skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's going on behind the scenes is that very few people don't use an email address with one of a handful of TLDs, and that restricting signups to a known-good list solves some support and a lot of abuse problems.

Not saying it justifies it, but that's for-sure one reason places do that.
Unfortunately Mac instances have a minimum billing duration of 24 hours, so even if you only use it 8am-5pm, you'd be billed for 8am-8am. (Not AWS's fault, it's part of the Apple EULA.)
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A more complicated challenge is climate change, which is like the CFC example taken to the extremes. Since every company uses energy the responsibility is spread among everyone. However, every group, from countries to companies stands to lose competitively from using more expensive but less damaging sources of energy – the market pressures drive towards companies that take advantage of externalities like this

So a solution could be global regulation, where we all unilaterally agree to transition to better energy sources, however this has massive resistance and is the battle of our time

This sort of regulation is certainly more subtle than don't steal or shoot people but ultimately leads to a system that's better for all the players

More immediately and on the nose, in the UK companies have been increasingly dumping waste in our rivers since a relaxation of rules after leaving the EU regulations
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2021/09/the-raw-sewage-...
This is great news. We need an external voice of reason and caution in AI research. Google obviously cannot handle having that voice in-house. I’m happy to hear that Timnit’s voice won’t be silenced by her firing.
Reasonable question. I don't think we can answer that until most of the population has been vaccinated and we see how "quiet" the disease becomes. I think we are likely to be getting annual vaccinations for years to come. Don't forget that over 200,000 people in the US below age 70 have died. Most of those would not have been considered immunocompromised prior to COVID.
Author could just write a script that takes slope input from a Wiimote attached to the back of the monitor & sets xrandr accordingly.

3DOF?
Yeah I've never been to mainland China. Traffic in Bangkok is also horrible but you can mostly avoid it if you live near a train station and plan your activities accordingly.
The main type of zero-knowledge proofs are a subset (potentially proper subset) of interactive proofs. All problems that have an interactive proof form a complexity class called IP, and IP is currently believed to be a subset of PSPACE.

So no, not all provable statements are zero-knowledge provable if by zero-knowledge proof you mean an interactive proof where no information is transferred.

Of course it's possible that in the future, other types of zero knowledge proofs will be formulated that are not interactive proofs. For example there are zk-SNARKs that are non-interactive and zero knowledge, but they form a subset of IP and in fact are a subset of NP problems.
Good? I wouldn't say it's good, it's completely neutral and unrelated to morality. There is so much emotional and moral language that goes on in every discussion about electron that is just not relevant. People talk about "wasted resources", we aren't talking about plastic bags here. Electron apps aren't bitcoin or fossil fuels. If we were to take a look at things contributing to climate change electron would be irrelevant to the future of our planet.

No-nonsense? Why does software have to be no-nonsense? I'd prefer for software to be beautiful.
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> I have such a hard time imagining what sick twisting legal crap allows Apple to dictate terms like this. Another example is Nvidia explicitly dis-allowing their consumer GPUs to be used in data-centers. It's wild to me that company's can just make up whatever terms of use they feel like & we have to accept that.

As far as I understand it, those EULA agreements aren't enforceable in the EU.

That being said, NVIDIA don't have any obligation to sell to you in bulk if they find out you're installing consumer GPUs in a datacenter, so there's obviously an incentive to follow them.
And doesn't mac use a third scheme - CR?
I agree - it's more suburb than urban, but it is much more of an urban mix than almost all suburbs in the US. I would not say Arlington feels anything like being near the city, the amount of lights and traffic makes it take forever to get downtown. JP is very walkable and has pretty good nightlife if you wanna get blasted and walk home. I love JP.
So this is one tiny corner of the ISA, not something that makes ALL instruction sequences longer - essentially RISCV has no condition codes (they're a bit of an architectural nightmare for everyone doing any more than the simplest CPUs, they make every instruction potentially have dependencies or anti-dependencies with every other).

It's a trade off - and the one that's been made is one that makes it possible to make ALL instructions a little faster at the expense of one particular case that isn't used much - that's how you do computer architecture, you look at the whole, not just one particular case

RISCV also specifies a 128-bit variant that is of course FASTER than these examples
Real world problems that Web3 could solve – at least for me
AQM technologies were described as necessary best current practice by the IETF back in 1992, and recommendations revised in 2013 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7567/ because the algorithm for it chosen in 1992 (RED) didn't work well enough. Two new algorithms appeared in 2012 (Pie and codel/fq-codel) that did.

