skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid I remember older grade-school science books telling about ice ages. According to the books, there had been 4 (or maybe 5) ice ages in the past, the last one was N years ago (maybe 20,000 or something), and there weren't going to be any more. And I was like "how can they know there won't be any more?".

Do I mis-remember what those books said? Did geologists actually believe something like that? I guess those books must have been from the 1970s or earlier, but still.
Not really. You can't reliably make large features with a small process node, and because the smaller processes are dramatically slower and more expensive and have lower yield, unless you can counter all that with more dies per wafer you end up with a whole lot of defective parts at enormous expense. The bigger the die, the higher the chance of a defect landing on it, and making it useless. Also small feature processes have much lower capacity than larger feature processes, so even if you were able to switch there wouldn't be nearly enough wafer capacity. The fact it's 4-5 orders of magnitude more expensive doesn't help either.
> For anyone that spends enough time working in the given field, the notation is by far the easiest thing to figure out.

I want to emphasize this because the weirdness of math notation comes up often. The difficulty of grasping mathematical concepts far outweighs notational concerns. Getting used to notation in a specific field is an absolute drop in the bucket compared to understanding the theorems and proofs, and often the reason notation is so idiosyncratic and inconsistent is because it's meant to try to reflect human intuition, which is idiosyncratic and inconsistent in comparison to the mathematics from which it is derived.

Once you really get into mathematics, notation is so far down the list of things that make learning mathematics hard that I don't think it's worth the associated cost of trying to change it on a large scale.
This is the problem with moving rural. Unless you own a lot of it, you're still just penned in, and now there's no local amenities or support.

I moved into the countryside 12 years ago from a large town where I never had to drive, suddenly my commute was hours a day and there's nothing around
Indirectly related story from my workplace: the application that I maintain changes some terminal line settings, such that after it is run, we have to use Ctrl-H instead of backspace (unless we also change PuTTY settings to send Ctrl-H for backspace).

This means that sometimes people accidentally create files whose name is a backspace.

These cannot be seen directly as '\127' via ls (or at least the default Solaris ls; not sure what GNU does), but instead as the output missing a character, usually padding, so people do not realise it is a problem.

Then it causes issues when the file gets caught in globs that process all files in the directory, but the offending file is almost invisible, leaving the user confused.

And we cannot change the program not to change terminal settings because who knows what that will break!
Witch exactly illustrates my point. You need to intelligently reason about what you have been told, understanding that you may not be a domain expert and that your conclusions will almost certainly miss something that the domain experts have taken into account.

When presented with a claim by authorities about a new virus and say it's going to be dangerous, do you think, authorities always lie about everything or do you think well virus are a thing, I know they can mutate because I know that if I get the flu this year, it's no guarantee that I will be immune from the version that will come around next year. You also have seen evidence that vaccines are generally safe and work because most people have had them and for the most part don't have people suffering from polio in the western world because of that.

You could say, nah, they lie, this is plot to force us to have genome altering vaccines that will install mind control chips that kill kittens. (yeah, over the top I know)...

Most people have a degree of trust (not faith, very different) until proven wrong that public health figures are actually their trying to improve public health.
Michael Dudikoff, a staple of straight-to-VHS rentals in my youth. Orion was never great but they always entertained.
Re running the authors code with their data will likely just repeat any methodological issues they had (either accidentally or fraudulently).

In medical studies, one level is to reevaluate the data from the same set of patients to see if any bias or errors wasn't included, perhaps with a different or newer statistical idealogy. The best is for the study to be repeated with a fresh set of patient data to see if the underlying conclusions were valid.
Honestly, I'm still salty about my PhD experience 5 years later.

It's not just a case of it being a sub-optimal or there being waste here and there, the way a healthy but "real world" company might be.

The entire system really does work against you to make sure you don't achieve the goals that you're ostensibly aiming for.
My experience is that vanilla Gatsby, out of the box, performs horribly on things like PageSpeed compared to “true” SSGs like Hugo or Jekyll.

And progressive enhancement is kind of a solution looking for a problem, there are a lot of low hanging perf fruits you can pick before considering PE.
I first saw this on a documentary about 20 years ago. Still hoping :)
According to Mythbusters [1] it's almost impossible to wind down the windows in a sinking car after it reaches a certain depth. Much better is to have a window breaker tool. You can have one which doubles as a seat belt slicer too.
[1] https://mythresults.com/episode72
Our Volvo doesn't let you adjust the volume when you're in reverse. That means if you're backing out of the garage and the music is blaring -- you can't turn it off!

The Volvo UI pops up an almost full-display warning when it can't connect to the phone over bluetooth on startup. This UI takes priority over the rear camera. So I guess it's better to hit Timmy and his puppy when I'm backing out, so long as I know my phone's not connected!

