skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is marginal impact.

Yes, but meaningless. If you want something to change, you typically don't settle for changing it by one in two billion.

> You are correct that I am both a libertarian and economist type, and that is born out of my love for rationality.

I used to take this stance until I learned about systems theory (and later critical theory, which is just systems theory applied to sociology*). Now I realise that libertarianism is only rational if socioeconomic individualism (ie, no collective action, no changing of institutions) is an axiom that you accept on faith.

*kind of, it's more complicated than that.

Oh, and systems theory is the flipside of cybernetics, which is one of the main rational bases of both automation and computing. It is itself a rational field.

> To do what you propose, you need to implement regulation. It is unclear to me how changing worker bargaining would impact the practices of Google towards consumers.

In theory, sure, maybe Google workers don't have to care about this stuff. But they do, and there's been lots of internal activism within Google about reducing the company's negative externalities.

> To implement regulation, you'll need to define some harm that is being incurred by a third party that is not voluntarily participating in a private transaction. What is the basis for the proposed regulation?

I reject your dilemma because if taken as-is, there would also be no argument against monopolies or monopsonies as they are caused by free individuals participating voluntarily in private transactions.

> I don't think libertarianism exists to remove challenges to corporate power. Rather, it seems to me that it is rooted in, "live and let live." Unless there is a negative externality that is incurred by an unwilling participant, there should be no regulation. Morality is not the job of the state.

Libertarianism is rooted in deregulation of private industry, which objectively increases corporate power by removing constraints on their actions. I understand the belief behind it being "live and let live" because if you formulate a free market system from the position of an individual voluntary transaction, and don't look at the higher-order effects that can come from that, then it seems like a good ideology. I believed this myself, maybe 10 years ago.

> Morality is not the job of the state.

Regulation is, though. Plus, laws are how we enforce the Overton window of our collectively agreed-upon moral beliefs - theft is the illegalisation of stealing, after all, and murder is illegal too; I would assume you're OK with these laws.
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Somewhat off-topic, but I'd really like to know the real reason I can't buy Turpentine in CA.

The petrochemicals they allow are more toxic than a pine tree distillate you can probably drink.

It's created a situation where there's basically no food-safe thinners sold on the shelves of my local CA hardware stores. Never in my life would I have imagined the turpentine I handled in childhood would one day be difficult to access contraband...

I ended up buying a can out of state to thin some pure tung oil for finishing a food surface. Boggles the mind.
So if I am understanding it correct, the hardware acceleration is GPU accelerated compositing, transforms, etc.

I hope someday someone will crack GPU accelerated vector path rendering.
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Context: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared at COP26 that we need "action on cash"[1].

Since cash ostensibly has not a lot to do with climate change, in the light of the article above this is fairly scary to me.

[1] https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1455076689772429313
> when days are short, you really want to get the daylight in the morning not in the evening

That is your opinion which many do not share. As long as it is light out by 9am I don’t care.
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I belong to an exclusive group that has needed to write software that calculates the time span between two (local) instants in time. And now, we can't just use GMT. The inputs we get are local time, by specification.

I have strong opinions about DST. And even more fringe-y, I have opinions about time zones too.
Preindustrial people haven’t been a part of global economy nearly to the same degree we are. They haven’t had to coordinate so much with other people in their daily tasks.

Think about a factory working in shifts: it cannot work effectively if every worker comes whenever it suits him, works for 8 hours and leaves. You need coordination to achieve efficiency.

Same is true for most other places of employment. Government offices and retail establishments have opening hours. Schools have schedules. Sure, in some jobs, there is a lot of flexibility, but not all of them can provide that, so as a society, we will be stuck with schedules and tyranny of the clock for the foreseeable future.
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My tip, which helped me become consistent and motivated at the gym, is to make it part of your morning ritual. I am a morning person, so I find that making it a non-negotiable part of my morning forces me into the habit and also forces me to consistently eat a solid breakfast. At first I felt that I needed to force myself to go, but at this point I am so deep in the habit that I look forward to it each morning.
Don't you worry about that, BoJo is on the case. He'll get the UK onto chlorine washed chicken soon enough!
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I grew up in Indiana when they were on standard time year-round. It was light until well after 8:00pm in the summer, that's enough.
"How google search works", Google's marketing page
They legally own it in the sense that they are the legally registered owners, currently.

They do not legally own it in the sense that the original owner will not be able to eventually recover it after the fraud is unravelled.

