skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is policy.

Imagine two friends, Alice and Bob. Alice thinks COVID is not a problem. Doesn't mask, hasn't had a single shot, all the rest. Bob is terrified of COVID. Masks up at home, space bubble helmet outside, all the rest.

The only outcome that works is Alice and Bob agreeing that they have different risk preferences. That they each should live their lives in accordance, but that they have no right to force each other to adopt the same behaviors. Bob gets used to doing a lot of stuff over Zoom, and Alice gets used to doing a lot more Zoom calls than she did before.

What if, instead, Bob tries to force the entire world to wear masks all the time, and undergo an endless stream of boosters, all in order to satisfy his risk preference? Alice will respond in-kind, and now we're in a tit-for-tat situation. Endless retaliation.

Now, imagine that Bob has political power, and can mandate his desires into law. Bob has now used deadly force -- the police -- to coerce Alice into doing what he wants.

Alice, being a big fan of consent, is having none of it... and that's where we are today.

Same would be true if the roles were reversed.
Or the police are responding to your claims that policing is racist. Where I am for example traffic stops for bad registration / stolen cars etc was found to disproportionately effect some groups. The cops were deemed racist.

I'm not saying they weren't, but especially for quality of life type calls where a cop used to come out, no way is that worth responding too. And if you paid attention to what BLM etc have been demanding, it's to reduce disparate impact on certain groups of police calls (FAR more calls for black males for example then middle aged asian females)
Do the people that run the tote make a loss? I thought they kept 10%-15% of the pool regardless.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful” - British statistician George E. P. Box. Any model could simply be made badly, and even well designed models are susceptible to garbage data in giving garbagey results.

Lets consider groundwater contaminant models. Do they precisely predict what is seen onsite? Most of the time engineers never have the budget to know how right/wrong it is. They start with sparse data, apply principles that we know are "wrong" but work well enough at the scale of the problem (ie flow over 500m rather than flow around a single sand grain). At the end, typically they only know whether or not the original problem is still a problem for the client. If it's solved, the model is right! (enough)!

It's more important to consider the implications of the model for the most practical questions possible. Colleagues of mine are trying to tune climate change models based on data from ancient lake sediments. Personally, I dont care whether their model predicts 2 degrees of change or 1 degree. The broad strokes of the climate picture are not cheerful, and the mathematical and field specific details of such models are intricate yet simultaneously boring as hell. There is so much to know that arguments are best left to people who care enough to complete a PhD in the subject. Widespread bikeshedding over particular X,Y,or Z model is actively harmful to solving the global problems we'll face. Like whether to build dikes levees or to just displace huge swathes of population to higher ground. How can we develop infrastructure that can move transport food no matter what, or take water from flooded areas to droughted ones? Good climate and sea level rise models could help with specific details (5m dike or 10?), but the fundamental sociopolitical questions don't require much numeric precision. (50 year dike or 10 year dike so everyone can move?)
They need to bring in witnesses that thought it was a shite joke, mate, and bloody uninspired. Sir Tom was a cunt but deserved better.
Microsoft: releases new Halo, gets massive concurrent viewership on their esports for an HCS Major, then buys Activision/Blizzard.

Sony: Buys Bungie in response, hoping to get another competitive FPS.

It's a shame Destiny isn't in the same ballpark as Halo or CoD, but maybe Bungie's still got what it takes to make a competitive/casual FPS that taps into the same market as Halo.
I really enjoy Techmoan, but he's more of a 'dead tech' YouTuber. He features some very niche items, such as automated store PA announce systems and sometimes puts a lot of work into fixing and documenting his fixes in order to demo.
> I'm a bit irate with the usual flow of discussions about WebAssembly here on HN that take this claim for granted and regurgitate it incessantly.

It is still more honest to regurgitate the claim that Wasm is faster than JS than to try and argue that "JS is about 10x faster than wasm in simple linear regression."
> there's a matter of degree.

