skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where it would be sacrilegious to even change the font

This is a misunderstanding of the actual concern there. The way I've heard it explained is, once it's all online in printed form and people can't read the original physical document, the online versions can be tweaked by the platforms and no one would be able to read the original to prove it's been changed.

This is an extremely common trope in sci-fi, where only a small group of people understand the language of the "sacred texts" and have been claiming it says something different than it actually does and no one is able to challenge it.

I think both versions stem from real-world religions where the translations have to make adjustments because the source language has concepts that don't quite fit in the new language.
> Most other countries in the Anglosphere have been through a "plain english" language push in both contract & legislation

The US has seen big pushes for plain English. Nixon, Carter, Clinton and, most recently, Obama have all championed this. It has been federal law since 2010 for all executive branch agencies to use plain language in any official document they produce, for instance. Similar desires in law and contracts exist, though I'm less aware of that.

See: https://centerforplainlanguage.org/2021-federal-plain-langua...

And: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/
I just wish it will be something like GNU Taler[0], that may actually improve consumer privacy, instead of getting rid of the last bits of it.

[0] https://taler-systems.com/en/digital-currency.html
> illegal research is not the same as other types of crimes - it requires vastly more resources and people, and it may not pay for a long time.

This is my point, and exactly why I don’t think we would know if it were happening right now.
Does aerc support notmuch?
Yes. Also, though, often you have a body of understanding that can be coerced to just handle the new task.

Over in microeconomics... we draw budget curves, and all the operations on budget curves are a whole lot like operations on production possibility curves, so there's a lot of skill transfer.

We spent 2 class periods on PPCs, and 10 minutes on budget curves. My students better understand how to learn economic concepts, and they have a closely related skill that they can adjust for the new task.

Every lesson, we're accelerating.
I think it's much more likely a "This is a person making up a story on twitter" example.
A bold argument that we should run our corporations even more like roving bands of robbers and murderers.
This sounds like it might be the "culture fit" rationale that interviewers have in mind when doing things that are really unfair to individuals (and, IIUC, in many cases illegal in the US).

Besides being unfair, it can also be otherwise bad for the organization. In tech startups, we talk about innovation and ideas, and one of the places that comes from is combining knowledge from different backgrounds (in multiple senses). If a startup started with two people who then only hired people like themselves, they're restricting the likelihood of good ideas that they wouldn't have thought of themselves.
> I think the reason contracts aren't readable to laypeople is because laypeople aren't the intended audience.

That's partly true — but there's no reason a contract can't be written to be understandable by mere mortals. (I do a lot of contract drafting and have been teaching it to 3Ls for years.)
Looks like there's some support for that already in systemd, but it's not complete...see: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8096

Also iptables would be a simple option for a round-robin or random load balancer. No health checks or anything though. See: https://scalingo.com/blog/iptables for an example.
How to identify (and misidentify) Brown Widow Spiders
It's not even that simple. Burning wood is only carbon-neutral on a multi-decade timescale. Trouble is, the next couple decades are critical. We're at risk of pushing the climate over tipping points, after which warming will go further even if we take our own emissions to zero.

So it's important that we reduce emissions in the short term. Burning wood increases short-term emissions. By the time it all balances out, it'll be too late for it to matter.

And even that assumes that the forests grow back enough to balance out. Those tipping points include drought and forest fires, so that's not a given.
I tend to disagree. US law does require "plain language" in certain places (privacy policies for example) and that doesn't help. Also, while EU law is, perhaps, written in clearer language, the ambiguity of how it will be interpreted and enforced is actually so much less clear that overall their legal requirements are harder to decipher.
Ah, my bad, I wasn't aware machined supported VMs as well. I wonder how that works with the other systemd integrations (like viewing logs from the hypervisor OS with journalctl), I suppose it just doesn't?
But one of the most basic principles of the legal system, is that you cannot defend yourself based on not knowing the law...
This is a big problem all around the world.
>You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets.

From the comments here I can picture what the tweet was about, but considering how quickly it was made private I would be wary of trusting it too much.
Those who prioritize code correctness over user experience will soon find themselves in that blessed paradise where they never have to worry about user experience anymore... because there are no more users.
I think this "poor writing", as in hard to understand writing with long backreferences is due to the same reasons as why many academics are terrible at explaining things, as well as why source code is hard to read.

I should know, others usually like pointing out how terrible I am at explaining things. And I think I know why.

When I make a naive attempt at describing a complex, interconnected concept, such as a piece of math, or a program that does a thing I start with a mental picture - a graph of interconnected concepts. Then I try to describe the picture - the same way one would describe a painting. I describe each visible part separately, often in great detail, then I try to describe the links and interconnections between parts.

