skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you’re serious, it’s because the costs outweigh the benefits. Specifically, the benefits would accrue to everyone, while the costs are borne by the individuals doing the “fighting.” This is known as the free rider problem. Realistically, there’s not much an individual can do to change an entire society. Moving to better circumstances, however, is a realistic alternative.
It seems fairly trivial to scan the whole file and build an in memory index to speed things up, and I'm sure most viewers do. I can't say I've ever had significant speed issues with most archives to see this as a problem.
I'm running a D&D campaign for my daughter and a friend over Zoom
> mechanics shows that irrational numbers aren't "real".

Yep the ancient philosophical math debate about what real even means beyond some points on a grid.
That is if the issuing gov does not also print a ton of cash to repay you, or default
I'm using hidpi scaling on 13" 4K screen with Plasma/X11 just fine - that is, until an external screen that wants a different scaling factor is connected. This is still fine though; the only cases where I attach an external screen are presentations or other fullscreen content where the mismatched scale doesn't matter at all. However, if you want to generally work with multiple screens with various scaling ratios, you need to go Wayland indeed.
That's part of the problem with fairly basic research like what we're putting into fusion. Without making the investment, doing the science and engineering to actually study these things and learn how they work and how we can do them better, we won't know how or whether they can be made cheaper, miniaturized, etc.

This isn't the same kind of problem that most of us are used to dealing with in our daily lives—where the fundamental components, and the fundamental science, that make it all up are well-understood and fairly mature, and what we have to do is come up with creative ways to apply it. This is the kind of "we don't know if any specific avenue of research will ever pay back a positive monetary ROI, but pursuing them is important anyway" science that we need to be doing with or without fusion as a specific goal, because over time, it will produce years or decades of silence, punctuated by small, incremental improvements in our understanding of the universe...and then an amazing breakthrough like practical, commercially-viable fusion power.

But only if we are willing to patiently fund it through those years or decades of boring stuff.
Sometimes document provenance matters and you don't want a copy.
Noted, thanks for the feedback. A demo account would be useful.
Most of those foods do not sound attractive to me (except for the pistachio milkshake). But it was enjoyable reading about the menu.
I don't disagree with your general statement, but you have no idea when OP worked there, you have no idea why they joined, and you have no idea why they left. Were they there pre-2010? Did they join after thinking maybe it wasn't so bad and then quit when they found out it was?

We don't know, because you won't ask. Again, I agree with your general views on FB. But when there's someone right in front of me, I'm gonna talk to them and find out more before I tell them that they shouldn't be allowed to be a member of society. Life is nuanced, and the degree to which we harbor hatred towards those doing harm is nuanced, too. I will always be initially apprehensive of someone like OP, but at a macro/individual level I will always work to understand more - it's the fair thing to do.

If you want to ignorantly paint everyone with such a broad brush, go ahead.
I was simply saying that sponsorships incentivize those bad behaviors

Labeling something on a timeline, or skipping it, does prevent someone from deceptively convincing you to follow through with the action they want. If you have an idea on how to fix people's attachments to parasocial relationships, I'd love to hear it, as I think it's important as well. SponsorBlock does not, and cannot, solve every problem I have with the world.
Why should you couple your archive format to a compression algorithm?
>I will push back there. Automobiles rarely pay the cost for their transportation infrastructure.

US highways do pay for themselves <https://web.archive.org/web/20170712175437/www.rita.dot.gov/...>, and help pay for other modes of transportation. Transit receives the biggest subsidy per passenger-mile, with rail and airlines in between.

(For those wishing more detail: From the executive summary <https://web.archive.org/web/20170628114204/http://www.rita.d...>:

>*Highways*

>* Users of the highway passenger transportation system paid significantly greater amounts of money to the federal government than their allocated costs in 1994-2000. <https://web.archive.org/web/20170628114204/http://www.rita.d...> This was a result of the increase in the deficit reduction motor fuel tax rates between October 1993 and September 1997, and the increase in Highway Trust Fund fuel tax rates starting in October 1997.

>* School and transit buses received positive net federal subsidies over the 1990-2002 period, but autos, motorcycles, pickups and vans, and intercity buses paid more than their allocated cost to the federal government.

>* On average, highway users paid $1.91 per thousand passenger-miles to the federal government over their highway allocated cost during 1990-2002.)
Facebook tried successfully to do this in 2019 by misusing their internal corporate app certificate, and only stopped because Apple noticed and revoked their certificate. So we already have proof that in the absence of Apple’s ability to punish and ban companies for asking users to sideload to bypass tracking restrictions, they will ask and users will accept.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-b...

