skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps your friend was signaling a taste you couldn't perceive. For example, I generally look down upon scallion pancakes as a category.

Consider an American food analogue. Do I distinguish good and bad grilled cheese? How can I when its identity is that of a basic, unhealthy, cheap, low-class food? If you add more exotic ingredients, it becomes distant from its quintessential identity, so it becomes "good" grilled cheese in inverse proportion to it being, actually, grilled cheese. Contrariwise, if you enhance it by further indulging in the fats, oils, salts, etc., can we say this is "better" when it has also become even more base, even more low class? It becomes better as it becomes worse.

I find myself wanting to say something similar to your friend. All the grilled cheese are the same to me. I can plainly see one is different than another, but they are all objects of derision, and they only rise above that derision insofar as they stop being grilled cheese.
No ability to move as my partner's job is geographically restricted. We've moved to the sunniest part of the UK already!
Linux Mint looks and feels exactly like Windows 7
A slightly more sophisticated strategy - dedicate more then the minimum effort to a company...but only after they demonstrate decent devotion to good employees. So "Tit for Tat", very roughly.
FYI, those types of government spending often end up being a long-term net positive for the budget. We immediately get a decent portion of those funds back through taxes on the people and businesses hired to do that work. And on the businesses they hire to supply them, especially with all the "buy American" requirements built in. Then those businesses have a ripple effect through local economies. Those plumbers and pavers need places to eat, shop, etc., and those people pay taxes. Those cooks and clerks need good and services too. And so on it goes.

This is called the fiscal multiplier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_multiplier

One estimate was that food stamps have a 1.73x multiplier effect, payroll tax cuts have a 1.29x effect, while the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy had a 0.29x effect.
Well I as a developer just want a browser which doesn't break existing features: localstorage, indexeddb were completely broken for months this year.

Like CSS containment is feature that was shipped in Chrome in 2016, Firefox 2019 so how many years have to pass for Safari to implement it so it isn't just 'some new shiny' feature anymore?
There can boosters on the cable
Plenty of other people do not love their depression, and find it painful and limiting. Dismissing that experience as rooted in "toxic positivity" isn't fair: it's perfectly legitimate to desire a feeling of well-being.
Apple's new Music app absolutely ruined my entire local music collection one day, when updating from macOS 11.4 to 11.5 (I think).

My music collection traveled with me from OS update to OS update for about 13 years with no problem. And now pretty much everything is broken, some files can not be played even though they are on disk, half of the album covers are gone, syncing with the phone gives a ton of errors. What happened to this app and why - I have no idea. It was my worst day as a long-time Apple user and needless to say how maddening it was. Oh, the backups don't help, the new app does the same thing to the backup copy too.

Seems like Apple doesn't care about your local music collection anymore, nobody even bothered to test.
Agreed. Really any imagery of the product would be nice
Folding @ Home
> I usually assume everyone is stupid, including myself, that's the most humble thing a person can do IMO

It seems strange that the most humble thing you can do is to assume everyone else is stupid (even if you were to include yourself in to that mix)
Wouldn't you be better of having microwave relay satellites than laying wire?

Test satellites for space-based solar power (SBSP) are already going into orbit as soon as next year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#In_the...
You aren’t making a typical engineering salary if you can’t afford a $500k place.
Yes, I'm in a lot of discord servers. I have talked to people from many countries. I have even talked to others using their native language. I'm sure that I've encountered people from different socioeconomic backgrounds and people with chronic diseases.
If it comes to that you'll hear about it on HN first. If folks start to explot it you'll hear about it.

If it comes you'll hear about "apps" that freeze every other browser process while you do online banking.

That said, proactively blocking JS is great for many reasons, and you can whitelist sites you sort of trust.
> According to you, if you want to preserve the attractiveness of the location, you are an evil exploiter trying to extract value at the expense of the people.

NIMBYs will often cite property values directly as a reason for their opposition. This isn’t some inference on my part, these are their own words.

It’s one thing to say you don’t want a literal garbage dump next door, it’s another to say you don’t want more houses around because you want to secure the value of your own speculative investments.
Also the cost of the infrastructure financing and depreciation - which I would imagine would be significant. But maybe not? Does anyone know what something like this would cost? I'm imagining A LOT.
Streamers are stalling on sharing data
FMLA leave is unpaid. Not many people can afford to go through 8 months without income, especially with a child in the NICU.
It's a pure loss for non-geek users. It should be disabled—no dialog allowed, even—by default, if the feature's gonna exist. That hitting "allow" on a pane that pops up on a site—something users are conditioned to do without thinking by all kinds of shitty but extremely common web patterns—affects something outside the current site's browser window is unexpected and unwanted by normal users. Cases where it's easy for sites to affect the behavior of a machine, or of the browser, outside the current session on that site, have historically been a big problem for non-geeks, and this is no exception.
It's a power cable, not a communications cable.
Oh my god the inadvertent link drag to new window (or just overwrite current window) has been killing me, glad I’m not the only one, means there’s a chance it gets addressed.
Tip: Scorching fried rice can help to achieve a poor man's "wok hei" on an ordinary consumer stove top (as opposed to an industrial kitchen gas burner putting out several thousand BTUs).

