skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more the way you access the information than the information itself.
Not only that it's one of the top donors to the Wikimedia Foundation.
What about less than 5% of people using it?
You are correct in that it's not a feasible approach to neutralize emissions. But that's not why this tech is so important.

We need it to undo the damage we've already done. Will it be expensive as hell? Probably. But we need to do it. And if we cut emissions hard and fast we won't need to do carbon removal in panic but can do it more slowly.
> one murder by cop

I think the event you are referring to was ruled a "justifiable homicide". Also, you are missing the case of 42 year old Brian Sicknick, a cop who had two strokes and died after being pepper-sprayed during the riot. That wasn't classified as murder, but the medical investigator found that "all that transpired played a role in his condition".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att...
But you still need the types that are required and you need to define the functions that your snippet calls. Those in turn could require their own types and functions and so on. Unless you don't have much in the name of types and so you can easily define whatever you need. That still leaves the functions that snippet depends on.
Dr Fauci and other public administrators and workers have told us multiple times since last year that herd immunity would be achieved if 60% to 70% of people were vaccinated. Since we know that antibodies from past infection are as good or better than two shots of Pfizer [0], and since we also know that most people in the USA have antibodies from one source or another by now [1]...we do in the United States have a basis with which to determine the "eta of its demise."

We just seem to lack some political will to be more expedient in declaring the pandemic endemic and herd immunity achieved. In any case, when I look at the same situation in Europe, there are plenty of countries that are in the same boat. Population antibody levels by now are higher than what was claimed as the threshold needed to avert disaster. We've all been doing that.

So it's insufficient to keep accepting "probably longer than idea." That is too vague and nebulous and allows too much to go wrong. Government has more power than you realize and its government imposing these "management tools" as a cudgel against free movement and liberty. The situation in Australia [2], for example, should alarm everyone - especially those on the side of granting the powers that be basically unlimited license to do whatever they want to solve this.

If the ship has sailed due to the antibodies, then what need is there for this vagueness?

[0] - https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

"The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label. The newly released data show people who once had a SARS-CoV-2 infection were much less likely than never-infected, vaccinated people to get Delta, develop symptoms from it, or become hospitalized with serious COVID-19."

[1] - miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253987048.html

"More than 80% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies acquired through infection or vaccination, according to a new study of over 1.4 million blood donations across the U.S."

[2] - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

Please read this in its entirety and actually ponder it deeply.
> any interpretation of reality that sits outside of the general "accepted" media consensus is deemed a "conspiracy theory"

Do you think that in the past people were more acceptant of non-mainstream ideas? Because that sounds quite false, from atheist to homosexuals people was institutionalized for being different. Persecution of communists was a witch hund.
Why do you think that "the past was better"?
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> The Jeffrey Epstein story is so deep and disturbing, but no one in media will touch it in any depth. Or even do anything more than superficially acknowledge it.

It's claims like this that alienate me from conspiracy theories like this one. What do you mean by "no one in media will touch it in any depth"? There have been innumerable front page and long form articles written about every aspect of it, including bits that are barely substantiated by reality or just barely hint at connections to nefarious forces.

What would be the appropriate amount of coverage? I assume that for many people (not necessarily for you; I don't mean to tar too broadly with this brush) it would be media coverage that confirms the entirety of the theory; from his death at the hands of Hillary Clinton to his private sex island where he pimped out underage girls to his powerful friends and collected the videos to be used as blackmail by his intelligence service (Israeli? French? CIA? Russian?) connections.

Every story with even vague connections to Epstein is plastered over every news outlet in the world. Maybe you would argue that the coverage is superficial, but it might be that the reason that they don't go beneath the surface is because ... there's nothing there. Epstein was a serial rapist who recruited underage girls and convinced them to recruit their friends, for his sexual exploitation. When caught, he used his connections to weasel out of paying for his crimes. When caught again, realizing that his connections could no longer protect him, he attempted to kill himself, failed, and then tried again and succeeded. He was wealthy and thought that his wealth could protect him. He was a big fan of technology and transhumanism and donated extensively in the area and cultivated relationships with people in those spaces. Our jails are not great at keeping people alive when they wish to end their lives, and they failed here, as they do so depressingly often for so many people accused of crimes.
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2025 is the cutoff year on Win 10 support.
> Conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality

That's what they want you to think! /s
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For me, the killer feature of exa is the git integration. Being able to do 'l' (aliased to 'exa --long --all --links --git') and seeing the git status (added, ignored, modified, etc) along with other file details is awesome.
> Knowing how to talk to people to get your project done is a great skill.

