skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, good point. And since they're manicured and sprayed with all kinds of pesticides (and lots of fertilizer, which contributes to the downstream poisoning you note) they're not even helpful for any kind of preservation of natural life. They'd like some kind of taxidermied version of a healthy natural environment.

Driveways can, admittedly, be handy but you don't need a whole lawn for that. Just turn the driveway sideways and butt the whole thing up against the road. Boom, just as much parking and space for trailers or cleaning your boat or whatever, and you can cut out a few meters of lot depth with minimal loss of functionality. Of course, building codes mandate lawns, so that can't happen. Meanwhile I dream of a world where everything's ~10% closer just because we don't have suburban front lawns.

I also sometimes wonder how many amazing parks we could have if half the money everyone put into maintaining their front lawns went to that, instead. Put half the money and half the land into that and we could have an awesome park on every other suburban block, and still save money and space.
> Would you pay 2-3x more for your next phone?

Why wouldn't he? These are already luxury items... I wouldn't, but I wouldn't buy an iphone at first place.
I have a question. If it's injected into water, won't that create carbonic acid? Carbonic acid is what dissolved much of the limestone into caverns around here. Is there a potential for sinkholes or contamination of fresh water aquifers as the acid dissolves the containing rocks?
i have a hunch, if we started putting the taskbar/menu buttons to the side, in mobile devices and apps, we would see late adoption by microsoft.

the menu buttons on the bottom is what mobile has been doing for more than a decade i think

what doesnt quite add up is:

"When it comes to something like actually being able to move the taskbar to different locations on the screen, there's a number of challenges with that," said Roth (via Neowin). "When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to understand the environment is just huge."

This didnt seem to be too much of an issue, previously, but something fundamental has changed, to make this a challenge

>> i took a look around and found this:

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

not sure if it still work or for how long but it claims to patch in a win10 taskbar
It was a death knell for us. We moved all our documentation into Git, which the devs found more convenient and usable. I think there might’ve been some survival bias: the people who kept using it after the breaking change liked it. The people who dropped it immediately because it ruined their workflows just moved on (or put it in read-only mode).
My bad. Must have had that cached!
The archived link shows $22 million+ in Ukraine funding since 2014. Today their database shows "no results found" for Ukraine.
>At the end of the day, the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs

If you are unaware of Ellen Pao and her challenges as a leader. Do go look it up.

This tweet isn't about free speech absolutism or the limited exceptions. What's more important to understand is the rules she is breaking as a leader and it's clear as day here. You can actually learn a ton from this tweet when you realize it has nothing to do with free speech or racism.

A good leader, someone who lives by the rules, https://fs.blog/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/ though I certainly recommend reading the book.

How many rules is she breaking?

She is criticizing, condemning, and complaining. She's not honest displaying this strawman argument, literally nobody actually thinks free speech is about racism. She's not arousing good discussion. She's not genuinely interested in the debate of free speech given nobody can comment. No chance of her listening to these 'racist free speechers'

How would this have played out differently if she included the picture. Then just asked what people think and allowed everyone to comment? Made an argument for her position that abusive behaviours like this should be an exception to free speech. That in the limited extent of 100% abuse, 0% value posts censorship works. The elimination or censorship over these would be of no loss and I would agree. It's that 1%, 2%, 3%.
This won't be successful - ETSY is a publicly traded company, unless corrective action can replace the loss revenue from ads/punishing duplication/aliexpress - it's not going anywhere.

This is exactly what happened to eBay for anyone that remembers when it was garage-sale mania, then it became publicly traded and effectively became Target.com with < 1% of personal things sprinkled in.

No one messing with quarterly earnings.
Doesn’t technology often create problems that technology solves? Don’t people create problems that people solve? Can you explain the logic of your argument?
GP specified that mass adoption of EVs was not the solution, not that there were no applications for EVs in a carbon-zero future. Just like the carbon offsets in the OP article, simply replacing personal vehicles with EVs does little to nothing to reduce either the global energy expenditure or carbon emissions, it simply moves the energy budget around. Especially true when a plurality of electric power generation still comes from burning coal and natural gas. Removing personal vehicles does reduce both energy expenditure and emissions (to the extent it is feasible, which covers probably >50% of personal vehicles; remember, while most of the US is not urban, most people live in urban areas)

EVs, like carbon offsets, are a necessary part of a carbon-zero future, but they don't actually get us any closer on their own.
I think these are essentially nomograms. I seem to recall in college engineering back in 90s they taught us how to design nomograms for simple functions.
Not all users are equally valuable, and I'm guessing that people who disable telemetry are mostly Linux users who just keep a Windows partition around for a few games.
The question still stands though. Does each individual worker have its own bridge to JS? If so it’s just a constant race condition between them.
> the fact that cars come with a feature that allows you to find them with their key by making them honk.

