skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so follow up question then is what about the same techniques used for finger printing but done so legitimately and then gray areas in between? Because I think relying on legislation cuts both ways, no?

I'm not an expert on front end technologies, but all those capabilities exist, I think, for some legitimate technical purposes. Now the only question is how is the data used...

Obviously using media queries to display a page correctly is fine.
Someone's preferred language and user agent detection also fine.
And then eventually you do all this legitimate stuff and maybe cache it to improve page speed. (Bear with me haha, I'm out of my depth)

Until, eventually, the same laws get used to do something kinda bad... I could see security heuristics being used as sort of an excuse to do actual fingerprinting and storing and sharing that data... all with promises of free stuff and totally safe and trustworthy partners.

Maybe a good way to help alleviate the situation is for browser vendors to provide an actual good way to track people without identifying them... what's it called? Differential Privacy? I think that's like a mathematically proven way to do this.

Even better would be if you could some how also poison the utility of finger printing in a persisted format, although I don't know how you could do that... I guess fully holomorphic encryption?

Maybe browser vendors could provide some kind of "clearing house" for operations that utilize these fingerprinted traits to take place. Like you, the developer, supply a function that accepts some fingerprinted input, to sort of a black box that then performs the work but hides the inputs. I just guess one problem with this is that the same developer could sample before and after and intuit what the original input was.

At any rate, I do sort of prefer well architected technical solutions, and would rather see the legislation demand that, then demand good behavior when good behavior can be so wishy washy.
Well, no one is going to make an investment calculation on only OPEX. Lazard puts the average marginal cost for fully depreciated reactors at $29/MWh.

There in lies the issue, the total cost for newly built solar and wind is lower than the OPEX of existing plants.
Here‘s another one:

https://createwithflow.com
original source which thetimes graciously refuses to link to
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-ch...
Personally, I think resets are fine, they provide a feeling of scaling / progress in games which have little (and match the idea of “ascensions” in roguelikes).

However lots of incrementals require way too many such resets, and the activity after a reset is frenetic, neither of which is something I’, interested in.

That’s not even a monetisation thing, I recall a web-based one with no ads (and very, very sparse graphics) which had this exact issue, you had to reset the entire thing all the time in order to progress, it was very frustrating.
Judgement is hard. It’s a hell of a lot easier to write and understand a narrative which has already done the hard work of discernment for you.
Huh, 1.5x fatalities is not as bad as I expected.

Especially since those are the least experienced drivers. I wonder how 18-21 drivers look in countries with a higher age.

Though one way to look at it is that a teen driver today is just as safe/dangerous as an average driver 20 years ago, much safer than an average driver 30 years ago, and over twice as safe as an average driver 40 years ago. At least as far as fatalities go.
I don't think the claim relies on siblings' environments being the exact same. The point is just that the degree of intra-family similarity is almost always far greater than the degree of average inter-family similarity. To a reasonable approximation it's fair to call it 'the same' in the context of the comparison with non-siblings.
I have some power tool from the 60, with a deviation of precision about a 1/100mm from manufacturing time, while abused in factory. Heck, I just got a new drill from 1959, with the same. They were also “recent” design at the time…
Briefly (costs/duration):

normal steel rebar=1

epoxy coated rebar=1.1-1.3 <- terrible in practice

zinc coated rebar=1.2-1.4 <- good

stainless steel rebar=3-4-5 <- very, very good

carbon fiber rebar=? <- AFAIK not used in new buildings, as it has a series of issues in practice, used in some rare cases of consolidation/repair of old buildings, mostly not as rebar but rather as mesh/net.

What is used, not as "main" reinforcement but to have a (much better) mass strength are fibers, they can be either steel or plastic.
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I should have added “as a European power” because it's what Russia was: a European power, and nobody would have questioned that in the 1950.
> based on modelling which has repeatedly been proven incorrect

it's absolutely not about modelling, it's about real-world stats in this case. you can just see the numbers.

but as for modelling, I believe the Imperial group predicted "worst case 300K dead" for the pandemic. The UK is already halfway there by official stats, never mind excess deaths. Certainly it's hard to model complex systems but it's not really plausible to argue that they haven't got it right to a first approximation.

It's not about arbitrary lockdowns, it's about looking at the evidence in front of you and wonder how "the multi billion cost, the harm to mental health" might compare to an overflowing A&E room and many many preventable deaths just because we didn't lockdown a week earlier.

I think we're not in a lockdown because the Tory backbenchers don't want to be, and Boris Johnson cares more about his political career than science, the NHS, or saving lives. That doesn't surprise me much, but what does surprise me is the sheer number of intelligent people seemingly ignoring the evidence.
I suggest only doing pre-commit stuff for things that run really fast. Don't put your whole test suite in there.
> Both approaches are about properties of the organism as it currently exists.

