skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this usage of “mental model” to be really strange -- it implies you’re intentionally simplifying or abstracting something. Alpha blending is well-defined mathematically, so why would you need to abstract it? It’s perfectly OK not to know how it works, or to think you know and then realize you’re mistaken; but thinking in terms of “mental model” implies it can’t be fully understood, which isn’t the case. When you know how it works, you don’t have a more refined mental model, you just know! (Or think you know...)
Why isn't it a productive argument? This is a question about what goals society should optimize towards. There's no amount of objective measurements that can determine the relative worth of cheaper policing compared with decreased privacy.

The only way for such an argument to proceed is to convince enough people that such a trade results in a world not being how it is supposed to be.

TL;DR: This argument lies on the "ought" side of Hume's is-ought distinction [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Nope. This stuff is super easy to find. What's your agenda here?

In 2017, NPR earned 38% of its revenue from individual contributions; 19% from corporate sponsorship and licensing; 10% from foundation donations; 10% from university licensing and donations; 8% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and 4% from federal, state, and local governments via member stations.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-public-ra...
China doesn't need to 100% enforce the law to effectively make something illegal. Even if they catch and prosecute 1%, their justice system is dangerous enough that most people won't take the risk.

For crypto as currency, this is effectively a death sentence. If most people are afraid to hold or trade it, you can't use it locally.

It would only be useful to people hoping to exfiltrate value and then leave the country, which is not a majority of people.
Liquid Water Confirmed on Mars
I’m not sure I could quantify it, but CDNs were a prominent recommendation for React at least until CRA was pervasive.

Another thing worth mentioning, and another point in Preact’s favor, is ESM and tree-shaking. React still doesn’t officially ship ESM, and the ability to strip unused functionality at build time is hampered by that because ESM is more amenable to static analysis. Whereas Preact, which is already much smaller on the wire, can become smaller still because it supports ESM.
Tax is not the answer.

Natural gas is the least expensive hydrocarbon coming from the oil well and the most expensive to contain.

The money lost to the escaping gas is usually more than recovered by the value of the accompanying oil that is marketed. It has often been financially affordable to waste lots of gas since forever.

Most of the wells will have total production "well" in excess of any tax that can actually be required on the gas. It will be too easy to pay new taxes.

Even if an authority was capable of the most effective action ever seen, it should still not be allowed to go for the money grab.

Needs regulation & enforcement instead, which doesn't make the same money, nor have a constant money stream.
But the companies aren't obligated to accept your email are they? What grounds do you have to ask for damages?
When I learned programming in school, we used QBasic. I still don't think it has been topped for that purpose.

It was relatively simple and forgiving. It had an all-in-one IDE. It had comprehensive built-in help documentation. Most importantly, it had graphics and sound capabilities out-of-the-box.

By the end of one semester, we could build a multiscreen, singing Christmas card. A very tangible project.
You don't even need to threaten. Just a letter of representation from a lawyer is magically effective for things like this.

ETA: We refer to it as "6mins and a stamp".
> - Ribbon and context-aware toolbox made it easier for infrequent or novice users.

But did they have to make it worse for nonnovice users by removing the old menus and toolbars?

> - good default styles for tables, which is what lots of people actually use Excel for

An Excel sheet is already in and of itself a table.

> - Relational models for data

Yeah, thanks, we already have RDBMSes for that. Turning Excel into an RDBMS (or an RDBMS into Excel) only gives you a jackalope: Worthless both as a jackrabbit and as an antelope.

> - flash fill(?) which is a magical programming by example thing

You mean that thing that resolutely refuses to be useful whenever I try to get some "magic" from it?

> I’d like to point out that some improvements were made for power users and others for more ordinary users.

More like against power users in many cases, I'd say. (See the first point.)
The funny thing about that work-around is, what stops spammers from doing it either?
The risk is not zero.

Also, lots of younger Americans have at-risk relatives, teachers, coaches, taxi drivers, coworkers, etc. Even if they're not worried for themselves, many of them care about their risk to loved ones and acquaintances.
Most of the games available via Gamepass aren't supported via Xcloud
> As long as governments begin to accept Bitcoin

Governments of small countries, maybe... but Bitcoin is already banned in China.

There are talks about a ban in Russia (Putin seems to be satisfied with taxing mining more harshly, though):

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-cbank-propo...

It's not a case that it was first China, and now Russia (which is in the top 3 for mining).

In the top 3 for mining there's also Kazakhstan, and their recent crisis was also caused by energy prices, so I can see them tolerating bitcoin only in the short term.

