skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect a tonne of NLP, machine learning/AI. An intercom chatbot is at best just a bunch of very simple logic rules.
> And this is the best we currently have

You should take a look at hot reload in Dart and Flutter:

https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/hot-reload
It's not that there's no quotient, it's that you shouldn't even have asked what the quotient is.
I wish we had more options though. Between Windows and Apple there's no other real competition. Linux is cool and all... but not user friendly (not even Ubuntu)
I'm on an intel iMac with Big Sur and 48GB of ram. I've had this memory leak plague my system at least half a dozen times.

I just checked and I'm one notch up from "normal" on the cursor size.

I tried setting it back but it's just too damn small on this 27" 5K display. I guess I'll just crash for the time being.
The 6-long one [0] is just as long as the industrial version. It's just plastic and lacks mounting ears.
That skips way too many details. I am 41 and I was never able to save a money. Partially because I was stupid, absolutely, but I also came to realize how much we are sheep-herded into consumerism. And many times we don't have a choice.

People's fridges, ovens, air conditioners, dish washers, vacuum cleaners, smartphones etc., nowadays seem to start breaking like clockwork literal weeks to months after the warranty expires.

So while personal financial responsibility and education can and will go a long way, it's important to recognize that we live in a fairly rigged and predatory system as well.

My fear is just that: "will I will be stable financially?". So far I never was so I can't just drop this fear and start breathing freely come tomorrow. These are problems that still need addressing.
Little Snitch https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
I wonder if this is at all related to the massive wave of hatred for Bored Apes/Lions, etc.

Even putting aside people's issues with the concept of NFTs, people seem to agree the art is somewhere between bad and revolting. Except for the people investing in them.
Microsoft fixes reflected XSS in Exchange Server
New Website Fingerprinting Attack on Tor Discovered
HE is incredibly slow, and unlikely to ever be fast enough for common workflows. As in, an HE implementation of an algorithm that runs in seconds in Python on a regular machine might run in minutes or tens of minutes.

Not to mention, to avoid side-channel attacks, an HE scheme still needs to always run the longest possible sequence of operations regardless of input (otherwise, information about the input data is leaked through timing). So an HE version of a quick-sort scheme would always run in O(n^2), otherwise it would leak details about the contents of the list. In some cases it would even have to run in the same amount of time regardless of the size of the list, to avoid leaking information about that.
It is not about it: some people are greedy and they don't care who the need to hurt to make a buck.

For example, linux publishes its source code and manages reputation of the commit authors without the help of the publishers that take billions for the honer.
Hopelessly naive, I know, but shouldn't there be a global grid to optimally distribute electricity from solar irradiation rather than laying idiotic lengths of cable for political reasons?

You want to connect the Pacific rim for that grid to work but I can easily imagine some intermediate "links" that seem to make more sense
You should probably just toss Fedora on it if she only intends to browse the web and edit documents.
Windows and Linux user for 25 years [EDIT Windows for 25, Linux for 20, to be more precise], heavy macOS user (in addition to those) for the last 10 or so.

If it has a firewall of any kind, I've never noticed nor interacted with it. I've also never installed a third party firewall.
Sounds a bit like an out-of-towner's review of a Mission Burrito.
I agree Rust's standard library can definitely be a bit more brave and include more things but calling it tiny is a bit of a stretch, no?
You can't compare Django to EF Core. Django is more like Visual Studio Lightswitch, which has been killed off.
^^ The sad truth. I feel a lot of optimism for .NET due to the still struggling state of cross-platform development but the obsession with front-end web dev is drawing us deeper into a rabbit hole that I think we are all just about done with. We need to be using the same language for the front end and back end. Angular/typescript with node.js for web apps. Want something else? Prove why we need to duplicate all of our data structures and business logic. C# for the UI and back end? Sure. Just make sure to conjure up the $billon of tooling and libraries that we need.
> - cross browser compatibility has gone from steadily increasing as IE was replaced by other browsers to declining as people are testing only in Chrome

The irony of highlighting this is that the subject for this story is a cross-browser test suite and the issue was that Chrome, Firefox, and Safari were more compatible than the published numbers suggested.

There will always be cross browser bugs and so developers will always need to test everywhere, but the more mainstream features have compatibility rates like this in the first place the less often "works only in browser x" happens by accident.
You know the ERA hasn't been ratified, right?
> Because if there is such a thing as good art, it's easy to tell which of two people has better taste. Show them a lot of works by artists they've never seen before

I mostly agree with the theory here, however doing that is impossible or very difficult, because the way you build taste is to educate it, by rubbing your senses against great art.

So it's extremely unlikely you can find a person with good taste that would "never have seen before" a lot of great art in the domain they have taste in.

