skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
out of the interest... are there any firefox derivations with which still the classic addons work?
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> According to the dictionary this is a valid use of the word 'epidemic'.

That's circular logic because dictionaries keep changing their definition to match what ignorant people use.
Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel
Where I live we have sun 18-22 hours a day in summer and maybe 4 hours in the winter - the sun doesn't even go halfway up before going down again on those days.

Unfortunately me and my partner both have our families here so moving is not an option. Being able to see decently strong light in December without having to travel would be worth a lot to me.
You can feed people bullets with an AR-15, but that usually doesn't end up being a life extension measure :(
The Content Index API only tells the browser that a page is available offline, you still have to cache it with a serviceworker.
You can find some statistical power with any number of observations. Doesn't mean results can be generalized, which is what the article wants to do. 20 extremely low. At that level it is more reasonable to ask why anyone would assume there to be no differences between two groups of ten people.
> You can't bash someone in the head with it in the physical world, for example.

You can bash someone in the head with it in the simulated world though, and if you simulate that person's head well enough it will be just as painful for them as it would be for a real world person.
Many (most?) VPN mechanisms don't entirely remove access to the other routes from apps that manually request them, so even if an app isn't able to use something akin to "location services" on your device it might still easily be able to get access to your other IP addresses by sending requests with sockets manually bound to specific interfaces, and even might choose to lower the priority of information learned using interfaces that are clearly tunnel devices instead of network cards.
Interesting.

Would you say we all need to be single minded specialists/experts?
No. Tesla should not use that term because of what that term means everywhere outside of aviation industry. Aviation industry is one small niche.

The term autopilot implies autonomous driving everywhere outside of that one small subgroup of people.
What is the magic sauce that makes us different?
> It was as if parts of Germany’s payment system had just travelled through a wormhole back to the 1990’s

I guess the author has not had much experience with Germany? It’s more like the 2000s or even the early 2010s. Only the combination of covid, some pro-cashless regulations and SumUp (cheap card readers, standalone or phone-attachments) made it possibly to forego always carrying cash for me.
Ask Alice: https://lithub.com/here-it-is-alice-b-toklass-recipe-for-has...
Oh, no, lol - just about everyone thought the NSA was spying on citizens. We just didn't know exactly how or the precise scale of the operation. Bill Binney and cohorts/whistle blowers were very well known ages before then. Heck, Nixon couldn't even keep Watergate under wraps! Don't distort what "the average person would think" to launder your own opinion into something that a reader might think has more weight than "because I say".
He goes even further.

"My superiors said clearly discriminatory things, but I won't tell you what. I will tell you some other words which I believe they truly wanted to say — but didn't — and look how awful those invented utterances are. No, I really won't tell what they actually said."
Not even dictionaries are safe from judgement
https://www.baseball-reference.com/

One of the most complete sources of baseball stats including game logs. Yes much of the data is from other sources (MLB, Retrosheet.org, etc) but they really ties things together nicely and I can spend hours on the site.
> It doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. We could develop local manufacturing techniques that could be controlled and operated by individual people. But it’s hard to see how we climb down to that level from where we are.

How would that work? Unfortunately computers depend on a slew of mining industries plus advanced lithography, all heavily protected by IP. No existing player is incentivised to open up their techniques or make them more accessible. I could however imagine that it's fairly simple to build 1970s level computers today by any significant private or nation state entity. Sadly they'd be totally outcompeted by modern systems and won't be able to peer with them, and won't be attractive to the general public.
Make sure the studies they use are all double-blind, just to be sure.
The YouTubers Big Clive and EEVBlog have posted videos on their PCB photography setups, they use basically light boxes - big clive uses a Tupperware-style container IIRC and EEVBlog a cardboard box lined with foil
> ...how is the indifferent mechanism of evolution to deal with a trait which... when left unchecked, can spiral out of control to the level of species extinction?

I suppose if we accept that alien life and civilizations do or will exist, then in the long run such traits, and counterbalancing social behaviours, will be subject to selective pressure. In the very long run.
https://falstad.com

Allows you to simulate electronic circuits and also has bunch of other tools.
You shouldn't use the sarcastic tone. It didn't seem at all clear in 2020 that the virus would quickly mutate to more than double its already dangerously high R0 number. If you're aware of someone credible who said this as more than a wild-ass guess at the time, it'd be interesting to see a link. I'm sure someone somewhere managed to reason that far, but we work based on the facts we have, not how they look in retrospect.

The mRNA vaccines did reduce R below 1 in populations with reasonable vaccine coverage of the initial Wuhan strain, increasing to optimistic (but achieved in many countries) vaccine coverage with the "British" Alpha strain. And then becoming unviable to reduce R below 1 with Delta and later. But even then, vaccination reduced the average reproductive number, which from a public health perspective had great temporary value in buying more time for getting vaccines to all who needed and wanted them.

