skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, am happy the author made this post. I never considered this a possibility and while i probably wont change my current headphones ill hopefully be vigilant to excess heat coming from them in the future, and not touch the product afterwards with my bare hands to avoid the described chemical burns.
The fact is, just by reading something once, I barely remember stuff.

What makes me remember stuff is enforcement of the concept. This can be done-

1. Actively, by applying the knowledge to get things done- building something, explaining something you see IRL with the new concept. (Books like Made to Stick by Heath, Heath, and Black Swan by N. Nicholas Taleb add layers to your perception, and many things unexplained before start to make sense.) Write stuff (an elaborate blog or a four-line journal entry.)

2. Passively, by being in a community. This community can be an IRC channel, a university dorm, a school, a book-reading club, a dev meetup group, a cultural club, a study-group etc. (Do you notice that you can barely remember something that was just covered in a class, but you remember 70% of the lyrics of a catchy, new, viral song that you happen to hate?) This happens by being in a zone created and enforced by others. You repeat something many times, you hear it repeated many times, you dabble with ideas that take the original idea as the base. In this way, what you learn is cemented inside you, and the idea seems trivial. So, place yourself in a situation where you can repeat the things that you just learned, and the thing getting thrown at you now and then. Writing is also relevant here. Teach others what you have learned. Learn about the Feynman Technique.

Go onto Coursera and take the course- "Learning How To Learn". This is designed for college freshmen, may be? But it is still relevant for people like us. And although it is focused towards college and studies, it is still relevant for non-fiction Hobby-Reading.

When I attend a technical lecture, or watch a video, I take notes of stuff that I figured out, and was not explicitly mentioned in the lecture. I take notes of interesting stuff and "between the line" stuff and pair it up with class notes or slides.

When I was in college and HS, I gave mock-tests. My teachers often took Mini-Tests and quizzes. These are more valuable than revisions.

When I read non-fiction, I use Zettelkasten to store new ideas learned. New connections made. I revisit those notes.

And I have designed my circle appropriately. Nowadays, so easy to do with several options.

I have also found writing (and teaching others in general) to be highly valuable in learning.

What you need is some study techniques, proper note-taking, and a community.
Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
There is some relatively small merit to this article, web developers should spend as much or more time optimizing as time spent meeting product requirements.

But web developers don’t typically define requirements, like which and how many tracking services need to be implemented or how many social network integrations are needed.

Functionally a site should work and be accessible without JavaScript. A website should use minimal semantic HTML. A website should not require hundreds of kilobytes of CSS. That’s all realistic.

But to imply that web developers define what exactly ends up on a web page is idealistic.
Yeah, the small-time content creator called Disney definitely needs help to fight the big guys.
>"I’m really surprised by the number of top level comments that are confusing two different products: YouTube and YouTube TV."

Thanks for the clarification. It probably adds to the confusion that the landing page for "YouTube TV" goes to the "youtube.com" domain:

https://tv.youtube.com/
> the further [galaxies] are away, the faster they are receding from us

I've heard this repeated many times as a surprising discovery. Why is this surprising? Let's say you have some number of objects moving at different speeds (relative to Earth). After enough time, the objects that move fastest should be farthest away, by the simple definition of speed!

What am I missing?
>Logger levels are mutable to allow switching them at runtime, JIT can not make an assumption that the log level will stay the same.

Java HotSpot can make and verify that assumption. And switch code when the level changes.
>You seemed to have missed the part where the same comment called the OP's concerns "unhelpful paranoia" after the OP's doctor said that the pain they're experiencing is due to chemical burns.

Because the burning is in the hands and arms not the nose, larynx or lungs...
Why was it controversial?
Good to see his estimation of the British parliament still stands today…
> links can change

I guess you could use bit.ly links rather than direct urls to build an abstraction
MVP. This is exactly why you use Perl. Happy (repeated) birthday from me as well!
I think we do. We get a distinct feeling that we don't understand something, and a different feeling when things click together. Or when we hear a syntactically valid (in other words, pattern-matching) but nonsensical sentence (like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"), or see a Penrose triangle, and we cannot imagine an example, we get a very specific feeling that something is wrong. I think we are actually solving the satisfiability problem every time we imagine something - we find a concrete instance of a situation that satisfies certain conditions (for example, words in a sentence, or pixels in the image).

The book Inside Jokes even speculates that reason why we find jokes pleasurable is that they are actually a learning mechanism to detect logical inconsistencies and further our understanding of the world.

With GPT-3, you can't tell whether it's joking or not, and whether it's aware if it's joking or not. It doesn't (to my knowledge) have that boundary where it could say, wait, I don't understand what we are saying here. Maybe it's easy to add to the system, but as it stands, I don't think GPT-3 does the above.
How could it? The log level is not a constant. It is evaluated at runtime, every time. You can’t compile that out. Am I wrong?
You're both right. (I'm half in the in-group and half-out.)