This sort of 'accurate' descriptive style naturally leads to huge backreferences, and people usually have a ton of trouble following along.

However I think there's a way of getting your point across - one basically needs to reproduce the thought process of how one would come up with the given model given the real world constraints, illustrating the issue and its proposed solution with examples. It is often said that people are much better at deriving the rules from a few examples than the other way around.

However this sort of descriptive style takes both a lot of effort, and usually is less precise, which often is not acceptable, such as in the case of contracts or computer code.
Are freezers really that bad? Does it depend if they're chest or standup?

I don't remember my bill going up when I added a freezer, I didn't really measure though.
Jesús is a valid and common name for Hispanic males and I don't see how this would disqualify them from being considered for these positions.
Overleaf is not really suited for non-technical people, it's not even suited for technical people that are unfamiliar with latex. They could make it much better if you could annotate on the pdf instead for non-technical people and that these annotations (and or changes) get translated to the latex files so the author sees them in the right place as well.
Cloud should be used as a backup, not as a first instance.
Academia is full of problems like these.

This only leads to resentment and a reinforcement of the idea that women have it on 'easy mode', which I don't think is caused by them in the first place.

One day I went to interview at SiB (https://www.sib.swiss/) as part of a cohort of 20 shortlisted from all over the world. Women on our cohort were treated significantly better, with a couple weird professors were behind them all the time. Everyone noticed that (even other girls) and we actually, explicitly, touched on that subject on our free time.

I recall there was one dinner by the end of that trip and these guys made one particular girl sit in between them, which was kind of awkward as students were all sitting together in a different part of the table. One of these guys was all over the girl, to clarify: not touching her, but physically very close all the time and asking a lot of trivial questions one after the other (do you like food XXXX? have you been to XXXX? what do you think of XXXX?), the girl was visibly uncomfortable but what was she supposed to do? We were all about 20yo at that time, at that age (also a newgrad) you just go with the flow. Plenty of people take advantage of that.

Not implying anything but, as anecdata, that girl got accepted into the program under the supervision of that particular guy. I hope she had a comfortable PhD stay and I mean that with all honesty.
Right but how do you replace the masts? Don’t you have to build mast2 and then tear down mast1 if you want to have continuous propulsion?
American here, I learned cursive in school (what we call our “loop writing”) but it was clear it was going to be phased out to child me. I write about as quickly in block letters and can actually read the resulting words clearly, as opposed to my cursive which turns into a long line of m’s and l’s as I get faster. I find that slowing down to make the cursive legible takes longer than block lettering for my unpracticed hand, and have never needed it enough to justify additional practice.

Both methods are about on par with phone typing or dictation, and far far slower than typing on a physical keyboard. I recently tried to switch back to a paper notebook because I found my phone was constantly distracting me when taking notes, but the loss of text search, ease of sharing/editing, and and speed when writing was too great so I abandoned this approach in favor of other methods for controlling distractions.
zero variance is all copies of the same triangle tessellated together. By definition a non-zero variance has to introduce change in at least 1 triangle and in doing so has to recalculate all connected triangles. It's hard to imagine how there couldn't be a strange blip when transitioning from zero to non-zero.
Ask HN:
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Eh anyone that cares about noise will watercool their GPU.
Useless, by definition, was a poor choice of word, apologies.

I meant something more akin to something you'd likely never need to use as a life skill or for employment in today's world.

One of my favorite trips as a kid was to some museum that displayed civil war letters. They were all beautifully written in cursive. For reasons like that, I'm glad tp have learned it, and hope she finds such things as interesting as I do one day.
I use multiple languages, including Python, and this just reads to me like a hit piece. I won’t take the time to respond point by point, but the author complains about 69 top level functions that “you just have to memorize”? Really? Try learning a foreign language and then come back and tell me again why memorizing 69 function calls is so onerous. Oh, and by the way, you’re not even supposed to memorize them all. Who told you to do that?

Other than that, the piece seems to reveal more about the author’s misunderstanding of language concepts like lazy evaluation than it does to expose failings of the language itself.

Imagine learning a new language and complaining about the “weird” ordering of words or predicates. Weird to who?
I love this. I've seen the Windows 95 retro CSS but this retro Mac thing looks great!
Is there an interpreter from legal language to human? Here, from the comments, I understood that the fact that no one reads the licenses is kind of intentional, for reasons that you can find on this page. This means that someone has to write a translator.
Actually a freezer only averages like 25-50 watts. It pulls a lot of power when the compressor is running, but the compressor usually isn’t running.
I couldn't agree more.