Europe will probably officially roll back its vaccine passport thingy soon, exactly due to this. Granted, that's a bit late, which is another example of not working based on the facts we have, but then again most countries have practically ignored these rules for more than six months already.

I do have sympathy for the arguments around bodily autonomy/coerced vaccination/violation of fundamental democratic right of travel and so on, but it's a question with a bit of nuance to it.
> I don't think I've ever seen an adult so distraught.

And no one pulled the stop train cord? The train just pulled away, business as usual, leaving them separated?
The precursor shorts of the movie the Matrix: The Ani-Matrix.

Synopsis here: https://collider.com/the-matrix-animatrix-explained/
Why Joe Biden is invoking a war power to build heat pumps and solar panels
Every study ever conducted ends with the recommendation that "more research is needed". Granted, not all studies are as self-evidently important as caffeine research :)
> This oppressiveness is not inherent to computers

Absolutely. I vehemently disagree with this essay. One of the reasons I
am a passionate technology critic and sceptic is that I love technology
and feel disgusted at the way it's co-opted and abused.

I am always vigilant not to become jaded or lose sight of the immense
positive possibilities for digital technologies. But I sincerely
believe that before that can happen and we can move into the true
golden era of technological humanism, Big Tech, surveillance culture
and over-bearing governments must be eliminated.

> it's inherent to the people and institutions making use of them.

I disagree. It resides within them and is amplified by technologies.
"Inherent" implies that it is an indelible, fundamental feature. Not
at all. Humans, as individuals and institutions can do better. We're
just seeing amplification and facilitation of the same old human
weaknesses, laziness, greed, stupidity, fear - go pick up some
Aristotle, or any religious text for a comprehensive list of moral
failings.

> Computers are neutral technology.

Not quite. All technologies carry values in their design. An AK47 and
a baby incubator carry different values, one is a for taking life and
one is for preserving it. At a more subtle granularity computers carry
values with them. I recommend Edwin Black's "IBM and the Holocaust"
for some insights here. A Google Pixel carries different values than a
Raspberry Pi - though to most eyes the differences are invisible.

> It's just that we are increasingly losing control of them. We're no
longer the ones making the rules, the corporations and governments
are.

Yes, computers have enabled tyranny. That's hardly debatable now. I
call it techno-fascism. Other people use different terms. It's there in
everything from Facebook to "cashless commerce".

> The computers belong to them now

So long as computers are controlled by software, which is mutable, the
more complete and devastating will be the reversal when we take them
back. There is always poetry and irony in ultimate justice. One way of
looking at it is the tyrants are simply building the apparatus to
enable the greatest and most audacious bloodless revolution in the
history of mankind. The future of freedom depends on "hackers".

Sell them more rope.
We just take pictures with our smartphones. If it's a really big whiteboard, then do it in overlapping sections.
The page is 502ing so maybe I'm missing something but I just copy and paste from my browser into Numbers. Is this for automation?
Reading this thread reminded about "Bullshit Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs)
It’s rare to find any ethics professors who argue in favor of moral relativism in this manner. A vast majority are realists or constructivists who would easily claim that Romans were bad for practicing slavery and forced combat for fun.
That's not the same as hurting competition though. Are there games that consumers are playing on mobile platforms that aren't allowed on consoles?
Modern browsers provide a location API, independent of one's IP address.
E.g. of an open source book: https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/index.html "Linear Algebra" by Jim Hefferon.
> Well, LIDAR uses very well understood physics to give you precise measurements of distance from the world around you, without any need for object recognition. It is not enough on its own, but it is an excellent safety technology. It's basically impossible to run into an object that's moving slow enough to avoid based on LIDAR input.

Again, claiming that LIDARs make things magically safer sounds like a lot of snake oil to me. Both LIDARs and stereoscopic systems use well-understood physics. Stereoscopic rangefinders were being used in both World Wars for gun-laying and you wouldn't say that you don't need precise measurements for gun-laying.

> Stereoscopic vision first relies on object recognition of the elements of the pictures taken by each camera, then identifying the objects that are the same between the pictures, and only THEN do you get to do the simple physical calculation to compute distance. If your object recognition algorithm fails to recognize an object in one of the images; or if the higher-level AI fails to recognize that something is the same object in the two pictures, then the stereoscopy buys you nothing

As for whether stereoscopic vision relies on object recognition, that seems like a mild stretch to me. Generally it, like for example SfM (of which it is a special case), seems to rely on local textures and features for individual data points -- and in a simple single-dimensional stereoscopic vision case, your set of possible solutions is extremely limited, so matching features from SIFT or SURF in stereoscopic vision is way simpler than even the general SfM case. Those individual data points do not require in any way for individual objects to be recognized and separated. I have NOT seen in my life an SfM solution that would not give you a point cloud if it failed to separate objects -- in fact, SfM software doesn't even try to identify objects when generating a point cloud because it doesn't even operate at such a high level. Note that this actually provides the exact same information as a LIDAR would, namely a point cloud with no insight how the points are related to each other.