Although he doesn't discuss this here, I fear the reason why PG imagines this setup is because he believes good taste is in fact innate; you either have good taste or you don't, and there's nothing you can do about it.

That's just not true. As with most things, you start somewhere and then you grow.
It's not even that they didn't care. It likely never crossed their minds because of how segregated America and specifically Rochester was at that time.
Most people misunderstand the accounting part of why salt was important, everyone knows what salt looks like and how much it's worth. It's a value comparator = it's used to compare other products (for example if a sheep is worth say 750 grams and a cow is worth 850g then you can exchange sheep and cows with some salt to cover the difference) this is the most valuable characteristic of money, something universal to build trade from. Seashells also work well in some places, not as a store of value but as trade enablers. I'm guessing no exchange was ever made in the history of man without this kind of value comparative, long before the term money was even discovered.
The economies of scale in salt (and hot sauce baffle me). Let me use the hot sauce example, because it's a little more fun, but all the ideas apply equally to salt. How is it that I can buy a big jar of Crystal's hot sauce for like $2? Someone had to plant those peppers, produce vinegar, bottle it, transport it to San Francisco, let the grocery store mark it up, and it still only costs $2???
Get little snitch. This is a firewall that dosen't care what apple thinks is useful.

There was some controversy in the previous year because apple tried to deprecate the firewall hooks and allow their junk passed the replacement they offered.

I'm leaving apple for linux as we speak for two reasons, privacy and they can't help but mess with shit every time they release an update.

The most recent, this week they released an update and now their airport service listens on port 5000 making a conflict with running a dev flask service locally.
Because if a caucus isn't willing to stand their ground to get what they want, then what is the fucking point? Not to mention it was one of Pete Buttigieg's things he was pushing for. Yet when asked about why it didn't get included, he just kind of shrugged his shoulders like he didn't really give a shit.

It's why the Tea Party had limited success in the early part of the decade: they were willing not to participate. And it's why Democrats lost ground in elections (VA governor's race being the key one), and will be hit harder in the midterms.
Honestly it's kinda brilliant. With a big enough global network of overbuilt solar capacity you would avoid the problems of the duck curve and weather limitations.
> ort (short for “ostensibly recursive‘s twin”)

Continuing Git's famously clear naming I see!
That would be the logical solution, but "The javascript is dynamically created and hosted on S3. The keys, etc are safely on a server that runs to generate the file" sounds a lot like they have a server where they build a .js file that is capable of querying Slack, then store that file on S3 for the website to pull whenever someone registers. In that case, the client is pulling a .js file that probably has the Slack API key in it.
You keep making this point about death by suicide and every time people keep telling you all the different ways that you're wrong.

Since you've never tried to engage with those points I'm left to assume that you do not care about truth, and are only mis-using suicide stats to dishonestly make a point. That's pretty repellent behaviour.

Do better.
...and bad PWA support, shaky VOIP/WebRTC support, the worst codec compatibility in the game, a lack of desktop notification options, need we go on?
They did it again. GitHub “stealing” the Git release announcement, contributing to the Git/GitHub confusion.

Comments from the last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207168

For those who don’t know: GitHub is owned by Microsoft, a historical (and current) adversary of all things not Microsoft, particularly Linux¹. Git, the tool, is not made by GitHub; GitHub is a web service which is using Git. Git, the tool, was originally made by the person who also originally made (and currently manages) Linux, and the purpose of Git was to manage the development of Linux itself.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
This morning I plugged in my macbook and tried to turn it on. No dice. Hammered the external mouse and keyboard. No luck. Opened up the clamshell, started testing USB-C ports to figure out which one wants to charge today. Hammered the "on" button. It started asking out loud in what to me sounded like an old school macintalk voice for a username... I have to assume I provoked some sort of accessibility feature. Hammered some more buttons in frustration, switched USB ports again, got an apple logo. Then a "reset password" screen. Reconnected to power and it finally booted up, telling me that there was a problem. This is not an unusual experience.
> Apple's software quality has certainly slipped.

I've been using and supporting Apple software since the 90s and I think this is more an artifact of most bugs not being especially memorable than anything else. People have complained about bugs after every release, a fair fraction of the complaints circulating online will be attribution error or overly-generalizing a niche condition as global, etc. and that seems to have been basically constant since OS X 10.2 or so.

