skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entropy (differences) are an objective quantity which can be measured, there is no subjectivity about it. It is not which parameters you know it is about which parameters you hold fixed.
tbf, that's not really surprising : EU recently banned sales of ICE engines starting by 2030.

I think a lot of carmakers are going to make this move. Given the time needed to develop those projects, I think really few carmakers are working on new ICEs right now.
FWIW I rather like timelinize as a product name. I could instantly understand what it meant.
Why would facebook block an open source initiative, considering that they've contributed a ton of open source software (react, graphql, pytorch, etc)? The more simple explanation is that an automated detector misclassified the link because it shares patterns with spam links.
Freedom must be protected by good legislation, otherwise you end up with situations like wage slavery[0] or a food desert[1]. More freedom for companies could easily mean less freedom for the people. Although I concede the point that basically any country is in a better shape than NK in this regard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Why is that, if I may ask? Do you print all your e-books? I find PDF to be an inferior format for consumption on a screen.
If you've never used Go, then writing a Terraform provider is a really bad way to start learning.

Why do you think you need to write your own provider? Most people use the large ecosystem of prebuilt providers, and never write a single line of code
Unless you can exhaustively guarantee your customer-data containing production data will definitely be transformed into something completely unrecognisable and irreversible (and let's face it, you can never do so - systems change all the time), using this is irresponsible. The fact that the motivation for it is that it is "tedious" to do the right way doesn't exactly inspire confidence, though it is definitely in the spirit of the times.
Slightly Off Topic: I recently began having the urge to measure and record everything that is measurable in my day to day life. I do not know why it started, but if I stop doing it, I feel guilty. Maybe this kind of behaviour has (or needs) a name?
If you can afford it then you are likely to continue vs in Europe when rates go up people default. So it should improve default rates. In the US you can refinance when rates go down for free while European fixed rated have early repayment penalties usually. So its a free option. So it has a number of advantages even if rates can be high if long term rates are high.
Not always, mine's locked.
This is how I have come to understand entropy. The words disorder and order are a proxy for information content.

> If you know more about the system, it has less entropy.

One question though. When you say "it" does it include you as well as the system or just the system? To me "it" includes both because by it is "you" who's state has changed by acquiring more information. It could be in the form of neuronal rearrangement or bits being stored in some digital media etc., A new information content has thus been created.

There's an interesting side effect if one thinks deep enough here. The system will keep changing its state so the information one is out of date thus leading to more disorder (i.e., information loss) and increased entropy. One can keep the information updated but it takes energy. And I read somewhere that the energy thus used will lead to increase in overall entropy of the universe and thus the 2nd law.
That looks like a crash waiting to happen.
WasteWATER*. I hate when titles leave important things out to make them sound worse than they are. This is about WATER waste.
Indeed, it felt more like damage control.

It felt like many on HN didn't buy it either, and it is a pattern seen so often with many a company.
Name five that are permitted in a cockpit?
Meanwhile you could use you.com and qwant.com
Previous mention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644350
Which Big Corp though? The provider or the consumer? The dilemma is, this all feels like a bit of a Boy's Club where they all agree to just help each other and ignore the little people. Not always formally, it's just how things work out. They have an interest in maintaining the status quo and ignoring upstart-startups.

Of course, eventually yes it's impossible to ignore the value gap. But I've seen companies threaten to leave but keep paying the bills for many years because in a big company, it's not really anyone's problem in particular and it's easier to just keep going along to get along. One example we had was B2C email communications, there are so many cheaper more capable players out there but they just got us to do it because we did other stuff for them.
It's one of main the reasons that mainland China and Taiwan have orders of magnitude fewer deaths per capita than most places in the world.
There are lots of free software synths out there. One of the best is https://vital.audio/
Another really good one is https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
> but they've been at this for two months and so far nobody's been able to make them stop

Not true. The Ukrainians made their Kiyv front stop.
Can't you just MITM a login and use the login token? The login flow never materially changes (it's always the same two credentials), that seems like way less of a pain than whatever this OAuth flow is supposed to be.
I think this comment is significantly more insightful than the article.

As for the thing you don't get: quantum mechanics means that the state space is actually discrete, which means there is no need to pass to a continuous distribution. And finiteness is not really a concern either: first of all it is not strictly necessary for the (Gibbs) entropy to be defined, and secondly the space state is actually often finite once e.g. the total energy in the system is fixed.
I don't understand, is this a story about someone receiving a phone call? Or are you implying a call from his wife wasn't actually important?
> Have you been following what is going on in Taiwan in terms of covid?

