skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously this used to the the case in most developed countries, but then more and more stuff started getting outsourced and pushed into the private sector to drive shareholder value. Suddenly, space, research, military, healthcare, education are all getting outsourced, so we can make more of a profit off it.
an interactive comparison also here: https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique....
No criminal charges yet?
Except that freedom of speech does not protect us from intolerance, as Karl Popper observed. For example, private entities are not required to uphold freedom of speech.
I agree that the Gumroad design is inspired by '90s entertainment magazines, esp those focused on radio and pop music. I have a sister who had a giant collection of them.

But we disagree on the Gumroad design. I'm a seller on it and while I don't know what the old interface looks like, I have no issue managing orders. Visually it's more than clear, and it stands out as a platform for indie makers. I know enterprise UI all too well, and I was pleasantly surprised that that Gumroad doesn't follow that "Hey we're a SaaS valued at $10bn" design blandscape.
Hmm, so is that why almost no public radio stations have moved over to it? Everyone is waiting on the patents to expire first?
Before big tech, there wasn't a race to the bottom for eyeballs and journalism was well funded enough to provide quality reporting.
no, what bs

that is except if the US want's to become a fascist authoritarian state then yes it could be vital for that.
I stole this from Wikipedia and changed it to past tense:

"There was a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there were five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley was headed straight for them. I was standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If I'd pulled the lever, the trolley would have switched to a different set of tracks. However, I noticed that there was one person on the side track. I had two (and only two) options:

1. Do nothing, in which case the trolley will kill the five people on the main track.
2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.

I went with the second option. AITA?"

Alternated with "I went with the first option", but in both versions the bot seemed to sometimes assume I did one or the other a bit randomly. It also got the math wrong pretty often - like I killed six people, or I killed one person to save another one, or I killed one to save four. Tricky!
Is it really surprising that a service that gained tons of subscribers due to lockdowns loses a lot of them again once the lockdowns end?
Software Engineer Expat Story – Part 2
If you use a steam turbines, the sodium would be potentially in contact with water easily, on different sides of the wall in the heat exchanger with a lot of surface area etc. I wonder if you used a CO2 turbine instead...
As a newcomer to this thread, just wanted to say thanks for bringing your domain expertise to this discussion even though you're certainly not obligated to do so. And, though I presume you've been paid for at least some of the work you've done on Linux UEFI support, thanks for that as well. I'm thankful that someone is willing to go to the trouble to make Linux relatively easy to boot and install on modern PCs, though I imagine the desktop Linux space isn't very lucrative.
A few years ago I made a conscious effort to improve my handwriting and got a few fountain pens, to me transitioning from D'Nealian to a Spencerian variant was pretty easy and I think the latter is faster, more legible, and more comfortable to write. Although the differences are more significant IMHO if using a fountain pen.
> By contrast, by maintaining all power in the hands of the small coterie of tech monopolies which control the internet and which have long proven their loyalty to the U.S. security state, the ability of the U.S. national security state to maintain a closed propaganda system around questions of war and militarism is guaranteed.

> The cynical exploitation could hardly be more overt: if you hate Putin the way any loyal and patriotic American should, then you must devote yourself to full preservation of the power of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
"When all you have is a hammer"?
Interesting page for brutalism lovers

> https://www.sosbrutalism.org
Penmanship and calligraphy, I think, are important to develop manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination & give you a way to express your individuality. The author talks about the standard font in cursive, but I learned many ways to make the letters F, X, M and more, that I felt made my writing unique among others.

I also don't think we've totally moved away from wet signatures, so they do have practical use as well.

Most non-architectural hand-writers write the letter “P” with a single stroke: draw a small loop and extend the side downward to form the stem.

I've got no architectural training, but I make my p's in two strokes (and my n's, for that matter, too).
I live northwest of Boston, bordering a wildlife refuge. I refuse to have cameras inside my house but the woods around it are well instrumented. I have many video clips documenting everything from 'buns' to bobcats, coyotes, foxes, and of course deer.

With regard to outdoor cats, they wouldn't last a fortnight around here. Too many predators now and I am thankful for that. As a result, the bird population borders on riotous in the spring.

I expect that we will see a bear before too long.

-edit- oh, but those ticks... I have a jumpsuit treated with permethrin for working out back.
A reserve currency must be stable.

The USA doesn't get to print 80% of money in the last 2 years and not expect crippling inflation and also the consequences to their reserve currency status.

If more countries or even the IMF/Worldbank switch like this as well. The USA will suddenly feel their government debt for the first time.
I can have 2 independent EFI boot partitions and use the computer's boot menu too choose which to boot from.

