skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for these links! I do a lot of scientific computation using MC and MCMC. It’s great to read that history and see the care they invested in their flow diagrams, the versions that got more capable, etc.
no its just lame reddit style low effort comments, like writing "This!! SO much THIS!!!", brings nothing to any discussion. I don't care if you attack or write something bizzare or rude, as long as you write something thought out and coherent(or insane as long as it is interesting).
>This moron will start WW3

What rampant anti-american propaganda. /s
Siri will just lead with a paid local ad the for an impossible to define term as “best”.

Apple desperately wants to grow their ad business and has found a great wedge under the guise of privacy to kick push away competition.
Damn we should bring those back and put the wide gauage to use! BARTing into marin and beyond would be amazing
Stanford doesn't admit millions. There is no capacity for millions in Silicon Valley, there isn't the parking or public transport or apartments or offices or emergency rooms, nothing NOTHING anywhere close to that. Palo Alto is a very sleepy town, tallest building is 7 stories, then everything else is 4 or less. Not millions. By no means.
I think this is a very meaningful article.
Without knowing anything else about Bloomberg, it allows the reader to see just how bad the quality of their content is.
MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020)
> DB9 port

trivia: believe it or not, it's actually called DE-9
I find it weird that security experts study social engineering techniques, online manipulation, memetics, foreign infiltration, etc. However, if you somehow mention it being done from people they believe have their best interests in mind all that knowledge goes out the window to question everything.. Literally, you have to question almost everything.
Tiny GPS Logger for the Internet of Animals
I don’t know, but my assumption as a voter would be that voting no is always a vote for the status quo
Are you misremembering the 6.4 from 2018 in Hualien?

There were no 7+ magnitude quakes in recent years. [1]
The closest is 2016 at 7.1 which took out some undersea internet cables the caused a reduction in spam worldwide of 50%. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_earthquakes
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hengchun_earthquakes
Here in Vietnam the smallest note in 100vnd (around 40 cents). The number of zeros in VN currency can be confusing. The largest is 500,000.

In shops tills, the per-item value is larger than the total because there is not enough room to display the total.

As an extra layer of joy to the uninitiated, in speech we often abbreviate the millions to hundreds. Hence 200,000,000 becomes 200.
I"m mad at myself for seeing the CEO of one of my former employers pushing the book Grit constantly, seeing the above behavior and not putting two and two together for months...
Is there a two technical article on the differences between a riscv and arm core are? And why the former is less powerful currently?
As far as I understand there were actually lots of different "RS232" variations. Nowadays I believe everything is asynchronous, which makes many of the pins that used to be connected redundant; lines that carried things like clock or additional flow control related signals. I'm not an expert, I just noticed this looking at old NEC computers.
I’m in my mid 20s so I likely fall into the category of “pretty but lacks wisdom”. But from my experience speaking to folks over the age of 60, especially when it comes to discussing wisdom, has left much to be desired. I used to think and have deep respect for older folks (I come from an Asian family) simply because of their age, but over time I’ve noticed that they seem to lack intelligence and seem to have learned nothing from their supposed wisdom gained from their years on earth, which they seem rather eager to impart. Despite all their wisdom, they are incredibly gullible, less intelligent and more stubborn and their advices for the most part falls flat in the face of real life situations.
Wider gauge also means larger maximum turning radius, so you can't take any tight turns that might be necessary in an already built-up city.
Curious that Apple does not mention how to turn it off but adjust it: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-your-voiceover...
Researchers and volunteers hope to restore the American chestnut
Because the governments are not supposed to be socialism for the wealthy.
I'd guess those children will be even less important than the Kennedys. Among the voting public, last name recognition plays a large role. When publicly traded companies choose a CEO, last name recognition is much less important. Gates is also giving away almost all his wealth so his kids won't get it. For the others, inheritance tax will take a significant fraction, and the money will be divided between multiple children.
Paradoxically the same thing as when they offer 'unlimited wellness leave'
I've got a sony google bravia and have disabled everything I can think of, chromecast, remote start, bluetooth etc. Cannot get it under 12W when switched off. Can't believe I got suckered like that. There really should be consequences. Nobody would reasonably think their tv is sucking juice like that when turned off.
> I thought the world was so big that Microsoft couldn’t possibly know about the myriad of software that their OS could run.

At large enough scale, 1 in a million is next Tuesday - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...
Upon reading more I see you're right. I might have been getting blockchains mixed up.
That’s real. I once wrote a quick & dirty bookmarklet to disable all GIF animation on a page because even fairly unremarkable-to-most-of-us GIFs are uncomfortable for an epileptic friend. It is still on https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets
They can literally copy the whole directory from their local machine to production as a first step for all I care.

