skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Commuters on the London Underground get a characteristic grey/black snot from the brake dust they inhale.

Well that's horrifying. Is there no health and safety monitoring being conducted?
>isn't there an argument to be made that the race of the litigants is incidental and shouldn't be in the headline since the lawsuit is about zip codes?

If you believe that, you are free to make the argument.
I guess working conditions and pay is bad otherwise people would swarm to these entry level jobs.

How could the hourly wage they offer not be in the article ...
I was responding to your suggestion that avoiding calling monkeypox a ‘gay disease’ was “just political correctness” by suggesting that some meaningful percentage may instead be “actual correctness.”
It is entirely possible to do, and even surpass the quality of a local Xbox Series X: https://youtu.be/oSMt43BOyeU

Stadia ports/limits games on top of underpowered hardware and limits the bitrate to ~44Mbit/s with a “4K” stream, ~30 with 1080p.

It was amazing 2 years ago or so, it’s quite far behind competing services like GeForce Now nowadays with double the bitrate, true 4K streaming, ray tracing, Steam/Epic support etc.
That's a fake fact. The number windows exposes doesn't work that way and also pretends to be an older version to older programs. Some people pointed at java code doing something like that, but that code never would have failed either.
Was this recently disabled? I'm on mobile right now (android) and tried reloading in desktop mode, but to no avail.
I never saw this prompt.
The way you describe it almost seems like a joke, as in "If GDPR were a GUI".
Definitely agree, though I think the point of this thread is we don’t know the “true cost” of A/B testing in terms of long-term lost user engagement.

Have we done an A/B test for A/B testing where we test A/B testing…
Yeah, it’s a bit disappointing. It doesn’t bother me too much, but it could be improved by a linter which could help you find shared mutable state. Without a concept of “const” (for complex types, anyway), I’m not sure how feasible such a linter would be.
F-Droid is what you're asking for https://f-droid.org/en/packages/
"Similar" is subjective, but there were a lot of permissions that definitely aren't listed there.
"this list only includes people who have been convicted, charged with or wanted for violent crimes in connection to these shooting events"
While it is much less of a concern with runtime permissions that are optional.... yeah, I greatly dislike this too.

In particular because not everything is a runtime permission. E.g. I like to know that [apk X] has no internet or file permissions at all - it rules out nearly all practical ways to leak your information. And google just keeps taking more and more steps to hide that information from me.
I have no idea what Google does, but expect their parsers to be quite robust. I tried doing some web scraping, and so many pages are not even valid HTML (most often invalid nested tags, like a table inside span, missing closing tags even when required, random unopened closing tags, ...). Not closing <p> and <td> tags is quite common, I have not seen omitted <html> <head> and <body> yet.
Just sprinkle in some OMP PARALLEL DO's it'll be fine.
> That's what I get when I edit to add a word in later. 'Kindhearted' was intended to qualify 'immunization'.

Fair enough. Sorry for reacting reflexively to your wording.

> I would rather have a stray neutered rather than killed in a kill shelter or worse, stoned on the streets to death.

Ideally, we should teach people that it's wrong to kill animals just because they're bothersome. Legislation, social pressure and changing mores can get that message across loud and clear and then we won't have to either neuter or kill strays.

Where I live btw, dogs -strays and not, alike- tend to die not stoned but poisoned. Whether that's on purpose, or the dogs eat something they shouldn't (like rat poison) I have no idea. The word on the street is that people leave poisoned food out on purpose to kill an animal that's causing them trouble (like killing their chickens) and then inevitably kill a couple more that they didn't intend to. I don't know how true that is.

That is of course extremely illegal, but nobody ever gets caught for it.
> This type of thing used to scare me a lot more. But after the events of the last few years, the latest IPCC climate report, and the fact that AI has fallen on its face repeatedly despite expectations, I'm more convinced that we'll destroy ourselves before AI has the chance to take us out.

I don't think we'll destroy ourselves, but I am starting to think it might be a good thing for humanity of technological civilization falls on its face.

I think fears about AGI are overhyped by people who've read way too much sci-fi, but there are a lot of technologies out there or that are being developed that seem like they could be setting us up for a kind of stable totalitarianism that uses automation to implement much tighter control than was ever possible before.

The people in the 90s who hyped computers as tools of liberation will probably be proven to be very badly wrong. Analog technologies were better, since they're more difficult and costly to monitor. IMHO, a real samizdat is impossible when everything's connected to the internet. And the internet has proven to be far easier to block and control than shortwave radio.
Men who watch gore porn
I've been running netguard for this reason, yeah. Many have no need for internet access.

