skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes me think most nouns should be protected in society for companies 'claiming' them.... They are basically putting a flag on the whatever word they rename to, and forcing the entire user base of the English language to reframe what that word means....

If you're company is "Apple", then you are rewriting the meaning of the actual physical apple object. An example alternative that protects the Nouns, would be to have to add a number on the end. Apple-1 could sell laptops, Apple-5 could sell apple peelers, Apple-2123 could make wool sweatshirts
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> Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it.

I was just watching the AWS keynote and it seems they are doing the opposite, offering more and more ready-made services so that startups don't need to write software at all.

What's the end goal of this? In the future amazon will use ML to auto-generate startups and offer them for sale. Then startup entrepreneurs will not need to hire programmers anymore, they will just buy a premade startup from AWS and become traveling salesmen. Basically gig worker CEOs for Bezos.
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> i just don't see the point, from a consumer perspective, in all the major players fighting over who's version of Chromium is the most preferred

I imagine the telemetry is extremely important. Knowing every activity done by every user is valuable to Google, or Microsoft, or whoever gets the chrome feed. Of course this is why I like brave, FireFox, safari and others as there is no similar telemetry.
“ Google will show you that the overwhelming majority of American inventors throughout history have been African-American.”

It could just be that there is a lot of activity on the web around African-American inventors which Google is reflecting. Google isn’t an encyclopedia.

Their campaign against misinformation is purportedly intended to reduce the spread of lies and propaganda. There might be some collateral damage where sources of lies and propaganda get generally downgraded (even when telling the truth), but is that really a problem? Most of us do that in our interpersonal relationships. If you are a liar, I’ll tend not to believe you, even if when you tell me something true. (I’ll assume there is some agenda or some part which may be false.)

I don’t feel like you have presented sufficient evidence to support your (apparently politically motivated) case.
Off topic but imagine what people would imagine this headline was referring to if you sent it back in time 5 years.
When March 2020 hit, I was really hoping that Asian mask culture would finally hit North America and people would choose to wear a mask when they have a cold or other illness, even post-COVID.

Unfortunately it seems to have completely gone the other way in many parts of the USA and Canada thanks to politicization.
The biggest problem is that it's the American (UK as well?) name for a children's game - not the sort of thing most English speakers would ever learn, unless they are really connected to US/UK culture.

The game is probably more or less universal, but the name is unrecognizable.
DDG is "close enough": Add "!g" to the search and you end up at Google. So I often use DDG first, and then fall back on Google afterwards. My search bar defaults to DDG. The many other shortcuts like that (e.g. !gi for google images, !b for bing, !gn for google news; and tons more) is a good incentive to stick to that default.

Google still gets lots of searches from me, but the better DDG does, the less it'll happen.
What's the marketing platform for 51 y/o with a wife, 2 kids and 3 dogs?
The difference is totally irrelevant.

>Unvaccinated people are not suddenly shedding and dangerous, in the way a naked person is shedding pubic hairs everywhere.

Unvaccinated people are inherently dangerous. The change is that we now have the ability for them to become vaccinated people who aren't nearly as dangerous to their clients.

In June 2020, we had no choice but to have unvaccinated health care workers. Today, we do.
I don't think it's binary like that(I'm willing to be proven wrong).

Vaccines are effective at preventing infection and particularly severe infections.

Masks are only effective at preventing you spreading your own infection. If you wear an n95 it will prevent you from getting infected but there is user error involved in tightness/compliance/etc....

My understanding has been that vaccines are more effective at preventing infection than masks so if you're picking between the two for your own safety, it would seem that the vaccine is the better choice for yourself.

I will agree with you that the side effects from the vaccine are certainly a counter-argument for getting a booster every 6 months(or whenever a variant comes out that needs a different vaccine). I got mine last month and was asking myself, "I am pretty fit, in my 30's, I work from home, and my leisure activities are all outdoors(running/hiking/climbing)... Am I just going to get knocked out for 1-2 days every 6 months when my perceived risk level of catching covid is so low?"

My hope is that we're spending time working on better vaccines with fewer side-effects. If the side-effects are like the flu shot i'll gladly get a booster whenever needed without thinking twice.
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Whataboutism. Google probably also deserves this treatment, but we're talking about Microsoft.
I've seen landscape paintings done in such a way that they change based on the illumination, it was a very impressive effect.

