skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full transparency of how the system classifies a given person, person is fully annonymous and it's based on reputation alone. Then let ME decide the parameters of what I want to see. Treat it like a decision support system for content. Can be gamed for sure, but give new accounts the base defaults only (like certain subreddits do) and it would eliminate most of this since the barrier to abusing it is very high. Also, teach users that they might sometimes see something weird or bad, be transparent with them. This shielding behavior is like a helicopter parent soccer mom "protecting" their kid. It's annoying there and it's dangerous here.
If they’re paying more per impression how is that shooting themselves in the foot?
Your average cashier probably doesn't know or care.
modern machine learning (and reinforcement learning in particular) is a grandchild of B.F. Skinner work
unfortunately such situations often degenerate into a tyranny of the minority, the UK house of lords as a mechanism for the aristocracy to keep holding power with a veneer of democracy is a good example, which is why it has steadily lost political legitimacy through time.

I don't think there is good evidence that the senate has in fact made the USA stronger as a nation, the only thing I have ever seen on the topic is how it theoretically might be the case, but history has shown it to long be a blocker of reforms that end up happening anyways, with a great deal more political bullshit than necessary.
Honestly, though the numbers are bigger and floating point arithmetic is fast on a modern GPU this still sounds a lot like how we work nowadays.

I recently spent two years on the performance team for a large indie title and a huge portion of it was asking artists to simplify meshes, improve LODs, increase the amount of culling we could do on the CPU, etc.

My own work was mainly optimising the rendering itself.
K8s might save you from crashes affecting availability but what about data corruption, logicals errors sound APIs etc.? I'm guessing if code quality is neglected all of these suffer.
CGN has exponentially increasing cost overruns and delays like the rest of 'em. It's just cheaper to have the cost overruns and delays because of their low cost of financing - which in turn is a big ol' chunk of the underlying problem behind the rash of state bank insolvencies that was the big news before the real estate insolvencies eclipsed them
For perspective correct texture mapping quake did the distance divide every 8 pixels on the FPU, and the affine texture mapping on the integer side of the CPU in between (you can actually see a little bit of “bending”, if you stand right next to a wall surface in low res like 320x200).

Since the FPU could work in parallel with the integer instructions on the pentium, this was almost as fast as just doing affine texture mapping.

This worked even on the basic Pentium.

It was likely also the reason Quake was a unplayable on the 486 and Cyrix 586.
Not sure. Skinner was at Harvard and Chomsky was at MIT. But Skinner was much more established in his respective field at that time, which is why Skinner made the mistake of ignoring the review. Skinner didn't believe Chomsky, or linguists generally, understood Verbal Behavior, which further encouraged him to ignore the review. At the end of the day, you can't have a real debate between two views unless both views are properly understood. Useful reference: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223959896_Skinner_a...
But don't you end up with tyranny of the minority? Small states, that fit a very niche demographic, end up being pivotal in decisions that affect the lives of millions of Americans, often due to the intense lobbying that is targeted at these senators.
>what he identified as Google’s “vision for the web’s future and examples of best-in-class web experiences.”

I'm not sure Google should be the only one to decide the web's future.

Since they quasi monopolized the browser, they act like they own the web.
Every time I see news like this, I am amazed by the absolute lack of permission management in nodejs and npm.

I mean, a package.json with changing permissions and an alert or manual confirmation step could've easily fixed this.

NPM is pretty much the definition of a security nightmare, because you cannot guarantee anything.

Any dependency down the tree can compromise anything upstream.

I think that package managers must offer build bots that use the source codes (git repositories) as sources of truth rather than their own packages. That's the only way that comes to mind to guarantee that the publisher of the package is actually the same owner.

If a git repo changes, warn all users. If a permission changes, warn all users. If a header/symbol file changes, warn all users.
Matt Huang joins Stripe’s board of directors
The head of state, (as opposed to a head of government) acts as a symbolic center for belief in the “civic religion” of a country. Having them be separate allows for a sense of continuity, stability, and security —- that the entire world is not about to collapse into corruption and chaos —- to be maintained whilst the head of government can change in response to more rational needs for changes in policy.
> The ideological spread between Joe Manchin and AOC covers most of the ground covered by center and left European parties.

Most Americans don't have the option to vote for AOC or Joe Manchin (nor for their ideological equivalents). Neither for congress, nor for the President. They get shit candidates and still vote for them because the only viable alternative is an even worse candidate from a party you hate more than the other one. This is very much by design of FPTP, because it prevents third party competition from posing any threat to established parties. The two parties just pick their ideologies from a list of hot topics and never face any competition for the implementation of those ideologies.

