skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potatoes were domesticated in the Andes and Ireland was very resistant to them at first. Bell peppers and chili peppers, tomatoes, chocolate, corn, and much much more was unknown to Afro-Eurasia until just a few generations ago. Over half the foods in most people's kitchens nowadays comes from other continents
Like beOS/Haiku does! Metadata and dynamic grouping of files + search is an amazing concept
Ah, then we can add Xbox to the amount of Windows desktops in use as well.
Install a bare minimum of apps. No games. Turn off notifications on all apps except where it is really important. If you must just have visual notifications for preference. Ensure you are completely unaware of it at night. If you take it out keep it zipped up (say in a pencil case).

Had a mobile phone over 30 years.
> On macOS, trackpad swipes produce a series of horizontal scroll events, not a simple back/forward event.

That's not true. On macOS (and also iOS), you subscribe to gesture recognizers (i.e. swipe gestures), not isolated events, which give you easy access to how users interact with macOS without having to analyze (and likely analyze incorrectly) low-level trackpad interaction.

You could always choose to look directly at events instead, but if you are trying to get the behavior of a widely-used gesture like swiping forward/back, you will get much more accuracy (and happiness from users, and less dev time) by just recognizing them at a high level, which is what Apple expects.
I'm a little lost yet curious, what do you mean by "no longer have to be beneficial to their human hosts in order to proliferate"?
This is scary, because if you’re innocent (the DNA isn’t yours, and you know it), the police are saying “we can and will create fake evidence to convict you.”

Plenty of innocent people would confess at that point.
"Suggested searches" are not ads. I'm pretty sure Google does not financially benefit from a user mis-clicking on suggested searches.
What you are testing is that results of shouldExecute() are followed.

This is verified either that your passed in mock function also got called with the right parameters, or that the return value shows that the function was executed.

If your shouldExecute function is bad, it's tests should fail, not some other file
> they asked a man to remove his N99 mask in favor of the standard issue, light blue surgical mask you see everywhere.

They do this at a hospital I go to frequently (require a blue surgical mask uniformly) and I just put the blue surgical mask on top. Havent had any breathing problems or anything. The blue ones are pretty thing and useless in that state.

All they care about is following protocol, not efficacy.
>Not that several camera makers make EF mount cameras and third party lens makers make EF mount lenses, like Yongnuo, Samyang, Schneider, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Cosina and Carl Zeiss.

They are being discontinued at these manufacturers as well. I was looking into validating a range of EF mount lenses for a specific application a couple years ago and for every vendor we talked to, they indicated that some of their lenses were either newly discontinued or soon to be discontinued. No matter what the lens manufacturers are saying, I'm confident that they will slowly be discontinuing their DSLR lines over the coming few years.
From the article:

On her Twitter, the writer of the piece [Monica McLemore] wrote: "I purposively didn’t quote his work so you could read it for yourself."

Not a good look for an aspiring scholar when her very first word is a misapprehension of everyday english.
Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
A very simple one for most personal problems is just asking "Why" as long as you get to the bottom of things.

"I need to solve X now"
"Why?"
"Because it blocks me from finishing project Y"
"Why?"
"Because without it I won't be able to dy Z"
"Why?"
"Oh"
Not necessarily true, I think. It’s a mental barrier more, than a physical one. Tell someone you ran 100 m in 12 seconds and they go “meh”. Tell them you did a marathon and they go “i could not do that, awesome, how could you etc.” whereas an average person can do a marathon with a years worth of training and never achieve that sprint time.

It took for me 21 months of training to go from effectively zero to a half ironman and the biggest barrier was swimming, which is very technical in nature. I still can’t swim very well. I was in no shape at all and overweight. If you look at the speeds required to stay within ironman time limits, they are quite low and a person in a slightly better than average condition would be able to sustain them with relative ease. The barriers might be swimming technique (which one might have from training as a kid) and things like biking position and running technique but not necessarily fitness as such. In fact, I see quite a few people visually in much worse shape than I am (i.e. fatter) doing long IMs and beating me at shorter distances.
While people do make stuff up to score imaginary internet points, this does not have to be a case here.

Any "super rare" event you hear about on public media is actually something that happened to one of billions of humans within the timespan of a few decades. Having this many tries means that a random bit flip in the image id is a sufficient explanation. Or any other "improbable" event, which is actually quite probable given the huge sample.
Can you explain the "ladder" aspect of this?
These are long-closed cases, not on-going, and even if it were, any 'pundit' talking on any channel would likely say as your example, JCS does not do this.

I seem to recall 'Judge' Janine Pirro going on pretty crazy rants, also Nancy Grace. Where were the 'harmful content' bans or nptices then?
May be using a controller makes it better. The keyboard and mouse controls of Skyrim seem non-intutive.
Foreign elements are elements from XML namespaces so obviously XML rules apply.

