skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's go through some of this thing:

> But Brave is more private than Firefox by default
> No, not at all. People who claim this have fallen for Brave’s marketing strategy which consists on telling lies and flawed arguments.

The first thing to note here: Firefox defaults to Google as the default search engine and has search suggestions turned on, so whatever you write in the address bar gets sent to Google. Doing worse than that is really, really fucking hard.

> Their adblocker is just a fork of uBlock Origin

How, when uBlock Origin is a browser extension and Brave's adblocker is written in Rust and integrated into the browser.

> Another problem with their built-in adblocker is that it’s better for extensions to be separated from the core of the browser, since they don’t follow each other’s update cycles. This means that you need to update the entire browser to fix a bug in the adblocker. Stupid, isn’t it?

Yeah, Manifest v3 would like a word. uBlock will be fucked, Brave Shields won't care.

> Another reason to avoid using Brave is that uBlock Origin works best on Firefox and there isn’t anything that Brave can do about it.

These are limitations of the extension system in Chromium. Brave Shields isn't an extension, and actually does do things like CNAME uncloaking, which extensions can do on Firefox and can't do on Chromium.

What was that about the blocker being integrated into the browser again?

> Rewards is their shitty program that will replace ads displayed on websites with their own.

The adblocking system and the ads from Brave Rewards are entirely separate.

You only need to identify to cash in the BAT. Yeah, some people are looking to make pennies from their cut of being an ad viewer (spoiler: single ad viewers arem't very valuable). The whole schtick of the system is to tip content creators, where a pileup of BAT can be a real sum of money and some compensation for adblocking tracking ads.

> Brave has been caught inserting affiliate codes
> In June 2020, a twitter user (@cryptonator1337) discovered that Brave was automatically injecting referral codes into URLs for cryptocurrency exchange sites.
>
> So if you typed “binance.us” into the URL bar and pressed enter, Brave would take you to “binance.us/?ref=35089877”.
>
> There was a huge scandal when this was noted. Later, Brave disabled this in the code, in a “sorry we got caught” style.

Yeah. You know this Firefox Suggest thing Mozilla recently released? Same deal. Type incomplete URL, it suggests an ad from a local catalog. Suggesting an ad when typing a full URL was a bug, was fixed.

And you know what else they did? They turned the whole feature off by default.

I have to give the hit piece credit for not insinuating they replaced urls within the page, as many others do.
> My posts since then have been visible

no they haven't, with a few exceptions people vouched for.

> How does banning work here?

Your posts get hidden from users that don't opt-in to seeing banned posts.
Parent agreed with your equivalence, but not your conclusion. Your conclusion was that they were both not employees, while the parent's conclusion was that they were both employees.
How much does Google charge for Go?
Let me know when you can buy one of decent quality in the US with actual physical controls instead of some insane touch system designed by somebody who has apparently never actually been in a kitchen and marketed to people who won't use it but just want a thing that looks cool.
On the Ukrainian David, and the Russian Goliath
That is an extremely primitive definition of employee and wouldn’t work in many or most jurisdictions.

They can elect to turn the app off whenever they want. When they want to drive then don’t have a choice. This is more flexible than taxi drivers who lease their taxi at the beginning of their shift so they start owing money to the taxi company. And they still can’t choose where to go if their customer tells them.

Having a system that is profitable only for the driver and a miserable experience for the customer is a terrible system. It won’t work. It has to be a fair compromise. Pay the driver a fair rate and have the customer choose where to go.
Cooling a house is more energy efficient than warming one
The article mentioned that some induction ovens come with lights attached to emulate the feeling of fire…
Warning to anyone thinking about buying one of those portable induction cooktop ("just to see what all the fuss is about"): if it plugs into a standard 120V socket, it's probably not going to boil water any faster than your existing stove! In fact, mine boils even slower than my electric stove. Apparently, the portable ones only go up to around 1800W. If you want to experience the true boil-the-oceans power of induction, you have to get a full range that runs on 240V; those can draw closer to 7000W.

Granted, you can still benefit from the precise temperature setting and the ease of cleaning, but don't expect it to be an apples-to-apples comparison.
Older stainless steel pans do not work. Stainless is not magnetic. Most newer stainless pans have a layer of iron sandwiched between stainless layers on the bottom of the pan. I have a set of older stainless pans I inherited from my mother and they do not work with my induction burner.
See this project: https://github.com/Goldfish64/AudioPkg
It also depends where you are in Europe, in Italy gas is still by far the most common way to cook
I'm German and switched to induction from (old) electric after moving to a nicer apartment.

Despite ostensibly knowing about its responsiveness before I still ended up with slightly underdone food for the first week - if you turn off the stove, it will get cold almost immediately, no/little residual heat to make use of.

