skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And sometimes the requirements that a thing was built on aren’t meant to make the best possible product, e.g. budget, repairability / maintainability, compromise due to integration with other systems, etc etc

In the same vein as “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”, “never attribute to engineering that which is adequately explained by finance” :)
Is it socially responsible to offer credit cards? Buy now pay later seems essentially like an extension of these, just for one particular purchase. On the one hand, these offers do induce many people to buy things they can't actually afford. But on the other hand, this would apply to credit cards and essentially any consumer credit product.

My take is that people need better education. I listened to the planet money episode on buy now pay later, and apparently make people simply can't comprehend that 4 payments of $X adds up to 4x [1]. That's just bafflingly poor thinking ability, falling prey to consumer credit schemes is probably one of the smaller problems faced by people in such positions.

1. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3J...
I have to wonder where this person’s school circumstances.

For example, why was the triangle area formula only memorized and not demonstrated to them? I thought this should be standard everywhere in the world? Maybe they just don’t remember, it happens early (age 11-12 for me IIRC).

Similarly, and this is from two decades ago at this point, some basics of gene expression and cell differentiation were covered in my later biology classes, including some of the evolutionary steps. Details are of course fuzzy now. But I clearly remember that learning we share so many genes and so much cell chemistry with even basic bacteria threw me into a bit of an existential crisis when I was 17 — making me question what if anything is so special about humans.

When they were students, some people were simply unwilling to follow any train of thought that was unlikely to be test-relevant. The author almost admits as much: “Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.” That’s a perfectly fine way to approach school, I’m not judging. But then maybe don’t complain that you didn’t learn anything?
I probably would have been a chef, because I am good at cooking and don't really enjoy pursuing "real" careers like doctors or real estate agents.
This article a carefully crafted piece of propaganda disguising itself as journalism. This is part (banning herbicides and pesticides) of the green movement. Of course, they forget why we use them in the first place.
So what "actually successful desktop" are the tiling window managers like?

They're probably more successful than Window Maker.
> JetBrains various IDEs - haven't really given it a fair shake yet. But I want one editor I can use across all the languages I develop in. I don't want a separate IDE for each language. I'm not sure I want an IDE at all.

I always have a MacVim window open as a general text editor.

I found that JetBrains IDEs are great for me for programming work because I can group them into these 2 types:

* When I want an IDE — example for iOS work, I use AppCode. The navigation and refactoring capabilities are great. Swift code can be very hard to navigate in an editor that is not an IDE due to type inference.

* When I don't absolutely need an IDE — example for Ruby work, I use RubyMine. I still run commands like `bundle` and `rails` in the terminal. I only use RubyMine for editing code. I use a fairly high end machine so the resources used by RubyMine doesn't bother me (and every other JetBrains IDE is crazy fast compared to AppCode…)

But JetBrains have a decent vim plugin so I still get to use vi across all my work, programming or not, and since their IDEs are all based on the same framework, they work very similarly. So there's familiarity with this combination.
> I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA.

I should have loved biology in high school, had it been centered on evolutionary principles, rather than (in my US classes) seemingly disconnected materials with at most a week on evolution.

Because "controversy."

I noticed this essay doesn't used the word evolution at all, preferring "heredity."

Evolution is what ties the fields of biology together, from biochemistry and microbiology to anatomy, animal behavior, and ecosystems.

I didn't start to understand what I was missing in my biology education until I started reading Stephen Jay Gould essays in college.
All those kernels are legally required to be free by the GPL. Those OSes have "non-free" userspaces.
Go makes it explicit where the error was ignored so you can go and wring the neck of the bastard who ignored it :)
Take a look at https://www.helium.com/

They have nascent 5G support, and it’s all “owned by the people”.

Not a big fan of crypto shenanigans, but Helium comes as close as possible to crypto that kinda works and solves a problem.
....apart from the rest of the civilised world.

Self check out has teething problems mainly because users need get trained on how to do it but once you grok it, you never go back - its simply faster, more efficient experience.
Gardener.
Or bread backer. ( I'm French, it's definitively a 'real' job there, but also it's too much work for too little pay )
I'm not dismissing generics or object orientation or orthogonal addressing modes or 'a x 'a -> 'a functions. I am observing that there's a trap that a lot of people fall into, where they spend inordinate amounts of time making everything as generic as possible at the expense of time-to-market, and understandablity.

A good class or generic is hard to beat. Unfortunately the understanding of the details that make something a good class requires experience and experiments. Maybe I am talking about premature optimization, writ larger, or in design.
In the US, being a "good cop" in this context is a career-ending move. People in power don't really like it when abuses of their power are exposed. The "thin blue line" and all.

