skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus, this is heartbreaking. I'm so sorry.

I haven't gone through anything quite like that, but after friends' deaths and suchlike, I always loved this passage from Slaughterhouse-Five:

> The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

> When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."
Photovoltaics do not, in fact, depend on rare-earth elements.

Wind turbine generators often, but far from always, depend on rare-earth magnets. Batteries often (but far from always) depend on other rare, but not rare-earth, elements like cobalt.
My brain just automatically ignores the paragraph with the bold letters. I'm having to force myself to focus on reading it. Does anyone else experience the same?
> If you will indulge me the geopolitical fantasy of putting a suitable planetary-scale transmission system in place, is there any particular reason we couldn't switch to all-solar?

Just how much would such infrastructure cost? How much resources would we have to mine to facilitate such a massive overhaul to a non-centralized grid?

I think when renewables are presented as the only answer it is underestimated how much it would cost in investment in storage and the grid, to a point that I feel nuclear is a fine solution for base-load.

I have no numbers though so I cannot back this up or anything.
Show HN: Fast way to build digital presence across multiple platforms
Hello,

I am a tech blogger and last year I wanted to have my own website for writing blogs and doing content marketing.

Since I love programming, I could have built the site by myself but I wanted to test the no-code solutions, so after spending sometime researching I ended up going with Wordpress. However i found it tedious and for some reasons, hard and slow.

Anyways, I tried other platforms like Wix too. Problem then came was I had to share my work on social media platforms to get more readers and also post it on hashnode and Medium.
It was becoming time consuming and monotonous process.

Hence, I decided to build a solution and the result is Leansence.

It is geared towards bloggers and content marketers.
It provides an easy to use website builder with the ability to write blogs and add products, with unlimited bandwidth.

You can also directly post your blog to Medium(hashnode and dev.to support will be added soon) and also share it on twitter( can also split it into threads).

It also has social media tools so you can schedule your Twitter posts and threads.
Hence you are getting website builder, blogging ability, as well as social media tools.

I have great ideas for the future and any feedback would be appreciated.
I am very glad that Bionic Reading is being discussed in HN.
I am aware that it cannot help everyone.
But I also get a lot of feedback from people who are helped a lot by this reading mode.

Imagine you have problems with reading. You don't realize what a huge hurdle that is until you talk to people who are affected.

Being ashamed in front of society.
The problem of learning new things.
Being called stupid.
And these are just a few examples of people affected.

Therefore I thank you very much that you discuss the problem critically.
Best regards from the Alps,
Renato
«Mainstream scholars and opinion leaders see the war as a plot instigated by the US to weaken Russia, strengthen Nato and make Europe more dependent on Washington again.»

I'll abbreviate that. «Mainstream … see … a plot instigated by the US to weaken Russia … and make Europe more dependent». That's either an assessment error by the FT… or else a mainstream believes that politicians and bureaucrats in Washington are able to carry out a ten-year campaign requiring secrecy, finesse and an understanding of foreigners. What a compliment.
If payment processing costs 30%, you are expected to pay that as an end-user in the end. There is no "company will eat the costs". They will find ways to recoup that and reach similar profitability levels.

So by choosing the expensive way of paying, you will eventually endup paying more.

There is no shortage of ways companies can do that: "oh you want this new content, too bad it's for our premium gold users only", "ohh you want improved audio quality, here is upsell", "ohh, traveling a lot lately? Maybe we will limit the amount of offline content you can keep, but not in the premium diamond plan", etc
Are you saying more people have died from falling while installing/servicing solar than have died due to Chernobyl and Fukushima?
> As a user, why would I choose this?

Because chances are the 30% fee will be simply passed on to the customer. I don't know if that's true in this case but this is a very common practice even with big greedy corporations that could definitely afford eating the fee (except many of them have just completely removed in-app subscriptions on Android and iOS already).

This is exactly why it's great to have a choice: if you're fine with paying a 30% fee on every single subscription for the peace of mind Google provides (protecting your payment details, easy cancellation, etc.) then that's your choice. But if you would rather cut costs and you trust the developer or are willing to risk it (generally banks will protect you from fraud anyway), you have the choice of direct payment.
> you actually can take a break from work, you are just unwilling to deal with a (potentially rapid) change in lifestyle.

A "change in lifestyle" can also mean becoming homeless and dying of starvation. In that case, true, I am quite unwilling to deal with such a change.
"(b) is that actually technically feasible"

It is, see the Desertec initiative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec

It would be just a huge investment, which is why it did not get very far, so far.

Also there is indeed the political factor. North africa is not so stable, but of course willing for investment.