As a bonus, the DNS-based adblocking works extremely well. Not perfect, but dramatically better than nothing at all.
That’s true, software for biology tends to be terribly, almost comically bad, with one-off file formats, brittle data interchange, and impossible-to-maintain code being the norm. With user interface and ergonomics being the most neglected aspect. Why do you think that is?

Surely there is plenty of money in biology these days to hire a good designers to design good user experiences. Surely better user experience for biology software would lead to better understanding of biological systems and better outcomes in bioengineering.

Where are the polished, powerful design tools for biology like those that exist for other fields like online advertising that routinely process and distill huge amounts of lightly-structured data?
There's always at least one student who correctly replies: "It's a machine that does what someone told it to do".

That's correct, right up until someone tells a computer to beat a 9-dan Go master, but not how to do it.
I feel sorry for the scientists, but the UK has indeed shot itself in the foot, and their continued refusal to face reality concerning Northern Ireland only compounds the damage. FAFO indeed.
Non-facetious question: will kayaking bring them meaning in life?

I’m a little burnt out on these articles that talk about work life balance, 4 day work weeks, UBI. Not working isn’t going to bring you meaning in life, it’ll probably make you more sedentary and feel more isolated from the world (or at least it does for me).
how to reinstate governance

And that's hardly something there's an easy how-to answer to.

A primitive tribe or band tends have each member strongly connected each other member since with few resources, the people are the resources. Modern people don't have to care in the slightest about their neighbors and this is weakness in an emergency situation.

Moreover, a "collapse" situation, in many instances, would imply a general social failure even more complete than recent problems we've seen (consider "I'd rather X many people die than the economy suffer [from Covid or limiting carbon pollution or etc"] a statement about non-community). I don't know how mainstream society would even come back from that. Perhaps the Amish would do well.
What is ASI?
Education as a prestige/status signaler is zero sum.

If everybody had a Harvard degree, then it would lose its value.

Which is why they’re so adamant about not counting online degrees earned through EDX as “real degrees” because it would devalue their status signaling education.

I would argue we already have high quality education access. Go on YouTube, coursera or any other platform and you can find incredible resources.

What we don’t have a lot of is high paying/high status jobs, and as a result we’re put through a brutal tournament model, where one of the games consists of getting into a high-status college.
I have yet to see a slow HTML-only website ;) (which is not 10MB single file spec or entire book). Really, I don't think html parsing is a huge bottleneck and these few parser exceptions don't seem to be that hard to implement - just close a tag if opening one of a predefined list, no backtracking or something expensive.
When AI is the inventor who gets the patent?
After an apocalypse, if you survive and society has collapsed, resources will be abundant.

You will just have to strip materials from cars and buildings instead of digging them out of the ground.
Would it be useful to have a site https://use-rss.example.com/?feed=https://thepcspy.com/feeds... which explained what RSS/Atom is, and suggested decent feed readers with instructions on how to set them up?

The idea would be that blog authors could link to that next to (or instead of) their RSS icon.

Such blogs could still include a link HTML tag for extension autodiscovery.
If this were the case, you wouldn't be able to turn while riding with no hands. Yet reality has us out here riding bikes with no hands making turns. https://youtu.be/_SWdCutqSWQ?t=73
A list of playable boot sector games
It was a bit of a pointless permission because literally every app requested it. The android permissions system very quickly fatigued users in to accepting everything. The new model is much better. Allow the user to actually deny the important permissions but just accept that network access is what apps do now.
> Also, other than Erlang and Elixir, which other reasonably mainstream language has this as first class features?

Ruby 3.0+ with Ractors: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/ractor_md.html#label-Co...
The lack of generics has forced all Go concurrency to be intrusive (i.e. implemented by the person using literally any concurrency), and yeah. It's horrifyingly error-prone in my experience. It means everyone needs to be an expert, and lol, everyone is not an expert.

Generics might save us from the simple, mechanical flaws. Expect to see `Locker<T>` and `Atomic<T>` types cropping up. And unbounded buffered thread-safe queues backing channels. Etc. I'm very, very much looking forward to it.

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I also really wonder where all these "go makes concurrency a first-class concept" claims come from, because I see it quite a few places, and I feel like it's making some very strong implied claims that absolutely do not exist.

Go has channels and select. That's neat. But on the other hand it has threads... but no thread handles. It has implicit capturing of closures. It has ambiguous value vs pointer semantics. It (style- and ergonomic-wise) encourages field references, which have no way to enforce mutexes or atomics. It has had crippled lock APIs that effectively force use of channels for... I don't know, philosophical reasons?