It also comes with the vaguely flashy feature of letting you run one stove plate with twice the energy by temporarily disabling its neighbor. Since the dial goes up to 9.5 regularly, I call the power boost setting "19" and relish in the knowledge that I'm 8 steps ahead of Spinal Tap.
You need pans which you can stick a magnet to. Here's a set of three non-stick frying pans for US$ 30:

* https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Kitchen-Nonstick-Frying-Pan/dp...

A twelve-piece set of non-stick pots and pans for $130:

* https://www.amazon.com/Induction-Kitchen-Cookware-Sets-Nonst...

Or a ten-piece stainless steal set for $200:

* https://www.amazon.com/Calphalon-Classic-10-Piece-Cookware-S...

Would you consider any of these "expensive"?
That’s the problem. They don’t have a steady design approach. They do something here, something there, then abandon the first, then go back to it. Desktop is a complete mess. Core looks quite good but who knows what they will do in a few years?
No, you don't need a build system, but most developers cannot work anymore without a build system.
And what about node.js, it's a lot better to skip a build step.

I think typescript is a temp hype just like jQuery, useful for many, but a few people can just do the vanilla JavaScript way.
IMO the standard should consider both industry best practice for securing sensitive data in proportion to the sensitivity, as well as intent. Like it's harder to argue breaking and entering if you secure a door with a bent clothes hangar or carabiner vs a padlock, even a bad one. (Clarifications welcome.) Incrementing integers are like the carabiner, a botched JWT token implementation might be like a bad padlock, etc.
Natural gas is far cheaper, so I'll stick with that. Even though I love the idea of an easy to clean stovetop. My electric bill is already out of control (California).
Putin Is Being Canceled
Or they go full dictatorship. I would say, this looks like the likely path..
> Myth 2: It’s Slower than Node/Python/Go/Rust

I guess apples-to-apples benchmarks are so hard to agree on that any statement of the form "A is slower than B" is always to some degree a myth. If that's the author's position, fair enough. But if we actually want to make comparisons, "C# is faster than Rust" is a bold claim.
Fair enough. My figures are from 2013 and even then it was better than 10% (namely 12.7% in the Netherlands where I'm from; that's the latest info Wikipedia has). I'll use 20% as a rule of thumb going forwards because that's indeed more future-proof.
Ok but why shouldn't they be able to secede? Belize doesn't own it.
I am continually amused that disposing nuclear waste is still such a hot (!) topic.

There is simple and effective way of disposing the most dangerous types of nuclear waste (spent nuclear fuel) -- dig a deep hole in an ancient, stable, solid rock and bury it there forever. The place needs to be selected carefully but we know of a number of places that are perfect from geological point of view.

The only problem is that nobody wants that in their vicinity because of an irrational fear.
Not only is the UI terrible (wet hands and touch based interfaces are terrible), but pets may accidentally turn on the induction if they are prone to walking across your kitchen counter.
I feel like this is a poor example. McClain is frustrated and outmatched throughout the entire movie, and slowly is able to outmaneuver his foes through wit and determination.
Product Binning
This should probably just link to the actual article by the professor: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...
This is why nuclear does not compete with renewables during optimal weather conditions. Nuclear compete with fossil fuels when demand exceeds that of what renewables can produces, usually during periods of non-optimal weather conditions. Right now the price on the energy market is determined by fossil fuel and Russia is using this fact in order to fund their military invasion. Any period where renewable productions dips below demand is an opportunity to extract money from EU into that invasion.
Same complaint here. Touch screen that stops working when it gets only slightly wet. I'm forever wiping down that stupid touch screen.
From looking at the captured territories on the map, it seems to be able grabbing valuable pieces of land and resources.

Russia is capturing a lot of the Ukrainian coastline/ocean access, including the access to the natural gas deposits discovered in the black sea.
Giving you a heads up- I think you may have accidentally commented in the wrong thread. This isn't related to the main article
“Since he invaded Ukraine, Putin has been canceled, and the effect on global politics has been extraordinary. Private companies have proved willing to make decisions that affect their profit margins, and the sanctions against Russia have united Western leaders. By creating a “them,” the past two weeks have strengthened “us.” “
I have an induction cooktop form Cooktek, which I originally bought in 2007, which I carry around with me everywhere.

One more thing about how it is great. Since it heats the pan directly instead of the air underneath the pan, you can boil water for pasta without heating up the kitchen. Now, many of you have A/C to keep your kitchen comfortable, but then you are heating up the kitchen with the stove and then cooling it down with the A/C ...