The degree gap is usually quick to be bridged, via this common anti-fallacy called "slippery slope". Give it a few more years.
“Could theoretically live forever” implies perfect DNA cloning right? Seems worth studying for anti-cancer or anti-aging purposes.
$3.5k is waaaaaaay too low to expect for an e-conversion any time soon. Heck, that’s too low for a decent ICE crate motor.
What's missing in the above is some notion that the "feature machines" should actually do some work to show what the feature will accomplish. Better yet, is that feature more profitable than some other feature?

"you can have X in three months or Y in two weeks but if you pick either one, that delays Z by the same amount of time" focuses the attention.
Minecraft was started in 2009. Applets were one of Java's flagship features, i.e. released well before the VM became in a performant enough state.
It has both. The RSS method is fast but doesn't have the full video data (it's missing durations, for example). The parsed version is slower but complete.
Hepatitis C. Although there's a cure for a large percentage of cases, it's still not a cure for everyone.
Would also recommended this talk! It highlights some key libraries bridging these two (Next.js/ React Native) opinionated libraries together.
That is the genius of it. Cheating in Wordle is so easy that there is no point doing it.. But sharing results etc. has high homophily effect.
> Life doesn’t appear to have diminished much on a whole.

There are a lot more humans now, and a lot more cows, sheep and hogs. There's much less of everything else, from the bottom on up. I think where it is easy to see is in the drastic decline in small and large mammals, other than humans, cows, sheep and hogs. Once you see that, maybe you'll notice, just in your own lifetime, the massive decline in bird species and populations. Maybe you'll notice when you drive around at night in the Summer you no longer have a windshield covered in dead bugs. I haven't see a real frog in years.

Unless you're satisfied with merely diverse species of bacteria and other simple life forms for the next X billons of years, you should be startled at how astoundingly quickly Earth's amazing diversity of life has declined from whatever it's most recent peak was before the development of civilization, or before the Babylonians, before the Greeks, before the Romans, before the Industrial Revolution, and before the Chemical Revolution. Don't you ever wonder just how many whales there were before the first whalers? Or how many tuna or salmon there once were? Reports from Colonial times on bird populations aren't very specific, but at certain times of years, the number of geese alone in Virginia used to darken the sky. They didn't just shoot down one goose at a time, they used giant guns that took hundreds at a time. Maybe we don't do it with big guns, but we are basically poisoning everything on the planet to death. So maybe the amount of biomass stays the same, but who wants a planet of poison goo?
The carbonation is the difference. It will explode as it becomes a slush and make a massive mess.
And it is often easier to argue that software should add support for a new method than that it should change semantics that other users/customers may depend on even if those semantics aren't ideal.
> Why not change them around in the USA as well? It's not as if people could be confused and look at the wrong lights, as the others' lights are simply not visible when the lights are all on the side nearest to the lane(s) they apply to.

As a German in the US, I find the positioning of traffic lights to be one of the very few traffic-related this that are better in the US. In Europe I find myself frequently leaned forward and looking up at the traffic light to see it at all. I never have an issue seeing the traffic light in the US. Figuring out which light is yours very rarely is a problem. At least not on the west coast where you usually have grid patterns.
Thanks! Just added the MIT license
FWIW I think GPU is fine as Webgl is the only api browser can use before Webgpu takes off.
Omicron's spread may boost collective immunity, but at what cost?
Yeah it's a dashcam, records 4k in the front, and 2.5k the rear camera. I'm sure the screen is much less, but looks great on my tv.
As a customer I have the right to not order if it's crappy Uber delivery which IMO has way too many problems, and I exercise that right and let the restaurant know.

When I call the restaurant I ask them if they have their own delivery person, or if it's Uber. If it's Uber, I politely decline to order from them.
Personally I don't mind GNU working on it, but I do mind GNU being part of the name,because GNU equates to FSF and that comes with a lot of political and idealogical baggage.

