skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think any of that has substantial effect, most users aren't writers, this is true in traditional social media, and is even more true in substack.

As a reader, I like substack. It promotes a healthy diversity in opinions unlike the increasingly ban-happy established social media and puts some power back into the writer's hands, at the cost of shattering the "For Free!" illusions of free beer social media.

What I just wish they do is realize how goddamn fucking aweful their rock-slow website is, how astonishingly user-hostile and actively infuriating it is to use.
Yeah it feels like people forgot about the Sony Rootkit DRM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...) that ended up exploited by malware.
The irony of the article behind a paywall.
It’s not. Blood is a colloid and is actually quite transmissive. Opaque blood looks like plastic. Getting the right values is hard.

Blood, like milk, also exhibits quite a bit of subsurface scattering... it’s a hard problem to make it look good.
Other than the taskbar from Win95-XP, I find everything that MacOS does more convenient and easier to use. The Disk Images are an especially well done considering that it is a less limiting form of read only ISO disk image. Also, find is better in most respects to base windows explorer, with the except of sorting directories before files and multi-select through the gui.
> That’s not the correct solution. The correct solution is for the monitor manufacturer to stop reporting an EDID that identifies their monitor as a TV (and thereby forces the OS to default to YUV rather than SRGB.)

Is this an EDID issue? OP didn't specify what the "non Mac monitor" is, but I'd expect it to be a lower DPI one. I get the blurry text on an Apple Thunderbolt Display, too.

I think this is related to the removal of sub-pixel antialiasing in Mac OS a few versions back.
And on the topic of "get a better editor", if you (quite reasonably) prefer something more visible than a tab... you can do something to make tabs more visible in your editor. That way it'll work for any Makefile you open, not just those you're responsible for.
Just about everyone I know uses VSCode, which handles Makefiles correctly out of the box, or I can trust to have a correct vim config, so honestly I think I'm okay with it. If something breaks, it'll break loud.

There's a lot of other really good advice in this article but this one feels unfounded.
Yes, I mention this in the original article ("Well, how about we just weigh grades on exams more, and have students take their tests either using pen and paper or locked-down computers?").
FTA: "When you call someone burned out, it implies a personal moral failing on their part. The phrase shifts the conversation away from work conditions to a teacher’s individual personal choices."

So true... In other jobs too...
Its not “obviously” monopoly abuse by virtue of the fact that the antitrust laws have not been updated to account for modern markets and technologies. Beyond that, its not hard to distinguish between Nintendo, a company that makes consoles and video games (and has several larger competitors); and Apple, a vertically integrated empire who controls a big chunk of the global communication and entertainment markets and does not have significant competition (just cartel-style competitors).
We probably should have elected Bernie Sanders.

https://berniesanders.com/issues/reinvest-in-public-educatio...
That seems to generally be the way with space journalism; flatter the companies/personalities to get the best access for filming/interviews.
>those who can't, teach

because those who can go to industry for real cash

I think.
> They are disloyal leeches.

Consumers are mercenary, as are companies, and that’s the rational way to be in an economy of scale, where loyalty is “brand loyalty”. If consumers aren’t loyal, it’s a failure of the company’s marketing.
I would just ban private schools and home schooling entirely, and make everyone go to public schools. The standards would improve in no time.
> can't say how I know,

Sorry to say, but you just told us how you know. :)
There's no Proton Photos, as far as I am informed. Surprisingly, there is a Proton Calendar. But does it syncs with Calendly or Zoom, for example? I don't think so.

Currently more or less adequate solution in terms of integration is self-hosted Microsoft Exchange. I wonder how much does it cost (including Windows Server license).
Autoformatters like gofmt and black let you fix everyone’s editors at once. Though I haven’t seen one for Make.
looking at those photos, it is entirely not obvious that these stones are placed in a pattern. some look entirely random. it's not surprising that this wasn't discovered earlier.
Non tracking ads bring very little revenue as ads all about effectiveness. After initial experiments and cool off period you’ll either see more ads, tracking or scaling down of operations due to limited revenue.
So instead of putting in the work and weighing out the different qualities of an effective educator, you pick out the most arbitrary of criteria out there and want to make that the gold standard for evaluating teachers.

I'm not a betting man, but I'd feel comfortable wagering that you are a STEM grad with solid SAT scores.
GPUs are a good example: SIMD means all 128 threads do the same work. If only 1 thread has work to do the other 127 threads still take up resources.
Given y, solve for x in the equation f(x) = y

That's a valid use of the word "solve". It is obviously mathematical. It is complex, as we do not have a simple way to solve it.

I get it, words can have multiple meanings. It's fine to give a clarification on the specific use here, but then move on.
If Apple's self-serving reasons are "because our users want it" then I am all for it.

