skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I can answer the question 'Why Anything'.

See my other post in thread outlining my 'Actualization Theory'. I think there's a 'ground state' of 'possible worlds' that must exist by virtue of logical necessity and some of these get 'Actualized' (become 'actual worlds') over time via the emergence of complexity (including minds and consciousness).

What I'd say is that "existence" is not binary, but rather a matter of degree, and reality is 'still under construction': the ultimate ends of the universe are the explanation as to why this universe: it's a teleological answer. The universe has to be such as allow for the existence of observers and is fine-tuned for life (because mind contributes to the ongoing 'actualization' of reality).
That's exactly what eg the game Shovel Knight is doing.

See eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjENktnbCaE
To put some numbers on the table, in 2018 (I could not find more recent data) the values of CO2 emissions in metric tons per capita were as follows:[1]

France 5.0
Germany 9.1

For comparison:

India 1.9
EU 8.6
China 8.0
Japan 9.4
Russia 12.1
United States 16.1
Canada 16.1
Australia 16.8

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
The key is that they're not linking remote content – they copied the content of the tweets into their websites' code, and then used Twitter's JS to render it. I.e., it used to be a purely stylistic change.

All of a sudden, this very inert code has changed, without warning, to actually edit any websites using it to delete the text that they put there. I think many would consider this malware-adjacent, if it wasn't from such a large company.
Can Social media activism work in India?

One man from hi-tech city of Bangalore takes to Twitter to highlight Bribe and nepotism for a long pending issue.
The same table says males in UK had a death rate of 0.00106 between 35 and 39 years of age in 2019 (5 times higher than workers in Qatar) so I don't know what's the mistake but it seems to me we can't compare those 2 numbers like that.
> All progress depends upon the unreasonable man. You need to stop being reasonable

and yet there's an unreasonable man invading another country right now.

I dont think progress depends on the unreasonable man. It depends on the reasonable man who would put in the sweat and blood, but might be inspired or paid by the unreasonable man.
We can now kiss-gone the security for embedded world and its IoT-related security brethren.

It is often the directory separation of /bin and /usr/bin that is used to denote the extent of firmware’s scope between these binaries that are require for a boot up and what are they require to support their applications. (Thanks, PDP-11).

Such wonderful boundaries of IoT upgrade scope can and is often denoted as two-stage upgrade with /bin as read-only; now, not so much.

This is yet another case of IoT system engineering design getting steamrolled by the diminutive desktop-mindsets despite progress by its systemd author.

Try yanking that Ethernet cable from its physical socket and watch if your long-running deeply-stateful process can survive. (It won’t, unless you retrain it against KISS principle to ignore such netdev disappearance.)
No it's not. It's a normative opinion. The opinions against it all have horrible repercussions and difficult questions to answer such as "who should be in charge of moderating or censoring?" and "how can we trust them?"

The first one is always "my party" and the latter answer is always "because they protect my interests, and your interests doesn't count."

Meanwhile most people agree that cursing, pornography or spam - and things otherwise clearly outside the bounds of the law - should be censored. And perhaps also obvious ad hominems. But that's not what we're discussing right now. Instead we're discussing whether a Democrat should have the right to speak on a Republican forum and spread Democrat opinions there. Today that is precluded because "it's a private enterprise."

Meanwhile if freedom of speech was better governed, you would have to defend against flaws and lies with facts and logic instead of censorship, or even moderation.

But then there isn't anything precluding private enterprises from making such a place. And I happen to think people would flock to such a place. There would certainly be a lot to win for the enterprise to have so many people there, but so far the only model that seems to have worked is one where all those masses are somehow guarded against each other in sub-forums, such as on Reddit or even on Facebook. But perhaps Musk can revolutionize Twitter? What do you think?
The previously existing solution?
> if the numbers are correct, they're doing a bad job at keeping those people alive.

That’s actually not at all what those numbers suggest.
I'm sorry but you seem to have some really weird issues.

Like "I worry about your executive function" weird.
Why should I? I demand payment in public opinion because I can. You needn’t care but Twitter will pay from those that do.
I have the very strong feeling that this is is powered by https://register.apple.com/placesonmaps/ – at least as a hint. As soon as you have officially registered your Apple Maps entry (with an website URL) that website gets on the list.

e: This is reinforced since we updated our domain/URLs from a ccTLD to a gTLD not long ago, also claiming the Maps entry, and the list reflects the gTLD domain!
Aren't you comparing a fairly high end processor at the time (I wasn't alive when the pentium 4 came out, I think) with the bargain bin one from today? The new pentiums have the same microarchitecture but I don't know if they have all the execution units turned on + less cache.
Do not compare an unpopular president to one that literally had entire families put in ovens. You have lost your fucking mind. Show some respect.
> half a dozen markets in countries freely associated with the EU (e.g. Norway and Switzerland) in different languages, cultures and expectations

Well, it isn't half a dozen, it's more like 3 countries (Iceland, Switzerland and Norway). 4 if you count Liechtenstein with its population of 38k people.
Show HN: An ode to the macOS Drift screensaver that runs in the browser
Disagree. The game is not set in stone, you can kick the table.
Now, honesty is tricky, you can aim at being honest but not trying to be mean. You can aim at being honest but not disclosing everything. Many angles possible before going for "yeah dude, just lie".

