skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but my MacOS does the same

MacOS also sucking is not a defense of Windows, especially when Linux distros do better.

> Ads in the start menu? those are apps... silly... sure.. worthwhile of a rage fest? nah..

> Ads in lock screen? never seen anything such... i get a lock screen that says what information about the image and how to find out more.

I guess it's nice that you haven't seen ads and don't mind them when you do see them, but that doesn't make it okay.

> Ads in file manger? wut?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14872464/windows-10-onedri...

> Ads when you change default browser? wut?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-recommend-edge-user...

> Telemetry? can be stopped and blocked and there are tools and services to do this. In Next DNS, Google and Apple have as much, if not more telemetry per device.

It can be reduced, possibly stopped, by adding third-party tools. That you need extra tools is unacceptable. And again, Apple and Google also doing bad stuff is very much not an excuse.
The biggest reason why Cadbury Eggs suck in the US is because the brand Cadbury is owned by Hersey and they make terrible chocolate. Get some in the UK the next time you're there.

(Yes, the eggs have shrunk)
It's not quite interpreted. Python is compiled to bytecode when first loaded (that's what all those .pyc files are) and there is no separate compile step as with Java.
> Changes in the build pipeline won’t be encoded in the git sha, since usually those are stored separately.

Build pipelines should be versioned as well. Correlate the application sha with the pipeline sha and you have both sources.

> And if you pull in a non-reproducible library, time will matter a lot.

I'd argue that if your application is pulling in a non-reproducible library and using it, then your application won't be reproducible until you've made the libraries you're using also reproducible. Otherwise the entire idea falls apart.
The M25 is our Maginot Line
>The biological differences are tiny and insignificant for human populations if compared to clusters based on environmental differences.

You meant “the biologically induced behaviour differences” didn’t you? Because otherwise in general it’s trivially false. It’s the reason why actually blacks in the USA suffered during decades from being prescribed drugs whose safety were nearly exclusively tested on white males.
Just had to do this a week ago to get a launch icon for Spring Tool Suite that is Eclipse based (not an sh file). This is a real pain, especially for people who are not familiar with a terminal. On Windows, you right click on any exe and create a shortcut.

Why: hit the Win key, type Spri and hit enter. I hope that is enough of a motivation.
My favorite part was the gaslighting done by Cadbury. “It hasn’t gotten smaller, you’ve gotten bigger”
It is just not to set the initial conditions. It needs to be guided constantly. The probabilities need to be updated periodically, alternate paths need to be mapped (e.g. bring the plan back on track after The MULE). Hence the Second Foundation and the need for people to be unaware of them.

(spoiler) Even the entity, beyond the Second Foundation, who started everything and keeps it on track.
It's worth noting that scientific progress in the Soviet Union seriously stagnated in the Lysenko era due to the prioritization of ideology and the destruction of independent science.

I'd argue we are seeing the same thing in many western countries, especially the USA, under the ideology of corporate control of academic research. Much can be traced back to Bayh-Dole legislation in the 1980s, which allowed universities to exclusively license patents (which had been developed with taxpayer money) to private entities.

This created a new system of control and influence in academics, i.e. the Intellectual Property Office. What it really represented was the offloading of R & D burdens from the private sector to the public sector, while retaining private control of the patents generated in the public sector.

This means academic scientists in the USA today labor under the constraints imposed by large profit-minded corporations, just as academic scientists in the Soviet Union labored under constraints imposed by communist ideologues.

This is clearly seen in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors, where research into treatments for conditions is limited to patentable drugs only, older out-of-patent drugs are seen as unprofitable even if they're show to be effective treatments for off-label conditions.

Another good example is the elimination of R&D programs for renewable energy by the state; as fossil fuel interests infiltrated government and exerted regulatory capture at institituions like the Department of Energy, solar R&D programs in the USA were basically eliminated in the 1980s and 1990s (leading countries like China, Germany and Japan to become the world leaders).

There was also the gutting of environment pollution research that used to be funded by USGS, again due to regulatory capture and threats to deny funding in the 1990s.

Basically, the new ideology in American science institutions seems to be 'only do research into subjects that can generate profits for our corporate sponsors', much as it was in the Soviet Union, where the line was 'only do research whose conclusions support the communist ideology'.
After a year of ‘rampant’ cheating, elite bridge tries to clean up
1) A lot of CI pipelines already do it by utilizing ldflags in go-build command. I don't think if few kilobytes more will matter much.

2): It will not be added (based on information provided in the article [0]).

3): Is it valid question? By my basic understanding of article the case of adding more bytes to binary will require having the main package [0]. Also, generation (e.g. gogo-proto, go:generate) will create only business logic code in new package, no additional metadata will be added.

