skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or like S.Augustine of Hippona said, massa damnata -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/vm865t/about_t... "can't save everybody"
Fundamentally yes, except that nudge theory is about manipulating collective action (or inaction) in populations. Promoters of this theory also envision themselves as trying to help, not fleece people of their money.
"Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)."

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html
Colour is not driven by fashion directly. There is always a technical innovation or regulatory change.

The Ford Focus pioneered a new 'silver' paint that was formulated differently to 'silver' paints that had gone on before. 'Silver' was no longer an expensive option, the base model had it. This proved popular and the trend was set, silver cars took over at the start of the century, using the new formula paint.

An example of regulatory change is food. In the 70's food coloring additives packed a vibrant punch. Decades later with many regulatory changes, those hot pink biscuits are now pinky grey. The palette has been toned down.

Although we have came a long way, many colours rely on elements that are quite toxic. We might have got rid of the lead, but cadmium? Cobalt? Take those out on the same basis and things get grey.
Solid enough to not have power failures after days of rainy weather? Maybe a more practical alternative is a generator.
It is important to understand how many MegaBytes/s are sent through 100 Megabits/s ethernet link for example. (or whatever communication link)
This may be an outdated opinion based on the people I'm seeing leave bootcamps. I think that underlying architecture is so heavily abstracted these days that you do not need to really know _how_ a computer works in order to make something functional.
And in the process they push out all older trucking companies.
Essentially monopolizing the market until the next disruption happens.
> Something else that I think about a lot: the industry spends a lot of CPU cycles to compute the suitable dependencies, but there are several alternative ways to solve dependencies. But those alternatives don't generate interest because the StopAlop lineage is so built in to how we work on software it almost goes unnoticed as a natural law of the world like gravity, so there's no prompt to directly challenge it.

If I recall correctly, Composer uses a SAT solver to do this, resulting in absurd amounts of CPU and memory time needed to create lockfiles in some situations. Dunno if they still do that.
Because both of them work terribly.

I've used basic auth in production. It has terrible user experience, and unfixable issues and limitations.

I wish browser-integrated logins had taken off, with Persona, but that was unfortunately abandoned.
TypeScript has a very limited form of dependent typing made available through `typeof`, but it does not have dependent typing as e.g. Idris does. However, in general, these sorts of demonstrations do nothing to show that a language can be dependently typed. These sorts of demonstrations show that a type system is Turing complete. However, a type system can be Turing complete without being dependent. For example, type-level integers might be completely different from run-time integers with no way to things from the latter to the former.
And in non closed systems the set of problems that prevent fully autonomous cars is the same set of problems that prevens fully autonomous trains, ie, recognizing shit getting into the lane of travel but not panic braking for random trash.
They've gone all in on China
A key difference between a utility patent and a design patent is that the design patent, like a trademark, does not expire.
Setting aside the day to day practicalities of off grid living (always watching energy use, no electric heat or cooking, the possibility of running out), the main issue is that this is the middle of the city. A block of apartments might be 6 storeys tall - a 50m2 flat would therefore only have 8.3m2 of rooftop - there's simply not nearly enough rooftop area to generate the power the building needs.

Solar wouldn't even be particularly useful for peak compensation, as generally the UK peaks fall on winter evenings, while solar only makes useful power in summer.

A better solution would be just the batteries. If these buildings had enough battery storage to compensate for usage during the few peak usage hours per day, the effect of new buildings on the grid would be negligible (as the grid is basically underutilised for most of the day). Then the solar could be built much more cost effectively in a field out of the city.
I'm on Android and didn't know I could do that. Now I realise that you can, its just buried a little bit. Signal also lets you share photos directly from the app; I don't have to go to another app on the phone and share from there, so it does seem like a different UX route compared to what I'd expect.

Thanks for that.
The chair of behavioral insights advisory in the WHO is one of the co-authors of Nudge Theory. So it's probably safe to say that government health programs - in any country that is supported by the WHO - also implement Nudge to some extent.
Apparently the heritability of blood types was known since 1910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type#History

and some information about blood typing was famous enough to get the medicine Nobel in 1930

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion#20th_century

So maybe you could try to draw an analogy and say "as with blood typing, many more hereditary structures and features of tissues will be discovered at the chemical and microscopic levels, collectively sufficient to perform definitive studies of hereditary relationships on the basis of tissue samples".

It might be credible at that level, even though that description is a little bit misleading (because you're not actually using random sets of phenotypic features, but rather the actual underlying genetic data). But I imagine the coroner could at least believe that there are microscopic features that are heritable that would one day be subject to more and more informative analysis. And blood types could be a good prototype of that.