Right, so why would your company hire people who are so bad at talking to people that the developer has to go to such lengths to save that persons project? I wouldn't want to work there.
DuckDB developer here, DuckDB does not use Arrow as its in-memory format directly but uses something relatively comparable and has interfaces for (quickly) converting data back and forth to Arrow. Expect a blog post on this soon!
Razer Synapse comes to mind which requires a cloud account to make you use the hardware such as mouse. On Linux, a FOSS GUI takes care of it. Not only that, same for software used to update SSD firmware (bundling Chromium, and an old version, too!). On Linux, topgrade takes care of it for me.
What percentage of your population has antibodies from any source? In the USA, the majority of us now have antibodies from vaccination or past infection.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704...

"More than 80% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies acquired through infection or vaccination, according to a new study of over 1.4 million blood donations across the U.S."
Eventually it is a problem - they are not renewable. Are all the components usable for these other uses? I thought some distillates only worked for some uses (can the gas portion be used for asphalt?).

I would also imagine there is immense heating from the road surfaces. Not to mention the fumes, chemicals used in the processing, and all the transportation.
I'd go with your "Old wisdom". But add that 95% of the 5% (conspiracy) only happens after the fuck-up - to downplay, cover up, blame shift, distract, etc.
So they say it can actually be replaced.

Nice!

Hopefully they don't pull an iPhone and individually serialize batteries that authenticate with other chips on the phone - if they don't match you get an annoying warning and supposedly underclocked CPU causing performance issues even if it's a brand new battery.
Why not plant fucking trees?? Jesus Christ what is wrong with this world.
It wouldn't surprise me if the moon-landings conspiracy theories were also Russian disinformation campaigns.

Some conspiracies just work too well / too beneficial to the Russian / Soviets worldview.

But yes, conspiracy theories are fun. I'm not against them in general. I'm just against the toxic ones. "The Question" is one of my favorite comic book characters.
Not quite the same thing, but the performance hit when running Windows software in Wine is frighteningly low. Even harder to run games like Overwatch[0] still stand toe-to-toe with their Windows counterparts, which is really surprising considering how many people tried (and failed) to run it at a playable framerate in a VM.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXc1nCD4IA
You are needlessly blurring the issue. Forget the cheesecake. Focus on the Strawberry topping. A homemade strawberry topping will be strawberry, sugar, and starch or gelatin.

BUT, the strawberry topping from your frozen foods section will likely be 3 strawberries sliced up large enough so the consumer thinks it's just like homemade because they see the fruit, and then a 98% of industrial red flavoring.

There is very little incentive not to use strawberry flavor because both products can be sold as the same. Would it really be so wrong to require more honesty in what we buy? When choosing a product wouldn't it be nice to choose between one with 98% red flavor versus one with 98% strawberry?
To take another of your points, printers suck on Windows, and are perfectly ok on Linux.

On Windows you will get the manufacturer driver with all the crapware that comes with it. Linux certainly has an inbuilt driver that supports all of it.

About Bluetooth, I never managed to get it working on any Windows computer. Granted that I didn't try very hard before formating them, but the largest difficulty on Linux is discovering that it's already working with everything installed, you just have to stop searching the web on how to set and use it.
Just think about this for a sec.

We're reading this from cozy place, thinking wow cool/scary, and 5 minutes later we'll forget about it.

Meanwhile, 5 years later some civilian in area of conflict being hunted by these robots, while at that same time the rest of us worrying what movie to watch next.

Flying cars, self-driving cars, robot dogs, gun-carrying dogs. We truly living the life of what used to be sci-fi. I'm not sure I like where it's headed though.
> propagation of “conspiracy theories” is a symptom of people’s decreasing control over their reality and an inability to understand it.

I've always thought "conspiracies" were pretty simply this. Some folks have a deep aversion to the idea that things are often just "Yeah, no one really knows what's going on and there's some chaotic things happening". That can apply to genuinely unknowable/chaotic things or just things that are beyond an individuals understanding even if they might be well understood by others.

The idea of meaningless chaos is so revolting that a simple and, very importantly, human source must be what is really happening because then there's someone in control and that is more comforting (despite being a grim state of affairs if true) and sensible.
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> Why do you think that "the past was better"?

I quite literally never said that. this is not my thesis, but you quoted the main part of my thesis, so it's confusing to me why you would quote me saying $X, and then ask me why I believe $Y.
Genuinely asking what do you mean by crazy, because I think there’s a level of toxic that no leadership should be tolerating. (I’m thinking HR violating stuff like “can’t resist assaulting co workers”)
The UK is spending £37billion on "NHS test and trace" over two years. Roughly £700 per inhabitant of the UK.