I was very frustrated by the network neutrality "debate", partisans excluding the idea that it was actually a huge technical flaw with how the internet is structured that was at the root of the problem - when many flows attempted to co-exist: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/net_neutrality_customers/

Now Solved. Thoroughly. By those two theoretical breakthrus. Since, zillions of knowlegable users and new products (like those from openwrt, eero, google wifi, and many others) managed to fix the underlying bufferbloat problem for themselves via "smart queue management" or "optimizing for conferencing and gaming", but it required manual configuration and tweaking and the right place for better bandwidth does indeed lie within the ISPs shapers and CPE.

And on by default.

However, it's not as simple of "call of duty or zoom" going "ahead". Better multiplexing (FQ), and shorter queues (AQM) lead to those applications' packets mixing into the heavier netflix flows without manual intervention.

Comcast
The guy goes straight from low interest savings in the bank to trading single stocks. Even after losing all in crypto he keeps going. Then buys call options on a Chinese company. Still doesn't Like index funds. I think this guy has trouble quantifying risk.

I'm going feeling pretty smug about my index fund investments right about now...

That said his income sounds incredible and he's young. He should land on his feet if he can stay away from the casino.
Mind you that raw core performance is not everything, memory bandwidth and caches are crucial to make sure the CPU isn't waiting for data all the time.
The semiconductor industry was using fuzzing before it was used in software (starting about two decades ago), but they didn't call it that. They (or rather, the academics who pioneered it) called it coverage-directed constrained random simulation, and it worked in much the same way as modern fuzzers do.
I wouldn't call CP/M and DR-DOS "clones" of MS-DOS. It's more the other way around: MS-DOS originated as a x86 clone of CP/M!
The majority of people who lose visual accuity as they age don't get macular degeneration or cataracts during their working years, they just need reading glasses.

It's a bit like saying 'my head hurts' and someone says 'take some tylenol' and you say 'some people have flesh eating brain viruses or prion diseases'.

You're not technically wrong but those aren't the things that affect most people complaining about font size.
Or kids roller skating on the floor above you while you're trying to work or sleep. Roller skates on a normal floor are... deafening to the people on the floor below.
> I don't believe in passive index investing. You know how Warren Buffett made a multimillion dollar bet that the index will outperform a bunch of hedge funds over a decade long period? My truthful belief is I don't necessarily believe passive investing to be the answer.

This was glided over without much detail. Warren Buffett did make this bet. But he won it! https://longbets.org/362/ It's like saying "You know how Galileo was talking about an experiment to see if heavier things fall faster? My truthful belief is that I don't necessarily believe that something lighter could fall at the same speed".

>If their model is payment for order flow, there's no question they just want you to trade, no matter if you win or lose money.

The broker wanting people to trade is also the case if they had charged $10 per trade, the prior business model for retail trading.
For those of us who are helplessly impatient, run this in console:

document.querySelectorAll(".countdown-calendar__door").forEach(e => e.classList.add("will-open"))
That doesn’t support your argument.

Although vaccinated people with a breakthrough infection are much less likely to become severely ill than unvaccinated, the new study shows that they can be carrying similar amounts of virus and could potentially spread the virus to other people

Could potentially spread is not the same as saying their equally likely to spread. Fewer infections and less severe cases both reduce transmission to the general population at least in the short term. Long term it may be that effectively everyone gets either COVID and or the vaccine.
I think it is already about such basic, intuitive things like the order of buttons, is it [OK][Cancel] or [Cancel][OK]?

Will pressing Alt+F4 close the entire window? (See MS Teams, if you open the settings dialog and and to close it).

You can find probably dozens of such examples
I mean I think imagining it as 100GB of high priority traffic per day is the wrong way to think about it. I know that in some places in the US for some reason you pay for the bandwidth you use, instead of for the capacity of your line. Personally I think that's silly.

With a 100Mbits/s connection you'd have 10Mbits/s of high priority traffic, per second. I feel like an ISP should be able to not completely oversubscribe to the point where you can't even use 10% of your connection at low-latency.
> I'd say offer families a one time lump sum if they want to relocate.

You say families, but these already get the most help from the system via welfare and other programs. The real problem are the single homeless people who have addiction or mental illness problems. And they are incredibly mobile, they'll take your $5k, buy a bunch of drugs, and be back next week. And your solution to cut off the funding spigot...well, why not just do that already? I think it is a great idea, the fact that homeless people flock to cities with the best services and benefits means that the problem can never hoped to be solved at the local level anyways.

