skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It may be possible that pink has some intrinsic beauty, but how many of the subjects only thought to provide that opinion after being influenced in some almost imperceptible way by their peers?

No earthly idea. My strong update to it being true is based mostly on a single small child whose close contacts weren’t attempting to push any color preferences.

>> Obviously you can self-modify to like things, like architects self-modify to find Brutalism and other crimes a against beauty good, or how people grow to like coffee.

> This seems a little biased, particularly with beauty and flavor being given as objective properties. Are you sure something subtle on your screen didn't elicit an emotional response before you posted this?

If, the first time a human tastes alcohol or straight black coffee they like them there is something wrong with their taste buds or elsewhere. Alcohol is poisonous. Coffee is bitter, it’s aversive. I’m slightly less confident in “things that are fruit or flower colored” are pleasant to look at, but not much. Brutalism being more pleasant to look at than biophilic, ornamented buildings I consider self-evident, on the same level as “A park is more pleasant to look at than Park Avenue.”
I'd bet that the types of life that may exist in the universe far outclass our narrow definition of life. I get why we only look for life like ours, and I'm quite sure we're excluding the vast majority of life by narrowing the scope so much.

I'm saying that there are absolutely many more habitable planets around than we believe there to be, even among the planets we've observed. We just don't know what to look for, because we don't know what's possible.

"Life, uh, finds a way."
This looks awesome, I've been looking at something to do this, specifically to hard link duplicates across parallel directory structures.
Always love hobby operating systems which leave UNIX and POSIX behind. It's really a shame that we're slowly converging on POSIX being the basis of _all_ operating systems since it forces some bizarre and undesirable design decisions [1]. Dropping POSIX and building something new gives us a chance to actually explore novel ideas in operating systems design.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...
Because you're avoiding something. What "that" is depends on you, so that's why there's no clear answers. But it's usually some giant shit sandwich you're gonna have to eat and there's nothing you can do about it.

"If you gotta eat shit, do it first thing in the morning." like Albert Einstein used to say.
They [religions] also took over politics, and made it so that you could go to prison for not attending church every sunday (at least they did in England). As they said at the time: no biship? then no king...

Religion can only reasonably fill the gap in meaning if it isn't forcefully shoved into said gap. If shoved there, it's just another foreign body that miserably fails to heal anything as any number of other quack solutions: alcohol, social media, impulse purchasing, etc. In other words, it's just another opiate, but one which for a long time, was forced on people at literal gunpoint.

Not dissing religion per se, I just think that when we say "we used to have religion, and psychological health was fine", then we're looking at it with insanely rose-tinted glasses... actually, veering off in to total delusion?

But I am kind of guessing what historical periods we're talking about. Maybe we mean in prehistory, like the mesolithic? Because there's a lot less evidence about that so you have space to suppose that it was all very lovely, there were few tribes, they didn't have to violently compete, and internally they were all emotionally supportive environments in which a rich tapestry of mystical beliefs provided members with a deep sense of meaning and connection. But I would still be pretty skeptical about that. Not saying it didn't happen. But how widely and for how long?
My dog doesn't eat it but absolutely loves to roll in it. I've always wondered why.
We had a great thing going when websites ran on tracking. Nobody was actually harmed in any tangible way. Now every news site wants me to pay $20/month to read it.
Passively rather than actively agreeing (i.e "continuing to use this site means you agree to our terms" vs "click here to agree to our terms" doesn't pass the sniff test when it comes to contract law... at least in my jurisdiction.

tl:dr; making the user click "I agree" would work more for you in a court setting
/**
* Cast to int, fail if not a valid integer
* @throws \UnexpectedValueException
* @param mixed $thing
* @return int
*/
function as_int($thing): int
{
if (!filter_var($thing, \FILTER_VALIDATE_INT))
throw new \UnexpectedValueException("Value is not an integer.");
return (int)$thing;
}

While, yeah, it'd be nice if there were something like this built in... it's a couple lines of code. If that's your major complaint, I'd be happy to whip up a whole suite of proper functions to cast to primitives while throwing errors on invalid values since it's just swapping FILTER_VALIDATE_INT for the various types.
Nassim Taleb wrote a great chapter about this topic and even some expanded some ideas Popper had.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
And some folks skiing down Lhotse (the mountain connected to Everest via the famous South Col): https://youtu.be/wPXSFVruIHI
Axes are what make variable fonts so interesting and I hope to see this include proper depth and outline slider effects and such that are useful in 3D use cases.