The Volvo's headlights have "smart" auto-adjustments. That means I can't leave the high beams on, or force it to stay on low beams. It will decide for me! I think maybe I can disable this... somehow.

So smart.
This is second hand from someone close, but not too close in the military, so details are off but the narrative is on track:

The Mercy was deployed after some communication between New York hospitals, and the understanding at least was that it would mostly be handling emergency, trauma, and routine patients (what military docs are good are at as a stereotype), and free up capacity for the hospitals to deal with COVID. The "normal" medical stuff promptly dropped in demand with lockdown, between fewer accidents and deferred care. So there wasn't much for the Mercy to do, the few covid patients sent over were about all of an "unknown air transmissible virus" (working theory at the time) that it was really equipped to handle, because that wasn't the mission they were expecting.
Eric seems lightly inclined to fringe theories and self-importance, but nothing I'd call fraud. Bret has been pushing some pretty unfortunate stuff though, including prophylactic ivermectin as a superior alternative to vaccination:

https://quillette.com/2021/07/06/looking-for-covid-19-miracl...

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/09/15/a-progressive-biologis...

> “I am unvaccinated, but I am on prophylactic ivermectin,” Weinstein said on his podcast in June. “And the data—shocking as this will be to some people—suggest that prophylactic ivermectin is something like 100% effective at preventing people from contracting COVID when taken properly.”

He wasn't just claiming that ivermectin might have some efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 (possible, though I doubt it), or that the risks of the vaccine were understated to the public (basically true; but it's a great tradeoff for adults, and probably still the right bet for children). Bret was clearly implying that for many people--including himself, and he's not young--the risk/benefit for prophylactic ivermectin was more favorable than for the vaccine. There was no reasonable basis for such a belief, and the harm to those who declined vaccination based on such beliefs has become obvious in the relative death rates.

The first article I've linked above is by Yuri Deigin, who had appeared earlier on Bret's show to discuss the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 arose unnaturally, from an accident in virological research. This was back when that was a conspiracy theory that could get you banned from Facebook, long before mainstream scientists and reporters discussed that as a reasonable (but unproven) hypothesis like now. So I don't think Bret's services as a contrarian are entirely bad, but they're pretty far from entirely good.
I've seen so many of these stories recently:

"message in a bottle found after..." - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22message+in+a+bottle+found...

"letter delivered after..." - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22letter+delivered+after%22...

"postcard delivered after..." - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22postcard+delivered+after%...

At least some of these are fake, surely?
Love SSGs too! Came here to share praise for Hakyll[1], for people with an FP leaning.

Predictably, it's not easy to get started, but once you're into it the power of building your own arbitrary content "compilers" (and template extensions etc etc) is pretty impressive.

[1] https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
That is a minority and mostly only US-centric sites that are otherwise chock full of advertising/tracking technology - exactly what was GDPR meant to deal with.

However, GDPR and this type of ruling has EU-wide impact because of the single market (e.g. a French website can and does server also German customers). Businesses (especially the ones from the EU) can't afford to not comply or to not serve customers within the EU.

That is where the problem is.
Haha, the 'smart' cat is well and truly out of the bag now, and the sad thing is we kind of did it to ourselves by demanding, or at least, buying, these features.

'Smart' means manufacturers can put ads on everything, sell your usage data, and of course all the smarts become obsolete or break easily after just a couple of years, often turning otherwise perfectly good hardware into a doorstop.

As part of 'right to repair' we should also demand 'right to own UI'; appliances have some standard (electronic/data) interfaces, and you can add off-the-shelf, or even custom UI of your choice.
Are all your chairs at home and office also powered?
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/do-we...

Someone defending this outdatd practice despite "the tide turning" against it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41927258

Quoting slow children who can't read by the age of five somehow benefit, and rather than testing what children know we should punish them for not having outdated skills

> In the same way, bad handwriting leads to poorer test scores, according to a study by the Carnegie Foundation. The same thoughts and ideas expressed "in a less legible version of a paper" tended to be scored more harshly.

This form of writing belongs in a museum curation degree, not in primary schools
I have an old Renault Kangoo. It's a box on wheels. Big enough to fit a bicycle or a bed, small enough to drive like a car. I'm going on a road trip today.

This car is a breeze to work on. It's a bog standard car. If something breaks, it can be fixed. The only things that can break are the things that make the car run. You don't need a specially trained technician. You don't need to remove a layer of plastic to get to the engine. There is no touch screen.
Oh nobody is ever disabling telemetry by default, system wide.

