skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that those who can’t get consistent styling and have laggy behavior on large documents don’t know how to configure it. I regularly wrote hundred page reports with embedded excel and images all embedded in Word with Math and got pretty proficient. There’s basically several things you need to do:

* Actually set up a named style for every type of content you have. Creating shortcuts for the common ones doesn’t hurt
* use whatever the paid version that powers the free equation editor. It was miles better about 10 years ago
* use a master document sub document approach for categorizing things. You wouldn’t have a single text file that’s 100 pages long. Split up Word that way too

I’m pretty sure I got to a state where I was using the tooling as intended because I wasn’t actually fighting the wysiwyg. Now I did switch to LateX at the end because I was tired of not having easy version control. Word has it if you enable change tracking but it can’t beat normal tooling. Also I wanted to learn latek because it felt like a worthwhile investment (it was - writing formulas in latek is wayyy faster to write and easier to maintain).

So I liked LateX just fine. Prefer Markdown / wiki these days because I don’t work with math formulas.

Disclaimer: I have zero experience with the web version and have no idea how it scales. I imagine it still does quite well on large documents but maybe browser rendering is not so good.
Also, helps reduce solar heat inside without having to paint the roof white.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/RLbRP
If the false positive rate is low and human review is swift and not broken, I really wouldn't mind.

It's a force multiplier that every social media platform needs to not drown in costs for human moderation. Especially human moderation as described above.

Unless you get people to pay for social media. Good luck with that.
This is how big tech does damage to humans.

Love it or hate it, the online world is our current public square. A public square, in the united states, has typically been an area where people can shout out their concerns or whatever they want to anyone who can listen and the government cannot stop it.

Currently, our public squares are owned by private megacorporations that not only ban people for reasons many people agree with, but also for insane things like this. There is no appeal unless you convince enough others (using another public square) you are right and they also scream for you.

Eventually, all of us that are 'ok' with this will end up being banned from one service or another for life, with no appeal, and thats that. A perfectly pristine public square filled not with people, but consumers staring at advertising boards.

I would love to know a way this can be solved as its painting a depressing picture. I don't like how this makes me feel.
GNOME 43

Wow, I've been out of the loop for a long time. The last release I've been aware of was Gnome 3, and I use Linux daily.
Garnet programming language – What if Rust was small?
LLVM backend for m88k architecture
Every time I read about these dystopian deplatforming events on Hacker News, my first reaction is to write a comment on how we could find our way out of this. Then the term "Web3" comes up in my mind, and then I think "Oh now, this is HN, they will burn you alive" and I turn to other things again.

But right now, for some reason I feel so strongly about, I'll give it another try.

Wouldn't it be great if we could tackle two issues with in one go? The annoying interfaces of Twitter/FB/Insta and co and the constant fear of being deplatformed? By publishing our stuff on a decentralized database that is open for anyone to read in whatever way they like?

I fight hard to read the web in my way. When I see a link to Twitter, I manually change it to Nitter. I use an ad blocker. Bookmarklets to remove sticke elements from the pages I visit.

I try hard to publish my stuff, so it cannot be deplatformed easily. Preferably on my own domain.

But it's all crutches.

The web I read still feels aggressive, annoying, mean, dangerous, exhausting.

The most important platforms I write to (where people can like and comment) give me the feeling of walking on thin ice. Every moment, me and my audience might be separated.

I really long for a future where content is published in a freely available database. Free to read from and free to write to. Where a post is a content addressable piece of data signed by the author. And comment too. And where a like is a cryptographically signed message, "I like this /joe". And where the order of your "feed" is not adjusted by outside forces.
I’ve been a climber for six years, and I resent using Mountain Project. It’s so incredibly slow and clunky on every device I use it on, and the UX is pretty terrible. It takes forever to find the types of routes I’m interested in, and even then finding which route is which, and where it lies in relation to others, is a fool’s errand because you need to read poorly written descriptions and browse through bad photos uploaded by users. This is basically why I buy guidebooks for climbing spots I go to whenever they are available.

At this point the comments on routes are the only thing I find value in. When you figure out what you want to climb, browsing through two decades of comments can be useful for figuring out things like how to approach it, what to pay attention to, etc.
> Google Search would get "updates", as in, actually deployed code that would change the rule of the game

That's just what the scheduled "core update" days are now: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/05/may-2022-c...
One reason against this is mentioned in the letter that is quoted in the article
I wonder if extracting the coffee with half the water and then diluting it gives a different result than just brewing at normal strength?
What is a MPMC queue
On the other hand, it`s probably good for your mental health that you got banned from Twitter. Idea: delete your account there.
According to the description, there should be no changes in either taste or nutrients, which is a good thing.

