skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like a really loose interpretation of operating something remotely. If they have a backdoor to your phone that lets them flip a switch, that's one thing... I think in this case it's turned on through a software update, which is in the control of the people using the device. That's another feature that is opt-out, by the way. Why? Because requiring input from users to update their phones results in most people not updating their phone, which is a security risk.

It's not so cut and dry and being that dogmatic about it in one direction when there's clear and significant downsides to doing that way is shortsighted. Even if you prompt the user asking for permission for every single thing going on on their device, what do you think the outcome of that will be? Most people I know have tons of notifications from every app they install on their phone because they don't even look at the popup after the first couple times it appears.
Plant zones seem very primitive to me, AFAICT based only on the maximum sustained cold. So for instance Duluth has a relatively higher hardiness zone rating than some areas around it, despite having a very narrow growing period, simply because in the depth of winter it doesn't get QUITE as cold due to Lake Superior. But most of the year it's quite a bit colder places around it due to that same lake!
This web site is one jerk and some friends, not "librarians" as a whole.

Like other groups of humans, librarians have diverse opinions.
The OP claims that low information entropy results in an increase in mass.

I don't believe the 'state of matter' bit is exactly right, it seems to be an extension to the mass-energy equivalence theorem. (IANAP)
So basically you are in for the money only? There are no other factors?
What are some of the tools that can't run on distroless?
I understand the point entirely. I said I agree with it.

But at the same time, "Fourth of July" should not be used to infer anything about how Americans say dates. It doesn't help prove that both orders are used for dates.

In the real world, some people say day-month and some say month-day, and the holiday is called "Fourth of July". In a counterfactual world where everyone switched to month-day, the holiday would still be called "Fourth of July". So you can't use "Fourth of July" to demonstrate what people actually use for dates.
It is very easy to hijaack port 53 traffic, so you might not talk to DNS server you think you do.

Heck, I did that at home for Chromecast and other devices that hardcode their DNS.
Bunker.land: Where to Avoid the Apocalypse
LG sells Bluerays drive that can be hacked but unfortunately they have mixed quality/reliability. Pioneer sells really reliable drives that can only currently do regular blueray, not 4k but they are being worked on. I suggest to nab one before they disappear and then hopefully they get cracked eventually. MakeMKV forums can provide more info.
> Interviews tend to reflect culture: If your interviews are based on leetcode, then on at least some level you're being trained to associate

Yeah this isn’t true at all. Much of the leetcode paradigm exists because companies want to hire top tier talent, and they want to fill head count at significant scale to quickly ramp up new teams or entire organizations. There might be a better style, but this style has worked well enough for these companies to establish $1 trillion+ market caps, regardless of how you feel about it. And no one wants to risk moving off this because of how expensive it is to hire and fire.
When environmental savings due to using less electricity exceed the environmental cost of a new bulb, it is better to use a new bulb (with caveats). I carefully explained that literally.

I didn't downvote you (can't downvote replies). I generally downvote people who comment about downvotes (even edits), since it is against HN guidelines. If you get downvotes, the value is in wondering to yourself: why. Not that the person who originally downvoted you is unlikely to reread your comment.

I deserve downvotes for this comment for mentioning downvoting, and perhaps because I went off-topic.

Edit: also IMHO worrying excessively about karma makes for unhealthy conversations.
Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest
That can theoretically already happen, has nothing to do with whether a car is electric, and we already deal with something kind of similar known as "limp home mode"
Anyone know how well the mid-air haptic functionality performs with these displays? From an article published in IEEE last year [0]:

> A problem with mid-air ultrasound haptics is the weak displayed stimulation. As a solution to this, stimulation techniques as lateral modulation [21] and spatiotemporal modulation [22] have been proposed that increase the perceived intensity. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that not only vibratory sensations but also thermal sensations could be displayed. For example, in [23], a cold feeling is given remotely through the transport of cold air by the acoustic flow associated with a Bessel beam. In [24], a method for providing heat using the thermoacoustic phenomenon of ultrasonic waves passing through a narrow slit was demonstrated.

A contactless box that can faithfully simulate a wide array of tactile sensations sounds amazing.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9392322
> On March 8, Google Cloud Traffic Director experienced an outage. This in coordination with a bug in a client (gRPC) library caused the Spotify outage that affected many of our users: if you were logged out of a Spotify app, you were unable to log back in.
Hollywood will again strike back at Russians by mangling their names and putting up jumble of Cyrillic instead of a single actual Russian word.

