skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but my point isn't about this content in particular. My reply was a little
facetious.

> Is the Youtube algorithm directing people to make vaguely fascist feeling, "bring back the good old days", 'kids today', 'civilization is doomed' content aimed at young males? Or is that just a natural cycle that repeats throughout history?

The Youtube algorithm only cares about you watching as many videos as possible. You are not watching it optimize for complex ideology like fascism but to the nostalgic feelings. It drives conspiracy rabbit holes like flat-earthers because the algorithm doesn't care that the earth is round it cares that you watch as many minutes as possible so they can continue presenting ads. If you are curious about Modern Monetary Theory it doesn't care that it recommends after a bunch of next videos an anti-semitic conspiracy theory about the Rotschild banker family a straight up neo-nazi. Just so they can keep you watching and getting ads along the line. And you can't teach the algorithm to avoid complex mechanism like how people succumb to conspiracies or fascism... and in some cases both...
It is still quite slow, especially at first load due to its comparatively massive payload size. Server-side depends entirely on the connection speed of the interfaces and hardware involved, and will always be necessarily verbose.
SubZero is quite expensive, and also quite nice; mine has a service display behind the vent to see current status and trouble codes). They also keep the same models for a long time. This should help with parts availability.

I did have a problem with the ice maker freezing up, but reading the service manual figured out that the drain heater just needed to be tweaked a bit (it also doesn't hurt to turn off the ice maker when nobody is going to use ice for a while)

Considering the possibility of my refrigerator doing finishing moves is an extra bonus.
Well a popup asking if it okay to check for updates which would run every x times the browser is launched or on a schedule. The popup should have an option to not ask again for those that get annoyed. Otherwise the browser would need to call home to see if an update is available before asking if you want the new version of course.
Not managing upwards is how you wind up in a fail state. Business, teamwork and employment isn't a zero sum game. Everyone is working together to achieve something. Helping your boss understand why something shouldn't be done/prioritized/cancelled is paramount to being efficient.

If you think you can never tell your boss no because you'll be fired, you're not going to have a good employment story.
This assumes the earth model to be sphere. GeographicLib [1], however, works according to WGS84 earth model which is an ellipsoid.

Anyone knows why they used a sphere model and why they didn't just use GeographicLib (MIT license)?

[1]: https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/
There is a very well-articulated argument by an autistic woman that, the clinical definitions for autism are framed from the disruption and impact to neurotypical society, but does not adequately address what’s going on for the autistic person.

For example, the author herself is diagnosed with high-functioning autism. Her social impact on others is miminal enough where it qualifies for “high functioning”, but having executive dysfunction means she is highly dependent on someone in her life to help her. Our medical and social system does not provide adequate services because she is “high functioning”.

She then talked about other people with a different blend of autistic traits who are considered low functioning (high impact on neurotypical social interactions), but don’t have the executive dysfunction like the author. Her example was someone who is non-verbal, yet has a well-developed intellect.

I too, thought the idea that “autistic people are disabled because neurotypical people considers autism is a disability” was not very convincing. This author’s argument reframed it in a way that makes more sense to me, and that is, us neurotypicals are only seeing autism only from the lens of how autism impacts us, and we frame the discussion, diagnoses, and public policies along those lines.
Come on - this is pure cynicism on Mozilla's part. We're not seeing this because Mozilla is trying to increase cultural understanding (cross cultural understanding is something I wholeheartedly support) - we're seeing this because Mozilla wants to make money by grabbing their users' attention for free and selling it for money.

It's not even opt-in, it's opt-out. We're not Mozilla's customer any more at this point, the customer is the one buying the ad space. Gives a new meaning to "Just Browsing" the web when your browser itself is becoming more and more like a mall.
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Bud, please understand that this is a spectrum and not a binary situation.

Also, Chinese restrictions on companies restrictions on foreign companies pale in comparison to the freedom they enjoy in the US.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/28/bbchina-unveils...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/enticing-china-market-tricki...

Google, Facebook and Twitter are all banned in mainland China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/12/chinese-app-that-let-users-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

Meanwhile, TikTok and the likes are freely allowed to shape our minds.

Blocking foreign companies is a form of massive subsidy.
Early on, the official language was still Latin. The population of Constantinople spoke Greek natively. Later on, Greek became common in official business as well.
> These things do not happen by accident.

This sounds like treating people as means to ends; it sounds rather instrumental - I expect you didn't mean it like that.

There are all kinds of things that can give rise to a close relationship; circumstances, including financial circumstances, interests, emotional needs, fears, etc. These kinds of things can't be engineered with a 'filter'.