> California is losing people

Yes, finally. When you look at the population graph for the last 80 years (starting of which California and Texas had about the same amount of people), you'd think the boom had to end sometime. It is time for the other slacker states like Texas take some people.

But my guess is that the LA area and Bay area will start growing again once the pandemic subsides. People simply have no sense, the "its too crowded so no one goes there anymore" contradiction will never go away (since...if it really does become less crowded, more people will decide to fill the empty space).
>> * Rich people are still rich and poor people have access to more food, medicine, and opportunity then any time in human history.

Back in the day slaves had to transport ice from mountains so that the king could have his chilled wine every evening, whereas today most people in the West have fridges at home.

This does not mean that those who have fridges should just put aside their feelings of malaise and adopt an optimistic outlook, because at the end of the day that malaise is a result of one's wealth and power relative to others who occupy the same time and space.
I’m not trying to ship hello world, I’m trying to ship a 100k line frontend with 60fps animations, PDF export, video and audio recording, and 3rd party html rendering. Try doing that with WinForms - the batteries are very much not included. Windows APIs are just a mess.

And if I succeed then my prize is what? I get to do it again on two other platforms?
> I wish we trust people to behave as adults, or at least have faith, and move away from creating mass panic to solve such problems

The problem is that the adults in the room are unable to do anything about it - and certainly "having faith" isn't going to solve anything.

We live in a capitalist society, and part of that is a perverse incentive to make money in the short-medium term, even at the expense of people's lives and eventually destroying our planet.
Not "too different". If it were too different it would be very unlikely to have been made by human hands. Different enough, in "suspicious places". For example, one of the major differences came from a spot on the spike protein. We now know that EHA had unsuccessfully applied for grants to study splicing in sequences from other coronaviruses into this spot of SARS (non-COV-2) at the WHI. It's not a stretch to think someone in an adjacent/partner lab was doing the same experiment on the actual COV-2 precursor.
My mistake apparently. I remember reading yesterday amongst all the coverage that the person arguing for Mississippi was a woman, but now I can't find that story. (Maybe it was retracted because it wasn't true.) I'd edit my comment but the deadline has passed.
Agreed. I don't quite understand "Orgdown1 < Orgdown2 < … ≪ Org-mode" and how each is defined and verified. But as someone who depends on transacting in org-mode formatted text outside of emacs it seems like a good idea to at least note that they are separate things.
That’s exactly what i do as well, i just gave up on the bottom inch of my top monitor with the webcam in the way
Furniture made by a very skilled craftsperson is often beautifully finished even on the surfaces you don't normally see. Quick and easy may often be the best way to do something, but sometimes you end up doing things the hard way because you care about making the best thing you can.
The bias in self-defense cases is very high.

Sure, if a stranger was breaking into your house in the middle of the night and gets shot, there's probably no charges.

Outside of a pretty narrow window, it's likely to go to trial. From there, conviction is extremely likely no matter what. Juries have a definite bias to favor the prosecutor which in my opinion is why so many innocent people have been convicted over the years.
That was a crash course on how to self-disprove one's argument, all in the first sentence. "It works well, except for this extremely common use case that requires arcane knowledge to fix."
I loved my HP Omnigo http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=200

I should look for one to buy...
Ctrl-Labs: Ctrl-Kit: Demo 1 (2018)
I like to think of it as a dark tunnel with light at the end. Helps me bear with the depression. But somedays it just feels imposssible to see the light, I gotta agree.
The Huawei MateView is 3:2, not 4:3.
Just to make you mad, I am going to compile this application written in an open source MS language and run it on Linux. Every day.
Sure they do, in that the framework for writing those contracts is guided by the governments guidelines for what constitutes a valid contract. Just because a government isn't micromanaging the process doesn't mean it isn't "regulated".
I'm a fan of RISC-V but the freedom is a large part of it. Aarch64 is a very well designed ISA and clearly has a lot of benefit of hindsight. The load pair/store pair instructions, the addressing modes, fixed 32-bit instruction size, etc. It all really helps. I suspect that Apple was actively part of designing it.

I think however that RISC-V isn't that much worse and because of the freedom we will almost certainly see more implementation of RISC-V. I'd be watching Tenstorrent, SiFive, Rivos, Esperanto, and maybe Alibaba/T-Head.
It's possible, but I'd be surprised. Dead reckoning is terribly inaccurate. To get briefly acceptable accuracy, you need extremely precise sensors that you are reading very very quickly (which would make battery life plummet).
I agree with this, well put. Are people evil, or are our structures and systems so complex that we are unable to find best solutions?