How do they test things on production? If there’s a bug how do they revert to the previous version? There are way more issues without source control than with.
> its current exchange value, which is the "pot of money"

It's not a "pot of money" because the market cap is not determined by the amount of government currency traded for bitcoin. Trading $100,000,000 for 5,000 bitcoin does not increase the market cap by $100,000,000.

Similarly, trading 5,000 bitcoin for $100,000,000 does not decrease the market cap by $100,000,000.

Since there's a seller for every buyer, there's zero money going into any "pot".

The market cap is determined by what price buyers and sellers agree on at any point in time. That means the market cap can double, or halve, instantly, even though trading volume is a tiny fraction of the change in market cap.

There is no pot.

And it works the same way for every other market, from stocks to bonds to gold and real estate.
Not by the dumbest person but by a majority of people. If citizens are expected to follow the law and if ignorance of the law is not an excuse then it should be comprehensible by the majority.
Worth what? Nobody is stopping or complaining about rural homeowners burning wood pellets for heat. This is specifically about using imported, overseas pellets in a retrofitted coal plant to produce electricity. It's an inefficient environmental disaster.
Worse, when it comes to code if execution doesn't do what you intended it is your fault for not writing it correctly and you are who gets punished for it.

When it comes to legalese, if execution doesn't do what you intended it is their fault for not understanding what you meant correctly and they get punished for it.
Doesn't give up when the first thing they try doesn't work.

There's a clear difference between someone with grit and someone without.

A person without grit will message me on slack with a half baked question that is practically, "I tried almost nothing and I'm stuck, can you solve this for me?"
I started looking seriously into Scala 3 without any Scala 2 exposure 6 months ago. I do not need it for any project but I wanted to see what is there. I love it.

Also, he does not mention Chisel.
How do you define art, then? What is the art in a Kandinsky painting?

In my opinion, the art in these games is the beautiful intersection of a set of puzzle rules with the world they inhabit. In The Witness, the world is additionally constructed to be thematically interesting, and I think that the set pieces on the island are intrinsically connected to the puzzles next to them. The island by itself would not make for very interesting art: it’s the game element that brings the art to life.

Also, “pressing a button to reverse time” feels very reductive. By playing the game, the player learns, and this learning leads to understanding. Usually, this understanding is tied solely to the game world and is used to tackle new and more complex challenges in later areas, but maybe it can also lead to extra-game insight. Even a tiny game like Passage makes powerful gestures in this direction.
Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders' Hands
If you have access to the raw data, then you should be able to quite easily provide a good estimate for what the article is trying to assess--what's the actual operational cost of bitcoin mining. Estimating the energy consumption is only a vehicle to doing this because those of us who don't have any raw data to do this.

What you should be able to do is:

a) Open up your electricity bill and look at the total energy consumption for a given period. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with how electricity is invoiced, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't something that was at least coarsely indicating total energy consumption for a billing period. (Or you can skip several middlemen steps and just take the total cost of the electric bill.)

b) Tot up all the bitcoin mining rewards you received in the same time period.

c) Count how many bitcoin blocks were mined in the same time period.

d) Divide b by c, now you know what fraction you are of the total bitcoin mining network.

e) Divide a by d, now you have an estimate of total worldwide energy consumption of bitcoin.

The only reason I can see that might make this hard is if you mine more than just bitcoin, in which case, replace "bitcoin" in the above steps with "sum over all of the cryptocurrencies you mine"--which is closer to what people want to know anyways. Even then, you can use crude weighting metrics to estimate what the consumption of just bitcoin is, which would at least let you know if the estimate is in the right ballpark or not. The exact number doesn't matter; it instead matters if the real number is closer to 14 TWh/yr, 140 TWh/yr or 1400 TWh/yr.
We eat shrimp and crabs. They're basically water insects. I would totally eat insects approved as food, just not processed insect flour, which I think will be used as a filler in other products in the future, just like soybean protein is used today.
You may be underestimating the traditionally rural parts of America, which empower and encourage kids to start adulting at an age that may be surprising to many people. If you are from those regions, seeing a precocious young kid who is mature beyond his years is surprising but not entirely unexpected.

As a frame of reference, where I grew up, you could legally drive heavy agricultural lorries (think 5/10 ton dump trucks) on the highways at 14. You were personally running industrial agricultural operations, including running heavy equipment by 12 or younger. If you grow up in those societies, you learn the ropes young and are given the opportunity to grow into your capability. In a way, it was kind of cool because kids were allowed to assume real responsibility so young and some kids are capable of running the entire operation. (This is kind of a loophole in US child labor laws but it isn't grinding in factory or something like that. And traditionally the kids that do this make some fine money.)