> That’s not the same thing as “HTML doesn’t have them”.

HTML has always ignored them. They have no affect on any HTML element. If you attempt to use them as in XML, on normal elements, they do not close that element. If you use them on void elements, they obviously also do nothing. It's utterly meaningless in HTML.
What would those numbers be for the general population or someone who is slightly fit but not a freak?
At least the trench doesn’t have radiation you have to shield yourself from constantly.
> Secondly, layperson DO NOT by and large trust the results of paper voting elections.

That is false. Though there is some distrust in many parts of the world, the overall consensus is that the result of the vote was at least close to the real vote. Even in the USA after the recent election, many focused on accusations of fraud about voting machines (the infamous comments about "Hugo Chavez's machines").

I do agree that it's not a 100%/0% thing in practice - some people will always choose to trust or mistrust the government regardless of other facts; and some people know or are convinced by facts that others don't believe or don't have access to to trust or mistrust.

However, I would say the right response to pure electronic voting would actually be 0%. It's actually out of gullibility and misunderstanding that people put any trust in pure electronic voting *, when in fact it can be attacked in ways that not even the best expert in the world would ever notice, and this can be done by sophisticated out of state attackers (such as the USA or Chinese spy agencies). In such a high-stakes environment, you can't trust the CPU, you can't trust the RAM, you can't trust the USB controller, you can't trust the cables - everything could have been rigged to perform different computations than what was apparently programmed, and this would be often be impossible to prove.

* with the possible exception of electronic voting systems that make everyone's vote public, with obvious downsides. Though even there, I have some reservations - if I claim I voted differently than what the public ledger shows, what happens next?
Yeah, I think "hot take" [1] is the analytic analogue to expressions like "by the seat of the pants," [2] meaning something like: A rushed, likely emotional, reaction to something with no or minimal follow-up research or analysis.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_take
2: https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants
You're assessing the feasibility here making the assumption that a polling pattern would be used but this is exactly what an event based pattern is perfect for. As long as files are modified through the os you can propagate changes upwards and only update folder metadata when required. This is what the parent meant by moving the cost upfront.

If your only option is polling you're right but we're talking abou an os from first principles here. You have the control to make sure all file changes go through the proper api and update the metadata to be as accurate as you like.
I think it's usually been a case of bugger all fibre optic connections to NZ at least. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ is a good place to have a look. We are (or may have already gotten) some more bandwidth due to a new cable: https://techblog.nz/2603-More-connected-than-ever-new-unders...
Will Nuclear Fusion Ever Power the World?
> "how much space this will take if I copy it to other filesystem"

This is ambiguous between "how many bytes are all these files in total" and "how many bytes does it take to store a single copy of all these files on such-and-such file system (mostly the current one)". The latter can be different because of transparent compression, which is common on e.g. BTRFS.
First use case that comes to mind is "Alcubierre torpedoes" or "Alcubierre shaped-charge" (if the bubble could be focused in such a way). Possibly a mechanism for disrupting any orbital objects on a collision course with earth? Hit it at an oblique angle to its orbit and poof!
Quite the slipper slope you got going on there. I fail to see how a youtube video discussing interrogation techniques is going to magically cause people to 'think they're master criminal psychologists and get innocent people put in prison.'

By your reasoning anything discussing anything could be 'harmful'.

How about we decide for ourselves what we want to watch/listen/read.
This I can actually answer :D

Multiple reasons:

* No two SQL implementations have the same dialect

* There is no publicly available specification

* The people in charge of the non-free specification have demonstrated no desire to:

* Make the spec public and freely available

* Remove (or make mandatory) any optional features

* Update the spec to match the real world, unify discrepancies, and require conformance to that spec

* Following the above, existing commercial vendors have no desire to create a unified specification that covers, presumably as that would ease transition between DBs?

The core problem was that existing websql implementations were just shipping wrappers around sqlite. That meant no one could create an implementation without first doing a blackbox rewrite of sqlite, and would just have to hope they hadn't messed up anywhere.
If only this were true.

In my experience business people have a hard time defining logic to the level of granularity that a developer requires.

Even if it's simply a matter of wiring things up, you'd essentially require the developer mindset / training to understand how to wire everything up to accomplish the business objective.

Not to mention knowing exactly what tools to do this in and ensuring any new systems can talk with older ones etc.

