skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much cheating is fueled by folks who get upset at losing, assume that cheating "must" have been involved, and go on to cheat.

You see it in every online game, folks claim someone cheated and then try to prove it and go on to simply demonstrate that ... they're just a bad player.

Not to say I think anyone is wrong about the scale of the issue here. I just wonder how much human disappointment to a loss(es) and their assumptions just feeds the cycle.

Then there is the other confusing factor that people who cheat usually greatly over estimate the amount other people cheat.
> Kellogg, I don't buy pop tarts for the crust!

That's really funny because I do. I hate the sugary "frosting" crap so I only buy the unfrosted ones (for myself, that is). But honestly, the crust is the best part of the whole experience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29014922
Shouldn't it be a person behaviour dependant decision - whether to take the vaccine?

E.g. for example, currently I calculate myself to be near people that in theory it would be possible to catch covid only around 5-6 hours per week, 3h from it outside, and 3h inside gym at times when gym is fairly empty and it's easy for me to hold a 3m+ distance from everyone. Besides that I work from home, and order everything in.

Considering everyday infection rate I can calculate from that what my chances of getting covid are based on how much I think other people on average spend around other people, or their families. This would be back of the napkin calculation, but wouldn't that be fair to assess chances of getting covid?

These may be some odd coincidences -- although personally based on my readings of those anecdotal stories I don't see how. But even if let's say they might be coincidences, how can I know for sure?

I also thought and am aware of the fact if there's a disease that is diagnosed at least e.g. 365,000 times a year and if all people would eat ice-cream once a year, then there would be 1,000 people getting that diagnosis just the next day, but I feel like the patterns are too similar for the stories I've read.
I see a lot of similarities to the discussion we have in most (?) European countries about the share of women in leading positions. We as well have programs that prefer women over men when applying to key positions to counter steer inequality. Not to say that this practice isn't a hot topic here, but something very similar exists in EU as well. So I can in fact understand why they 'recognize such a thing as race' (same as we recognize such a thing as sex).
I wouldn't be surprised if certification or the like go out the window seeing how old the tech is.

I don't even think anyone but the people making the collars could verify it's safety.
Many modern MCUs have GPIO that can be configured via software to have an internal resistance in line with the GPIO. This resistance will limit current to within the specs of the MCU just fine.
Motorcycles are different than e-bikes.

Maybe e-bikes work in some heavily congested urban environments, but motorcycles are a different use case:

- they can go on the freeway

- they can park in places e-bikes might not have a place

- they don't need to be pedaled (if you can't be sweaty when you get there)

- ground clearance

- fenders if the ground is wet

- take a passenger

etc...
Hehe, as a former Windows admin, I came to hate printers passionately. My experience with printers on Linux and macOS was a lot better.

However, I do not do much printing in my personal life, so that does not necessarily say a lot.
I think that logically, it doesn't make sense for Maine to change its laws to allow this to move forward. It's worth $1.5B and there are about 1.5M people in Maine. That's $1,000 per resident. Given that there are costs to extract the metal from the ground, let's say that 20% of that $1.5B could be profit (which I'm guessing is a very high estimate). That means $200 per Maine resident. Given that Maine doesn't own the land/mineral rights, let's say they can put a 30% tax on those profits. $60 per resident.

Realistically, $1.5B worth of lithium is a tiny amount of value for a US state. If I were Maine, I'd say no at $1.5B. You're probably going to get less than $60 per Maine resident - and that's a one-off $60, not even an annual $60.

The article keeps talking about how we need lithium. Ultimately, we don't seem to need it that much given how cheap it is. If I were Maine, I'd say "not now". If Lithium prices go up 100-1,000x in the future, then reevaluate. $6,000-$60,000 per Maine resident might be a useful amount of money. $60 isn't.

At current prices, any environmental damage is likely to cost more than the taxes on the profits would cover. $90M in taxes (30% of a 20% profit margin) won't clean up a lot.

