skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see understand idea of paying companies to keep an invention secret. But I'm annoyed at calling it a 'patent'.

The very nature of patents is that the government grants exclusivity of the invention to the inventor, so long as the inventor shares the invention with the world. That's why there were lawsuits about Viagra: Pfizer knew which compounds in it caused the effect, but their patent was vague and didn't specify. In Canada, the patent was voided over this.[0]

Calling it a 'secret patent' just confuses the idea of what a patent is meant to be.

[0]https://www.smartbiggar.ca/insights/publication/supreme-cour...
That's with no income at all for the rest of time, etc.
My wife and I are fully vaccinated and boosted. Our kids are too young to be vaccinated. We're all currently Covid positive. Fortunately, my wife and I have mild symptoms and our young children have manageable symptoms.

I was thrilled to be vaccinated and in awe at the power of mRNA technology. I got everyone I knew that was un-techsavvy a vaccination appointment as early as possible.

With that being said...

I think we are coming to terms with our collective hubris. Omicron has caused many "breakthrough cases". The science would indicate that it either evolved in an immunocompromised human or through an animal. Those are particularly inconvenient paths to blame on "anti-vaxxers".

We were all always going to get Covid whether we liked to or not.
> that actually make Gmail special like labels

I hate labels.

At $WORK we use Gmail and I get a lot of automated stuff (cron, etc). I want these types of message to go into folders. I don't want it in my "all" / archive area because they just clutter up searching for other things.

Perhaps labels work for other people / general public, but for me 'traditional' folders is how things work best.
That's slightly more expensive than an ESP32, isn't it? I should get a few RP2040 boards to play with, though I really love the integrated wifi on the ESP...
The "unfree" participants could choose not to visit the websites, thus not receiving the content/services they want.
People think that vaccines are like force fields but it's more like better training and weapons. The vaccine does not affect how many soldiers land on your beaches, they affect how timely and effective your response is.

Intramuscular vaccines do not do much to prevent replication of proteins in your nasal cavities, where as nasally adminsitered vaccines do much more so. So by population vaccinating people with intramuscular vaccines, we have reduced harm significantly, but we have not meaningfully affected the virus ability to spread.
That's what an optimistic person would say. A pessimistic person might believe they have a better outcome because of hedging against the pessimistic possibilities.

It seems we should need objective data to filter through the bias.
One thing I’ve never been sure of is how Reddit has been so successful with NSFW content. It’s certainly not banned from the platform, so how is it able to get away with it compared to the other services? It’s also mostly an ad business, right? Whereas other as businesses like YouTube have historically been very prudish (swearing can demonetize a video and nsfw content isn’t allowed)
That ladder of importance isn't as simple as you present it.

Having housing of which quality? What floor size per person? In what location? You can buy an entire empty house in depopulated Italian villages for 1 euro, which isn't a prohibitive cost for anyone, but there seem to be few takers [1].

Is space tourism necessary for promotion of space research in general? What about the money it brings into various coffers? Maybe it contributes to having habitable environment in the future.

As for eating, Coca-Cola and McDonalds are ready to drown the entire world in cheap sugary fast food. That probably isn't what you had in mind - this kind of eating will kill people slowly. Is it possible to feed 8 billion people just with organic food? Probably not either. Etc.

[1] https://www.idealista.it/en/news/tags/1-euro-homes-italy/
From the top of my head:

1. Gloss alignment in the file format is governed by magic (is it driven by the unicode display width? Is it UTF8 encoding size in bytes? Is it both?)

2. The file header has this magical number in it that just has to be the right one, otherwise you get weird glitches in the UI (like the file can't be edited). We get these regularly once per week when working with version control — the magic number seems to change randomly with no explanation

3. Does not work well for large teams due to shared dictionary. We have a decent git workflow in the meantime, but it's not easy.

4. Complicated project setup, especially if you want to share things. Not version control friendly — too many config files, too much system-specific stuff in them.

5. No native macOS version. This is a big one. We got it running under Wine on the new ARM Macs but I feel like it's a ticking bomb. It's fine for field people who will use a cheap disposable Windows laptop anyway, but not ok at all for people doing research on these corpora.

Overall, Toolbox was a great tool when it was first released, but a lot of time has passed and Toolbox did not keep moving. Unfortunately, newer tools (such as FieldWorks) made things more complicated without really improving anything. Toolbox's selling point is still its simplicity — at least we can parse the files with our analysis tools.
I'll take manipulating and working with the web DOM _any_ day over going back to old Win32, MFC, and other native abominations.
From https://fakeyou.com/about

> We'll be happy to remove any of the voices featured here for any reason.