As for Android, many Android app stores (especially ones in China) impose no restrictions or barely any at all. The only one that imposes meaningful restrictions is Google’s Play Store, and the restrictions are much less than in Apple’s App Store, so the incentive to bother circumventing them is much lower. For example, unnecessarily harvesting user location is not a blocker for access to the Play Store.
You don't need to export your settings because they're already files in ~/.config.
This was a great comment and very helpful.

I think it’s all a PR issue. The public doesn’t really understand and there are a lot of lobbyists pushing every other kind of energy.
Airline tickets are subsidized, but not free. The equivalent would be subsidizing rail, not making it free.
Possibly you are thinking of https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi... but this is on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller, not a 32-bit Propeller.
HVAC industry is such a huge market primed to be disrupted. The way they wanted to "size" your room properly is really used to calculate cooling/heating capacity to achieve a comfortable relative humidity. But back in the days they didn't have DC inverter, units were either on 100% full power or shut off at 0%. Nowadays with linear inverter units cooling/heating can be ramped up and down, but we also have a lot more requirements now like greenhouse potential etc.

Ignoring all that, it is in theory possible with 3rd party sensors + algorithm to coordinate all assets to achieve a satisfying outcome. Chug in vent control then you'd have a pretty decent solution.

So if you only have AC units, it'd cool from one end with shade and fan the hot end. If you have humidifier units, then it can coerce air to be dried first before being conditioned etc. Just by turning on/off vents and units and learning from sensor data.
Einstein was a socialist, so the accuracy of this quote seems doubtful.
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I tried to use chronometer but they wouldn’t allow me to sign up with an email address of chronometer@prepend.com. They would accept it but never send the validation email. It was annoying so I used a few other apps.

I ended up just using a spreadsheet as all these apps seem oddly expensive for a food log.
>What is the excuse of the other 98%?

Forgive my bluntness, but I don't know how many times I've said this in this comment chain to you and others - fucking ask them. An ex-FB SWE posted here, someone ate him alive for simply having worked there, you piled on, and now you're rhetorically asking me what their excuse is for taking that job.

I don't know, and I won't pretend to. I've been saying y'all should ask, and here you are wondering, so... ASK OP. Talk to them. Have a conversation. They're right up there!
To be fair, I almost never come across tar files. Most crossplatform software provides .tar.gz for Linux/macOS and .zip for Windows.

Should windows have native support for tar.gz files? Maybe! Maybe not. I dunno. So when I come across something using that format for windows what it really comes across is half-ass Windows support. Which isn’t the end of the world. But it’s rarely a good sign.
It would be entertaining if all 5 million were bot and sock puppet accounts
If you don’t think the human brain is capable of being “completely wrong”, just take your average Faang engineer, put him inside a New York nightclub and watch what happens
I know this comment is somewhat in jest but you can buy sockets which are usb/usbc straight out of the wall. While safe and UL-listed, you might technically break local code by installing them because you would replace standard outlets with something (potentially) more useful to you. The code you might break is having a certain number of outlets per linear foot of wall.

Most modern electronics convert from 110VAC to something else and spend a lot of hardware dealing with the fact that they are given single-phase AC and actually need somewhat clean DC. The big exceptions to this would be things like heaters/ovens/stoves or incandescent bulbs which just use 110VAC (or 220VAC split-phase) directly. None of those exceptions require AC and some might even work unmodified with DC. The big issue with single-phase or split-phase AC that's annoying for DC devices is the fact that you can get no power 100-120 times per second when the voltage crosses 0. Thus we end up with giant adaptors/fancy power supplies that plug into the wall sockets and produce DC.

On a power-distribution level, we use AC because we figured out how to transform voltages easily early on. However, we couldn't always agree on frequency (or voltage, or connectors) and thus we have situations like Japan's power grid to this day. Fast forward and we now have efficient ways to convert DC voltage but still pay the cost of AC everywhere because it's both ingrained and regulated.

edit: 0-voltage crossing is 2x the frequency in AC
Isn't the only actual "gotcha" there that you need to ensure that GTK portal implementation doesn't end up trying to use portals by itself?
This is an extremely privileged position to hold. Faced with starvation, I suspect you would feel less like a guinea pig.