Equally awesome is a beepy, late-shift neighbor who's driveway is right by your bedroom window.
You can do the same thing with B&W--buy a standard high-volume film processor and load it up with B&W film chemistry. If you look at the data sheets for XTOL, you'll see instructions for high-volume processing. B&W processing is not standardized (in the sense that there are standards for it, but nobody uses them) but that doesn't mean you have to do it by hand.

I think the reason why it is more expensive is just because it is a specialty service. Even in a large city, the amount of B&W film processed per day is not going to be very large, in 2022. On top of that, it's easy enough to process B&W yourself--it's not prohibitively expensive and can even be done in a small apartment without too much fuss.

(One reason that there are standards for B&W film processing is because it's necessary in order to have standards for film speed. The "ISO speed" of a film is tested by exposing the film to certain amounts of light, developing in a standardized way using a standardized developer, and then measuring some certain part of the resulting density curve.)
What about those pesky horseless carriages? Definitely should have had regulations to keep them off the roads. /sarcasm
> "allowed to happen"? Do you think the government should tell companies where they can manufacture?

Do you think Apple is allowed to manufacture in Iran? The government is already telling companies where they can or cannot manufacture.
Want to dive in to all this stuff but can't find a starting point?
Start with reading my patent!

I was smart enough to see what collaborative filtering (CF) could be early on, and to file a patent that issued. I wasn't smart enough to make it a complicated patent, or to choose the right partners so I could have success with it.

But the patent makes a good way to learn how to get from "what are your desert island 5 favorite music recordings?" over to "here is a list of other music you might like". Basic CF, which is at the core of a lot of this stuff. Enjoy!:

https://whiteis.com/whiteis/SE/
> I think part of this problem is that people set up complex fancy infrastructure at a company, and then leave once the interesting/challenging work is done.

Most companies do not need complex infrastructure either. It is just cargo culting ( or Google culting )
> If you're doing a manually intensive task and and sit down and do nothing you might be (1) resting or (2) thinking about how to proceed.

No on your point 2. Anxiety about the future isn't a downtime, this has been all but proven with many modern studies. Stress kills, I don't think this is debatable nowadays.

"Doing nothing" is a stress free time, whatever it is that your physical body is doing during the time e.g. people tending to their garden.
To a reasonable approximation, cats only fall in zero-g.
>How do you drive on icy roads though?

It's a trick question. You don't should be the response.

For those that do, my first question is what is so damn important that you have to be driving in icy conditions in the first place? Schools are closed. Most businesses are closed. If my business isn't closed, I use a personal day. This isn't Chicago/Minneapolis where the snow lasts for 3 months. This is N. Texas. It's typically only cold enough for these conditions for a couple of days and typically only at night. Which actually makes it worse as it melts in the day, refreezes overnight, and people forget about the refreeze and drive as if things are normal.
I love jetbrains for the indexing magic they do across their products, but yeah, the remote development last time I checked was lackluster.
All I know is that Facebook's recommendation systems always show me things that I hate to see. I suppose they may "work" at scale, but at an individual level it's epic failure.
It wouldn’t be a super ethical test.. but I wonder if a cat would adapt and start doing some really crazy ninja moves all over the place, if you left him in zero-g for a few years.
I agree. I'm a little disappointed really to read so many people talk about kids becoming social pariah and how they're just going to teach kids how to use social networks responsibly.

My older did not get a cellphone till 9th grade, that too because the kid used to walk to school. I use pi-hole at home and the kid has never used FB, Instagram, Tiktok. Unfortunately kids use Discord for communicating, so had to allow that, but we had a discussion about the language to use on such platforms and so on. And, so far I believe the kid is fine since I didn't teach them to just use the social platforms responsibly, rather I taught them (I hope) to not use the social platforms at all except for messaging when absolutely necessary. Moreover I try to tell the kid to use browser as much as possible rather than get the apps.

And, for the record I don't use FB, IG, or any other platforms myself - so we lead by example.

So, far I have not heard much protest. What happens when the kid will be in college is anyone's guess. But I personally believe that teaching kids a mistrust of social networks is inherently better than trying to teach them how to use them responsibly, since I don't believe they can be used responsibly.

EDIT: to add, my kid uses DDG instead of Google for search. Does use Gmail, but also has own domain with custom emails. PS5 and Switch, but no network play. Changed password immediately when was forced to use Gmail on a public school computer once.. So, I guess we're just teaching kids different things.
I’m disabled and live in Canada where we have medically assisted suicide as a legal option, and some people who are disabled and mistreated by the government that ignores the plight of the less fortunate, feel that government views disabled people as a burden and it would be preferable for society or government for the disabled people to just choose to end their suffering.

