skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We're talking respiratory cloth masks here, not the global economy.

Where do you expect these masks to be made? In people's backyards? When you are talking about suppling millions of masks, you are talking about the global economy. The tooling that is used to quickly ramp production to that scale is because you can take already existing systems that are used to develop clothing and other apparel and rapidly convert them to making masks. If you don't have that, then where do you expect it to come from? If you don't already have people working in factory, making clothes, where will you find the people to start making masks? Then lets say you do find these people, on very short notice. You are now paying them american labor prices; will your potential customers just choose to source from overseas anyways?

I'm not putting words in your mouth; maybe you aren't fully aware the effort it would take to ship millions of anything on such a short timescale without having the existing infrastructure to do it; especially if that infrastructure hasn't existed for a very long time. You are putting forth a very difficult problem very matter of factly.
...yes, that's how quarantines work? Everyone within the quarantine may get infected, but the virus won't spread to anyone outside.
Neighbor used a propane run refrigerator for some 30+ years. When it failed, tried to replace it with similar model. Unfornateluy, the company had gone out of business some 15+ years prior. No spare parts were available. BTW company went out of business as the result of limited repeat customers.
In fairness, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people who have these insurance policies fail to claim on them or decide to replace their item when it breaks regardless of the insurance policy. A bit like the gym membership model, 90% of people don't use it at all.
Kids toothbrushes aren’t designed to be used in the shower.
US Journalist Shot Dead by Russians in Ukraine
Some of these patterns have proved to be really powerful in real-world projects.

One challenge is having them fresh on my mind and being able to spot when it makes sense to apply them.

Have been thinking about using flashcards and spaced repetition to achieve better retention and ability to apply in practice.

Anyone has experience with this?
IMO that's because people still go out to restaurants and bars and gatherings in others homes. If you do that stuff, you might as well go into the office.
> Consumer should be voting with their wallets

I bet Americans love picking a $80,000 hospital bill over a $90,000 one.

Government decisions, done well, go far beyond what voting with one’s wallet can. Oftentimes the consumer is just squeezed out of the equation and everyone’s price will follow.

One company decides to do away with replaceable batteries and you will say "let the consumer vote with their wallets." Then everyone does the same and the user can no longer vote.

What we get is instead a mountain of waste that everyone has to pay for, indirectly, forever.
Think Ray Kroc. Nothing else matters, according to Metallica.
Correct, blocking a IP block based on that malicious traffic comes from there might be a worthwhile strategy (although I'd argue that it's less important than properly configuring your stuff anyways, getting a new IP is trivial), and also a strategy which is different than what fuzzy2 was describing, which is what I was arguing against.
An analysis of competitive ML in 2021
One thing I do is re-enable the searchbar and then disable the "everything you type in the URL bar is sent to Google" option.

However, recent Firefox has this annoying feature where if you type in the search box on the main page it redirects your typing into the URL bar instead of the search box, making it then fail because a search is not a URL.
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> The subjectivity that is selected by <insert pretty much anything here> to characterize, is always in question.

So provide something more convincing, not in question, and not subjective. Same problem as your parent comment.

Wikipedia is nice because it is mostly inter-subjective - there are always multiple authors monitoring its state to come to a consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity
The official NewPipe client hasn't added support for sponsorblock, but there's a fork by polymorphicshade on GitHub.

I can't add links because new account.
You uh just kind of contradicted yourself?

All file systems have metadata which is good to
keep in memory. Building several 50+TB NAS boxes recently, it isn’t just ZFS either. And it isn’t some sort of linear performance penalties sometimes when you don’t have enough RAM. It can be kernel panics, exponential decay in performance, etc.
From their officia Telegram channel, it seems to be for legal reasons: https://t.me/Vanced/197
Yes, the server is of course properly secured. There was something that made me do this in the past, but I don't remember. Never had any problems with it whatsoever.

I do know, because my services (except the forum) are for me exclusively. On the forum, I know everyone. None of the members live in China, have relatives in China or travel to China. If they cannot access the forum, they can contact me in another way.
I agree this is a good counter argument. If many people are remote (or potentially even just a few) then you may lose the advantages of working in the office (e.g. spontaneity, easy ‘point at the screen’ or ‘just speak like a human being’ communication that doesn’t need to be intermediated by inevitably broken technology, avoiding some of the futile attempts at recreating an office environment remotely, etc).

The counter to that is then that lots of the ways one must deal with remote workers (e.g. more better written communication, getting tools to attempt to recreate some of the interactions that were previously in-person remotely, although the best-in-class tool is usually still terrible only people sometimes don’t say it because they don’t realise we ought to want tools that don’t suck) are good improvements to in-office working. And having people remote isn’t so different from having multiple offices (and is perhaps better than different offices separated by large time differences) although being beholden to whatever Internet connection someone can get and chooses to pay for in the place they choose to work can be frustrating and the quality of communication hardware/software is frankly abysmal.