> Those hordes of hungry mouths are a great laboratory

Is this sarcasm/satire?
I mean they are "expats". Poorly paid expats, but expats none the less.
Seen on https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/china-preparing-wor...:

> "With new water from Tibet, Xinjiang would boom like California,"

War for water is getting real. RIP Bangladesh, East Indian States and Uyghur people, the former two for starving due to the loss of a huge water source for their crops, and the latter for becoming a stranger in their own lands after millions of Chinese flow into Xinjiang for jobs and cheap food/housing. Inflow being trivialized by high-speed rail.
I see tar files used with compression pretty often, usually gzip or xz. That can mess up the ability to seek around in the tar archive and build a good index.

I use tar.gz as my go-to archive format, don't get me wrong. It's easy, well-supported, handles POSIX concepts well, and is pretty universal. But seekability isn't it's strong-suit.
Facebook pressured people into adding their phone number under the guise of account safety, however, their true motive was to harvest phone numbers.

As far as I'm concerned it's not only user-hostile, but deliberately malicious. Moreover, there's no excuse for services to use phone numbers for 2FA.
It would also be entertaining if Twitter was the one selling this info as a means to bolster their already bad earnings.
The thing is, I actually created a separate business Twitter account when I started my business. But... nobody followed my business account! I even tried to get people to follow it, but they didn't. My personal account was already well established, people were already following that, and they seemed to have no interest in the business account. So I basically had to abandon the business account. It still exists but is little used and totally obscure. There would be no point in posting from it anymore.
I'm not disagreeing with you. There's lots of companies doing crap work and lots of companies that need only the compliance checkmark and hope for crap work with no hard-to-fix findings. It's sad, but that wasn't even my issue. I think it's an issue when people start the expectations from the other side: if you had a security audit, it was just a rubber stamp. It's unfair to people who may have invested time and money in a engagement. It doesn't help people who want to run a good audit and hear that it doesn't exist.

Better ways to say the same thing without undermining people's trust in the whole idea: There are lots of scammy security audit companies, Confluence should make sure to engage a good quality ones. Companies should invest in serious pen tests rather than just org compliance for security. Here are companies that actually did a good job...

Unless the goal is to bury the whole idea under a list of issues with bad actors and make sure nobody knows there are alternatives?
Can you describe it?
I remember being one of the first users of Hotdog. Sending heaps of bug reports and feature requests, and in the end even having the author over in Belgium to negotiate a European distribution deal.
Very cool. Lots of potential.
> If they were so patently ridiculous, I doubt many philosophers would believe them.

> If you have a solid argument aganist moral realism

The key counter argument here, as to why the philosophy domain is so messed up, is because of motivated reasoning.

If you could get a PhD in the topic of "does God exist?" I can bet that most of the people with a "does God exist" PhD would say "yes" and they would come up with increasingly complicated and obfuscatory reasons for why that is the case.

Because why else would you go and get that degree in the first place? What, you would spend 4 years of your life, just to get to the answer of "no"?

And then they would say that they are the experts in the topic of God existing, therefore they are right.

A similar thing applies to philosophy. It's mostly motivated reasoning. People twist themselves into convoluted pretzels, all because they really want to believe that the universe proves their morals correct.

That's a much more tempting conclusion, than the boring one of "well, I guess everyone just has axioms, and that's that. We can't re-concile them. Oh well!".

So of course they get to the conclusion that morals exist. Because that conclusion means something. It means that you are right on the most tempting conclusion of truth and aught statements, and math/the universe makes it so!

You can wield that conclusion as a weapon. Of course people want that.

And even better, it can't be tested, in the real world, by definition! How convenient.

And then they say they are correct, because they are the self proclaimed experts on the topic, and if you cannot parse their ever more complicated, or ever more obfuscated arguments, well I guess you are a science denier like everyone else who disagrees with the "experts".

As in, it is literally almost the most perfect example of motivated reasoning. Untestable. Convoluted. Powerful. And by definition the basis for what people should do.

And philosophers just happened to come to the "convenient" conclusion.
It’s actually to reduce trolls, bots, etc. the easier it is to make an account the lower quality most accounts will be.
Yes, I apologise. I should perhaps have added an asterisk next to "modest" with the explanation "at least from the perspective of some of the women who choose to dress that way (and some of them only have that perspective because men have taught it to them and they don't have much opportunity to challenge those ideas)".

Still, I think that a steelmanned version of my comment could be valid, so hopefully you can look past my "strange" way of talking.