But even with solar in southern europe alone, you would get quite far, combined with wind and hydro. And if you have excess in summer, you could store that in various ways for the winter.

In other words, I believe we do need huge investments into the grid now, connecting europes south and north. And then companys can build more of all kinds of solar and wind farms.
- Everything in moderation.

- Max out retirement contributions.

- Use all of your vacation time, set strict limits on work hours. [1]

- Exercise, eat real food, take time to relax. All three are connected and work together. You cannot optimize for just one.

[1] Stress is a destroyer of both your mental and physical health that has real long term consequences. No startup/job/employer/etc is worth destroying yourself over. If you are at a burn-out factory now, get out as soon as possible.
Looks like a known issue.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/2281

I'm considering adding support for keepassxc in tessen but autotype works only on wlroots based compositors like sway right now.

https://github.com/ayushnix/tessen/issues/19
sure, it is always "anonymous hackers".. no government bears responsibility, of course.
My default for watching any video is 2.0x. Up to 3.0x/3.5x.
Interesting to see the CCP actively force companies to collect less data.
But in practice the Java definition of a character basically always works, because characters that aren't in the BMP are vanishingly rare in real software outside of emoji, and of course, Java long pre-dates emoji.
The banks must be getting a piece of that because MC/Visa collect more depending on the rewards tier the card is in (Infinite/Signature/World and whatever other names they have).

Also, MC/Visa charge basically nothing for debit cards, and they do not take on any of the chargeback/default risk of credit cards, so I assume the rest of the fees are for the rewards for the most part. Which is why Discover/Amex fees are similar too.
What metric is being used when they give a figure for "reconstruction" time? As far as I understand the purpose of these nets is to generate novel views, which can be done in anywhere from dozens of seconds (original NeRF paper) to 200FPS (FastNeRF). So where does "half an hour" come in? If that's training time for each novel scene, that's very impressive - but how long to generate each novel view?
Because these folks deserve to eat and pay rent for a few years upon discovering something so useful.
I think it’s here Linux devs or the selfhost ecosystem should focus itself : making the software more accessible. It’s a bit like Blender before the big UI overhaul. There were actually a sizeable group of people who were very much against it, but now we are further along and its been a great success for both newbies and experts.

An awareness campaign to go the extra mile in terms accessibility would be great (and that doesn’t mean dumbing down, the two seems to be equated sometimes)
Should've made a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox.

Without that, how can this ever come to the browser?
Does it really matter whose child it is? You seem to be writing this as if she might give birth to a goblin or something like that.

I can't see what's "speaking practically" and "putting the morality aside" here, because there's not really any practical difference.
I'd more worry about humidity/mold problems and mobile network signal issues. At least that was my only experience with living in basement for few weeks, once in a life was enough. And I had actually big full sized 2m glass door with empty space in front of them, it was just under the regular surface level, but still technically basement.
My older brother is an alcoholic. I suspect it's somewhat cliche to say, but when he's sober he's the nicest guy I know - almost nobody else I'd rather spend time with - and when he's drunk, he's chaos.

The past few years he's been really struggling with sobriety - on and off like a roller coaster. The pandemic was an absolute nightmare for someone like him - in between jobs, trying to stay sober, trying to find the right balance of anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds, and all with a limited budget and shitty health insurance.

It breaks my heart that I can't do it for him.
How would such a competitor be created and work? How would they gain sufficient market share? How do they gain influence in the standards organisations to push for changes they want instead of what Google wants?

If such a competitor were to use Chromium/Blink, how do they differentiate from the other browsers? How do they avoid changes that Google push into Chromium/Blink that they don't want? Where do they get the resources to develop standards they want to support like MathML or several of the CSS drafts?

If such a competitor were to create their own web stack, where do they get the resources and time to build the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to a level that is competitive?
People like you make Hacker News an amazing place.
The difference is that extinguishing a fire has no net benefit other than fixing the problem caused. The data collected in attempting to reproduce something is valuable even without original claims (especially is shared appropriately).

So I agree with OP the time wasn't wasted, but it could have been spent on better opportunities.
It's all fun and games, until your SaaS provider kicks you out for no reason, and their AI powered hotline can't help you.
It wasn't immediately clear what relevant meant, but I don't doubt they have thought deeply about that

My real comment though is that to some extent, the more accurate the results are in terms of "relevance", the worse the outliers, and the worse the user understanding of how the query went wrong.

For better or worse, the nice thing about keyword matching and boolean queries is you understand exactly why something did or didn't match. If your results are coming from a neural network optimized for relevance, it's much tougher to form a mental model of how the search responds and to adjust it.