Maybe they've requested to be removed from the site. Impossible to know though, and they are unlikely to acknowledge it if you ask.
That's why I never write a stop clause in my recursive functions. Makes everything infinitely better. /s
Sounds like a typical stroll down Market Street. Never a shortage of people trying to get you to sign up and donate money to some cause, and they won’t take “no thanks” for an answer.
I'm not assuming anything. I know firsthand.
It's likely that you don't have to simulate even a single cell at high resolution to be able to simulate how an organism would grow. There are numerical shortcuts.

For example today we can already predict the color of the eyes and other phenotype from the DNA.

If you are able to observe enough samples of cell growth and their associated DNA, you probably can model and predict the statistics of a cell from their DNA. Because the cell is itself the result of a lot of chemical processes, the law of large number will help smooth those statistics.

Given that we have a lot of cells, the collective behavior is probably entirely governed by these statistics.
Very much a thing :) I am not a phonologist or phonetician, so I never really worked with it directly (aside a class at a summer school a decade ago), but some of my colleagues use it daily and they seem happy. No idea.
Why should a programming language be limiting network access? Why wouldn't we do this via the operating system?
I have zero disagreement with you, there- I would personally much rather see a dramatically-expanded bus service than another light rail expansion, or at the very least increased service on the existing lines. In its current state, you are correct in that there are large parts of the metro area where it's just not a practical choice, and that's something that needs to change. I am lucky enough to live and work along one of the transit corridors where TriMet's bus service _does_ make sense, but it's definitely not viable in much of the metro area.

And yeah, "dysfunctional" only begins to describe the Columbia bridge debacle. But I will say, in defense of the project and its staff: that was a spectacularly challenging problem to solve. One of those fractal problems, where the more closely you look at it, the more complex it gets. The physical challenges were already going to be hard enough, and then the twelve-dimensional politics of the situation made it even more so. I don't pretend to know what the best solution would even be, but like everybody else in town I was disappointed to see it blow up after so much had been invested in it.
I wonder if this is the reason my gf's (reasonably popular) account was terminated out of the blue. It certainly contains a number of the banned tags.
A decent web browser was the most obvious problem for a long time. Be was different enough that it was hard to port anything that expected a Berkley socket interface, which was all internet applications.
There's another indie game called Hero's Hour that's heavily inspired by HoMM. It has pixel art and the fights are real-time instead of turn-based.

Windows only. There's a free demo with a limited number of playable factions.

https://thingonitsown.itch.io/heros-hour
We have something that might be a baby taking its first steps. It might also be a weird freak that won't live past its first few years, dying of some painful deformity. Time will tell - I'm hoping for baby, but won't be surprised by circus freak.
This is a huge article. Can anyone give a 1-paragraph synopsis of its main thrust?
Thank you! I will try that and see how that goes. :)

Edit: I got a stack overflow! Does that mean I should download more RAM, or what am I doing wrong?!

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But seriously, I think the author is referring to evolutionary algorithms. It does not make much sense regardless. Smith and Trinity are crucial to account for, but the author left them out completely.
If I could give an analogy: if facebook is the hammer, everything would look like a nail and we (in a civilized society) would know the difference whereas people new to such platform may not.

The UN may be the arbiter of global politics but what they might be exempting are people whom are part of the "opt out" crowd or, would rather not have to explicitly opt out of such (free) services.
Agreed. I was genuinely shocked by that whole saga...
The scale is based on two things - storage capacity, and power capacity. Storage is the kwh of storage, which will determine how long you can run off-grid. The power capacity is the peak output power of the system when off-grid, and is usually limited by the inverters.

I am using the Enphase Encharge system, in which each battery unit also includes grid-creation capable micro-inverters. They are integrated into the same boxes, and can provide both grid offset, or grid generation. There is also a 'smart switch' that does the interconnects to the grid, and provides the autotransformer capability ( needed to have 120V split phase ).

There are some more details in my house/shop build thread on garage journal: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/jeffs-mountain-s...
National emerald isle. I've never looked to another rental company after experiencing it.
just read a guardian article about that, they brought back advertising in a controlled way. This seems fair. Also Googled before and after pics of the city, can't say there was much of an improvement. I live in the UK, advertising is probably controlled by planning laws here, I live in a very historic touristy city, there's advertising but it doesn't impact the beauty at all.
I don’t remember the problems Google asked me to solve, there were 5 of them during a daylong interview in Mountain View. WRT Facebook, the problems were a schedule organizer (iOS) and a contact tracer (iOS). The FB second problem was a NSRange intersection problem.

I agree that leetcode-esque problems used to decide aptitude are a poor judge of overall performance, and it may show a bit of desperation (and slacker behavior) coming from the HR departments of MANGA companies
When someone says "check your privilege", they're saying that you've done something wrong and should feel guilty.

This shouldn't be downvoted. It's become a socially acceptable insult, in some circles (which basically means the receiver is less empathic / socially aware than thou) -- or at the very least, a thought-terminating cliché.

