skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the kind of thing I'd like to see, I'm not opposed to subscription services by themselves but the predatory and shady practices that often accompany them have made me default to negative assumptions about products and services that use them. I wonder if there are any potential consumer protection laws that could make the situation better, such as:

- The same mechanism to subscribe must also be available to unsubscribe
- Automatic billing is not assumed and must be opt-in, perhaps renewed occasionally
- If a user does not use your service for the billing period you cannot charge them for it
Stockholm has a page on their website describing their current plan[1].

It's not as black and white as the article makes it out to be. Roads are definitely being cleared before every walkway is done, they are just prioritized higher rather than being the last on the list as it is common in other places.

[1]: https://trafik.stockholm/gator-torg/sno-halka/ (Swedish, Google Translate works quite well[2])

[2]: https://trafik-stockholm.translate.goog/gator-torg/sno-halka...
> The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

Any step is a step backward. I want a UI that is stable.
May be an unpopular opinion, but I don't mind "renting" software, as long as I can cancel whenever I want. I guess in B2B land contract periods are more likely and sometimes essential.
Yeah, there's a lot of adaptation to local norms. We don't have much snow-clearing equipment because it's so rarely needed (and no-one wants to pay taxes to have it just on the off-chance). Scotland does better because they have more.

We have a similar issue with heat-related rail buckling closing lines in the summer. If you run a railway in Morocco it's a lot hotter and you never close lines for that reason - but that's because the tension of the rails there is adjusted for hotter temperatures. A hard frost would cause Moroccan rails to fracture as they shrank, while ours remain within tolerance.
WhatsApp group chats are E2E. I actually worked on this. It is true (unless they’ve changed it) that the precise security guarantees of the group protocol are different, but it is still ends-to-ends encrypted.
"Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn't us."[0]

Are you old enough to have had a chance to use your eyes and look and see what's happened to computer games over the past twenty years? Things went from shareware and honest games to essentially NFT or addiction scams. There are good indie games here and there, but it's rare.

What's happened to games is happening to most other parts of software. There are exceptions of course, but they're rare at scale. If you don't want to pay for exploitative software don't use it. Find an open source alternative or an honest software broker. I know it sucks because what used to be a fair deal has turned sour, but accept that not only has the relationship has changed, but the landscape has too. The psychopaths read "data is the new oil"[1] and did an "orly?" and now they're here addicting grandmothers into squashing candy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNDBo3spnwg

[1] https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/860135249552003073
Will it help if ones use a strain with high CBD and low THC, like Charlotte's Web? (asking for a friend)
Remember, DRM only negatively impacts paying customers. If you pirate, it doesn't bother you a bit.
>on Linux you just connect your printer to WIFI or to your pc and its ready to print

To be fair that is exactly what happens with my printer with Windows.
I’ve always read that Google’s internal incentives discourage maintenance and encourage novelty, and that this is why from the outside google is just an endless churn of product redesigns and replacements.
I believe that your interpretation is not correct. Based on my brief reading of the paper, the model contains 1) some known architecture for embedding the modality, and 2) the feature reconstruction transformer network, the two being trained at the same time.

If I am not mistaken, the masking occurs in the input modality, not the feature-space, even though it is the feature-space that is used for the reconstruction task.

Regarding how the feature space is kept uncollapsed, it seems like a hyperparameter-tweaking (ie unsolved?) problem; quoting the paper:

"
Representation collapse.

A common issue with algorithms which create and predict their own targets is representation collapse. This occurs when the model produces very similar representations for all masked segments making the problem trivial to solve. Different strategies have been proposed to address this issue, e.g., contrastive models such as wav2vec 2.0 (Baevski et al., 2020b) use the same target representation both as a positive and a negative example, preventing collapse. Algorithms such as BYOL (Grill et al., 2020) do not optimize the teacher parameters to minimize the loss. VicReg (Bardes et al., 2021) adds an explicit loss encouraging variance among different representations.

In our experiments we found that collapse is most likely to happen in the following scenarios:

First, the learning rate is too large or the learning rate warmup is too short which can often be solved by tuning the respective hyper-parameters.

Second, the EMA decay rate is too low which leads to student model collapse which is propagated to the teacher due to parameter tracking. This can be addressed by carefully tuning τ0, τe and τn.

