skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't help, and I wonder if it's because I didn't explain my question well enough.

Suppose I have a number N and I want to try using the "Difference of Rectangles" method to factor it. So I want to find integers a, b, and c that satisfy this:

(a+c)a-(b+c)b=N

I'm going to assume that, as with standard Fermat factoring, I will choose values for a and c, compute (a+c)a-N, and then try to solve for b. If I succeed then I'm done.

But how do I choose my initial values of a and c? And if I then can't solve for b, how do I choose my next values of a and c?

I don't need visualisations, I know the algebra and can form my own pictures of what's going on. I need to know how the algorithm chooses a and c, and then how it proceeds when b doesn't exist.
I'm due for an upgrade of laptop at work and have an option of Mac Pro and XPS running Linux. Despite all the goodness of the M1, I still think I prefer working in a Linux environment to Mac (probably going to choose pop os for its tiling)
It's only needed for disambiguation.

That said, I wish the page had actually taken the local time into account. As in your case the times on the page are in my current timezone (CEST) so the "Z", "00:00", "+00:00" is basically just decoration.

~~Even worse, in the intersection we have formats like %h:%m:%s+Z and %h:%m:%s+02:00 that show the same time simultaneously.~~

Edit: it is correct now.
Yes. But new Kirk wouldn't care.
I switched to vertical tabs too, and honestly I'm never going back.
Please, I would appreciate, someone who knows more Philip K. Dick work, is this autobiographical story, or work of fiction?

I mean is it like "The Blair Witch Project" where they made horror to deliberately look like a documentary.

This to me looks like fiction/autobiography made deliberately to like a fiction/reality fractal, sentences look like personal experience but again I have a feeling Philip is trying deliberately to push our psyche deep into the spiraling rabbit hole or unknown.
I don't disagree about the fact that Mozilla makes questionable moves. I still deeply resent that they laid off the servo team, and I treat their executives with as much suspicion as the rest of HN, see their recent moves with Firefox suggest in the address bar. But I think the fundamental difference is that, at the end of the day, I think Mozilla and Firefox are still the lesser evil in the borwser war; Firefox is still the best browser to run uBlock on, they have aggressively worked to end tracking and they have a mobile browser that actually supports extensions where possible (hello, Firefox Reality!) So I prefer to try as much as possible to work with Firefox instead of just accepting Chrome's dominance, especially given that it's just a worse browser for privacy.
Firefox has pretty rich search settings, better than any other browser IMO. It's very easy to use different search engines for different things and changing the default is one click in about:preferences. As easy as it gets I think
Fair enough on scaling. But 24 is still a lot less than two to three orders of magnitude.
It's not exactly a secret that in the Global North, you can get by pretty comfortably with the "leftovers" and "trashes" from other people and industry. There's so much waste on every level of very decent material.
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If you are making a product, it needs to be very high quality, high value and with a strong brand. Branding is everything and very difficult to get right.

As for services, you need to deliver something that they don't have, want very much and again you need to differentiate yourself. Without the right introductions the many gatekeepers will blow you off.

If you are seriously interested in catering to that market, then you need to do lots of research into the most exclusive brands and possibly get a foot in the door by selling prestige cars, fashion, jets, real-estate, etc. Yes, SELLING is the one and only way to understand that market.

Oh ... and you need to cultivate the aura of not needing them. The minute you come across as keen you have lost the pitch.
Nextjs usage has increased to half as much as Wordpress
ReactOS runs on old PCs that couldn't run Windows 2000 and up. It only requires 48M of RAM to install. They are getting closer to a beta build. I use the alpha builds in Virtual Box, along with HaikuOS, AROS, and Linux.
My dad has travelled pretty much all countries between the Atlantic and the Danube, and was only pickpocketed once - in Barcelona. A friend of mine who lives there, freely admits the pickpocketing is out of control - and we're hardened thief-aware Italians. Same for anybody who goes there on vacation and hits the busy hotspots.
I like to think transporter technology just opens a wormhole and pushes the person through it to the other end. No death need happen.
I have a core i5 mini computer which I spin up every couple of months and it always amazes me that for the first 20 minutes or so the CPU runs at 100% while windows checks for updates (obviously this wouldn't happen if I ran it daily, but still Linux never does this)
It's a little of column "a" and a little of column "b" and also because there's a whole generation which has come and gone since the Halloween Papers and the general MS fuckery of the 90's.
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That's disgusting. What a reprehensible company.
I am grateful to Haugen for releasing the information she has. I hope it causes change. However, she seems to be outside her area of expertise when she opines on the best voting structure for Facebook shares.
Could you share an example program that does that?
Important distinction between % of total population (what OWID reports I believe) and % of eligible population, which >90% is more likely to be.
yes and this: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideo...