Not really, no. The monophyletic approach does that only indirectly.

Think of marsupial/mammal convergence. Is it really wrong to think of marsupial mice and mammalian mice as a somehow similar kind of thing?

Or consider secondary unicellularity. Losing multicellularity is as drastic a change as can be, and it makes no sense to try to understand the ecology of a unicellular organism by grouping it with its multicellular ancestors.

Living things are not the way they are just because of their evolutionary history, but also because of the ecological niche that evolution optimized them for.

When similar niches are filled by organisms that are not closely related, that often leads to similar solutions, which is interesting in its own right.
This looks really cool. To me personally graphs look the best with "ASCII only" option turned on.
> I've spent months in 4 different countries since Covid hit and it’s politicized everywhere.

There's a world of difference between criticizing a government for imposing a lockdown at 10pm instead of 11pm or enforcing a 80% occupancy limit instead of 50%, and attacking basic public health measures like taking a vaccine based on sheer lunacy and conspiracy theories.
I assume you never had to deal with unicode normalization ?

When you send your unicode string to an external system (for example a storage server with a database) and latter retrieve the string, only to find out that it has been normalized differently so it no longer match byte-for-byte what is stored in your program, and all of a sudden strcmp no longer works.

Or all kind of weirdness like that because every system outside of your program will handle unicode differently, and you will need to adapt to them, and having a string library to do most of the heavy-lifting will avoid the need for every user to rewrite a library from scratch.

Not to mention that for every developer which rewrite unicode handling functions, you will probably end up with a function with subtly different behaviors from others, which aggravate the problem for others when they will try to communicate with your system.
Just to add an example, there is a Portuguese company called SISCOG which produces planning software in (Common) Lisp, mainly for railway timetables, powering many European railway systems.
> Why don’t more plants evolve towards the “grass” strategy?

Grasses have a trick: Grass blades grow at the base of the blade and not from elongated stem tips. This low growth point evolved in response to grazing animals and allows grasses to be grazed or mown regularly without severe damage to the plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae#Description
This also has plain iOS and android runtimes.
Got it. I'd recommend putting that up at the top. Good luck with your project.
> I agree this is a trope which is trotted out by vaccine deniers and even those who said that COVID itself was a hoax before that.

As you can see from this[1] Freedom of Information (FOI) request, the ONS makes a distinction between "Involving COVID-19" and "Due to COVID-19".

> Unfortunately what we would like to know is how much longer these people would have lived without COVID. I suspect this is not knowable.

It's also interesting to see in that FOI answer the average age of death is higher than the average life expectancy in the UK. It might give an indication of whether people are being taken to meet their maker early.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
In terms of building I remember hearing how in the distant past (anything before the last 200 years or so) the buildings that survived to this day have just used way too much materials in a way that would seen as wasteful today (e.g. double as much stone as was needed because they couldn't calculate it as precisely as we can today).

Would you be willing to pay double for your new home to make it last 300 years instead of 100?
> It's not entirely uncommon for tractors to be pulling even bigger things which would cover the plates.

They're not at a high risk of speeding at the same time as that.
Well, the logical nature of the computer is leaking through.

What you are complaining about is that there are discrete states in the game or better yet, that it's a huge mess of sharp edges rather than smooth curves like the real world.
https://blog.torproject.org/tale-new-censors-vodafone-uk-t-m... has more info on this, it's not new

Most residential ISPs in the UK default to have filtering enabled, which can be removed by contacting the ISP or via a web form
There you go. Ethereum maximalists will do anything to pump their investments up by screeching 'web3', 'NFTs' and 'DAOs' and Bitcoin maximalists will also do the same thing.

Well I ask both of these maxis, can I use either of them to pay for my groceries quickly, efficiently and cheaply without overpaying for the fees and using a complicated contraptions?

If it still doesn't make sense to buy popcorn with bitcoin [0] then what hope is there to be better than Apple / Google Pay and everything else with payments?

[0] https://ambcrypto.com/is-it-really-ideal-to-buy-popcorn-with...
"Natural immunity is just as temporary as vaccine immunity, give or take a few months."

Citations needed for that claim. Based on the articles below, natural immunity seems to be vastly longer lasting...

Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...

Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
Storing heat is not difficult. You just heat up water and put it in an insulated tank. Either steel, or dig a hole in the ground and insulate that, with a floating insulated lid. Once it's big enough, the losses are so low that you can use it for seasonal storage, and with solar to heat it up in the summer, it's cheaper than natgas. At least where I live.