I'm not sure the coroner would find it that intuitive that genetic information is carried or expressed in hair, though!
It's not just colours. The world rapidly turning into a real-life "borg-world": same kinds of buildings; same kinds of dresses; same kinds of "world models; same philosophies; and now the same language too.

The world is for all real purposes has been gobbled up by the Anglosphere.
It's all but dead; I'm sure many people realize how drab and low-entropy our world is today.
C++ is probably the slowest programming language in terms of development speed there is, but even if it takes you 3 months to build something like that from scratch it'll still be an order of magnitude less time than building a clone of another SQL database.

`WHERE, GROUP BY and ORDER BY` are relatively straightforward to tack on into the variable ordering.

Having written a sat solver would kinda help you, because modern sat solving algorithms are fundamentally very similar to worst case optimal join algorithms.

The query plan produced by combining binary joins is always going to be off by up to an exponential factor when compared to a WCO join. If you're fine throwing all that complexity onto your problem to generate sub-par query plans, be my guest.
Maybe they were riding in a group and one of them stopped to take photos and lost the rest of them. Now they want to see where everyone else is and catch up to them.

Sometimes its about the journey, not the destination.
Hmmm this is interesting, my background is industrial automation, where every day I would work with bits and bytes. But today and the last 10 or so years I have been building higher level software, machine data collection, web, db etc. I can honestly say not once have I had to deal with bits or bytes, I cannot think of an instance here I have needed the knowledge either. So I guess it’s not a requirement for software development today. But I still feel it’s important knowledge but can qualify why.
oh good, more urban homeless
NFTs are a very easy target these days but, cryptobros aside, I do think that there are potentially some interesting uses for the technology. Of course, I don't think that those will ever be fully realised -again, because of the cryptobros- but I think that the world in which it is would be interesting to explore.
It might be that Bloomberg geniunely doesn't understand what these are since you can get past their soft paywall by removing their cookies.
At that point you also won't know how text encoding works, or why integers only store numbers up to a certain limit, which are problems that you encounter in high level software as well.
Austrian private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits
> even sending an IP address (as required by any TCP/IP request) to a US-located or US-controlled server is illegal

Nope. Having the IP for making a TCP/IP connection is a technical requirement, one of the exceptions of GDPR (this also applies for logging, etc as long as you don't keep it forever, etc)

Let's not make up requirements where they don't exist
To me it seems whole "urban culture" (graffiti and skateboards (i know i'm probably shallow by generalising it as such)) has developed from lack for playgrounds and green spaces (especially for older kids).

In Lithuania lots of soviet buildings actually had somewhat of a common yard, which in past 20 years has been replaced with a parking lot.
> States and governments have literally sued Google over their plans to remove third-party cookies.

... While continuing to track people by other means. Rip out both and the problem should go away (at least, if the regulators actually care about users).

Google's approach has been "fine, we'll add a way for all ad companies to track people, not just us". Another fair approach would have been "fine, we'll prevent all ad companies from tracking people, including us".
Frederick Douglass very clearly seen slaveholders as enemies and talk about slavery as such. He was not seeking compromise at all, he was seeking abolition full stop. When young, he literally physically fought with his owner. He housed John Brown prior his final raid. He refused participation in Harpers ferry raid, because he seen it as suicidal. Not because he would had issue with taking on arms. He was not as violent or impulsive as John Brown.

Frederick Douglass represented the radical abolitionists of the time, not the mild "lets go listen to slaveholders" kind. Selected quotes from "cross-ideological dialogue" of Frederic Dougles:

> I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land. [...] I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show [...] We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members

> If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
Indeed, there is a moat around india which stopped people coming in till yesterday to see the postapocalyptic land.
Archive: https://archive.ph/Azysn
Superman 64
Maybe because we have such rich color reproduction in screens we feel the need to have the rest of our surroundings take on a more neutral stance. In fact this reflects the screens such as they are "blank canvases" that take on whatever content deemed fit for the present purpose or mood.
My interpretation was that "the rest of the world" is meant to refer to "the rest of the countries in the world" not "the rest of the people in the world".

To say that the US has a worse peace index than the rest of the countries in the world is still hyperbole, but it's not so far off the truth.

The US has the 129th best peace index of 163 countries, right after Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Azerbaijan.
> doomed to become irrelevant over time rather than gain momentum and become something meaningful in any lasting sense.