That 2/3 of users opted out of being tracked suggests Facebook has no similar reasoning for their business model.
> we ended up doing it for less than a couple of million dollars

That's a nice way to make a couple of million dollars sounds less than it is:-)
As discussed in the video, the SpinLaunch has the advantage that the acceleration to launch velocity is done in vacuum without reaction mass, so they can use a relatively heavy vehicle. The heavy vehicle obviates the issue you discuss, since there is more kinetic energy stored in the heavier vehicle than in a chemically-launched vehicle (which in this case needed to be light enough to be accelerated to velocity in 5 seconds). Thus, the fraction of energy lost as heat will be lower.

Again, this is because the vehicle can be accelerated electrically under vacuum until it reaches the required velocity. The heavy mass (in the vehicle’s nose cone) is not part of the orbital vehicle.
In some ways, Steam has provided an experience better than having no DRM. I can hop in a friend's computer and download any game I've purchased. Or I can delete old games to free up space and redownload them later (without having to deal with DVDs or external USB drives).

The tradeoff is handing over the control of my game library to a company. I can see how that tradeoffs can be compelling to some and not worthwhile to others.
If you want to follow the value chain all the way down, why not attribute the value of that software engineer to the professors who taught those kindergarten teachers to be good teachers? Or the kindergarten teachers who taught those professors?

The truth of where the value to society comes from is somewhere between the "shoulders of giants" myth (that everything is obvious in light of what came before, and nobody really creates any value) and the "lone genius" myth (that value is created solely by bright individuals).

Some component of the value that we attribute to a person likely comes from their teachers, but it may be 0 (or negative - lots of teachers demoralize their students too). However, a significant portion comes from them.
"The money thrown into the convenience economy has also created a crowded marketplace. Couch potatoes can choose between Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus and others, and a glut of ultrafast delivery and takeout services; ride-seekers can switch between Uber, Lyft and Bolt. "

Home video and taxi-cab service are very different sectors.

Uber has engaged in some pretty "creative" (i.e. unethical) business tactics to muscle their way into the taxi industry while avoiding both regulations and the payment of decent wages. They moved fast, but it was only a matter of time before government regulators (and their own reputation) caught up to them. Transportation is, indeed, something that's going to go back up in price in the short-term, if only because Uber and the Uber-wannabe's were using a business model that was never sustainable. I'd expect considerable contraction of this market as multiple companies fight each other for dwindling profits.

Home streaming, on the other hand, is simply coming off of a pandemic boom. When people were stuck at home, surprise surprise, they watched a lot of TV. Demand will correct to no less than what it was a couple years ago. The problems streaming providers face are entirely self inflicted. e.g. Fragmentation. It's going to remain hard for any single streamer to make as much as Netflix did when Netflix was pretty much the only streamer. Expecting consumers to pay five different companies on a monthly basis for what basically amounts to "channels" is not a delusion likely to persist much longer. We might see cable-TV style aggregation of streaming services take over, enabling users to pay a single monthly bill for all their streaming needs. Unlike transportation, there are free alternatives to streaming (i.e. piracy) that consumers will turn to in increasing numbers if streaming providers stay on their current course. This alone dictates that streaming must become more convenient in the near future, not less so. Showing ads on a service that isn't free is outright suicidal.
Yes, I mention this in the article as one of the solutions: "Well, how about we just weigh grades on exams more, and have students take their tests either using pen and paper or locked-down computers?"
> The article calls out GNU Make, so almost everything else in there is also non-portable.

My brain honestly didn't process that, and it's still refusing to. I think it's the braces around (GNU) — seems like I have some neurons wired to push (bracketed) pieces of text down into a "detail" stack and eliminate them from high-level processing…

P.S./ed.: GNU make looks for GNUmakefile before Makefile, and arguably if the Makefile is GNU specific, that feature should be used — and that includes the title of the article ("Your GNUmakefiles Are Wrong")
Maybe he is confident, that they can deliver.
I think a more diverse student body, likely one with a wide range of parental income and possibly including some kids who are members or gangs or is just more likely to have a few actually violent (,mentally ill, narcissistic, borderline personality disorder, etc.) kids, with a higher student to teacher ratio, will be much more challenging than a small high-school with 400 kids that more or less fall into "middle class and above with a spattering of low income."

EDIT: found an interesting "day in the life" article by a self-labeled urban teacher.

https://theeducatorsroom.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-teacher-...
We subscribe to both.

Discovery+ is our “white noise” streaming source to put on when we feel we need to have “chatter” and “activity” in the background during a WFH workday.

Pull up any of the hundred generic home improvement shows, hit play, leave it on all day. Stuff goes on you don’t need to pay hard attention to, or can pay soft attention to if you’re trying to think about something else to trigger a lateral thought, just like looking up from a laptop in a cafe or open plan office.