This is very much not the case in more proportional voting systems, which provide true political competition across the political spectrum, not just superficial ideological posturing that isn't subject to competition. This is all very well known both practically and academically with tons of research to back it up. Youtube and wikipedia have all the mechanics, the references, and real world data, spelled out.

> Just that what a 2-party system lacks in superficial variety it may more than make up for in internecine disagreement

Sure, a political duopoly is better than a monopoly, but just like in other markets, only slightly so. Political power is a market like any other market, and needs significant competition from more than a couple actors to produce outcomes that are best for the consumers (voters). Even that AmEx case is a prime example, a direct result of shitty parties produced by this shitty election system. And that result will stay here for decades if not forever, regardless of which party is in power, because this election system is not going anywhere, and will keep producing such results.
It works for the desktop OSes that actually matter and are worth selling software to, the fact that it is still relevant is the issue.
> At work we have microservices crashing 20 times a week but SLOs are not affected since traffic is routed to surviving pods.

This probably makes a lot of people have strong negative emotions, but at the same time i feel that you're not wrong and it's the only way to deal with the modern web dev, where clients/business push for features instead of quality, versus something like kernel/system software development, where there is more pushback against this for historial and cultural reasons.

At work, we have this one monolith system that's in the center of everything else within a particular project - it's not really scalable and it has multiple scheduled processes within it, as well as serves a lot of external API requests, oh and also has an administrative UI. So far, my attempts to warn people against having a single point of failure like this have fallen on deaf ears and we still have outages where the JVM misbehaves or scheduled processes gobble up all of the server's memory and GC slows everything down on a regular basis.

Contrast this to me finally getting to implement something more like microservices in another project - the services are containerized and run on servers that have been configured with Ansible, are horizontally scalable and have proper load balancing. Furthermore, the scheduled process functionality and others can sit behind feature flags and be enabled within a particular instance, all while not having multiple separate projects and keeping things simple with a single, modular codebase. I actually dubbed this approach "moduliths", horizontally scalable and modular monoliths, since there is no way that this org can handle "proper" microservices, about which i wrote more here: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/modulith-because-we-need-to...

That said, even the older monolith projects can benefit from modern approaches like Ansible for configuration management (which also prevents situations where environment configuration diverges over time and no one has any idea why) as well as being put into containers - the horrible monolith application now also lives within a container (not yet in prod, sadly) and has built in health checks. Were it ever to break and fail to recover in a set time, then it will automatically restart, making an outage that lasts an hour and possibly makes someone get paged in the middle of the night instead be a minute long interruption before everything restarts.

Personally, i think that with the direction that the industry is headed all services and even servers should be restarted every now and then anyways, since with JVM/CLR you sometimes get weird things happening after a service being up for months or years. Knowing why that happens would be nice, of course, but no one actually has the time to address those.
Interesting to read about how admission rules were structured 70 years ago. Gives a bit of a different context when people complain about 50/50 quotas or affirmative action today.

> The four profited from the opening of Oxbridge to female students during the war. Winning a place was a torturous process in the late 1930s: Oxford’s entry rules expressly stipulated a ratio of four men to each woman, meaning only 250 places were available. Applicants were also required to have two or three languages, including Latin and Greek, subjects often unavailable to girls.
Submitted URL -> front page -> FAQ -> "What is OpenMW/OpenMW-CS?"

"OpenMW is a free, open source, and modern engine which re-implements and extends the 2002 Gamebryo engine for the open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind."
One of the issues I have with Giraffe is that it gives you too many ways to deal with routing while also asking to use custom operators. And yet I cannot get a list of all defined routes.

Honestly, I do not find their goal of being a functional interface to ASP.NET Core sufficiently compelling. Maybe they should be a bit more specific?
Cookies are a tiny part of what the GDPR is about (and it isn't even the main regulation that covers them). It's what people associate with it because adtech companies have made cookie banners deliberately obnoxious for that very reason. The vast majority of things covered by the GDPR are about the day-to-day protection of everybody's personal data, whether that's medical records, CCTV, employment records, insurance etc. Most of the provisions in it were already the law in most of Europe: it just standardised the rules and enforcement procedures. The main problem with the GDPR is the lack of enforcement, which is largely down to the lack of resources in the national privacy regulators in member states.
Fashionable != fashion chasing
That is super quick learning! And for a formless blob!