In this specific case, I expect the Mormon connection was doing a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes. Still, many rural areas encourage this kind of thing from a very young age and I can't say I wasn't a part of that. It is part of how they apprentice you into becoming competent at agriculture.
> Screen tearing has always been an issue on x11

Screen tearing has not been an issue on X11 for like... a decade? Granted, that's after development on Wayland started.

Also I just don't get this obsession with screen tearing. I've experienced it on occasion in other context and I... just kinda don't care about it? Certainly if you're a video editing/creating/whatever professional, it actually matters for your job, but otherwise it's just cosmetic, and often hardly noticeable at all.
The Flesch Kincaid gives you ranges, and it's reasonable for amendments to be within a certain range. For example, in Florida, all life insurance policies must have a Flesch Kincaid score of at least 45.

> "The text achieves a minimum score of 45 on the Flesch reading ease test as computed in subsection (5) or an equivalent score on any other test comparable in result and approved by the office;"

https://www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2011/627.4145
They mention mainly UNI, which is financed by Microsoft in the meantime. A union organization financed by employers, what can you expect.
Not how the law works here - you're always liable in either case, but it is hoped that the message might prevent some cases of fraud.
It's difficult to secure people against social engineering...
Hanlon's razor is a boundary condition. No one knows how to play the game at the start. Humans get better at shit.
Misleading title. The heading implies both Google and Meta are threatened, but the article discusses the emerging competition to Meta, like Snapchat, Tiktok, and Apple. There is no mention of a search competitor to Google. There is no mention of any concrete threat to Google from the competition, either, other than implying they will also be affected by the general trend.

Google may very well face competition from device manufacturers and the like, but this article does not provide any details about it whatsoever.
I discussed this with a very bright CFA Level 3 asset manager with $3B active and another $6B he advises on:

Rich people disproportionately hoard money and lock it up or invest it to make more - poor people spend what they make which is why they stay poor - but they need enough income to keep the consumer machine running.

When the rich don’t give the poor enough to spend, the system does not work and societal unrest is sure to follow.

Story as old as the guillotine.
Odd, I was just playing around with Wayland today on my new (12th-gen) Framework laptop, and I didn't see the issue you describe. I also use the libinput driver on X11 without issue.
… do you have the definition of “real” and “nominal” backwards?

Real wages are down. Specifically: prices are up 8.26%, and the raise was more like 5.5% ish. People can afford less rent. People can afford less food. People can afford less fuel. People can afford fewer goods. People can afford fewer services. People can afford less of everything. This is what “poorer” looks like.

(And remember, that isn’t 2.6% less discretionary income, that’s a total-income figure.)
Exactly - The Flesch Kincaid gives you ranges, and it's reasonable for amendments to be within a certain range. For example, in Florida, all life insurance policies must have a Flesch Kincaid score of at least 45. This still scores as "Difficult to Fairly Difficult." It'd be interesting to see what the readability scores are for different amendments.

> "The text achieves a minimum score of 45 on the Flesch reading ease test as computed in subsection (5) or an equivalent score on any other test comparable in result and approved by the office;"

https://www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2011/627.4145
tech giants have the moral-teflon of their bastardized implementation of DEI. So they're obviously just and benevolent. If you think they're ratfucking their customers, then you're just a bigot who's mad about the diversity but won't say it.
Yes "ninja" is still used.

I'm cringing at this jobs website in my country that lists 47 "ninja" jobs including "Mortgage Broker Ninja" and "Customer service Ninja" among others...

https://www.seek.com.au/ninja-jobs
Yes, you wash them with hot water and salt two or three times then leave them to ferment for a week or two in the last batch if salt water with horseraddish, parsley root and maybe a pepper if you like them a bit spicy (not kimchi spicy). This is the proper way to do it, as opposed to using vinegar.
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they copy you.

That about sums up how traditional manufacturers reacted to Tesla as a phenomena.

This article goes into the curious explosion of software in the mobility industry and why it's not about software. It then defines 4 maturity levels in the mobility industry.
i really want to support Wayland. X has done us well, but it's about time a protocol based around more modern situations supplants it.

Wayland has a myriad of these sharp-edge cases which i also find each time i try it out. what worries me a little is that some of them are clearly design decisions with no simple remidiation, your crashing example (which i have also witnessed first hand) is one of them.
There's a business term called MECE - mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive. It's just a way to break things down. You can break one thing down into multiple other things, MECE-style. There might be a bunch of different ways to do that, you just pick one.

So for instance, I started with the statement, "I have a happy, fulfilling life." Then I tried to think of the 3-5 things that were each necessary and collectively sufficient, and without overlap, in order for that to feel like a true statement.

It breaks down in a somewhat predictable fashion from there. For me, there was health, financial security, social, purpose, etc.

