skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is weird how people look at this as a NP-hard scheduling problem. That doesn't touch the fundamental issue of uncertainty. Digging a hole can take between 5 minutes and eternity, depending on whether tree roots, old cables, old reinforced concrete, possible archeological finds, ... are encountered. A delivery of new material can be held up by traffic, by unforeseen stock issues, ... . The time concrete needs to dry depends on the weather. Things would be easy if it just were a NP-hard scheduling problem that only needs to get at 0.1% of the optimal solution.
Note that you can encode hand made (or other externally generated) puzzles in a format that Simon Tanthams app accepts, and share them.

I'm not aware of anyone actually doing this for most puzzles, but the crossword world often lets you download puzzles in a generic format to play in different apps, and the apps often have ways of regularly downloading new puzzles from the web.

I believe there's also apps that can prefill a soduko grid from a photograph of a grid, so maybe a translator could be built to pass those to the Puzzles app in the appropriate format.
Lowest bidder is exactly how bids are won in my industry. The money is then made by RFIs and ECOs during construction. Petro/chem industry.
List is missing my favorite one: Cookies are delicious delicacies.
Glitter nail polish is literally the first item discussed in the article linked by the parent poster, with the claim notably being:

"With the first two methods [of applying glitter nail polish], it is sometimes very difficult or even impossible to detect manipulations. However, a thorough approach can increase the chances."

Additionally, glitter nail polish is specifically what's written in the OP post (by the Librem team).
I don't think millitary experience is a good starting point to base assumptions about society in general or unrelated industries.

It's a whole microcosm with its own constraints...

In fact, since you piss on construction, one of the oldest running jokes is how dumb the millitary people are, and how illogical millitary is.
If you define “optimal outcome” as “people who don’t like having their benefits revoked quit”, yes. But I think a lot of people would define “optimal outcome” as “people who don’t like having their benefits revoked don’t get them revoked”.
> What if we're building a society that is so complicated that it just isn't feasible for individuals to make informed decisions about important matters any more?

That doesn't happen.

WordPress have an open development ecosystem through themes and plugins. It runs up to 50% of all web sites on the planet right now, including many gigantic ones. (various CNN, Reuters services included).

That did not lead to such an environment as you speak. Instead, there materialized many independent theme and plugin developer outfits, rising into prominence just for providing good software and having good reputation. And they have been half of the reason why WordPress now constitutes 50% of all web sites.

Open Source has been similar in general too - various high-reputation outfits dominate each field without curbing choice.
Congratulations ! Thank you for sharing. Would you be open to share you this idea turned into reality? How you found the necessity of the product?
I don't know, I mean my made-up word "interfaction" sounds a lot like "infraction" which is "a violation or infringement of a law or agreement", so "anti-interfaction" has a certain level of "badass-ness" as well. Or people will think that you misspelled "infraction", which would be not so good. Oh well...
Maybe try companies which do systems programming in Java, such as companies behind Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra etc. They're not doing low-latency work per se, but performance is definitely important for them.
We did not see this as being in an app store actually has value: these 30% cover server/traffic for downloading, billing, discoverability, ease of use in getting the app, little marketing (getting featured). For lots of developers, this seems to be worth whatever the market in question asks for.
Honestly if this law ever gets approved, the best way to comply is just to block the UK, its seems to be made to make compliance impossibly expensive if you are not big tech or a UK focused company.
“Cadillac Desert” has been recommended on the site by a bunch of random people many times throughout this last year on basically every thread involving the Colorado River, flooding of other US rivers, or droughts. It’s one of those books that gets laypeople fired up and causes them to become armchair experts and recommend it to others with fervor.
Could you share some entry points to the criticism?
> Bus rapid transit is one of the most underrated modes of transportation and light rail easily the most overrated

Bus rapid transit is great and vastly cheaper than anything on rails upfront, but even really well designed ones like Curitiba's one has lower capacity (albeit at a higher frequency, in their case). However until electric buses become the norm BRT has a few other massive downsides - pollution, noise, maintenance, emissions.

Overall, each transportation method (bike, e-scooter, BRT, regular buses, trolleybuses, trams, light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, car) has it's own set of advantages and disadvantages, and they are often location and urban design specific. The best public transit systems are those with a mix that works for them.
"Russian rulers"

why the plural? it has been this one singular dude for quite some time XD and that contradicts (i mean, not contradict, but like... who are you talking about?) your "not known for being long-term thinkers". i dont think we know what putin is scheming

i admit that my what-if-s are not helpful, but it doesnt look to me like he is concerned of global warming at all. and this article here makes me think that might be no coincidence.
Software aspires to forecast who will win a battle
Atlassian fixes critical Confluence hardcoded credentials flaw
Safari 15.5 and Firefox 102.0.1 (64-bit, current) on macOS 11 (Big Sur) / M1.