But yeah, obviously the more people you meet, the greater chance you'll meet someone you get on with.
Many thanks for taking the time to calculate and share all of this.
> a nation of defenders

Nonsense. Russian history is full of invasions. That is how empires are created, and that is their mode of existence.
> Uber's defining value proposition was circumventing the artificial monopoly created by the taxi medallion system

Licensing/regulatory evasion is one of the principal strategies that got Uber (taxi services), Airbnb (hotel services) and Paypal (banking services) off the ground and allowed them to compete so effectively against incumbents.

Eventually regulation caught up somewhat but the newcomers still seem to enjoy a favorable regulatory/licensing regime.

And of course another major strategy for Uber and Airbnb was eliminating full-time frontline employees.
I am not sure about your first statement...

In particular even with a quantum non-interacting gas with particle-in-a-box modes, the Hamiltonian is not bounded from above and there is no reason to expect a negative temperature, no?

There exist systems, like spin systems, where energy is bounded from above and so entropy decreases as you add energy, which is the definition of negative temperature... But I find it dubious that every system is such, unless I am missing something nonintuitive about say relativistic effects or so
I've used QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and CarpalX (and even Workman for a short while) and have been using CarpalX as primary for nearly the last decade. I'd say it doesn't really matter at all which you learn first as by far the vast majority of what you learn is the motor skills which transfer to using any layout. Learning a particular layout after you've already learned how to type takes a miniscule amount of time in comparison (on the order of 1-2 weeks of use to reach full proficiency as the original layout regardless of the level of proficiency that was) while knowing QWERTY remains a handy fallback given it's never just going to disappear overnight.
Imagine thinking those quoted people are "experts in the field" instead of woke virtue signalers.

It's not an opinion, it's an objective fact. They're using grade school level rhetoric: "Well, the background checking system doesn't have all the predators in there, so these background checks are effectively useless!"

They're using the exact same rhetoric that pro-gun advocates use to push for the removal of background checks for purchasing firearms.
Do you have any examples what was better? Of the reasons I could think of that would constitute poor service, I've had as many Uber's just not show up as I've had taxis. I've had as many very poor drivers in Uber's as I've had in Taxis. The biggest thing I can think of is the average cleanliness of an uber is higher than a taxi.

But like, the taxi meters are just so damn cheap compared to what ubers are nowadays, and thats with $6billion in losses per year. $30 is too much to go just 5 miles in 15 minutes.
> I assumed at least semi-public content/service, not private.

Um, they posted information on a public website. It's not private. Even if the site is owned by them, it is publicly available, of their own accord.
When will the iPhone or the iPad (which can be used by the whole family) be considered a household item ?
I sleep quite comfortably in my Aeron chair, so I don't see the problem really
> They simplify the OS's existing abstractions

I am pretty sure they're supposed to use a somewhat "Cooperative Namespacing" schema, that makes both the application and the OS/container abstraction layer more complex, while attempting to deliver lower overhead for said namespacing. Sorta like Cooperative Multitasking, compared to Preemptive Multitasking.
And even that doesn't work for some situations; as an example, old versions of Java (7 and older) will use the incorrectly namespaced Linux file system APIs to incorrectly read whole-system limitations instead of current container limitations to setup memory and CPU parameters.

> remove a lot of pointless attack surface.

Not really, containers are for lower overhead cooperative namespacing, not security. You want bare minimum lightweight VMs for security.
People have been calling out platforms for a long time...

For instance the famous "Minitel 2.0" conference by Benjamin Bayart in... 2007 !

https://tube.fdn.fr/w/41d17717-3535-4d2c-8eda-58723fead995 (fr)
Ads are turned off by default with Brave. If you do not want ads then don't turn them on.
My priority is always decustomization.

Anything that makes me think of the words "Bespoke" or "Artisinal" or worst of all "A perfect fit to the project needs" is where I look first for problems. I also look at anything that provides multiple ways to do the same thing.

The JS community understands it better than anyone. At the application level, any program, be it amateur or professional, is almost always readable and maintainable. Because there's no interesting algorithms, no abstractions you haven't already seen in a design patterns list, and just generally nothing special about the code at all. They use libraries for everything.

When you stop trying to write interesting and beautiful code, and stop trying to innovate at any level below the application, stuff gets a lot easier.

Of course some projects really do have interesting technical challenges... but so many projects don't.
> There has not ever been a reason for memory to be correlated with storage capacity nor any reason to believe that such a correlation ought to exist.

However specific implementations can indeed have memory requirements that scale in relation to storage capacity. For example, if the implementation keeps the bitmap of free space in memory, then more storage = larger bitmap = more memory required.