Telemetry is too damn useful for developers. Nobody gives a damn.
My pi hole's top blocked domain by some margin is is scribe.logs.roku.com, who knows what else it might be blocking or missing in addition to this.
The unfortunate thing is that most workers in big box stores don't seem to know anything about the products they are selling beyond the dot points right there on the label. They can how ever do a fine job at selling you the latest greatest in finance package, so I suppose that is something.
The Art of Assembly Language is IBM PC based. Alternatively, if you learn any Assembly language, you'll probably be ok to start from the reference materials for x86, depending on how into the weeds of early boot you're going to go. (Personally, I say, make your kernel multiboot compatible, and let someone else worry about loading your kernel; plenty of stuff to do without writing a bootloader)
> Media Foundation is registered

Good point, albeit I think only higher-level pluggable pieces are registered. Most of these objects (IMFTopology, IMFSample, IMFMediaBuffer) can only be created with corresponding C APIs.

> one is supposed to use CoCreateInstance() etc. to create various codecs

I’m not sure about that, I think one is supposed to use APIs like MFTEnumEx to find and create these codecs. These things are also in registry, but in different key; CoCreateInstance normally looks under HKCR\CLSID but MF has another one, HKCR\MediaFoundation\Transforms. See also MFTRegister function, a quote from the documentation: This function does not register the CLSID of the MFT for the CoCreateInstance or CoGetClassObject functions
It's almost never possible to do a function-compatible die shrink for anything that needs to work over a large voltage and/or temperature range. Many automotive chips operate at 80V or more, 5V and 12V parts are ubiquitous, and indeed lots need bulk area to be able to switch large currents. Making them on small processes is not only an enormous design effort where it's possible at all, it also doesn't make sense because there's still way more capacity on larger processes than on smaller ones, and the only way small processes win is by packing so many dies on a wafer that they can get away with their terrible per-wafer cost and awfully bad defect rate.
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Forget about self driving - surely a Tesla should detect that the windscreen is fogged up and start defrosting it automatically.

Once they've done that (and it works, well) they can hide the button to do it manually in whatever submenu they wish.
I've got not dog in the fight, but I've listened to some podcasts by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, and compared to the absolute nonsense I see on TV today, it is a breath of fresh air. They're reading scientific articles, discussing implications in long form, and have been open and honest about their mistakes.

I have not seen or heard of Eric Weinstein so I can't comment.

I'm not sure what kind of bar you're using to compare your chosen media, but it seems extremely high, and I'd like to know what you consider to be suitably informative.
gmail has the same thing, but username will autocomplete to @gmail.com unless otherwise provided
Yes, it's whataboutism.

Asking "what about X" is useful to ensure we're focusing on useful changes (at the margin), rather than the flavour of the month.
It wasn't social media who decided that the government should strait up lie to people just because it was the best way (in their opinion) to get the best outcome.

A big part of the anti-vaxx movement comes from the fact that the government have made it very clear they will lie and misrepresent data whenever it is politically advantageous for them.

If you want a very recent exemple, just look at this interview from someone very high up in the food chain at Bayer (youtube.com/watch?v=qowDwaYx7vI) and then try googling about whether or not mRNA is gene therapy. it was considered dangerous misinformation to say what he just did and yet he is overseeing the fabrication of covid vaccines.

It's far from the best example, but it's one where I won't have to waste an hour getting proper sources
A post-doc of a collaborator of a professor of mine was once found to have doctored data. The professor and her collabs only found out when they looked at the images and found out that there were sections that seemed to have been copy/pasted. Getting the papers retracted was a gruelling process that (iirc) took over 3 years.
MOS did make a 6509 processor It was a variant of the 6502. Commodore used it in the CBM-II line of computers.
I have a math degree, and I could understand most of them by the end of my second year.
As long as, C*Cinv = I, where C is the circle, Cinv is the inverse of circle, and I the identity. You're right. C, I, and * are entirely up in the air.
All this pro-science stuff and I never see an opinion from anybody from the only relevant scientific field: epistemology. Why do we have to pretend this is in good faith when they don't even believe themselves?
To be honest (and I guess kids these days would call me "cheugy" for it!), personally, I don't generally like videos if a some static content would do.
Many of them are part of a standard CS curriculum. Most of them are part of a standard math curriculum. The "level of difficulty" is very uneven, though.

Things like "Many students believe that 1 plus the product of the first primes is always a prime number" (a misunderstandment of Euclid's proof that there exist infinitely many prime numbers) or "If A implies B then B implies A" (difference between a necessary and a sufficient condition) are literally middle-school math.

Things like "If 𝑓(𝑥,𝑦) is a polynomial with real coefficients, then the image of 𝑓 is a closed subset of ℝ" are high-school level.

The top answer about dimensions of vector spaces is a well-known undergraduate-level "trap".