[0] Quote from article:

> Version control information is embedded if the go command is invoked in a directory within a Git or Mercurial repository, and the main package and its containing main module are in the same repository.
100% HN

Pick any object and they are insanely different to the 80's.

With exponential change since the internet.

Look at a clothes peg, look at a screwdriver, look at a drill, look at a wheelchair, look at at fridge and look at a car.

A clothes peg 1980 - 2000 a linear amount of change, post internet 2000 - 2020 exponential amount of change.

Cars are so different it's hard to know where to start. Seat belts, air bags, paints, roof bars, lights, unleaded fuel, glass, cup holders (yes they matter), seat covers, car smells, locks, just keep on listing parts. Electric. GPS. LOMAX. Is this a troll? You'd be here forever.

Some general ideas existed in the 80s (like the idea of rockets existed a thousands years ago), some are new ideas, and some are ideas that have finally gained acceptance, some are ideas that are now affordable, some are ideas that need the material science, some are ideas that need the new processes, some are ideas that need the supply chains.

A lot of these marvels are not scientists though. It's commerce and internal company inventors that have changed the clothes peg for the better for instance. Maybe some of the material science is from universities, maybe.
The First Ever Free-Flying Commercial Space Station
It’s nothing about American pride.

Did any of those advantages exist before Amazon was massive? Or did Amazon become massive because it was providing better service?

Online ordering is complicated for Amazon because Amazon is massive. It is not that complicated for small bookstores, who absolutely are using computerized inventory (at least every small bookstore I’ve ever been to has). Even if online ordering isn’t an option, “call your friendly bookstore employee to order” is an option. That’s what I mean by not being lazy - you can jump to excuses and asking the government to help, or you can come up with creative solutions to serve your customers.

Speaking of COVID, there actually are strong parallels. At the start of the pandemic, a bunch of restaurants just gave up and closed - they didn’t even attempt to find creative solutions. Other restaurants - presumably the ones with less lazy and/or stuck-in-their-ways owners - came up with creative solutions. They did takeout. They made stay-at-home craft projects to foster community over social media. They offered cooking classes with local meal kit delivery. They adapted their restaurants to facilitate delivery and takeout. Several restaurants actually ended up with larger, more prosperous businesses.

Also: it may strain your imagination, but Amazon was large and successful _before_ they had a delivery network. And they continued to grow because they provided better service, even when they were dependent on UPS and USPS. French booksellers (and all booksellers) could have chosen to improve their service in the face of competition for the years it took Amazon to create a delivery network.

At least in the US (maybe the French could copy if it doesn’t work like this) local shipping via post is actually very fast; very likely within two days if it doesn’t need to go to a distribution center. Amazon has to build thousands of warehouses to take advantage of that; grandpa’s local bookseller can naturally take advantage of that geographic locality to customers. Or they could team up with other booksellers and form a shipping alliance/partnership (this also exists among US local bookstores). Shoprunner exists. There are creative solutions beyond just giving up and asking the government to make books more expensive for everyone.

Local booksellers (the good ones, anyway) are doing fine in the US, even post-COVID. So I don’t really know why you’re making excuses for them. The French people deserve to get great service from their local booksellers.
> MS Teams installation:? Neither linux nor macos install Slack/Discord/etc for you out of the gate.

In all fairness, iMessage probably counts. Not that I consider "but Apple also does bad things!" to be a defense.
There isn't a daemon to speak off, they are shared libraries that you load and call functions on.

I don't know much about R, but if it considers the whole memory space of the R process, it probably counted the memory consumption of the libraries themselves as well.
A fun game you can do using this is picking two random pages, and get from one to the other in the least steps possible / as fast as possible.

Hard rules:

Lists (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_advertising_c...) can't be navigated to

Back button can't be used (click wisely)

Additional rule:

Ctrl+F banned
Any font can have ligatures now

https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer
Would it be fair to say that currently the product only compiles Jinja, with recompile-on-save? If not, what else does it do?
IMHO ... Cinnamon Pop Tarts are still bad ass
Waste management is a multi-trillion dollar industry.
That’s very interesting. But those figures are from May, and once you include ASIC price the average is $19,000 at 5.5 cents per kwh.

Is that the average electricity price paid today, after the China ban? If either electric rates or hardware costs have risen, then the cost rises.

The article also ignores other costs: staff, accounting, real estate, all the other costs involved in running a company.

It’s just looking at an ASIC magically teleported to a generator, and magically protected from the elements. Useful calculation but not 100% of costs.