You don't need 2 EFI boot partitions for this -- you can have multiple boot loaders in the same EFI partition, each with its own entry in the boot menu. In fact, this is how I boot: the default entry boots the linux kernel directly from the EFI partition (some UEFI implementations require the kernel to have a .efi extension, others don't), and I have separate fallback entries for refind and shellx64 in case I need to boot with different kernel parameters.
What interest have they lied about and how has that impacted you?

I'm not trying to be snarky, I have a genuine interest in your perspective.
I have a theory that our brain is tied to hand muscles. Handwriting is one way to exercise them. Playing an instrument is another.
When Alon Levy was comparing transit construction costs in various places around the world they found that having in house experts was one of the biggest causes of low costs. Though see also this critique[1] of Boeing's massive outsourcing and compare to SpaceX.

[1]https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6974...
Typical pop-psychology bloviating: using bad reviews to discover good books
> The price for the two-hour-up, two-hours-gliding, and two-hour-down voyage, which ends with an ocean splashdown, is significantly less than Virgin Galactic tickets

No mention of the prices in the article, but from here (https://www.space.com/space-perspective-selling-seats-strato...) it looks like they're $125,000 apiece.
How is this not getting more ups? You directly pointed to sources.
I doubt this is true, because modern electronics are so highly integrated that it would be quite difficult to remove the SMD, or possibly BGA CPU/SOC, and particularly in a washing machine it would be encased in silicone or some other waterproofing.

I'm not sure why more-modular electronics are not more of a thing.

For example, blue-pill STM boards are very cheap, because they are produced in millions. Similarly for many other modules.

How is it cheaper to design and produce a relatively limited run of integrated, custom washing machine control electronics, instead of a simple 'baseboard' and a bunch of really-really-mass-produced modules?

The later modular design would be a boon for legibility, repairability, re-usability, supply-chain resilience, etc, etc.
Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells
Have you seen this guy?

"If you ain't burning a hundred pounds of copper wire, and strippin' a hundred more. Where the fuck you at?"

This is my fav video about this topic:

https://bit.ly/3vvSou4
you could also write a similar story about the predatory licensing of cplex and gurobi. when gurobi started their model was "we're the opposite of cplex, and we don't count cores". but they realized that wasn't making them enough money.
If a private corporation releasing an update to its code base to allow its own service to keep working brings us into WWIII... the root cause of the WWIII is definitely not the code update.
> "you have excellent eyes"

"good eyes" or "well spotted" would be more idiomatic, I think.
Couple of my favorite handwriting activities are writing in architectural font letters, and some bastard "gothic" I made up. With architectural fonts, the shapes slant diagonally a bit, so letter like P the half-circle points about 20 degrees up which makes it easer to separate it from the next letter and hence more legible.

The gothic font (along the lines what you get image searching "fraktur" or "gothic font") is good for some cards or signs or something, it's a bit slow to write, but because of the corners being so discontinuous it has a very distinct look to it. It doesn't really need a calligraphy pen either.
I've never really looked into speed-writing before now and after a quick google, it looks like you have to learn a whole new alphabet!

I wonder how long it takes to learn and be productive with one of the systems.
These people are Authoritarians in disguise. The war is on the little guy now.
Thanks, it does. I'm trying to conceptually understand how some of this works (completely devoid of any CS background other than basic code knowledge, but even that... Yikes). So this helps.
This guy should sell ready made crystal growing kits.
I’m flattered, but I stay away from partisan politics as they’re often tribalistic and devoid of principle. I have a handful of left-wing positions (e.g., universal healthcare, environmentalism, etc) and I remain open minded about left-wing positions, but mostly I’m a liberal in the philosophical sense—free speech, equality, human rights, democracy, etc (I have a few right-wing positions as well, like a general preference for market-based solutions). The BLM adjacent ideologies conflict with my liberal values.
See also: https://bit.ly/3vvSou4
AMEL IA here.

I've seen a lot of near-accident videos and they all show the initiation of the accident sequence and allow you to step through the process the PIC went through to either _cause_ and/or _get out of_ the incident. This video had none of those qualities. Trim for best glide speed? Nope. Head on a swivel looking for suitable alternates? Nope. The performative display of pumping the yoke? Engine is out and the pilot is trying to do what? Precipitate an aerodynamic stall?

I can think of very few disciplines that are more contradictory than the juxtaposition of aviation with the "influencer"/social media spectrum. Hopefully the FAA revocation of his certificate paves the way for law enforcement to look into fraud and other issues.
the definition of "expected work" is up to the manager. I'm not talking about prohibiting but voluntary agreements
Choose a successful SaaS product that you like or better that you use. Take a feature (or a couple of features) and create an open-source project that only does those features. Optimise on a specific direction. Performance for example. Performance is UX. Make it work very fast for the end-user.

Do this not in a big rush, but slowly. It is more important to work on this everyday than to spend a night to finish something.