Pretty much the only situation where stereoscopic vision or SfM fails to provide depth information is with a surface of highly uniform color completely devoid of textures. Whether this could or couldn't be solved with structured light is an interesting problem.
Your analogy certainly works, but probably not quite in the way you intended:

1) Cars are transitioning to electric propulsion, not electronic. Electronics have long been present in engine management of internal combustion engines too.

2) This is actually not new, but just a resurgence of something very old -- at the turn of the century (19th/20th, not 20th/21st), electric propulsion was quite common[1], the land speed record was held by an electric car[2], and the first "series-hybrid" system[3] was introduced[4].

3) Steam engines -- discounting steam turbines -- are also just combustion-driven piston engines; the only difference is that the combustion is external, not internal. OK, so it's not the combustion gases themselves that are expanding within the chamber, but steam heated (created) by them. But that's a minor detail, IMO.[5]

What does this mean for software engineering (or "engineering", in scare quotes)? Not sure... Probably something like:

A) Old tech doesn't go away. It just falls out of use and gets forgotten.

B) "New tech" often isn't. It's just old tech being uncovered or independently rediscovered.

C) What we think is a huge innovation is often just a return to older tech. ("The Cloud" ~= the mainframe?)

A + B + C = "COBOL, here we come!"? :-)

Idunno.

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EDIT -- oops, footnotes:

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Early_development...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente

[3]: Where an internal combustion engine drives a generator that drives the wheels via electric motors and charges the main battery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#Seri...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner%E2%80%93Porsche

[5]: In fact, AFAICS a four-stroke (preferably diesel?) internal combustion engine could fairly easily be converted into another kind of hybrid, an "external combustion - internal evaporisation" engine. I've been thinking about whether the (alleged?) greater efficiency of continuous combustion in comparison to intermittent would make such a conversion worthwhile. (Just one more of the many half-baked inventions bopping around in my head. :-)
Yes, its essentially nonsense and seems to come from some quarters of the academic community as well as a marketing/differentiation technique. In reality there are:

PRNGs - pseudo /deterministic,
CSPRNGs - crypto secure pseudo /deterministic,
HRNGs - hardware based (this can refer to anything from roulette tables to zener diode noise),
QRNGs - where the entropy source is quantum mechnical in nature.
> You did not address the reasoning, which is about the fact that the last country on earth with oil reserves will have a strategic advantage.

I agree this is a problem, and hopefully its scale will be much lower in a few decades as we are moving away from fossil fuels. But even if we were consuming them rapidly as we are doing now, we are talking ca. 50 years for oil and natural gas. Whereas the danger from Russia is right now.
Each pandemic is also epidemic. Pandemics are subset of epidemics. The word pandemic existing does not make the use of word epidemics incorrect.

Also, pandemic is not normally used in non medical context while epidemics is frequently used that way and was for years. The journalist probably decided to use the common words in their common meaning instead of going for obscure usages.
I recently quit caffeine and was surprised at what followed. I knew I was going to feel tired, and that's how I felt for the first day. It was tolerable, and I was otherwise functional. For the following 4 days, I was seriously couch bound. Not only was I tired but I had zero motivation and I slept during the day after already having slept more than 8 hours at night. All of a sudden, my dreams became way more vivid and memorable without any other dietary changes.

After a week, I pretty much got over it and returned to normal. Quitting made me realize that caffeine wasn't giving me energy so much as it was just affecting my alertness. I kind of knew it already but it's one of those facts I had only thought about and not experienced.

I can't say that I feel like it permanently changed me in any way. I'm sure it did on some level, but perhaps not in a way that's noticeable. I was having about 160mg a day, so maybe that wasn't enough for outwardly noticeable brain changes.
As a thought experiment why not go to the extreme and see if the "just a tool, it's about what people make with it"-point would hold there.

"Gas chambers are just a tool"

But a tool that has very few uses besides large scale genocide. So of course it would be ridiculous to argue the gaschambers are just a tool, because they are (A) the result of an engineering project that tried to kill as many people as possible in a short time, without using valuable war resources like amunition, so the "tool" cannot be isolated from the context of it's creation, and (B) there is one thing gas chambers are good at and it is mechanizing genocide. One could potentially come up with other things they could be used for, but there is just the one thing theyr really excell at.