My friends are not convinced. I get responses anywhere from no way to it's ok for me maybe but they really just love the feel of cooking on gas. These are supposedly environmentalists, too.
None of that is false, but the higher-order effects are socially unacceptable.
Stack Overflow Is Down
https://stackoverflow.com/

> Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

Yet there are no updates at https://twitter.com/StackStatus suggesting this is a scheduled maintenance
Nature artice: The Top 100 Papers
https://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224
"If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.

See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.

I would have the studies elective.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for
himself.

The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/1175...
I think most of what you are talking about here is your parents being incompetent people. Even if they hadn't had kids, they still would have been in financial trouble their entire lives.

I don't even think this is due to a lack of financial education on their part. Feels more like compulsive spending, something a therapist might have been able to help them through had they been willing to talk to one.

Either way, it really sucks that you and your brother had to suffer so much for their failures.
In the US it's the same: if your company is in California and you hire a remote employee in Utah you need to register your company as a "foreign corporation" in Utah, do Utah payroll and follow Utah labor laws.

Actually it's more exciting because not only can you get in trouble for violating the Utah labor laws, as a California company the employee can complain if they are not treated in accordance with certain California rules (that bind to the company rather than the employee) -- and win.

In practice though this is all pretty easy to mange; all the rules above devolve down to simply: 1 - file a couple of forms and 2 - tell your payroll company. Health insurance isn't uniform across the country so in practice it's the most complicated part to deal with.
I’m pretty sure you actually have no idea what you’re talking about. Or you’re straight up lying. I have taken many 30 mins rides that cost me well over $30 and the entire cost is broken down in the app.
Every browser out there makes its money from ads, more or less. Either that, or they're a pure charity project forking a browser that makes their money from ads.
No, it is not. ZFS scrub only checks that the checksums is valid. A scrub will not check in detail for what this post calls "structural error" (it only will find errors when doing normal walk of structures, which is not very detailed - doing a detailed file system checking is so resource intensive that some fsck implementations have a "low memory" mode in order to avoid OOM).

The checksum/mirroring mechanisms cannot fix any structural error when the filesystem is doing something and finds and inconsistency.

ZFS chose to not have a fsck out of pure arrogance, not because scrub is a proper substitute. ZFS developers believed that corruption bugs produced by code can be fixed by providing Bug Free Code (tm). That, and the fact that errors due to media corruption will be fixed with checksums and mirroring, made them believe that they could make fsck a thing of the past. Other modern file systems mimicking ZFS are developing a fsck, despite having scrub-like functionality.

...as I said, and your reply proves again:

> It's surprising the large amount of people I have found who are incapable of conceiving the notion of what this post calls "structural error" in modern file systems such as ZFS

People _really_ wants to believe ZFS has some kind of magic.
If you don't enjoy telling the world about your dislike of cookie banners and want to get rid of them, I can recommend this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...
No, because the analysis out more than available to all interested, without my unavoidable editorialization of the topics. This typically isn't the place for it anyway.
Ugh, my parents have an oven like that. Press the "bake" button and it'll happily tell you you have to press the "on" button first. Infuriating design, and you have to mash your thumb for a good 1-2 seconds before it reads the press, too.

Or our old Samsung washing machine, that wouldn't let you turn it off and on again without listening to the startup and shutdown songs first. (Our newer LG is much better in this regard.)
The article from OP (which is from this year, rather than 2016 as the BBC article) says that they believe it came from the Mitanni, but that their conclusion isn't a definitive one:

> The origin is another mystery around Tutankhamen’s blade. In the Amarna Letters, a diplomatic correspondence written on clay tablets and discovered in a royal archive in the south of Egypt, there is a list of gifts sent by King Tushratta of Mitanni in Anatolia, to Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Tutankhamun’s grandfather of Ancient Egypt when he married Princess Tadukhipa, the daughter of Tushratta. Among the gifts mentioned in the list is a dagger with an iron-made blade.

> The research of Arai’s team states that this is very likely to be the same dagger for two main reasons. The first being that iron-processing technology was already common practice at the time in the Mitanni regions. And second, because the dagger’s gold hilt shows a low percentage of calcium with no sulfur. This feature indicates the use of lime plaster as an adhesive material for the decoration of this part of the object, a frequently used material in Mitanni, which was used in Egypt until several centuries later, during the Ptolemaic period.

(I assume they meant 'which was [not] used in Egypt until several centuries later', otherwise that sentence doesn't quite make sense)
re-framing traditional feminine virtues (those things that most women are good at and enjoy, and which make families stronger and society flourish) as worth less than traditional masculine virtues is offensive to a lot of people, and is itself an appeal to an extremist ideology
Don't have one, but used to have cheap counter top thing. I think only pan or similar I can't use is my ceramic dutch oven. Never browned anything in that one either, so it is pretty academical... Just need to check the pans you pick up and you will be fine in general.
...especially when in two out of the author's three screen captures, C# is actually shown as slower than Rust.