To put that into perspective, it's about half the total spending on education for 2020, or over 3/4 of the defence budget.

As a species, we are yet to fully understand how viral transmission works. Spend it on schools instead.
finally hardware to nail the guy who leans on his car horn outside my place
Going to echo this sentiment. The project I'm on now is the first time I've worked with a PM that gets whats going on and actually manages the product instead of just sending PMs after hours asking for some "small" feature to be squeezed into the sprint. It makes a HUGE difference, and I can honestly say I'm much less stressed out now than in previous projects.
I wouldn't outright recommend dropping Windows to switch to Regolith, but goddamn is Regolith a good OS. It really doesn't get enough love, I'm hoping that development doesn't taper off over the next few years...
Rejection of all conspiracy theories and framing alternative-thinkers (can't think of a better word, but its the same as what's happened to naturopathy) as insane and stupid is intellectually limiting as well as technologically. The cathedral has decided heterodoxy must be squashed. Really sad.
It's still in use as the regular word for work in East Slavic languages
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Not sure if you are misremembering the Phil Ivey edge sorting case [1] or if you are thinking of another story. Notable in this case that the casinos won in the end.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ivey#Edge-sorting_litigat...
> The Jeffrey Epstein story is so deep and disturbing, but no one in media will touch it in any depth. Or even do anything more than superficially acknowledge it.

Should they? “Convicted child sex offender whose previous punishments were surprisingly minor died in jail” feels like a dog-bites-man story to me. Would you have noticed his death if he wasn’t famous?

There are far too many possibilities to jump to any strong conclusions. For example, I’m not saying the guards who were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes did decide to take the law into their own hands (even ignoring libel laws that’s just my imagination and I have zero evidence), nor if the reason they “fell asleep” was being drugged by someone else who wanted to take the law into their own hands (ditto, my imagination and no evidence), but I also wouldn’t be surprised if either of these were the case. Nor would I be surprised if it was suicide.

There are probably at least a dozen stories that wouldn’t surprise me, but no reason to prefer any given one of them, and that is one of the problems with conspiracy theories.
Better overall macronutrient profile, more fiber.

I would highly recommend the kind with only 2 ingredients that separates at room temperature. Yeah, it sucks to have to stir it, but you only need to do that once per jar if you put it in the fridge afterward. Alternatively, just eat a couple handfuls of minimally processed peanuts or whatever other nuts/legumes you prefer along with the less healthy stuff. They improve the nutrition value of almost any meal (provided you're not allergic, of course).
I think it is so essential that people see the movie in a proper theater with surround sound rather than on a computer screen via HBO max. The soundtrack (which is some of Hans Zimmer's most ambitious work) and visuals won't be appreciated otherwise. All things considered, I thought this movie was a great effort - it is really encouraging to see $165M spent on actual art rather than boring regurgitations from marvel.
It’s funny that FB’s scoring algorithm probably got less design effort and less ‘play testing’ than the average LoL update.
Twitter is a shifty way to present information and to talk.I looked around and found out that she sent some collars in 2019. She also made a YouTube video of what she was doing at the time https://youtu.be/4VKZTmTP7oY the video shows up if you search 'Martha Iron Lung' so it's not like it is hidden...

A 2017 Wired article https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iron-lung-maker-community states that Naomi was spearheading the effort then.
Some people wonder what's the point of believing the flat earth theory, but for people looking for marks to con, it's a great "tool". The FE theory expands to "Everyone is lying to you, your teachers, the scientific community, the government, everyone who tries to tell you the world is spherical!" and "teaches" you to not believe accepted science, because according to them, accepted the science is just a global (ha) conspiracy.

Of course it's not hard to see why Fe'ers end up being antivaxxers. Or believing about pedophile pizza chains and furniture stores..
No they cannot, look at snowflake for example, easily eating big query and red shift.

Two things lack in FANNG:

1) Focus.
2) Politics.
Yeah this lines up. Anything storage related on Windows is an order of magnitude slower. The way Linux has architected NVMe storage IO path vs Windows makes a huge difference.

Just too many layers of abstraction for the storage stack on Windows. It worked great when we had spinning HDDs and IO was much much slower than memory. Now with super fast IO all those layers are creating bottlenecks.