This kind of genetic manipulation, where the control of gene expression is modified for greater productivity, is much more promising than the attempts to make a plant produce different chemical substances than it was producing previously or behave differently in the presence of pesticides, because for the latter cases it is still very difficult to predict whether the genetic changes that are done will have only the desired effects, without other undesirable consequences.
https://www.linode.com/products/backups/
Who knows if he even believes this himself. From what I've seen my guess is he's trying to profit off the claim or just enjoys the drama/attention. Good riddance, the right decision to let him go. This case really made me question what sort of people work there as engineers. Utter embarrassment for Google.
"Cheap domains" is not a thing. $25/year domain for a personal website is kinda pricey. But scam/spam operator can pay that and more pretty darn easy.
>Does a company have a right to scale faster than it has the ability to properly moderate?

A right? Yes.

>Looking at a more extreme example: If General Motors used AI to design cars and they increased the likelihood of fatalities, would we feel any different?

Getting (temporarily?) banned from Twitter isn't even close to being as bad as a fatality, so the GM example doesn't make any sense.
The fact is that the entire planet worked really hard so places like this can have an agriculture. Lets face it, Arizona didn't provided a lot in return to the science of agriculture.

And now some people is saying lets keep all the water, so people down the river don't have/don't deserve any?

A little understanding and maybe even gratitude would be a nice touch.
It’s Mechanical Turk. Although Mechanical Turkey sounds cooler. :)
What i find surprising is people willing to trust a random person saying they got banned without elements to prove it

I find this very suspicious, why not show what twitter told you? that seems to be the first thing someone would share when they complain about getting banned

I'll go with "trying to surf on the Stray hype to get clicks" until proper more details are shared
There's not much to discuss there: "man shares information company forbid him to". Yawn.

But thinking about his concerns, how he tested the AI: that's interesting.

Or it could be interesting, as it seems he just asked loaded questions, and the replies from the AI occasionally re-enforced his beliefs. Double yawn,I guess.
Me too. I think there is a lot of deep thought in KDE, but it's too open to customization. I don't mean settings, I mean visual changes, and that leads to it looking like an unpleasant jumbly mess out of the box, and I'm skeptical that further customization will make that better. And they got a lot of important consistency things wrong that Gnome mostly addresses, like selectable text (almost) everywhere.

Linux desktops in general horribly suffer from constantly reproducing desktops from a moment in the 1990s, where you have an anime background and some bright text on a dark background and you post it and everyone goes "ooh" and "ahhh" and "how did you do that." One glaring sign of this is design is called "art" rather than design. And you have a kind of mostly compatible Office suite (like a dog chasing after a car), one month you can do awesome actions in the file manager or have a live background but next month that's broken, and every month a new music player, as if any majority of people use local music and documents anymore. What an embarassing waste of time.

It's sad because great ideas abound, like KDE's semantic desktop (which is basically a decentralized version of what Microsoft is building toward), Unity's 3d desktop (which failed when all that neato stuff meant nothing), scriptable desktops, distributed desktops, all kinds of glorious ideas. However it turns out the infinite monkeys creating desktops get distracted easily.

They should start by deeply adopting ideas like design tokens. Here's another idea: give every widget and pane a unique identifer with version, and link them to the web using Linked Data, so at least the world of confusion support forums could feature some coherence, you could embed support in the widgets themselves. That would be a 2022 desktop.
"""Codify existing practice to address evident deficiencies. Only those concepts that have some prior art should be accepted. (Prior art may come from implementations of languages other than C.) Unless some proposed new feature addresses an evident deficiency that is actually felt by more than a few C programmers, no new inventions should be entertained."""

Source: Rationale for International Standard — Programming Languages — C https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.1...

I don't know if this rationale is still followed, but I think it applies here. We need to be cautious when adding new features to C.
I wanted to add also, that I wonder how this affects people who reasonably can't maintain that level. For example, if I were to get divorced it would crush me. I'm barely holding on at my job now (meh to bad reviews, I hate the place, I have no marketable skills to get hired anywhere else). I'm pretty sure the added stress of a divorce would lead to even further performance issues and being fired.
I agree with this, but 50s are more likely to be closer to 70s unless that 50 something was a techie or involved in other subcultures that exploded in popularity between their youth and now. My parents are both in this category (my mom is a sci-fi and hardware nerd, and my dad likes computer programming and video games) and both have real troubles socializing in their age bracket. My grandparents' generation had similar problems: Until he died, most people in both my grandpa's generation and the one after him thought the man was insane/eccentric at best for his television obsession, whereas by the time the Web hit it was starting to be seen as 'cool' by the youngest folks. Likewise, my great-uncle was seen as a weirdo for studying pop culture and now obviously that's an entire profession.