Imagine if we knew how to train ML models that could reliably perform feats like this (learn after training, not train to withdraw every hour), while still managing all other parts of being a slime mold like hunting for food, distributing nutrients etc.
It was clear that Google had turned to the dark side when Eric Schmidt first spoke at the Search Engine Strategies conference in 2006. Until then, SEO was the enemy. Google and Yahoo had previously sponsored a conference in 2005 on squashing search engine spam.

What's new is that Google has now managed to alienate ad-supported publishers, their paying customers, as well.
Last I checked, you need an enterprise license to get the LTSC version of Windows. Individual consumer users can't just purchase it on their own
Whatever you might believe this changes the narrative around Trump a lot.
I got you have created your own definition of what a "dynamic" language is supposed to be, live happy.
It's long form (although somewhat short for that). Consider yourself lucky that this article even has a descriptive title and gets around to addressing it at some point in the body. A lot of long form journalism is just a click-bait title with rambling.

Personally, I think long-form writers need to start including abstracts. If I'm going to spend half an hour reading something, I'd like to know what it's about before I commit the time. If no abstract seems adequate to capture the breadth of a long form article's ramblings, then it lacks focus and should be revised.
I tend to believe from other people's reports (also in this page) that Google Glass works differently from more recent systems. Translucent augmentational data, augmentational data and environment co-present and just eye-focus away in focus do not seem to obscure the vision. Personal experience, though not used at high speeds.
I think some names are actually born this way: "Tibidy"
that wastes time and is a weird question
I do wonder sometimes if at least some articles are so long just to be able to fit more ad banners within a single article.

I turned off the content blocker and counted 6 ads within the length of this article.
Just enough to get a new round of funding, a bonus, then to parachute out and let someone else deal with the bills when they come due
cash means someone has to drop it off at the bank and could be robbed of all of it
Week 8 of medical apartheid in Lithuania
that's exactly how is sold... Windows server had that model, and Windows for workstations too. it just bundled them in so you can't buy exactly 1:1
Which is why states have the ability to pass most legislation at the state level, such as minimum wage or labor laws.
Yiss. Tree has a different consciousness. Maybe a little bit more abstract.
NewPipe, FoxyDroid, Glider (HN client), and Signal :)
> They decide what software you're allowed to run

On the device I happily bought from them, knowing how they operate. There are tons of other high quality devices of the same variety that I can buy and use to run whatever I want. I don't see the problem with this arrangement, nobody is deceived about how this works when they decide to buy Apple's devices, yet they stubbornly insist on buying them.
Ask Dang: Do HN Moderators Ever Get Downvoted?
I was curious if Dang specifically ever gets downvoted, or if there is something that ensures a moderator always has voice on HN. Using a search on Algolia, sorting by popularity, and filtering by author, it appears the lowest value post is 2 points.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=33&prefix=false&query=author%3Adang&sort=byPopularity&type=comment
Such a law would kill structural batteries [1] in their infancy. That may or may not be a good thing.

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[1]https://scitechdaily.com/big-breakthrough-for-massless-energ...
Minetest, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Loop Habit Tracker. But now I'm on Mobian :)
and Firefox.
They for sure intended to make an API, but also intended it only to be used between the two contractors involved in the application development. There was a requirement in the RFQ for the backend to have a well documented API. Almost all of the RFQ was about making an API.
In this case the indended user e.g. the parrent is using the API to get the data they are supposed to get. Thou using a different webb-app than the intended one from the city. I have a hard time seeing how the parent by accessing the same data they are supposed to get are doing any crime. The police investigation came to the same comclusion, and the internal investigation at stockholm city also came to this comclusion. That the police cited stockholms internal investigations i think is a nice little detail here.
Thou if the app would have given the parents access to data they ware not supposed to get over the API they situations might been an other. Now it's just the same information but persented in a user-friendlier way.
Oh thanks for that first one! That's so neat and such a pretty board too.
NEC's claim that Oracle salespeople tricked it into using wrong software license
Dedicate 20% of developers’ time on constant updates of all components for a decade just in case you might need one drop-in security module ten years after now (if the company ever lives to see that day)? Does not sound like a good illustrative argument to me, I am afraid.
4-aco-DMT has been sold on DNMs and used by recreational drug users for a while now as an alternative to psylocibin
I just made as many homepage URIs as possible static - even faster at rendering and more cacheable than AMP, and no "update treadmill" to appease a single monopolist.
I live in an rural area where we elect a single MP, with a population of around 90,000. There are London districts with populations 3 times that number, that also elect a single MP.

So maybe you are right, and in the UK we often get rural areas over represented vs metropolitan centres. An obvious explanation for why Brexit occurred.