Not sure if I believe that, but it sort of makes (twisted, dark) sense.
80x Caching Improvement in Go
Because sellers cannot always raise prices to cover the fee increase. Demand is varying degrees of elastic
There was no difference between heliocentric and geocentric models (except for philosophical arguments based on false premises) until Newton invented physics and the idea of planets spiraling around through space became clearly impossible due to inertia. Pre-F=ma there could not have been any way to know what was at the "center" because the conceptual tools for privileging a non-rotating frame of reference over rotating ones had not yet been developed.

Also, a heliocentric model still requires epicycles if the orbits in the model aren't elliptical.
exactly

users often have to bear the costs for developer productivity

with audio software the performance aspect is critical to user and thus the cost of increased developer productivity is exceeding the reward

you can’t make any compromise, because otherwise users won’t be buying the product and you go bankrupt

this is one thing i wish has happened to Electron
> In Chicago you have police actively pulling people over all the time

Lived in Chicago for 25 years, this is pretty much the opposite of my experience. Seems like 90% of the time someone is pulled over here they're being arrested so I don't think it's because of a traffic violation.
I wonder how it would do with more technical engineering drawings, like shop drawings for machinists or blueprints for a building.
It's not about the definition, it's about the methodology of collecting the data.
A really wonderful TED talk from Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of simple stories

> he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in terms of a simple narrative.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_simpl...
>We will put our shops on vacation mode April 11-18. Those of us who can will strike for the whole week, and some of us are striking only for April 11.

The reality that many (most?) sellers can't afford to strike will significantly limit the scope and impact of the exercise.

This is exactly why unions have strike funds.

It may seem weird for a bunch of small business owners to form or join a union, but that's what they should do.
The current projections are that the switchover to primary renewables is going to happen in the lifetime of EVs manufactured today. For a slow to adapt industry such as our energy grids the drastic capital cost reductions (much less TCO advantages such as decreased fuel costs, decreased maintenance costs) of renewables (especially wind and solar, but some of those advances have had knock-on effects in mainstay hydro's TCO too) has made them take notice and they are adjusting much more rapidly than people assume. Entire countries have had 24 hour periods or more entirely running on renewables, and sure that's good weather, but that's still not something some people would have guessed ten years ago. Most of that isn't top-down government mandates, most of that is "ordinary" capitalism and the fact that power companies are realizing it's "easy money" to go for cheaper renewables as large portions of their energy mix. (To be fair, power companies have always worked that way. Even what most people think of as "coal states" have always been nearly as much hydro as coal since basically the beginning of electricity.)

Just about no one is building new nuclear into the mix right now, but that's a different can of worms, and at least for the moment with so many easy wins in sight to be had in solar/wind/improving existing hydro it may not even be necessary to add much or any nuclear.
> Docker refuses to run after attempting an OS update which broke too many things (upstart vs. systemd being one, FS drivers, etc...).

So all of that cathedral has been fallen down w\o ability to recovery after mistakenly update && upgrade with no backups? And all of that code stack was open-source?
Yes I‘m aware boxed versions are still available. But they aren‘t available under the contract the state negotiated with Microsoft. And that’s the terms the schools use to buy licenses if they don’t want to pay a premium.

To change this there would have to be political will to reduce the lock-in and maybe offer a state run cloud service.
> vs. $799 in the USA

vs. $829 in the USA

799 includes carrier discounts. You get bank discounts in India which would get the price down to little over $800

iPhone 13 costs about the same as it would if you bought it in the US.

But 13 Pro is a different story It costs $1580 compared to $1099 (incl. tax) in the US. I guess they don't make iPhone 13 Pros in India
I thought the ePacket loophole that made shipping from China extremely cheap has been closed already
It implies our models are wrong.

Consider that a human adolescence is ~9.46x10^6 minutes and a fast speaking rate is ~200words/minute. That sets an upper bound of 1.9 billion words heard during adolescence. ie: human adults are trained on a corpus of less than 1.9B words.

To some extent, more data can offset worse models, but I don't think that's the regieme we're currently in. GPT-3 was trained (on among other languages) 181 billion English words - or about 100 times more words than a human will hear by the time they reach adulthood. How is the human brain able to achieve a higher level of success with 1% of the data?

1. https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...
This isn't intended as snarky, but I don't understand what "it's the same as everything" is supposed to mean. What is "it"? What is "everything"? Why are they the same?