ACAB
Conti ransomware group crippled Costa Rica – then fell apart
Excellent form factor with an unusable ppi. I lost all my faith in non-Apple companies being able to produce usable displays. I hate macOS, but I have no choice. The only alternative is Linux+UP3218K, but it requires Nvidia graphics (no-go on Linux, for me), and the build quality is spotty and poor...

At least now we have a Linux laptop with a usable display though, the soon to be released ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 will have the option of a 16:10, 2880x1800, 242ppi display, usable in Linux with 2x scaling.

Of course that laptop has other problems, but at least we have the first alternative to a MacBook in over a decade for people who care about Linux and displays.
>For my personal use cases, I use Windows and macos.
For running web apps and hobby projects, I always use Linux (Debian and Ubuntu distros).

It's the same for me. Windows for desktop and Linux for servers.
Safer than eating glyphosate (people actually do this).
I think a pod gives you how to deploy a cell. But there's still a discussion to be had about what goes into the pod. The key part (from a quick read) seems to be the gateway component. That looks like it has a significant role in managing the architecture as a whole.
This is excellent advice.

(Though I am curious why RSTP is so deserving of a call out - I mean, yes, but there's a lot of basics here that someone starting out would need to know, including things like avoiding fate sharing and basic planning, equipment realities, etc. if laying fiber.)
Armchair ISP bootstrapper comment: try to start in one location. And fuck permits, go full pirate on these assholes. Become popular for providing exceptional though very limited service in a small geographic area. Then social media campaigning to paint the incumbents black. Try to parlay from there.
> You can get drunk without realizing your drinking alcohol

There’s been a conscious choice to produce alcohol and put it in your drink.

> Keep trying to cover all the edge cases

As if you don’t have any. Complexity of the territory aside, does this make more magic leaps than, say, mind-body dualism or discarding the one single thing directly accessible as an illusion?

> simulate the physical laws the way we currently expect even before humanity was aware of them

Our consciousness devises models to describe the perceived time-space that’s ultimately an artifact of consciousness itself. Though they seem to be useful, it’s up in the air whether they model the territory or the map, or what is the territory.
Doing research in a field that interests me. Hell, I'm still young, we'll see what the next several years bring.
I've been using a 32" 16:9 4K monitor (BenQ BL3201PH) for years. The biggest improvement I've made recently was putting it on a proper monitor arm. OMG, what a sea change being able to raise, lower, bring forward, push back the monitor throughout the day.

I have a fixed standing desk with a tall bar-stool type chair I use for resting at times. I'm 50, but even with glasses I use just for editing (they are optimized for bringing into focus things at arms distance) I have the monitor relatively close to use it at the resolution and font-sizes I like. This means if I'm working on editing something toward the bottom or top of the monitor I'll often have to adjust its height so that I'm not tilting my head too far down or up. The monitor arm just makes that so easy.

After a couple tries, I found a knock-off of the Fully Jarvis arm that works well, the WALI GSM001XL:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NLMLLT6/

Anyway, this LG is neat, but my 32" is already at the height limit I'd want for a monitor. I feel like this LG dual setup I'd need to have too far way to see the full view comfortably, which would mean running everything at larger font sizes, so I'm not sure it makes sense.
Yes, to all of those, though some take more work than others.

It says a lot that "systemd vs init.d" instead of "systemd vs sysvinit" was there.

The question is not about the ecosystem, though, but about the kernel itself. Yes, there are embedded vendors (mostly networking equipment, and especially routers) who violate the GPL by not complying, but generally speaking, hardware vendors who choose Linux publish sources.

Those sources may not ever make it into mainline, but the device trees/drivers for embedded stuff does provide a reference for a cleaner, better implementation.

Compare to FreeBSD for the Playstation's management layer. Where are the contributions for Cell support? Where are the patches Sony certainly needed to make for wifi and bluetooth? Where are the patches from Juniper for validated FIPS?
The protection afforded by intramusculars to the body against death is clear, well worth it, and long lasting. I am not talking about that here.

I tried to make this distinction clear by writing out the full "vaccine effectiveness against infection" every time. The entire point of my comments in this post's threads is to point out the intramuscular vaccines cannot and are not protective against you getting infected and spreading the disease.

That's bad. We need new intranasal vaccine boosters to augment the intramusculars and we need to keep wearing face fitting N95 or ffp2 or better masks indoors until then. Being intramuscularly vaccinated will not prevent you from spread sars-cov-2. It will keep you from dying for years and keep you from being hospitalized for ~6 months.
Cool kids have discord!
Swimming pools are worse. Let’s ban those first.
I wanted to make robots when I was a kid, and I have an enduring interest in electrical engineering. I probably would’ve gone into that. I don’t know that I would’ve done well in the coursework in school, but as a hobby I absolutely love it.
And even if they don't share networks they might share physical space.