There's been several attempts in ZFS to reduce memory overhead. I'm pretty sure that if you took a decade old version of ZFS you'd struggle to run it on a system with 512MB RAM.
To be honest a lot of the fusion news recently has made me skeptical (namely, for CFS guys who kinda smell a little sus to me if I'm being 100% honest), but this on the other hand is fantastic, actual results (although they should publish a paper on it, just my bias as a scientist), meeting good plasma temps with just $70M! Not a gigabuck not even 100 megabucks, that to me is a good sign for actual commercial fusion. Bravo to Tokamak Energy.
If you want a completely underplayed side of Smith, you can also read "The theory of moral sentiments".
Do you have an article from within the last 22 months?
And to be really clear, activist == nimbys, not actual activists.
It is rude. A woman in her 30s might be single for any reason, and the assumption that she's "desperate" is just incel crap.
Who's controlling them? Is that a reference to the money Google pays them every year, presumably to ward off accusations of a browser monopoly?

I think it behooves people to be precise and explicit when they accuse a large non-profit (with a wholly owned corporate subsidiary) of being "controlled opposition."
NYT shutting down the Wordle archive
Blunting RDP brute-force attacks with rate limiting
Winifred Mitchell Baker earns over 3 million dollars per year as CEO of Mozilla.

How many ads do they have to sell to earn only her salary. It’s mindboggling [1]. And she thinks she is „underpaid“.

Browser share down to 3.45% and they only live off their Google Money for the default search engine. If that drys up ...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
For desktop I recommend you use the arkenfox templates: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

For addons in general I recommend sticking to this: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For Firefox on Android I maintain Mull for 4+ years now:

- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

- Comparison: https://divestos.org/index.php?page=browsers
> Who is Deborah Byrd?

> I've never heard of earthsky.org before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_%26_Sky
Hard to think of an industry where people use legacy technology instead of tearing it all out and replacing it with the newest thing.
Not a bad list. Feels like most of them should just be linter rules. I also found a few them don't really apply if you're using static types (which you really really really should), e.g.

* Returning more than one variable type from function call: That's fine; the type checker will make sure you don't make a mistake.

* Asking for permission instead of forgiveness: Makes sense for the example given (`unlink`) but it is better to e.g. check types explicitly with `isinstance()` than to catch `TypeError`.
Vivaldi does vertical tabs really well.
Authenticating Grandpa
uBlock Origin has a picker too.
Yep, only for the „we got no monopoly“ theater
It are Miele specific models though, some are very similar to high-end Liebherr models, but they are not exactly the same. Especially the interiors differed the last time I checked.
Am I a hater if I say I run the sideline saas product I made in the cloud for €20 per month? I bring in a modest 4 figure MRR. You don't need a 100k or an accelerator. You need an accelerator if you want to go big quickly...and you probably won't...so back to starting with make something and have a go.
Note: they did not achieve "commercial fusion" (Q-total > 1), they set a temperature record among commercial fusion companies. (Still cool though!)
Can you buy a new car, especially in today's market, for $1200?
An increasing delta-T creates more problems for UTC than TAI. UTC can continue to be used for user-facing applications, or ones directly related to e.g. astronomy, but for most unstances of simple timing and time-keeping TAI is what you actually want. Remote systems can gradually be transitioned to TAI clock signals, and not have to bother with leap seconds ever again.
PERCEPT: Online change-point detection using topological data analysis
QSN: A Familiar String Interchange Format (2020)
You can't trust anyone completely, not even one's Mom. But you can trust some people a lot more than others. If I have cancer, I trust my doctor a lot more than random people on Youtube.
Exactly my point, having a much younger population didn’t save them because they didn’t employ effective countermeasures. Even with this huge demographic advantage over e.g the USA they still had a higher death rate per population.

The idea that coronavirus is only a problem for the very old, and countermeasures aren’t necessary to protect younger people (including middle aged people) is just obviously false when you look at countries like Brazil with 600,000 deaths, most of them of working age.
Firefox Containers is critical to my day to day and the number 1 reason I use FF
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...
FWIW, if you really want to understand Pattern Language you should go and read the source material: Christopher Alexander's book of the same name and it's companion volumes. The GoF did a fine job, but there's a richer and deeper constellation of ideas and philosophy and design strategies in the original material.

- - - -

In re: Singleton pattern in Python: one interesting technique is to use a module as a singleton. When client modules "import singlefoo" the first import caches the module object (in the sys.modules dict) and subsequent imports use it: presto! Singleton!
The million covid deaths are being ignored because they're politically embarrassing for Joe Biden and Democrats. Otherwise the NYT would be running a multipage spread listing the names of the deceased. I wish it was more complicated than that but it isn't.
The shape of Apple’s silicon strategy is clear
I could say a lot more about this, but this would slip into what people would consider as woo.

So without treading there, I am just going to say, I think this field-effect of neurons will lead to discoveries about field-effect of all cells, not just neurons; that consciousness is not exclusive to neurons; and how acupuncture (at a mechanical level) might work.
It would be another 20 years before we hear back from it. If at all.
The Brits are switching to store wind-generated hydrogen in undersea cavities where they now stockpile natural gas. A similar project is going on in Utah, and another in Texas. All three are utility-scale production systems, not pilot projects.