You’ll get faster speeds on Windows with WSL + ext3/4 than native Win + NTFS.
HHVM is open source and seeing active development with weekly releases: https://hhvm.com/blog/

My understanding is they're waiting on the language stabilizing before making a push to open it up to the broader software engineering community.

They're still heavily invested in Hack and releasing research papers like https://engineering.fb.com/2021/03/03/developer-tools/hhvm-j....

Migrating to another language without an incremental adoption path likely isn't feasible for them
prev discussion:
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On my Ubuntu 20.04 machine: pressed super (windows key), typed "mouse"; it showed me mouse setting which I clicked; there was a slider named "touchpad speed". It is nowhere near complicated and you don't have to run terminal commands or update your Xorg.conf file.
Thank you! Great questions!

1. This is actually something we do a lot. Due to our history of being a peer review plugin, we have always been able to plug into an LMS through the LTI standard. When we built Eduflow we kept this option, so Eduflow can be plugged into another LMS as an LTI tool. Often this is how we start our work with a large corporate client - we will function as a plug-in to their existing LMS to offer them additional functionality. Over time our usage grows, and for some organizations we end up becoming the main LMS.

2. Actually we have more than half of our revenue coming from higher education so far. This is mostly due to our long history selling to universities - but universities are actually able to pay decent amounts, and when you land them as customers they are extremely loyal and very rarely churn. Schools on the other hand are very challenging - we have decided not to focus on the K-12 market at this point due to difficulties monetizing it.
Also consider hiding the font names. Too much bias from certain familiar keywords (JetBrains, IBM, courier, etc.).
Oof, what an ignorant article.

Just to take the most egregious example,

> To iterate over something using the natural features
of the language (object references, array indexing), it would need to be an array managed by that same language implementation.

I seriously doubt that's true even in cython, and I know it's not true in rust. In rust, you could either just use raw pointers (but this doesn't meet the spirit of the demand) or you can assert to the compiler that this code isn't being mutably accessed by other code (an assumption even of the C code, or else it is incorrect) and get a slice. At that point there is no difference between that slice and one "managed by the language", whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.
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Only one serif font? That made it a pretty easy tournament for me. ;-)
Not to mention, sometimes you even see a performance increase when running DX code through Vulkan translation (DXVK).
With Bitcoin, the math says that deflationary currencies are destined for failure.
Do you have examples of portable, non-mined or extracted alternatives to storing energy?
> git bash is cancer with no sane terminal emulator

Does anyone even use git bash? Powershell Core + standard Git SCM for Windows works perfectly fine for me.
The recipe may be the same, but is the icing coverage and filling volume the same?
That’s just demonstratively false (with eg. Gnome, it is just settings and start searching for it, or click the mouse icon), and I hardly believe someone would have an easier time doing that with Windows, with the 3 separate settings menu, all looking different.
Thanks for your nothing to see here defense of Epstein and his enablers, and the kind reference to his scientific interests
Facebook is under attack by the DNC, apparently controlling mainstream media is not enough, they want to fully control social media as well, passing every post through their stamp of approval and managing the narrative.

But even if they censor FB people will find another platform to voice their opinion, internet is the last resort of democracy.
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well, when I play cards, everyone is announcing what they are putting on the table.
Brother printer usually supports linux. Sometimed you have to run their installer or copy their printer files in a cups folder.
In Polish, 'robota' is casual word for 'work' and is used in normal conversations.
I mean I can't defend the general jist of what's said on CNN or Fox, but a lot of the time they say things or promote little things that don't matter but are most likely factually accurate enough to pass legal muster.

I don't watch 24/7 so I know someone's going to respond with a Tucker Carlson quote that's like: "The Vaccine is killing people" and unfortunately, even for that, there's technically accurate data to back it up. I'm not saying that's RIGHT but I'm saying why Fox news is still on the air.
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Yeah, we still use ICE cars, which unfortunate, but outside of greenhouse gases they're immensely less polluting than they used to be[0]. 1968->2010 reduced NO 99%, CO 95%, and particulate matter 99.92%. (I'm guessing this is looking at engines for PM. Tires/brakes still produce a lot, as I understand it.)

The EPA says tailpipe emissions are 98%-99% cleaner, with a 71% overall drop across "six common pollutants" despite miles traveled climbing 114%[1] (They use a few different starting and end points throughout that article.)

It's easy to miss how much cleaner modern cars are.

[0] https://andyarthur.org/how-much-cleaner-our-cars-are-today.h...

[1] https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate...
That's touchpad speed though, not mouse speed.

And this was on Linux Mint, which is meant to be a beginner's Linux distro.