(May be a network issue. I'm located in Europe.)
Scientists create matter in which time has ‘two dimensions’
Availability != accessibility. Many of the support mechanisms that are available by law are inaccessible in practice:

- they require endless hoops to jump through (requirements for ID cards, citizenship, proving X years of residence in state/county or detailed financial or employment history when people often don't have the physical records any more)

- they require a bank account or a postal address (which is often hard to meet for homeless or the unbanked)

- they require a computer to fill out the application, excluding the elderly and analphabets without a support network like friends or family that help out

- require personal presence for the application at times where normal people have to work or at a place that cannot be reached by public transport

- the application processing takes many months, which leads to people not applying in the first place because why put in the effort if it will be in vain anyway

- successfully applying for the benefits prevents them from rising up in their jobs ("welfare cliff")

- successfully obtaining mental health care diagnosis and help prevents people from certain jobs or insurance

The system is set up in this perverted way so that politicians can say when faced with public pressure that there is a system in place, but don't have to actually set aside the money that it would cost to serve everyone who's theoretically eligible.

As a result, people turn to easier forms of making money instead: undocumented exploitative labor, prostitution or crime. And the latter two are a permanent source to feed the prison-industrial complex - it has been noted that should the cheap prison/slave labor go away, entire cities would collapse [1].

[1] https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/14...
I'm fairly certain they're mostly laundering schemes at this point -- half of the tech founders I've seen seem to be pitching MVPs that could be readily found in any CS undergrad's Git repo lol.
Two factors are important for a viable anti-tamper technology.

First, the recipient must have an available technology to verify
integrity. The random beads/rice method is cool because you just need
a digital camera. Software that works like face recognition (a set of
distance vectors between identifiable features) can run in seconds.

There are 3D scanners that can snapshot an object to such accuracy
that fingerprints will show up like mountain ranges. The point cloud
for a laptop PCB is many gigabytes. We can send a hash to save
space. Of course it's totally useless to an average person who doesn't
have the same advanced scanner which costs millions. X-rays, which are
super useful for supply chain integrity present a similar problem.

But that creates a second problem, worse in a way. The technology
cannot be too good. The scanner will pick up the thermal drift of
solder during transit. That, or speck of dust, will then throw up a
false positive. Unless you visually verify what the disturbance is
(can't do that with the hash, need the full scan and it's time
consuming) now you have a suspect device.

Because digital devices might be maliciously soft-modified in
undetectable ways, we can't take a chance. a $1000 device has to go in
the trash. Too many false positives and it's not viable.

My feeling is that several low-tech methods in cascade (to create
defence in depth) are better than any single hi-tech method.
Relating to the article on construction, I think this may be an instance where the theory breaks down in practice. Construction jobs aren’t just optimal linear programming because the order often impacts both the costs and duration of subsequent work, making much of it nonlinear.
The need for quantum computers remains small
The UK is not in the EU, so why does it matter?
> Now this person was in her fifties! How the hell to you get to be fifty years old and not know how electricity works!?

Shtty American education system? Which so gimps anything that is non-profitable and makes anything that is worth studying so expensive that people live without access to knowledge?

The US is the only country where it is needed to put 'dont microwave your cat' on Microwaves and other dumb sht.

So no.

The 'dumb sh't is not that actual Marxist is doing. Trying to change that situation in which education costs an arm and a leg and people have to struggle.

The dumb sht is people like you talking as if her being a Marxist was a bad thing all the way at the start of your 'arguments', giving an example from something which should be a damning condemnation of your system and the mentality that you espouse. Because those are what keep you still mired in knee-deep sh*t - reaching all the way to a point where you have an entire population segment that believes the earth is flat and plans on taking your country 200 years back.

But hey. Suit yourself. Its natural selection.
A great paper [1] (published by Linköping University) criticizes the book's unbalanced optimism and bias:

"Factfulness actually employs a biased selection of variables, avoids analysis of negative trends, and does not discuss any of the serious challenges related to continual population growth. A policy based on the simplistic worldview presented in Factfulness could have serious consequences."