When the fried rice is nearly done, stop turning it. Wait N seconds (for my stove top, that's 45). Toss and repeat for a total of 3 or 4 scorchings.

(Something like this may be covered in the article, but I can't read it because of the paywall.)
Yes, they did. kelnos said (4 posts up):

> So not really "no server involvement".

and capableweb said (3 posts up):

> How is this even close to being "no server involvement"? It's misleading, because the server is very much involved here.

No one said the file was being sent through the server, that's your own reading of it. You are entitled to your opinion but don't tell people off about "no one said this" or "what's being discussed", it's just rude.
Snow doesn't last 24 hours in Denver.
Source for cost is this document published in 2014
https://iea-etsap.org/E-TechDS/PDF/E12_el-t&d_KV_Apr2014_GSO...

I have no idea whether those are still reasonable estimates, just wanted to point to a possibility of price improvement.
The UK have 3000W kettles whereas in North America is stuck with 1500W kettles.

Many kitchens in North America have 20A outlets, which should at least let us use 2000W kettles. Why won't anybody sell me a 115V/16A kettle with a NEMA 5-20 connector?
But you don't have to update. The consequence is that every day you have to choose "Ask me later" on the notification that pops up once a day, but that's a lot easier than restoring everything I have open. I only update when I have to reboot for some reason.
If electricity is all they need yes. But if we are talking about labor and source materials and export supply chain, then nothing (currently) beats China.
I think that's intentional. I understand that to combat demographic disaster China has been depopulating the villages in favor of megacities. So tier 88 should get cheaper while tier 1 gets crazy.
There are functional Lisps, like Clojure or Shen, plenty of them are unopinionated / multiparadigm, like Emacs, Common Lisps
Ditto. It also blows my mind how stores operate. I think how can they offer so much verity and stay in business? They paid for all this food and its all going bad or out of season, how?
Yes. Cobol is not C/C++. Nor does it try to be.
How does this get meaningfully and usefully exploited in the wild?

I'm a lay-person in this matter, but to me it always seems like something that can be cooked up in a very controlled lab environment, but would be impossible to really use in the wild.
Kant is not a postmodern, he is the modern if anything. If you are even remotely interested in the subject of aesthetics, it is required reading. It's still quite a subtle and difficult read but not because of him trying to be convoluted, but the opposite as he's trying so hard to be clear that it ends up being a bit of a slog. One of my favorite books of philosophy.
A little depressing that these anti-vax stories keep getting greenlit on HN.
There is definitely such a thing as "popular" taste (and indeed, there are many variations of it, since the populace is large and varied - this alone starts to make a sole idea of "good taste" difficult to accept), and there is definitely such a thing as skill at producing works that those with a popular taste appreciates.

The presented "proof" doesn't go any further than that, though. It mentions that it changes a lot over time, but instead of engaging with that as an indicator that taste is always a moment-by-moment subjective thing, then IMO goes off the rails a bit with weird analogies. It ends up circular. Good art is that which causes the desired reaction in those with good taste?

The best counter-argument to this skill/practice-based argument is that you can put a lot of skill and practice into something that people end up rejecting. Literature, film, and music shows plenty of examples of this. Even software shows this - you can spend a lot of effort to make a very intricate piece of software, that someone with "taste" may sneer at because of how fragile it is, even if they couldn't create it themselves. And then you are left just with that circular "your effort and practice and skill doesn't matter if it doesn't focus on the right things that hit your audience the right way, so the important skill is that of hitting your audience the right way, so a lot of it is up to the audience, so good taste is defined by ... itself and its audience"?
I'm curious about this from a security perspective.

With oil, coal, and natural gas, a cut in the supply network doesn't necessarily have an immediate impact. Buffers exist in some parts of the distribution network: ships holds, rail cars, and storage tanks.

With electricity, it doesn't seem like we have much infrastructure for buffering the supply. So cutting those cables might have an immediate and significant impact on the consumers.