Developer jobs aren't going anywhere, it may get quicker to accomplish a task but you're still going to need people who understand the finer details and are able to take a human requirement and break it down and wire things up.
These settings control writing back modified pages. The experiments in the paper are read-only. With writes the situation is even worse than shown in the paper (though tuning these settings may help a bit).
Asian Journey; in South India, No End of Spice, No End of Flavor
I thought my code was hard to debug, can you imagine understanding and debugging code written by an AI?
To me, this (together with the fact that software will always have bugs) is why smart contracts are a very bad idea.
The DNT header is completely irrelevant to security. It's not even clear that it has any meaningful effect on privacy -- most web sites and advertisers ignore the header entirely.
Following up on my comment (for posterity). I've now released the new code to my library. Includes a demo of using the full range of CSS color strings to set color in the canvas[1], and also a demo of my reducePalette (with dithering) filter[2] - I've no idea if the filter's output is 'Good Enough' for Image Engineering work, but I'm happy with the results.

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-059.html

[2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/filters-027.html
Deterministic IP Addressing for WSL2
Not mine, but it solves a problem that has been a pain for me for a long time I think it could be useful to others here since the WSL issue (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4210) making static allocation difficult is popular. Surprisingly this repo does not have so much love thus posting in case it is helpful.
Or someones GUID/UUID implementation is not as random as they thought.
Weirdly it's true https://www.unep.org/championsofearth/laureates/2011/zhang-y...
Amazing and all, but I am sure search results keep getting worse and worse!
> without giving up the claim to Hala'ib Triangle.

Well, strictly speaking, either country could decide to claim both areas, it's just they believe that by doing so they would be lessening their chances of their claim over the preferred area succeeding. So it might be more accurate to say "without weakening their claim" instead.
Agreed, the video really impressed me. He mentioned that you can't delete files yet, I am wondering what the idea would be if you delete a file that is open in an app, change it to untitled in the app maybe ?

Very impressive, amazing amount of work went into it clearly.
>discussing interrogation techniques

Spreading misinformation about interrogation techniques in a sort-of educational format.

> How about we decide for ourselves what we want to watch/listen/read.

We can, of course. I just also happen to believe that youtube should get to decide what they distribute, and this is a fairly reasonable thing to choose not to distribute.
Gnome does the same. Slow, jarring and pretty useless for mouse+keyboard or displays larger than laptop sized.

"Just swish your virtual desktops around" seems extremely convoluted when I just want to switch between different windows.
I did this in the mid-90s when this book came out:

https://www.amazon.com/Developing-32-Bit-Operating-System-Cd...

I knew x86 well from demo scene coding, and I had the Linux and NetBSD sources to help, but the hardest bit was just getting all the boot sector stuff going properly and getting the processor into 386 mode as soon as possible.

I wrote an entire OS that booted into a windowed GUI, multi-threaded, file system support etc, etc and my goal was the whole thing booting happily to the desktop in 4Mb of RAM from a 1.44Mb 3.5" floppy, which it did. Every line was written from scratch in x86 assembler, because I was a masochist like that.

I called it Tinkerbell, for reasons lost to time, and it was hosted at tinkerbell.org back when I owned that domain. I just checked archive.org but sadly they didn't grab it when it was around.

EDIT: 32-bit OS book and the source are here:

http://www.ipdatacorp.com/mmurtl/
About claiming land with the cunning use of flags:

https://youtu.be/hYeFcSq7Mxg
> My understanding of gravitational waves is that very large objects try to move. It's easier if the universe sees more or less of their particles than if they moved. So the universe sees more or less of their particles. Instead of creating a warp drive, do that. Find some cosmic structure big enough, and manipulate it until the universe sees more or less of it's particles in a way that you are now where you want to be.

I'm not sure where you're getting this from, but it is nothing like our current understanding of gravitational waves. Nor did the black hole merger you describe, which was detected by LIGO, do anything like what you describe.
I might believe it if you said 100 years.

Whenever people say stuff like this, I just think - how are all those chat bots working out? How useful do you find Siri?

Honestly, if we can't even get siri to be able to answer simple questions without telling you she'll google it for you, how on earth do you expect developers to be made redundant in 5-10 years?!
https://fuchsia.dev/
Accounts involved in obvious karma grabs often show up sometime later with product "recommendations", noting that they are an established high karma account and definitely not a marketing person.
> I never get copy paste

You can just use middle click everywhere, no? One checkbox in the clipboard manager and done.

Btw ctrl+shift+v to paste is often much more useful than ctrl+v, e.g. for emails, and is the exact same in the terminal.
I have a theory about this which may or may not be correct. When you drink the first drink it has much larger effect on you than the second.

So first beer has an effect and you can make the decision whether you want that effect (with its pros and cons) or not. But if you say yes, then there is less reason to say no to the 2nd drink. After 2nd drink there is even less reason to say no to the 3rd and so on.

So when you contemplate taking that first drink ask yourself: If I do, is there any reason why I wouldn't keep on drinking after this first drink? And by the logic above, there really is less of a reason to say no to the 2nd drink than the first and so on.

