skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first value has one, the others two significant figures in this example. The decimal point is also giving a false sense of certainty when used like this. You can find more about significant figures at Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures
> Honestly, the world would be a much more amazing place if it would be taught in schools that just "it doesn't work" does not convey any meaningful information.

One problem is that most people are socialized heavily against going into these kinds of details in almost every situation they will experience. Only engineers are frequently around other people who want to know specifically what "it doesn't work" means. And even in those cases, you've got to tailor your level of detail with care. It's no wonder people learned to just say "it doesn't work", in the same way that they learned to reply to "how are you" with something vague rather than something extremely specific.
Note I said "US refrigerator".

But with LED lighting, you need a converter from mains voltage to low DC voltage. A little bitty transformer and a pair of diodes, or even a low-duty-cycle oscillator driving a switching transistor, diode, and capacitor would suffice, but there is a lot more junk on the circuit board in US refrigerators.
Nobody's saying a massless neutrino would be incapable of carrying energy. Here's how I understand it:

If a neutrino has no rest mass, there would be a variety of ways in which the decay energy could be distributed, with some of it going to the electron and some of it going to the neutrino. So over many decays, the electron would be observed to travel at a range of possible speeds. You might see almost all of the energy going into the electron and almost none into the neutrino, or vice versa.

But if some of the decay energy goes into the creation of a massive neutrino, that decreases the upper bound on how much energy is left to go into the electron. So by carefully measuring the extent range of energies of the decay products, you can hope to distinguish the massive and massless cases.
Property crime is not minor, it's what the common people paying taxes actually expect law enforcement to deal with. Like, being able to leave your bike and find it where you left it, you know
Serious question: Do you really think it's whataboutism to point out what one of the parties we're talking about was publicly saying on the campaign trail at the time in question? The roles could be reversed and I'd still make the same statement.

"Please try and see the blinders you have on regarding nearly everything you've said." is something you said a few comments up. You should listen to yourself more often.
Not the focus of the article, but analytical chemists need to do a lot of proper detecting themselves to be high-performing just like the radiologists do.
I agree. Before you know it they'll be creating browsers to run in the browser to run browsers to run browsers in the browsers in the browsers.

On a more serious note, Flatpak and other sandboxing solutions make 100% more sense than using something that already leaks way too much in order to sandbox apps.
Wanna know the best part? The CTO also said that they got the term from....wait for it...Douglas Hofstadter.

Let that sink in for a moment.

I think ol' Dougie was trolling them and never thought they might actually run with it.

Edit: source for the incredulous https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/149366154542687027...
Wait, you can download music from streaming services to your iPod touch?
Not from OS, it uses opensource library.
> I'm more bummed that I let the domains expire, especially the short one which was o-w.com.

It's ironic that you could've made more money than you would have gotten from VCs with that domain name. You probably didn't know that back then.
Companies are betting that you'd prefer a continued tentative transactional relationship with them rather than ban yourself over a charge back. That's definitely how Airbnb works.
> "No-one will put their private documents on the Internet! You're mad!"

I miss the days when people had this much common sense.
Yeah. I’ve run into this too. A lot of websites have terrible internal search. Google crushes it, esp when you have a “site:reddit.com” to the query.
> Gamers Nexus went public on his sizeable YouTube channel. As you might expect, this led to an immediate refund from Newegg

top kek

how predictable
* Minor quibble: Don't think the "with" is needed. You inculcate a skill or quality (active), or a skill is inculcated in someone (passive). So "secretly inculcate tech skills" reads more normally to me.
A bit. But my main project was to use NLP to identify failed reactions in old lab notebooks to use as negative training data.
The goalpost was at cost. Price was your own invention.
If your base value is 0, then the value to your customers is also 0. In theory, a company with good customer support should have a competitive advantage over a company with poor customer support. But in B2C industries, customer support always seems to be a race to the bottom.
You don't use one of the many ad-blocking options that exist for mobile?
I remember when LibreOffice was called Star Office and would run like molasses on a Celeron 300A OC to 450mhz machine. The office suite would take up most of the ram and eventually crash due to system resource exhaustion.

Now we can run the whole thing in a browser like it's Minesweeper. Wow.
OpenAI Alignment Consciousness
Cue the famous Jim Barksdale quote: "There’s only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle"
The original meaning of psychedelic is "mind manifesting", which has nothing to do with serotonin.

The term "hallucinogen" is a misnomer, because the effects of psychedelic substances (including muscimol, salvia, ketamine, etc..) don't always involve hallucinations.