With HBO content, you might accidentally feel you should watch something. Never happens with Discovery+!
Because that's the "actual" cost, not the tax-subsidized cost.

For in-state, the state is paying approx $27k and the student pays approx $13k, versus in k-12 the state is only paying $13k and that's all they get.
> There's a lot of violence in the Bible, just as there in in the world today.

You make it sound like there's no causal link here. But a lot of the violence and bigotry in the world today is being explicitly propped up by religious texts. Many people crave certainty and a black-and-white moral fundamentalism, and there are sizable passages of the Bible that cater directly to that.

My point is that there's a difference between "the Bible doesn't support it" and saying, "Hey, if you take it in its entirety, and throw out the problematic bits, and apply a Gaussian filter, and average it all out, well... then it no longer supports it in spirit..."

So, again, going back to your original post:

> There’s a lot that comes from people who claim to be Christian that’s not supported by the Bible at all. It’s just something they were told and repeated.

That's not the problem. The problem is that a lot of it IS literally supported by the Bible, if one doesn't do that complicated Gaussian blur beforehand to paper over the problematic parts.
I said "literally planned," meaning it had to be a precise operation with the parents permission (and cars), and because there were several parents involved, this was a bit of a feat :).
> Furthermore, we have no way of holding Apple accountable if they're doing the same thing as Facebook.

Not buy their products?
And in this case we're concerned about computers that do have GNU make but don't have bash...
The HN and the blogosphere generally are replete with unconvincing "you're doing it wrong" posts. This is one. I use make (and have used it off and on for a long long time: since the late 80s). I don't do any of these things. If the author is going to make a convincing case his way is "right" and other ways are "wrong", it's incumbent upon him to clearly state what failures I will avoid. Then I can evaluate how often I encounter them, and decide how important this advice is. As stated, it doesn't seem very important.

I frequently run into similar situations with more junior engineers at work. One will insist on dogmatically adopting some "best" practice advocated somewhere, and when I ask what failures or bad situations we'll avoid, or what good situations we'll encourage, they can't answer. In their minds, someone (outside our team or the company) said it's better and so it must be.

I think it's important to avoid invoking incantations, and to understand the reasons for each choice you make. In this article, I don't see that.
> It's too bad, because he's a really smart guy

Is he really? I've yet to see a single video where he applies a significant amount of intellectual rigour.

I've seen him make so many basic mistakes in his reasoning that he's either incredibly lazy, intentionally misleading (a real possibility since "debunking" gets him views) or just not that smart.

I dont understand why so many people take him seriously. I suspect too many people get a kick out of feeling smart/smug from "debunking" videos.
Unless you're doing aerobatics, an Xbox/PS controller is very much useable if you tweak your input curves just right (VERY non-linear) with maybe some smoothing.
> 2. It seems that education degrees are seen as easier to achieve than others.

They absolutely are. I taught math as a university lecturer while I was finishing my PhD. I taught one Algebra course and one Geometry course to education majors. These were both literally just high school math courses and the people I taught were mostly not able to do the work. Yes, literally high school math and over half flunked the courses outright. That is just pathetic. I was told to pass 85% of the class, so most got curved right into a classroom anyway, against my wishes. This is what teaches your kids. I can also anecdotally report that they were clearly the dumbest people I ever ran into teaching. Bad English, can't think in a straight line, and ready to argue at the first sign that you might enforce standards and fail their pitiful "work". They were perfect for a bureaucratic job that rewards idiots.
> I don't care if they've passed before and the files haven't changed.

This is a common interjection from some people... which means you think that your tests are not deterministic, otherwise it would be completely pointless to run them again without inputs changing.

I actually admit that from end-to-end tests, this is usually true despite our best efforts to the contrary... but for unit tests, I really think tests should be 100% deterministic and only ever run when something they rely on changes. The Unison programming language goes even further[1] and it NEVER executes a test again once the code under test has been "committed" into its image.

[1] https://www.unison-lang.org/
Maybe not. As far as I can tell it doesn't prioritize engagement/hours spent over everything else, first page is a mixture of very niche stuff and very common stuff with very little clickbait either way.

To me HN feels like having a conversation with an interesting friend. It's not necessarily the most productive thing to do, nor it has any other major goal inherent to it, still at the end of the day it doesn't feel mindless or time lost.

To compare, if I use Twitter for 10mins, it's 1min of entertainment at best and 9minutes of bullshit/flamebait/doomscrolling/shallow crap that makes me feel dizzy by the end of it.
We (France) like to compare our sécurité sociale to the NHS, but only to remember that ours is not so bad after all. It’s never been the subject of serious debates, and the USA even less (rightfully).
I assume it's more about when you don't have the level of microscopic detail required to model the texture of a material so you just average it out. E.g. brushed steel is built from a material that has a metalness of 1, but in practice for most rendering you'll just represent the brushed microstructure using a metalness value somewhere between 0 and 1.
> it's private files

Exactly, which for some people contains content that you could blackmail them with.