Then for each of those, you do it again. Visually, I had the "fulfilling life" statement on top, branching down from there. So like an upside down pyramid. As you go down, the statements get more personalized and actionable.

Over the years I've found that the lower levels change more frequently than the upper levels. Like, staying up to date on a particular Anki deck used to feel necessary to justify the statement above it. Now it doesn't.

It's also pretty impossible to always keep the entire DAG up to date and perfectly reflecting all my priorities in my life. Life's too big. (Or maybe I just don't have the right UI/UX.) But doing it once gave a lot of perspective in terms of telling the difference between what's really important to me, and what I thought was important but really wasn't.
Even the CDC got involved with this https://stanforddaily.com/2016/07/21/cdc-releases-preliminar...
The problem with X over the network is not bandwidth it is latency. The X11 protocol is very chatty so even very simple things will cause several roundtrips which makes X over the network so painful.
- "When I switch to my Linux laptop to test things, my trackpad is bonkers and I have to move my finger in like 1mm increments because otherwise I'd scroll like 10 pages in Firefox. It's infuriatingly frustrating."

The scroll behavior is highly configurable on Firefox' side: check out some of these about:config flags (if this is still of interest),

mousewheel.acceleration.factor
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_x
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_z
mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount
Yes, exactly. You can draw whatever conclusion you'd like from the data, and many text scoring systems have issues, but there is still a clear pattern here where this text is far outlier.
Echoing parent, and I'd like to reinforce this for gp -- you can bring it back in < 1 week, if you write for 30 minutes every day.

I was forced to learn this dreaded skill in grade school, and said "good riddance" to it in the early aughts, and only took it back up ~15 years later -- and I thoroughly enjoy it now. If, like me, you happen to actually want to get back into it, you are much better positioned to resuscitate your skills than somebody picking up a pen/pencil for the first time today.
Dwyer Pressure Engineering and Applications Handbook [pdf]
I have this in Spanish and it's frustrating. I assumed that at some point it was subtitled by one group and then later maybe dubbed by another company. I know in places like Italy, most foreign things are dubbed, and in other places in latin america most things are subtitled at least and dubbed second which leads me to this theory. But really I have no clue. A quick google search turned up the first result talking about your idea of matching the lips better and also this "Translators/subtitlers are often given scripts which don’t match exactly what was shot. The subtitling team often has no contact with the sound team, so they may have two different translations. "
> Twilio has grown at an astonishing rate over the past couple years. It was too fast, and without enough focus on our most important company priorities. I take responsibility for those decisions, as well as the difficult decision to do this layoff.

i don’t understand this phrasing and i’ve seen it in all these layoff announcements: if the CEO takes responsibility for the initial failure then why would he not offer his resignation? what responsibility is he actually taking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1U4SAgy60c&t=181s (for some definition of "detailed explanation")
Palo Alto is famously anti-development. Far ahead in the digital world but stuck in the 20th century physically. And Stanford has so much open land for nothing but nature. I mean come on…

FWIW, Caltrain is being electrified and there are people fighting for more development and density.

https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification

https://cayimby.org/
Another way to encode https://1.0.0.1/
Hmmm. We’ll, in CS it’s problem solving: https://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/samplechapter/0/1/3/6...

You’d think that it would be part of game theory, but all the game theory I’ve seen deals with multiplayer games, but it seems like a cooperative total information n-player game is essentially the same as a one player puzzle. So maybe g.t. generalizes in this way.
What's most likely happening is that a bunch of people need to stay more organized than you to keep track of what you're throwing out there.
Though, even there, networks are far faster than they used to be. Especially for the size is windows they used to push.
Reminds me of:

"A fighting contract in Ukraine: A job for a real man!"

...which is apparently an actual slogan used by Putin's military recruiters (in Russian of course).

Not coincidentally, that's another shit job.
Well the people who are pushing wayland are the same people that are maintaining xorg, so I would argue they know what they are talking about.

I have also not heard of any one who loudly proclaims xorg is much beter and should instead be maintained to step up to actually do that.
Plus they are a near monopoly/duopoly. So if the customer spends for wasted clicks they still get some good clicks as well. Google could optimize it for them better but the customer can not really tell if they could get a better result by some other means.
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Wow, thank you for these. And while at it, HN crowd , Any other tips/tricks/settings that would be beneficial for small business owner?
>restrict my advertising budget to just one city

This is not possible unless the end user are willing to provide geo tracking for your convenience. The IP of the phone is the one of a datacenter, and it can be in any state (speaking about the US) - heck, in some cases, there could be multiple outgoing IPs in different datacenterss, different states.

It's just a fallacy and wishful thinking... unless google combines the geo location data where the user has been logged with the browser one. Which, of course it is.