But curiously and luckily this logic means that there is also a big reason to NOT have that first drink, because you can assume that its effect is not only the effect that one glass has on you, but also the effect that it makes you drink more. That is a good reason to not drink the first drink. If you don't say no now, why would you say no later?

So I wouldn't consider you an alcoholic just because your first beer leads to the 2nd and so on. You are not alcoholic you are just being logical. If you have a reason to drink the first beer then you also have a reason to drink the 2nd and so on. But luckily because you are logical you can see that it is not a good idea to drink that first beer in the first place.
Some countries claim jurisdiction over actions carried out by their citizens abroad, so you might find yourself in legal trouble when you returned home. Also, even if no country claims jurisdiction over events that occur there, that doesn't mean there are no consequences for your actions, precisely because it wouldn't be illegal for the locals to kill you in revenge.
Why not just get the UN to declare Jersey City as terra nullis, and let whoever from the Orkney Islands to Swaziland take over administration?
That's certainly the one I had on my mind, but I'm another user.
I found the 9$ / month pricing to be a little steep.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220113014052/https://www.econo...
I still don't see why not, it takes a few clicks and costs a few dollars. It seems that if you are a person that expects this to happen then it's a good strategy.

Otherwise you just decide which domain search you trust and hope your domain remains available.
Most of the "coding" work I do is not writing code, but instead it's communicating with a client/manager trying to extract the exact requirements for a feature they want implemented. I can't see a computer doing that any time soon and I argue that most developers have the same experience. Having the computer automate the code typing part would be immensely useful, but definetly would not make anyone obsolete.
That’s interesting. Do friends use it for themselves as well or update it to keep you in the loop?
There’s no writing on the wall for the fossil-fuel industry. Reality will bite back hard the technocrats who try to imprint said writing, because increasing energy costs and especially increasing heating costs in countries with temperate climate is not sustainable, society-wise.

I mean, the former communist leaders in my country did use to say “put an extra pull-over on” when we went through an energy and home-heating crisis of our own back in the ‘80s but that’s one of the main reasons why we’re now a “former” communist country, turns out people don’t like to freeze out in their own homes.
New OS’es are sorely needed IMHO.
The current magnitude estimate from the USGS is 5.8, with the caveat that, "...this event is calculated using techniques calibrated for earthquakes. The current magnitude is only a preliminary estimate for this volcanic event." [1]

1: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt22015050/executive
Four examples:

- Pretty much everything uses ctrl+shift+v for pasting without formating. Really useful for emails, Word, ...etc.

- vim does not use ctrl+c/v

- emacs (=Mac keybindings) also does not. Simply because their bindings predate IBM's ctrl+c/v

- middle mouse button works everywhere and can use the same clipboard (one checkbox)
Very true, but it also has no useful radiation, like, um, light.

But it does have water, lots of water, which could be useful in all sorts of ways.

Ultimately conditions are different enough to Mars to make knowledge gleaned from one to be useless in the other.
This is something I came up with. It’s an iterative method to come up with solutions at the right level of abstraction (usually people solve problems that are too specific, or feel powerless to solve problems that are too large).

I’m using here as an example the problem that India faced when they had massive heat waves. Solution in the end was to paint their houses (and maybe streets?) with a light repelling paint. Super cheap and super effective.

1. Identify pain — What’s hurting me? What am I trying to solve? (people dying from heat wave in india)

2. List assumptions — What are my assumptions about the problem/state of the world? (heat kills people / people dying is bad / heat waves will continue to occur / we have no control over heat at the scale of cities/countries)

3. Challenge assumptions — Which assumptions, if removed, change the equation? (first 3 assumptions, if removed, result in deciding to do nothing; final assumption if challenged, opens possibilities)

4. Restate problem, per challenged assumption — What is the new problem definition, if I remove this assumption? (how do we make the city less hot)

5. If no solutions come up either do (3) again, or go a level higher by doing (1) again.
I'd assume the SA was trained to never admit a problem no matter what, and was just trying to lie their way out of the predicament, and there was no "multiple technicians". TBH most service centers probably won't trains people for "we forgot to put brakes into your car" scenario - if only because most automakers wouldn't forget to put brakes into your car. But people seem to still love Tesla cars, so who am I to tell them they shouldn't?
Oh yes. Been there done that. And I used to shoot a lot of other events and it was definitely helpful.
> The article uses the word woke twice

How many times is it used on this page?

> in reference to a specific sort of ideology

It is a pejorative reference, a slur intended to belittle and insult. That makes its use as such an ad hominem attack.
Those masks and face shields should sport US flags and bald eagles and nationalist slogans. Not only should we all have them, distributed by the government, but wearing them should be a visible form of patriotism.
Most benchmarks still put Nvidia ahead of AMD, especially when it comes to compute and ML. And, based on personal experience, Nvidia drivers are at least as stable as AMDs, despite being closed.