It's nice that there's no political litmus test to post here. My gay butt would rather have to read some eyeroll inducing things but receive a greater variety of opinions because I favor variety in topics and opinions. This is because I think opinion and topic variety is important to synthesizing new ideas, to discovery, and to serendipity, which is what I like about tech.

On the other hand, it means if you point out that these demographics impact the tech world or its discussion centers, you get poo-poo'ed.

As somebody who would love to discuss things like the benefits, unexpected consequences, and drawbacks of more women in STEM or how, if all developers on a project share traits, they're more likely to miss needed features or key bugs depending on their audience (something I've also seen on all 'marginalized' teams), there's not anywhere to have those discussions that don't turn into shit-flinging contests that would make chimpanzees proud.
I would look at things getting parsed and throw some fuzzers at it. Maybe data mining Github to use some real world strings for it. I think with that approach even my normal sized brain would find problems.

It is about the willingness to invest, not brainpower. If I was tasked to "improve security" at my current project, I could instantly tell you things that could be looked into, even though reasonably precautions are already taken and there are already processes around it in place. I bet it is the same for most programmers.
When you say ”the safest neighborhood in the city that isn't at the top of a hill,” you’re not eliminating a lot of neighborhoods. A relatively high percentage of SF neighborhoods are on hills; it’s a hilly city.

My overall point here is that the Outer Sunset isn’t a super exclusionary neighborhood. You get that kind of rhetoric up here in Seattle, too: people like to imply that anyone with a progressive approach to crime must not live someplace that’s affected by crime. It’s usually untrue.
I'd like to share two hacks that have made a big difference for me:

/1/ black-hole certain websites in /etc/hosts, see here for details
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217297

/2/ making the computer read books to me using the text-to-speech feature. See here for instructions to setup keyboard shortcut for Mac OS users https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem... and this is the command line version https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/de3ccb244224d101bb93320...

Hack /1/ was useful to get rid of the "new tab > enter distracting site url" urges that I get several times per hour. The error loading the page reminds me of my commitment to seek less superficial distractions and practicing better information hygiene. Disclaimer: it's not easy to stick to this (for god's sake I'm no HN right now!!), but I sometimes get good chunks of disconnected time (several weeks in a row).

Hack /2/ has allowed me to read A LOT more books then ever before in my life (like one book per week): I simply open the PDF, select a good chunk of text (like one chapter or something), then listen to the book while doing other things (e.g. exercise, cleanup, or computer tasks with low cognitive requirements).
After reading a few of the dialogues, love reading these BTW, I highly suspect that Plato often misrepresented Socrates- would often put words in his mouth. With that said..

I think it’s very OK for Socrates to be wrong or to disagree with him. He’s the kind of guy who would change his opinions in light of conflicting evidence or an iron clad logical argument. Just because he said that about writing doesn’t mean he’s right nor does it mean he’s done with the tangent.
Salvia was my first hallucinogenic experience. I and others have noted that it seems to trigger a primal fear response far more often than other hallucinogens. The trips tend to have very dark themes, and time is severely warped in such a way that it’s not uncommon to forget what a human is and live in an alien reality for centuries. Really weird stuff, and not something I would recommend to most.
Is there any source as to why it was removed? The OP says it was because of a 'massive Twitter campaign' but I can't find no source on that.

I can only find some lukewarm Reddit discussion, it seems to just be a bad essay? https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1mcuva/jonathan_fran...

or see this review https://observer.com/2013/10/bigmouth-strikes-again-what-in-...
I'm wondering the same. Is it accidental contamination or are they doing it deliberately? Out of malice or out of ignorance? Or is it someone else upstream putting radioactive materials in the products that end up being used as a coating? Again, why, ignorance or malice or something else?

It's very confusing.
That's what the title already says for people who understand the figure of speech.
> Sure it can work but LISTEN ties up a connection which limits scalability as connections are limited and expensive.

Scalability is always limited, no matter which solution you choose. This article argues that the scalability limit for this particular solution is acceptable for most people to begin with:

> It's rarely a mistake to start with Postgres and then switch out the most performance critical parts of your system when the time comes.
> Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist?

Something hated by billions of nonusers (but not to point of outlawing it) and liked by 25 paying consumers can happily survive as a business.