I'm not saying that it's a global optimum for Maine to leave this lithium in the earth. I'm just noting that there isn't a lot of incentive for Maine to extract it. The article talks about other countries with less strict labor and environmental rules. That is true, but why should Maine risk its environment for such little money?

Why should Maine risk environmental damage for $60 per person? $90M in tax revenue is nothing compared to the cost to clean up environmental disasters. It's costing over $6M to clean up a single park in my town, never mind the type of environmental damage that might be caused by mining 11M tons of lithium. It seems like it would be foolish for Maine to alter the laws to allow the mining to take place at current prices.
Thank god. Icons on the desktop are an abomination, the current (default) Gnome Shell workflow is way better.

And BTW, Ubuntu still allows icons on the desktop as default (unfortunately). So not sure what you did.
Only if their users vaporize or ingest their batteries.
This is a very interesting case, for a few reasons.

First, marketing: they cleverly declare that the product has "No high fructose corn syrup", while they added a lot of sugars (13g/26%!!). I'm looking forward the next product declaring "no added cyanide" :)

The second is classifications of sugar. The "carbohydrates" term is too generic to ascertain the type(s) (and associated health impact); for example, 100g of dry beans are certainly a good meal, but in terms of labelling, they're around 90% of "carbohydrates" (one needs to look at the "sugars" label).

On this product label, around 8g are not "sugars", in other words, not simple carbohydrates, but I don't understand where they come from, based on the ingredients; they could be starch, but the label says <1% of corn starch. I wonder if "modified corn starch" classifies as "not corn starch", which would explain the missing 8g.
Powered landing was definitively proved technology in 1969.

Applying it to booster reuse on Earth waited a bit longer.
Yep. And doesn't work as a standalone movie either.

Aesthetics were amazing. But after a certain point I just don't care how it looks and feels. No story worth digging into.

And it's not like the man can't tell a character driven story. I cared a lot about the characters in Arrival. It made my whole family cry.

I felt nothing from Blade Runner 2049. Nothing.
It's probably the case that AWS have all the infrastructure developed to do all this already - expect the NSA would require this too?
At worst, the appearance of ads on the page muddles the trust I place in the curation.

At best, the bright yellow mailchimp ad popping up on the landing view made focus on the color pallet problematic for me.

Finally, in terms of making color judgments using a computer screen, I find a bright background better. Darker backgrounds allow darker swatches and darker colors appear more saturated.

Good luck/
Mostly because no one has found a modified version of gravity that can explain all of the observed data.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.2011...
France literally has a minister of equality, and works tirelessly to help “some communities” without putting a name on it.
Here's a fascinating and inspiring article about a man who is confined to an iron lung who is an attorney and uses his computer while in his iron lung:

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...
I mostly agree, except for "The Good Guys" part.

What I found endearing about the books[0] is that it didn't try to cast any of the factions as The Good Guys. The Foundation definitely isn't. The trilogy, especially the first book, shows the Foundation applying plenty of hard realpolitik to survive and expand; they do not carry any moral banner, except that of Seldon's Plan. They're not the United Federation of Planets by any measure. They just are. The Second Foundation isn't presented in a better light either.

> The anthropic principle is validated, and a single man did not in fact change history. This time.

I most likely haven't read far enough into the book sequence, but at least by "Foundation's Edge", the anthropic principle remains valid; the protagonist of that book, despite being seen as special by their contemporaries, still turns out to be involved in the story only because they happened to be best person available along the criteria of the ... entity ... driving the events.

--

[0] - That I've read so far, i.e. the trilogy, and "Foundation's Edge".
What if there is no flatpak available? Something like Android Studio where you untar, move to where you want, add to path, etc?

You might have a point though. These things are starting to get niche.
If you want to regulate large technology companies, just say that. You'll find that plenty of people agree with you. Trying to contort private expression into state expression isn't going to get you very far, either in terms of convincing others or legal action.

