skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no actual racism there though, even if there is a lot of islamophobia. The answer about jews seems to actually be sort of balanced in that it makes no generalising statement about them, actually arguing against that. It does read as if it's just something someone has said at some point, or maybe a paraphrasing of it.

Islamophobia is very popular in the west, and it has been for hundreds of years. I don't think it's very reasonable to expect any agent trained on common discourse to have no islamophobia at all.

It's also not very shocking to hear an opinion that religion is associated with violence, that's been a commonly held opinion for decades at least. It seems overly focused on islam, but that might be due to it being biased to the past two decades where the rise of the internet coincided with the rise of tensions between the west and several islamic organisations.
> 100W is about what a human produces at rest.

Which is why humans are quite "warm to the touch", so yes, you'd definitely feel that.
"What's and adblocker" - my Grandma.

Well, you know a phone book? And, you know how if you want to phone someone, you tend to look up their number in a phone book?

"Yes"

Well, computers are the same. They only know numbers, they're computers after all, and DNS maps the names you see for websites, to numbers, so computers can find the website.

"Uh, OK"

The adblocker I am going to install, makes it impossible for the computer to see the numbers for advetisers. It can't find them in its phone book any more. So, no ads!

Now grandma understands how DNS works, and what some adblockers do.

Some things are not as technically complex as we think they are.
Wavelet transforms!
I'm not following crypto too closely, but I'm interested. Reading this, I wondered whether this would increase demand of BTC, in turn raising its price. El Salvador adopted BTC as legal tender in September 2021, which is also the start of a big rise in BTC price from around 40k to almost 60k, but this then dropped back again to pre-September 2021 levels.

Does anyone know whether this rise was related to El Salvador adopted BTC, and can we expect to see the same thing happening here?
I find it… curious that the Self Service [0] website of famously brand-conscious Apple is dog-ugly, generic, and has no Apple branding whatsoever.

[0]: https://www.selfservicerepair.com/home
This was my experience as well. I went to the same dentist office for years with no issues. He sold the practice so we went to the new guy...every single time we went in there was a cavity that needed to be filled.

Went to a new dentist and everything is fine again.
> who here actually learned anything inside a highschool classroom

Perhaps my junior and senior high schools, in the south west England in the late '60s, early '70s, were better than yours, or perhaps they just suited me better than yours suited you, but I learned a lot. We also did Shakespeare but I don't remember anyone having to memorize it unless they were actually putting on a play.
If you are just testing, grab an AzureAD development account.

If you want something more permanant Keycloak is probably your best bet. I'm not aware of any other truly free ones
> idle power consumption was about 0.4-0.5kW while everyone was sleeping at night

Thats quite high, I'll be checking our inverter now as its an air source heater and air con unit rolled into one.

Our biggest energy savers have been one of these (https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-digital-immersion-timer/1804r...) at shoulder height in an easy to access location, on for 1.5hrs during the last part of Economy 7 night time tariff and then switched on when ever hot water is needed on a demand driven basis, switched off when its finished with although it cuts out after 1 or 2hrs anyway if we forget.

Thing is most appliances have a timer and heat water when it needs it, so they go on during Economy 7 anyway.

Talking to a washing machine/tumble dryer engineer the other day, the condensing tumble dryers seem to be energy saving because they dont heat the clothes up so a saving is made by not shrinking the clothes exposed to too much heat and they run at ambient air temps extracting moisture so the dry clothes much like hanging them out on the line.

The other major energy saver which means we dont have the air con on during the summer months in the UK (desert climate location in the UK - yes one exists believe it or not) is these black out blinds.
https://www.blocblinds.co.uk/window_blinds/blocout_info?sour...

They sit flush with the internal wall so you can still have stuff on your window ledge, but by being flush with the internal wall means its more like triple glazing. They keep the warmth in during the winter because its very cold over night in the countryside and they keep the heat out during the summer so much so that some days when I would have put the air con on, I dont need to, or I only put the air con on for the afternoon, its temperature controlled anyway so it cuts in when it wants. And when the air con is on, the whole house is at 18 degrees C according to the downstairs central heating thermostat, its at the top of the stairs keeping bedrooms cold and the cold sinks down the stairs which keeps the downstairs cold, thats works brilliantly especially during heatwaves!

You also get fantastic sleep during the summer months as well! Cant stress that enough! We all have individual bedrooms due to different work schedules and I love my sleep, but you cant see anything in the room at midday in the middle of summer, you cant even see your hand in front of your face, they block out that much light. Its bliss!