Go is abnormally dangerous when it comes to concurrency IMO. The race detector does an amazing job helping you discover it, but it's very easy to not use it or not take full advantage of it (i.e. non-parallel tests), and few run their production services with the race detector enabled. Because if they did, it would crash all the time, because there are an absurd amount of races in nearly all of the popular libraries (and in common use of those libraries, because concurrency is not a first-class citizen and you can't tell when it's happening / when it shouldn't happen).
I don't think that's correct. @pbhjpbhj talks about magnetic braking and some sort of pneumatic braking. The sibling to his comment by @fredley mentions it, but I don't recall seeing that yet when I posted mine.
> I suppose if you want programming language tradeoffs more tilted towards robustness, Rust already has a lot of that covered

Does anyone not want robustness of their language to cover their mistakes?
My mom took a PHP class with me in college, and she did some database admin stuff after that, but I think the last time I saw her she couldn’t remember what company I was working for or what I was doing.

It was definitely easiest to explain when I worked for Groupon. The funny thing is she would actually email me about Groupons for things she thought I needed… I bought a blender and a vacuum cleaner by her recommendation.

My wife tells people she doesn’t know what I do aside from make money…
No...! I just named my up-and-coming init system "sup"!
So you aren’t entitled to the profits of the company, you’re entitled to some percentage of the value of their assets, assuming they don’t run out before you get paid.

That doesn’t provide any real justification for stocks having value.
>I wonder, how many people really identify with their "gen name" type name?

It about as useful as their astrological sign.
Tables don't lend to responsive layouts. If you've got a stereotypical layout with the middle row having a main content and sidebar column you can't really reflow that sidebar below the main content on mobile. With block elements (divs or semantic blocks) and CSS it's super simple to collapse multiple columns down to a single column for mobile. It's also simple to redo the same layout to handle super wide displays as well.

Tables for layout were fine back when everyone was browsing the web on SVGA, XGA, or even SXGA screens at 96dpi (72dpi on the Mac). Now a visitor might be on a high DPI display in portrait orientation, full screen on a 4K monitor, or anywhere in between I think it's a bit disrespectful to visitors not have have a responsive page layout. Tables are a liability for responsiveness and should only be used for tabular data.
Some small tidbit as well: The process of bending and shaping glass, especially single-layer safety glass, e.g. used in automotive rear and side glazing, is still an iterative process for every new model of car, relying mostly on the gut feeling of the operators of the bending and tempering ovens. No hard and fast rules exist, and a lot is just passed on by experience.
Hey, Rayiner. Please don't generalize about whole huge groups of people this way. This is just about how you're choosing your words, not about what you're trying to say. When you say things like this, you're begging to have the thread spin out on a useless slapfight about Europeans vs Americans. I'm not just randomly making it up; it's a guidelines thing (the search bar will avail). If you see me write things like this, I'd be grateful if you mentioned it to me, too.
This is why all the examples call Store immediately with a zero value of the type.
It's hard to see how this would beat Big Tech, where the standard match is 100% up to the 401k limit ($20,500) irrespective of income. Say your salary is $200K at private company, would be $240K at Big Tech. You'll be getting 1.2 * 0.06 * 200 = $14.4K in matching funds. The Big Tech employee would stash the full $20.5K into their 401K, get $20.5K match, and then end up about $35K ahead on post-retirement income.
Yes because test scores are a good indication. My older son didn’t make the minimum score to get into the college he wanted. $1200 and 12 one on one test prep classes with a teacher (not his teacher), did he magically get smarter or more qualified or was it that we had the means to pay for the test prep?

I had the highest SAT score in my school and the second highest of all graduating seniors in my city - not bragging the entire graduating class in the city was around 1000 and none of the schools were especially highly ranked.

Do you think having a mother that was not only a math teacher who had me doing algebra in the 6th grade (not forced it on me, I just enjoyed it) and did SAT training after school had anything to do with ig
You wouldn't just have access to the knowledge via tales, but the world around you.

You want to say the earth is flat? Why did the ancients have globes, then?

You want to say man made flight is impossible? Here is an airport with planes. Sure we have never gotten them running but what else could they do except fly?

Granted... Never underestimate the willful ignorance of the masses I suppose.
Nah, all that stuff is illegal today. The bribery comes later in the form of, “hey, you worked with us on that bill, maybe you’d be a good board member! We pay $xxx,xxx per year to board members and they meet 4 times a year” or, “you know, without this legislation we could totally open a new factory in your state; say, doesn’t your cousin own a supply company there? I wonder what a new factory would do for his business…”
Theranos lied and damaged some people with false blood reports. Sheryl Sandberg may not have lied, but many would argue Facebook damaged many people with addiction and psychological manipulation that, in some cases, could have resulted in suicides, stalking, eating disorders, depression, etc.
General Assembly is also dramatically overstating its student outcomes. They claim 99.7% placement, a total farce.

https://twitter.com/fulligin/status/1452658647994015748
"Automatic semicolon insertion": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Pretty decent article in some ways, but the book Superintelligence covered all this ground in much more detail in 2014.

https://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-...
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The HS I graduated from (also a selective public high school) is also undergoing a law-suit over a similar policy that requires a minimum percentage of students from each area junior high. This lowered the Asian population by 19 points, raised Black population by 6 points, Hispanic population by 8 points, and White population by 5 points.