Third, we found collapse to be more likely for modalities where adjacent targets are very correlated and where longer spans need to be masked, such as for speech. We address this by either explicitly penalizing the lack of variance (Bardes et al., 2021), or by promoting variance through normalizing target representations over the current sequence or batch (Grill et al., 2020). The former worked well for small models but is less reliable for larger models and it also requires tuning additional hyper-parameters. In contrast, we found applying instance or batch normalization before or after averaging targets to
work well while being simpler. For models where targets are less correlated such as for vision and NLP, momentum tracking is sufficient to prevent representation collapse.
"
The moat is the sorry state of GUI for stand alone apps.
This matches my experience perfectly. I used to smoke weed about once a month when when I was a teenager, and I noticed that I could observe mild cognitive impairments for about a week after smoking. They were fading gradually during those days.
To illustrate, the next day after smoking I would occasionally notice that it takes me two times longer than usual to understand the task in school textbook and sometimes I could even loose the thread in a conversation. I also would catch my mind "frozen" in some thought, like "why can't the government just print all the money it needs?". Usually the next second you'd move to "ah, because inflation", but in that case it'd just "stand" at place.

On subsequent days it'd become less severe, and on day 5 and later I'd only notice that I forget why I came to the kitchen more often than usual. After about a week I was not able to spot anything unusual. This was actually quite scare and was one of the reasons I eventually quite entirely.

Another reason by the way was that I don't really find the effect pleasant or relaxing like many do. I fact, weed induces paranoia, thought loop and other unpleasant effects in my mind. The same is true for alcohol and lots of other drugs, so maybe my case is a bit more severe than regular.
News at 11.

Same company that has an assistant that suggest one should call the boss at 0400 instead of opening the audio book one was started yesterday or even opening HN as I use to do while I enjoy my first cup of coffee in the morning.

Same company that thinks a married man with small kids needs to se ads for shady dating sites and hardly any other ad for 10 years. These days it is somewhat more varied but with a heavy dose of pay-to-win war games with female protagonists who can barely fit their b00bs inside the uniform.

Same company that mangles my searches, doing these kind of "corrections" transparently with no working way to opt out.

Why why why try to insult my intelligence and my wife at the same time?

I'm not in a position to short anything meaningful for 5 years but the thought has struck me.
I am surprised to learn that Szasz was in support of any drug use in therapy, given that he went on to cofound CCHR, a branch of the church of scientology whose mission it is to ban psychiatry.

These are the people who claim "psychs" killed Kurt Cobain
As a nerdy stoner myself this is the perfect counterpoint. The ("my"? "our"?) answer to the hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin/bleach worship coming from the "scientifically challenged" antivax set.

It'll probably be disproven in some followup paper, or the results will be insignificant, or something like that, but I don't care. It's "true enough" to sooth the soul, and another indication that the universe might have a sense of humor. :)

Now, back to enjoying all the wine, hash, and hot chicks.
> How much of your choice in products is based on word of mouth? How do you know those purchases are not as a result of ads.

So what if they are? GP's point still stands. When buying products, I often want a first hand experience from someone I trust; or at least a demonstration from an independent party that shows all facets of the product and not just what the advertisers want you to see. I don't care how the conveyor of that experience originally stumbled upon the product (although I would like potential conflict of interest or manipulation to be disclosed, including such things as free review samples). Maybe it fell from the sky, maybe they saw an ad for it and bought it, maybe they won it.. I don't care, it doesn't matter. I'm still not buying things from an ad.
Delight Your Users with a Segmented Progress Bar
Well, counterpoint, is it really worth putting in place all the infrastructure and planning for the relatively few days it's frosty? Maybe it's more economical to just take the hit of the days off.
It's not e-ink, it's a transflexive LCD where you can remove the colour and turn off the backlight to get higher res, as the subpixels are setup like a camera (square of RG/GB) instead of the normal 3 vertical subpixels (RGB)
I have summarized many of the points here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/
Some tint shops responded to this loss of revenue by offering “tint guarantees” where you could have tint reapplied for some period of time for half price.

The game over here in New England is getting a statement of medical accommodation from an eye doctor asserting that bright sun is uncomfortable but you have no other limitations.
> - Plugins for desktop/mobile apps, wasm provides a nicely sandboxed environment for them.

> - Gaming, the combination of WASM and WebGPU will be the perfect platform for cross platform game development. I could see Steam, for example, creating their own runtime.

> - Embedded electronics, simplifying the development and deployment of IoT devices.

We will finally be able to write code once and run it everywhere! I bet at least 3 billion devices will run WASM. It's a breakthrough, how come nobody came up with such great idea yet?
6 apples + 8 oranges = 14 "cores"
> We strongly caution against the temptation to take CBD in presently available formulations including edibles, inhalants or topicals as a preventative or treatment therapy at this time, especially without the knowledge of a rigorous randomized clinical trial with this natural product

So, no available method for usage, it seems. Anyone with more medical knowledge that can chim in?

Seems useful after infection though.
We once flew from Stockholm to London to conduct some user interviews. And it was snowing in London and it was exactly like you described. Half our interviews got cancelled, everyone was panicking because of the weather, chaos everywhere. We just laugh!
The iPhone / 3G / 3GS / 4 were so far ahead of what any of their competitors were doing that it can be difficult to conceptualise it in hindsight.