Yes. It's where I've been from the beginning of the pandemic, all through last year, during the original SARS outbreak in 2002 and most of the years in between. The current wave is more contagious but quite a bit less lethal than the delta outbreak that Taiwan successfully stopped last summer via contact tracing and limited restrictions.
The image near the top of the post suggests that he's written 78 books!
That's like saying we don't need laws against physical punishment at workplace, after all, you simply have the freedom to not sign a contract with an employer who beats their workers with a stick, right? In fact why have any regulation around employment, you are free to pick where you work, do you not?
> > But sure, their approach has a huge impact on the ecosystem.

> And this is the political dimension of systemd. One they keep using to shape the ecosystem to their preference.

Any highly successful project is political then. Linux developers in particular force their kernel and their views on how a kernel should behave and be designed down the throats of their users.

... Obviously you have your say when people choose to use your stuff. But then that's fine, you are the expert in your domain. Who else is better placed than you? If people use your stuff, probably preferences are shared.

Or they are locked-in (through network effect for instance). But the systemd folks are not out there having an evil agenda they force the ecosystem into. They solve their problems and people do happen to adopt their stuff. They do seem to have a very "if it's broken, fix it" approach but that seems to work out quite well. Sure that's not always comfortable but I find it somewhat refreshing.
> Mine is fixed for 20 on a 30 year mortgage

In the United States we don't call that "fixed". We call that an adjustable rate mortgage. For example, my mortgage is fixed at 3% for its entire 30 year term and can properly be called "fixed".

People in the United States are leery of ARMs after what happened during the mortgage crisis in 2006-2011 so proper labeling is more important.
Also, most of the cases in Taiwan were imported from Taiwanese Americans who returned from overseas schools.

Then ofcourse the famous pilot from China.

Taiwanese people have always been comfortable with face masks because of being on scooters and the dust.
> UTF-16 is great for lots of East Asian languages, which billions of people use. In UTF-8, most of those languages require 3 bytes to encode a 32-bit codepoint, in UTF-16 they only ever need 2. This ends up being a huge savings.

"Only ever" is an exaggeration. The vast majority of standard Chinese (aka. Putonghua) characters are in the BMP, but occasionally there are characters outside of it. In particular a lot of Hong Kong characters are outside of the BMP, and before emoji forced software to fix things, systems claiming to support UTF-16 (but were instead UCS-2) kept failing for say 1% of the characters.

I've had much better luck with UTF-8 systems than purported UTF-16 ones. The problem with UTF-16 is not necessarily in its inherent technical issues, but rather, it's how often systems with UCS-2 support just claim they support UTF-16, and leave users/developers with a crappy experience when working with characters outside the BMP. There's also the encoding agnosticism thing -- with UTF-16 you run into issues about byte order marks (with or without), endian problems, and generally incompatibility with ASCII.

As I said, the situation probably improved quite a bit after emoji became popular. But if I had the choice, I'd choose UTF-8 over UTF-16 any time.

Also, although it's generally true that you "can't store UTF-8 in something expecting ASCII", in practice a lot of systems are somewhat more graceful than that. For example, if I grep a UTF-8 text file, grep doesn't need to know the text encoding if all you're trying to find is an ASCII string. Similarly it's possible to edit a UTF-8 text file as an ASCII file if the editor preserves the "binary" bits.

In conclusion, "different encodings are good at different things" is only true when considered in isolation. The historical baggage of UCS-2, and separately, of ASCII-compatibility tilts the balance strongly in favor of UTF-8 IMHO. The alleged 33% saving in Chinese text doesn't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things -- which is perhaps why people use UTF-8 in spite of the "advantages" you mentioned.
Author needs more education/experience on setting up and using a db.

Headline writers need more nuance.
I hope matrix can avoid this fate. The federation can of course be limited, but currently it seems like most users are federated. And they have plans to combat spam etc. https://element.io/blog/moderation-needs-a-radical-change/
Ask HN: How to protect digital information if there is a nuclear war
Being located in Europe it suddenly seems a possibility that nuclear attacks could happen. It occurred to me that the storage of digital information possibly could be at risk during or after a nuclear incident. (This question obviously assumes one is located at some distance from strategic targets.) An online search didn't immediately help me answer this question. Does anyone know? Any difference for HDD or SSD?
It's a property of information so if you assume perfect information, of course it becomes trivial.
I'd imagine that dealing with malnutrition in children maximises quality of life as well as the binary alive/dead distinction.
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.eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain. They probably just have some rules around which domains tend to be spam/scam/bs
Even then, terms and conditions apply. See this user's experience here[0], where they report that the repair services locked the phone after purchase.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166871
> Download Mac OSX

Oh, one of my tiniest pet peeves. The last time the OS was called "Mac OS X" was ten years ago, and even that was spelled differently.
You don't have to listen to what the parties are saying. Look at what they are doing.