For example, if you forgive yourself or your parents under their influence (not an uncommon effect), that's not a hallucination.

If you're able to face some traumatic event in your past while under their effects, and are no longer frightened of this traumatic event, that's not a hallucination.

If a suicidal person no longer wants to kill themselves after taking a psychedelic, or a terminally ill person is finally able to achieve peace with the fact that they're going to die, that's not a hallucination.

That's not to mention the quite common feeling while under the effect of psychedelics that what one experiences is "more real" than what one experiences under normal, waking consciousness, etc.

I don't view the term "psychedelic" as perfect, but it's much better than "hallucinogen".
That's basically why Google wants to get rid of urls. They're terrible at conveying trust.
That is absolutely not the same as verbatim, and you need to do some empirical tests on your end, before you state things like this.

Take a look here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424094

It's like you're just spouting Google propaganda, without validating what you're saying. Just like with vertabim/date range, which has been a thing for close ot a decade, which Google has received endless reports about, this too does not do what you say.

Your responses are akin to those canned responses one gets when you post a bad review. "So sorry, please contact us here at this email address.", which of course is all about impression, and results in nothing ever happening.

This has been going on almost a decade, yet oh what, no, haha is your response.
I thought Chris Rackauckas was particularly good. I think he ends with a good summary of one of the many reasons solving the dual language problem is important:

> There are so many places in math that are simply untouched because they sound like the domain of a compilers instead of "computational science", and I'm excited to see how the next 10 years bridges this gap in Julia.

https://www.julialang.org/blog/2022/02/10years/#chris_rackau...
I'm not sure the OP was making this claim exactly -- I think they just meant for any particular interest (like running Plan 9 on some old hardware) there were probably only a few hundred people around who shared that particular interest.
Intel and the x86 Architecture: A Legal Perspective (2011)
The thing that boggles my mind is the lack of formal escalation in modern support departments. It existed because it was a good model: it worked, while managing headcount and cost. Your front line people aren't trained or paid to know everything, but for God's sake have someone backstopping them up with deeper knowledge and access!
I don’t think that was the academic purpose of this paper - the point was to collect data and compare/map the problems/solutions present in software dev against game dev to see which universal mismanagement patterns are present in both, and which might be more unique to game dev. I imagine each problem/solution has plenty of its own research.
> reads aloud the stories she has written

That sounds fantastic!
> Will there be Unicode email addresses?

Apparently, yes. [0]

> making things more equitable for other languages and cultures

Well, yes. People often hate how compilcated Unicode is, but they also tend to forget that even ASCII was not sufficient for writing English in a proper way. I am not by any means old, but even I still remember the period on the web when non-Unicode encodings were relatively common and how problematic it was.

And, with assumption that by “other cultures and languages” you mean non-English speaking regions: Tolerate is a wrong word. Most people are not English native speakers. If we would go the route of deciding who is tolerating who, nations using Chinese Hanzi and its derivatives would be probably the first to claim they tolerate all the others by the speakers’ headcount alone.

Moreover, deciding what is/can be executed is not so obvious in my opinion. PDFs can have JavaScript embedded, SVG too. Flash games? Python scripts on computers with python installed? It is not just the names, but the very knowledge of what can be considered “executable.”

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_email
Same experience over the past couple years.

It's also weird to me, for example I bought six items from Leatherman (some multitools plus accessories) and one of them showed up with some damage. No worries, Leatherman supports their product with a 25 year warranty so I just mail it back for a repair.

There was a whole saga about Leatherman refusing via email and my bank charging back for the entire order (I asked for just the tool that Leatherman refused to repair, the bank was "Nah, we're just gonna do it all, we have an email where the merchant refused to honor a warranty, they have no leverage.")

It's bizarre to me, because a relatively minor repair had to be cheaper than giving me three multitools and six accessories for negative dollars (since the bank tosses fees on top of the chargeback). The companies have no incentive and know they're going to lose (see all the articles complaining about 'friendly fraud' to reference chargebacks) yet they do it.

Perhaps they over index on being paranoid that the customer wants to defraud them via chargeback, which in turn increases the odds a chargeback happens since the disgruntled customer feels they were ripped off?
Unfortunately damages can be extremely hard to show in environmental cases, both because of the evolving state of the science and the tendency of environmental contamination to cause low-probability stochastic effects through a large population. It's very difficult for a lawyer to make money off of a situation that has caused a small but persistent increase in certain diseases in a certain population, and yet that kind of outcome is very common. It's not even clear who, if anyone, has standing in such cases, and courts have often dismissed environmental cases due to the inability of any one plaintiff to show damage (there is some progress towards addressing this but it is slow and uneven).