Certainly there is something to be said for companies that try to take remote seriously (eg stack overflow had private offices which recreated some of the quiet and isolation and communication requirements of remote work within the office). But a lot of companies basically had their hands forced by the ’rona and I think significant culture changes are required to more thoroughly embrace and accommodate remote or hybrid work.
Bees love a good lawn (as in not a monoculture but a mosaic of flowering "weeds")

Also having a space around your house means it can be more easily defended from file

Gardens with flowers and vegetables have the same benefits, but are more work and make the ground unusable for the dogs and their children
No, that seems unlikely; you can compare outcomes for otherwise-similar counties where people go to restaurants at near pre-pandemic rates, and others where they don't. Like I said, the epidemiological evidence for NPIs at this point is very weak. Similar comparisons show powerful evidence for the effectiveness of vaccinations.
No. In daily life America and Americans are typically nuanced. Like literally any other country.

It’s the internet that disposes of context and nuance.
That would require on the order of 10^10 probes...
Oh boy wait until you hear about the Cream of Wheat guy
I think this is a poor analogy. Body odor is a proxy for personal hygiene, and can be anywhere from unpleasant to actively revolting for others. Whereas how nice your lawn looks will pretty much be a matter of subjective opinion. Things that look orderly may be more pleasant to look at, but the lack of order in this particular context is unlikely to, say, make someone gag.

It's worth realizing that carefully curated and maintained lawns are more of a signifier of wealth than anything else. The trend originated in Victorian-era Europe, and somehow stuck.
I'm as old as the subjects of this story were when their friendship ended. I don't think my age has anything to do with my disagreement with the premise of the article, or with your conclusion.
Completely agree! I normally hate frontend and somehow Svelte made it almost my favorite part of my day. The code looks like it does what it should do, no ridiculous abstraction, and the resulting app is fast af. Some love to tailwindcss too.
> You do not see. If you think column space and row space are the same thing, then that's completely wrong.

You were the one who wrote column space = row space…?

> If you want to call the mi the coefficients, what are you calling the ai?

I'm calling them the coefficients because they're “part of the function” and don't change. They're the thing you'd naturally call a coefficient. Coefficient isn't as broad a term as you seem to think it is; In f(x) = x² + x + 3, the coefficients are 3, 1 and 1; not 1, x and x².

> You should publish a book and clear it up for everyone.

As soon as I have any actually original work, I plan to. But linear algebra isn't a specialism of mine, so I doubt I ever will.

And no, I don't think the terminology I've used here is an improvement over the status quo; I'm not a complete imbecile. I just don't get why terminology is considered more important than understanding in mathematics education, and why it's practically impossible to use different words for things even when you do have an improvement.)

> That you continue to debate this point is astounding and willful ignorance. I've given you why it's important. I've shown that in textbooks it indexed second only to dimension. I've given at least 5 places it shows up. I've explained how it's the dimension of extremely important items.

If you think any of those are counterarguments, you were never addressing what I was trying to say.

> You want to keep claiming your made up vocabulary and sloppy terms that miss important issues are superior.

Where did I claim this? I believe I said I was “not wrong” (a weaker label than “correct”), and I identified some problems I have with the existing terminology, but I don't think I ever said my (inconsistent, ad-hoc) terminology was better.
I'm surprised article claims that photography and film are no longer 'racist'. Most of my photos are underexposing dark complexions. It might be to do with limited dynamic range though, but still exists.
Stop using fail2ban/tallow/etc, and follow a sensible guide like https://infosec.mozilla.org/guidelines/openssh to harden your ssh configuration. This will result in about half the attempts failing at protocol negotiation, long before auth (though that ratio is decreasing over time).

Wireguard is also very strong here, as it learned from this kind of problem in SSH and does not reply at all unless authentication succeeds. This makes debugging harder, but also makes leaving it openly listening quite a bit safer, as the protocol surface in pre-auth is absolutely minimal.
Only if they can find enough engineers. Supposedly, many Russians are so desperate to leave, that a ticket to Tbilisi costs thousands of dollars. They're fleeing to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan...

Things must be grim indeed if Kazakhstan looks like a step up from staying in Russia.
> Everything is .Net including .net classic but not everything is compatible making documentation a huge pain to find.

I wish they would have just called the new version ".core" and be done with it.