Write about your journey while building this. Setup a simple technical blog (use write.as, hashnode.com, ... ) and document every few days a problem and how you think about solving that problem, your decision process and the solution you choose and implemented. Make sure you show the code there. I cannot underline this enough: do not invest time to setup your own blog. Use something existing, just focus on writing.

Use Github or Gitlab. Create there MRs/PRs and review them yourself. Then refactor based on your own reviews. This will show how you think but more than this it will contribute a lot on growing as a developer. Do the reviews first thing in the morning before starting working on the project so that you look at your code with fresh eyes. Ask for code reviews from other programmers if possible.
Remember that hate speech is NOT pejoratives.

It is free speech that the people in power hate.
"I never write cursive these days. Nobody writes it anymore. Nobody can read it, anyway. And I honestly couldn’t write it neatly anymore even if I tried. Cursive is obsolete."

This is a rediculous inference - I don't do it, therefore nobody does it and it's obsolete.

I for one, write in cursive every day, taking notes in a notebook/journal, and carry a fountain pen to do so. It's just such a nicer experience than writing in biro, which I refuse to do except when it's utterly unavoidable. I can appreciate I might be an outlier, but handwriting in fountain pen is a superior experience to even using an iPad, and this way I don't have to "print" my notes, they already exist in hard copy, and are resistant to bit-rot (save a deluge). I think writing by hand also engages a different part of me to the one that is engaged by typing on a computer. I'd recommend it to anyone.
I have no real interest in this. But I really appreciate this mans love of crystal growing and how well he is sharing it with others.
Rainbows, where you sweep around the hue circle, have plenty of room for artistic license. The basic problem is that you can’t make a blue anywhere near as bright as the brightest yellow you can make. If you try to maximize brightness some parts are darker and some brighter in a way that is meaningless, particularly for scientific visualization. If you keep the brightness constant, however, it never gets very bright and is unsatisfying that way.

I like Rainbow Dash’s tail in My little pony because the artist chose to let the brightness vary but did it deliberately so it is meaningful in color and B&W.
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I have close to zero knowledge about this, but I believe it may be because of different default color profiles?

On Linux, when I force Chrome to use sRGB (chrome://flags/#force-color-profile) it makes the colors identical to Firefox's. It doesn't seem to make a difference on MacOS though, the colors are always identical there
I'm generally in favor of idiots that do illegal things then posting video evidence of them online. I don't think it glorifies the act if YouTube then demonetized the video with a note & link back to the FAA's ruling. Showing stupid things & their consequences seems reasonable.
I think futuristic computer UIs in TV and films before computer graphics would make for a fascinating topic. For example, the computer UI in the BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy deserves a mention.

The low-budget series was broadcast in 1981 - a time when computer graphics were limited and not widespread in TV and film. All the "computer graphics" were hand animated to simulate a computer display. The "computer" graphics still stands up brilliantly more than 40 years later:

A clip:
https://youtu.be/iuumnjJWFO4?t=126
Raise taxes, close loopholes, fund and modernize the IRS, incentivize R&D and entrepreneurship, increase government spending and expertise, improve government auditing, cut defense spending graft, refill positions left vacant during the 2016-2020 state department staffing fiasco, fund childcare, expand Pre-K schooling, subsidize critical infrastructure build out, and nationalize some right of way land for infrastructure to start with. Sounds easy.
They are operating over Ukraine, not Russia. Very different circumstances. Much like supplying missiles for Ukraine to use is very different to supplying men.
Wasting a perfectly good airplane by crashing it into a national park. A stunt not worth watching, or enjoying.
It's not biased to moderate something like "vaccines cause autism".

It's been legally and scientifically established as outright misinformation. The genesis of that theory was a disgraced researcher who pushed fraudulent claims with misrepresented data. The paper was retracted for "scientific misconduct".

And yet now moderating false claims that have a detrimental effect on public health outcomes is seen as a "leftist government conspiracy".
502 seems like an insane number to me, I know most will have been micro satellites but just how crowded is it getting up there?
You (and they) forget the part where graphics cards play an intimate role in MBR or UEFI boot. And there still innumberable quite functional graphics cards that will never, ever, allow a system to boot under UEFI. GPUs are deeply integrated into the boot up process.

This is easy for IBM/Fedora to forget because GPUs probably don't matter much to them. They just take their intel integrated graphics on their workstation (or server) and go. And other linux devs are probably rich enough to buy a modern GPU.

But it is a huge issue and it'll not have become irrelevant for at least another decade. Not being able to boot MBR will break (and prevent) much more than the Fedora, LWN, or most of the threads here are aware of.
> I only stopped because some of my teachers couldn't read it.

Unlikely you'd get away with that in a European school, irrespective of how bad your writing is !