Next year, I think, they're building a storage not far from where I live with 200.000 m³ capacity.
How can you be so sure about that? We have like waste from max 40-50 years now sitting around and the problem is still unsolved. I doubt that civilisation can manage to manage this waste for 100'000y to come.
To clarify, is there any plan to develop a pure-Zig backend, so people who want to escape from LLVM can use that backend for compiling Zig code instead?
If security software can read email enough to observe the shortened URL, couldn’t it just see what it expands to and then judge the target URL? Link shorteners don’t seem to have any obvious CAPTCHAs.
My experience is mostly with Intel mobile CPUs, which are mounted as bare die without a heatspreader, and those can jump 20-30C a second even in normal operation with a heatsink attached.
JFYI, this is true also of modern Pozzolanic cement (almost unused today), but in my experience (anecdata) it is also stronger:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29377799
Yes, and I never encountered that sentiment from actual people.
> Uh... you do realize that 3/5 hasn't been true for close to two centuries now? You sound like you're just grasping for something to complain about.

Isn't the 3/5s still used as the basis for the number of representatives and electoral college members? If not, i'm sorry, i was mistaken.

> We did. See the US Civil War.

Which then resulted in Jim Crow laws and segregation, which only ended a century after said Civil War, and the effects are still visible today. Furthermore, slavery is still legal as a form of punishment.

> You've argued that it's old. That doesn't make it obsolete - that's something different.

I mentioned all the things i consider obsolete, like the broken political system. I can add a few more - slavery being legal, an electoral college existing, the current "Equal Rights Amendment" which still hasn't passed, the serious link between religion and government ( swearing on a bible counts for something), plenty of others.

The document is obsolete because it is old, doesn't contain things which are the norm in any developed country's constitution ( like equal rights between men and women), and carries significant baggage. It's like saying an old COBOL program, which has many patches for many bugs and many things it did wrong, but kind of functions, is a black box that can't be monitored, etc. needs to be rewritten in a modern language with modern tooling. There are things that are wrong with the old one, and so much so it merits a complete rewrite.
Yes, I don't buy anything that goes on my body or in my body from Amazon. A few years ago I had a bad experience with some lotion for dry skin. I could tell something was different compared to the product I usually bought at Target or the grocery store. Around the same time there seemed to be a lot of press explaining commingling of stock at Amazon warehouses.
If my parents had noticed that I had severe social anxiety they might have considered getting me help and I potentially wouldn't have ended up as disconnected and friendless as I have via being enabled for much of my life.

I didn't know anxiety was a treatable condition until I was 21. And I've only been able to actually go get help years after that.
Well yes, it’s true you’d have to implement basic XML parsing to implement a subset of SVG. At the same time, despite how unpopular XML may be it’s among the easiest textual languages for which to write a parser. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s so trivial I didn’t even consider that that’s what you actually meant.
I am sure that decomissioning costs are not available and if so, not exact - as learned from other plants.
>A common pattern for Russia is announcing unplanned railroad/pipeline maintenance when a country makes a political decision that Russia finds unacceptable

I don't see how it's relevant to the discussed gas topic, but I will play along.

How exactly is it fundamentally different from the numerous US sanctions? Also this "pattern" is far from being a Russian invention.

>Or cranking up gas prices at random.

How exactly does Russia crank those prices "at random" if they are mostly determined by long term contracts tied to oil prices? At least it was the model preferred by Russia since it's allowed to properly plan investments into infrastructure. And BTW this model is a European invention (see the Groningen principle) with a very good reasons behind it.

If you want "free market" spot prices, then supplier is in his full right to decide a price at which he's willing to sell his stuff (as well as a buyer has right to abstain from buying it), be it at random or not. Or do you think that other countries are somehow entitled to cheap Russian resources without striking a mutually beneficial deal? Though judging by some Western officials' statements, it looks like there is a lot of those who think that they indeed are.

And while we are talking about prices, it's quite interesting how European courts retroactively change mutually agreed contract conditions to make them "fair" at the expense of the Russian side. Though those changes has backfired quite hilariously in this season.

>Also harassing ships that are laying undersea power cables with unannounced military drills.

Again I don't see a connection to the gas topic. And I haven't heard anything about such events and a cursory search hasn't showed any news like this. Care to provide a link?
Absolute information feed gem

Beautiful also "Wasting Money on a Lemon"
It uses the phone camera to scan QR codes during the initial setup but stores credentials on the yubikey itself.
I've been using Kodi for some 5 years now. At the height of piracy addons here in the UK a few years ago I was quite worried that Kodi devs would just give up, and I'm glad they didn't.