And Pintereset is actually liked by many people who have user accounts there.
> Cosmology just says the universe is unbounded and leaves it at that

I don't think that's right. The shape and topology of the universe is an open question in cosmology, and cosmologists haven't just "left it at that".
Curious what the remaining value of YouTube TV even is then. With most sports cut out is it really worth $50/mo?
> Not sure what your nitpick is about;

You're conflating two different battery types. The lithium in lithium-ion batteries is bound to either the cathode or anode, so it's not readily flammable as metallic lithium would be.
Disney is both a content provider for these channels, and is a competitor to YTTV. It probably wins either way here.
Gotcha, makes sense. I can't claim to know much about 1st-century cults.
This. Most inbox providers filter a lot of mail -- spam as well as occasional legitimate email -- without the recipients ever finding out.
Top 3 GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulators [video]
Hi,
Here's a list of my favourite GPU-accelerated terminal emulators:

- Alacritty
- WezTerm
- Kitty

Best regards,
David
With regards to blocking sites to concentrate, adding a comment as to why it was blocked in the first place might help. It is something I try now to see how effective it is.

My etc/hosts:

# This should never be commented out unless my life depends on it. If
# We get an article or there is CRITICAL information there it is OK, but
# in 99% of cases you will just waste your time on these websites. GO OUTSIDE INSTEAD!
0.0.0.0 dn.no dinside.no nettavisen.no itavisen.no e24.no vg.no www.dn.no nrk.no dagbladet.no https://dn.no https://www.nettavisen.no/ www.nettavisen.no shifter.no www.shifter.no nettavisen.no nrk.no www.nrk.no

# FB might be relevant for work, but ONLY uncomment if you have something CONCRETE to do on the platform.
# Delegate to someone else if possible, which can be done in most cases.
# TRAIN or GO OUTSIDE instead of wasting time here
127.0.0.1 facebook.com login.facebook.com secure.facebook.com latest.facebook.com inyour.facebook.com beta.facebook.com static.facebook.com touch.facebook.com developers.facebook.com newsroom.fb.com pixel.facebook.com apps.facebook.com graph.facebook.com m.facebook.com upload.facebook.com www.facebook.com https://facebook.com
# LinkedIn should only be used for marketing, DO NOT COMMENT UNLESS YOU HAVE A CONCRETE THING TO DO.
# TRAIN or GO OUTSIDE instead of wasting time here.
127.0.0.1 linkedin.com www.linkedin.com https://linkedin.com
I’m partial to the multiple tiled stairways leading up to Grandview Park in the Sunset.
Physical world analogies are appealing and easy to visualize but they work so poorly that I wish we stopped using them altogether for IT security. A bridge under attack is a bad analogy too. One cannot possibly build a bridge which is impossible to destroy having budget 100x of bridge building. But in IT at least in theory it is possible to build such system. If you make no mistakes. But the more complex system the less likely that no stupid mistakes where made.
> When you do something to people to see how they act, it's a human experiment.

All AB testing is a human experiment?
Thanks! Will look take a look.
Unless the JVM is sure the logic is not effectful, it couldn’t eliminate it.
Responsibility should always rest with the responsible party, I. e. the one in the best position to have avoided this. It’s isn’t about guilt, but simply the redistribution of a harm that has already happened.

Unless the device was mishandled in some unusual way, the manufacturer should bear this burden because they are/were in the best position to implement mechanisms to avoid the harm, from improved QA to a better design and, ultimately, to rhe informed decision not to sell the device.
The JVM knows what string concatenation does.
But it's clearly not as simple. The GPL triggers on distribution of the combined work - the user is free to link GPL'ed and other code with incompatible licenses as long as they do not redistribute. For example, the kernel modules for VirtualBox are distributed in source form under a commercial license and need to be compiled on the users box against the kernel header. Distributing the modules in binary form would likely be a violation, as would be distributing OBS with the closed source plugins - but that's not what happens here.

So the GPL only triggers when a work incorporating GPL code is distributed, so the question here boils down to "does the plugin itself contain GPL code" and not to "can it be loaded into a GPL'ed program on the users computer." The GPL does not and cannot force a license on some piece of software that only implements an API - it can only affect software that directly incorporates code.

Think about it this way: If the mere ability to be loaded as a pieces of software into a GPL'ed program is sufficient to force the piece of software under GPL, then I could just write a small GPL program for any piece of closed source software and force it under GPL. That clearly doesn't work.
Lucid air, Polestar and obviously the Rivian look amazing.

Mercedes EQS did what they could with the standard shape optimizing for CX

Tesla is honestly embarassing as far as aesthetics . Both interior and esterior look so empty . They lack lines and surfaces in and out of the car...then they tried to recoup all the lack of lines and surfaces with the CypherTruck which looks like 2 or 3 boxy Volvo saloons from the 90s stacked on top of each other.
Not if you bring the whole pile around with you or you have a Kindle!

Not that I've ever done such things. Carrying around 4 books would have been absurd. Not me.
^5
Yes they own license to broadcast, formed by legacy media companies.
Sadly once we all go cashless commemorative coins will be a thing of the past.
Check for local news apps/websites and also national network news apps if they own your local station. Some provide access year round, and your local stations will almost certainly have live storm coverage. I can watch multiple local stations during a storm for free on Apple TV
You may think it's a none issue, however it simply disproves the "literally everything" hyperbole
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> A lot of things we rely on today are incredibly complex but work quite well and are quite safe.