Perhaps this creates a disincentive for any of these powers starting a war. But it also seems like an extra attack surface for terrorism, extortion, or natural disasters.
Maybe... but I am rather skeptical of Netflix documentaries (really, any documentary) and have a hard time taking their claims with anything but a huge grain of salt.
I’m going to borrow that way of thinking about it. Removing obstacles, letting go, etc.
AMD EPYC processors already support AES encryption of memory (https://developer.amd.com/sev/) where VMs themselves cannot know the key. Interesting that I didn't see that mentioned in the paper as a possible mitigation.
I don't know specifically about Crystal, but when I went to Avery Island a couple hours away I saw Tabasco/McIlhenny had whole warehouses of drying and pickling peppers - I imagine they can control supply as needed and keep the wholesale price where they want.
I have seen many concerns of quantum computing and its ability to blow through most of our encryption standards with ease. So that trust in the cloud via encryption will likely soon fade
>Please, we can discuss art theory without political dimension.

Bourdieu discusses this very point in the Preface of The Rules of Art.

"(...) countless are those who forbid sociology any profaning contact with the work of art. (...) I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why they are so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational, understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the 'work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence."

A scientific understanding of art doesn't or negate or lower it. On the contrary : "(...) scientific analysis, when it is able to uncover what makes the work of art necessary, that is to say, its informing formula, its generative principle, its raison d'être, also furnishes artistic experience, and the pleasure which accompan­ies it with its best justification, its richest nourishment. Through it, sensible love of the work can fulfill itself in a sort of amor intellectualis rei the assimilation of the object to the subject and the immersion of the subject in the object, the active surrender to the singular necessity of the literary object (which, more often than not, is itself the product of a similar submission)."

It's a short but dense 5 page read.
Microsoft surprises with early Halo Infinite multiplayer launch
It's sad that you would classify liberty as "buzz." I take it you've never lived in an authoritarian dictatorship before.
My point isn't about who _can_ do it but who _does_. If anyone on my team was writing anywhere near 1k LOC/day, I'd think it was a serious problem. If the whole team was pumping out 1k LOC/day/person, I have to imagine I'd be getting as far away from the entire team/org as possible.

Maybe not the best example, but I used to work with a guy who had pretty large scripts that he was writing for one of our projects. It turns out it was mostly copy-paste, so it sort of got the job done -- except he fixed bugs in one place but not in the other. The whole thing was a huge mess to understand and maintain. And he was a senior engineer at the time (now principal, to my great amazement).
This really makes me think about myself. Misattribution is probably the most annoying thing. I didn't get far in the software industry in spite of my loss of vision or hearing (in fact it was my vision declining that made me focus on computers and to quit sports). On the other hand, I'm decent at competitive shooters despite my disabilities. So sometimes it's just like "why are we talking about my disability, it has nothing to do with this." Sometimes we want to be celebrated for just the "normal" amazing things, and especially things our abled peers couldn't achieve (or maybe I just hold myself to way too high of standard).
SF has one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country, which is part of what drives up prices.

My point is that we need housing where the housing shortage is.
I believe I have actually been bitten by this bug, or something very similar. I had an IRA transfer go completely awry because the check was sent to the wrong PO Box. I typed out the transfer form with an address with the digit "5" (xournal is awesome). When I was tracking down the problem, the rep said that the digit on the transfer form was unquestionably a "6". Despite how farfetched it seems, it seems like their document management system perfectly changed that digit in this manner.
Thank you! :)

The fact that most people ask “Why shouldn't I use alternative <x> instead?” means that I need to improve my README file to show better why QWERTY-fr is truly different from all the other keyboard layouts, and what makes it stick out!

Colloquially, I already planned to update the website[1] with a tutorial guiding the user step by step through the philosophy. Hopefully this will help users understand its value proposition!

[1] https://qwerty-fr.org

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With regards to the different standards, I agree that French people tend to reinvent the wheel. I have nothing against that but the big issue is that they never look well at the previous attempts, which leads to crappy alternative standards. This project aims to reinvent the wheel but in a good way!

I plan to get this keyboard layout standardized by a standardization organization once it's stable. It should help adoption because I could then convince OS maintainers to add it as an available layout. :)
Based on this subthread I was thinking of buying this as a Christmas present for a young child. The first Amazon review does somewhat call that into question.

> This is nowhere more evident than in the chapter on Touch. Somehow without ever sounding vulgar, it concludes with a hapless graduate student of the author masturbating an African buffalo weaver in the name of science! The use of the phrase “vigorous venery” in the description charmed me into awarding five stars on the spot.

Not that I'm being closed-minded or prudish here; I'm open to the idea that a book could work on multiple levels, appealing to small children while also dealing with the difficult subject of avian masturbation.
At AWS scale you can feasibly just buy up the entire run of chips. What's a few million CPUs more or less between friends?
Line of sight / laser is restricted by the curvature of the earth but VHF can go (a bit?) farther.
Ok, not quite random, but still hardly fair. If that's the take, it should be called "Websites should not use images created by this dithering tool" instead.

Usage of IE 11 and other browsers which do not support even webp (old safaris) is higher than usage of screen readers.