There's an article about the guy here https://thisnzlife.co.nz/queenstown-painter-tim-wilson-celeb... relevant quote:

> I use a lot of translucent, transparent and interference pigments and when the light levels change, the underpainting punches through
I dream of a day when enough people stop chasing the new shiny thing, and development churn returns to a more sensible and sustainable pace.
"everybody takes accountability" and "nobody takes accountability" have the same meaning. Accountability is tightly linked to delegation, and essentially behaves like a normalized variable.
print *, norm2(x)

"The result of NORM2 (X) has a value equal to a processor-dependent approximation to the generalized L2 norm of X, which is the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of X. If X has size zero, the result has the value zero."
Take a look at the number of comments on HN and elsewhere that use the Jacobson [1] decision in 1918 to justify the current vaccine mandates, even though it was completely different.

Take a look at all of the federal powers that have been seized based on Wickard [2] interpretation of the ICC.

These are just a couple obvious cases of incrementalism.

The entropic state of humanity is to allow power to accumulate and centralize.

It takes active energy to resist this.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Because DOS already did everything reliably and in a way that the users expect. If your window manager had any behaviour slightly different from DOS - such as using the current timestamp when copying a file - then users would notice and complain. That was a very long trail of behaviours to copy.

Or just rely on DOS.
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I think most sensible people had figured this out already. The people that don't and honestly believe everything will be fixed by a DAO or whatever... they're beyond reason.
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At my job I made a "startpage" on our shared drive. Just an index.html that most of the company now uses. It contains links to all our internal tools en company sites. Layout is a simple css card grid. Its grouped per department so a specificatie link is easy to find.

Out of all the things I created I still get the most positive feedback on a single html file I mostly created for myself.
"iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 | iex" installs chocolatey without having to open IE
YTM is objectively inferior to GPM in every way except library size and some details that only YouTube/Google have to worry about. The apps are buggy as fuck and have little more than "radio" features and a (crappy) search bar. Playlists are intermingled with youtube video playlists and have no search and only rudimentary sorting, viewing albums is a pain, finding your own music is a minimum of 3 button clicks, and the app flat out does not work half of the time.
+1 on `earthly ls`. I've also thought it would be valuable to have "public" and "private" targets. When looking at a new codebase it can be hard to know which targets I should use when developing, and which are purely for internal use. Good docs help with this too, but they are not always there.
According to Q documentation, Q supports only 3 implicit parameters x, y, z: https://web.archive.org/web/20190213035913/http://code.kx.co...
>They are failing badly IMO. Most developers I know hate the whole experience of using AWS.

It doesn't have to be great, only better than the alternatives. I would argue most devs prefer the rocky experience of AWS to working with their own operations people on aging hardware.
>i also got my hands on the original as well: software tools in ratfor.

Great book. I first read it back in the 1980s (still have my copy), it was key component of my self-taught[0] programming skills that I parlayed into a twenty-plus year career as a sysadmin, DBA, and yes, programmer.

[0] well, I did take one computer science course, PDP-11 assembly language, while I was in graduate business school, but other than that, completely self-taught.
sure if your TAB key is broken.
> our eyes aren't very sensitive instruments

I take umbrage with that statement! Our eyes are exquisitely sensitive, and most importantly, have staggering dynamic range.

Our eyes are capable of perceiving a single photon [1], albeit noisily (I've been lucky enough to have performed this experiment myself!).

But the greatest thing about our eyes is the dynamic range: the difference in brightness between a moonless, starry night (which we are perfectly capable of navigating by eyesight) and a bright sunny day is nine orders of magnitude. A bright day is a billion times brighter!

Show me an RF receiver or light camera with that dynamic range!

The one place our eyes are limited is in frequency range.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172
For now I'll grant them that they've removed the entirety of their old motto/claim - and not just the "Don't". I wonder how long that will last though, benefit of doubt is not an infinite resource.
WTA has more balls than NBA/ Lebron, Disney, Hollywood & 3 letter news orgs.

https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2384758/steve-simon-announces...
I would guess that a huge part of C's popularity is UNIX. I think a number of other languages could have easily competed in the other areas ie: thin abstraction.
I’m trying to decide whether Midsomer Murders [0] follows these rules. I think it does with the possible exception of Rule 6 (no accidents or unaccountable intuition): DCI Barnaby often develops an intuition about a complex chain of events (usually multiple murders). Additional rules that seem to apply to Midsummer Murders include:

* If one of the suspects is a previously convicted hardened criminal, he will turn out to be innocent

* Any person identified as obviously guilty by Barnaby’s sidekick will turn out to be innocent

* If, early in an episode, Mrs Barnaby is seen to have acquired a new hobby, it will definitely be related to the murder in some way

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders
I just have my browser open the tabs I had open when I last closed the browser.