As for your comment about religious beliefs versus cultural practices(?), I'm not sure how decisive that is. Should a French school refuse to offer a vegetarian meal to a student if they are vegetarian for cultural reasons rather than religious reasons? Or perhaps vice versa, out of an over-zealous desire to enforce secularism? And then what about non-religious ethical beliefs that differ from those of the majority?
I believe you're correct, and remember, this is a grossly mismanaged company at all levels, from the top down.
I have done 2 degrees science when I was 18 and then electronic engineering when I was 25. I work as a software engineer now and it has never been an issue (I am now 37).
You can see the cost differences here:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Rooftops are unused space, but the land use is generally a small part of the cost. Utility scale solar has real economies of scale compared to one-off small installations on someone's roof.
I think you're saying that all physically measurable quantities are rational numbers with terminating decimal expansions. The set of rational numbers with terminating decimal expansions is a subset of the set of rational numbers, so my statement that all physically measurable quantities are rational is true. I also agree that there is some uncertainty in all measurements, I don't think this is at odds with what I said.
...the most successful country in the history of the world.

Looking from outside, it's obvious that America is the most economically successful country, and has had some marvellous successes in science, but it also seems to be a country determined to tear itself apart over almost anything - race, gender, reproduction, hierarchy, "freedom", guns, ...

It's actually rather sad - what could be a Great country is just a big country becoming lesser :(
Exactly. It’s also pretty clear from their faces that those men are nervous to be holding the cat.
So that's rely only applicable if your house is over $375k. It's not like if you pay $5k in interest that you deduct $10k.
I think Richard Dawkins probably isn't very renowned anymore either; he's a sort of proto-guru, the kind who sounds impressive when you only meet him in book form but then social media is invented and it turns out he is ridiculous. Essentially one of the reasons online atheism died.

(ex https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/140123936567899750... https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/146403399255088332...)

As for evo psych, find me a study design that doesn't allow just making things up post facto.
Jokes on them 75% of them are bot accounts.
I dislike it too, which is why I am against the law as currently drafted.
I looked it up and:

- Aspartame Glycemic Index 0

- Stevia Glycemic Index 0

- Sucralose Glycemic Index 0

- Allulose Glycemic Index 0

What are you trying to claim here?
> uniquely in finite space.

If this is your definition, it falls to the barber paradox.

In finite space, if we're this sloppy, I can define the simplest real number not definable in finite space.... But I did it in finite space.... This this notion needs to be made more precise ... Then the next one falls... And so on.

Go ahead, you seem to know enough math to know what constitutes a solid definition and a proof. Try to define the set you're talking about, making sure it's not circular nor excludes any numbers you think it should contain. It's not trivial, nor even perhaps possible.

This is what I mean by you're going to have a very hard time making your definition precise enough to be a true statement.

People have tried your path many, many times. From my poking at the lit on it it never works. Chaitin has spent decades on these things, and the result always falls just outside precise enough to make a proof.
Yep. “Suspicious activity detected, please add a mobile number to confirm you’re account” 24h after creating a new account like clockwork.
Ask HN: Developers who switched from native development to Flutter, how is it?
I have been developing apps for iOS and Android for about a decade (I am the developer of Hacker News client app HACK for iOS and Android). I originally started with Objective C and Java and then switched to Swift and Kotlin.

I am looking into trying out Flutter for the second time, so am curious how others who made the switch like it?

Also, has Flutter improved their web development? Last time I tried it, it was all a canvas which was drawing all elements instead of HTML elements. This seemed pretty bad for accessibility and SEO. Is that still the case?

How's accessibility for the iOS and Android apps built in Flutter?
"As of June 2021, China has a total nuclear power generation capacity of 49.6 GW from 50 reactors, with additional 17.1 GW under construction" (1)

Fair enough, I have not checked whether those are the previously mentioned lwrs, but I would argue that those numbers are definitely "scale"

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
But we should start there and everything else should just say "this will help you feel less hungry with less calories". If you had the willpower to just drink 1500 calories of Coke for a day, you would lose weight, you'd also feel hungry all the time (and die eventually but that's beside the point).

(p.s. they say it's 140)
UK Satellite Operator OneWeb Said Near Merger with Eutelsat
That's unironically a good idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
This password specifically refers to "Password to Modify" and Excel 2019 / 365 clearly warn in the reenter password popup:

> Caution: Password to modify is not a security feature. ... Malicious users can edit the file and remove the password.

This type of "protection" is also present in the VBA blobs (where you can change a few bytes and work around the VBA protection)

Saving a file with a password to open actually employs encryption. The exact setting can be tuned with registry settings, but is typically AES-128-CBC.

Saving a file as "read-only" encrypts the file with the standard password "VelvetSweatshop"