skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brutally honest answer is… they taste good and I don’t want to eat plants exclusively because I don’t have to as an omnivore.

As for sentience, it does not factor into my equation, in the same way a lion isn’t concerned about the impala’s feelings. If plants are shown to have sentience one day, would you allow yourself to starve to death out of concern?
> This new 32-bit CPU based on an advanced RISC design was created by fewer than 10 people

A small motivated team with sufficient domain knowledge will always outperform large teams, regardless of funding.

The history of business is full of examples of this. Not to go too far, the entire consumer computer industry came out of places like Apple (1 engineer!), Microsoft (a couple of guys), Compaq (three guys), etc.
> How does that work when everything is classified?

Well, they're - vaguely - claiming to have found a smoking gun in FOIL requests.
Do you still have to explicitly add CSS to do something appropriate for the user's dark mode setting? I'd rather not specify any colors at all and just let the browser use system defaults, but last time I checked, that used black-on-white even in dark mode.
Fair, lets modify that to just "humans" not "other humans" and say instead that programs should be written first and foremost with this in mind.

I have never discovered a reliable way to discern whether I will re-use some code. Of course I could just delete it after first use and declare it "use-once" that way, but that's cheating, if I just have to type in the same program tomorrow we should admit that deleting it and rewriting it was a pessimisation.

In the specific case of volatile parameters I can't figure out whether writing this in use-once code is more stupid or less stupid. On the one hand, you aren't misleading anybody else because the compiler knows perfectly well this doesn't do anything, on the other hand with the only human participant being yourself maybe you think it does something and whatever that is you're wrong so that's very bad.
Sounds like you drink more often than once or twice a quarter.
The 365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400 is an approximation, not an exact value. The best value* is 365.24217. 46,751 / 128 is actually a better approximation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year

* This is the ratio of the mean tropical year to the mean solar day; We use means because both the length of the day and the length of the year vary.

The period of rotation (day) of the planet varies due to tidal friction (the moon "drags" oceans against the earth's rotation) and other shifts in mass (e.g. earthquakes) that change the moment of inertia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Slowing_rotation_o...

The period of revolution (year) varies mainly due to precession of the equinoxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession
I'm 35 and I probably drink less than 4 alcoholic beverages a year. I am not really choosing sobriety--I just don't have time to be tired from alcohol and I don't actually find it that fun--and it's way too expensive.
What Is BASIC?
What are legit natsec concerns now? How about saying yeah it happened, we're sorry and we're paying a USD 100mil each to the surviving families as a token of our regret?
Semi related, I have a huge number of BC-250's [0]. Now that ETH mining is over, I'm looking for something interesting to do with them. Not looking to sell them, but that might be possible at quantity, I'd rather work with you to run something on them. They iPXE boot Ubuntu. GigE. No onboard storage, but have 16gigs of ram. Easily tuned for performance.

Thoughts?

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/93980-14800-asrock-mining-rig-...
> Shouldn't the folks who believe in markets as a force for good want wages to be set by markets?

They do, but what's that have to do with the Fed? The Federal Reserve is arguably one of the largest central planner entities in existence in the US (which as a mixed economy, not a free market one, has many).
People and nations do stuff for ROI. Even if Mutually Assured Destruction wasn't intact (it still is) there is no ROI in creating a wasteland, people might be evil but they are evil with rationale.

The rationale is to conquer and exploit for ROI purposes, destroying everything is the opposite of that and is a recipe for ending up way worse than when you started off, even if you "win" the nuclear exchange.

It's the reason why China decided not to match Russia and US 5000+ nukes and stopped at 1000. Millions of diplomats and an ever growing movie industry will be their Weapons of Mass Persuasion.
I worked at Sun Microsystems in the late 90s/early 2000s and at the World Trade Center offices, pretty much everyone had to hot desk.

I was in a group that, unlike our "pure" sales brothers & sisters, spent a lot of time in the office. The whole hot desk was a big PITA because we had to reserve our desks and we could only reserve, I think, 1 week in advance.

But, one of my colleagues figured out that the back-end of the reservation system had an RMI interface and it didn't do any validation of the reservation requests. So he wrote a CLI utility that let us reserve the same offices week after week.

We would've gotten away with it except that the head of sales realized one Monday morning that we always seemed to be sitting in the same place. I guess she made some enquiries because not long after that, we were all called into her office and made to promise that we wouldn't hack the reservation system anymore.

At the bard so famously wrote, "Pride goeth before a fall." :)
It's not specific to reinforcement learning, but you might find this of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning
I believe some people are still here who were threatened by global nuclear annihilation for over 30…
A major part of the problem in my experience is actually government regulation and policy as it applies to those workers.