I had an incident where two different trans-Atlantic links from two different providers, shared a 20 mile stretch of conduit.

So, of course, that's exactly where the fiber cut happened.
Thanks for the reco - this book looks very promising. <Added via Audible>

A personal deficit I have noticed in myself is .... not being able to commit to making a decision, because I think probabilistically - that I can see the other probabilities but have been recently using some shortcuts. I need more.
Wow. By comparison, I got 50¢, and that's adjusted for inflation! (It was a quarter at the time.)
just to generalized bad health and possibly celiac disease

I'd say that part of the problem is that this chemical makes the gut flora sick, not the human... but given as the gut bacteria are symbiotic with us, we also suffer negative consequces which are harder to explain with strictly reductionist biomechanics

also I keep in mind the economic incentives and the sorry state of academic funding
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Why is Germany reopening it's coal plants if not to make up for the intermittency problems of renewables?

If intermittency issues caused storage to be quite attractive, why hasn't storage already been rolled out across Germany and California?

Neither if these claims agrees with what happened in these two cases. Any electrical engineer could have told you storage is needed before decommissioning nuclear in favour of renewables.
I just wanted to add some detail on why Migadu is awesome.

- Usage based pricing rather than per seat

- As cheap as $19 per year

- No deliverability issues

- Good instructions on how to set your DNS settings.
Monsanto settled a batch of civil cases regarding Roundup for $10bn. No one settle’s for that sum unless they’re guilty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/business/roundup-settleme...
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> Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

1080 on a 14" screen is not, in any way, going to slow your work down compared to hiDPI on a 14".

You're still going to display the same number of visual elements at 14", after all.
Are there any window managers that let you set some kind of 'snap zones' so that you can easily tile screens without fiddling? That's my main issue with large screens vs a plurality of smaller ones.
> If you have one of the models affected, that’s bad news, because Honda probably won’t respond anyway. The researcher contacted Honda customer support weeks ago, and hasn’t received a reply yet. Why customer support? Because Honda doesn’t have a security department to submit such an issue to. And even if they did, just a few months ago, Honda has said they will not be doing any kind of mitigation for “car unlock” vulnerabilities.
I'm double-extending vscode: top monitor gets the code, bottom laptop screen gets the terminal (vscode click-to-goto file/line in stdout/stderr output is just too powerful)
I guess I've never seen a business actually use Microsoft Office effectively. The odd PowerPoint or Word doc? The standalone apps work OK alongside Google, or people just send PDFs anyway. For actual collaboration, especially real-time, Docs and Sheets and Drive and Slides are soooooo much better to work with. Even if they are less feature packed, they do the basics much better.

But that is just my experience primarily working in web teams or small biz. Maybe there are enterprise features that I've never used or even thought about.

As for admin, I've been the gsuite admin (again just for smaller companies) and found it quite powerful, but the use cases are probably different. A lot of these companies basically use the computers as dumb terminals, where the browser is the only thing that really matters. And Chrome federated management makes that pretty easy.
Call me crazy, but I never had issues with Canadian telcos - I start to think I’m some statistical anomaly :). I used Rogers, Bell and Telus for cell - all worked just fine; other than their barely functioning websites I never had a problem. Are they fixing prices? Absolutely, it’s an oligopoly, same as many other things in Canada; I think Rogers has a 40% profit margin, that’s rich if you ask me. Regarding cable internet - there are some cheaper companies such as TekSavvy and CarryTel - they use the big guys’ infra as a backbone, but cost 10-30% cheaper.

My point is that up until this last event I was cognizant of the fact that the prices are too high, but was ok to pay for the quality I got, would have laughed in the face to anyone saying LTE coverage or speed are bad.

As a side note about the outage - I think a lot of people underestimate incompetence in large companies. I often marvel at how for example large Canadian banks are making record profits with many disfuctioning teams in critical positions - a situation that got much worse with the wave of the great resignation. If I were to bet, I’d say some incompetent team broke the infra, so there’s no need to look for conspiracy theories, people are just not competent in their positions and make mistakes when something has to be changed and they have no more excuses to avoid that change.
Kotlin 1.7.0 Released – The Kotlin Blog
Your stance is that 1% is a large amount, people don't understand why you think this is a large amount other than 1% of large numbers happen to be large figures.
That is amazing. I do not know anything about plants - is this approach generically applicable for all crops or are there limitations on what kinds of weeds are likely to grow in a field? For example: weeds in wheat fields are too visually similar/closely spaced/different life cycle than the cash crop for this to work?
> At least, the assumption that “nothing” was sent back is wrong.

That is true, I should have phrased it more carefully.

> In a way, that makes BSD more free than the GPL.