Honestly, I think evil is a byproduct of the complexity of our society. There are no quick fixes. Everything is complex and very difficult. Trying to do large-scale good might very easily turn out to have very bad consequences. Its much easier to just be a gear in the machine, but the its the logic of the machine that ends up dictating the outcome - and when the machine is societies with 300 million people, its very hard to predict what that logic will be. Most likely it wont be good.
Self-proclaimed Marxist Hakim denounces escapee from Marxist-inspired hellhole. OK, that is like an imam denouncing an apostate for his apostasy in that it would be more surprising if he did not denounce that person.

Some source criticism goes a long way to make Hakim an unreliable source for statements on Yeonmi Park. She will have enough problems getting used to the idiosyncrasies of the current self-hating western society without more attacks from those who follow the ideology she escaped from.
It's a crutch so big companies can cheap out and ship subpar, lowest common denominator software that is bloated and slow.

It is good for small teams to be able to rapidly build cross platform apps that are good for MVP.

Slack is bad for using electron.
because of a series of ballot measures over the past 2 decades, CA/LA has plenty of money to build schools, so that’s not a problem here (e.g., our billion dollar high school).
Unfortunately, certain applications are gimped if you don't use the electron version. A notable example of this for me is Discord where push-to-talk doesn't function in the web version due to API limitations.

Another app I use that has this problem is Spotify. While it isn't electron, it is using CEF (chromium embedded framework) and can be dynamically linked to a distro one with some effort. Using the web version means I dont have my music available offline for listening.
:shrug:
> dark. The last few scenes of Edge of Tomorrow were impossible to understand because of this. My impression is: The "arteestes" have taken over Hollywood

1. I thought movie firms were paid to sell more modern screens with contrast ratios 3000:1, so they made it look pitch black for everyone with an older screen. Didn’t occur to me that it could be for art.

2. Oh, in terms of unwatchable shooting style, there was the hype of shoulder cameras in the 2010s, with its apogee in Bourne Legacy (4th). Most shots were 0,5s to 1 second for 20 minutes in a row, unbearable. Especially when it’s a dialog with someone expressing feelings, feels like the director is surfing on the view selectors.
That is certainly the nature of things as I’ve experienced them. Thanks for posting this.
> The walkable parts of cities tend to be among the most expensive in every metro area.

That doesn't prove anything. We don't allow very many walkable spaces, so by supply and demand it only takes a few people who actually like walkable spaces to drive the prices up.

I think the idea that people like walkable spaces is correct, but it is hard to prove it.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty and https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction which show that the world population is getting wealtheir and that is making them much happier.
Yes. Same with 1Password.
> Even still, at times I wish I had a volume knob on my remote to swing one way or the other as the scene change in the thing I'm watching. The remote is too slow.

> But it's annoying to have these wide ranges. Then you watch a news or talk program or something like that, and the voices are front and center and everything is peachy.

I've often thought a lot of these problems could be solved just by adding a "minimum volume" knob to all the "maximum volume" knobs we currently use, allowing users to forcefully reduce the dynamic range in an easy-to-understand way (while still being loud enough to hear dialogue). I remember "large dynamic range" being advertised as something you want for home theatres/etc, but in general I think it's more a misfeature/antipattern.
Neutral sounding headline, but launches right into _vaccines are worse than the Nazis_ from the first paragraph so probably not worth your time.
Traffic in Bangkok isn't that bad compare to Beijing. At least whenever we visited Thailand, it was like going from a super crowded mega city to a city that was less populated and much more mellow (not to mention, it had much cleaner air!).
As far as just colors and font size and such, that used to be an OS feature that every (native) application got for free.

FF had it years and years ago, too. I tried it a bit back then and then stopped, because almost all the themes just made it harder to use. Not sure what's up with their making such a big deal out of adding a weaker and less-customizable version of it recently with their color themes. "We redid an old feature, but worse".
I knew some of the people involved in that during that time. It was political that, just like everything else in the culture wars, was turned into personal.
On the plus side losing his retirement isn't so bad since he's not likely to live long enough to retire if this is his level of "acceptable risk". I imagine he invests in the down time between jumping through narrow slot canyons in his homemade wingsuit.
> Net Promoter Score

My first real job was sales with a bonus tied to NPS. It’s punitive bullshit and everyone involved knows it.

We used to just ask people for a 9 or 10 if the experience was even remotely positive, because otherwise you get a bunch of happy customers who give a perfectly reasonable 8/10 and end up inadvertently costing you a bunch of money.
So if I see it on her creator page does that mean it's been un-unlisted then?
Let's Encrypt Service Disruption