If it's true that most in-person communication is non-verbal, I wonder if people then try to over-compensate with their prose.

Maybe technical documents need more emoticons.
I don't like how the thing I have to move covers up the things I have to look at. Lost interest pretty quick because of this, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to put the moving thing next to the symbol or something.
Why? Davids are everywhere and that's also directly tied to a religion.
I pay via PayPal then cancel the billing subscription. Privacy.com is how my partner got out of it.
That'd break SimCity updates, and probably trigger antivirus warnings, and annoy Maxis devs and lawyers...

Whereas "we'll tweak our OS to suit your app to ensure it doesn't break with an upgrade"? That just wins loyalty from the game devs, users, and everyone involved except purist-coder types.
The Rational Case for Monarchy
For sure!

I found a pioneer amp that sucked 200W sitting there doing nothing. No increase when volume was turned up either. I compared to an older 1970s model that started at 3w and went up from there with the volume.
Yeah I don't see anyone using tungsten or counter-rotaying halves. And the heavy spinners are often slow to rev up
I've heard from multiple schizophrenic people that many of the meds given for schizophrenia also cause significant cognitive impairment or make them drowsy/low-energy. So hard to say.
+10 to this. I would actually recommend Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg (whose research is referenced to in Atomic Habits) as a more complete book with regards to this topic.
It is disappointing to see plainly stupid denial of the reality of Russian (and other) disinformation and influence campaigns in these threads.
What makes you say that? Does re-reading a book mean you understand things you didn't understand before?

I feel like if I need to re-read a book to better understand it, either I or the book sucks. It doesn't seem very efficient.
holy shit that was hard
>Coal (/oil/gas) burning releases CO2 that was previously safely stored in the ground and didn't affect the Earth atmosphere

This sounds crazy to me. The whole issue with climate change and CO2 is there is too much on a global scale. So it's all fungible. Yet people continually talk as though the CO2 molecules have labels on them to determine if they're sinful or not.
‘Don’t go US’ is as vague as
‘Don’t go EU’.

Both entities are broad and diverse with a huge range of life experience.
It will be interesting to see what happens if one of the "subscription" hardware parts that has been deactivated has a problem that renders the rest of the bike unusable. Pretty much every motorcycle I have ever owned ends up with some sort of electrical problem at some point.
damn that was hard
Snapshot of the tweet since (at least for me) it seems to be private now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220918142648/https://twitter.c...
A nit: Canterbury Tales is Middle English and with the rhythm of the words and the many similarities to modern English, it's not that difficult and it's a good way to appreciate the language. I'd say the same thing about memorizing a Shakespearean soliloquy.

Old English/Anglo-Saxon is the language of Beowulf and a modern English speaker would be effectively memorizing a northern European language like German. (It's pre-Norman invasion and therefore pre-Romance language influence.)
But k8s is distributed across several computers. If you could have Linux manage resources and run processes across several computers I think people would do that.
If you do it right it's hardly a waste of time worth considering. My TV is plugged into an outlet that is controlled by a lightswitch, so I don't need to contort myself around furniture to reach to 'unplug' it. In other situations, I've used a power strip placed so the switch on the strip is easily accessible, sticking out from behind the cabinet. Even if the power draw on this TV is negligible, I think it's a habit worth maintaining because it costs me nothing and it will save me having to reacquire the habit in the future with new appliances. Also part of me feels reassured that technology has not yet rendered me too lazy to use a simple switch.
It's about resolution, I think. What one needs functionally is a list of negations e.g. "thou shalt not"/"this does not" and affirmations "thou shalt"/"this does" most generally, the tightest feasible 95% CI - essentially bulletpoints.

In looking at the human interaction space and regulating it, they're sort of trying to verbally describe the output of the Mandelbrot set while maintaining a coherent enough structure that it can be understood at a linguistic level by others. The closer they get to the ground truth the more complex things get in the explanations. And everybody doing this has gone down a specialized rabbithole, they have familiarity with a lineage of particular language that describes, fairly concisely, a known-good model for some contour in the set.

At least that's what I get from it in the scientific domain. Like if I rambled this shit off to the general public - and maybe here - they wouldn't know what I was saying. What's a confidence interval, what's a Mandelbrot set, what implications does it have in the context, what do I mean by model..?