I took the time to run ethernet cable to my home office because while the wifi works well 99% of the time, I don't want to be in a situation where I'm in a work meeting and it cuts off or starts becoming choppy.

Wireless headphones introduce multiple new modes of failure, like connection issues, and running out of battery. If you want reliability, it's good to stick with safe, reliable technologies, and eliminate potential modes of failure.

Sure, you could also use a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse while you're at it, but then, between your wifi, your wireless headset, your wireless keyboard and your wireless mouse, the odds of a connection or battery failure happening when you need your computer to work is quite a bit higher.

One of my colleagues uses a wireless headset and it's happened at least 10 times during meetings that people tell him "sorry, we can't hear you, could you check your audio". Don't be that guy, use wired headphones ;)
My limited understanding, according to Veritasium, is that the wire is needed to create the electro-magnetic field. Veritasium's claim is the distance of the wire is irrelevant. It's the distance between the battery (power source) and bulb (resistance) is what is relevant. AlphaPhoenix is disputing that claim saying there is a lightspeed electron "wave" through the wires.

I think this is the most fascinating debate on social media currently.
the youtube TV model (which is also the Sony Vue (they're gone! heh) / Sling model) is nothing like the cable TV model, because these companies do not provide any last mile physical infrastructure. therefore you can switch between any number of providers with no effort. Assuming the other providers can get their fucking act together techinically/user-experience-wise (YTV is like vastly better UX-wise, looks like PS VUE has already been shut down, sad), there's no way a single provider can gouge captive customers for $180 a month, because you can switch freely. meaning it becomes a market again! even liberal democrats like me like markets when they are appropriate.

my physical cable to my house is provided by Altice One, I have no option to switch that at all (no there's no FIOS or fiber option here). that's a monopoly.
I’ve always been told at school that whenever states start to discriminate by laws against a part of its population, breaking the law was actually the morally right thing to do. Blame it on french education.
This is the root issue. There are so many libraries that do way more than they should. I get it, too. It’s really hard to say no over and over and over. It gets tiring, but it’s the only way to rein in these kinds of things.
Decent comments and recommendations. I've started to purchase more physical books. But I have the same problem as when I purchase kindle books - they sit there. When I get the chance to read a book and get in, I find that I forget the content. In general I don't have a great memory, anyways. Even when I code, I generally can't tell you where a file is. I think through all the logical steps, from front to back to reach where I need to go.

Nowadays with a young daughter that I need to drive to extracurricular activities (2x a week) it gives me 1 hour to sit in the car by myself...half of which I am able to get some reading done (the other half, on social media of course :( ).

The funny thing is the last book I read, I was able to complete it because I thought it was longer than it actually is (it had a huge appendix). I have a tendency to finish things to 90%...
You still don't get it. I want the "channel" format of media (programmed video content aka broadcast programming) to die. Whether it's accessed by paying comcast to watch it over a settop box or paying google to watch it through a browser or app makes no difference to me, it's the same format of content and I want to see it die.

And it has been dying. Look at the ads the roll between the shows and it's clear that TV watchers are aging out. It's all hearing aid commercials and malpractice lawsuits' the only people watching TV through a settop box anymore are the elderly. Bringing that same format of content to youtube's platform, to be watchable on the devices young people use (smartphones, laptops, etc) is a play to make this format relevant to young people again. I hope they fail.
Re: 2, I find that listening to something (that is not music) while doing something else makes me zone out for one of the two activities.

I tried listening to podcasts/conferences while coding, or listening to a zoom meeting while reading my email or doing work, and it doesn't work. I tend to zone out on the listening. If it was audio, I must rewind and listen to it again. If it was a zoom call... oh, well, "what were you saying again?".
You don't seem to understand the dialectical shape of this argument. You would have to try to understand better how two things that seem opposite could both be true.

For example, Microsoft could pay Red Hat for whatever they like, but this does not contradict the general law of profit maximization. It is possible for a large tech company to achieve both these goals together (support for open source and undermining open source) without undermining the general law, which is to reduce costs wherever possible and maximize profits for shareholders however possible.

You need to think a bit more about the motivations and rules operating here, and if you do, you can't fail to come down on the conclusion that it is open source that is broken, because it reproduces the free rider problem as a well documented and persistent market failure.
This completely spurious notion, that the Wikimedia Foundation "often struggles to have enough money to keep Wikipedia up and running", was nicely parroted by Trevor Noah here in this interview with then-Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdn1s9Sjfo&t=270s

As you will note, nothing is said in this interview to dispel that notion.
Let me be stricter: models consistent with general relativity don't discuss the idea of a universe being "infinite", and just in general theories in science don't predict the unobservable. Open universe topologies are unbounded. They aren't "infinite".