(This is not a new idea, nor is it specific to google, but I think it does offer an explanation of how google has reduced irrelevant results even as there are more and more complaints about search getting worse. Nobody will complain a keyword search doesn't do what they wanted...)
Thank you for sharing <3
For me, it all comes down to self-experiment!

There is no one outside of me, whom I trust to investigate the very nature of my very own being.

For me that is the beauty in the ancient science of yoga.
All it is, is an experimental set-up that has to be executed by the scientist (e.g. the yogi) to validate the experimental results.

Nothing to believe, no guru to follow... Just a deep dive into that which lies beyond the chatter of the mind and the impressions of the senses.

It.is.awesome!
Your brother definitely did the right thing, given that "MMS" is actually chlorine dioxide, which is an industrial bleach. Drinking it can seriously damage the digestive system.
Worse case scenario too.
It costs very little to get a lawyer to draft an angry letter and it certainly won't slow down the escalation process.
I see that you've already got an answer to what needs to be corrected.

If you would like, send to me an email (my gmail username is the same as my HN username) and if I spot anything else I'll reply back with corrections.
Why do fonts not use this technique?
I mean Haskell is definitely and acquired taste if you haven't used other languages in the same style before. Also note that writing this in actual Clash would be a one liner. Because stuff like registers and shifts are available as part of the standard library.
> "Hybrid approaches that use vector search for broad matches and rerank using BM25"

Hybrid approaches, e.g. Learning To Rank, normally do it the other way around, given the main benefit of hybrid is to mitigate the cost (time) of vector search, i.e. use a non-vector search (e.g. BM25) to get a broadly relevant set of results first (and quickly), and then the much more computationally expensive vector search to rerank the smaller results set. There are various approaches to try to make vector search more viable across large corpuses, e.g. Locality Sensitive Hashing and Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search, but if you've implemented one of those than I'm not sure there'd be any benefit in retaining a hybrid approach.
Etymology wise it inherits that from the sound of "gen" from "geneva." Since GIF is a new word it can't inherit a pronunciation from a former spelling.
From afar, the eyes seem to bulge out and up-close the hairs and hairs movement are still quite artificial, though.
Chromium is open source too. You can see what settings and telemetry are sent by default, and Mozilla sends just as much. In regards to Chromium using the data for advertising, I'm not sure there is much difference between Google using telemetry data for advertising vs Mozilla sending it to their partners.
Oh, haven't seen a monad article in quite some time.

> Monads really are just a convenient way to build up action values

Except when they aren't, because lists/arrays (with map) and Maybe (with map) and .. are something totally different. And that's the problem with _all_ these monad tutorials/how-tos/...: the problem is, that monads (and functors) are not burritos or elephants but _both_. So they are hard to understand looking only at a single instance.

Btw. monads are not the only way FP deals with effects, see algebraic effects.
https://github.com/yallop/effects-bibliography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNp3ifNpgPM
What 99%? Fedora, Mint, eOS, Pop use Flatpak. Ubuntu (and derivatives other than aforementioned ones) and Solus use Snap. In every other distro, including but not limited to popular ones like Debian, SUSE, Slackware, Arch, Void, Gentoo, both are optional. Neither Flatpak nor Snap is standard.
You are welcome to feel jealous, but you don’t have to begrudge them taking that option.
... so, basically, just how we ran an IT services department in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Except that:

Build servers took a day or so depending on the approval chain.

Hardware could be leased, or the capital expendite written off over 3 years, plus it came with a 4-hr onsite service warranty (if you worked with the right partners), and it being a capital, rather than operational, cost had bottom-line benefits.

24/7 service coverage for major incidents was very doable if you planned correctly, plus you owned the kit and so could control how you brought in resources to support incident recovery, rather thank waiting for your service provider to put the green dot back on their service status page.

//CSB The max total outage time for one corporate where I ran the IT dept was 12 minutes in 3 years, while we swapped out an HP battery-backed disk cache controller that took itself offline due to a confidence check failure.
The powerlifter only cares about the squat rack. They don't give a hoot about your leg press machine.

Very good analogy.
> There should also be a University list of shame, based on
> author affil of papers accused of fraud.

The ad-hominen attack is generally considered a form of fallacy. And many significant scientific discoveries were discovered by then-considered-quacks

That said, this particular author is egregious and I'm sure his infamy will precede his name in future papers.
> When you're receiving from a network socket over the Internet, blocking a (real) thread until all the data arrives is pretty inefficient.

Yes, but it's still how the overwhelming majority of network code functions. It's not really till the rise of libev/libuv and friends that people start moving to non-blocking as a default (I spent pretty much an entire year of my life convincing an AWS team to reclaim 4 GB of thread stacks by moving to non-blocking I/O).