Also here's a good font tracking resource where I hope to see these features one day [1] :

[1] https://v-fonts.com/
Doesn't mention Google's CodeSearch, which is one of the coolest parts of Google's monorepo: https://codesearchguide.org/story/google.
leaks of what exactly? It's billions of lines of code spread amongst millions of files which make up thousands of services... It's not like there 10 files with all the magic sauce.
No worries, they'll find you.
I'm moving a small amount of stuff ($250/mo spend) off Heroku this weekend. It's either Render or Fly, and I guess I'm going to start with Render.

Here's where I'm starting: https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku
Lift weights, run, get more sunlight/vitamin D, and go on walks in nature.
Author of fclones here. See the Benchmarks section at the end of the README.

Tl;dr - it is many times faster.
The major advantages are due to:

- parallel scanning of files on SSD

- accessing files in the order they are physically stored on some Linux filesystems that support it, and by inode IDs on other (less efficient but still a lot better) - makes a huge difference on spinning drives

- selecting the optimal access strategy based on the type of the drive (SSD vs HDD)

- optionally using a hash cache
It's ok: Bob says "Trust as our #1 value".
I haven't tried the Aero but I tried another Varjo model a while back (not sure which), and the visual clarity was magnificent. I'm really glad there is room in the AR/VR space for devices at varying price points and levels of quality.
Personally, I've decided chia seeds are a good way to get more fiber. Also a good source of omega-3s. More calories than some other options, but I like the idea of whole foods. They have a decent mix of soluble/insoluble fiber.
fly.io is an excellent alternative. I am slowly migrating all of my clients over.
Sorry. Anecdotes are not useful or instructive here. No studies show a causal effect of antibiotics on anxiety. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if people who needed medical treatment (causing an antibiotic Rx) later had anxiety due to the nature of their health condition.
social skills - enjoying time with family and friends, forming new bonds. You're going to have a great summer, enjoy it
A couple reasons maybe:

Specialization means everyone's chasing their own frontiers in their companies, which leads to less toe-stepping?

"Everyone knows" IT is complex. So as long as things are working, there's no real impetus for other people in the company to sully their shirtsleeves.
I subscribe to all three and completely agree with this. Additionally, Netflix's insistence on customer-hostile behavior like auto-playing trailers, canceling good shows that don't find their audience quickly enough, etc. is a constant reminder that Netflix is increasingly chasing short-term engagement to the extent that they're at risk losing longer-term relevance.
And the obscurantism of it is troubling too, think of someone who is not familiar with computers/tech and trying to access a webpage and being confronted with a "Do you want to accept cookies" dialogue. It sounds utterly mysterious.
Telling anyone that life is meaningless is utterly different from telling them that you believe that there is no external agent or agency that provides a meaning for our lives. Asserting that life is meaningless is completely different from asserting that its meaning is personal and must be discovered by each of us.
The rest of the coverage I've seen on this case indicated he died because the transplanted heart failed after over a month due to the pig virus infection, the virus didn't 'spread to him' (i.e., his own cells). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/pig-heart-transpla...
Makes sense. Assuming an authenticated connection, wouldn't it be pretty obvious which account was attempting shenanigans?
Most of that is self-imposed and unnecessary.
Are they generating these parametrically with linear algebra transforms or are they all designed by hand?
tornado.cash 'might' be next if they went after blender.io
UBreakiFix store needs Google diagnostics to return phone
AWS S3 right now supports CRC32, CRC32C, SHA-1, and SHA-256 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/checki...), which is interesting given the announcement to support the four wasn't long ago (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-additional-checksum-alg... seems like they went with what's more widely used than actually faster?
can somebody fill me in what happened? is this related to the oAuth vulnerability through github a while back?
It’s not a stretch to say that the obesity epidemic in the US is causing limited health care resources to be redirected to a vast number of people with self-imposed health issues, leading to significant deaths and under-investment in populations with diseases that were not self-imposed.

However this is in no way is a convincing argument for government to take over control of what people stuff in their mouths.

Things can pretty much always be made safer by eliminating personal freedom. The safest human protected by the best 5-laws-safe robot overlords probably doesn’t get outside all that much.
For debugging, check out nvim-dap. It uses the same protocol as VSCode for debugging.
I didn't realize Wittgenstein was his PhD student.
>> Where did you punch this goose?

On a golf course.

>> I should think the head/bill area would be hard to hit and painful.

Significantly harder to hit but significantly less painful than a human head.

Plus geese lead with their heads. Classic boxing mistake.

I didn't hurt the bird, but a good pop did make him and his two buddies rethink trying to attack me for daring to come within 200yrds of them on the fairway. I've seen some people get upset about pace of play, but this was the first time I saw the forward group come after the back one.

I went with a punch instead of the golf club I had in my hand because I didn't want to kill the bird.
> I'm annoyed that bloated animated GIFs have held on for as long as they have.