I have two or three specific sites always open in Firefox and a half-dozen or so in Vivaldi.
This has been doable since Windows has had network connectivity, winget is just the latest way on the pile. Albeit probably the easiest yet. TFTP, FTP, SFTP, SCP, Powershell HTTP(S), curl (giving you a copy of all the prior methods), winget. That's all of the ways I can think of without getting too "make your own program"-y like VBA and whatnot.

In particular I remember utilizing the FTP method to get Firefox (avoiding IE) was all the rage in the XP era.
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I have a weird search FOMO thing where after I DDG something, I will often throw the !g into it to see the Google results for the same term, to make sure I got the "best" or most comprehensive result. And usually the DDG result was fine in comparison. But I'm finding it hard to trust it and stop the habit.
And don't want people to suffer because of this.

I understand this line of thinking, but think it's flawed. You have to be okay with everyone else suffering instead (due to increases in their own healthcare costs to cover for those who use the healthcare system more) and you aren't able to use cost to influence better healthcare choices.

There has to be a way to hold people accountable to the actual consequences of their own health choices while also being sensitive to those who are sick through no obvious fault of their own.
There is Neeva. No ads, private paid search. Been trying their beta and really loving it.
That last sentence surprises me a bit. What does a 3.5 audio jack have to with any of this?
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What is GOL? (I did web search but can't find anything relevant by that name)
Back in 2008 MS had a lawsuit punishment against them active.

MS in 1997 or so was doing shenanigans like crash Explorer if you attempted to download Netscape (Firefox predecessor) they got sued by the EU and lost.

The lawsuit terms expired recently and Microsoft is doing exact same shit they got sued for the first time, I guess they are testing to see for how long they can get away with thsi shit before they get sued again.
> Simple: there is no country with a competent Federal Reserve (Central Bank)

Eh, that's pretty obviously untrue under any reasonable definition of "competent Federal Reserve."

Now, there are definitely unreasonable an/or extreme ideological definitions under which you could make such a statement (e.g. the most reasonable of these are monomanically overoptimizing to one metric), but those definitions are irrelevant and can be ignored.
Did Ubiquiti have any statement on this? I haven't noticed it in any of the news articles nor on their site.
> Do a search for `American inventors`, and see for yourself. Google will show you that the overwhelming majority of American inventors throughout history have been African-American.

I'm not sure that is the best example. For one, this only applies to image results, regular search seem normal. For another, Bing (and the search engines that use Bing) does the same thing.

Given that, I think that there may be some sort of guerilla SEO campaign to distort these results. That campaign could be leftists trying to change perceptions of race or it could be rightists trying to change perceptions of Google/search.
Thanks, serverlessmom! Knowing that posting this was worthwhile for someone else made my day!

I "discovered" this some a few weeks ago while watching my co-founder sell very well. Afterwards, we were discussing it and I said, "man, you should see my brain when I'm programming, it's kind of amazing!" and then it dawned on me what was happening. A mixture of a visual language, with elements from both English and Brazilian Portuguese, and the abstract CS concepts.

When he sells, I'm sure he has his own internal language to do it. He doesn't think about objections, how to answer a specific question, etc. anymore. He just does it. It's kind of fascinating, and the universe is fascinating too. Learning every day!

I'm the one who has to thank you for sharing -- good luck too!
Just the popular ones now but 10 years ago, they were really novel. Leetcode, Hacker Rank and of course, the best one is Advent of Code.

https://adventofcode.com/
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Public / Private is interesting.

Private would not be callable from command line and not be listed in `earthly ls`?
The court really has nothing to do with whether or not something is well-established. The judge who blocked the mandate is an ideological, inexperience trump appointee.