"There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless.

The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete."
Microsoft released their own Linux: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-released-cbl-mar...

As far as opensource DOS, nothing beats FreeDOS: https://www.freedos.org/
I saw the writing on the wall the moment they could sloppily justify the TPM requirement.

Then I got into arguments with people proclaiming that it's just Microsoft enforcing it for the casual user's safety, and that I'm a Microsoft hater. Who? Me, whose first programming language was C#, who worked as an Windows server administrator for years, and my operating systems have been nothing than Windows for 2 decades. And I'm suddenly a hater for daring to raise an eyebrow and question their design motivation?

I'm very convinced that the desktop world is at its worse. You have the commonly owned yet absurdly powerful tool known as a desktop computer have its market dominated by a single company, with no competitors whatsoever. Even worse, Microsoft's deal with hardware vendors ensure that even if a competitor were to rise they'll have to earn their favor as well. The game is lost for any competitor before it even starts.

And with the PC dominance under their thumb they test the waters to see with how much they can get away with, an approach they cannot even afford to consider when it comes to their other products like Azure or even the C# programming language. They also did their best to make Visual Studio Code great, until you realize that this also follows the same pattern.
Or Rees-Mogg „lying“ in parliament.
Makes sense. The vaccine can cause those symptoms, but they could also be due to you catching COVID just before receiving the vaccine.
Planets and webrings are still around, and are a valuable source. Other forums and message boards like HN, lobste.rs, tilde.news, lemmy.ml and reddit.com are also still doing well.

EDIT: IRC/XMPP/Matrix chatrooms are still doing well, too!
If you want to factorize 1649 for example, and we want to use c=1.

What you do is you squareroot it first. The squareroot of 1649 is around 41.
than you do (41+1)*41 = 73 MOD 1649.
After that you find the factors of 73, 1 * 73= 73.
Than you see that the difference of the numbers is 73-1 = 72.

Let's look at the identity:
(41+1)*41 - (1+72)*(1).
Nope, 72 is not 1, so we don't have a match.

Now we do (42+1)*42= 157 MOD 1649.
Factorize number 157, 1 * 157 = 157. The difference of the numbers is 157-1 = 156.

Again look at the identity: (42+1)*42 - (1+156)*(1).
Nope, 156 is not 1, so we don't have a match.
You keep doing this until you found a value of c and a where it is 1.

After a time you get at 65: (65+1)*65 = 992 MOD 1649

992 = 31*32

32 - 31 = 1, we have a match!

(65+1)*65 - (31+1) * 31 = (65-31) * (31+65+1)

Now you want to find the factors of 1649, you do GCD(1649,(65-31)) = 17

GCD(1649, (31+65+1)) = 97

17*97 = 1649
I had a virus a few years back that put me on my arse for about 4 weeks. Docs only said that might blood showed I was fighting a virus and it would pass. But for about 3 years afterwards I remained feeling tired, I used to have heart palpitations multiple times a week, I'd get symptoms like I was ill every 3 or 4 weeks. Was bloody awful tbh. Weirdly the first AZ vaccination stopped it, it put me in bed for a day or two and then when I got up I started noticing I was feeling better than normal, but didn't really believe it was gone away. But it's now been months since the jab and I haven't had a single episode with my heart and my energy is way up.

The definitely need to do a little more research into this because my doctors were basically telling me it was just how I was going to be, and it does seem like, however accidentally, there was a solution to be had.
Do people actually prefer to memorize website favicons and their placement instead of scrolling with some text still visible to let you know what the tab actually is?
The HN "past" link doesn't work in this case but there was extensive discussion about this article last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966778

tldr: The top comments mentioned corporate lawyers concluding AGPL ("corresponding source") was too much of a risk and subsequent replies debate about it being FUD.

I also ran across an blog article (by an attorney who writes about open source licensing) saying AGPL can be hard to understand: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL.html
We notice the Microsoft front. Microsoft has marched through the "open" source institutions and employs a sufficient number of OSS people.

In Python, Microsoft employees (who don't develop much ...) have two seats in the Steering Council and GvR, who still seems to pull strings.

Opposition on the mailing lists is shut down ruthlessly and is censored. The new "JIT" project has all the hallmarks of NIH and will end in minor insignificant speedups. The C# guys will be amused.
>And honest question, what's your idea for monetizing Firefox?

How about taxes? Browsers are modern infrastructure, same as roads and street lights.
I think the same question should be asked when someone hopes to become immortal through uploading their mind to a computer.