Lshtshfum Ashchf will again outmaneuver the baddies and turn out to be the American Universal Hero: Jason Bond by day, Iron Batman by night.
Is this a thing somewhere or am I in a bubble? I know lots of women and no one has articulated this fear about a self-driving car.
Ask HN: Open-source self hosted task manager with reminders
Something I can use for every day tasks as well as work related tasks
What’s the difference?
https://hailo.ai/
"Harry Potter Books Spark Rise In Satanism Among Children"

LOCK HAVEN, PA—Ashley Daniels is as close as you can get to your typical 9-year-old American girl. A third-grader at Lock Haven Elementary School, she loves rollerblading, her pet hamsters Benny and Oreo, Britney Spears, and, of course, Harry Potter. Having breezed through the most recent Potter opus in just four days, Ashley is among the millions of children who have made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire the fastest-selling book in publishing history.

And, like many of her school friends, Ashley was captivated enough by the strange occult doings at the Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry to pursue the Left-Hand Path, determined to become as adept at the black arts as Harry and his pals.

"I used to believe in what they taught us at Sunday School," said Ashley, conjuring up an ancient spell to summon Cerebus, the three-headed hound of hell. "But the Harry Potter books showed me that magic is real, something I can learn and use right now, and that the Bible is nothing but boring lies."

https://www.theonion.com/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-sa...
My HP ZBook once crashed also somehow and I had to remove the battery. I was not the only guy in the office with this problem.
Setting the bar for government access to Have I Been Pwned
I shudder at the notion of calling any library patron (who is looking for a book to read) "not an academic".
In this country you don't need a license to learn.
> Really, though, this seems like a great opportunity for scanning and digital preservation...

Now you've traded your problems of having one collection with having two. Not to mention the choice (and constant migration!) of hardware media, data formats, etc. Are you going to be able to even read these digital files fifty years from now? Who's going to maintain this? Are you going to add a whole IT dept to your local library to keeping this system running?

None of this is impossible, of course. But it's not free and it's not trivial.
Commoditization in this case would mean unbundling of hardware and service and that very much exists already, and is far from stealing Peloton's lunch. There's Zwift (an investment fantasy story for another time, as wild as Peloton's but with slightly less digits) and about half a dozen "baby zwifts" that might even be profitable or at least close but suffer hard from being outside of the brand lock-in of the big players.
In theory if you got a resolver which could disable UDP queries, it would then default to TCP, and the ISP couldn't manipulate those. Don't know if any resolver supports disabling UDP though.
They were just the next Go Pro. A craze that eventually runs out of steam.
Anyone know why the Tempo control looks like a knob, but works like an up and down slider?
It's on the rise in South Korea (crossed >200k cases per day) and Vietnam last time I checked. Entering the next wave / potentially new variants will likely emerge for the rest of us who just finished omicron around late spring I expect.
In the Russian Army, for General Officers the order is:

Major general -> Lieutenant general -> Colonel general -> Army general -> Marshal of the Russian Federation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_ranks_and_insignia_of_the...
Theoretically entitled?
Weeding is based on principles of community need, not one person's personal taste.
I think you'd be best served by counting and limiting your calories. That's the easiest "hack" I've found.
The problem I've encountered in a lot of legal adjacent areas is most attorneys just are not very good. I have no idea if any given attorney is keeping up with the state of the art. Also, a lot of legal curricula are very pro-business, which means many attorneys have a inbuilt anti-worker and anti-founder bias.

I know nonvoting shares are usually a hard sell, but I've seen people pull it off. It's worth reminding investors that they are giving you their money on loan because they do not have business ideas, you do.
Ask HN: When did you tell employer leaving (vesting cliff)?
I have a one year cliff coming up soon. I want to leave the company ASAP. I like the people here and want to leave on good terms, so I want to give them plenty of advance notice I'm leaving. Is there any risk to telling them before the vesting date?
I didn't post this, but I am the OP who put this site together. Here's a post where I talk about the data I pulled in to make this site and the rationale behind it: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w...

Happy to discuss. Not an expert in the slightest, just a minor hobby of mine.
> Women specifically do not want to be in cars which they cannot even theoretically control.

I suspect women have a greater relative comfort with automated vehicles versus those controlled by a stranger than men, though I’m not aware of any solid data for that (certainly haven't seen any for your claim, either.)
The reason I make a distinction between towns and small villages is because Israeli laws only allow committee-based exclusion in small villages. Grow to the size of a town and anyone can move in (buying via third party if one is afraid of discrimination, if necessary). It would only face "petty discrimination" if it moves into a radical religious neighbourhood, but then the same would happen to a non-religious Jewish family.

However, if a Jewish family tries to move into a predominantly Arab town, it will be pushed out even if legally there is no exclusion. Yes, by illegal means if necessary. The petty discrimination levels are different in those two cases.

Regardless of the above, the majority of Israeli population (92%) lives in large cities, where every citizen can buy an apartment, and in most cases the construction companies are not allowed to discriminate at all.
This seems like confusion over [the map/territory relationship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation ):

> "A map is not the territory"

Whatever reality might be considered to involve -- mass, energy, entropy, time, whatever -- it's information that we actually consider in our minds.