(FWIW: conflating "progressive" and "left" belies a fundamental misunderstanding of left-of-center politics. It's a misunderstanding that you're going to want to correct if you want people to entertain your positions.)
> I think that's a bit of a failure of the film that it doesn't stand truly on its own.

Kay, it's a story that seems to be very hard to make as a free-standing fillum. (I haven't seen the new movie, I'll be looking forward to it until it arrives on free-to-air). At least three producers have had a shot, and at least two have made a dogs-breakfast of it.

I mean, they had a good shot at doing something difficult - I don't mean to diminish their efforts.
Its not loving to control another person with draconian measures that further harm them with criminal sanctions that cause economic stress and stigmatize the person socially. Love would be creating a social environment that is capable of providing safer options, therapy, and letting people make their own choice about their health instead of treating them like criminals.
Not sure what you mean; What sense? what colonial standards?
dabs and yeets away
Yes but when the failure occurred in Texas, infrastructure was a focal point for weeks. It hasn’t even been mentioned for SF.
Did someone also just watch the NOVA on Neutrinos?

edit: https://www.pbs.org/video/particles-unknown-nod4fv/
Seems to have to do with that it's "hard rock" instead of something else, and the purity? Not sure, not a chemist/geologist, but here is what they say in the article about it:

> The Freemans and researchers at Plumbago North knew the crystals they found were extraordinary as soon as they uncovered them. To determine the concentration of lithium, they sent bulk samples for analysis at labs in Australia and Germany.

> The results, said Simmons, were astonishing. The deposit showed an average lithium oxide content of 4.68% by weight. That’s three times the average concentration of the world’s top 10 hard rock lithium mines. By comparison, the world’s second-richest hard rock lithium deposit, the Bernic Lake mine in Manitoba, has a lithium oxide content of 2.76% by weight and contains roughly eight million tons of ore.
> but no one in media will touch it in any depth.

He was eventually arrested because of a single reporters non-stop work: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/media/miami-hera...
I'm curious what the strategy is to get companies like Google to pay for it. Is it "all carrots" or are there any "sticks"? Like maybe rate limiting certain consumers?
30 point font it says 'Strawberry', the packaging has pictures of more fresh strawberries than are actually in the product. Yet in 8 point font on the backside it says strawberries don't make a substantial part of the product. Isn't that the misrepresentation?

Why don't we agree to call it what it actually is 'Red Flavor Poptarts' and then the suit can be dismissed.
It's been so many years since Clear Linux started showing up on benchmarks and beating everybody, I'm extremely disappointed that it's almost 2022 and the other distros still didn't adopt the improvements proposed by Clear. It's not like the things Clear does can't be done by Debian or Fedora or whatever, it's not like Clear is hiding their secrets from the others... Their improvements are, well, quite Clear for the others to copy.
Leaf blowers are great tools for a very tiny set of use cases. One of those is making dogs with floppy jowls go "blrpbbt".

Most of the place you see one in use they're just stupid, a vacuum would be far more sensible.

The message of "these leaves are a problem so I'm pushing them off somewhere they're no longer my problem" seems to be the greatest appeal for some users. The desire to stand out in your yard and say "fuck you" to your neighbors while drinking a 6 pack is one I can sympathize with, but there's quieter ways.
I'm not sure I would say often. The no speed limit stretches are much more limited than people outside of the country seem to think, and often are temporarily limited when needed, times of higher traffic, road work, near cities or on/off ramps, weather conditions, etc. It is not as much of a free for all as you make it out to be.

We already have laws that make people responsible if they are speeding and crash and hurt someone, and people still do it. The problem with your logic of "there should be no rule unless someone does something to hurt someone" is that people are not always rational, and once someone is hurt or killed it is too late. It is better to try and discourage the behaviour that hurts someone before it happens, rather than after.
Sequence Diagrams for Agile Teams
If you want a better adaptation, watch the 2000 miniseries version of it. It ran to nearly 5 hours and, contrary to this movie, your girlfriend won't have to wait two years to see how it turns out if she isn't interested in reading the book herself.
> Multiple monitors, high res monitors, printers, gaming and Bluetooth come to mind.