Imagine for a moment this was a Microsoft project, and was called MSDNS. Would the name matter? I would argue that it does.

Granted that basically no non-techie has ever heard of GNU (or the FSF) - despite the insistence on calling it GNU/Linux - I don't think it'll be a deal breaker, but I think it's uncool to put a "company" name/trademark in a global standard protocol name.

So for me it's not the creators, but rather the name itself that warns a down vote.
Tangential, but it’s the first time I’m hearing of MuleSoft. I wonder what kind of companies use it?

There’s a side of “enterprise” software that’s so foreign to me.

I still don’t know what Salesforce is. Or SAP (I see their name in a lot of shitty software though). I wonder how the developers in those companies are like, what their processes and code reviews and technical discussions look like.
Why stop at vices? At this point, given how much it destroys everything it touches, I'm almost willing to back outlawing advertising in general.
The NYT has been the paper of record in the US for a very long time. To me, the strategy just seems very short sighted.

There is no doubt in my mind that the paywall will ultimately lead to the paper’s decline. The prestige of The NYT as an institution is that everyone reads it. That cannot be the case on the Internet when competing with voluminous free content.

At the very least, all the frontpage articles should not be paywalled. Even historically one could read the most important Times’ articles just glancing at a newsstand.
I'm not dyslexic, and I dark mode all the things, too. For me, it eases the eye strain. I also turn on night mode at 3pm, regardless of time of year. I'm prone to sinus headaches due to allergies and bright lights can make it worse (not quite migraine levels, but enough to make concentration difficult). I also have a tendency to spend long hours with minimal breaks in front of my screens (like +16 hours/day during work from home only occasionally getting up for coffee or bathroom).
I got a similar teasing because I used the word "lightricity". Too too long ago to really know where/why my brain locked into that word. Lights=>electricity=>lightning, it all gloms together.
It is "a cjdns clone with different routing".^1

Original cjdns did not have supernodes.

When the author began contributing to cjdns had supernodes been added yet.

1. https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2019/01/09/history.html

I first learned of cjdns from a video I saw on YouTube in 2012.^2 I was impressed by this person being interviewed. He described the most fundamental problems with the internet in plain English anyone could understand and he actually had a working solution!

The interviewer however did not seem to understand what the author was talking about. :)

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zINQYkl01N8
I guess I'd like to ask the same question about NFTs.

But I'm guessing it's the social licence NYT are paying for. The owner says it's theirs.
I feel like if this were targeted at everyone it would link to the marketing website or an article rather than the Github process. A bit of technical knowledge is a fair expectation for the Linux Hacker News audience.
Paulo Freire Marxist liberation theology heavily subverted both churches and schools in Venezuela before Chavez came to power, this is the root of critical pedagogy that has taken over American schools and liberation theology that has subverted churches.

This is just one out of many examples.
Whats the difference between the two? Other tokens being completely unregulated
Yes BLM has this right, the police in America are racist.
When my brother was very young, maybe 4 or 5, he wanted to get McDonald's one day. My mom, for whatever reason, didn't want to and told him McDonald's food was too greasy. He insisted that it wasn't greasy at all. My mom told him it was. This went back and forth with him getting more and more upset until he finally screamed "GREASE IS WHAT DAD PUTS ON THE WHEELS OF THE CAR".

My Dad always did all his own oil changes and lubed the wheels with a grease gun. My brother had watched him do this and was furious that he thought my mom was insisting that the thick axle grease that came out of the grease gun was what was on McDonald's food.
You are exaggerating, the vast majority of the ad-supported internet does not fit your "clickbait, SEO spam sites, content farms, and other trash" narrative. Once again, it is convenient to construct such a narrative to justify taking from truly useful sites.

I must ask: Do you mean to say that you only visit "clickbait, SEO spam sites, content farms, and other trash" sites with your ad blockers?