This is one of the main reasons that these sorts of environmental contamination problems tend to persist for extended periods: tort law really doesn't have it covered most of the time.
One that you pay for your services, and where you’ve done your due diligence and confirmed that they are actually a good actor and responsible provider.

Speaking only for myself, I have personally hosted my vanity domains that I have owned since 1995 with the folks at Heller Information Systems, who own the his.com and hers.com domains.

During that time, I was also the Sr. Internet Mail Administrator at AOL, and the co-author of the SAGE booklet on “Internet Postmaster: Duties and Responsibilities”. I know how hard it is to run an e-mail system properly, and how large of a team it takes to do the job right. And I have steadfastly refused to try to do that job on my own for myself. The folks at HIS do a better job than I could do on my own for myself.

Since 2003, I have also helped run the mail systems for python.org and NTP.org. That work has just solidified my views that running a mail server is a highly complex and burdensome task, which is why I drafted in the authors of “The Book of Postfix” to help run the mail systems for python.org. They have done a fantastic job, far better than I could have done on my own, and reinforced once again in my mind how much effort is required.

So, do your homework. Check out the long-term reputation of the company, and see how much of that might be due to a single person who is heroically trying to balance the entire world on their shoulders, versus those who are part of a large team.
Wouldn't radomized pixelation without using the actual textual data in the background be enough?

A tool where you can choose the background color and the text color. The pixalation tool then overlays the blur effect with random characters.
How do I run flatpak on iPhone?
> If you can prove harm

That's not strong property rights. Strong property rights would include any unauthorized use regardless of "harm". It would mean Does Chemical needs to remove every molecule of dioxin from soil of any homeowner in Midland, MI. However, the EPA allows a set amount. I shouldn't need to prove "harm", I didn't authorize them to place their chemicals on my property and that should be sufficient.

Similarly, I didn't authorize coal plants to put toxins into my air on my property, and thus they should be prevented from any emissions until they find a way to keep it off my property.

We haven't anything even approaching a libertarian ideal and we aren't going to, because people/companies wouldn't be allowed to pollute and that's bad for business. Instead we have a socialized system where the government decides how much people are allowed to pollute your property, and your singular voice is inconsequential.
The problem is that he is just factually wrong; aside from his characterization of the parties being based on the fallacy that you can paint a coherent stable anthropomorphism of a broad coalition and have it approach meaningfulness, the idea of a “broad center of American politics” is bullshit. Political views are strongly bimodal, and differences from those modal points are more in areas outward from the axis between them than along it and between the modes.

The era where bipartisanship was more common during the last three or so decades of the long post-WWII (through mid-1990s) realignment wasn't because of a stronger center, it was because a very similar distribution of viewpoints as today was distributed between parties who weren't clearly aligned against each other on the main axis between the major factions; so you had the same recognizable liberal and conservative factions, with “liberal Republicans” and “conservative Democrats” being substantial factions. Historically and structurally this is an aberrant situation, the parties tend to align against each other on the major ideological axis of divisions in the countries. But things got shook up by the New Deal (and later public welfare programs) and then a series of Civil Rights measures that didn't quite fit the existing partisan alignment, and they came hard and fast enough that it took an unusually long time for the new alignment to shake out...

Now, there is a broad disenfranchised group, but it's not mainly the “center”, it's a diverse group of people whose views fall in a variety of places not near the axis between the major parties; in a system which supported more viable parties having a meaningful role in the political systems, they’d be served by their own parties; as it is now they are either protest voting or voting with whichever major party seems least bad at the moment and not liking it much, and in many cases being hyper-targeted by propaganda from the other major parties side not aiming to engage their interest, but to alienate them from the major party closer to their interests (or electoral politics generally) as part of the zero-sum nature of the two-party system.
> Now we can run the whole thing in a browser like it's Minesweeper. Wow.

I don't know what you're trying to say with this. I'm currently asking myself if it is really slow to compile/load, of if uBlock Origin broke something. I'm patiently waiting.

Update: It's kind of amazing to see what can run inside a browser.
English words are enumerable. There’s just a few million of them. The dictionary is large, but it’s not like it changes frequently, so you can treat it like a static asset that gets downloaded once and only updated periodically out of band.
I kind of think Bookmates would have been cute.
If the underlying physics is deterministic, then a chaotic system (e.g. the Three Body Problem) is just a collection of deterministic parts interacting with each other, and is therefore itself deterministic. The overwhelming complexity and unpredictability we observe is just a commentary on our own ignorance and limitation as humans. There was never room for any non-deterministic thing to magic itself into the system at some point as the complexity and unpredictability of the system got bigger and bigger.
Newegg isn't alone in shipping broken/used as new and doesn't just happen in the US. I ordered a usb-c dock recently at a medium sized hardware online store, got a used part with seals broken and replaced with the yellow anti-static stickers which look officialish to the uninitiated (so no accident here).