The game changes as we change. Scamming people used to be tolerated, its less and less tolerated now. Often going as far where you can honestly question if the proposed thing is really a scam or just overpriced service/good. We make those boundries.
Of course not, these death rates are based on numbers reported by embassies. It’s unsurprising that they aren’t very accurate.

But if we were to believe these numbers, the only possible conclusions would reflect very well on Qatar.
WSJ Style and Substance: Postpandemic
I'm curious if Julia's multiple dispatch could work naturally for server-side web development. In many content management problems, you often run into pages that are parameterized in multiple ways: the kind of data object being viewed, role based permission, and display capabilities, among others. In object oriented systems this often leads to double dispatch in one way or another. With Julia, it may instead result with an "just ahead of time" compile for each permutation; once that's done, page rendering should be snappy. One could use PackageCompiler to build an image with commonly needed permutations so that each computational unit's startup time is reasonable. During development, Revise.jl provides incremental updates to pages affected via code dependency graph.
Or reading a book whose battery is nearly flat forcing you to unplug your cigarette to free up a port so you can keep reading.
I read both On The Road and The Dharma Bums as a student, when I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. I didn’t like On The Road much at all - I found the characters to be wildly irresponsible to the point of being just plain mean. But for some reason I decided to give Kerouac another go with The Dharma Bums, and it has probably had a bigger influence on my life than any other book.

Not so much because of the Buddhist concepts, which I didn’t care much about then, and still don’t, and Kerouac probably got wrong anyway. But the Bhuddist-lite concepts of appreciating nature, minimalism, independence, love, etc - experienced through the eyes of a very flawed main character who is just looking to find some peace and happiness in life - all really resonated with me and left a lasting impression. It would be fun to read that book again after so many years and see if it still resonates.
Apparently, the UK has roughly the same amount of construction workers as the number of migrants in Qatar (around 2M). (https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/construction....)
As far as I can find there are issues, namely that installing a package with dpkg can leave the system in a bad state. If I understand it correctly dpkg normally prevents by checking the paths it modifies, which ends up non trivial if the paths are aliased.

> the dpkg maintainer it's being a jerk.

He is required to accept working patches, priority by the committee seems to be the removal of warnings about the broken support instead of actually fixing it.
Come on man. If you’ve lived there, you’ve seen the work camps and the conditions those guys live in, and you’ve seen accounts of their de facto imprisonment. This is not a Rule of Law jurisdiction.
That's actually one reason why ARM has failed so hard in the server space. Nobody is going out of their way to get their code to run on unobtanium unless the cloud provider is an absolute giant and has a proven track record.

It's far more likely that someone will make the switch to ARM if their laptop or desktop is already ARM because then you aren't at the mercy of the server vendor deciding to only cooperate with a handful of cloud vendors or even dropping the project completely.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter if you disagree. They own the platform, and they can operate it how they please. There's no "changing of the contract" here. Their TOS certainly don't guarantee anything at all in exchange for website owners embedding tweets in this way. Any theoretical moral argument is kind of irrelevant.
Right. And I don’t have a responsibility to not kick up a fuss. So I’m going to kick up a fuss and hopefully people will want to use their APIs and SDKs a teensy bit less.
'We Became Like a Big Startup.' How Kyiv Adapted the City's Tech to Save Lives
Is 2m the ideal height? 1.80m? 2.40m? What would we discover is the optimal IQ? Etc.

I think Brave New World treats this question pretty well. We'd probably discover that there is no 'optimal' height or IQ and we'd still need the whole span of "Big Dumb Brutes" to hyper-geniuses. The secret is convince everybody the IQ/physique they've been assigned is the 'actual' optimal and they're the lucky ones that everybody else should envy.
Modern Germany and Italy are successor states to much older entities, and frequently stuff from those ages creeps in.

Well, every European country has this. France is at the Fifth Republic right now but I can bet that there's some obscure law hidden somewhere that's from the time of Philip II of France.
X11 does not do proper typography at all and in fact its text support is not used these days. You might be thingking of freetype / harfbuzz / pango.
Storing heat in rock is very natural. It's how geothermal works, after all.