You seem to be jumping from topic to topic without being able to express your thoughts very well.
Yeah I live in a studio and quiet is hard. I am also fussy and don’t want anything that looks out of place.

I actually built my desktop as a near silent PC with the goal of it becoming my NAS when I upgrade but I didn’t understand the implications of running ZFS without ECC at the time.
It slowed down and informed me audibly I was in a slow speed zone
> The "livestock vs pets" comparison seems off. It's assumed with the livestock you can lose one server and don't care much – though with real animal livestock if your cow gets ill you don't kill it and order more healthy cows.

Honestly, in most environments, it's like that. You don't delete a postgres server because a component crashed weirdly. You take a look at that component and see if there is a deeper reason for that crash and if there is a more important root cause to fix. That would prevent issues on a lot of other systems.

However, it's important to have the option to delete and rebuild the server. For example, we had a root drive corruption cause by some storage issues at the hoster on the server and binaries would crash in weird ways. At that point, I probably could fix the server by syncing binaries from other systems and such, but it's much easier to just drop it and rebuild it.

And that's very much how larger groups of animals are handled.

> And the comparison also assumes you cannot kill the "pet" server. I have many pet servers with carefully chosen names, but I still can painlessly kill them and redeploy with the same name because I have Ansible or SaltStack code to do so

Those don't sound like pets. For historic reasons, I have systems on which external agencies and consultancies have done things outside of the configuration management I don't know. And given the house of cards piled up on some of the systems, I don't think anyone knows how to redo that system. That's a pet. Once I delete that system, it never comes back the same way.
One does not simply call a function
I feel like it's a fashion thing - greyscale, metallic stuff looks sleeker and cleaner.

I hate it.

I'll take a 50s grandma's house any day over the cookie-cutter machined greyscale apartments I see everywhere today.
Probably not, it's something you can look up, and the 1000 vs 1024 naming distinction (e.g. kibi vs kilo) continues to be something that most developers I encounter aren't up to speed on. I use libraries with classes modelling such units in them if I need to do arithmetic with them, at the very least to offer security for others when they look at my code.

I think what matters is that you're reasoning about things and being thorough and careful. Broadly, I haven't yet had someone give me a pop quiz at my job yet.
Sometimes it is a quick occlusion algorithm; if we spent time evaluating every proposal we encountered, we would never get much done. Being able to quickly remove some arguments that our brain can quickly exclude (even when sometimes incorrectly) is a dramatic optimization. The key is training our brain to do it (mostly) correctly, like some kind of truth Bloom filter.
The whole UK is on the grid, even if you have solar generation, you sell the surplus back to the grid
> "makes Google Analytics almost illegal" is an editorialized (biased) title and that's not what the linked article says

Yep. Also, from the HN guidelines:

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Why Your Organization Needs a Physical Security Policy – At the Home Office
Why build a data-center on such expensive real estate? Surely 50km further out would be much cheaper?
They recently updated the algo to handle better performance but I don't know what it is now. Top-of-mind I think it was a 30% wall-time improvement.
Absolutely they should know. This comes up so many times even in high-level programming that anyone who’s doing anything beyond very trivial student applications should know this stuff.
> We are conducting a full-scale review and have refreshed the training we provide to our customer care colleagues

This is a management issue. Vodafone makes billions in profits, there is no excuse to have customer support this bad. Perhaps their customer service is even a profit center? I have my own experience here with countless referrals. I believe it is indeed a strategy to minimize contract terminations.

Companies like this are the reason we need tight regulations and rules. Even more tight than the rules they have deployed in their own customer service. And it has to directly influence their bottom line. A good start would be online terminations. That will cost them significantly more than the money they saved in customer services and hopefully this loss will be attributed to bad management because this is the reason why it is needed in the first place.
~~You register with email, so they definitely do have personal information.~~

Edit: you don't have to register with email, so I was wrong. My bad.
Like the FDA? We see how well it works...
Yes, this does not even cover electricity needs in winter if fitted on an individual family house (my neighbour has this and tells me that they do need the grid in winter, and they still have a gas boiler) so on a block of flats this has to be more of a gimmick than anything else...
> Consider this study, which analysed the colour of everyday objects over time.

> Percentage of Pixels across all photos

Does anybody have a citation for "this study" ?

It's implicitly implied that it comes from some mega cloud storage of personal and professional photos, but it'd be nice to see the actual source and read the methodoloy.

ADDENDUM: Found it.

https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer...