That leaves the US, but that country is too corrupt... And it has too many bitcoin billionaires to allow the value of bitcoin to tank. But no one knows how long this will all last.
You can do both. Flipped classroom, where the students watch video lectures ahead of time on their own schedule, and the time in the classroom is for supplemental recitation sessions and/or getting practice with the material.
Agreed, the most vexing thing about this is that DDG is now promoting the exact same tutorial sites that Google is : Geekforgeeks, etc

What's the point in having different search engines if they copy each other's search results?
Is Apple Time Machine dead? Many years passed since I used my last one. But anyway,

I'm tired creating backups

Have you tried to automate them? Thousands of free and paid software to do that. Setup once, forget until next loss.
I have used cloud JIRA and non-cloud JIRA. They both have the same (99%, at least) awful UI and UX. They both routinely lag out performing even the most basic operations. They both crap out on me if I leave a tab open overnight and try to do something in it the next day. They are both miserable to use. On-premises is not some solution.
If you're saying that programming is a sufficiently rich world of problem solving, then so too is math, but I've found it very motivationally important with kids to provide interesting applications to the knowledge which is covered by some curriculum.

One can metaphorically sell to an adult that polynomials deserve study on their own and is internally applied all over mathematics, but IMO that is a very adult motivation and very few children buy that. What they do buy is that adults want it done and school says they have to. Children can also buy that math is important to STEM careers. What they might not buy is that math is sufficiently motivating by itself.

I think there's a reason why coding programs in general have gravitated towards the narrative of "programming is cool because" you can (1) make apps, (2) make games, or (3) make websites.
Respectfully, no.

My wife’s pregnancy and expected due date were available on a list sold by zip code, which I know because I purchased it after it was identified by Enfamil. I also learned that my neighbor has type-2 diabetes and another has a child with ADHD, among other things.

In my wife’s case, she suffered from an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in a near death experience, and subsequent admission to the OB floor of the hospital. The admission and drugs prescribed are sold/reported in near real-time to various data aggregators, who in turn are able to link them to the ob/gyn who performed the emergency surgery. We think that the admission to the obstetric floor, duration of hospital stay and certain prescriptions trigged a false hit of “pregnant”.

This data is poorly anonymized and can be trivially reconstructed. Both an attorney I hired and an investigator from the state health department confirmed that. There was no retail behavioral tracking because the events happened before my wife was aware that she was pregnant.

Insurance company and medical data is used for all sorts of practices. The state of Georgia, for example, has a anti-opioid surveillance system that uses Medicaid, private insurance, and behavioral data to identify pregnant women at risk of delivering an opioid addicted child. (Which will cost state Medicaid $1M or more)
While you've made valid points for consideration about the blue tribe's blindspots, you're riffing off a different definition of anti-social than I used. You're talking about larger appreciation of social conformity, where I'm talking about creating immediate conflict.

Furthermore, US society is deeply rooted in individualism and so professing individualism is not leftist. In fact I'd say your framing does well to illustrate the disconnect - by attempting the claim that individualism is a leftist thing, despite it being overwhelmingly ingrained in mainstream US society, you're not really arguing for conservatism but rather something well to the right of conservatism. From that perspective, of course most everything appears to be leftist including conservatism itself.
On the topic of Adobe and things to look out for:

I paid for the full subscription for years as I got a lot of use out of it for many projects.

What made me quit Adobe was their iPad Pro apps.

I found myself using the iPad Pro for visual art projects more often, and I eagerly awaited Adobes eventual iPad Pro offerings.

The only file storage option in the iPad versions of Photoshop and Illustrator is Adobe cloud online with offline cache allowed on a per file basis.

Every project has mandatory upload to Adobe cloud. No way to disable.

I am comfortable having client work stored on iCloud, and sometimes will use Dropbox, both have decent enough reputation for secure storage of IP.

But Adobe? I’m sorry but any company forcing professionals to store client IP on their cloud offering by definition cannot be considered secure, who knows what data mining they do if they are willing to pull stunts like this.

On principle I found alternative apps and ditched Adobe.
I’ve always had a lot of fun programming, even as a kid. This article is so dumb.
It’s because all those orgs are co-opted by tptb. Thoughtcrime is already here, it was welcomed eagerly.
It'd be funny if this was just effects from hyperthreading...
In the few misfortunate events I've come upon, I can relate to you, friend, that the experience can be most likened to having cold spit with curd mincing around in your mouth. Simply revolting. And the taste is no better. It is thus that I come to rate the tomato as an atrocity. And I do so in the hopes that I might illuminate the good folk who may hear my beseeching, to expel them of their ignorance, that they may cease in their rotten wont to consume such a morsel. As Socrates says ignorance is the one evil, so I avail all of this knowledge; and I am compelled to do so for the sake of virtue! Cease the use of this foul morsel, my friends, that none may suffer further from the reviled thing!
How is working with the government toward your goal "overthrowing the government"?
I also took his comments to say they're not Canadian.