I'm talking about 'well-established' in that it's been happening for 200+ years. The conservative right-wing theocratic extremists that trump appointed will destroy our judicial norms for the next 50 years but that doesn't make them right.
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Apple fanboys are generally serious, even if they always sound as if they're trolling
I used to argue this too...but too many will use it as an argument to shirk documentation tasks onto people who quite literally can't do the job because the person with the relevant knowledge feels too important to bother teaching anyone.
I agree. Linux Desktop still has all the same basic usability problems it did in the 90s. In some ways it is even worse since it has massively overcomplicated a lot of its subsystems.

Still, I foresee a future where the pain of Linux Desktop for me will be outweighed by the pain of continuing to use Windows. Which is sad. Linux Desktop will have won not on its merits, but because Microsoft just decided it didn't want to make a Desktop OS anymore.

If I get extremely lucky, it's possible Haiku will take off in the meantime and implement some of the things I'm still waiting on for it to be a decent desktop for my uses, but I'm not holding my breath.
Here is mine in its entirety:

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There is the question of fairness, should we pay more because people who refuse to get vaccinated fill the hospitals?

But there's also another factor, such a policy would give people even more incentives to get vaccinated.

Isn't it already the case that if you don't smoke you get lower premiums?
I think that eventually, anything that can be run by a DAO will be run by a DAO, just like with automation, any process that can be automated will, eventually, be automated.
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> (and he was white in case you're wondering)

What's been most shocking about the media coverage over this matter, and the incessant, unfounded claims of "white supremacy" on the part of Mr. Rittenhouse, is that without actually saying it, the media has strongly implied to the average normie that Kyle killed black people.

For one example, see https://twitter.com/sarahbeth345/status/1458593872557133825
> Because they know their customers. "Elderly amateur archeologist has collection seized by FBI for doing basically what professional state sanctioned archeologists do but without state permissions" would go over like a lead balloon pretty much anywhere that isn't fairly affluent and left leaning.

This story is so weird and so strange that it would have got quite a bit of attention here. Even though Indiana is a red state, there would be plenty of people that would read about an old guy that could be your neighbor that has an authentic terracotta warrior statue in his living room. So much more interesting than, say busting a ring of paddlefish poachers (which was actually front page news), or our legislature outlawing sex with chickens (actually happened).
Plenty of people concerned with privacy use public blockchains - you don't need to dox yourself to use them, just need a private key. Unlike traditional finance, where you just have to hope that your PII data won't get leaked one day with all your transaction history.

Timing analysis is a real concern, that's why they warn you about it on the front page and ask to wait before you withdraw.
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Who do we expect to be the primary users of MonoX?

-DeFi Degens: A new way to Ape. No more explanation needed.
-Alpha seekers: Traders who are looking for a cheaper alternative to invest into crypto compared to using other GAS and fee heavy AMMs/DEXs.
-DeFi Enthusiasts: DeFi natives, protocol connoisseurs, and yield farmers who love to use/experiment with new and exciting DeFi products.
-Projects & Developers: Legitimate projects looking to launch their token, but lacking in sufficient capital.
-Anyone who was rug pulled: We have a two-tiered pool system for Official Pools and trustless listing pools (where the vUSD balance cannot go below 0). Such a system makes it harder for rug pulls and scam token listings to operate.

rekt by their own token. Oh dear.

[0] https://etherscan.io/address/0xe50ce2e7def2a10c258c0bdaf8653...

[1] https://rekt.news/monox-rekt/
I'm not sure what streaming iterators have to do with it; the thing I noted was simply that you only need two values at a time. How you get to them from the input is kinda immaterial; the observation is that you can create a more generalized solution (that will be efficient no matter the size of the input, and no matter the size of the window). In fact, if the windows are only offset by one, you don't even need to do any math. It becomes a trivial two pointer problem. Even with a streaming iterator, you're summing up values (either a lot of unnecessary summations across the entire window, or you're adding/subtracting individual values off, which is one step away from realizing the thing being subtracted, and the thing being added, are the only relevant inputs per iteration).

More broadly, it's a neat observation that you can determine the direction of a rolling sum without actually maintaining a sum. And certainly, you can do it without recalculating the sum(s) at every step.
That too if off-screen animation is causing excess CPU use.

Though the loop than ends or only results in occasional animation has another rather nice benefit: less stuff jiggling around to drag my attention away from what I'm actually trying to look at. And using that will break the articles “with pure CSS” intent.