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328759928_Good_Thin...
The rabid intensity with which the tories are trying to remove any link to EU makes me nervous the government will push through with this, simply for ideological reasons rather than any link with reality. To be fair, that would apply for lots of things the government has done recently.
Could you elaborate on this a bit ? Lisp has next to no numerical libraries IIRC ?
The term interdiction is used heavily within three letter agencies across many governments and countries to refer to interception (and presumably, modification) of electronics hardware. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdiction
The “spreadsheet mentality” sucks, and kills the efficacy of jobs
You guys registered this name in SG ? Uber cool.
Surprisingly well, actually. The traction material I removed from my 24-year-old ski was some sort of neoprene-like foam rubber and worked fine despite being original equipment. Each individual astroturf blade has less grip compared to the rubber, but exponentially more surface area; your feet and toes almost sink into the grass instead of resting on top of a rubber mat that's typically covered in water. The benefits are particularly noticeable when leaning into the curves at higher speeds or just hooning it in general.

Because the turf is a highly-textured surface, there's far less tendency for your feet to slip in any direction when the mat is waterlogged and/or during high lateral-g maneuvering, while still retaining the "self-cleaning" characteristics of the foam rubber. The backing surface of the turf is very similar to the original rubber, just arranged in a square cell pattern. Slap some contact cement in the footwells and you've got a replacement that (IMO) exceeds the traction of the OEM mats and looks 100x cooler. I've been running them on my ski for two years now and have yet to see a blade come off after a ride, no matter how hard I push it.
I used to drive three external displays (3x24", 1920x1200@60hz) on my almost four years old dell latitude 7390, using the integrated intel uhd 620 chip.

it's incredible that a modern macbook costing likely twice as my old work laptop (the latitude 7390) can only do so little... Oh and the latitude had a ton of ports.
Archive link with the full text: https://archive.ph/foyOI
Whats the difference in between a corporation that dominates the life and choices of one half of the population and a feudal lord that does the same.

The 'paternalistic Eu' is at least comprised of officials appointed through democratically elected parliamentarians.

What kind of democratic powre does the public have in the decisions that Apple takes?

What has the result of 'free market' mechanics been, other than increasingly dominate people's lives to maximize profit all the way to reducing their phone's performance just at the right time when a new version is going out to force them to upgrade?
Linux's UI (if you can refer to such a singular thing) is actually the number one reason that makes it more difficult to move to Macs. Sway/i3 is vastly superior to MacOS UI in almost every way.

edit for me, obviously, not necessarily for everyone
On the contrary, you don't have to do much more work than the author already did, and you get deep practical insights into how this very useful technology works beyond the marginally useful trivia of how terminals happen to internally represent keystrokes
I'm sorry but your are wrong on this one. The carbon footprint is a scam because it is not made to change things but simply shift the blame on citizen Lamda when in fact citizen Lambda has nothing to do with it.

Its been proven time and time again that recycling as it has been sold to the world is a scam. To understand that you only need to look at the years 2019/2020 when China decided to not accept anymore plastic material for recycling.
The reason is obvious, it does not work.

But its not news really. Governments and companies have known for decades that we were heading down the wrong path yet chose not to act.

If you want to stop climate change, there is a simple and easy solution. Ban fossil fuels. But that will send our civilization back to the dark ages.

What we should have done is make a plan and start the transition early but instead as always governments have waited and waited even though countless reports warned over the years that we were making things worse.

Alas, governments all around the world were just too happy to collect taxes on petrol/fuel and even encourage citizens to embrace technologies that turned out to have deadly side effects on the local population(see the Diesel scandal in France).

All the while the governments have been pocketing the money in their coffers never to be seen again and the investments in renewable energy have been delayed and/or cancelled(see Germany circa 2010 in response to Fukushima)

It's only in the last few months that most of Europe started waking up to the fact that burning fossil fuels was not going to be the way to go forward. Mind you, not because they all suddenly realized that we should really push renewable energy, no, it's only because the main supply of gas is about to be cut off.

Yet, somehow we see governments and companies turning around and say: You need to watch your electricity usage, you need to stop using plastic wrappers, plastic straws and what not, you need to drive less.

As if people have choice...

But people will make due with what they have. If we don't want people to use plastic straws, then lets ban them. Alas, once again the big companies are against that.

Mc Donald's famously rejected a ban on plastic straws when they could have been at the forefront of this fight and show the way, instead it chose it's bottom line.

Governments could have not incentivized car usage by building better and denser neighborhoods but instead we now have urban sprawl and god help you if you live on the country side and if you don't have a car.

So to sum it up I reject the fact that it is somehow my fault that climate change is happening. I reject the fact that I should try to calculate my own carbon footprint while airlines, car companies and governments just sit by and continue to spew more and more carbon in the atmosphere while I need to feel guilty because I bought some food in a plastic container.

You talk about collective accountability, I am more than happy to do my part when everyone does their part including big companies and governments.
It does not imply a reverse direction with respect to "deduction", which was the intention of the name, as used in the book discussed here.