The GFM action is also quite dehumanizing. It's a statement from a large donation platform (with all the associated feelings of righteousness) about the value of the protest.

I'm not really sure GFM is the problem though. I think the fear of the media might be forcing their hand. The consequences for keeping this fundraiser open would have hurt them somehow. Same with the consequences for shutting down a BLM fundraiser. Same consequence from the same source.
There is also the fact that airways are a limited public resource. And parents didn't have parental controls on radios or television until much later. So I think some censorship was warranted, even if the ideal is to counter the bad with more good.
Had a spinal leak after a spinal tap. So too little fluid. It’s a very unique pain.

Severe pain at top of head unless laying flat.

I spent an entire week laying flat on a couch with a happy cat sitting on my chest.

Initial treatment was an IV of caffeine. Then they they had to patch the hole.
Adobe are full of dark patterns - if you install After Effects, they also drive-by install Cinema4D without warning. Nearly had a heart attack when I found it on my computer and it took a lot of digging to discover how it got there.

There’s been an outstanding issue on the Adobe forums about it for years and the attitude from Adobe staff there is shocking - just can’t comprehend people might not want random multi-gigabyte software installed on their computers without asking.
I would love to hear more about your Synology NAS setup if you don’t mind.
Is anyone else getting results from this in the 240.0.0.0/4 range? Obviously my public IP isn't actually in there.
For the curious: Prime PLP and SPL projects
No, there are not too many good books to read
What do you mean by “no link”?
You think anyone actually looks or cares about the logo when a person has a massive following and a name? It's not logo that is the trademark of his brand, but the name. It's really stupid argument when the concept of people following celebrities has been a thing for years...
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> A crucial part of Ribbon, as implemented by MS Office, is a search interface.

If the search interface was what was missing, why the fuck didn't they just add that to the old menus and toolbars? (Seems to work on many Macintosh applications, doesn't it? And probably some Windows ones too.)
We started with almost no jobs needing proof of vaccination to a lot needing it.
Each week more and more require it, you talk like this is a minor thing that will not escalate, when it clearly has been.

The options you seem to think unvaccinated Canadians have are slim and moving towards non, That is why people are protesting.
Will all government agencies be required to comply? I would think that would be an issue.
Immunity to COVID wanes over time, in part because it can take hold on the surfaces of your respiratory tract to a certain point without triggering the ire of your immune system (which is why vaccinated people can spread COVID). To keep yourself from developing a serious case of it, vaccinations need to be periodic, like the flu. You could keep getting it every year or so if you want, but getting it this year isn't going to prevent you from getting it next year
For those living in California: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

A copy of my note if you would like a template:

```
Dear Senator Feinstein,

I am deeply disappointed with your support of the EARN IT act and am expressing my deep concern and disapproval of such a bill.

Congruent with the recent report released by Stanford, I am expressing my deep disappointment in your sponsorship of the EARN IT act. I believe it represents a fundamental undermining of citizens right to privacy through strong encryption under the extremely divisive framing of "protecting the children". As a Father of two children myself, I do not believe that whatever incremental improvement to their safety, if any at all, justifies the undermining of encryption of ordinary citizens. In my opinion, this law actively undermines the fourth amendment in the digital realm and I must state that if you believe this is in my best interest, you have lost both my vote and my trust.
```
Can you tell me how are you able to be very well rounded across the stack?
> I wish people would have the integrity to speak about the situation honestly.

None of the removed episodes were about COVID. Actually, only 1 removed episode is from the last 3 years.
I ran across some Prime PLP and SPL projects of mine from the early 80's that might be of interest to those who have never seen PL/I code or systems-level code in PL/I.

"dutil" is a disk utility I wrote when I was 19 and a OS specialist at Prime's Detroit office. It is a utility to examine a disk using sector read and writes and allows things like fixing damaged directories, record headers, etc.

"pmsrc_54" is a network spooler a friend and I wrote together. When print jobs are submitted, they get routed to the least-busy printer, which may be on another system.

"pbhist" is a Prime-supplied tool to monitor a program's execution and report on where it is spending most of its time. This was done by sampling the program's runtime program counter.