There are multiple factors: Browsers have lacked a video standard for silent, autoplaying, looping videos without a player UI for a long time because, well, there were GIFs and they worked okay for early web animations. It was the most compatible format too.

Videos had also lacked proper tooling to make them smaller resolution or crop them. Since the GIF format was simple, there were plenty of small/freeware tools for editing GIFs. Prevalence of libraries made it easier to integrate them into applications.

All those factors combined caused GIFs to stick around for a long time. Nowadays, there are too many standards, I wouldn't even know which format to use instead of GIF; is it AV1, OGG, WEBM, MP4?
If I'm reading this right, you're ultimately calling out to the shell or command prompt to move, delete, and symlink/hardlink files. Is there a reason to take this approach rather than use language built-ins or platform functions?
Devs use LinkedIn for blog posts? Are they using it as way to get other devs to read it, or as a way to get potential employers to notice them?

Tbh, I don't a single dev who uses LinkedIn unless they looking for a new role I.e they're certainly not using LinkedIn as a dev-oriented news feed
Something Deeply Hidden - Sean Carroll[1]

Lost in Math - Sabine Hossenfelder[2]

The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg[3]

Hyperspace - Michio Kaku[4]

Not Even Wrong - Peter Woit[5]

The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin[6]

About Time - Paul Davies[7]

Time Reborn - Lee Smolin[8]

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene[9]

The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene[10]

The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene[11]

Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe - Jim Baggott[12]

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets - Graham Farmelo[13]

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity - Lee Smolin[14]

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos - Seth Lloyd[15]

Higgs - The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' - Jim Baggott[16]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Something-Deeply-Hidden-Emergence-Spa...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Beauty-Physics-Astray/dp/15...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/First-Three-Minutes-Modern-Universe/d...

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Hyperspace-Scientific-Parallel-Univer...

[5]: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Even-Wrong-Failure-Physical/dp/04...

[6]: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physics-String-Theory-Science...

[7]: https://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revol...

[8]: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Reborn-Lee-Smolin/dp/0544245598/

[9]: https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Universe-Superstrings-Dimensi...

[10]: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Cos...

[11]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375412883/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

[12]: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Space-Gravity-Structure-Unive...

[13]: https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Speaks-Numbers-Reveals-Natur...

[14]: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Roads-Quantum-Gravity-Smolin/dp...

[15]: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Universe-Quantum-Computer...

[16]: https://www.amazon.com/Higgs-invention-discovery-God-Particl...
> but most of the systems I work on are the exact opposite: large and boring.

This is most software development. Most of it is boring and kind of tedious and the same old stuff we’ve always done. The new stuff you’ve never done is interesting. You figure out, and now it’s something you know. Then it becomes uninteresting.

> I'm starting to wonder if being a software engineer is really the right choice for me.

I’d be willing to guess if you moved on to something else you’d feel the same kinds of things. The issues you’ve mentioned are a reality of modern businesses. Your may have to see what options are available from your employer in terms of expanding your role or exploring concepts that will help you find more fulfillment. As a for-instance, my job allows me to spend 10% of time doing a sort-of choose-your—own adventure learning development. I’m currently working in computer vision even though my other work is web-apps
Of course. Yet still, there is no evidence that these people would live shorter or worse lives than if they hadn't taken the antibiotic. What if the infection they took the antibiotics for had caused more harm than auto-brewery syndrome? What if the unchecked infection caused problems that couldn't simply be solved by antifungals? My point was just that the person I responded to seemed to imply that antibiotics are very bad except in cases where they save your life, which is not really supported by current medical knowledge.
Hmm, I'm seeing the same thing.
You can still run ads on your site without requiring user consent. It’s the personalisation of those ads that requires consent.

TV, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers etc have worked for years just fine with generic, non-personalised ads. Or in the case of cable/sat, non-personalised ads + subscription fees.
The fix is not to change the design of the dialog box, nor is it to change the law.

The fix is to simply to not track any users in any way, shape, or form. Don't have to worry about opting in or out if there is nothing to opt in to in the first place.
We’ve paid for something several times now. They always make it sound like the car drives itself.

But the real point of my comment was that if they can’t even keep the car in the middle of the lane, I seriously doubt their ability to handle situations an order of magnitude more difficult.
>Conclusion

>We examined a UI component that we see every day, but that the designers did not design correctly.

What’s the point of this article? The cookie consent UIs do exactly what the designer intended: Trick users into clicking “accept all”.

The article talks about dark patterns as if they are engineering mistakes. I doubt anyone in control of those sites would agree.
To me it seems that the more the web has become monetised the less useful it has become. Low-effort blogspam that only exists to draw ad revenue increasingly drowns out “real” content. So I’m not so sure we “had a great thing going”.