Moreover the systems being scrutinized are based on precedence. Science works its way up to law, and court precedence sets the bar for future interpretations, including the structure of contracts - but also informally by understanding the grey areas in application, like what you can propose to people ignorant of the law that wouldn't be upheld by courts. So the specialist lineages are allowed to proliferate and remodel, I think it's something that simply comes as a product of persistent structures in... Any human endeavor. I'm no coder, but I've heard many times of horrifying outmoded codebases continuing forward, it's an artifact of systemic inertia and optimization around a nucleus of enduring legacy.
I had a look at your account and for one that is 78 days old, you’ve done an insane amount of trolling.

Are you part of a deliberate trolling org? I’m not sure one person can hold so many conflicting viewpoints?
Damn that was hard.
I believe they outright sold it wholesale because it wasnt that sensitive like NHS. If they could, they would do the same. But since the UK public seem to be very sensitive about NHS, they seem to be doing it the slow way.

That is without the fact that if UKIP types ever got ahold of the government, they would sell NHS wholesale to US corporations in one single day without worrying about the public opinion.
Filling the Gaps: Notes in the margins of early modern books
As one of the younger but not young crowd, I have a form of auditory dyslexia which is why I've used CC and subtitles most of my life. Good sound mixing and actor enunciation helps to a small degree, but my brain garbles the first part of conversation starts and when dialog happens without visual cues.

My hearing is good, but the delays in processing dialog to content make watching movies or tv very frustrating when I can't see the actor's face to lip read or don't have CC to catch what I miss.

On the other side of things, I have a very high level of internal voice so when I am reading text I can 'hear' the dialog in my head. I can listen to the first 20 minutes of a movie or episode or two of a tv show, then watch it muted with subtitles and will hear the actor's voices. It's nice because I can watch shows with my own background music or without disturbing anyone with the audio.
I’m using Github to write mine.. It’s acessible from all devices and has markdown rendering out of the box.
How in any sane world was your parent comment (by Victerius) worthy of death?
From the article and the other HN comments, if they have Chromecast enabled by default they do.
4W is still pretty bad. Any modern computer will gladly sit under 1W ready for a quick wake up.
> should every job be subsidized to support any lifestyle

What do you mean by subsidize? You don't "subsidize jobs". You provide a living wage.

What do you mean by "this lifestyle"? It's not a "lifestyle" to have a decent life.

> how is the gig or unskilled labor situation any different

Because, as it was already pointed to you repeatedly, there might not be a choice of greener pastures. Besides this, why do you insist that a person working 8 hours in the hell that is fast food industry isn't worthy of having a decent life outside work? Who is worthy then? You? Why? Where do you draw the line?

I mean, you probably wouldn't last more than a few days in most "unskilled labor" jobs (which actually require quite a lot of skill). But sure, do tell me how you're better.
Can you actually buy a DE-10 Nano FPGA board today? The links say "pre-order"
My productivity system: I turn off the internet
Creating notes can also be used as a journal.

My process is to create a GitHub repository and README.md file and create a # markdown heading for each entry with a simple name for the thought or description of the idea. Then I write a few paragraphs to a few pages of ideas.

I number the markdown headings. GitHub has a indescript table of contents button in the top left of the README.md

When I get to 100-300 I create a new repository and repeat.

My computer ideas journal is kind of a blog and I write it in the open on GitHub. Here are links to it. There's over 450+ journal entries of computer software ideas, community ideas, algorithm ideas and software design ideas.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4
They can, in theory, send you to collections and ding your credit for that.
I do buy physical tech books still but I tend to not use them as much as before. However, I still find value in having it on the table and using it as a reference at times, I think mostly because it forces me to switch focus from my screen to something else and that makes it easier to focus on learning rather than staring at my code.
> Further, the legal name and sex of a student can't be changed "even upon written instruction of a parent or eligible student" without an official legal document or court order.

Doesn’t this make sense though. If a name isn’t changed legally, then it can be challenging to try to figure out what name to use.

That being said, it seems like there should be an ability to use a nickname without any official docs. Does this mean I can’t put “Bill” in the yearbook if I’m born “William.” We also had a lot of kids go by their middle name so this law seems to preclude that.
The state I’m referring to is is the whole puzzle state. It’s a confusing term in this case.
It seems to me that our existing legal system costs an enormous amount of money, in that it produces laws that can't be usefully engaged with by lay people without expensive expert advice. It just conveniently externalises this cost on to people who aren't policymakers.
I feel like this happens in Canada too because federal (and lots but not all provincial (“state”)) law/websites/guides has to be bilingual and they’ll have equal force. If the translations don’t mean exactly the same thing, hilarity ensues!

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/business/worldbusiness/25...
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