Your instinct that this is odd is correct. It is odd because it isn't actually true. The statement of a police officer made while standing on the street outside someone's house deciding whose story to believe is not the final legal verdict on this case.
Are you seriously suggesting that society could operate on system where people just work at any time of the day whenever they felt like it?
I'm happy to rant about it all year round, and regularly do.
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NEDC range is about 80% of EPA range, so that would probably be ~150-200 miles of range if it sold in the US.

$16k is great though. The base Nissan Leaf is $27k for 150 miles. At the same time, I'm not sure how much importing it would raise that. If, like you said, it sells for $25k in the US, that's a decent value if it's other features are comparable to a base Leaf, but I don't think it would decimate the competition.
Sometimes it's too late. The best dictator in the western world isn't the one who sends the army down the streets to shoot protesters, but the one who controls information so that people after years of being dazed by the same propaganda will vote him in power without any coercion. Sadly bad rulers sometimes have more resources than good ones, which turns out in more online/tv/radio/newspaper presence used to spread their propaganda.

If we could force somehow politicians to count on the same exact public exposure, from rallies to apparently trivial things such as tweets, that would possibly change something, but to me a similar scenario in this universe is near science fiction.
Futex2 work to help Linux gaming going into Kernel 5.16
This seems pretty on-brand for a Squid Game themed token, honestly. I'm not sure what else buyers were expecting. (Were they expecting this to be like an episode of Oprah where the audience all get a free car?)
Is this why chicken should be rinsed, to remove the chlorine?
Was it? It is pretty well known that one of the main obstacles for populations such as poorer people, women, minorities, or anyone else in a position position where someone has power over them that they can be coerced into questionable activities and they have no recourse because there is no proof.
Can’t agree more. But a gap in the CV is much worse than working with idiots a few months.
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Well, Apple's devices presumably don't have any trouble rendering SVG on CPU. As explained in the intro, the embedded CPUs on the blenders do. The unusual part here is that they decided to fix it instead of just falling back to a less featureful UI framework, which I'd say demonstrates an unusual commitment to quality user experience (or if you want to be cynical, flashy user experience).
>Technological progress in hamburger making? It’s meat between bread.

That big mac is at the end of a literally global supply chain. The cost of the tires on the car of the fry cook and the number of temperature sensors one can afford to put in the reefer ship that gets the tomatoes from Argintina all have an impact on the overhead of a big mac. And this is in addition to all the direct process improvements others have mentioned. Heck, the internet has opened up a whole new world of operational efficiency for the farmer that grows the grain that feeds the cattle. He can buy parts for his machines or compare spec sheets for fertilizers from his iphone while sitting in the cab of his tractor that almost drives itself. In 2001 he had to thumb through a catalog or call someone.
If you're not an expert on British law what makes you feel able to make such a confident and surprising claim?
I find it fascinating that the supreme court has upheld the ability to forgo so many purportedly inalienable rights via contract.
I just look at the new price and used price, so the data problem is on Amazon's end. I have no way to tell whether an item that is sold for $5000 is truly worth $5000 or not. I have tried implementing a check for this in the past using some statistics, but I decided it's better to leave some potential bad deals on than to remove them but also remove other really good deals. I've contacted Amazon's customer service about that particular item and they told me they would forward it to the right team, but I don't know if they have policies against ridiculous prices.
We should all be very worried that your comment is being downvoted here.

I think this forum has been filled with millennial leftist ideologues, many of whom are Chinese communist party sympathizers, in part because they have attended occidental universities, many of which receive funding from the Chinese communist party. Many of these folks also partake in "main stream media" television programming, which is also funded, in part, by the Chinese communist party.

The fact that you have to use the qualifying statement, "...put on my conspiracy theory hat...", in order to say something so axiomatic and glaringly obvious, is frightening itself.

I sometimes wonder if these same people would be actively engaged in the voluntary censorship of a modern Paul Revere, on behalf of an invading Chinese army. Perhaps they already are, all over the place, and they just don't yet know.
> What was the last service of this size that was down for 4 days

Was "only" two days, but Fortnite just shutdown for 2 days as a part of an end-of-season event back in 2019 https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/2019/10/13/20911691/fortnit...

https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/2019/10/13/20911691/fortnit...
Damn, wish I'd known about this while I was on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft (mid 2017 to late 2020). I even used to work in the same building as Austin. Then again, if I'm honest, I would only have used this tool to waste time satisfying idle curiosity; I was never specifically tasked with reducing binary size.
Thanks for the suggestions, these all look good!
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Choreographed movement from dynamically balanced robot is nothing new.