Both "abdūcō" and "dēdūcō" mean "lead away", except that the latter implies that the origin of the movement was somewhere above, i.e. the movement was descendant (the prefix "dē-" in descend is the same as the prefix "dē-" in deduce).

"Abduction" implies a reverse direction only vs. "adduction", which means leading towards something, not away of something, like "abduction".

The words "abduction" and "adduction" are frequently used to describe the movements of the human arms and legs, where the place that is the initial point of the movement for abduction or the final point of the movement for adduction is understood to be the median axis of the body. Thus there are abductor muscles and adductor muscles. (For example the abductor muscles of the thigh raise the thigh laterally, away from the other thigh, while the adductor muscles of the thigh bring the two thighs together.)

"Induction" also implies the same direction of movement as "adduction", i.e. towards something, and opposite of deduction/abduction, but "induction" implies that the final point of the movement is inside the target.
Yes I know. The narrator is also wrong about the sulfur claim, similarly like the GP. I like it because it plainly lays out the issues with nuclear shipping, which then allows you to draw your own conclusions. It then ends on the same cool tech bro solution looking for a problem if only society was smarter as we see around this thread which honestly is a bit sad. I hoped for better when first watching it.

The legal and insurance hurdles haven't become smaller with Fukushima, Three mile Island and Chernobyl since the time of the Savannah.

Consider the insurance required for an accident happening in Long Beach.

Also consider that from the time of the Savannah shipping has shifted from a skilled profession to crews from the lowest bidder. Crews today are mostly a jumble from South east Asia and around the Indian subcontinent.

Shipping is centered around one issue, that is cost. Public perception does not exist as a factor.
Thank you so much, I've been sharing on other places about my side project and they only come back with something in the lines "yeh right, no one will pay for this" ... really nice to hear something as supportive like this :)
And Brexit was specifically about whatever EU does they'll do the opposite, so it's fine.
Next is health care, the food safety standards, and the rest.
Exactly, the problem is incorrectly framed ICE vs. EV. It’s not the type of car, but our lifestyle that is destroying the planet.
What happens when this thing breaks? Will they abandon a $10B device in space? Or maybe send a guy to go out to L1 and "turn it off and back on again"? Lol
The argument betrays itself:

How will that elderly and less tech savvy find and install another app store into their iPhone.

If they are not tech savvy enough to be able to decide something is scammy, they are not tech savvy enough to install a freaking app store in their phone.
>The M2 is significantly slower in multithreaded compared to the mid-range Dell XPS 13 Plus and a miniscule amount faster in single threaded. You can see this list: https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-list/cinebench-scores

Cinebench is a terrible CPU benchmark. Geekbench is far better. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/pitid6/eli5_why_d...

>But in addition the M2 air runs hotter. They both throttle. But the M2 reaches over 100 degrees.

I used an M1 Air for over a year. While it can get hot if you run it a maximum, it runs extremely cool for being fanless on normal workloads. Most people aren't pushing their laptops to the max.

>That XPS 13 plus settles at around a continuous cinebench scores of ~1515. While the first run was 1795. That means it has a stability of about 84%.

Again, Cinebench is a terrible CPU benchmark.

>Anyway if you want a fast ultra portable neither Apple nor Intel are good choices. You have to get an and MAD 6000 series laptop.

Simply not true. Both Intel and Apple offer faster laptop chips than AMD.
Well, because for a short while, it was assumed that UK would just follow the same rules as EU does, and thefore UK companies could be given an easy pass operating in the EU, or when interacting with EU citizens. For instance there is/was no need to inspect any items coming from UK into the EU, since the general assumption is that the standards are still the same as they were pre-brexit, so they don't need to be treated like coming from a country like China or India.

However, this is all changing now. UK is keen to get rid of regulations it inherited from the EU, making it a much less attractive place to do business with, from the EU perspective. We can no longer assume that companies hosting EU citizen's data on UK soil will play nice and follow the same rules - it will be treated with caution initially, and (hopefully) with eventual hostility towards it, as UK seems to be going full on surveilence mode with government and its agencies having access to everything at all times with no warrants needed.

So yes, it "doesn't matter" only if UK isn't interested in working with the largest trading block on the planet. If they truly want to go that path, then sure, whatever.
Because if we don't comply with the GDPR then we can't deal with EU citizens. Which is a massive market right next to us. So now companies have two parallell data protection regulations to deal with, which is extra cost.
It's quite scary that the House of lords (unelected peers), previously seen as undemocratic may be the only thing stopping the commons from rushing through legislation as they don't have to pander to public option. Which I guess was always their purpose
Yep. They can just buy Android and get locked into another walled garden.
The title made me think of Pixar’s Lifted. https://youtu.be/LVLoc6FrLi0
Test any Intel or AMD laptop unplugged.