(Well ~ If there's a way to keep the duplicate/virtual minds bidirectionally in-sync for a while, then ...)

Still then: The main question remains.

Is it ethical to do STRG+X instead of STRG+C?
The use of colon in timestamps is incompatible with several filesystems and this just drives me nuts.
I don't say Android or iOS is more open...quite the opposite.

>Microsoft is just late to the game, and it's slowly catching up.

Why do you think people want yet another platform but in the Microsoft-verse, you choose Windows because it's open and you can run ~every application on it. There is no catching up by closing down your hard-ware framework (aka OS)
I'd suggest looking into the ICF (International Coaching Federation), and finding a coach who's accredited with them.

They're really aware of the complexity of this - where they see the value of coaching as a tool, and know it's not a medical industry with the need for such high qualification time as eg. councellors or therapists, but that anyone calling themselves a coach means people do a lot of advice / self-help / general fluff without it being what they understand coaching to be. Getting accredited means having training, having certain number of logged hours doing coaching, recording sessions for assessment, passing an exam on ethics, limitations, confidentiality, methods, etc...

In the ICF understanding of coaching, a coach doesn't need to be a domain expert (although domain familiarity helps), as the coach's job is to help the coachee (client) be the expert / get unstuck / manage themselves. No matter how good a business leader I am, I'll never know your company and the individuals involved as well as you do. But if I'm good at asking you questions that help you see where you're stuck and see things in a different perspective, you'll come up with better solutions than I ever will. If I give you good advice, you'll see me as a guru or authority, and not build your own answers. And if you need a mentor, or advice, then in coaching that would come up and we could talk through ways you could find that.

(Disclaimer: I've completed an ICF accredited course, and am slowly working on my 100+ hours of coaching others and exams to be accredited).
In TNG, we have a story where a transporter malfunction results in two Rikers. They cannot both be the original Riker, and there is nothing to point to one of them being the original over the other, so the logical conclusion seems to me to be that neither is the original, meaning the original Riker has to be gone.
The lack of analytics is a good thing. It's none of your business what I read, you already have it in your server logs that I've added your feed to my reader. I do not wish to feel like a tool and an asset of some company simply because I want to read an article.

A lot of sites have "solved" this nonissue by not including text in their feeds, instead only providing a link to the article on their site. A quick and easy way to make me unsubscribe immediately.
Is this actually true? Would you care to name the city?

Sorry for being sceptical, but I've seen similar claims propagated on twitter "hospital so full, that gunshot victims are turned away". It was untrue both on accounts of being full and there being any gunshot victims.
I think it's more of a lucky accident. There really is something to be said for hjkl scrolling. I enable it in as many apps as I can because I find it genuinely more comfortable than arrow keys. And that's not because I'm some unreformed grognard, I was introduced to vim only a few years ago.
I find my answer to this question in my belief in God. What happens to the soul during transportation? If this technology were to exist, I would defer the question to The Church.

I know that region isn’t the answer that will satisfy most of HN, but it is one that would be mainstream and given by hundreds of millions or billions of people.
I see homeless who are speaking to themselves like they are hearing voices e.g. schizophrenia and other mental illness indicators more often than not. Maybe being homeless causes symptoms of mental Illness, or having untreated mental illness will force you to not hold a job and be employable like neurotypical workers in SF.

Just because your experience is seeing rampant drug use in the homeless population doesn’t mean it’s the main reason they are on the street. Drug addiction is not mutually exclusive from having mental illness and from having a degree in neuroscience, I learned that being neuroatypical with an imbalanced brain chemistry, e.g. dopamine regulation disorders and other neurotransmitter issues can easily result in the symptoms of risky behavior and substance abuse and addiction, which further damages your brain and neurodegeneration, thus having more mental illness.

Being sober from substance abuse is a huge factor to achieving gainful employment and rejoining society. Having untreated mental illness is increasing the difficulty mode of your life because you are not in control of your full brain if it’s imbalanced and addiction is an emergent neurochemical response to reinforcing pathways in your brain from a hyper pleasurable activity that lights up your imbalanced brain. Sorry I’m rambling but mental illness and homelessness is never really talked about they are destined to be left out of society if they can’t utilize their full cognitive abilities due to untreated mental illness and psychiatric intervention.
The standard mismatch between "Euro-metro" and "US-metro" folks on some things is sadly hilarious - I'll always remember the faces of some SF acquaintances when I mentioned, in passing, that public transport in San Francisco is pretty bad overall... I realized I made a horrible faux-pas and never mentioned it again.
Again, generalisations about performance like that is just not very useful. There are use cases where you get significant benefits from using persistent data structures.