"The Krull dimension of a noetherian integral domain is finite." is, to be brutally honest, not a sentence I understand in the slightest.
> That quote was literally from Cultural Revolution WP summary,

I couldn't find the quoted passage in the Cultural Revolution WP as you mentioned.
Somewhat related: I just learned of an Open Source rival to StackExcange by the name of Codidact. [0] Looks like they have an active math subdomain. [1]

[0] https://codidact.org/

[1] https://math.codidact.com/
Don't even get me started about problems in Notion. It is so depressingly bad that it makes me hate one thing I really like about my work: writing. The search is just broken, but even more broken is the user interface for writing. All kinds of weird things happen if you click your text or start a code block and move your cursor to the wrong way.

What I do nowadays is I iterate my texts in Org Mode, get the comments on GitHub and when we're all happy about the text, I import it to Notion and lose the writing to the black hole of Notion search forever. Now when they have a public API, I'm thinking could there be an Emacs plugin that could sync the text between Notion and Org Mode, that would let me keep my texts in version control? I guess that's just a matter of time...
If I want something to be read I will write it in block letters at a perfectly reasonable speed
I love my dumb VW Golf MK1. The radio got stolen, so I don't even have that.
The environment cost of electric cars is via battery production, and happens to be via the grid. That is, producing electric cars is as dirty as the grid.

We're cleaning up the grid, which will clean electric car production cars.

Combustion engines have no such path.
"Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in 'what about…?') is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument." [1]

It's a logical fallacy (a form of ad hominem [2]) that doesn't do anything productive in re: the topic at hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I was hoping that it would help find the changes in rules that would at the same time 1) result in more even game between white and black and 2) result in fewer draws. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell all the alterations of rules that they explored turned out worse than classical chess on at least one of those criteria.
Your second video horrified me. What the hell are they thinking with the touch-sensitive inputs on the steering wheel? Nevermind the weird shape and the issues with orientation when signaling during a steering maneuver. Those aren't actual buttons, they're no better than a touch screen.

When I drive, my hands aren't always in the exact same position on the wheel. Muscle-memory won't reliably have my thumb landing on the correct signal direction. If I have to honk the horn, I need to be able to do that instantly, without thinking. Some cutesy icon located away from the edge of the steering wheel will guarantee that the horn sounds simultaneously with the "crunch" of another car backing into me.

My proposed rule-of-thumb: If a video game company wouldn't design their controllers this way, you shouldn't do it either for the most common—or most urgent—functions. Turn signals, wipers, horn, and hazard lights should all be real buttons that are in a consistent location. Horn should be in the hub of the steering wheel.
The main problem is that the car industry didn't want to spend the money to safety-certify new microcontroller designs - by law/regulations, that's a requirement for anything that's safety critical.
This feels so much like a pointy haired boss wrote this.

"See, if you simply choose to send back half your salary to me there'll be less income-inequality between you and the janitor! Please ignore my golden throne."
> Teslas with missed payments drive themselves to be impounded. Welcome to the future.

Is this real? That sounds like a terrible terrible idea, can’t imagine any government body allowing this.
A triangle?
I think what this analysis really shows is that less time lead to less draws. Maybe we could rethink time controls. Classic could maybe be something like 1h+20sec increment for both sides. This would also make it more interesting to watch such an event live.
I already switched to hosting everything myself wherever possible for my website [1].

I think it's becoming increasingly risky to include many different domains without naming them in your terms and explaining what they do with your users data (in this case the IP-Addresses).

It'd be hard for services like Disqus. In such cases I think you'd need to include them in your terms/privacy policy.

Disclaimer: I'm no lawyer/expert

[1]https://stockevents.app/en
The article describes my own vision 100%. To me, a car is a vehicle, i.e., it needs to transport me from point A to point B most safely and reliably. I don't listen to music when I drive, I don't text or make calls - I enjoy driving, and I focus 100% on this and, thank God, I've never been in an accident, not even a fender bender, and I have over half a million miles behind the wheel. When I'm in Bulgaria, I drive a 2003 Audi A4 1.9 TDI with a stick shift, and I enjoy it much more than my US AT car.
If you're that dependent on components that there is no replacement for, then perhaps buy enough stock to last you through a redesign and recertification is in order. Having a contingency plan for such scenarios seems like a no brainer.
Aux-PD (power delivery) is definitely not a thing, and now I'm mad I didn't think of it.
I just hope that someone will sue the f.. out of Tesla for changing UI and getting rid of standard icon image. Oh well, not my problem and I will never buy "smart" car until there is nothing else available.
Do you mean crazyhouse maybe? Which is a single player (per side) variant of bughouse.
But you can at least figure that out. If U don't have it all results are suspect.
I think you might have fallen victim to the fallacy fallacy :)