Other storage media being built out for full-scale production use include iron-air batteries, where (IIRC) $1.5B is going into factories, a liquified-air storage system in Chile ($0.5B), and synthetic ammonia in Norway. Nobody can track even a fraction of the utility-scale pumped-hydro projects under construction world-wide.

We will need hundreds times as much of these, and of others, in the end, which will all take decades to build out.
There is no-one else to support. We either give up and let Google win or keep supporting this side, which is broken today, but one day may not be.
Yes, they follow it up with a PCR
What's sus about CFS? No one else is making 20 T confinement field coils. SPARC's campus is already up and the machine is being built. ARC is expected to have ground broken this year.
Just a reminder - seeking the lowest O doesn't always improve performance. Sometimes the startup cost for a lower O algorithm is too much.
> Besides, what does he want? Americans to be hysterically grieving for eternity?

Yes! That makes PR/propaganda significantly easier which is valuable to the people in the PR/propaganda industry (the same people writing the news.) This is why you should tune out things that sound like propaganda.
it doesn't really trust the programmer. it is even more opinioned than go, where every unused variable or function is an error. eg. it has weird identation rules, like mandatory hard tabs, and alignment demands.
it uses the reverse go styles types.

but if you look at the stdlib, it looks pretty clean.
And then use software what for a web browser? Brave hasn't been a web browser for some time now.
See Galactic Algorithms for examples!
If the PRC starts sending military assistance or aid to Russia I will begin advocating my representatives for an immediate economic decoupling.

I would gladly take 2 decades of domestic retooling and rebuilding over continuing to do business with supporters of Russian aggression in Europe.
I could see vent hoods helping, but I don't assume they mitigate the risk. They may not capture the gas sufficiently, quickly enough, etc. Maybe vent hoods in homes are not generally effective.
That's disappointing. I was in awe on how much better an alternative modded app was, when compared to the official one from Google, which supposedly has the "best" developers working on it.
What about CFS is fishy to you? Those are the guys I'd put my money on, but I'm curious why you'd think otherwise.
It would be nice to have more details than,"I didn't think TCP was finished"
Russia's “Fake News” Law
Depends on where the land is and size and shape of the polygons are
Stop supporting Mozilla. Stop supporting Chrome or any Chromium-based browsers.

What now? I'm already using Safari but it's not cross-platform.
I graduated from Columbia College in 2014. Everything about the overcrowding of dorms, classrooms, dining halls, libraries and especially the gym made my undergrad experience far more painful than it should have been.

There was, strictly speaking, enough space. But the space was often low quality: dark, windowless hallways; dorm rooms in old high rises whose windows faced inner air shafts rather than the street. It was comical.

I always assumed it was just a New York problem. But as this article explains, the actual problem is investment in the campus. There would be absolutely no problem academically or culturally with Columbia expanding (doubling, tripling?) undergrad enrollment (obviously this assumes they could find enough new teachers--huge assumption of course). It's already so big you will go through your four years and never meet most of your classmates. What is there to lose?

I don't think Columbia is as worried about prestige or exclusivity as peer schools. What they're worried about is placing as many graduates as possible in high paying jobs in Wall Street and Silicon Valley. As they rightfully should be. I don't think this goal would be harmed by raising enrollment, if the commensurate investments were made.

All of that being said, I personally think the ideal college is something like a Deep Springs, with a low double digit enrollment of students living and learning together in the middle of nowhere and spending a large amount of their time not just studying but working. If I could wave a wand and dissolve the Ivy League and replace it with 1000 Deeps Springs scattered across the rural Northeast, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But universities are big businesses (someone once said "hedge funds with schools attached") so this will most likely never happen.
I think it's funny to see the HN split brain on this: we have nearly daily threads where people soothe themselves by saying that their salary is justified by what people are willing to pay them and not their productivity, and weekly threads where a relatively small-fry CEO is disparaged for her salary.

Is the CEO of Mozilla "worth" $3M/year? I don't know. But it's not clear why Mozilla's apparent executive valuation of her is held to a separate standard from every other shmuck in this industry.
Yup, all environments can be navigated with notepad, but some environments are easier to navigate than others. For example, Yaml vs unindented Json. They represent the same, yet in one I can see what's going on with the indentation, and in the other I have to go hunting for closing braces.
Yet more evidence that k8s is too complex
Better to tune this out even if you're a beginner. You normally don't say "The big O of the algorithm is ..." because it's ambiguous whether you are talking about time complexity or space complexity. Also, when someone says O(n), then n has to refer to something, normally the input size. The text area doesn't even have you define your input, and will say things like

for (i =0; i<x; i++) {
}

is O(N), without even knowing what x is (could be a constant).