I didn't spent time to investigate further because I feel that this headline is not really useful in the first place.
Nah, Amazon just figured out they could get you to buy more by getting you to click back into the website.

Gmail hasn't mined data for commercial purposes for half a decade now. Someone at Amazon took dark-pattern customer engagement 101.
1.6GW is a pretty standard install in nuclear. For scale the largest nuclear install Kori is the current largest in operation at 7.4GWe installed capacity[2]. It achieved 74+% capacity last year which is an important point missed when looking at energy _delivered_ to the grid. By contrast US plants achieve much higher capacity factors, with Diablo Canyon in California producing 2.2 GWe at a _lifetime_ operation capacity factor of 90+%[1]. Scaling up nuclear, at high reliability is not such a stretch as some other energy scaling problems.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Can absolutely recommend the upgrade, these stoves are far superior to PWM style "2000W or off" ones. I can even melt chocolate without a water bath on mine, they can keep temperatures as low as 55°C / 131°F steadily no problem. :D
You’re pretty hateful.
Yes, this. We will see how well support for the supposedly LTS DotNet 6 actually is long term...

I'm not a great fan of how the whole dotnet open source ecosystem has sped up to monthly and biweekly releases. Official Microsoft packages are some of the worst.
25 years ago my (then) wife and I both read Christopher Alexander while designing a house. It was great.

I'd heard of him, and read those books, because I was (am) a computer programmer, and that was before we decided to build a house!
Define a good source: there is no silver bullet to stop the climate crisis. Traditionally, there's a big share of hydro in Finland too (23% of electricity production in 2020), and the market has been building a lot of wind lately (share 12% in 2020, capacity growth 30%).

In heating, heat pumps (geothermal and others) are growing fast (market share 16% in 2021).
The price for beef is probably per libra (323 grams) and the price for chicken is probably for a whole chicken.
Benchmarks would be required to prove it, but I could actually see .NET outperforming Rust in a few scenarios. First, C# can be written in a way that stack allocates almost everything (much like Rust) and second, the runtime information and JIT compilation may allow it to make better optimisations.
120V is only standard in a part of the world. It's much more helpful to talk about power -- where I am 3 kW is limiting on a standard socket, at 230V. What is it for the US (I don't know!)

Note -- electric hobs and ovens are often wired into far far chunkier circuits and the high efficiency of induction is a big boon. It's wonderful to cook on -- all the responsiveness of gas, none of the pm2.5. It's just a shame that per kWh, electricity is a lot more expensive.
https://youtu.be/soDlyercgOo

Fwiw, I don't think economic planning is or was the main problem of socialism, more the information gathering that precedes it or the mechanism design that comes after, but I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone engaging productively with alternatives to capitalism, even if they aren't particularly fleshed out.
Hands off the libraries, pal. If you need a straw-they for your 'thought exercise', go ahead and use 'sports stadiums', I don't care then. Of course 'the west' IS still building lots of stadiums. [https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/the-10-newest-stadiums-... ] Panem et circenses. (Dick was right.)
Do you have a source regarding your pricing claim?

Renewables are usually cheaper per W, but way more expensive in real world usage (battery storage + full life cycle costs)
You mean resources on creating your own program synthesis system? Hm, I don't know of anything like a program synthesis toolbox, like OpenCV for machine vision, etc. There are many freely available program synthesis systems, but most are research prototypes and they only use a particular approach anyway, while I think you 'd prefer to be able to experiment with different approaches, no?

I fear the best option is to try to roll-your-own, based on the descriptions in many different program synthesis papers. Btw, I wouldn't choose neural program synthesis for a first Project! First because neural program synthesis requires as training examples both programming tasks (usually in the form of I/O examples) _and_ programs solving the tasks, and many many of them to boot. Second because it's an uncommon enough approach, or combination of approaches, that I doubt you'll find much support for it in the standard neural net frameworks.

I think the CSAIL program synthesis course suggested above by yldedly is a good starting place though. It's graded by a program synthesis project and you might find some tools meant to help students carry out their assignment on the course pages. Or you may try asking the tutors by email even.

Other than that, the simples thing to get you started is to define a DSL, generate programs from it and test them against I/O examples of the target programs. That's the simplest, most primitive kind of thing you can do. It's not a very efficient thing to do, but it's a start. The trick is in figuring out how to define the DSL and how to search it efficiently.

Good luck, I guess! Feel free to email me if you think I can help. See profile for email.

Edit: Here's a blog post about creating a DSL in Python:

https://dbader.org/blog/writing-a-dsl-with-python