Those have been our two biggest energy savers, and we have solar panels, a loft full of insulation, insulated cavity walls, fancy gas in the double glazing etc etc. Little short of dumping some of the time saving gadgets, I dont think we could save any more energy.
DuckDuckGo: App Tracking Protection for Android
Feels appropriate to say that Hylang is in version 1.0 alpha:

https://github.com/hylang/hy/releases/tag/1.0a4

That's Lisp over Python -- you can do data science properly in Lisp now using all you favourite Python packages.

I repeat you can do data science properly in Lisp now.
If anything, I've seen the start of the reverse happening. The warts are starting to show on the pure SPA approach, and people are either finding ways to do more SSR with the SPA tools, or taking new approaches like LiveView in Phoenix or Hotwire in Rails to provide richer experiences while still generating HTML on the server.

The heyday of "SPA is the right approach for everything" feels like it peaked at least a few years ago.
Ok, so we're talking more like on-but-idle rather in sleep mode? Still seems like a lot, but more reasonable.
The last one also got tartar removed at all dentists according to the article. Probably him I was thinking of.

Wonder if this is the original I was thinking about, from 10 years ago. Crazy difference in what they get recommended based on the dentist. https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/kJqKj/samme-tenner-helt-f...
Frameworks like React and Vue allow me to define the UI as a function of state in a declarative way. The language happens to be JS. Please tell me how this can be done in vanilla JS without writing my own framework. I don't think it's possible. In my opinion they are not comparable, they both serve different goals.
We have a 24 hour period to defy causality with instantaneous travel and the scientific community is already expecting and prepared to run some experiments. This is no time for selfish self serving questions.
If carmakers have realized that the worm has turned, they can ditch both the hardware and software by offloading onto the smartphone. Pretty good guess that anybody buying a $$ car has a smartphone, and replacing a smartphone is way easier than replacing a piece of the dash. Maybe dealers hope people will replace cars every 2-3 years rather than drive around with busted dash hardware?

All that's needed is a good audio system and a means of connecting to the smartphone. And, if people aren't into really good sound, then a not-crap audio system that can play voice well.
Those cable TV boxes that they give out are terrible outdated cheap pieces of shite and have notoriously bad power consumption.

Considering it is impossible to know what kind of appliances folks have in their homes the article is odd.
There's an energy monitor with 16 CT clamps included, you put one on each of the circuits coming from the fuse board. 16 is more than enough for most UK houses, which would at least let you know which circuits are consuming the power.
I had a sugery for a common issue performed, as it happens, by the ex head of some surgeons union type organisation in my country (Ireland). The established technique has an uncommon but not so uncommon tendency to have issues where you just dont heal properly. I was unlucky and I didn't heal. I spent a year being tended by various nurses and reviews etc etc and when I finally started to research it myself I found there was a new far better surgical method available, but the guy who did my surgery was old and hadn't kept up to date. I found a surgeon who specialised in the new method and I was fully healed and done forever in a couple of months.

They might be an expert, but it's your (literal) skin in the game.
Balsa: Learning a Query Optimizer Without Expert Demonstrations
The imperative mood/future tense ("this commit will...") makes the commit the subject of the message, the past tense makes the developer the subject of the message. In my (limited, personal) experience, the people who insist on past tense commit messages have more trouble killing their darlings, are more likely to take review comments personal, and are more likely to view (part of) the codebase as theirs rather than the team's.

So for me, it's not about the commit message itself, but the communication style says something about the developer and how I best approach them.

My take on this requirement is that it helps developers let go of their attachment to the code they've written.
The small video on imgur, which makes it a little easier to zoom in, but it's pretty low res:

https://imgur.com/a/BRmYDfF

https://i.imgur.com/2U1JvXd.mp4
Very nice paper! For useful background on neural prediction, see "The brain is a Peirce engine" - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7651
> the mathematical objects we generally refer to as "numbers" have no constructive basis.

Eh? I’m confused by your terminology here.

You can construct the set of Real numbers using Dedekind cuts. Less conventionally, you can construct the Surreal numbers, and find the Reals as a subset.
This is such a silly metaphor I am going to ignore it and answer the initial question.

Why? Because the things I personally value in my life and health are not always aligned with the things doctors try to optimize for.

I’ve told the story here a number of times but my tonsils swelled up to the size of grapefruit a number of years ago. After 6 months of steroids and having them drained I wanted them removed. My doctor did not think it was necessary, even though I was living in misery. I ended up just going to a doctor about an hour away and had them out within the week.
Not many people here are distinguishing between online learning and online classrooms.

In my experience from observing my own children who universally despise online classes, Khan Academy has been excellent (with the exception of their Physics curriculum which is a complete mess.) I have no doubt that if I enrolled them in the 'classes' that they would absolutely hate it, especially based on that Daily Seminar image that looks like a Zoom meeting.