Personally I doubt we'll ever experience widespread usage of avif, considering how long it took Apple with webp, we'll probably sooner have jpeg xl.
Hmm. I have trouble with this view. I don't deny that you can find beauty in things, and have tastes for things, but I question whether there's any value in assuming some objective standard for goodness, such that we can judge art to be good or not and say that those who are calibrated to this standard have good taste.

In order for this to be a valid take, it requires that we have some way to measure goodness. Else how can we determine what is good and what is not, and then judge peoples' taste? But I don't think anyone's yet proven any such measure to exist. Certainly many people have offered their personal viewpoint, but how do we know which one has the best taste? We're in a bit of a deadlock - we need to be able to measure goodness to say who has good taste, but we need to know who has good taste so we can know how to measure goodness.

With that said, Paul Graham ultimately ends by saying that "There is definitely not a total order either of works or of people's ability to judge them, but there is equally definitely a partial order of both." Which is not particularly insightful, in my opinion. It's quite easy to see that a flawed attempt to replicate another's work is worse than the unflawed original. But no one really cares about such things, and no one is surprised by this revelation. All in all, the essay takes a long meandering road to make it sound like there is such a thing as good taste, then at the last moment redefines it to something different and uninspired, hoping that the reader is too invested at that point to care. Frankly, it felt disrespectful to the reader, a deceitful waste of time.
> But the real goal of "having taste" is to convince yourself and others you're a certain class of person, and also to reassure yourself and others you're not a certain other class of person.

Of course someone with no taste would say this. :) I'm kidding.

Your statement reads like a punitive judgement, constructed to paint anyone who pursues enlightenment as entirely performative for external validation. Am I wrong?

What makes you so certain it is correct?

In your world does no one pursue enlightenment for its own ends?
If your name is GitHub and you announce a new release of Git, which your product GitHub uses extentively, and you do not explicitly and clearly mention that you do not have any role in making Git itself, then you are lying by omission; deliberately misinforming people who will naturally assume, given no information to the contrary, that GitHub are the makers of Git.

I think that most people are already under the misapprehension that Git and GitHub are the same thing. This style of deliberate confusion from GitHub must be seen to be by design. They are Microsoft; they do not get the benefit of the doubt.
To be fair, the performance problem you're talking about should affect latency rather than throughput. If you can batch lots of operations (not all controlled by the same user) then you can do things as fast as you can without leaking (much) information.

This is still phenomenally slow, of course.
If they can agree on carbon emissions, they could probably agree on some coordinated infrastructure. (It doesn't actually have to be common, rather coordinated.)

I am sure if politically unencumbered engineers were to sit down they would come up with more or less the same topology...
I think the question you are asking is "why can lactic acid bacteria survive in a saline environment whereas some harmful bacteria types cannot?"

I believe the answer is that "bad" bacteria CAN oftentimes survive in environments with high-salinity [1], but struggle to compete with lactic-acid bacteria (i.e. "good" bacteria - LAB) in the presence of both a saline environment as well as a high ph environment. LAB also engage in antimicrobial activities within your gut [2] likely using bacteriocins as the mechanism.

Salt generally inhibits fungal growth though.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/femsle/article/243/2/373/495985

[2]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15374659/
It would be interesting to build something with this on top of SQLite to make a globally distributed fault tolerant SQLite.
> it gives a very bad impression that Apple haven't fixed it yet.

This suggests that it's a common or even universal problem, but are you sure that's the case? I've never seen Control Center use an inordinate amount of memory -- it may very well be a rare or unique issue.

edit: I see someone else ran into it — fair enough! Still, I think it's funny how often I see "I keep running into this bug, why haven't they fixed it!" on HN, considering how software developers should know, better than anyone, how often bugs are hard-to-reproduce edge cases.
Modern career politicians like Joe Biden are cut from a completely different cloth than the leaders that actually built America's infrastructure in the mid-20th century.
Nope. If you make ~200k a year, you can afford an $800k place, and I can easily find nice places in Seattle for that amount.
It's hard to build an actual network out of DC power, which is partially why AC power took over.
"global supply capacity of these cables is estimated at 4000 KM/p.a"
https://youtu.be/iJunxkln578?t=423
seems like a bottleneck.
Not to mention the horizon limiting communication to those ships that are close enough. Naval warfare doesn’t take place between ships that can see each other anymore, so one needs to be able to communicate over the horizon anyway, so why bother to have two systems?
Need big bank to support the home loan and childcare.
A typical camera can take a well exposed photo indoors under natural light and outdoors in full sun. The former is about 50 lux, and the latter is 100,000.

It seems unlikely to me that the amount of light reflected off darker skin fundamentally confounds cameras when they can handle four orders of magnitude of illumination variation gracefully.