With respect to gaming, the parent was referring to work done in the browser, so probably not including gaming. We use consoles for all the gaming in our house, so at least for us that's a non-issue.

I have to disagree on printers. My experience with getting printers to work on Ubuntu is that you have to follow these steps:

Plug it in

Start printing

That's never really been the case for Windows. We used to have to mess with driver installation and then reboot. Sometimes we'd have to do more than that based on visiting a website. When Vista was first released, a lot of older printers were not supported, and that included one of ours. The only solution was to use Linux.

Just a few days ago, my (Windows-using) aunt was visiting and told me her printer stopped working. She has no idea how to get it to work and now she'll have to pay someone to figure it out for her. My mother has had similar issues. I don't much care about Linux vs Windows but I don't think printer support is a highlight of Windows.
This isn't an SHC[0] it's an HC1[1]

[0]: https://smarthealth.cards/
[1]: https://www.hc1.com/
Yeah, the utility is obvious. We just need to internalize GHG mitigation costs and then prices will hit the correct place. It’s unfortunate, but the most effective way to do this would be to actually tax power sources and power generation at source, which means fuel taxes.

It will be hella regressive, but that’s the reality. Most poor people are polluting the planet disproportionately to their output.
on a tangential note, i was fortunate to work at netsuite early in their development (00-10) and it was the best professional experience of my life. Their low attrition rate speaks to the caliber of their leadership
Where do you normally live?

I'm totally speculating based on my years living at high altitude, but if you also mostly reside at a higher altitude, you are acclimated to less oxygen, which could decrease your rate when you change to a location with more. If that were the reason, you could expect to see your RHR go back up to "normal" after a few weeks at sea level.

Or it could be something completely unrelated, I just didn't see this in your list of possible causes.
There is no such thing as a "recognised standards authority". Who would be the root standards authority to appoint other standards authorities? ;) And why can't the Reproducible Builds project be one of them?
Can somebody explain what the purpose of hibernate is in modern day?

I get how it was useful in 1995 when ACPI didn't exist. But now it's significantly slower to resume from than S3 suspend, which uses <1 watt, and it wears out your SSD. What is it good for?
Car styling being somewhat static does not imply that Scientific Progress is waning. You could say something similar about clothing styles: comparing clothing styles between 1980 and 1990 there was a lot of difference. Comparing between 2010 and 2020 - not much difference. This has a lot more to do with economics and tastes than scientific progress (or lack thereof).
why is it not called useReactDocs?
Well, I can agree with parts of that, and still, the new movie is worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Although slightly off-topic, your points are totally valid.

I remember reading something somewhere that said that even people whose job it is to digest large amounts of info daily would benefit from ideas expressed in a clear and direct way versus straight forward ideas that are made to appear complex.

In other words, even highly sophisticated readers will be able to read your pieces faster and by extension, consume more of your material when you go the extra length to express your ideas in clear and familiar language.

What do you now read in its place?
A counterpoint to this argument can be found in the "Main Linux Problems on desktop" that was posted a couple of days ago:

https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
I'm personally most interested in the typing and debugging improvements, but I imagine most people will be looking forward to the pattern matching (case statements).
Define: conspiracy theory

noun
a belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for an unexplained event.

Yeah that covers a lot of ground.
> And... different people buy devices at different times. What are they supposed to do to satisfy your standards, release one laptop every eight years?

Not constantly break and re-implement standards. Just stick with a nice evolutionary product line. It's a known marketing tactic to constantly introduce useless features in order to push more units.