I know there's a bunch of nice and wholesome stuff it's supposed to mean (like the sibling commenter points out); but the way it's typically bandied about in modern discourse (as an STFU signal, more or less) -- it isn't what it really means.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
There should be a directors cut where the mission fails because of Vincent's hidden heart condition.

Gattaca shows eugenics has been so vilified that the audience will root for a character who selfishly commits fraud, risking lives and scientific progress for his own vanity.

The really scary fact is that there would be no need for a police state and segregation. The genetically enhanced would just completely dominate an open and fair competition.
The vaccines don’t stop you getting it, but:

1. They reduce the chances you will get it because they increase the chances your system will fight it off before it gets established.

2. They reduce the time during which you are infectious, and the amount of the virus in your system that you output during that time. As a result they decreases the chances of you infecting others.

The reduction for the original variants was very significant. Vaccinated people were very unlikely to infect anyone else prior to Delta. With Delta the benefits were significantly reduced. With Omicron the benefits in infectiousness are again much reduced.

So for most of the last year the vaccines were a vital tool in reducing the spread of the virus as well as protecting the vaccinated. Now Omicron is so infectious the effect is much lower. Of course the vaccines do still seem to be real life savers against Omicron, and avoiding getting sick yourself still protects others by reducing the load on the health care system.
How does it get the DNA to go through the hole?
I would gladly pay $5 a month for a Google-quality search service that doesn’t track me. I’ve been using Duck Duck Go for most of this year, but frequently find myself falling back to !g because Google’s results really are much better.

I wonder how much money Google search makes per the average user. Is it more than $5/mo?
It really shouldn't be very hard to tell whether a garage lab is a terror cell trying to shoot down passenger airlines, or a bunch of ornithologists trying to do better wildlife tracking. Honestly, I'm somewhat puzzled that people here seem to be refusing to acknowledge that the two can be distinguished
Except the vulnerability was a stack up. The logger wasn't making network calls per se, but passing requests to a component (JNDI) that would obviously need network access. You'd have the same root issue, it'd just manifest more as sort of a confused deputy with a capability based model.
I am trying to build a "Sustainable" village with up to 200 houses. In Australia, rural land is about AUD 25K per ha (USD 4700 per acre). It some how you got permission to build on it the value increases to $100K per ha.

Your can build for about AUD 1650 per sqm (USD 1.20 per sqft) but that does not include power or water.

It is land that is the problem not buildings.
This article is trash. They can learn nothing by the methods used.

There were 40 subjects, not randomly selected, and they had no way to normalize for skill or motivation.

The tasks are mimicry, not scholarly document preparation.

The evaluation metric is not really even given.

And the biases of the researchers are evident — last line of the paper:

“preventing researchers from producing documents in LaTeX would save time and money to maximize the benefit of research and development for both the research team and the public.”

There is no way the data they have is sufficient to reach this conclusion. What an embarrassment.
Conference Demographics and Footprint Changed by Virtual Platforms
You think finding two numbers in an array is ridiculous? How do you think software like the OS, web browser etc. is made? Someone has to do stuff like this...
My favorite was HOMM3, which higher higher resolution art, and was the last before they threw out the nice art and switch to functionally lower resolution 3d models :-/
Anything really. You're single, which means you're unrestrained.
Bullshit.

2021, 72.4 Billion BTUS total use and 8.6 Billion BTUs from coal.

11%.

Sorry I was off by one percent.
Not really. Comments are comments. Not ads. You came here to read the comments. Nobody paid some ad company to show it to you and force the ideas into your head. The fact you agreed with the comment doesn't mean it's an ad, it means you found it persuasive.
Sounds better in general, but probably wouldn't help with something like logging which would probably be used in all the processes. Unless you want to make IPC calls for every logging call.
Eh. Some of these are dangerous and misguided.

A commitment to truth has value. A commitment to speak it always and essentially pick fights and cut your own throat is not really a dedication to the truth. It's some kind of misguided puritan guilt or something like that.

Forgiveness is a gift. Trust is earned. People hold grudges when they know no means to have compassion for another while still protecting themselves. Telling people to run around randomly forgiving others is an unnuanced idea that advocates for encouraging bad behavior and a professional victim position.

If you can help them move on, cool. Wonderful. If you can't, it's bad advice that amounts to saying "The nice thing is to cut your own throat and actively encourage others to keep cutting throats without consequence."
It might be useful that some code in a single process have access while other parts do not. How would you propose an OS handle those cases?
Ideally all egress network connections should go via NAT Gateway & filters at NAT Gateway should have policies to say which request can go out. Failures do happen in programming, we need to have better guardrails ensuring security.
There is a all girls school in Brisbane named after her called, fittingly, Somerville house.
It still passes. Because JNDI would require network access, so log4j would also have to require network access or "disable" the network capability.
Life is badass if you make it! :-)
Congrats!
From the landing page, I miss some information:
* will it be always free? (I guess not)
* what do you do with my email? (Only for login, or do you sell it)
* will my data be mine or do you own it?