In grade-school physics, it may be all too easy to confuse the map for the territory, because everything's just so simple that students might feel little compulsion to put much thought into things. But it's always been information.

If someone wants a string 2-meters long, they might measure out two lengths of 1-meter strings, then tie them together. If the result isn't close enough to 2-meters, then they might reason that they ought to be more precise -- they ought to better measure the 1-meter strings, consider the length-contraction due to tying the knot, and so forth. And then, they might think that there's a difference between the string and their information about it.

But further away, in more exotic contexts like in sub-atomic quantum-mechanical arenas or near black-holes, there might be less intuition about the things like strings -- folks may be pushing harder, working more heavily with information without a background sense of naturalness. Inferences may be drawn based on information, and then more built upon that information, until it seems like it's all information.

But, to be clear, this isn't some new quality of reality; it's how stuff's always worked. It's just how intellectual-computation works. It's just that, when things were simpler, folks didn't care to consider it.

That said, reality isn't quite "information"; it's just our perceptions of reality that're information. This is, reality's the territory, and our conceptions of it are the map. More involved computational-modeling just helps make that more apparent by undermining more naive modes of thinking about it.
Is it better to misrepresent contemporary beliefs as truth?

> A book on "Video Games: how it's made" written in 1996 (https://awfullibrarybooks.net/how-about-a-career-in-video-ga...)

That book looks interesting, and the blogger's justification for weeding it is "I don't understand video game development", not "there is a more modern book to use instead".
"Fact checking" is just some rando's opinion, Facebook even admitted this in court. There's zero evidence that those who keep pushing for blind faith in those "fact checkers" even care in the least about really being accurate.
This is messed up. Why would they ever make it so accurate?
The Larry Page toothbrush principle seems applicable here.
>On March 5 Weibo said it had suspended more than 1,000 accounts that published "vulgar jokes" and "content that is overly insulting and warmongering."

Of course Reuters tucks this away as final sentence. Anyway "calls for peace" isn't being barred. What does seem to be barred are posts that criticizes or undermines Putin government - both included examples, one that disparages Putin directly and another that repost anti-war demonstrations in St Petersburg. Things that undermine central gov policy. For obvious reasons.
There is a pretty good video by the "Asian Boss" YouTube channel [1] where they interview Chinese people about the war in Ukraine.

I found the opinions much more polarized than expected. People do seem to reiterate that China and Russia are a national counter force against the USA on the geopolitical spectrum, but not everyone manifests support for Putin.

1 - https://youtu.be/vZoxqltgS0Y
It started in this area. Victor Steinbrueck Park, it's just a couple blocks from that office, maybe 5 minutes walk.
> Nuke strikes have a distinctive double flash that I don’t think asteroids or meteorites do

The concern raised in the paper, which I now share, is that in the time between initial detection and someone running the tape to count the flashes, nukes could be launched. Particularly for powers who have invested heavily in use-it-or-lose-it land-based missiles. You need that differentiating infrastructure and protocol in place ex ante if it's going to prevent false retaliation.
Also half of EU gas comes from Russia, and 40% of residential heating energy is gas. So even before cuts Russian gas totaled 20% of residential heating energy, big slice but less than what is often made out in headlines and many of these consumers have air heat pump installed as well.
My grandparents got along fine as kids with an outhouse and no computers at all. So I'm not sure what your point is.

For one, my grandparents, didn't have nearly the number of light switches even with a comparable house size. And "just teaching" kids to turn the lights off is quite laughable. My kids know how to turn off lights and know they should turn them off when they leave the room. But knowing and always remembering to do it are two different things. I also forget to turn them off sometimes. I remember my dad grumbling quite a bit about having to go around turning off the lights or having to run back in the house after you get outside and see the lighted windows. Just one less little hassle.
Bigots. Those freaking about satanism and Harry Potter were bigots.

JK Rowling is an anti-trans bigot. She is the one freaking out about how trans women are going to rape children or something like that.
Snowflake goes shopping, and buys the store
> I'm trying to have English language but metric units, 24 hour clock and ISO dates... Seldom can I achieve that.

I do the same. There is usually a locale available with that, look for English (Ireland), English (Europe), English (Denmark), or English (Germany).
My wife is an asset, not a liability or an expense.

For the rest, it depends on how much you're going to use it. A boat or a plane (or an RV), you're likely to use less than you project you will at the time you're thinking of buying one, so it's easy to get suckered into buying something that you won't use enough to justify owning. But you probably know fairly accurately how much you use a car, unless you just made a significant lifestyle change.

And I suspect that most people who own cars use them much more heavily than you suspect when you say that renting should be the default.
Please add a Celsius / Fahrenheit toggle :)
Just to make people aware who may not be, you can block a lot of cookie banners and other annoyances that are not blocked in uBlock Origin by default by enabling more specific filter lists in the extension options.