It's less about interests being inherently tied to generation and more about whether that generation was actually permitted to pursue that interest. Particularly once you add things like sex on top of it: My uncle is an engineer but my mom wasn't allowed to go to college. She was supposed to be a SAHM. That makes it really hard for her to find other 60 something ladies that are taking their modems apart.

> This is not due to the age rather than the timing of the current technological age and its impact of social evolution of values.

Very much agree with this. It is funny how many teens and 20 somethings are boggled by 'old' people showing up in spaces with them sometimes. I've liked this thing for 25-30 years! I'm not going to stop liking it!
We're living in an era where expert level information is easily accessible on virtually every subject on mobiles devices. The reliance for an elder's traditional wisdom is collapsing, accelerated by the obsoleteness of their information relative to a rapidly-changing society. It turns out that Grandma's apple pie wasn't that great, or Grandpa's advice on job hunting isn't a very accurate, or helpful, in today's job market. Plus, add in the complication of newer generations moving away from their family's home area with greater frequency, decreasing contact time between parents and children, and grandparents and grandchildren.

I think the weird transitional part still lies ahead, when people born after the internet age become elders. Currently, our elders lived in a time where their elders were valued, so they're met with a hostility that didn't exist for their elders in situations where they probably expect respect or appreciation. It must feel frustrating.

Negative aspects aside, I believe there will still be value in elder wisdom. Not necessarily through traditional knowledge transference on subjects evolving day after day, but on how to navigate the stresses of a modern life, developing/recognizing healthy interpersonal relationships, and adapting to change. Transferable life skill knowledge that isn't necessarily taught in school or from busy parents. This can be passed on to grandchildren or mentoring children growing up in challenging situations via volunteerism. But, like the author pointed out, reliably tapping into this seems challenging.
Solar tower fuel plant for thermochemical production of kerosene from H2O andCO2
I suppose you’re of the opinion that every feature of every language should be added to C, or maybe even assembly.
In California I believe that they're given that a try over a stretch of canals. As long as they are robust to windy weather, and don't interfere with water fowl, then sounds like a win-win.

There are so many parking lots, where cars just bake in the sun, that would benefit from solar parking roofing. Cars would have to cool less, and the landowners would have another steady stream of income (its the upfront costs that are the problem as always).

TBH I look forward to a time where you can pull into a supermarket, shaded by solar panel roof, and I can hook up my EV to charge while I'm pulling groceries from the shelves. (Not that I expect the solar to be able to provide all the power needed for EV charging).
This has different affordances than std::include_bytes! but I agree that if you were writing Rust and had this problem you'd reach for std::include_bytes! and probably not instead think "We should have an equivalent of #embed".

include_bytes! gives you a &'static [u8; N] which for non-Rust programmers means we're making a fixed size array (the size of your file) full of unsigned 8-bit integers (ie bytes) which lives for the life of the program, and we get an immutable reference to it. Rust's arrays know how big they are (so we can ask, now or later) but cannot grow.

#embed gets you a bunch of integers. The as-if rule means your compiler is likely to notice if what you're actually doing is putting those integers into an array of unsigned 8-bit integers and just stick all the file bytes in the array, short cutting what you wrote, but you could reasonably do other things, especially with smaller files.
I'll leave it unedited for the giggles.
There are more jobs in non-niche languages. Have you checked out anything else. C#, Java, Python, PHP, Golang, Typescript are all better than js.
>After WWII, no allied commanders were hanged.

>What happened in Dresden, for example, was clearly a war crime, ...

It would only have been a war crime if the city was undefended. Since Dresden had AA guns and fighters defending it those attacks were not war crimes. Bear in mind the same test was applied to german bomber attacks, no germans were convicted for the bombings of Coventry or London, so there was no inconsistency in the way bomber attacks by the two sides were treated.
Grew up on the Great Plains of the U.S. and mountains make me feel hemmed in, ha ha.
robots.txt is just a guideline between well-meaning actors for the majority of their traffic, like helping a bot not waste its time nor your bandwidth by crawling dynamically-generated, endless-scrolling /calendar.php pages. Google does use it to that extent.

It's not a firewall.

Seems like you're describing cloaking (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...), one of the oldest SEO tricks, and you can imagine that search engines started defeating it on Day 2 of crawling the web.
Slack to limit history to 90 days for free users from 1 September 2022
wow, technology actually CAN make the world a better place
They could just ask once for defaults not every time and have a per app dialog where the user could tweak the permissions, like browsers do. For instance I have almost everything blocked in the browser: camera, location etc.
Massacres happen in war because people are involved. What keeps them to a minimum is the discipline of the military forces as well as who controls them.

The North Vietnamese committed many massacres (such as at Hue), but their political leadership justified them, and they still punish people who try to talk about them.