I understand that it is a MVP, but I cannot put job real data without warranty.
This is a pretty okay piece and it reflects the truth. But it's rather too focused on Ceausescu's regime and its brutalist architecture. I just want to point out that many buildings were destroyed in the '77 earthquake and prefab rectangular apartment buildings were built in their place according to the dictator's grand vision. Of course, in order to materialise this vision, he just had to demolish lots of other stuff. To reflect the past and present cozy relationship between the church and the state, a cathedral of the nation's deliverance is being built near the people's house.
Nice! I own AmigaOS 3.2, and it's worth every penny. However, I wish that Hyperion would fix their site a bit better - the forums don't allow for new accounts, bug reporting isn't clear...

No matter what, it's nice to see progress, and it's always good to see updates :)
I like the potential for sending minimal document elements/objects, though it seems like HTMX/Intercooler/Unpoly features should be built into the browser. Unpoly, for example, has its own entire reimplementation of fetch():

https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly/blob/4854c7ccb268890a9522c6...

and it uses several X-HTTP-Headers, which could be standardized.

Do any browsers have the early workings of a "native web application sdk"?
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants with AR/VR goggles plugged into my brain."
> Android help is over vnc+scrcpy

Just for info, you could directly use the SSH tunnel to redirect the adb communication, without an intermediate VNC: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy#ssh-tunnel
>They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else.

wow, it is like they know me!

but anyway, I'm all for blocking ads when you go out, and hopefully once they can do that the technology can be extended to allow blocking of people who are not sexy enough, because imagine what I could do with the power of invisibility!
We don’t allow things on your property to emit all kinds of things without limitations. Smells, gases, smoke, radiation, etc. Why is visible EM radiation an exception? In fact it isn’t: try displaying pornography on your property.
> It might be because people did report on in trying to run GNOME 3.8 without logind, and reported massive faults?

If you by 'it' mean the fact that the distributions switched to systemd, I would be declined to discount the speculation that 'it was because people did report in trying to run GNOME 3.8 without logind [...]'. Do you honestly think that Fedora, Arch or any of the other distributions would not try to evaluate other strategies of getting GNOME 3.8 to run? Replacing the process manager and PID0 is not an endeavor chosen lightly - it is a massive undertaking that every distribution would have weight very carefully. "Oh, there are people having trouble running GNOME 3.8 without systemd present" seems not to be enough reason to go through all the pain of switching to systemd.

It's rather that systemd offered something that systemd offered something that the preceding mess of shell scripts and conventions didn't offer; consistency and reliability, as much as you might doubt that. Have a look at the Debian general resolution with regards to systemd and the provided arguments by the proponents[0].

> I've been tinkering at alternative

I would be very glad if your alternative implementation were even modestly successful. And I'd be thoroughly thankful if it managed to replace systemd.

Not because I think systemd is badly implemented (I've yet to see any actual evidence in that regard from any detractor) but because systemd needs competition and I would prefer to see some well established and stable protocols between the individual parts of systemd. That will only happen if said protocols get also provided by alternative implementations.

With regards to you re-using the systemd configuration format; that's probably a smart move. Systemd is at this point a well established fact and anyone trying to best it at its game will have to make is as easy to migrate as possible. Hurdles like a new file format might well be too much for an indifferent user.

[0] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002
It has nothing at all to do with guilt.

Guilt is too strong of term. But it is very much used as a kind of penalty box, or way of distancing the receiver from the speaker. And as far as enlightening those who supposedly need uplifting to the higher, more evolved plane that the speaker inhabits -- it just doesn't do much.
Similar idea as "big data" as a toxic asset.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...

Once you collect data, it can become very attractive to various parties, like nation states and snooping employees. Google found this out the hard way multiple times!
6 Ways A Node Developer Can Drastically Boost Their Productivity
I was thinking, jeez, there’s a whole lot of Christian mysticism in this article, and so it’s not surprising —- indeed, downright mimetic —- to read the author’s at Catholic University.
Indeed… double digit seconds to load and then it isn’t responsive and doesn’t respond to touch events. A bit under baked, to say the least
>This is not something for the future, this is happening right now.

What you're describing is due to the La Nina effect:

>La Niña could also worsen California's ongoing drought and make its wildfire season even more of a threat. As Bloomberg explains, the state usually gets most of its annual water from rain and snow between November and April — the same period when La Niña is predicted to shift storm tracks north and away from the region that needs it.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046313870/la-nina-winter-wea...