Aeron comes to mind as an example in regards to high performance solutions that uses them. But a more fundamental reason is that immutability can be part of your domain logic. Think video games like braid, or business applications where you need to derive a lot of different views and go back and forth between them, or domains where data just is inherently immutable such as accounting and so on.
The reclusive dictator behind a climate catastrophe
One of the best analysis about Tesla i've ever read.
As does Firefox with the tree-style tabs extension.
Yes!! I install uBlock Origin on every computer and browser I come across. People love it.
And why can’t the logical conclusion be that either one of them could be the original Riker? Why does the original have to be gone?
> Zuckerberg is meeting top political leaders of his own country, and sometimes others, and negotiating with them, FB is basically treated like a country-sized negotiating entity.

Every large company does this. Zuckerberg was oddly transparent about it. Look how much apple, google, IBM, rayethon, boeing, amazon lobby and manipulate. Amazon managed to get states to out bid each other to effectively subsidise opening offices in their state.

> I'm really not making the comparison lightly, but I think Zuckerberg is on the same level.

You are comparing Zuckerberg to Franco, Gagdafi, Lukashenko, al-assad et al. They literally have locked people up, tortured them and had them killed, systematically. They killed thier opponents to omake sure they would no longer be a problem. All of this in the pursuit of total power. The comparison is farcical, bordering on the "everyone I don't like is Hitler" argument.

As I've pointed out, for someone who is supposedly amassing huge power, he sure is really shit at using it.

For him to be a dictator, in the digital world, he would need to be removing the competition. Firing anyone that opposes him, removing dissent. I don't see that in FB. I also don't see that on the platform. I can freely criticise zuckerberg and the company. High profile sports player have done this in the UK, and they are still on the platform.

> But do those things bother him? I don't think so, I imagine it's an absolute non-issue for him.

If they are a non issue, why the fuck are they spending literally billions trying to unfuck it? I mean they aren't doing it very well, but they are spending megabuck trying. If he was indifferent then he wouldn't bother.

For example CSAM, facebook and google outperform apple reporting that kind of offence at a rate of ~2000:1 Does apple not care about CSAM? is Cook a secret CSAM peddler? no ofcourse not.

tldr: your argument undermines how bad dictators are, and suggests you don't understand what its like to live in a country that actively represses its populace.
Incredibly powerful summary of a dismal state of affairs. How did it come to that?

I feel we are massivelly overrating the level of governance, competence and ability to manage our overall "success" as modern societies

This was already quite evident with the financial crisis and came down as a hammer with the pandemic crisis and the ultimate dead-end of the climate crisis.

The denerate, dystopic, digital universe we have evolved into is not perceived as a systemic crisis. Massive data breaches are normalized. The obvious manipulation and influence of political processess the world over are shrugged off. The feudalization of economic life is portrayed as desirable "disruption". But it is really a slow moving car crash and there is no indication we have mechanisms to steer away from the deterministic outcome.

Ironically, it is almost certain that better governance would have to be based on suitable digital tools and networks. There is an alternate Philip K. Dick universe out there but we need some magic quantum tunnel to get to it.
I just sent you an email.
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Cheers for the reply, I can't lie that in many ways I can agree with you, but at the same time twitter is where (across 2 or three different accounts) my contacts are. I've tried blogging in the past and felt like shouting in an empty room. At least on twitter I'll get some feedback.

I'd love to move all my contacts to a new service, but if I went off and blogged they are unlikely to follow me and as I can tell from my tweets, are unlikely to click on the links I post already.

All locations and services have their downsides, but I try to turn to the one where I'll have the most reach and personally get value from replies. In truth that means I do most of my 'story telling' face to face or on WhatsApp to closed groups or individuals ;)
I love that letter. Totally stealing that idea. I can't say I haven't run F12 on any site I frequent, it's always been fun.
As long as the tribes think voting makes a difference, let em vote.
I completely agree with you. Seems unlikely though :(
> Much like we failed to transplant modern way of life to Afghanistan.

Which attempt are you talking about. The 3 times the British empire invaded, the three times the Soviet Union invaded or the latest Nato-American invasion.

(Historically there was the Sikh, Mugal, Muslim invasions too, etc. etc.)

Possibly the locals got a poor view of western "civilization" by being on the wrong end of its armies multiple times.

Strangely, I agree with your general point, but possibly from the opposite direction.

For example, when Finland was doing its equivalent of the New Deal, I find it unlikely there were any Finn's that would try to use that as political leverage to delay anti-lynching laws and vice-versa.

Racists seem to be one of the most corrosively self-defeating forces in human society.