Likely not. What is a far more likely scenario is that you frequent sites that deliver you enough value that you choose to visit them. This is that context I am referring to when I speak of theft. Not the useless content-farm junk you seem to want to use as a means of justification for blocking ads on the sites you visit.

If you don't like their use of advertising, don't visit the sites.

Note that what we are discussing here isn't a requirement for you to CLICK on ads and make money for them. Not at all. All this boils down to is not interfering with these sites displaying their ads and engaging in marketing to you that might result in revenue. That's what you are objecting to.

You want the people who create and manage the valuable content you provide to work for you for free. That is a remarkably shitty position to take, and I am being kind. Give me your valuable content or service --which I enjoy and want to consume, repeatedly-- and do it for nothing, while actively interfere with your ability to earn any money and promote others to do the same.
Ah yes, the “valuable feedback” of being called a moron by an internet rando.
> In the 1970s, I heard all about oil companies buying 200 mpg carburetors to keep them off the market. My dad laughed at that, saying the military would never let patent law keep them from making 200 mpg tanks and stuff.

I know nothing about that story, but the military is budgeted by Congress and commanded by the President, and thus subject to political influence. Plenty of the what the military does is inefficient economically and militarily.
1 laptop screen + one 4K 27" external monitor.

I like to keep the laptop screen because it is a much better screen than almost any affordable monitors out there. The laptop screen is also a convenient sharable screen for video conferencing. The external monitor is just there to give me a bit more screen real estate.
Looks like the code got pasted into an editor that wasn't too interested in keeping that character encoding.
This is one of those things "rationalists" do that doesn't always make sense. It is possible to tell someone to "taboo their words" to obstruct someone, in order to make it hard for them to discuss something whose meaning you know very well. It's also possible to tell someone to taboo their words because you want to nitpick an imperfect definition--regardless of whether the flaws in thde definition are relevant to the current argument.
I can imagine trying to squeeze that much or more from it as an independent project would be a long haul even before considering the uncertainty of it. And it might also not be everybody's jam.

Getting the 7-figure money presumably upfront AND also the freedom to move on to something that isn't "try to monetize Wordle", sounds like an incredible deal.
I've sat at $5 tables where an old dude was openly discussing the count with the dealer. I bet when he bet and made out okay.

Counting theory is really simple stuff. Everyone does it subconsciously. Almost everyone can learn the concept of sampling without substitution. Banning such basic math seems ridiculous, but highlights that the average player is not there to win. Gambling institutions are sad places.
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/trust-hub/gdpr/
Stranded on Island Lessons
It's a problem that feeds on itself. When police refuse to do their jobs, both criminals and victims begin to ignore them. Criminals become more brazen, victims resort to vigilantism. Wealthier areas still tend to get halfway decent police presence, but when that fails, they will just buy their own private security forces.
Permanent magnet motors sometimes use rare-earths. It's not absolutely necessary, but going without may lose some power and/or increase the weight. Induction motors don't need permanent magnets, but they're less efficient so the EV industry seems to be moving away from them. (Less efficient also means they generate more heat, which means more active cooling.)

EV motors often have absurdly high RPM limits, which may require some exotic materials and/or lubricants. (I think Tesla motors go up to about 18,000 rpm if memory serves.)

Copper for the windings is another high-cost material; copper has been expensive lately. You could use aluminum instead, but it would mean having to scale up the design or run at a lower power to compensate for the wire resistance.