> This article analyses a selection of the Science Museum Group Collection. We examined over 7,000 photographs of objects from 21 categories. The categories were selected on the basis that they contained large numbers of everyday or familiar objects. These categories range from photographic technology to time measurement, lighting to printing and writing, and domestic appliances to navigation.

Hmmmmm.
He advocates walking into the club and using direct force, which is pretty much what the mafia does as well. Seems symmetric to me.
Car colours is something that sometimes worries me, brighter colours are sold as 'extra', while greys are default/cheaper. This leads to some cars basically camouflaging with the road, especially at times like dawn or dusk. There are other colours that make it harder to spot a car depending on location/time-of-day, but from my experience greys and grey-navy-ish are the worst.
I don't think it's required to work as an average professional web dev. If you want to be a good developer and keep getting better, understanding the fundamentals of computer science is very important (and makes the job more interesting, in my mind).
No wonder I find 80's movies, or 80's themed movies more aesthetically pleasing
> just like A.I. is going to eventually give us autonomous vehicles

Well, that’s probably just as much up in the air.
Just adding wikipedia discussion links so people can get a bit of context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:FaulconerProductions...
Since people are sharing frustrations around the topic of fallacies, my biggest beef with fallacies is that around every month or so someone comes up with an entirely new name for an already existing fallacy, which then trends on twitter and you now have to add to your list of synonyms.

E.g. I'd never heard of the term "Hollow man fallacy" to describe Bulverism before, but I'm like 90% sure it's already the more popular term now.
The UK has a general infrastructure issue and it only keeps growing because investment is lacking.
It seems like Debian Bullseye is available for the i386 architecture (i.e. Intel 486 and above):

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/
For financial stuff, proximity matters and London is one of the largest financial centers
This is Schrodinger's Immigrant[1], often spotted in the UK Murdoch papers, sometimes even in the same edition.

[1] https://www.econlib.org/schrodingers-immigrant/
This is basic knowledge. Of course one should know how many bits go in a byte. It's like asking if one should know how to replace a bulb. Not a software developer, every person should know that. It's like knowing that there're 1024 bytes in kibibyte or 1000 meters in kilometer.

These days one should even know how exactly double is represented in hardware as it's the main type in JS and one should clearly understand bounds of integer numbers which could be represented in double without precision lost.
node.js is also portable with pkg
Wouldn’t drabness and sameness be more high-entropy?
I mean, it's even linked in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu
I wonder if the problem with "nudge" is that for publicity reasons, people only call it a nudge if it sounds like a tiny thing that doesn't sound like it would work. If it's an obvious intervention, such as a default option in a pension form, or higher prices on tobacco, or condom vending machines in hotel restrooms, they don't call it a nudge anymore.

And I also have the feeling some of these may be babies that the Economist's editors would like to throw out with the bathwater.
What do you expect from a $24k-per-year programmer
You purposefully over-saturate (to 3/patch) your existing base before you create a new base. Then when the new base becomes operational, you can "maynard" a chunk of workers to the new base and have it be immediately productive at ~1 worker / patch.
Maybe this is why the Instagram article was a bit weird yesterday?

"On Tuesday morning, Instagram head Adam Mosseri appeared in full damage control mode. Facing the camera and wearing a bright yellow sweater, he attempted to quash a growing revolt from some of Instagram’s most prominent users."

https://archive.ph/FF2d1

Why even mention the color of the sweater? I can see that clearly on the video.
Depends on their salary

They're probably getting rid of the least effective per dollar spent (or trying to, good luck measuring anything, especially around productivity)
https://archive.ph/TCIkk
We know why Unity happened. Because Canonical has a bad case of NIH
What amazes me that Facebook and Google has faces and identity of 99% population and could be solved in an instant. FB even used to auto-tag people for you if you upload their photos. Probably still do internally. Solving a crime is like one checkbox away. Yet "the privacy" of doing crime is more important.
That seems to be it, thanks.
What are "absurd" amounts of CPU and memory? Calculating and pinning dependencies is just a very difficult problem which happens to be reducible to SAT. If you think a SAT solver takes a lot of time and memory, then all alternatives would probably be even slower.
Maybe?

The headline graphic is from https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer... which really tells us about the colour of a subset of objects in the Science Museum's collection – so a bit of a biased sample, and I'd wager primarily due to changes in materials.

There does seem to be maybe 20% more neutral-coloured cars since 1990, though. Interior design is probably the thing I'd most readily say has become more muted in my lifetime. I guess I'd say the world has become less saturated rather than less colourful.