Want to stay remote? As a federal employee, too bad. Furloughs suck too. You have little negotiation power compared to private bosses.

The teachers I know would rather change professions, or work at a lower paying private school than at a public school. They're tired of all the administrative problems. I'm sure pay is more of an issue in certain states (mine pays well), but this lack of freedom, or even micromanagement is a major factor as a teacher or in the private sector.

I have had coworkers that left government work and government contract work that did so because the policies are crippling the mission.

I have no interest in working at a public school. I have little interest in working for the government either - both due to the regulations and bureaucracy.
> Sounds to me more like you don't eat and hydrate enough when you drink.

If he's like me, that's not the case. I've always drank tons of water after drinking booze. I used to not get hangovers, but as I got older the hangovers got worse. I took a few years break from drinking, and now when I try drinking a little the hangovers are worse than ever before, no matter how much I hydrate. Two drinks at dinner is my limit now. And no earlier than dinner, because it makes me very lethargic for the rest of the day. Three drinks and I'll be miserable for the next day too.
Shot in the semi-dark: there was a blog post posted here —- I haven’t been able to find it with HN search —- some years ago that started from scartch/browser-defaults and proceeded in like 5 steps to some nice minimal defaults. Not exactly a plain reset; there were some opinionated choices. Step one was something like the parent article. Anyone have an idea what this was, or have some similar recommendations?
Have you considered that you may have been drugged?
You might as well say that battle tanks are better than Toyota Corollas. I'm sure a battle tank is safer in an accident but that doesn't mean it's the best choice for a daily driver.

The goal of a business is to produce as many outputs as possible with as few inputs as possible.

If mainframes are so much better, why don't you own one? Why doesn't your company own one? I see a Z 2828 on eBay for $9,995, sounds like a pretty good deal! I know the Raspberry Pis that run my self-hosted services only cost me $200, but, like you said, you get what you pay for! Where the heck is my credit card!?

Mainframes are a dying breed because they aren't a solution for 99.9% of businesses (yes, that's right, literally 99.9% of businesses have fewer than 500 employees). [1]

By the time a new business has grown large enough to potentially benefit from a mainframe architecture, it has been using x86/ARM commodity computing for years/decades.

The only way a business would ever choose mainframes would be if they were already gigantic businesses before microcomputers were invented and their business has a high amount of clerical overhead. This is why banks and airlines ended up with mainframes.

Having the best, most resilient technology possible isn't the end goal of most businesses. The goal of a business is to sell things and make money. Computing is essentially a cost center where the lowest bidder wins, where the cheapest possible solution is always the best one as long as the level of risk is acceptable.

[1] https://www.chamberofcommerce.org/small-business-statistics/
A distributed transactional large-scale NoSQL database powered by TiKV
Give yourself a break from the news for a while.
Missile damage to aircraft leaves very distinct and VERY obvious traces as you would expect from a bunch of shrapnel suddenly slicing through the fuselage at hundreds of different points. If you want an example look at the reconstructed fuselage Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which got shot down over Ukraine. 95% of the fuselage of TWA 800 was recovered. It was not hit by a surface to air a missile.
Social Sentinel: a tool for surveilling campus protests
The key would be to cultivate the young.

I expect I’d find it moderately hard to learn coal mining at my age and though I don’t believe it would have been impossible in my youth.
Furthermore, portable RF devices can help rule that vector part out.
Oh yeah, I am a regular consumer, but the nature of hangovers seems entirely divorced to the frequency of drinking to me.
Specifically in regards to climate change, "pure" communism or fascism would probably be less bad, due to their economic failures and thus decreased energy (fossil fuel) usage.
> comments by users that happen to be prominent in the industry.

I don't see such comments often; I do see a lot of comments that are very good. I spend a lot more time reading comments than articles, in fact.

I'm not sure what you mean by "prominent in the industry" - I take it you mean the IT industry, but a lot of articles that get posted aren't to do with IT - there's a lot of physics, sci-fi, life-hacking, making, art and history. It's like a holographic projection into 2D of the contents of my head!
Batch scripts are really bad for web dev. IFL your company would go broke if they used this.
Same, I lose my place every time moving from the bottom of a column to the top of the next.
That would introduce yet another set of defaults that developers would then need to inevitably override.
Especially for long blocks of text or becomes easy to go to the wrong line when scanning back to the left side of the page.

There exist decades of empirical research on this topic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
This article is not a complaint about system dynamics. The complaint is about the "mysticizing" part.