The US military studies this and other massacres so that future leaders will be better prepared to not let something like this happen. It is not illegal to talk about this and other failures in the US. The goal is to remember and to avoid any such thing in the future.

Russia is currently using massacres and other terroristic practices in Ukraine and other countries. It is an intentional strategy.
The market is obeying the law of supply and demand. Hardly anyone knows those languages, and there is no big player backing them, so you have to dig inside each community to know which shop is active. For elm, you can try noredink. For f# and closure there are a bunch of Fintech.

For elixir, well, if you're willing to relocate for south west France, DM me ;)
They are stacked at my folks place, can't remember the names.

One is about doing a return to castle of wolfstein clone, including network code for Novell networks, the other a 3D engine in C++ for a space shooter.
20gwh is a nice start of course but like the solar growth is impressive, battery production capacity growth is also impressive. And of course there are many other forms of storage. I'm bringing this up because people seem to worry about intermittency of solar and wind without realizing just how much battery capacity there actually will be in a few years.

I think we can safely expect some records to be broken on the battery storage front in the next few years. Think orders of magnitude here. About three or so in terms of storage capacity. A a couple of thousand x what we have today.

Basically, the likes of Tesla and other manufacturers are really ramping up battery production in the next few years. If you assume EVs have 50kwh batteries (nice number to work with), 2 million cars would have 100,000,000 kwh of battery. Or 100 gwh, or 0.1 twh. That's what they are shooting for end of this year as a production volume. Tesla is aiming for 10-20 million cars per year longer term and the total market is something like 100m vehicles, give or take. 20 million cars is 1 twh. So, we'll be churning out ~5 twh of battery per year; just for cars. Eventually there will be hundreds of millions of EVs on the road. That's an enormous amount of batteries. And of course there will be other vehicles, dedicated grid storage solutions, etc.

Total installed battery capacity world wide will soon hit tens of twh. To give you an idea of just how much that is, annual energy production globally is in the order of 25 peta watt hours (25000 twh). Or about 70twh per day.

The volume of EVs on the road in a few decades will have enough battery capacity to provide that for several days. And of course a lot of car batteries get a second life in the form of grid storage before they eventually get recycled. Car batteries are good for a few thousand cycles. So, for people worrying about durability, once we have tens of twh of batteries, they might be used for decades to power the world before they need replacing. And we'll use solar and other cheap energy sources to keep them topped up.
I wrote multiple papers during my PhD. The theoretical one with lots of equations I wrote with latex. It’d be stupid not to. Overleaf helped though I wrote the paper over 6 years so it only helped in the end.

Then I wrote two bio heavy papers. Using word. My thesis was in word too. If you have a ton of figures and not a ton of equations it’s not the best choice to use latex.
I use Blink to mosh in to a server where I do my work through tmux, vim, etc.

I use Safari to view the stuff I’m building. There’s a Safari dev tools plugin which sucks compared to Firefox dev tools but it’s okay in a pinch.

I use NoMachine to remote into the graphical desktop environment of the server on the rare occasion I need to use a real browser.
Wait, RDP has been around since the last century and they're just now adding this? What a signal.
the positions are so few and prestigious (more political than technic) than other that few valid seniors, the workforce would be made of rich elites trying to get busy. elites which would work for free and depress wages and gatekeep certain fields. i dont know if this is the case.
Worth pointing out that more life exists outside the corporate run stages. Part of their trick is to make you think that the only way of life is via their platforms.

I’m not and never have been a Twitter or or TikTok or Facebook member.
I have no evidence of this, but the ad load on the returned results has gotten way higher. In theory, ranking sites that display Google ads higher would be a very easy knob for Google to turn to increase profit. The SO scrapers probably have Google ads on them, making them more profitable for Google.
Sneakflation
The newer issue proposes to provide both methods, similar to windows. The “bug” seems to be that the maintainers prefer one style and refuse to let others add the alternative. That would jibe with what I’ve read about other anti-user attitudes in Gnome.
This has inspired me to try running room temperature water through my Flair espresso maker to see what happens. It’s worth a shot!
I've read the introduction (and, uh, a lot more). What specific algorithms do you have in mind where quantum supremacy seems a) likely (or even possible) and b) enough of an improvement to be world-changing?
You probably don't realize that not every system is using ELF binaries....
.com implies spam - it's commercial, so let's go ahead. If it's not .org I'm not playing. /s
strapping a turkey to a keyboard might actually be more effective...
It’s a rite of passage with latex though. Each one of us has to spend the time and set up our own latex setup the first time we write using it. Hopefully never again though.
There is a significant Erlang/Elixir job market in Europe and UK.
I wonder if depance between countries helps avoid wars. It certainly raises the costs, which prevents war being profitable.
Why does it need to be "web3" and not "RSS"?