However, our second house is basically useless. I've had no say in their placement, and I rarely hear about them in the news unless the issue is about murdering foxes.
Interestingly just removing the US location restriction it looks quite different, with KDE being far more frequently searched for than the others at the moment. Searches for Linux desktop environments look to have reduced a lot in total since 2004, on Google at least. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
I wonder if it has something to do with surface tension
Does fossil have a way to rebase or ammend commits on a local branch though? My understanding is it doesn't.
> years old.

where years<=2. Not a big deal, but yes can be annoying. That said upgrades between major versions are also usually automated and well tested (since they have lots of time to prepare and test that).

> users are expected...

The difference is what is considered "unavoidable". In particular, on other distros packagers are supposed to ... and only if that is not possible users are supposed to ...
Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read 20 years on.
These doses are more likely to be sub-"trip" doses. Ones that are enough to influence your mood, emotions, etc, but probably not enough for you to have a full blown trip.
This is so different from the current state of affairs.

Code for the CPU might get optimized beyond recognition, vectorized, executed out of order, ...

The shader code I write these days is translated to a whole list of intermediate formats across different platforms, maybe scheduled in a jobs system, then handed to graphics drivers which translate it to yet another format...
The Second-Largest Strike in the U.S. Is Happening in New York City
In principle, the UK's upper House acts as a house of scrutiny, both in that members can be appointed for having expertise in a particular area and because, as life appointees, they are not beholden to fickle political whims. The Parliament Acts allow it to be overruled, but not immediately - this generally forces a compromise between the two Houses. This recognises the democratic superiority of the Commons, whilst still giving the Lords opportunity for meaningful review and scrutiny.

How well this works in practice is a matter of endless debate.
Nukes might have been useful as a climate-change solution if they were not intimately, inextricably tied to massive, long-term (wholly legal) corruption. The bulk of the cost goes to corruption; but much worse is that they take many extra years to complete beyond what normal construction would take, because nobody actually involved wants that gravy train ever to dry up--anyway, not until after their kids graduate college--and deliver exactly zero watt-hours of energy, in the meantime, if indeed they are ever completed at all.

The latest failed US nuke project has cost ratepayers $30B already, is nowhere near done, and most likely never will be done.

Fortunately, solar and wind projects seem thus far immune to corruption. They often start delivering power immediately after they are begun, or anyway long before the project is done. They may easily be extended after they are "done", either on-site or somewhere entirely else.

Long before solar and wind produce enough power that we have reason to worry about "grid stability", storage solutions will be coming on-line, cheaply. Factories for iron-air batteries are being constructed at a frenzied pace, but they will compete with liquified air, ammonia, hydrogen, and other solutions according to local conditions. (Ammonia and hydrogen have the advantage that they are, also, feedstock for other processes.) In the meantime, the single best possible use for a renewable-energy dollar is more solar panel; later, storage will be a good investment.

Besides generating capacity, and storage, we will need a lot of long-distance high-voltage transmission lines, and ships to carry liquified ammonia to burn at higher latitudes where solar is not practical, and where relying just on long transmission lines is too risky.
Typical licensing on server software.
how is this done in CSS?
The DRM doesn’t provide any benefit… to you. It does benefit the developers and publishers.

Often you can find out what (if any) DRM is used before you purchase. Check out GOG.com if you want to avoid DRM entirely.
That said, as a CTO Google has irreparably damaged any faith I had in them doing any kind of open anything without sinister ulterior motives
Physical slime molds have already been used in an experimental model to optimize road networks:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03032...
I just thought of it. Kind of terrific crossword clues.
One of the issues I've found is that people genuinely believe nuclear reactors run on the same tech as nuclear weapons, and think that if something goes wrong they will have a mushroom cloud.
You could easily code one for existing AR eyesets (connect to a camera at the vehicle tail). But that would take a relatively big flat area (the camera output) in your central visual region (the device I know has no display in the periphery), so I am not sure it is the most practical solution. Data in AR eyesets is best placed if its elements are surrounded by the environment (opaque text in a transparent background).
Owning the browser that the majority use means they basically do own the web.
>Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting the greater web community at the event included Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, improvements to Core Web Vitals and performance tools, and new APIs for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).

Stop trying to make PWAs happen. It's not going to happen.
The lesson here is to use proper hosting instead of AWS or some other fart cloud.
I think there are may be factors for Germany having high energy prices.
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> What do you want AWS to do here? Keep running software that won't get security updates? That seems a bit wild to me.

PostgreSQL is open source, so they could keep patching the old version with security fixes.

Or... they could keep using just the community-supplied free-of-charge version and pocket all the money from not maintaining security patches themselves.