn't make things better, it makes things worse.
I notice you couldn't stop yourself from inserting a space after the fullwidth question mark and comma.
> […] All paths were map-matched to the open street map network (www.openstreetmap.org).

OpenStreetMap. Weird sloppiness there.
Indeed, it's never quite black and white. The author's obviously referring to the crazy trends in the Java community back when Design Patterns were the only game in town. I have myself worked on code built like this, it's usually very difficult to retrofit into a unit test. Hell, I've even written some AbstractSingletonFactories myself...
https://archive.md/qp4GH
In practice they stole the opportunity to make money with what the ART and COM guys had done.
Then you’d have to pick it up each time (or use PIN). FaceID works pretty well even when the phone is lying in front of you.

I also think that with FaceID my phone is generally unlocked when I pick it up as well.
> High contrast is intense on the eye.

Is it really the contrast though? No contrast is sharper than blank and white, and reading a book is fine.