There is one more interesting discussion, however, which I think is probably a legitimate trade-off: the entire industry has been moving to faster releases since it's easy to ship updates over the internet to huge audiences. When that wasn't possible and update cycles were measured in years, teams did spend more time on QA so you probably did have a somewhat lower chance of seeing bugs of the sort which were caught by that kind of process but at the expense of taking much longer to see new features or get fixes for bugs which slipped through either due to complexity or limited trigger conditions. Since the amount and complexity of software has generally been increasing, I think that this is generally the right trend with the addition of telemetry to collect crash reports, but it does seem like this could increase the perceived number of bugs even if the duration of time where you're exposed to a particular bug decreases.
That’s how our economic system works. It’s also the only possibility if population continues to grow. There are no silver bullets here.
Casey Handmer calculated that it was cheaper to produce solar power in Boston for local use than it was to ship solar power from Arizona to Boston.[1] Solar power is 3X as expensive to produce in Boston, but HVDC lines are even more expensive.

If it's uneconomical to ship from Arizona to Boston, then Chile to Asia seems even more problematic.

Although in this case the submarine HVDC line is competing against batteries since Chile and China are in different hemispheres. I hope with they have an accurate prediction for battery prices in their business plan, because the prices of batteries are dropping precipitously.

1: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
You can use software like this to customize media keys: http://beardedspice.github.io/
California needs clean firm power, and so does the rest of the world [pdf]
There isn't even a nation-wide electrical grid in the USA. Having a global grid is a futuristic pipe dream.
Replying as the author -- I do spend some time discussing hetereoskedastic noise (beginning in §2.2 and intermittedly throughout following chapters), although you're right that I don't discuss this particular modeling approach. Personally I think that inferring hetereoskedastic noise from data alone during Bayesian optimization is likely to be very difficult, as you'll need either a lot of data and/or to be in a very small dimension in order to identify the variable noise scale. (Note that the example in the hetGP writeup is only in one dimension.)

However, when the noise scale is either variable (but known) or can be modeled with a relatively simple (e.g., parametric) model, there may be some benefit to the added model complexity. Here you could include the parameters of the noise model into the model hyperparameters and proceed following the discussion in chapter 4. In doing so, I would be careful to ensure that the data actually support the heteroskedastic noise hypothesis.

Another approach that might be useful in some contexts is a heavy-tailed noise model such as Student-t errors (§§ 2.8, 11.9, 11.11).
> The problem is right now DDR4 devices that work correctly in that regard, do not exist.

Yes, and this is actually the problem. Without safe hardware, it is almost impossible to write safe software.
In relation to the commenter I was replying to the key is how much is actually needed. If you have more specific information on this that'd be great.

Your point seems only about how much really is too much and the article you linked to is suggesting that the WHO recommendation is very conservative. However, I'm not really clear why you think any of my previous comment or references were misleading: I don't think it is under debate that we do not need all the sodium we eat and that too much of it is indeed bad for health.
Based on this [1] citation from the HVDC article on Wikipedia, losses are about 3.5% per 1000 km at 800 kV. That would correspond to losses in the range of 40-50% for the 15,000 km cable in question.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#ci...
To disabuse you of an apparent misunderstanding, I do not at all find art to be crass. I enjoy it immensely and it enriches every aspect of my life, even elevating the ordinary.

The judgement of merit by a non-artist of an artist's work is the part I found to be crass and rather a shadow of the social benefits of taste than good taste itself.

A friend once asked me for a drawing of mine to hang on his wall. I offered the choice between two, one a portrait with some geometric figures and the other a pair of skulls. The latter he told me was "not to his taste", and the former he hung up in his entryway. Some things belong some places and not others, and an absolute hierarchy of taste is only the temporary a side-effect of an absolute hierarchy of power. Judge not, lest ye be in turn.
A human can run down any animal on earth because we're smart, not just because we have amazing endurance.

Animals don't realize that if they just ran 10 miles away they would escape easily. They'll just run far enough away that they can't really see us anymore. Then we find them and chase them again. Eventually they get tired because they sprint away and we conserve our energy.

A horse may be physically capable of running farther than a human, but actually getting them to do that is another thing.
I switched to Mac for work and I hated it for a while. The Mac OS was maddening for a while! Swipes did random things, it took me some time to discover Command+Space, and so on.

I will never ever go back, now that I’m over the hump.
Yes and no. My point was that reliability is old... older than the desktop. It was invented by the 70s and came to the desktop by the 90s, a few years after the 386 made it possible and the price was brought down to an extra thousand dollars or so.

Also, there is nothing special about a "server operating systems," it's just another application. Reliability came from hardware and OS isolation, which costs more. Too costly for end-users in the 80s, reasonable for those who cared by the mid-90s. Which is what my original comment said.

NT, OS/2, 386BSD... all from the 90s, Q.E.D.
As a person who grew up in farmer's family (and who's parents are still farmers) I can attest that that kind of life is way tougher than being office worker in a city .
Because inland areas exists and are large. Transportation was expensive and slow.
Yeah I think OP would agree with you, and simply the additional point that the US no longer has a monopoly on it.
Business people don't have the training to think about that sort of thing and politicians should, but they do whatever their corporate donors tell them to do. I believe FDR said he did what he did to save capitalism.