This roughly makes the demographic population at the school reflect the demographic population of the applicant pool; the applicant pool is still significantly more Asian than the area, with about half of the applicants being Asian, but only a fifth of the general population.

The lawsuit is roughly "This policy will move some slots from Asian students to White students, and the school board knew it" which is, as far as I can tell 100% accurate. The defense seems to be that the admissions are technically race-blind. I don't know if legally it matters that most of the slots that likely would have been filled by Asian students under the old policy go to other minorities under the new policy; it certainly does help it feel a bit less like the "Harvard has too many Jewish people" admissions change from the early 20th century.
OK, you changed my mind about one particular thing and I'm thankful you did: free software. It's beginning to look like the relationship between software cost and quality is inverted, cheaper is higher quality. For sure the contracts are better, more favorable. Free means no DRM. But it's not fully there yet, you still get better software usually, by paying for it in some roundabout way. The cost-quality curve is becoming flatter over time and in many cases is in some specific items negative-sloping, like Linux being the best for servers for a long time.

It happens whenever someone makes perfect work for free.
Had a linux break due to the hardware I was using, but now have i3 as my "daily driver".

I both like and dislike tiling windows. It's nice having stuff automatically take up non-overlapping space on the screen when you spawn new apps... but this doesn't scale. Even on a 32" monitor I almost never have any more than 3 windows.

Which means I end up having way too many workspaces (aka "virtual desktops") to compensate.

I remember using openbox back in the day, I've set aside some time to try it out again - a long with a new panel (would be a serious faux pas to use i3bar with openbox).
Hanlon's razor:

At dropbox's scale, guaranteed logfile durability is expensive, and retaining them indefinitely even more so.

They either got auto-deleted or they were never there in the first place.
I've been trying to break into biotech for years...short answer is they want biologists, not programmers, and don't appreciate skillsets that aren't already secondary to PHD industry-relevant experience.
> easier to maintain

I’m a huge fan but maintaining tailwind projects is actually a huge pain in the ass. I could maybe improve it by factoring out the classes from my html into a separate sheet using @apply when I’m “done” a project, but I don’t, and it defeats the convenience value anyway.

The markup is so overwhelming when there’s anything remotely complex. And sometimes components are almost identical but with slight variations. I miss seeing an element with a simple .classname to let me know what’s going on. Admittedly this is due to a lack of foresight on my part but moving forward I’m either re-thinking tailwind or ditching it.

I even have a pre-release 0.6v or something running on a production site I need to maintain. Which is stupid and my fault but demonstrates 1) that I’m a huge fan and have been using it forever and 2) it can suck maintaining if not thought out properly.

Don’t forget now you need to configure webpack for node sass and purge css and blah blah blah.

Tailwind is great for building something you never need to touch again.
"Please don't make this public, because then the investors will find out and they'll come after me."
Up, all the way up.
I think the semantics are largely dependent on the level of abstraction you are reasoning at. Here I use abstraction loosely to refer to conceptual or physical scale / granularity / resolution. For example, we are (probably) both using the term “gene” as shorthand for the concept of “gene or gene product(s)”. Likewise the term function can refer to phenomena occurring on molecular, cellular, etc length scales, or more amorphous groupings of phenomena such as “flux” through a biological pathway.

But if you really drill down into the nitty gritty, then the “function” of a “gene” is its complete set of state altering / modifying relationships with other bio entities. In this sense, all bio entities have functions because they all have functional relationships with other bio entities.

So yes, all genes, pseudo genes, isoforms, etc have a “function” even if it is redundant, taking up space, or just soaking up some of the pool of tRNA.

Also the minimal genome stuff is pretty fascinating! One of the best research questions I’ve ever heard was, “what are the essential genes of unknown function doing?”
Old school style done in a modern way, very videogame-y, high contrast with pure colors, opinionated. I just love it too.

They say design —art, really…— trends tend to come back after a while (usually decades), and this is a cool example of early re-imaging the inception of computers.
Thought #1: WMs are obviously much too easy to write.

Thought #2: How about a meta window manager to run all those WMs in parallel and/or switch between them on the fly?
It's kinda weird they didn't just use sapphire as "transparent aluminum". AlOxNy is actually somewhat harder (and more difficult to etch) than sapphire, but weird any way.