In the "filter lists" tab, I would recommended enabling the "Fanboy's Annoyance" list. It's a huge list that focuses on removing various annoying, recurring website components, and it's created by the maintainer of Easylist (uBlock Origin's primary filter list).

The downside, of course, is that this may in theory break some additional % of websites, but this has not been an issue in my experience.
Indeed! Arch is really a great success story of the "KISS" principle. Just enough complexity, and nothing more.

Non-rolling releases by necessity add a lot more complexity, and those distribution maintainers have to consider many trade-offs in managing the "waterfall" approach.

Arch (mostly) assumes that 1) upstream knows what they're doing and 2) individual users are better able to make choices about which software to install and how to deviate from its default configuration.

Sometimes, less is more.
Hedge Fund Fir Tree Bets Big with Short of Stablecoin Tether
>Given my ‘Information Wants To Be Free’ viewpoint, are there any DNS equivalents of Switzerland

That's exactly why Quad9 changed it's HQ to Switzerland:

https://www.switch.ch/news/quad9-moves-to-Switzerland/
When studying physics (simple stuff like electromagnetism and gravitational forces) I always wondered how the universe "knows" what's the distance between two planets when it comes to calculating forces amongst them. If the data (the distance) actually exist, where is it stored? Is it perhaps calculated "on the fly" so it doesn't need to be "stored"?

Totally sure that's not how it works in real life, but for us humans, that model is the best theory we have so far, so it's difficult to think differently.
Maybe I'm out of touch with what working-class people do for fitness, but my understanding is that standalone spin classes also mostly fall under the domain of "niche [service] available to a rich few." (Or at the very least, upper-middle class)
My kids forget a lot the younger they are. But even I forget to turn off the lights a few times a day.
Bankruptcy, or they die from not being able to afford care beyond the stabilization emergency rooms are obligated to give (and bill extremely high for) even without insurance or ability to pay. Plenty of people can't afford chemo, for example, and just die.
interesting, this feels quite close to verlinde's entropic gravity theory, that "gravity is a consequence of the "information associated with the positions of material bodies" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity)
Serbia and Kosovo(good):

Ethnic minority suppressed by majority. Declares independence. Fights back. The US/NATO intervenes with military force against targets in Serbia, offers a path for accession into EU and NATO.

Ukraine and Donbass(very bad):

Ethnic minority suppressed by majority. Declares independence. Fights back. The EAEU/CSTO intervenes with military force against targets in Ukraine, offers a path for accession to EAEU/CSTO.

I struggle to find the difference. How is Kosovo different from Donbass?
It would have been nice until extra logic comes in: cron doesn't send an email when there is no output.

Which is exactly what I want! Error? I must know. Output? If I left any, then it's a notification, and I must know. No output? A maintenance task succeeded, nothing to report.
Centralized trust is the mechanism used by the current version of the web. It is a broken system by design. Who says I can trust verisign or any other CA. Russia creating their own CA and asking it to be installed just emphasize how broken the current mechanisms are. Its not new, its always been broken.
Glad this helped clarify things for you! The tricky thing about benchmarks is that one of the key benefits of Tensil is the flexibility to find a trade-off between performance, accuracy, cost and power usage that works for you. Benchmarks that only consider performance or performance per watt can be a bit narrow from that point of view. That said, this is a good idea and we'll add some comparisons that we think make sense to the docs!
This `never` type is the opposite of a null value, though. The "billion dollar mistake" (which is really the absence of non-nullable references, not merely the presence of null or undefined) adds a possible value to every reference. At any point you could have a valid reference, or a null reference, and this makes it impossible to express the type of a reference which must be valid. The `never` type by contrast has no possible values. It offers a way to statically assert that nothing has been left unhandled.

A type system without `never` (or equivalent) is like a number system without zero. (Literally—`never` is the zero for algebraic data types.)
But this gets me thinking.

"Censored" is definitely the wrong word here; it implies that there is some objective pool of information that we could all be getting to if it weren't for the search engines getting it wrong, and that's just not it.

It's definitely much closer to -- imagine 5 hypothetical bookstores owned by different people. Each has to make decisions on what to choose to carry based on their business interests, and so they do. But there's nothing I would call "censorship" about that.

And if we're deciding it is, then we have to be much more serious and intelligent in what to do about it. I'm thinking something like the EPA or FDA for search engines. If they have to tell us whats in the ketchup, then they have to tell us what's in the "search engine algorithms."
This article annoys me quite a bit. I don't even disagree with the author about how locking features behind paywalls, making repairs harder etc is bad. But that is in no way an EV problem, it is a shitty companies / missing legislation problem.

(I suppose EVs can, in some limited ways, be harder to repair than combustion cars, but that's like 10% of the point of the article maximum.)