HTC, Sony, Moto, RIM - there's a reason these companies barely exist in the same form anymore. Samsung were the first to consistently catch-up to Apple - largely because they're official strategy at that point was 'copy Apple'
These "corrections" are indeed a serious crime. And such a letdown from an old Bukowski friend.
That's an awesome share! Thanks for mentioning it it.

More importantly, it's definitely not the case that that organization is real, it's merely fiction. And I definitely am not trying to thwart it by inticing people to drink one to TWO glasses.

However, if it were to be real, then one could say that my plan might be diabolical indeed.
Having to study random fun things and being rewarded for it was peak happiness for teenage me.

I had the opposite experience. My school was really into competitions for everything, and it was incredibly demotivating because I didn't care if I was the best at something. Putting effort in for tangible rewards (eg money) is great, but working for a shiny cup or 'glory' is something I've never understood. No one else will care 10 minutes after you've won.
I didn't know Idris could do WebGL!
> At Shopify, we had some serious issues at the time (~2014) with either LMDB or the Go driver that we couldn't resolve after several months

Is there an issue/bug for this somewhere?
The other model that works well is the open source one, with the maintainer having "another job"; e.g. academics doing scientific research (CERN!) or corporations who use the project internally. Unfortunately, the fact that the latter vastly outnumber the former means that the largest open-source projects are arguably corporate middleware or those of benefit to large corporations rather than users per se. People like me who use linux a lot are free software zealots. I wish Apple was more open on this -- they could quite easily be a hardware company and charge for services and yet make the code free -- but for whatever reason they've always kept the code close to their chest.

Subscriptions may make more sense as B2B software where the needs change over time, businesses tend to like having a two-way conversation more and a well-defined bill at the end of each year isn't necessarily a bad thing. As a private consumer though, selling a subscription is a surefire way to make me say no -- I'm not doing it.
Salt (and various substances alike) causes bad corrosion in vehicles. And quite often salt helps dissolve the snow yet what remains is a sludge, which in my opinion is much worse than a pedestrian path of packed snow. I wish more countries would choose the Scandinavian way of handling snow instead of just dumping tons of salt on the roads.
Everyone do yourself a favour and take 10 minutes out of your day to do nothing but listen to Bat out of Hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ES7ueI7p0
I suppose the problem is not perl being lied to, but storing unicode (utf-8?) in a field designated as latin-1. That’s bound to cause issues down the line.
Your specific use case is explicitly afforded by Jetbrains licensing model. I don't think there is any problem to be had. You can buy a license now, use it for 5 years, then buy another.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
Maybe manpower is the limiting factor and not machines?

I would guess that the salary for driving a snowplow is higher in Sweden than many other places.
> nobody expected to get updates for free

if there's a security vulnerability, i'm sure you'd expect the update to be free.
So how is it that we read articles like this one? Shouldn’t the state intervene to keep counties and towns at bay?

For what I read around it is unusual, and mostly when something really bad happens and/or hit the news. If the state is sovereign, why is it not enforcing its own law inside its borders?

(thanks again BTW)
people really should stop using the "peoples gonna whine at every change" as a cop out for shitty job. Yeah that will happen, everytime, even when the changes are shitty
Archive of Royalflare, a 15-Year Touhou Scoreboard, by Maribel Hearn
A lot of software doesn't have to be a "service", such as Photoshop. Photoshop doesn't need to be connected to the internet and receive constant updates. There was never an issue with Photoshop versions having one-time fees.
Targeted ads, like all forms of algorithmic personalization, put me in a filter bubble. I don't want to be shown content that's targeted at me—I want to be exposed to the full diversity of the world. If the tech giants are convinced I like technology and computers, that's all I will ever learn about. What if I'd prefer ballet dancing, or basket-weaving, or something else I can't begin to imagine?

I don't want to be trapped in an algorithmic box, which assumes my past will dictate my future. The algorithms think that they know who I am, but I don't know that yet, and I don't think I'll ever know, and I certainly don't want them to decide for me.
At least in IT there are challenge platforms and hackatons, in cybersecurity there are CTF's, training sites and bug bounty programs. So at least in those aspects there's a possibility to learn new things.

I haven't heard much about similar things being available for adults in other STEM areas unfortunately. Maybe someone else does?
Naw mate, you're the one that's mistaken.

Or name me a single one that doesn't use at least https.

With chat apps it's a different story, because the end isn't the server in that case - but in the context of banking https is enough for e2ee
Yeah, it's not really about free software; it's about paying salaries. Recurring expenses inevitably result in business models optimized for recurring revenues. That was always the case; it just so happened that the expansion of industrial production of goods was so vast for so long, that this was kinda hidden (and it was hard to justify - there are only so many widgets you can continuously supply to customers).