Anyway, it's all short term thinking. We've had two revolutionary type events in the last year, the BLM movement and the Jan 6 movement. We currently have a general employment strike going on. People are pissed. Once they realize that the party divisions are mostly intentional and mostly cultural rather than economic, and everybody wants the same thing, who knows what will happen.
I find with a lot of more interesting topics, I have to come up with my own definition, then measure it against what various people say.

Good art, at least to me, is art that has emotional impact over time. I can view a painting by a master and it will affect me. I can hear one of Beethoven's symphonies and somehow I'm inside his head during that time.

These do not seem to be things you can measure in the moment, or at least I can't. It takes decades to sort out art that people like from art that continues to carry strong emotional impact. So, in my mind at least, there's a lot of room for subjectivity when talking about modern art. As things age, however, much of that subjectivity goes away, and it goes away for the exact reasons pg outlines.

There is such a thing as good taste, but in terms of modern art it's difficult if not impossible to put your finger on it.
Firefox lets me simply deny a web page the ability to send a notification when it attempts to do so, allowing me to only let the apps I want do so, while not bothering me about the majority of web sites that don't use it.

Why should apple make this choice for me?
There's still a chance as some media are painting it as a good security measure.
Mentioned and used as the Lisp baseline in the link I gave. ;)
Energy exporting will be an interesting business opportunity from now on.

With the deprecation of fossil fuel, majority of the nations on earth wont have the dirty, but easy option, any more. The clean energy tech is still way out of reach for most of these countries.

Building electricity transmission appears an easier option. It's easier in the sense that almost everyone knows how to build and mange them, to some degree. But it will still be very costly.

And if things go well, Africa might becomes the new source of electricity for its abundance of sunlight. Of course, like right now, they don't have any tech yet...
> The cable should be about 15,000km long and building a 1,300km cable would cost $2 billion.

For being able to time-shift solar, that seems like a bargain. A recent internet undersea cable[0] cost $300 million for the entire project.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2939316/googles-60tbps...
This stuff makes for great quips and lots of internet virtue points but odds are this was just a line item among many that "needed" to be done to Flint's infrastructure to meet federal guidelines. They're not rich enough to do it all. There's no way for anyone with any authority to actually do things decide what is and isn't important because a) politics and b) every department thinks their stuff is most critical. Most of the time most of the stuff manages to get done without causing any sort of crisis but there's always the risk.

Construing this as the inevitable result of some ill-advised liberty binge is simply lying. Flint didn't care about thumbing their nose at the EPA. Their mistake was being poor, incompetent and unlucky simultaneously. If they were rich they could have out spent their own stupid. If they were smart they'd have figured out there was a problem and treated it before it god bad. If they were lucky there never would have been a problem.
I probably have that same Sennheiser Urbanite XL and I love it. It has micro-USB for charging and listenening, using the built-in DAC. It has 2.5mm audio jack with included headphone cable to 3.5mm. It has Bluetooth. And two big batteries inside.
Why's that? You're still not getting those benefits with an above average salary.
YouTube Cofounder Updates First Video to Criticize Removal of Dislike Button
> removing Mail, Maps, Contacts, Pages, Photos, Calendar, Facetime, Reminders, AppleTV, Music, Keynote, and more and then removing the bloat widgets like News, Stocks, etc

All of the things in your list are just apps that can be removed with one click. My partner’s PC comes pre-installed with masses of hidden spyware. I know the kneejerk reaction is to bash Apple for everything - but the two are totally not comparable.
I use MaterialFiles daily, and had not realized it had that functionality.

Thank you for mentioning it!
Yeah maybe you as a developer want some fancy CSS and bleeding fresh Web API but I as a user don't.

The web is too bloated as it is, I feel that Apple is on my side putting a damper on that.

Safari is powerful enough as it is. You want voip, notifications, codecs and so on - do the work and learn to write a native app. I'd rather pay for that than paying with my attention to ads in your "free" web app.
> The team can learn sign language if they prefers or they can use pidgin... it is more of jargon in a sense.

I assumed that it was like a Battle Language https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_Language
A number cruncher told the truth. He became his country’s public enemy No. 1
Like what? Without government doing infrastructure probably most people would not have a electricity,water and a decent road in front of their home.

Or how would we imagine an alternate reality where the governments are weak, so the industrial billionaires would be the ones deciding what infrastructure to build, what science to research, what level of education is needed etc.
I can only see just a few roads , with taxes on them, electricity only in the city, education and hygiene only for the rich(in fact there were governmental/king laws that forced people not to shit everywhere).