I do hope to see good, cheap, powerful motors be a thing that was more available to random third parties to swap into their old ICE vehicles. Right now the best options seem to be to use something like a Netgain Hyper9, or scavange a drive unit out of something like a Leaf or Bolt or Tesla.
Agreed. But why not update what ships with modern OS so that these fonts can be used system-wide? Open Sans, Noto Sans and Roboto for everybody.
I think that's because it's many organisms coming together to create the one pyrosome
They're running a business, not a police department/department of justice. How much do you think it would cost to ensure that John faced real consequences?
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay
If anything I think Wordle is such a great example of how a simple idea, but executed pretty perfectly, can get traction. Things like:

1. The letter flipping, as another commenter mentioned.

2. How the keyboard colors the keys after your guesses.

3. The social sharing, with the simple (text only!) sharing of your scores.

4. The "once-per-day" nature of it.

5. It's all basically in a single static JS file! I don't have to wait for anything to load, don't need to sign up or login, yada yada (of course, I pretty much expect the NYT to fuck that up, but oh well, that always happens over time).

I could basically see a ton of different iterations of this that wouldn't have been any where nearly as successful.
In the United States, Capitol Police also polices mean tweets. There are videos of people being confronted at their homes by California Highway Patrol, acting for capitol police, after they sent out mean tweets about some politician.

Not charged with a crime, but almost weirder in a way.

Edit: story is here: https://badnews.substack.com/p/capitol-police-sent-cops-to-a...
Right? I don't mean to rail against the commenter but are they being serious? Wordle is valuable enough to charge at least $1/mo per user. I'd personally say $2/mo to mitigate payment processor fees.

P.S. This is assuming the user base comprises avid daily players (which seems true.) They would definitely get their money's worth.
If I'm running my own email server, will this help my outgoing messages get past the GMail/Exchange "spam" filters?
It's worth defending because it's criticism. Being offensive has zero relevance to whether or not it deserves to be defended. The merit of any speech is only obvious in hindsight and since we can't know when the merit will become obvious, all speech deserves to be defended regardless of how offensive it is.

For instance, the merit of this tweet has now become more significant due to the awareness it has ended up spreading about offensive speech laws in Scotland. Similarly, individual tweets about a leader or country may be seen as offensive and meritless in our time, but perhaps in another 50 years historians look at them as a sign of changing opinions on some matter, giving them merit.

Even if we drop that kind of grand view of things and just focus on smaller matters, companies pay a lot of attention to offensive speech because tracing down the cause will help them improve their product. Thus, clearly offensive speech has merit.

If we determined that offensive speech was meritless, people saying offensive things wouldn't start saying things politely, they'd just say the offensive things privately, depriving society of a valuable feedback method.
Yup, the cops I know here in San Francisco say it's a bad time to be a cop.

Also, the cops get blamed for things that are outside their control, like car break-ins, "They [the thieves] know that the most they'll get is a citation, so they'll be out on the street in a couple of hours," said Pete McLaughlin, retired.

Also we have a District Attorney (Chesa Boudin) who doesn't like to prosecute non-violent crimes, so rampant shoplifting has caused at least one CVS (at the corner of Eddy & Van Ness) to close.
Avalon harbor, catalina island, southern california
Certainly you can't do anything if you quit, and you do negative if you encourage others to quit.
I don't disagree that standups and 1on1s are often empty, but the point is to have a planned point of contact. Think of it more like regular maintenance of the social machine. It helps you not succumb to really preventable issues. They provide an obvious scheduled point to raise issues that do come up, without them people often bottle stuff up until the failure point is hit.

There is value too in scheduling a 1on1 that is easy to cancel. It's easy enough to quickly check if it's necessary, if it isn't, no worries.
> What’s your point?

Why you expect your Unreal-to-WASM product to succeed when Epic Games can simply build your entire product as a feature of the engine? You are building on their platform and not an open web stack, after all.

Despite having an open web, most people have elected to use platforms. At some point, people will defer revenue for simplicity.
Hey, it's a gigantic tent and their is room for all kinds of approaches. wasm and wasmCloud both work great on their own and can go to a lot of places that k8s can't - non Linux OS's and places where we don't even think in terms of process (ie the browser).

WebAssembly really gives us two degrees of portability:
1. CPU / OS / Execution portability; as standard way to package code.
2. A deny by default _security_ model that works the same across all of these different platforms.