Yes, BSD is a permissive license and GPL isn't. But the original question was whether GPL leads to more splinters or BSD.

I think that the copyleft nature of GPL leads to fewer "effective" splinters since good modifications can be merged into upstream, and what is left unmerged tends to be less important to the success of the parent project. This has helped Linux gain momentum and unfortunately hasn't much helped the BSDs or Minix. I would like to see the BSDs succeed but I suspect that the permissive license has been one of the impediments to that.
WHO doesn't say "yes" they say "probably". Same category as very hot water (65c).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2A
TIL Luc Devroye has time to design and maintain fonts. Legend.
From TFA: “The pamphlet does not specify why only the wide gauge of five-feet-six inches was tested and not others.”

Standard gauge was ubiquitous in the US at the time, and this engineering firm didn’t even evaluate it in their report, despite the fact that the original BART plans called for standard gauge. Stability of standard gauge has since been proven to be a complete non-issue.

If you read more about the history of BART, everything about it was NIH. They thought they were going to design some new space-age standard and usher in a new era of public transportation.
how about reading the article?
How does this compare to rotating a regular monitor 90 degrees?
Tutanota Quantum Resistant Encryption Prototype
I guess we'll never know. I think this is sad.
There is zero bezel since it's one panel.

https://www.lg.com/us/images/features/mnt-dualup-ergo-28mq78...
It's exact 2 16:9
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I have a PhD in Organic Chemistry and just last week I visited my PhD supervisor's research group. My research was on understanding the mechanism of enzyme-catalyzed decarboxylation reactions. This is very detailed physical-organic reaction kinetics to seek to understand the basis for some of the remarkable acceleration that the enzyme provides (10^6) over model systems in aqueous solution.

Reflecting on this, I find it sad that I never really saw how to place this research into the much broader biological context in which it exists. This goes back to how we teach the subject as the linked article discusses so nicely. There is no sense of wonder. There are no questions that are posed to the reader, just "facts".

Consider this question - look outside at a tree. Where did all the carbon in the tree come from? You may have heard that carbon fixation in plants use a process called "photosynthesis" that involves iron ions. Where did the iron come from? If only we taught by using storytelling techniques and posing questions to students, perhaps we might have more engagement with science than we have today.
Then please make it instead of hinting…
> Local hidden variables can not explain experimental results of QM without implying something many people find distasteful.

No. Local hidden variables can't explain QM without breaking math or conflicting with very well tested experiments.

It isn't just "unfashionable".

You're free to postulate non-local hidden variables, but you can't wave away the EPR results like they're just philosophy.
> I personally got the third-cheapest 49" ultrawide.

I'm shopping for ultawide right now, care to share the link of the monitor you got?
At the cost of a financial penalty.

Try buying a house, but changing your mind right before going to a notary. At least here in the Netherlands congrats typically state you’ll have to pay 10%.

The agreement that Elon apparently had with Twitter included similar clauses.
I've always stacked my monitors because I recline while I work, so the up/down eye motion feels natural for me. By contrast, I turn my head to see side-by-side monitors, which doesn't feel as nice to do all day.
Oh for some reason I interpreted this as that many trains departing to the same place. Like as if there were a train from New York to Boston every few minutes.
Thanks, I’ll have to give it a try, although one thing I don’t like is the concave-towards-the-tip style of curly braces that it uses. By that, I mean that I prefer each half (upper and lower) of the brace to only go in one direction horizontally, and not go back in the other horizontal direction before it reaches the tip where both halves meet. Are there good names for these two different styles?
Such rules don't work. The UK does have such rules still written into law and the BBC's charter but they are simply ignored. The regulators are fully captured and act as enforcers of the chosen agenda, e.g. at the start of lockdowns Ofcom created a new rule that broadcasters weren't allowed to question government health advice!

Fox is not the problem the USA has. Fox is the solution. Would all the people who think news media is untrustworthy be lapping up CNN if Fox didn't exist? Again, other countries provide the answer - no, they wouldn't. They would just assert that all TV news is biased and refuse to watch any at all, whilst simmering in anger at the system that tries to eliminate them from public life.
Many J Language Books Related to Math, Algorithms, Problem-Solving, etc.
Incredibly low resolution for the size monitor too. Is the form factor the novelty worthy of sharing?
Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source
Nothing is worth trying.
If you mean in terms of resolution, that would be a super ultra wide, like the Samsung neo g9.
I run the EIZO you linked and love it... since I'm such a fan of this monitor I've always kept an eye out for anything more affordable.

Unfortunately, this LG is the first and only thing that I've seen that comes close with a <$1k price tag... I'm considering picking this up to have as a backup when my EIZO finally dies.

My specs are 1:1 or as-close as I can get.