>> or return an "incomplete message" error meaning that the caller is the one to continue reading.

> That's pretty un-user-friendly.

It's also how all non-blocking I/O worked prior to languages adding native async functionality.
It's true in a technical sense for any size board. But the proof that the first winner has a winning strategy can't easily be put into a practical winning strategy. In rough outline, the proof goes as follows: First, note that the game cannot end in a tie. Next, use standard game theory to conclude that one of the players has a winning strategy (proof by labeling the game tree, starting with the leaf nodes, and working up towards the root). Finally, assume for contradiction that the second player has a winning strategy. If so, deduce the absurd result that the first player has a winning strategy: Place your first piece at a random location, then ignore that piece and follow the second player's winning strategy. If that means placing a piece where your initial piece is already, place a piece in a different random location, and continue. This works because having an extra piece on the board can never hurt you.
Does music actually require that much RAM? How big is an uncompressed music stream? Bigger than 1 or several VMs running at the same time, a Java IDE, a database browser, etc.?
> disposing of the spent fuel

This keeps coming up, but far as I can tell spent fuel disposal is not, and has never been a substantial issue. It's above all an engineering and administrative challenge and is safe when done properly. Also, spent fuel can be reused, and as technology improves, we'll be able to reuse more and more of it.

Accidents have happened where disposal was improper, but that's rare and consequences are not dire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Accidents

Radioctivity accidents can at most make places uninhabitable, but they won't contribute to the greenhouse effect (which might ultimately lead to a major socioeconomic collapse), or cause petrol-oligarchies (which have led, and will lead to war, and might lead to a thermonuclear war too). In my eyes, burning mineral fuels is much, much worse than risking radioactivity accidents.

Trivia: in Italy there was a lot of illegal dumping going on during 1980s and 1990s, they even secretely transported nuclear waste to Somalia for illegal burying and have sunk a number of ships carrying nuclear waste (for the purpose of disposal). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27...
I think it's important to note that the generic "artist" doesn't shape the world around us. A miniscule elite of artists shape the world around us. The vast majority live and operate in obscurity.
I highly recommend this blog post, which makes the same point among many (great) others: https://sled.rs/perf.html

> When we speak about comparative metrics, it is also important to avoid saying commonly misunderstood things like “workload A is 15% slower than workload B”. Instead of saying “faster” it is helpful to speak in terms of latency or throughput, because both may be used to describe “speed” but they are in direct opposition to each other. Speaking in terms of relative percentages is often misleading. What does A (90) is 10% lower than B (100) mean if we don’t know their actual values? Many people would think that B is 1.1 * A, but in this case, 1.1 * 90 = 99. It is generally better to describe comparative measurements in terms of ratios rather than relative percentages.

> The phrase workload A is 20% slower than workload B can be more clearly stated as workload A was measured to have a throughput of 4:5 that of workload B. Even though many people will see that and immediately translate it to “80%” in their heads, the chances of improperly reasoning about the difference are lower.
What are the compelling reasons not to get a DNA test as a man (when a woman is claiming, “You are the biological father of this baby.”)?

Is it expensive or illegal or will your friends shame you or the woman will be angry?
Sheldrick has just caused massive reputational damage, got thousands of strangers reading & discussing how Marik's work looks like fraud (despite few of us actually being qualified to assess its merits) & is posing a serious professional attack to Marik's wellbeing. It is unlikely but in the realm of possibility that someone would commit suicide or get some sort of trauma from this sort of attention.

He's doing that based on an interpretation of some study, which I suspect is approximately a 20 page document.

Now on the one hand, he is probably right. On the other hand, this is a very brave approach - the damage and the care taken aren't in good proportion here. This sort of thing is easy to get wrong. He should have talked to the paper's authors first.
Mozilla is a non-profit in the same sense that a church is a non-profit, while the preacher drives a Bentley. Maybe they should be investigated.
I would be fine with Firefox packaged as snap. If snap would have the decency of working fine with the typical configuration used in managed systems (NFS home mounts, LDAP auth and similar stuff). But it doesn't. Until that day, snap is as bad as any other deployment technique.
Hopefully Librewolf can create some official packages for Arch Linux. In the meantime, Chromium with policies works well and is relatively safe minus a few APIs that send more data than I'd like (client hints).
Google's domination is incredibly worse, almost irreversible IMO.
I loved his stuff and how upset people got. You could say it was performative art criticing post-modern technocratic stance on privacy: While Zuck said privacy is over: this dude got people raging. "I'm just making a video"

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