Computers have more uses, but they are "not just a tool" either, because in reality nothing is.
I remember primarily working in Java when it was the one main choice you had. People were actively looking for alternatives, and then Spring came along and saved it from the archonauts. But the counter revolution by the archonauts ended up pretty much as you describe - layers of sophistry. Java is kind of like a really old city, built upon many layers of cities that predate it. Witness the recent log4j debacle. There's so much complication buried amongst the layers, that something as obviously bad as log4j escapes notice. Even the author of log4j abandoned it many years ago to create logback and slf4j. So, just with logging, there is the standard logging (which nobody uses), log4j (hopelessly complicated), a few others, and then slf4j/logback. Even doing logging in java is a choice fraught with peril.

Come to think about it, the Java ecosystem now resembles more of a Big Ball of Mud (http://www.laputan.org/mud/), where being a swamp guide is more important than other skills.

These days I primarily work in go, and the reduction in cognitive overhead to get things done is immense. Its a language that learned from the mistakes of many others, and gets many things right.
> It is worth noting, as Stanford University does, that the Catholic Church had no official stance on Copernican teachings. Pope Clement VII, who died about a decade before Copernicus, was said to have been receptive about the astronomer’s theories. While there was no recorded response from Pope Paul III, one of his advisors intended to condemn the book before dying.

> Phil Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, also says Copernicus was in good standing with the Church when he died. He notes that while heliocentric theory was controversial during Copernicus’ lifetime his work did not cause him any conflict with the Catholic Church.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2013/0219/Copernicus-an...

The Catholic Church did not take action to ban Copernicus's book until long after he was dead (in 1616, more than 60 years after his death). The usual "Copernicus was fighting against the Church" narrative has no evidence at all.
Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Are Back, but Aren’t Like You Remember
Newfoundland has highest levels of life satisfaction in Canada and B.C. least
Sure, in so far as you can architecture your signalling network in a more or less centralized fashion. However, the systems that we e.g. in Germany used to have used a lot of different technologies like taught wires that would physically move signals, locally working operators in distributed signal boxes connected with a dedicated pre-digital telephone network and so on. This system simply did not have a single point of failure that you could attack over the internet from thousands of miles away. Even a Carrington-event level CME would not have taken out the entirety of the system, even after much of it went electric, then electromechanical and electronic. What they now do is they rip out all of the old technology and replace everything with digital equipment; Siemens for one will build a single central signal box for the entire Norwegian railway system[1]; they do not say in the linked article whether that system will have a gateway to the public internet, but locally at least it will use ethernet (via fiber in the case of a German pilot) to get rid of heavy 380V copper cables. So yeah, "more a matter of architecture" but still totally what they're aiming for, a single control station for the railway network of an entire (not-so-small) country, a.k.a. single point of failure.

[1] https://new.siemens.com/de/de/unternehmen/stories/forschung-...
As to general shoulder health and for something different. I found TGU (Turkish Getups) to be fantastic !

Ive always tried to limit the amount of weight I do with these and do it at most every other day, vs say everyday !

Is definitely (weirdly so) one the exercises that always made me "feel good and strong". Its generally considered a "slow lift" and it can become quite meditative !
Congrats and thank you for your hard work.

Now for a contrarian comment: whenever I read "in Rust", or whatever language, it does not make it cool or interesting to me. Rather, it makes it sound like it is a POC or training material. Which is unfortunate because eventually, as a user, I only care for features, not for tech.
I use https://kakaku.com in Japan for the same thing, it's great.
When I lived in Sweden, https://prisjakt.nu served the same purpose well
Damned if you do, damned if you don't?

Or what do you mean with "not a great way to go about it though"? Seems like the following happened:

- Developers implemented something well-intended, poorly-executed

- People pushed back

- Developers changed their mind and disabled the non-customizable slur-filter

Seems that's exactly how you'd want things to go. What's the alternative here that would be better?
For those who want to see what the slur filter looked like, it's still in their example config [1]. But even though it's now not included by default, the issue runs a little deeper imo.

From what I've seen, the developers of Lemmy are very political. They run and mod their own instances at lemmy.ml and communism.lemmy.ml, and their moderation has been pretty controversial [2] [3]. But worse, judging by the hard-coded slur filter, they seem to have no issue with mixing up their politics with the platform. Also note that it took quite a bit of pushback to get the slur filter removed, and the devs were not apologetic [4][5]. Who knows what they may add next as an "easy way to keep some groups of users off".

While it's nice that it's federated and open source, the question then becomes, are people prepared to monitor the source code and fork it + maintain it themselves if the devs decide to turn the platform political again?

[1]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/0.16.5/config/config....

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/czae8c

[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/cza14y

[4]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224#issuecomment-7...

[5]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816#issuecomment-6446...