For anyone who uses a PVR device, I highly recommend using TVHeadend, with Kodi as a frontend it's been the perfect PVR system. TVHeadend allows to define multiple inputs (HDHomerun, DVB-C/T, IPTV, and lots others) and adds the rest of the tooling on top to have a full PVR system. TVHeadend itself has a really bad UI, and as lots of issues, but once set up, you do not have to care about its UI any more and you'll need it very little.
> So, except for twins, nothing is really the same.

It's still closer than comparing to a different family with different parents.
We shouldn't also dismiss more practical reasons, why build a new church if you can reuse one of the abandoned Roman temples? Why build a fortress to protect yourself from your enemies if you can just patch up some holes and install a gate to the Coliseum (or just convert some emperor mausoleum to one)? Even if people were fully aware (and at least the more educated ones were) that there was nothing magical about Roman construction they simply had no need to build anything similar themselves when they could just reuse the already present structures (either directly or as building material).
How to Write a Diagnostics TypeScript Language Service Plugin?
Ongoing thread about Lottie, which also highlights some OSS options for creating Lottie files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29634114
This already applies for mopeds vs. motorcycles for example.
Games support Linux either natively or through Steam that leverages Wine (Wine is no emulator), which just supplies the necessary libraries to build the required software environment. There can be a performance impact and some compatibility issues, but you don't have to expect this to be the case. There are even some cases where users report improved performance.
Thanks. I need some time to parse this. So this 436 bytes lisp implemented the 7 commands, so one can write the eval function?
There's a simpler solution for disposing (not storing) final nuclear waste: deep core drilling. You drill a 1m round hole 2km+ deep and dump shit there and fill back up. Unlike caves, natural or otherwise, on a properly selected site there is no possibility of things coming back up in millions of years. It's expensive, but not that expensive compared to the energy hitherto produced by the waste involved and eminently doable as it uses tech from the oil industry.

The main reason we don't do that is that most of the waste can be expected to be further used with future reactors.
For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes Assange
A MacOS aggregate audio device might help? https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT202000
I don’t really think of 36 as young, no.

Yes, some old games used arrow keys for movement, and I hated that, too, since I started on the NES. Same deal for arcades as well; the stick has been on the left for decades now.

Good point about AZERTY, though at least with some engines you can just map to the physical locations that corresponds to WASD for QWERTY, so different keyboards should mostly be a non-issue.
The only time I tried such stunt my parents eventually got a local IT shop to re-install Windows, because the issues they were facing sharing stuff with their friends.

Naturally they didn't want to hurt my feelings and I only discovered their undo action several months later.

For them Windows just works, and there are plenty of shops around that can go to in case it doesn't, which wasn't the case with anything Linux.
Whatever test runs during pre-commit must also run during normal CI/CD run. In case of Python: black formatter.

It must run during normal CI/CD because pre-commit hooks can be skipped.

So now I have two different black calls: in the pre-commit hook and in the CI/CD. And they must be of the same version.

Ad infinitum for all other tests.

This is the reason I don't use pre-commit framework. It leads to "double accounting". I have to sync the pre-commit tests and the CI/CD tests. Or am I missing something? Can the framework run off the venv dir?
But driving in the US is much, much easier than most of Europe.

Like a small city in Calfornia vs. Barcelona was a world of difference. The US has lots of wide, straight roads instead of the nightmare of one-way streets, bus lanes, bike lanes, mopeds and motorcycles etc. in Europe.
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It's not even an actual "waste". Given a proper nuclear cycle and a proper diversity of reactors, you can both extract precious isotopes and reuse "waste" as fuel for another kind of reactor.

AFAIK, Russia, for example, had got extremely good at cycling nuclear materials. I assume it is due to the fact that after Chernobyl they were actually forced to invest in nuclear energy due to safety reasons, rather then abandon it.
Because the quantities of waste are laughable https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/02/how-much-radioactive-wast...

(The HLW is what people mostly worry about)

Even in a weird scenario where we don’t start recycling our nuclear “waste”, storing 100000x the current amounts would not present a particularly huge challenge.
> But there’s a catch — it turns out that seeing an individual mistreating someone else does not always cause children to expect them to behave immorally in the future. The researchers saw this when they repeated their experiment, except this time the toddlers first witnessed a dog puppet mistreating a rabbit (as opposed to a fellow dog) before watching the dog share out a pair of toys.

> In this scenario, toddlers gazed longer when the dog went on to make an unequal sharing decision, suggesting that they still expected the puppet to be fair.
Ah ha thanks!
Thank you. Very useful feedback.