Enjoy!
Sorry, the Global Supply Chain Ate My Homework
I'd even say journalists don't understand statistics. Without proper math education, they see stats as a game of numbers where the goal is to pick the right numbers to support a desired conclusion. I can't seriously expect a journalist to understand what "2 sigma" means, and even less likely they'd be willing to learn the difference between gaussian and poisson distributions.
LOL. They range around libertarian on most topics and spiked is backed by the Koch brothers.
If someone threatens to sue for damages for something where they are clearly not entitled to damages, why would your lawyers advise you to act on that?

If I wrote to you now threatening to sue you for damages unless you delete your comment would you delete it? Why?
Disclaimer: I own some XMR.

Please don't lump in Monero with Zcash and Dash.

I chose to buy some Monero because they didn't backpeddle like Dash by claiming they're not more private than Bitcoin and CoinJoin when the coin was removed from an exchange, or have a developer that tweeted that Zcash can be made traceable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/kp8jws/after_years_...

https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856?lang=en
Didn't Powell build his career in part on lying about the My Lai massacre because he was told to? I'm too young to know, but did he really have a reputation as someone who would refuse to lie if the White House told him to lie?
We had a society in which all media was controlled by a handful of corporations who dictated what people saw and thought. That is not by any means a free society. Then along came Bulletin Board Systems and then the Internet, and all that changed. Legislation like the EARN IT Act is meant to turn back the clock to silence the voice of the people so that, once again, only the voice of the bourgeoisie can be heard.
This enrollment decline is across the board in education. While not high paying, education was at least once considered a safe and reliable profession in a respected field. It is really none of those things anymore.

The job has gotten harder and more involved and the pay has gotten, relative to cost of living, much worse. In many districts teachers do not know if and when their next raise will come. It could be next year or in 10 years.

If as a society we value education we need to fund it.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

It’s open source so you could try suggesting or adding features.
Legally identical is a nonsense metric: if I own bitcoin I cannot sell because it has a tainted history then it is obviously not equivalent and not as valuable as bitcoin which can be.

The fact that no broker cares about which instance of the stock or dollar you own but can track it anyways proves that those things are effectively fungible. In Bitcoin it is obviously not true that exchanges don’t care in the same way - plainly obvious from the source material you are responding to.

When different bitcoin have different value by virtue of not being exchangeable at the largest liquidity pools, and your definition of fungible fails to capture that fact, you have the wrong definition.
He is 'right' about a lot of things, but what he does is take one tiny nugget of somewhat real information and then build on it and spin it in any way he wants.
Maybe read MJ Demarco or the millionaire next door?

I have a similar situation but make way less money and work for a big tech company. Even at my level I have started to minimize my materialistic / hedonic treadmill tendencies.

Happiness comes with balance. Balance is obtained by moderation. Moderation is saying no to more things or doing more with less. At least my thinking.
they have more funding, power, and technology to perform their jobs than at any point in history, but cry about it because they can't spy on the entire planet by default. never compromise because the demands will never end.
it's almost comical how politicians always use the same tactic for destroying online privacy too - "think of the children!"
It brings your chances of death from vanishingly small down to undetectable. I didn't think it was personally worth it; I might as well wait until my double vax decays a bit farther, more research is done, and new reformulations specifically targeting new variants that have gone around have been formulated.

As policy it's definitely not worth it. We can pretend that we as a country care about covid, but if we're stressing the importance of patents and boosting our own over vaccinating the world, we don't really care. If we take years to send out masks, we clearly think more about masks as a public declaration of loyalty than disease prevention devices.

I hate that we've split into two groups, one of nationalistic bleach drinkers that don't believe in the germ theory of disease, and the other of nationalistic OCD paternalists. Now I'm expected to believe that there's no level of protection that is enough i.e. evidence that a booster helps is evidence that I should be taking a booster is evidence that everyone should be taking a booster. I'm worried about covid, but I'm worried about things other than covid.

At least the NYT is staying pretty steadily rational about this.
The point though is that you can't afford minor losses here and there, because it's a war of attrition. Firearm lobby knows that the opposition's strategy is to just chip away at 2A rights slowly over the decades. Therefore, they can't afford to allow minor gun control victories here and there, or else a century later they are out of business and their supporters have no 2A rights anymore.

Same with this. You can't allow minor anti-encryption victories here and there chipping away at privacy/mathematical rights or your great grandkids won't have those freedoms.
I believe governments should prevent companies from discriminating against people in very limited ways. These are protected characterists such as race or sexual orientation Generally these are things that are innate to a person and are not a matter of choice for them.

I don't believe political viewpoints fall into that category, but I'm willing to hear any good arguments that they should be.
How much international travel was there during the two administrations?

We know that Delta was much more infectious than any other variant to date, and now Omicron is much more infectious than Delta. What are the impacts of the different strains on the death rates?