Consider the change in the amount and type of arms sent in support to Ukraine over the course of the war. I think that reflects a change in the true assessments of the possible outcome of the war.
It's astounding the Boeing board haven't fired the upper management wholesale to reinstate an engineer-led culture instead of this horrid beancounter brigade. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1997-merger-paved-way-boeing-...
I think the propaganda aspect is not so much about the performance of the Russian military (on any objective measure, it's been very bad), but rather on the claims that the Russian military is unusually brutal and indiscriminate, and the complete amnesia when it comes to similarly brutal, indiscriminate practices by other militaries.

For example, the reason why Mariupol is such a wreck is because that is what a city looks like, after weeks of urban warfare. That's what Falujah looked like. That's what Mosul looked like. It's not that the Russians are evil bogeymen - it's simply that if you're trying to take a city, you either have to wreak havoc on that city, or you have to take unsustainable casualties.

When you see images of people with their hands tied dead in a basement somewhere, that's what counterinsurgency looks like. When you see kids missing arms, that's what aerial bombardment looks like. When you see hospitals get bombed, civilian cars getting riddled with bullets, this is all what war looks like.

The propaganda aspect is simply that when those cars were Iraqi cars, those people with their hands tied were Afghanis, or those kids were from Syria, we never saw those pictures. So now, every talking head goes on about how brutal the Russians are being, as if it was in the nature of the Russian military, rather than simply in the nature of war itself.
Make Catch-ups happen in different timezones
If you're swamped with cases, only the dominant route of transmission matters. When you're going for zero cases, then all routes of transmission matter.

US policy is to tolerate a high level of transmission in the community, so CDC's advice will be very different from advice given by public health authorities in counties that don't tolerate transmission.
We (Sinan and Maciej) started off like any couple of young guys after a few drinks, setting ourselves a goal to “Change the World”.

Except the next morning we were still determined to chase this goal. So to try and figure out how we were going to change the world, we said to each other: “Let’s Ketchup”.

So we decided to “ketchup” regularly with the goal to change the world. We set ourselves some rituals and commitments as part of our ketchup (mainly just for fun, first). Over time, we iterated on our process and our ketchup developed and evolved.

Now, after 3017920 minutes (over 40 “ketchups”), AND each of us moving countries/timezones multiple times.

We always made it happen
We always made it meaningful

In the last year and a half, we have also started having regular ketchups with other groups of friends with different goals, some as simple as “just to stay in touch”. And again, we have found that with these other friends we also managed to ketchup and:

Always make it happen
Always make it meaningful

Finally, as self-proclaimed “energy engineers”, we realized we really know how to “ketchup”. We know how to make it happen and make it meaningful, and now we are looking forward to sharing our secrets… and finally “Change the World”.
1. The page described is a license management page without user-generated content, so what purpose would a CSP serve besides preventing valid end-user fiddling?

2. YAGNI, in my experience.

3. That's a lot more code than onsubmit="handler(event)", and you've lost the ability to see what the form is doing by reading the HTML.

5. type=submit is semantic and helps the browser provide default behavior like submitting the form when you press enter.
> Oh, that tiny little detail where it has become impossible for almost anyone to actually send email from home, either because residential IPs are all marked as spam, or because your provider is giving you an incomplete internet connection that blocks outgoing SMTP.

Well, by "provider" I was referring to the hosting provider. I wouldn't typically recommend hosting from home [0]. Apart from the issues you identified, over the course of 20 years I've moved house multiple times so would have had email downtime and likely had to change IP address, likely leading to reputation starting again from zero (at best) or picking up an IP with bad history (much worse).

> Can someone tell me why providers ever thought it was a good idea to block entire IP ranges?

If you repeatedly receive spam from multiple IPs within a given ASN, and the abuse contact is non-functional or doesn't actually resolve the problem, it is fairly reasonable to consider that the ASN is friendly to spammers. Blocking by prefix rather than entire ASN is a bit less of a sledgehammer, but follows the same logic.

[0] If you own your house, have no plans to move any time soon, and can get a connection from a provider who is willing to give you a stable static IP that isn't categorised as 'residential/dynamic' by the major lists, hosting from home should be fine. But that's quite a few 'if's.
Indeed. If you don't like it, prepare to get into a lot of arguments. EKS/Helm providers in combination with controllers are wild. It forces you to understand every little facet your cluster if _anything_ goes wrong.
That's the name I think of every time someone talks about constant writing. He admits that he is emotionally very stable and doesn't suffer of ups and downs as most of the other writers.
There are countries where neither solar nor wind are a viable options.
We are in the middle of a fertilizer shortage [1]. I guess that could speed things up

On the other side that type of farming would probably not be competitive in the global market, so implementing those measures would require detaching from global supply chains when it comes to the food markets, and develop local production of food just for consumption.