If you look at the first example, it's a person that mimicked all the procedures and jargon of system thinking, while ignoring all of the most fundamental knowledge of the area. In particular, the most fundamental insight about humane systems - that the system reacts to the optimization - goes so over the person's head that there isn't even a whoosh.

System dynamics is good, and very useful. But you have to understand it to apply it.
Yeah the fact that it was the CIA releasing the video always seemed like a red flag to me. Why were they even involved in the investigation? Why didn’t those statements come from the FAA?
This is the sort of thing you can Google, because it is extremely common advice. A few of the top hits:

https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/tex...

https://pimpmytype.com/line-length-line-height/

https://material.io/design/typography/understanding-typograp... (see under Line Length)

I don't have any studies at hand, but I think it's been pretty well established.
I'm going to try this today: https://www.acouplecooks.com/fried-broccoli/

Edit: success
It sounds like we're in agreement. From the GP's comment, which I was attempting to support, "[Supply and demand are] hardly true in the real world where there are cartels, monopolies, and other incentives to keep prices high even if there's supply."
I’d just switch to JetBrains AppCode, but I’m very partial to their IDEs.
> because they are food

That’s purely subjective. It’s just how you’re choosing to view animals and thus doesn’t absolve you of moral responsibility for how they are treated or for their killing.

The same species of animal may be viewed as food, companions, workers, pests, etc. Again these designations are entirely subjective. The suffering of a living being is not excused by virtue of the category we choose to place it in.
Some of those on /r/antiwork seem to expect to build careers from McJobs and Starbucks. Instead of seeing these as part time jobs for high school and college students, their expectations are that these jobs can support an apartment rent in a big city without roommates. These types of complaints seem irrational or misguided.

Many of their complaints do seem grounded in truth, however. America's low hanging fruit blue collar jobs have moved to developing nations. The automotive industry doesn't have as many jobs paying what it used to.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of talk for the trade skill pipeline, which has me curious: why not?

Both plumbing and electrical work pay decently and offer a high degree of autonomy, yet these aren't hyped. Nursing can be learned at night school. Not everything requires a college degree or "book smarts".

There has to be something more at play, because the middle class is hollowing out. Maybe not enough of these jobs to go around? Or maybe that middle class can never be as big as it once was during the post war boom years that saw American manufacturing leading the world. Maybe every country gets fifty years tops before that crown moves on.

They're also not wrong in complaining about asset appreciation. Unaffordable housing and rent. These are real pressures. "Cheap housing" doesn't seem like a bone we can throw.

What do we do for these folks that can't get white collar work?
> So history plays a role?

Culture definitely plays a role. Soviet Union making women totally equal, mandating and promoting equal participation from women in all aspects of life definitely broke the longstanding cultural norms about 'what women should be doing in work life' - most of which came from especially Christian religion traditions.

On top of that, Soviet Union also promoted STEM jobs as a way to move the society into the future. This elevated STEM jobs in prestige and respectability compared to others. So naturally these jobs' standing among women rose as well.

The simple result of this is women being in STEM jobs not only being normal but also desirable in post-Soviet society.
That's readily answerable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800

> At the start of FBI's investigation, because of the possibility that international terrorists might have been involved, assistance was requested from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

> Why didn’t those statements come from the FAA?

They wouldn't normally; without any potential of criminal activity, they'd come from the NTSB.
Historical reasons. Default browser styling still carry a lot of heritage from back when screens were 640x480 and you had to squeeze as many lines as possible onto the 14" screen.

Of course, if you change the default CSS now that 30 years of HTML have been written to rely on these defaults, almost every website will break.
I'm not a big drinker at all (probably less than 4 alcoholic drinks a year), but I don't think sobriety is the default or even really the norm for most civilizations/societies. Alcohol especially is a social lubricant which is useful for meeting new people when you're younger and other countries drink beer and wine as a bigger part of their culture/tradition/socialization--but they also tend to drink less excessively than Americans. It's also a way for people to celebrate and blow off steam at the end of the week. I think alcohol has always had a huge place in society and I don't think sobriety is the default for most people--even if I don't personally enjoy it that much.
Not unlikely. My alternate hypothesis is disability compensation inflation. There is a LOT of this in the military. 100% VA disability is ~$4,000/mo (increasing every year) for the rest of your life. That is more than a typical enlisted retirement pension. And there are a handful of unfalsifiable conditions that will take you straight to 100% - PTSD (for any reason, not just combat), MST ('military sexual trauma'), and a variety of "oh my back or knees hurt, but there's nothing amiss on the MRI" type claims.