With the shift to enrolled classes it seems like they are pivoting towards the Educational Industrial Complex, which is unfortunate. That discourages me from donating to them again. Although I am always happy to pay for quality learning material and workbooks I'm not interested in supporting online classrooms.
The "private markets" right now are probably depressed, given that ABG is suing and kind of shitting on them? If they want a position in Bolt I feel like it would be the long view.
Scfg – A simple configuration file format
I still think it's a shame.

But, HN needs to add emojis to the upvote so I can say that you made me smile without the effort of actually writing a comment!
They're still being used. A newer, optimized JPEG encoder, mozJPEG[0], seems to use progressive encoding by default. I suspect with faster internet speeds, most JPEGs download and decode so fast that the cool 'enhance' animation is rarely seen anymore.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
Never thought of that, will that really work? I might have a spare router lying around to test it. Thanks!
> Dentists don’t remove wisdom teeth, they just refer you to an oral surgeon

Bit of a meaningless distinction if they're in the same office.
On a societal level, once heating, industry, public services and transportation are accounted for, we consume around 500-1000W per person. Saving a few Watts per family is a rounding error. We're talking about the power output of a solar panel the size of an A4 paper

This is a failure of state's energy policy, trying to pass the blame on regular citizens
Maps names of websites? I don't know what that means.
Timmy showed me The Amazon and the egg cooker from there worked wonderfully so I don't want an ad blocker.
But it made a chosen few people richer, what more could you possibly want?
Again if your goal is to mandate "not Chrome" it doesn't follow that specifically Safari should be the only option on iOS devices. More likely the goal for users is to prevent is a set of activity, e.g. Chrome is doing, via policy and actively promote choice/competition. This is exactly how things are being legislated in Europe and is a better option than supporting just 2 inevitable options depending on the device the user owns.
My house uses about 1500-1800kWh per month. We just bought it though and are working to get it efficient.
> they just refer you to an oral surgeon

Perhaps in the US where they drug you down? Here the dentist just gives you a local anesthetic and pry them out, unless there is something extraordinary. Or perhaps it's a different person? But still the same company getting the money.
I expect him fully to pull out of europe if EU demands unreasonable levels of hate speech removals. He will try to make an example of it.
I switch them off to prevent large corporations from spying on me.
Take a look at this - https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html, it may give you a different perspective :)
Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt
They do. All new smart meters come with an IHD (In Home Display). It shows real-time use in kWh or £.
Hylang – Lisp for Python v1.0 alpha ready
Perhaps the approach from the US-ians is: Free Speech is that I can say what I want without risk. Those who I approve can say what they want without risk. People I don't like or things I don't like to hear can't be said and there's no risk in such restrictions.

Which, I think, isn't what was intended but that was then and this is now.
The specific case I'm thinking of was an Advantech AIMB-274 with a Mini-Box PSU (I don't remember which one). I was evaluating this setup for inclusion in a battery powered mobile robot; in particular we needed to decide whether the computer could be hooked up to the battery full time or if there needed to be a relay in between them in order to preserve the battery when the robot was "off". The answer turned out to be that we very much needed to disconnect the computer.

Admittedly this is not a consumer PC or a "modern" gold/bronze-designated power supply, but I still thought it was pretty significant.
I don't entirely disagree, but I partially disagree.

Personally I was desperate in March 2020 (as were my colleagues) for any tips about what would work online. I didn't want my classes to suck, nor did my colleagues. There was very little information available at the beginning about what worked.

But what's worse (and what makes me disagree with your comment) is that even after a year of being online it still wasn't clear how to make it not suck! Basically no one had discovered anything which made students like it OR perform well.

I polled my students every midterm and final exam (and gave them actual points for their answers!) on whatever they had found to work in any of their online classes. Collectively they were exposed to several hundred other professors at my university. While they did have some suggestions (which I did implement), nothing really worked.
When a culture/society becomes intensely class-stratified and divides into an aristocratic (British posh) and serf (British prole) structure, this kind of educational system (one tier for the aristocrats, another for the serfs) is very likely to arise. It may not be 'by design' as much as something that develops over time and becomes an unconscious social norm.

The driving force behind this is that the well-paid jobs requiring certain skills like facility with maths, excellent reading and writing and verbal communication (presentation) skills, etc. end up being reserved for members of the aristocratic class and are obtained more by social connections than by some open competitive process. These include professions like lawyers, corporate managers, etc.

Hence, the educational programs for the serfs are cut down to the bone (as the serfs are not going to need those skills in their jobs as assembly line workers, miners, agricultural field hands, janitors, etc.). This of course helps perpetuate the class division in such stratified societies. Incidentally, encouraging contempt for education and skill development in the serf class is part of this whole problem. "What, do you think you're smarter than everyone else?" etc. Kids getting bullied for getting straight A's etc.