For a long time, it was difficult to figure out if a particular piece of information you found by googling ".net" was for the old or the new. Things are improving though, as the old version gradually fades, so you can reasonably assume the new version unless stated otherwise...
Writing a book/post about friendship is inherently pretty antithetical to a lot of what is nice about friendship. It doesn't take a lot of thought, it doesn't require a lot of explanation, and it doesn't involve other parties. It is mostly physical, and relies heavily on face-to-face communication. You can maybe write advice for one party, but not really two. Alexey Guzey has a good post on friendships but it's mostly about the happy accidents that bring friends together, not relationship managment.

The only thing you need to do is maximize your happy accidents. This is why people giving advice on friendships tell you how to meet friends, not how to keep them. It is assumed that each friend is a friendship is playing a single player game, following rules set by the other friend.

The author, and the cited letters, exemplify violating the rules of those games: Envy for a friend who succeeds, directed focus on sensitive topics, failure to respect the new boundaries of a friend's changing life. This is framed as "something we all secretly do" but you have to question this premise rather than the entire concept of friendship. If your friend realizes you will envy their success, might make his wife mad at him, why should you expect them to stay your friend? This isn't a tragic underpinning of all friendships, this is basic consideration for a friend.

Doesn't it seem naive, almost immature, to avoid considering these things in private? Yes, if you aren't thinking about the other person. From a one-person vantage point it makes sense to prisoner's dilemma everything, that's how prisoner's dilemma works. Even if you find good partners, but still point out defection opportunities, you are losing player. Only way to win is not play, like really not play. Just blend some baseline level of self-preservation + good deeds done for no reason to get a guiding priciple like "embrace the kingly power of choosing to do quiet, unreciprocated good"
That's not the entire planet. And we could have easily decided to help that group instead of giving billions to big companies that did not need it.
Tangential but does anyone know why the --screenshot feature stopped working in recent versions of Firefox?

firefox --screenshot ~/s.jpg https://example.com

Used to work nicely in older versions.
Edit: I misread the graph, as the reply points out.

Looking at the linked graphs, looks like you're right over the last five-ish years and quite wrong over the last twenty years: the number of 15-20 year olds grew from 20M to 40M since 2000, and has only been flat for a few years.
Cynically thinking it's a combo of elections coming up, and business fears of the cracks in economy so "maybe this will help" with numbers and productivity.
The Big TDD Misunderstanding
I think they'd not be entirely incorrect in that view. No school will grow 7x-20x and maintain the same standards in admissions, in education, or in alumni achievement per-capita.

They'd instantly become the Ivy League Safety School, which would deter many of the strongest future applicants from applying and deter many of their strong admits from choosing that school if they had multiple Ivy admittances.
What do you mean by "lost"?
He was technically a real Colonel, just not a conventional one.
what are your thoughts on https://github.com/tensorflow/runtime ?
just what I was looking for. being able to turn off the tree structure.
The Hare Programming Language (Drew’s NIH Zig clone)
Nothing, but you can't get everything you want. It's fair to say the number of people who like HOAs is much lower than the number of people who are part of them. Having an HOA is a tradeoff many people are willing to make to get a home with other, more preferable qualities on a limited budget.
I've just started looking at appliances in general as we are planning some home renovations. Miele seems to be one of the few that are making products intended to last and be serviceable in the residential space. Premium pricing though.

I've had great experiences with Viking. Bosch is sometimes mentioned, but in my experience, it may be more maintenance friendly, but it breaks just as often (dishwasher and oven both needed major part replacements withing 7 years ownership).

I'm definitely interested in seeing what others have to say. I would like lasting quality, but not at the expense of efficiency and a small slice of modern features (ice dispenser being the main one), so vintage doesn't really meet my needs. I just know that I won't buy another appliance made by a large electronics brand like Samsung, LG, etc. Poor reliability + poor service ability paired with 'smart' features I have zero interest in.
I think what’s truly missing is that all those apps don’t make sharing easy, and operating systems all suck at sharing, or when they’re ok at it (airdrop), it’s limited to nearby people, or not across OSes, etc.

Almost all SaaS are about easy cross-device, cross-internet, sharing, which all traditional apps don’t even try to be good at.
Outside the OJ trial on a sign - "Save the Juice! Bacon Did It" (playing on the Shakespeare conspiracy theory)
I had a friend once who got followed around constantly by someone on the HOA because they suspected they were the ones putting unsorted recycling in the recycling bins. They even installed security cameras watching the recycling bins and all other common areas as part of their hunt for the offender.

I wish you luck.
They might have mispelled "bylaw" which is a municipal ordinance with legally binding power, but only on a local level.
I think this, in the end, will be what happens and companies will start to act like filters. Remote work or office work will be a filter for talent that companies will have to chase for talent if we stay in a market that needs workers, or if we switch to a market where workers are desperate for jobs, vice versa. Of course, companies like Apple and Google who have sunk massive cost into office monstrosities will want on-site workers to justify their cost.
> I really don't understand the militancy of both sides.