> pictures I took with the phone's camera

I'm glad you don't take nude selfies, or cheat on your spouse through SMS, etc; but others do, and that potentially makes them susceptible to blackmail.

What if, instead of money, the blackmailers asked Jeff Bezos for access to some AWS servers. He most likely is not the only CEO that took nude selfies and can grant access to sensitive areas. What if, it was pictures/information from before someone knew any better, had access, or were famous.
Awful article advocating appeal to authority by alternative means.

>Free speech liberalism used to seem compatible with a functional society in a way that it now does not.

False premise. Only the censors agree with this. Free speech is a tenant of any functional society. How can anyone continue reading beyond this kind of absurd presupposition? Of course these statements are always followed with naive, juvenile, authoritative, first-order thinking. As is the case with this article.
10k G should be doable, during WW2 the allies had radio proximity fuzes for artillery shells that exceeded that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze
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If you write Makefiles for your own personal use — sure.

If you're working in a team with other people, or are publishing things for a broader public to use… no. Especially since things like .ONESHELL don't just flat-out cause errors, but rather introduce subtle and insidious distinctions in behavior.
Honestly, it's not a big problem.

First of all, bloat has nothing to do with file size -- EPUB's are often around 2 MB, typeset PDF's are often 2-10 MB (depending on quantity of illustrations), and scanned PDF's are anywhere from 10 MB (if reduced to black and white) to 100 MB (for colors scans, like where necessary for full-color illustrations).

The idea of a 30 MB cutoff does nothing to reduce bloat, it just removes many of the most essential textbooks. :( Also it's very rare to see duplicates of 100 MB PDF's.

Second, file duplication is there, but it's not really an unwieldy problem right now. Probably the majority of titles have only a single file, many have 2-5 versions, and a tiny minority have 10+. But they're often useful variants -- different editions (2nd, 3rd, 4th) plus alternate formats like reflowable EBUB vs PDF scan. These are all genuinely useful and need to be kept.

Most of the unhelpful duplication I see tends to fall into three categories:

1) There are often 2-3 versions of the identical typeset PDF except with a different resolution for the cover page image. That one baffles me -- zero idea who uploads the extras or why. My best guess is a bot that re-uploads lower-res cover page versions? But it's usually like original 2.7 MB becoming 2.3 MB, not a big difference. Feels very unnecessary to me.

2) People (or a bot?) who seem to take EPUB's and produce PDF versions. I can understand how that could be done in a helpful spirit, but honestly the resulting PDF's are so abysmally ugly that I really think people are better off producing their own PDF's using e.g. Calibre, with their own desired paper size, font, etc. Unless there's no original EPUB/MOBI on the site, PDF conversions of them should be discouraged IMHO

3) A very small number of titles do genuinely have like 5+ seemingly identical EPUB versions. These are usually very popular bestselling books. I'm totally baffled here as to why this happens.

It does seem like it would be a nice feature to be able to leave some kind of crowdsourced comments/flags/annotations to help future downloaders figure out which version is best for them (e.g. is this PDF an original typeset, a scan, or a conversion? -- metadata from the uploader is often missing or inaccurate here). But for a site that operates on anoynmity, it seems like this would be too open to abuse/spamming. Being able to delete duplicates opens the door to accidental or malicious deleting of anything. I'd rather live with the "bloat", it's really not an impediment to anything at the moment.
Sort of...not well. There is an app for NextCloud called Recognize [1].

It has gotten significantly better in the last year or so, but it's still pretty bad and pretty slow.

[1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize
People have figured out how to successfully dogfight in DCS with Xbox controllers. Microsoft spent millions engineering those controllers to the point you have to spend over double the price for a flight stick with comparable or better sensors and inputs.
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If they actually do something impossible, sure, it'll be worth some money. But even then, why would individuals ever be able to participate in that market?

If it's a sure thing, companies (including Tesla) will buy many cars and run the value as low as they can.
It seems one-sided to me.

If your business relies on convincing your users that targeted advertising is a Good Thing, then you are fighting a war from an indefensible position.
I guess you want something more than online news and commentary to assess the economic state of [country], so as an attempt at a useful answer i'll provide this.

go here https://tradingeconomics.com/calendar and click "dates".

then click last week or last month, scroll through the various economic indicators and see the ones with the british flag, and go from there. if you're new to econometrics you will probably need to dig in a little but it is worthwhile if you are interested in the state of the economy.

if you are seriously wondering if the UK is collapsing, you are probably spending too much time in comment sections and crowd-curated news sites and should do less of that
How can he know which tech TESLA have? I mean a lot of AI breakthroughs, like transformers or alpha fold came from the industry and not academia.