There has always been a strange borderland between these two zones, however, where the technologically adept can arise and prosper. Michael Faraday is perhaps the best example of a member of the serf class who broke the pattern.
Need for... what? To survive? To get a job?

Need is always relative to a goal, so what you are saying there is there is no legitimate goal for which learning Lisp would be an appropriate step.
Paper: https://zongheng.me/pubs/balsa-sigmod2022.pdf
Oh, an ESR follower. Kinda curious about how he is after the pandemic.
Thanks. I wish I had the time, experience and the brainpower to dive into that and build some Joe Public tools to play around with AudioCLIP.
Curious, I've run into this approach in the past and learned to hate it with passion.

That place used JIRA where the typical ticket ID was around 10 characters. That wasted a lot of prime real estate, e.g. in my email inbox, in history views (tig, gitk, and so on).

I also don't see the claimed benefit for git blame. In a real code base with significant history, it happens often enough that the first blame is an unrelated refactoring and you need to dig deeper. Therefore, I find that best practice is to look at the blamed commit first instead of the ticket. That gives you the full commit message, which can still contain a reference to an issue.

Putting footer lines like "Fixes: <issue>" into commit messages works much better. It's just as easily visible in git log etc. and doesn't waste space.
Brisk walkers live longer, research suggests
I had a wisdom tooth removed by a dentist within the last 5 years. This was in the United States, for what it’s worth.
As stated on Apple’s Self-Service support page (https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair):
“The online store is operated by a third-party provider authorized by Apple to sell genuine Apple parts and tools.”

Seems similar to Apple’s trade-in program. The trade-in website is operated by a third-party and (in my experience) notoriously ‘un-Apple’.
I went to the same dentist for years as a child. Brushed my teeth once a day, never had any issues at all. All of sudden, during a regular checkup, he told my parents (I was ~15 at the time) that I had 9 cavities and needed fillings. In the 20 years since, I have never had a single cavity. And what a shock, he sold his practice between that procedure and my next checkup. I fully believe he was just pumping up his revenue to increase the sale price, and my parents weren't health literate enough to get a second opinion, and I was too young to know that just because he has a white coat on doesn't mean he's a good person.

Dentists are in the sweet spot where they actually are very important and necessary (as opposed to chiropractors, who are universally charlatans and frauds), but they don't get quite the scrutiny and oversight that physicians are used to. And they make as much as some of the top tier physician specialties. PCPs, OBs, ER, etc. all make less than dentists by and large.
Imagine a health care system where the insurance company is, relatively at least, the "good guys." That's how badly off we are.

I personally have a story of a great doctor who went to the effort to try a less-well-known (but still entirely conventional) treatment that resulted in a much better outcome for me. But that just highlighted the fact that great treatment outcomes are a haphazard occurrence in a sea of crud where neither the insurer nor the provider prioritize the patient over maximizing revenue.

What this story illustrates is that paying out of pocket, which presumably put greater market based pressure on health care providers, is even worse.

Not all parts of the economy work bast when least regulated and maximally market driven. Without information from disinterested parties, and without oversight from outside the profit-driven parties, you just get farmed by crooks.
Not sure if CAR understands the implications. With 11% of the people having access to the internet, what could go wrong with crypto as a legal tender.
Zojs are well insulated hot water dispensers, a keurig is a pod-type coffee machine, so I assume it’s just an un-insulated plastic reservoir (though hopefully it doesn’t keep the entire reservoir hot, only the water for the “next dose” for people who can’t cope with waiting 30 seconds for the machine to heat up)
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Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

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I see that you are thinking of the entire BIV as being a simulation, while my impression is that people are thinking of a biological brain, with "only" the electrical and chemical interface being artificial - but this is just a thought experiment, and for the purposes it is being invoked, these implementation "details" are moot.

What you are thinking of seems to me to be more like Bostrom's Simulation Hypothesis[1]. Chalmers, in his new book, "Reality+', argues that there's no way to be sure we are not simulations. I don't often agree with Chalmers, but I think he is right here, and, furthermore, the simulated universe does not have to be much like the world running it, it "merely" has to be self-consistent enough that any conscious entities in it cannot deduce that they are simulated.

Here's an entertaining short story on the topic: https://qntm.org/responsibility

[1] https://www.simulation-argument.com/

Bostrom was far from the first person to hypothesize it, but it got attention from him being a prominent philosopher who based a paper on it.
I think you have a comprehension problem
“Don’t Be Evil” turned out to not be better than nothing.
Anecdotally- my household use is 50% weather, 30% public radio, 18% Spotify, 2% random google searches / trivia
How much is the draw of all those ammeters? i.e. the "burden". I'm having trouble finding what that would be for a typical household plug ammeter without avoiding all the "power meters are great" spam sites. I assume it is very small.