If cookie consent forms reduce privacy violations, lower ad revenue and push these “content creators” off the web, that seems like a win-win to me.
Of course we can, but doing it at a society scale is very difficult and you have to be vary careful about who is on charge - or ends up with most influence - as history has consistently shown.

I think it's easy (well reasonably) to do if resources are plentiful, but what do you do if there are more people than resources available to support them, who starts making the hard choices?
I feel confident nobody using heroku is doing it because they want a more minimal do-it-yourself option.
Weeks? Take a few months and travel if you can! You can backpack for several months for the same price as a week in an all-inclusive resort.

Head to South America or SE Asia - stay in hostels, travel on local buses, swim in waterfalls, hike some trails.
blender.io is a centralized service run by people which AML laws can target, since they are facilitating third party transactions, some of which are criminal in origin.

Tornado.cash is decentralized software, and there is no law that can be envoked to prohibit people from using it for their own transactions, unless it can be proven their own transactions are illicit in origin, in which case they can already be booked for the original crime.

This is of course how it should be. We don't need AML laws as any case of money laundering would require an underlying crime that generated the illicit revenue, and proving that crime occurred - which is a prerequisite for proving money laundering occurred - would be sufficient to put that criminal behind bars.

And what we have now are financial surveillance laws misnamed anti-money laundering laws. Their purpose is not to criminalize actual money laundering, which is redundant for reasons just explained. Their purpose is to criminalize services that protect their clients' financial privacy, by:

* not demanding they disclose private financial information to prove their transactions are non-criminal in origin before facilitating them (providing presumption of innocence)

* not requiring them to disclose personal information (KYC) before facilitating their transactions, and

* not reporting that personal information to government surveillance agencies without a warrant (e.g. FinCEN reporting requirements).

I think every one welcomes stopping the flow of illicit revenue, but efforts to accomplish that should not come at the expense of core principles of a free society, like the right to privacy, and the presumption of innocence.

This is especially so given there is considerable evidence that so-called AML laws are highly ineffective despite all the costs they impose in both financial terms and in terms of basic rights:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...
Climate change itself perhaps not. I'd argue there's quite a bit of precedence to believe that the way humans will react to these changes could lead us down that path.
No, it does not call out to the shell. It uses the built-in functions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski#Criminal_c...
Roboto Flex appears to work correctly in Firefox 100 on macOS.

caniuse reports that Firefox has supported variable fonts since 2018: https://caniuse.com/variable-fonts

EDIT: Firefox's variable fonts support depends on OS support, and so requires at least Windows 10 or macOS 10.13 on the desktop. Apparently, variable fonts support on Linux is "complicated". https://v-fonts.com/support
Consumption would probably want take into account the massive trade deficit, and so its even higher!

That would be correct :-/

The true raw material footprint of nations

03 September 2013

https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom....

The material footprint of nations

Thomas O. Wiedmann [email protected], Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, +3 , Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West, and Keiichiro Kanemoto-3

September 3, 2013 | 112 (20) 6271-6276 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220362110
I think it just proves that x.99 pricing works. It tripped up the poster who was trying to claim they mentally round up.
Sounds like the Army Corps of Engineers should get themselves a big dredger.
"The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature" by Heinz Pagels.
Whoa, whoa, what kind of conspiracy theory are you trying to force, here?
From Steve Yegge:

What really happened is that China hacked Google, and it pissed Google off when they finally discovered it, many months later. This wasn’t some small intrusion or data breach. It was a systemic, coordinated, widespread, very deep hack, which among other things, gave China all of Google’s source code. It was very similar in scope and ambition to the Solar Winds hack recently out of Russia. It forced Google to completely rethink their security, which at the time was an Igloo model (hard on the outside, soft on the inside, a Gary Larson reference I think), and they had to migrate to where internal access was also limited, which took years.

I’ll share with you, confidentially wink wink, that most companies way overvalue their source code. It’s actually their engineers who are their biggest asset, because the engineers can reproduce the source code if it’s lost (quite quickly at that), whereas the source code can’t do fuck-all on its own. Moreover, most source code bases are so ugly that you couldn’t give them away. But Google had what they now call “HIP” (High-value Intellectual Property) scattered through their source code, which are the tuning parameters and constants for various algorithms and AI models which are the true Secret Sauce to Google’s Search and Ads dominance.
You can experience the magic in the open source version: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src

Try the powerful search, including free text search, operators like f: or symbol: (the full list of operators can be found at https://developers.google.com/code-search/reference)

Then try the references feature by clicking on symbols.