What we want to see is headlines like "Boston Dynamics Robots Imitate Hyundai Assembly Line Worker" and "Boston Dynamics Robots Imitate Amazon Fulfillment Center worker"

Robot interacting and manipulating objects, reacting to its environment etc.
Not yet, but I think this is the rare (book) project that seems to get people asking me exactly your question. I'll be starting to share materials as the project comes along.

Really appreciate your interest! Your experience is illuminating, and not unexpected.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29062736
> "Experts say" is a call to authority.

"Experts say" vaccines help (a) reduce your chances of getting COVID, and (b) not suffering as badly from it should you contract it.

Perhaps some of the "experts" who study how daylight effects us should at least be consulted before changes be made. The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms:

> Local and national governments around the world are currently considering the elimination of the annual switch to and from Daylight Saving Time (DST). As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently. Four peer reviewers provided expert critiques of the initial submission, and the SRBR Executive Board approved the revised manuscript as a Position Paper to help educate the public in their evaluation of current legislative actions to end DST.

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31170882/

* https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730419854197

World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology:

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. […]

* https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00944

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

We can still ignore the experts after they have their say of course.
I'm not confusing them. I am aware that all JVM languages depend on a JVM implementation to run. But the point is that if Oracle lock away OpenJDK then updates to the Java language are effectively closed source. That's a separate problem to supporting Kotlin etc.

To put it another way, I'm sure the Kotlin community is big enough to continue developing/maintaining their own JVM implementation (or just use the Android one). I don't think the Java community (that is, people who contribute to open source Java code; not just enterprises that use Java) is big enough to continue development of the Java language.
Recovering data from a failed cache using a surviving cache (1998)
Safety bars exist for a reason and personally I've gone until complete failure many times without any issues. The real risk here is an acute injury caused by incorrect form. But if you go light and consciously make an effort perfect your form you'll be safe. A home gym is actually great for this since you can take videos of yourself without looking weird.
Text is far superior to video for conveying (most types of) information. It's not so great for building individual relationships. An ideal VR metaverse would be focused on the latter.
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I mean, you aren't wrong about some people, who buy books as a status sign.

But, as a counterpoint - I buy physical books because (a) my eyes hurt when reading an e-reader; (b) paper-white are laggy so far, that's annoying; and (c) I am easily, EASILY distracted when on a device that faces the internet. The only way to get immediate response, no eye-strain, and no access to technology is a physical book.
So, your answer to somebody that found it difficult to get help from the c++ community is to first admit your are a misanthrope then direct the other guy to: go read some books and learn it for yourself!

Kind of proving the other persons point for them...
> How Netflix got lumped into

Otherwise it would be a slur.
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I'd like to see more information about that. I remember that Penguin Computing offered such some 15 years ago, but don't know where it was deployed or still is. Cray and IBM had also such a concept for their superclusers in the past, but are they still using such? The one HPC environment I worked on (a major car manufacturer in Europe) used plain RH Linux on all nodes as recently as three years ago.

The current #1 (Fugaku) uses IHK/McKernel as kernel for the actual payload. The previous #1 (IBM Summit) seems to use RH Linux though. Perhaps, since the most performance critical part is run by and within the GPGPU(s), the actual OS doesn't matter all that much (for performance -- it matters of course for programmer's comfort/efficiency).
DST must go! It’s giving whole countries jet lag two times per year. It’s like leaded gasoline for the collective mind, which BTW was introduced around the same time and also considered a good idea. Except there is no scientific reasoning behind DST. It’s purely for convenience for some. The astronomer who seriously proposed it wanted more daylight hours to devote to collecting and examining insects… Arghh
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066463
No, it's pass-by-name, which can feel like pass-by-reference. And yes, it's only that.
The problem is not with trolling per se (there is troll-like behaviour IRL, and we have learned to deal with it appropriately) but with scale and amplification of trolling by that oligopoly of a small handful of social platforms serving millions of locked-in users each with tailored content that their algorithms consider “engaging” for this particular person.

Big Social is in symbiosis with trolls and profits by giving them platform, and I suspect this will remain so for as long as their business model has the advertisers as primary paying customers and main source of revenue.

That said, targeted persistent trolling (I prefer to call it bullying though) is horrible, and I’m sure there are extreme cases where jail may actually be warranted.