Also, the standard for PCs is that support basically never ends, you can always install the newest OS until the computer literally can't run it anymore.
The Future Is Bleak. Pondering Pangaea Gives Me Hope
You seem very casual about very real threats to democracy. Is it because it's your team doing the agitation ?
Semi Design
Include proportional fonts.

I know I'm not the only one that uses one. Specially I use Input which has both mono and proportional versions and designed for programming.
I had some trouble for a few weeks this year with some AMD graphics firmware (crashing graphics under load after an suspend period), but an update corrected it the day after I began being annoyed enough to begin looking seriously for a solution.

It just works. It just worked (but for these few weeks) since I've been using a Linux laptop daily, which is since 2007 or 2008.
Bitcoin was created in no small part to address this problem. The fact that it's not addressing it is a legitimate criticism of the coin.

"Our brand new environmentally-inefficient, difficult-to-regulate, needlessly-complicated, easy-to-surveil currency also falls prey to the same financial consolidation outcomes of every other traditional currency" is not really the strong defense of Bitcoin that people seem to think it is. And "Bitcoin isn't established by state violence" doesn't work when states/corporations control most of the supply and have outsized control over the protocol. This kind of consolidation undermines Bitcoin's value as an experimental/democratic currency.

From the article:

> These observations led the NBER to conclude that despite the attention Bitcoin has received over the past few years, the ecosystem is still dominated by a concentration of key players, making the ecosystem susceptible to systemic risk like a 51 percent attack, where a group of miners could take control of the majority of the network.

If someone is legitimately, honestly trying to pitch Bitcoin as a democratizing currency, then seeing outcomes like this should be worrying to them. The regular dismissal that traditional currencies have the same problems makes it hard to take Bitcoin proponents seriously when they talk about societal benefits that the coin purportedly provides.

There's a disconnect here between the theory that Bitcoin allows equal participation by anyone in the network, and the reality that even the resources required to start participating in the network can be tightly regulated and are often controlled and manipulated through centralized state/corporate apparatus. And hand-wavy dismissals of that problem don't do the currency any favors. Why adopt a new currency that still has multiple downsides, if the upsides are constantly being waved away as unimportant by even the currency's own proponents?
> I'm only comparing commercial os's here,

Excellent, then RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu should have a very good showing. Unless you mean that you're just looking at Windows and MacOS, in which case yeah you're going to have a bad time.

> there are linux's that have app stores that bother you and popups about updates [...]and icons in your start/dock/panel that you didn't ask for

I suppose that's true, although I find them a lot less annoying.

> and scheduled reboots

Now you've lost me; what Linux distros automatically reboot in their default configuration? (I know you can make unattended-upgrades do that, but you have to go out of your way to set that up)

> that come with browsers that populate favorites for you automatically

I think that's moving the goalposts? Was default bookmarks brought up yet?

> and update themselves as well as reset settings between updates so if you turn off the sponsored crap it often turns back on..

I'm only aware of that happening at the browser layer, not the OS layer? Indeed much of why I like Linux distros is that when I change a setting it stays changed. Actually, what "sponsored crap" is even coming from the OS vendor in a Linux distro?
It is always lack of execution, I was on the Larrabee session at GDCE 2009, and wow it was going to take over the gaming world, history followed another path as we all know.

On a similar note, Solaris has successfully used memory tagging with SPARC ADI, ARM is following along with MTE, meanwhile Intel removed the buggy MPX from their chips.

Then we have the whole StrongArm or Edison boards.

NVidia is very strong in tooling, documentation and being open to polyglot programming on their GPUs, to a level that Intel and AMD keep failing at.
This page doesn’t actually list any features or explain why you should use exa instead of ls. The homepage [0] is more useful in this regard.

0: https://the.exa.website/
Inbreeding and the Downfall of the Spanish Hapsburgs
The point is that Facebook has a machine learning algorithm that assigns 5x as many points to ":-(" than to "like".

Sure, conspiracies exist on occasion. But by favoring the "angry" conspiracies over all others, you're still making a negative environment.