Here's a French newspaper article from 2012 bemoaning the fact that Calefornians are barely taught cursive. ;-) [1]

https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/11/28/01003-20121...
This helps. Thanks. I'm trying get a conceptual understanding of the relationship between "the server" (which I'm only just starting to understand) and the UI/UX.
Snowpack retires, creator recommends Vite instead
Snowpack creator Fred K. Schott (ex-Google, also creator of Pika, Skypack CDN, and Astro) announced on April, 20th 2022 that Snowpack, a next-gen build tool for the web, will not be actively maintained anymore.

It recommends as an alternative Vite by Evan You, creator of Vue.

Vite and Snowpack were for the last few years the two main options that developers had to have a fast local environment, relying on browser ESM support to rebuild only a subset of files that Webpack needs to rebuild.

While Fred didn't communicate yet about the move, it is probably rooted in the fact that Fred has other projects bringing the web forward and wasn't going to spend time working on Snowpack while Vite can now do everything that Snowpack does and more, like native production build support.
And to think I just cut down 2 branches of yaupon from my front yard last weekend.
There's plenty more though. (And it does grow quite prolifically.)
Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health: WHO guidance
I moved from the Midwest, with feet and feet of dirt and soil, to Upstate New York, with thin, rocky soil and shallow bedrock. The first time I went to plant a tree in my new yard, I dug down a short way and hit a good sized rock that I couldn't work out with my shovel. So I went to the store and got a pickaxe. After working around it for awhile, out popped a nearly perfect cube of rock.

It was a solid "OMG, Minecraft is REAL" moment.
I’d imagine there are quite a few studies that say the opposite? Is this study special? Larger sample size?
Define "we".
Who else puts shit to use?
>cross platform frameworks improved

No serious mobile application is built with a cross platform framework. It's a development strategy that relies on the product being "good enough".

Please prove me wrong. I would love to see counter-examples.
I picked up the wild ass french numeral 1 from living there in my youth. I still think it's more ambiguous than the english variants but I had so much trouble with people misinterpreting mine I switched and have never been able to shake it.

If you look up examples online they seem fairly reasonable. But in actual daily handwriting they are very extreme. It looks more like a stylized capital A than a number honestly.
I do pay federal income taxes which of that 3% is for transportation. If I were to look at per month of my salary ~$40 goes to transportation. So yes, I broadly pay $40/month to use the streets.
I don't believe it-- at least not the claim that it's actually "washing machines".

Has anyone ever looked at washing machine PCB's?

They're conformally coated with silicone. The whole control board with "the brains" is dipped into goo to protect it from the harsh, wet environment of a washer. The effect is that it makes component-level repair, let alone part-harvesting, intractable.
McKinsey will explain the clustermess.
I think it extends beyond "do development of software in a lean way", and should also include "make more things configurable with software/firmware instead of hardcoded in hardware". In the starlink case, I imagine they could somehow reconfigure the SDR on the device to get around jamming.

If instead the entire chain were done in hardware, then making these kinds of changes would be rather difficult.

At the same time, if more things are software more things become targets, so you need to care much more about the actual security of these kinds of update systems.
If it is a good name, I think it is only a matter of time before someone gets it. You might as well, if you like the name.

Of course, I have absolutely no idea if that is a good business move. On the other hand, you'd be doing a service to anyone who bookmarked that website by adding a note about the transition somewhere on the new site. I like Hard_Space's suggestion too. This is coming from seeing what happened with Ian Murdock's website. Thankfully, a copy of it is also hosted at https://ianmurdock.debian.net
What definition of "sex" is being relied upon here? I looked it up to see if there was some novel definition that means something other than male/female, and there is not:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sex

I'm sure the fungus and the pioneering slime mold that had 23k sexes have high numbers of something related to reproduction, but it seems silly to construe them as sexes
It is bascially about

- What hopes and promises stand behind the technology and which problems they are supposed to solve.

- An accessible introduction of the inner workings of the actual technology and their possibilities and limitations.

- Are blockchain-based solution the only possibility to address the problem? If not, what are alternatives and substitutes?

- What is the reality behind the promises?
A subjective evaluation of the technology based on the items above.

- A list of questions to ask yourself or an expert, before investing (financially or technologically) into that particular layer.
I was taught cursive when all kids were still being taught it, and I also switched back to block letters when we all stopped using paper. The act of writing cursive is so fluid, like written parkour, that I think when we finally master it, it bonds with the flow of our thoughts. When I write in block letters I get impatient and frustrated; my thinking writing energy is scraped out in chunks. It's like violence against the wrists. I never feel like I'm writing down my thoughts, and I can almost sense my train of thought disappearing while I'm still capturing the earlies pieces of it. Cursive lets that energy flow continuously, guided into shapes rather than forced.
Probably a bit more sophisticated than that involving patterns of frequency changing at certain intervals, but essentially.