After opening all protection plastic was missing as well as the usb-c cable. Fortunately for me this was in the EU and burden of proof is on them but shipping used/broken products off as new also happens here. One interesting thing is they also screwed up since they offered a discount to use the opened product after which my position was far stronger as I could reject any attempt to send me another product and I could just dissolve the purchase completely as it meant they had offered a compensation sum which I could rejectnif unreasonable and they always are. (There is a lot of difference in eu implementations per country about rights of dissolvement of purchase so watch out with your local laws.)
For additional clarity, quoting has always, always, always been different than +, and verbatim. When you(Google) removed +, so that 'google+ searches' could work without interference, quoting was already a thing, and people were just told by some airhead googler "Oh, but quoting is the same! Just use that!"

It wasn't. It isn't. I never has been. Ever.

Verbatim was introduced to replicate that lost + functionality, after massive outrage at the inability to find search results. The fact that you, and other Googlers still think "" is the same as verbatim/+, when it doesn't even show the same search results, is highly, highly questionable.

To be beyond blunt, you're wrong. You are completely and totally wrong. +/verbatim and "" are not the same thing.

Please go away, and learn how your own product works, before commenting on it, ok?
Tangentially related but I immediately recognized the person in the video in the article as "AltF4" who has done a lot of work in the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene. He has worked on slippi[1], created a Python API library for the game[2], and coded a bot[3] to demonstrate the library which professional players find very difficult to beat based on its inhuman reaction times (as you'd expect).

I've always wondered what some of these Melee players do as a real job and I guess in this case I found out by accident (in hindsight, the name of the company is in his Github bio, which I had never checked before).

1. https://slippi.gg/about

2. https://github.com/altf4/libmelee

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3v6uPuKic
I have used Linode boxes and like the CPU performance I got. Didn’t have unexpected infra issues and never had to bother to setup HA.
Yeah, thank Getty for that one
Love the term "ibogalogs". If anyone is wondering the structure of the chemical in question "Tabernathalog" (TBG) you can find it in Figure 1, in the table at the bottom right "Scaffold 2", No. 18 with substitutions R1 = H, R2 = OMe (ie OCH3)
It's hard to beat 70/50°F in the middle of winter. And no wildfires! (Disclaimer: occasionally too much water and wind)
Here I thought Newegg was only guilty of wasting everyone's time by sending 10+ emails every time you ordered anything.
I haven’t read any comments. That being said I think a lot of what this is saying is anecdotal. Anecdotal evidence is good in this case because it would probably be hard to get good data on what this is trying to prove. I think some of the problem is that most of the people who google something don’t care that they use google or even think about what they type in. People who are using quotes to google things I would already put in the advanced category of googling. I google things every day for programming matters and most of the time it’s good with the short answers it pulls from SO or bringing up documentation as a first result. But not once have I used the quotes function to google something. If the quotes not matching was a big argument of his and then later revises that with “oh the quotes do work… for now” I don’t see why this has so much traction. As for Reddit being so popular I think needs more of an explanation. I think one large factor is Wall Street bets. That probably brought a lot of people and kept them. And beyond that people who heard about WSB had never heard of Reddit and downloaded it and kept using. Reddit is nothing more than a forum. Is there a fine line between a forum and a search engine? You tell me.

In the mean time just learn how to google. I google obscure questions about Flutter and specific flutter packages and google does fine. If not then I switch to duck duck go.
I'm so glad to see others talking about this.

A system of distributed trust like this is the makings of decentralized moderation. Decentralized curation. I've also had this idea on my mind for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975294
On the other hand if CRISPR edits the wrong thing you might get cancer. At least lactase pills don't give you cancer.
Second that, fond memories of using their service ages ago.

First VMs I had was from them. They had very good documentation and everything was simple.

Then I was introduced to 'wall of text' as a service, AWS, and never looked back.
Just heavily penalize presence of affiliate links and ads on the page and the 90% of the problem will go away. But of course it's something Google will never do. It all comes down to their perverse incentives.
Oh, I see now. Thanks.

OP is suggesting that every google search can be improved by only searching on Reddit.