The basic idea is that the thermal time constant of a uniform sphere (or other shape of fixed aspect) is proportional to the square of its radius. So, for a sufficiently large sphere, the time constant can become very long, >> 1 year. Rock is a good choice because it's very cheap.

The other thing one can do is store cold. This is useful not only for cooling, but for increasing the efficiency of storage of work, since one can generate heat and cold via a heat pump, then reverse that cycle to recover the work. An efficiency of 65% or so may be reasonably achievable with the high temperature in the temperature range of ordinary steel.
>Improved compatibility with other Unixes/Linuxes...

A quick check reveals that OpenBSD presently has separate /bin and /sbin. FreeBSD also has a separate /lib. Exactly what were the other Unixes/Linuxes that this was supposed to improve compatibility with? I hope was not just Solaris...
And with more opinions available to people, there is less likelihood of a large mass galvanized around one crazy theory (the one that the overlords deem not crazy).
> lazy journalism

Well the article does come from The Guardian, an outlet that has a long-standing nickname of The Grauniad because of its long-standing history of typographical and other errors.
Post-cyberpunk, steampunk, solarpunk, etc. It became an aesthetic that birthed other aesthetics.

But there's no convincing way out. In reality the system wins and eats everything, and your only choice is the end in ice or fire.
Ha, I did a (much smaller) project combining Lilypond and Scribus as well. My patch for this (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14723) is still stuck in limbo, doesn't look like they are going to apply it any time soon.

In what format did you embed the Lilypond output? I tried it first as EPS, but the print result was really disappointing because Scribus (at the time at least) rasterised EPS instead of actually embedding the vector graphics.
Russian immigrant and enemy of the regime here.
Russian and Belarusian dissidents who were granted asylum, usually have a residence in a new country, thus, they are not subject to sanctions.

People who willingly stay in Russia, should be punished regardless of their position, because they fund the aggressor's army with their taxes and even fines, which they pay for their anti-government activities.
If you frame it as just "extra knowledge" then, sure, it's not a weakness. The problem is when extra knowledge is acquired at the expense of deeper focus (knowledge) in another area.
>benefit of a free market

The US is mixed, and frankly leaning heavily to command-by-committee, same thing that caused the commies to fail. Our committee is the FOMC. Low rates increase valuations on anyone who promises 'the future'. High tech salaries are almost certainly a distortion of their meaningful value.
GhostSCAD: Marrying OpenSCAD and Golang
I recommend Derek Sivers' essay "Don't be a Donkey": https://sive.rs/donkey
And the documentation for the embed api on their website https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/e...
Anyone know if they have any tech they might open source now that they’re going defunct?
> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be.

I agree with this, or rather... I think we need to live life full of hope and wonder. That when we do, we deeply experience things, and we get excited by things. Excitement itself is infectious, it brings other people along.

Somewhere in there is an essence of an idea, that to build something that makes someone else excited such that they want to use it, we must be excited by it and full of hope for what it can be and wonder for what it is. To even present things to others, such as a thing we've been working on, we must feel that excitement and express it.

I don't agree with the "I'm boring" sentiment, no-one is boring. But having hope and wonder can fuel excitement and that is a very good way to get others excited too.
Using a MacBook Pro as a gaming console
It isn't the district's device. OP just enrolled it in the School's GSuite organization so, obviously, policies got pushed. They can just... not do that.

If they want to log into apps or whatever on the Chromebook, they do need to do that. At that point the device has to follow policies for accessing the school's services or whatever. They still don't own the device, but they can push policy to it. At any time the device can be removed from the organization, but that has to be done by the organization, I believe.

Of course, you can have multiple accounts on the Chromebook, so they could just have the device enrolled for one user, but have a personal account not enrolled.

It's all pretty straightforward.
Can be a few things, but a lack of mouse input smoothing can be a culprit. If the viewport angle is "locked" to the mouse input ticks, it can display at effectively 60 Hz, where you'll get two identical frames per mouse movement. So 120 Hz of graphics, but 60 Hz of content.
I'm very similar and would just give you two pieces of advice: (1) buy books compulsively and don't do your research predominantly online, and (2) make sure you write often, whether or not you publish your work or keep it to yourself. I think the latter is the most important advice for those trying to pursue an intellectual path outside of academia -- if you don't develop a habit of writing, you aren't really synthesizing what you've learned and developing your thought. Don't worry if the quality is not great to begin with (and certainly don't worry that it seems cliched).

The other thing I would suggest, if your career and family would manage, is spending time working in the UK. It's very easy to get a visa if you're involved in the tech industry and their higher education system for MA/MS degrees and PhDs is very different than the US, both more affordable and better suited towards working life. In the US, the thought is that if you're doing a PhD, say, it's a full-time professionalized pursuit under the assumption you will be a professor; in the rest of the world, a PhD is essentially an apprenticeship in writing under a mentor for however long it takes you, often with no aim (i.e. career) other than that writing itself.