Would be very interested if someone did that calc. Probably can find it for RIOT or MARA by digging through their books. May do it for fun later.
PWC Ok'd Evergrande Books That Counted “Unbuilt and Unsold Properties” as Assets
Uh, you might want to take a look at some of the comments up the chain of this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988704

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988813

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988903
>>The company extracted roughly 800,000 tons of copper and zinc before flooding the area, turning it into Goose Pond.

>>The former mine is now a Superfund site, and a 2013 study by researchers at Dartmouth College found widespread evidence of toxic metals in nearby sediment, water and fish. Cleanup costs, borne by taxpayers, are estimated between $23 million and $45 million.

Yup, that company successfully extracted the value and externalized the costs onto the taxpayers - they got the benefit and we hold the bag of crap.

Which is precisely why the laws were passed in the first place, because this was not an exception, but standard procedure.

If they want to relent and allow standard mining, then they need to require an up-front bond of the appropriate amount to fund the cleanup, on the scale of $100 million.

Anything short of that is utterly foolish (it's not like we're ignorant of standard mining practices).

<sarc>I'm sure the financial genius MBAs can figure it out (along with how to still screw the general public plebes). </sarc>
I think "scientific progress is waning" is maybe not the correct phrase. I think it's more like "scientific establishment is waning" or "scientific efficiency" or something like that. The issue isn't so much "is progress being made?" I think that's clearly the case. The question is "are resources being wasted?" or "what are the opportunity costs?"

The blog post at the end kind of focuses on turnover of ideas and progress, which I'm not sure is quite the right focus. I think the original question, about how papers are being cited, are good papers being cited enough, are bad papers being cited too much, are papers being cited appropriately, is probably more on-point.

I think people have this schema that academic science is a bunch of brilliant people just looking around, and when one of them comes up with a brilliant idea, others recognize it because they're brilliant, and then it floats to the top. What happens in reality is really different: you have a bunch of people who are pretty smart, but not always as brilliant as they are made out to be, and they have their own misunderstandings, blind spots, and biases. Ideas explode in popularity because the field as a whole is ready to understand or accept them, not because of the ideas per se.

Re: "political attacks" I think this that's self-inflicted in that the worst part of all of this is the denial of how broken academics is at the moment among the scientific establishment. In any event, the focus of the article isn't really even about typical conservative anti-climate, anti-vaccine research, it's about citation patterns, written by academics, about academics.
General Aviation was destroyed for many reasons, none of which were really technology or innovation problems. Commercial General Aviation was decimated by NIMBAs, Commercial Airline pressure, massive population growths, expensive to insure/maintain/own and to be honest, a lack of care of passion from aviation for the past few generations.

But.. the homebuilt and sport space has innovated quite a bit - glass cockpits, auto pilots, efficient engines, electric power plants, micro jets, composite aircraft..
Yes. In fact, I do almost all of my coding in Common Lisp. I'm even getting paid for some of it :-) I'm working part time for Intel helping them maintain an internal design tool written in CL. I run my own email server that runs a spam filter that I wrote in CL, and the e-commerce system that processes orders for my crypto dongle is written in CL. As an exercise I wrote a sudoku solver in CL a while back.
If America is benefiting from the Lithium we should also be mining it at home. Let's not shift our negative cost externalities to a different nation but instead own them.
are commissions, paywalls, and just general donations avenues to supporting artists? is the "ownership" of NFT something people really care about?

I know I don't
R.U.R is a fantastic work that unfortunately has been perpetually shrouded in obscurity, despite its outsized popular influence. I highly recommend reading it.
https://archive.md/AS4eH
I think there are a lot of major, groundbreaking discoveries ahead of us in fields like biology and applied physics. I think it's plausible that we may be able to cure aging in our lifetimes. I think that we're going to see breakthrough discoveries in socioeconomics and anthropology too.

With that said, you can only discover electrons once. The last new particle discovered was the Higgs Boson, and what are the practical applications of the Higgs? Nothing compared with the practical applications of the electron.

So, waning? Probably not, at least, not yet. But, we are getting out into the branches of science and not working on the roots anymore.
Ok sorry I was unclear. In 20 years it could be just a few months indoors, and by end of century all the time.

The actual paper linked from the article links to some research like: "systematic relationships were found between most of the cognitive function scores and CO2 concentration, including from 550–945 ppm". Thinking that in 20 years we could go over 550ppm outside certainly isn't a fantasy, or?
And when they got criticised for it, they removed them instead of keeping them.
I have a .CMD file on my desktop.
Edit preamble: I am referring to the last 4 laptops I have owned; havent had a desktop in a decade.

This hasn't been my experience. Multi-monitor and hidpi only worked out of the box on one distro (pop_os!) and printing to an old brother laser printer only ever worked from Windows.