Now that the internet has removed any friction between business and customer, business is reaching its ideal state: one where the customer pays as long as the business has recurring expenses, where production never stops, and where productivity of labor approaches infinity.
We are biological beings and our biology determines our diets, neurology, endocrinology, and multiple other factors about our lives. Whether people like it or not, we do have a biological human nature that shapes many aspects of our behaviour and culture.
"constructivism", and similar ideas about schools with no lessons where children just learn what they want to, are all based on children of smart parents who encourage such things.

The average child is happy watching youtube videos about unboxing single use plastic toys 24/7
enjoyed as in having dedicated fans that would go through hops to have access
Of course country roads are plowed too if need be. Every small city where there are roads that needs to be plowed are plowing their roads. Depending on where in the country you are and how common it is with snow, roads may be plowed sooner or later. It's definitely not only the big cities.
Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
Martin supported Bukowski early in his career (as a late-blossoming writer). There are many friendly mentions of him and Black Sparrow Press from Bukowski himself. They had a contract. Martin would publish anything Bukowski wrote, as long as he put himself to work. In hindsight, that offer does appear much less generous.
All three of those are Git.

The only other modern alternative is Fossil, used for the SQLite project.

They are both good. Fossil is probably more reliable, but the difference is unlikely to affect your business. I have had Git repositories become corrupt, where I had to clone a new copy and abandon the old one. That was OK only because I was not maintaining private branches on them.

The problem with the commercial Git wrapper services is that they try to lock you in. All the secondary parts are not kept in the same, or any, repository, so if you come to want to migrate, it is a big chore. That is intentional.

I would like to know of an online Git service that keeps everything about a project in the same, or anyway some, clonable archive.
California proposal would let older kids get vaccines without parental consent
not a smoker myself, but i d join the stoner crowd for Science
Microsoft is still taking away options and raising the price.

For example, I used to buy a non-cloud/non-subscription license through the Home Use Program. It used to be relatively cheap.

Now that option is not available, they only sell a slightly discounted cloud/subscription ($60/year vs $99/year).
Notepad++ v8.2 Released
What hurdles and what OSes?
The internet was literally designed to solve the problem of automatically routing around problems to maintain connectivity in the event of a catastrophic outage like a nuclear strike, and now nations have decided that it's better to put all the necessary infrastructure in one building instead, probably so they can spy on the citizenry better. That makes me incredibly angry. Risking access to what is probably the single greatest human achievement (the web) for the sake of something as trivial as listening to people's Google searches is so damn stupid.
Yes, Ruby on Rails is worth learning. Especially if you are a JavaScript guy, a solo found and interested in the developer experience. Ruby and Rails give you a nice dev experience in my opinion and the way you use Ruby changed the way I do JavaScript too. You can also be rather productive as a solo developer in Rails so I think it is a perfect fit for you.
Down the road when you are comfortable with Ruby and Ruby on Rails you might want to look into Python too. Not so much for web development but there are a lot of devops tools out there that use Python.

My background: I was a Python dev that worked PHP because that was the jobs I got (more than 10 years ago) and decided to invest more into JavaScript (2007) because I though it was going to be the future. When I couldn’t stand PHP anymore I got a Ruby job (because, still no Python web jobs back then) and it changed me fundamentally. I love Ruby and Rails till this day and Ruby, JavaScript and Python form the backbone languages.
If someone said they got mental problems from regular alcohol/amphetamine/antidepressants/benzodiazepines consumption nobody would question them.

But when they share a negative experience with cannabis, suddenly a bunch of stoners appear and try to discredit their story! Your friend got schizophrenia from smoking weed? Nah bro, he was already predisposed, and by chance it activated after smoking weed. You have memory problems after years of smoking? Nah, you might be just getting old, we may never know!

Don't be so insecure about your drug habits. Cannabis can be harmful, so what? Billions of people smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, eat sugary treats, all while fully aware that it can be harmful (but it might cause no harm to them!). You smoke cannabis because you enjoy getting stoned, even though it might be harmful. You're an adult who weighed the pros and cons, and came to the conclusion that the risks are acceptable for you.

But please, don't try to discredit other people's experiences!
The link isn’t dead for me, but I guess there’s no abstract on pubmed, sorry. This is the DOI link: https://DOI.org/10.1001/jama.2021.14808

It’s an editorial summarizing the first VSD report on Covid vaccine side effect research that I was describing (https://DOI.org/10.1001/jama.2021.15072)

I’m not going to argue that the US seemed to take longer and have worse communication about the myo/pericarditis issue than some other countries, but these things are being followed up on. The absolute timing I think is hard to discuss with a definite time frame

Here are some resources on PCR amplification:

- https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking...

- https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning...
I'm not sure why you're putting dogs into this. Geopolitics and diplomacy is complicated enough without speciesism.