Personally, I've alternated between highly-paid years working in the tech industry and years studying or writing without employment to great personal satisfaction (and managed to help publish a few scholarly anthologies that wouldn't have happened without someone who didn't need to rely on academic grants etc).
Are you talking about major RHEL upgrades? That's purely a support/business decision, not technical.

I've been upgrading my Fedora systems between major versions with yum/dnf for as long as I can remember. It just works.
I want to say, this seems a lot like information seeking as a form of procrastination itself. I suffer from this. Worthwhile to look into ways to either help use it to your advantage or limit it.
From the article, it looks like Gwern, at least, thought quite a lot about text justification --- see the "Abandoned" section --- so the "learn how typography works" comment seems a bit unfair.
Japanese robot can peel bananas
Hey, sure, I set up a repo just now. Lemme know if it works for you or not: https://github.com/victorstanciu/hugo-tweets
These folks are taking katanas to the tech bubble.
His workstations, and not to be snooty about it either, it's just like some people prefer crunchy peanut butter, and some people ruin their lives with creamy.

I liked init systems of yore. I don't ask to toss out systems because its very useful in some settings, however, I prefer the init systems we had, when it comes to my personal workstation preferences.
>People who are experts at imposing on other people's time will latch on to any crack you leave open. Don't give reasons. You might think "I'm sorry, but I don't have time to get involved in that" is clear, but they will counter with "it won't take much time at all." Just say "no, thank you, but I must decline" or something that doesn't leave any room for further discussion.

It's not an expert thing at all. It's a standard sales technique.

1. Make your pitch;

2. Go for the close;

3. Deal with any concerns/objections;

4. Go back to step 2.

When I was still just a kid (~18), I took a B2B sales job and that was one of the primary strategies they pushed for closing deals.
Revise.jl is used to provide incremental runtime recompilation; and Genie now has Revise built-in.
I’m a huge fan of Cytoscape.js. Not sure if it would be a competitor to Gephi as it’s just a JavaScript library but it’s very useful for things one might use D3 for. Not too not does it have the ability to draw, style, and animate the networks it has all the graph algorithms to do the analysis and traversal.

https://js.cytoscape.org/
> The son can decide which account to log into based on what they plan to do that day.

You can log into multiple accounts at once on a Chromebook. ctrl + alt + `.` lets you switch between workspaces across accounts, and you can right click windows to move them across workspaces. I'm doing this right now so I can post on HN from my personal account while I code for work.
Agreed. During the time I mentioned, I worked for one of the top imaging science corporations in the world. My peers were some of the finest scientists and engineers in the industry. I regularly worked with people that are household names.

Not all of them were “sunshine and joy.” They could be very demanding, and intolerant of deviations from their ideals, but it was an exhilarating ride, that few people get to experience. It was a signal Honor to work there.
Because he didn't want to appeal because he wanted to take it as a medal of honnor, back 10 years before he was candidate when he was still a journalist.
Israel joins the quantum computing club
That's a mutual dependence then. It's still dependent on the unreasonable man.

I look at this in terms of variance: there are few ways to be reasonable, but many to be unreasonable. Many of the unreasonable ones lead nowhere, but a few lead to progress. That's similar to the concept of antifragility.
No way this is GDPR compliant. A mandatory Github login sends data to US servers. Even with the normal additional standard contract clauses it is at least disputed, if this holds any grounds in a CJEU trial.

Twilio, the owner of Segment.io is also a US company and will receive individual-related telemetry data, which should break with GDPR.
The API contract laid out in their documentation. There’s a screenshot in the post right around there.

The API contract is:

> What happens when an author deletes their Tweet?
The Twitter widgets JavaScript will not display a fully-rendered Tweet if the Tweet no longer exists on Twitter. The fallback <blockquote> containing Tweet information will be visible on the page.
You must have something wrong in your last paragraph.

Russia can't upload new things at all. There is nothing about the show from Russians to show.

Russia's are also not being shown new Ukraine videos. This is as designed as mentioned and as you know due to technical-implemnted regional bubbles.

What were you saying in your last two sentences?
I had one Dropbox Paper document for years called "Next Steps". It was literally just a freeform list of things I needed to get done for the project. Every day I would expand the list and cross off/ checkmark what had been done. It got pretty massive.

Now I have a company and a team so we use an issue tracker, which I find to be much much heavier but it's easier to use across multiple people.
The article mentions that the Apple II version was first. I think it was clear that they are referring to the original IBM PC version, not that the IBM PC version was the original version of Visicalc