That said, if I was doing scientific computing via matlab or what not, I would probably grab pop_os over windows too. I still do most of my development work on linux, and video / gaming / home office from the windows partition.
There you go! We can call it CARPA (Climate Advanced Research Projects Agency) to help sell it.
Its just individuals deploying their code over clearnet with computers they found on darknet RDP marketplaces

The authorities are so incompetent in generating consequences that they have go with the idea that Putin signed off on the action himself, just to deflect

“A dozen intelligence agencies” are all going to have the same evidence: a non-VPN IP address

People are really gullible, remember when even just that turned into a partisan thing a few years ago? lulz. idiots.
Holy shit! I wonder if this is something to do with some app devs not using the APIs as intended and it not mattering until now, but that seems so unlikely - surely the population of the menu bar is nigh-inescapably standardized (edit: double-unlikely, considering the battery icon example in that thread). It's always so disheartening to see screwups this obvious in the Apple ecosystem. The upside of their dictatorial style is supposed to be the absence of things like this.
Is the discovery of CRISPR as revolutionary to humanity as fire and electricity?
If one isn't full celiac, one could take a gluten ease before eating 'em.
Many news articles also. Disinformation is going on on both sides
The corporate media pushed the Russiagate conspiracy theory for 4 years, how is that different?
I dont think it matters whether they are oppressed or need a savior.

The ridiculous thing about that narrative is that an alien with their own agenda (most likely not for the benefits of the native) is somehow given leadership
Ironically, Clear Linux is developed by Intel.
> decent programmers usually produce code that works correctly the first time it successfully compiles, so running and testing it is not so important.

Wow, that is a very big call.
In any field, you will have lower fruit to pick.

> We have arguably regressed, as starship will just take us to where we were before, being able to reach the moon.

How good were we ever at reaching the moon, though?
"Taxes fund schools, universities, fire and police departments, public health measures, and plenty of other things that make life more livable" emphasis mine

It seems this premise is debatable and subject to variable weight depending on how much value an individual sees in those institutions, and more importantly what that money is actually spent on.
Intel Back to Playing the Long Game, Not the Wrong Game
I just got off the Destiny subreddit, why must you drag me back in!

They really do though, some RASPUTIN level AI just naming things.
I think this was a good idea, executed on poorly. If they had registered a domain and sent email from {mainAntagonist}@{badGuyOrganization}.com that had different text based on if you completed the game or not, that would've been cool. I'd just use plain text even, no images for a authentic feel. A little additional content and a lure back into the game. Instead it ended up both creepy and uninspired.
Jeebus. I HATE the soundtrack. I can't stand Zimmer anymore. He keeps doing the same old textured two notes synth effects, loud booming brass basses and metallic clanking percussion noises since Inception or whatever, that fit perfectly trailers but but gets the more tiring the longer the movie. Each new film has an even more repetitive and loud soundtrack than the last one, pretending to be dramatic, but hint: drama is born from changes of emotions and atmosphere, not constant loud drones. Plus these insufferable pretentious noises never stop; in opposition to the mystical, meditative nature of the story, clearly calling for moments of contemplative silence, there's a constant background of "braooowww" "oooohh" and "clang clang". Ick. The movie was pretty good, but the "music" really degraded the experience for me.
> China has banned cryptocurrencies [1]. So there is precedent. (Until recently, I believed nobody had an incentive to mess with cryptocurrencies. They're too niche and too attractive as a revenue source.)

China's ban on crypto had very little effect on Bitcoin although a large share of the Bitcoin mining used to be located in China.

> In the scenario that close to 50% of Bitcoin miners and a similar fraction of Bitcoins become possibly (though not irrefutably) state controlled, you're claiming it would be trivial to just fork them away? Who makes that decision? If those people can just uncoin wallets of their choosing, why bother with a cryptocurrency in the first place?

First, let me preface by saying that I find this scenario very unlikely. China might have had the ability to do it at some point but no longer now that all the miners have left. USA now has the largest share of the mining power but it can't just suddenly seize all miners to perform a 51% attack due to the way government works. At minimum, a law would have to be passed and the miners would have already left the country by the time it did. Finally, the US does not even have 51% of the hash rate (about 35% currently).

But let's say it does happen. The vast majority of the community (exchanges, merchants, users, etc.) would likely move to a hard fork with a slightly changed PoW algorithm that would render all those seized miners obsolete. Governments and wealthy individuals know about this possibility which gives them even less of an incentive to pursue a costly 51% attack.
> The suit filed by the Illinois woman focuses on her perception that strawberries "protect your heart, increase HDL (good) cholesterol, lower your blood pressure and guard against cancer."

This strikes me as... not being in good faith.

"I thought Pop Tarts would prevent cancer" is silly.
there are some "healthy competitors" that just have a jam filling around a while wheat breading(?)