I'd also argue that your reduction of this problem sort of misses the point. One of the big problems with the way that studies are done is not that replication efforts aren't conclusive (it's very difficult to prove something doesn't exist), it's that a) non-replicable studies are generally considered as valuable as replicable ones, and b) as a result, it's extremely difficult to replicate many studies to begin with, because there's no incentive to take the time to make it possible. Even if the end result of a replication paper is "we couldn't produce the same results", the people working on it can say "this author's experiments were exceedingly difficult to even try to reproduce," or conversely "we didn't get the same results, but their data collection methods and analysis code were well-documented and accessible." That has a lot of value!

If you tried doing triple replication for every paper, I agree that maybe wouldn't be the best use of resources. But the current state of affairs is so bad that a well-organized drive to create single-attempt replication on a fraction of publicly-funded projects has the potential to be a significant driver of change.
French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
OR

Etsy buys them to prevent a viable alternative to taking hold.

At the end of the day, there is typically a number that can be written on a check that will persuade.
At a very excessive markup. But for low quantity purchases and very high customer-is-king level of service, it's unbeatable.
This is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
I loved Michelle Yeoh in the 90's "The Heroic Trio" and "The Executioners". I had "The Executioners" on video tape. I have followed her films ever since. I grew up in Brooklyn, a fan of Hong Kong action movies (mostly police action dramas and fantasy) flicks that played at the local theater - The Coliseum in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I'll have to see this one!
X11 forwarding was not a great experience last I tried it.

Every now and then clipboard would stop working or resized windows would retain their original dimensions etc. Not entirely sure if it had to do with my setup or network.

I switched to tmux+neovim a year ago and it has been a much better experience.
Natural Syntax for Units in Python
> and then leave once the interesting/challenging work is done.

Don't underestimate constructive dismissal.

The courts have begun to take a somewhat dim view of executives being completely ignorant of Too Good to be True scenarios, which has been a viable form of plausible deniability forever and a day. I'm not treating the workers badly, George is treating the workers badly. George, who I brag about all the time and have promoted three times in five years.

There's this sort of notion of 'what have you done for me lately?' that pushes us to underappreciate people who set up systems that usually run on autopilot. Bosses can't absorb the idea that just because nothing has broken doesn't mean it won't break, and these may be the easiest plates in the world to spin but they are in fact spinning, and so this person who "doesn't look busy" is doing so on purpose. It's what some clever person called "on-site on-call" to differentiate doing nothing from actively doing nothing. It's very reminiscent of the experience some people have buying someone a gift (a subscription, a car, etc) that has an ongoing cost and then they hear from the person how disappointed they are in the new/other gifts they got. "Last year they bought me a car and this year all I got was a new iPad." No, this year you got an iPad and your rich uncle is still paying for your car, you little shit.

Steve may be maintaining systems that save us 4 headcount, but he looks like a cost center to the business. He's lucky we don't lay him off, so don't talk to me about giving him a 10% raise for boosting that to 4.5 headcount.
Used Debian for a while, but the relatively short life cycle is sub-optimal, as is the situation with drivers sometimes.

Eventually just gave up and am now using Ubuntu LTS on all my servers and either Ubuntu or something like Linux Mint on my personal devices - things mostly just work, documentation is abundant and breakages aren't too often. My personal advice would be to just pick whatever most other people are using, the best documented and supported option.

For when i actually want to get things done in a passable manner, it's good enough. The longer EOL is also great, far less churn to deal with, as long as you don't need the latest packages.

Actually, it's why i recently moved all of my container images from Alpine Linux as a base to Ubuntu as a base, about which i wrote on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/using-ubuntu-as-the-base-fo...

Kind of sad that CentOS died the way it did (as a LTS distro, at least) and having to use Oracle Linux in its stead in certain enterprise settings doesn't feel great either, though most RPM distros are also vaguely passable. May Rocky Linux fill that niche properly some day and be as abundant as CentOS was.
The fact that you think that a union of european states is a product of US think thank is straight bullshit, like that even if you don't know that there were italian politicians saying that union of european states would be the best way to have stability in europe in 1800s (Like Giacomo Matteotti in Italy, but I'm sure others in other nations had the same idea), you would still have to ignore the fact that in 1920 we had already a league of nations
If you know Excel and C++ then you might like https://github.com/xlladdins/xll.
It is something I wrote to embed C++ in Excel.
The grand-parent post exhibits feigned confusion and using opinions as arguments. It also proposes an _optimal_ solution that will most likely not get implemented in place of pragmatic solution. We see this kind of argumentation when discussing crypto libraries.

The OP is not _confused_, they just don't like the solution.
In my years of selfhosting personal stuff I never had a service “sunset“, never lost data, and never had significant downtime.

In the external services I use, downtime of one service or other is to be expected at least a few times a year, and the “sunsets” happen occasionally.

Thing is, public services are solving a much more difficult problem (keeping things running safely for millions).