The loudest voices are the whiniest and most entitled, thus more likely to engage in online discourse about it. That in turn amplifies the team sports mentality that has become so pervasive in all aspects of society. I think most people have a moderate live/let live attitude toward it all, with the understanding that if they don't like it they will quit for something more suited to their interests.
Yeah, comments like this are why so many people have turned against techies.

A) There are plenty of students in the goldilocks zone of being from families to poor to afford a meal plan but too wealthy to qualify for free meals from their college. Some of these students are able to qualify for academic scholarships out of high school. The rest take on multiple jobs, including work-study, so that they can afford tuition and board.

B) When college campuses shut down for COVID, many shut down their food halls as well, which affected those students poor enough to qualify for subsidized meals.

Not everybody lives your life. Food insecurity is a real thing for thousands of college students.
Why?

The article clearly objects to mindless growth. It talks about
measuring growth and the effects of growth, over-filled classrooms,
student stress, stretched resources and the strain on teaching staff.

But _nowhere_ do I see a single word on _why_ growth is desirable? It
just doesn't get discussed. It's so baked into the assumptions behind
the article that in fact the word "why" does not even appear in the
text.

This is an ivy-league university falling into the tragic abyss of
modern unreason - the reckless pathology of blind management.
Every now and then I catch myself doing some odd: On a new os installation, using firefox to download librewolf and ms-edge. Many moons ago it would have been using IE to download firefox. What's happened here!
I agree, but also have a lawn.

I have a lot of space around the edges that have trees (fruit trees, nut trees and decorative native trees as) I pull out the plants I want to discourage (hemlock, stinging nettle, dock by the roots...) and other plants like ferns, flaxes, butter cups fill in the spaces.
And what about the aliens? Tell us about aliens and how they played poor and innocent Putin into launching a "liberation special military operation in Nazi Ukraine."
Yes, GitHub repositories are generally not considered trust-worthy sources of information unless you actually could cite your resources in the repository itself. This information gathered there has 1) no source stated and 2) no way of reproducing the information yourself, earning it the description of "A Random GitHub Repository", even when you try to appeal to authority.
It's also about stability. I've had decisions as major as what language to use for a project done without input from the whole team, and now I have to live with writing in a framework I strongly dislike and had good arguments against using because I didn't find out for 3 weeks that it had been decided without me.

You're not working on a team if decisions are made by 5/6 of the people most of time without even a consideration that the other person might have input. At that point you're a weird internal contractor, and to your point, if they wanted me to be a contractor and just deal with whatever choices the team makes without input, I'd expect to be paid as a contractor.
I don’t know about you but I certainly wouldn’t want the Queen’s job.
> I think there's an need for forcing service providers to group IP blocks by the nationality of who rents them.

But what would that accomplish? Unlike rogue ISPs in other countries, big cloud providers have abuse reporting that actually works.

Or just block all of them outright if they do not need to access your services.
Couldn't agree more---let me point out that our (i.e. the German) government started sanctions along with the rest of most (all?) European countries. It's not our choice any more---my dad used to believe in the 'Ostpolitik' of Willy Brandt, and he's heartbroken to hear about the horrors of war :(

(my research institution has also put a stop on all projects involving Russian collaborators at the moment; on the one hand, I can understand this reaction, on the other hand, it creates even more problems and, as you say, does not distinguish between those responsible for the conflict and those who are not. This is not really not an easy space to navigate.)
I think the meta-commentary re: the current zeitgeist of misinformation and nonsense. Being inspired to write a comment like this is probably more revealing of human character.
How is it not from a lack of dynamic range?

Colour transparency film (e.g. Fuji Velvia -- RVP50) shows the same thing as clearly.

You basically can't map real world light into the dynamic range of a typical camera without causing some of this experience, can you?

The question is how you determine how dark shadows should be -- your brain is doing a lot of work to hide from you the tricks it uses to make shadows appear less dark than they might be with a linear response.

Or even how they would look with a non-linear response that is even across the "frame"; your brain is doing localised dodge/burn type work, constantly.

Camera manufacturers have "tastemakers" for this stuff on digital, just as film manufacturers used to have them for film.
This is a fantastic point.

The biggest hazards lie in the grey area between extremes. If everyone is remote always, everyone is on equal footing. Same can be said if everyone simply has to show up at the office every day.

Maybe the whole org doesn't have to be all on way or all the other, but you should at least be consistent within the teams that work closely together every day.
I agree. Going back to work as normal and reopening society is helping them.
How does that relate to what Apple has with the M and A-series chips? They seem to have all 3.