[1] https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2022/03/fertilizer-price...
Same thing than what they do when a customer doesn’t pay his bills. Perhaps keep the data for some time before deleting it.
Ideally apps should be ported using Haiku's native GUI.
That's really interesting. Is it normal in UK (thinking £) to get such an extremely short (introductory) loan and then refinance every few years? In Germany, most people take a 10y fixed rate at least to reduce such risk.
Facebook is fighting against the "huge target on its back" effect. The bigger of an audience you are, the more interest there is in posting abusive content, whether it's spam, trolling, or something else.

The result is usually that you end up digging a bigger and bigger moat around your submission and curation process, so that your service is not completely flooded with crap.

I think this is what you are seeing here, rather than censorship of this specific link or cause.

I once posted a URL to a forum site I was developing for a community to Facebook, and somehow it set off the spam detector. For the next several months, I would get regular notices that a comment I left on another group's discussion was marked as spam, and was not visible to anyone else. I was posting regular comments, without links, apolitical, not critical of anyone, just adding to the discussion.

The notices have since stopped, but I still rarely get any response to my comments, and anything I post to my profile's feed usually gets "ignored" completely, while in the past I'd get a pretty stable number of likes from friends (in the low double digits or high single digits.)

As someone who has moderated a decent size sub-reddit in the past, I understand that there's no malicious intent on Facebook's part in this. They are just so much bigger than this one individual that they simply cannot see me, the same way I cannot see a bacteria, and may not notice a tiny gnat.
Not everything in crypto is a Ponzi scheme
That cut of the rent ends up being around all of the cash flow for a newly bought property, and in many markets ends up being more than the initial cash flow. It’s a second job with irregular on-call.
https://nitter.net/patdennis/status/1518637225789042688
You're right of course but 3rd party seem to be the great majority, so blocking them is a big easy win. Also, only 3rd party cookies can track between domains/sites, so that stops that, or so I believe.
You have your second clause wrong. Move "swear under penalty of perjury" to after the part about accuracy. Perjury only applies to the claim that you're authorized to act for the copyright that is being allegedly infringed.
Writing Envoy WASM Filters the Hardest Way (Part 2): LLVM IR
I’m a fan of the quality-cost graph which shows “technological innovation” hugely increasing cost for any given level of quality.
An example was Gosling Emacs written in C by James Gosling (who later developed Java). He added his own adhoc scripting language: Mocklisp.

Instead of using a real Lisp, he invented his own, poorly.

Stallman later rewrote Gosling's Emacs: he added a Lisp runtime with real GC and a Lisp, which was based on Maclisp.

That's now GNE Emacs.
Ah, right.

I could also have picked 30 years for a 'real' fixed mortgage. It just gets a bit more expensive. But it's definitely possible to get 30 year fixed if you really want to, every bank offers it.

In the Netherlands an 'adjustable rate mortgage' means monthly, quarterly or yearly variable rates.
Ah, Asia, that homogenous landmass where everyone and every country wants the same thing

> Who said people want liberty above all else? Freedom requires responsibility

I have many photos on my phone of people wearing facemasks but not helmets on their scooters

> Worry about the host of problems in America, because Asia is doing just fine

The old America/Asia dichotomy!

> Asia is doing just fine

How "Asia" is doing is exceptionally country-specific
> One reason they are not removing it is because the government does not want to be seen as being "wrong" about covid policy.

I'm in Taiwan and this doesn't track. Taiwan has succeeded because they have continually adjusted according to research. They were always ahead of the game, having been the ones to alert the WHO of the existence of Covid (see the timeline [1]).

There are a lot of politics here, like anywhere. Opponents to the current administration are looking for an edge to break through what's been a phenomenal response from the government. The challengers' chance will come eventually, but I'm not sure it will come as a result of the government's handling of this pandemic. In my opinion, the challengers' attempts to win small battles over which-day-quarantine-should-be-discarded is likely to make them appear more frantic than organized. Rather than organizing, they've been wasting breath over minor quibbles week after week for the entirety of the last two years. It's really kind of unfortunate because instead of competing with better ideas, they keep trying to undermine, yet in doing so they have mostly undermined themselves.

[1] https://taiwancanhelp.us/
They definitely are, as long as the union itself isn't compromised by that second group.
Do you think houses are most commonly inherited or worked for?
there's that plus i think a bunch of boomers (like my parents) took it as a sign to retire.
This seems to be the agreed upon uniform story between the various Chinese posters: it's not the strategy, it's the incompetent local Shanghai officials! It's neat, they used the same thing in the UDSSR many times.

But it seems unless you bring the China-style lockdown to every other part of the world outside China, it will just keep happening over and over again.