There are a lot of perfectly healthy people out there receiving 100% VA disability because they just had the inclination to play the system.
Are you ready to pay an extra $35 in taxes on your paychecks to make that happen?
> Shouldn't everyone be scared now?

since whole world see how weak russian army is, fearmongering is хуйло (putin's) last weapon.
I prefer self-control to government legislation or peer pressure.

There was an article here on HN about a spying app that lets your church community make sure you're not watching porn. So bizarre. Either you believe in what you're doing or you don't.
Web browsers have a hard constraint of backwards compatibility. Eventually we could see some CSS directive which enables "modern" default styling, both for mobile and desktop, but it would be opt-in so that existing sites which rely on defaults do not break.
Animal protein isn’t magical. It’s just that inadequately planning a diet results in deficiencies. Just like how Americans eat meat but aren’t walking examples of good nutrition (e.g. no fiber intake).
In theory sites could optimize for wide screens by adding columns, but 1) its a very small audience 2) most content is not suitable for that (how would you scroll a feed that spans 3 columns?)
If you change them, almost every website will look bad in your browser because most rely on some of these defaults.
I'd accept that. The user-agent knows better than I do what the user needs. Especially if the user is low-vision, color-sensitive, or whatever.
It’s crazy how long this issue has existed. Homebrew complaining about XCode command line tools being an incorrect/outdated/nonexistent version is an issue I’ve faced every few months since I started developing on a Mac almost a decade ago.
If that were true, the problem would be less severe in majority Democratic cities. As far as I can tell, that seems to be quite far from the case.
So this tells us its OK to lie as long as 200 people die and you can tie up the evidence for a couple decades.

I'll remember that when I'm teaching my kids its bad to lie about stealing an extra cookie. Thanks CIA, etc
Here's a literature review on the topic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234578707_Optimal_L.... The article content is inaccessible, but from the abstract:

> Research has led to recommendations that line length should not exceed about 70 characters per line. The reason behind this finding is that both very short and very long lines slow down reading by interrupting the normal pattern of eye movements and movements throughout the text.

And a document on the topic from the US government: https://www.usability.gov/get-involved/blog/2006/08/line-len...

> The best available research suggests that users will read fastest if the line lengths are longer (up to 10 inches). If the line lengths are too short (e.g., two and a half inch columns), the line length probably will impede rapid reading. Users tend to prefer lines that are relatively short (about four inches).

Wikipedia cites a whole bunch of studies on the topic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length):

> Legibility research specific to digital text has shown that, like with printed text, line length can affect reading speed. If lines are too long it is difficult for the reader to quickly return to the start of the next line (saccade), whereas if lines are too short more scrolling or paging will be required. [...] One proposal advanced that, in order for on-screen text to have the best compromise between reading speed and comprehension, about 55 cpl should be used.[11] On the other hand, there have been studies indicating that digital text at 100 cpl can be read faster than text with lines of 25 characters, while retaining the same level of comprehension.

There's a decent amount of variance, but common across all research in this area is that many hundreds of characters per line is never found to be the optimal length of a text column.
Contribute to the different volunteer computing projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...
Unfortunately, repository https://github.com/magcius/xplain is archived and the latest update is from 5 years ago.
Pat: Eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
>Java for enterprise or Android
>C# if you are windows developer

Picking Java over kotlin for android, or lumping C# into "just for windows" bucket is exactly the ignorance that leads you to "we don't have choices" conclusion.
If you always default to literally top1 language for given domain, then how can you expect to have multiple choices?

I'm not talking about using some brand new gimmick that came out yesterday and will die tomorrow, but if you aren't able to leave your comfort zone even just-so slightly to update your stereotypes about given given domain and its trends, then by definition you won't see the alternatives.
Because it makes a naive assumption that there's some magic money tree a state government can go to in order to pluck dollars from that the voters have chosen not to provide for salaries and other expenses.

Yes, the voters want their potholes filled but that doesn't mean they'll approve a bond issue or whatever to pay for it.
Drawing attention to something you don't want someone to do causing the effect you were intending to avoid. The FDA does not want people cooking with Nyquil. By publishing that people are cooking with Nyquil, the FDA has inadvertently increased interest in people wanting to cook with Nyquil.
Unfortunate product code name, I thought the article was about Oberon or Oberon+
https://oberon-lang.github.io
I bet if they did an experiment where they changed the default styles a bit very very few would complain. Most people visiting tiktok or whatever wouldn't even notice.
Untested / unverified approaches:

Seems thee's an emacs "expand the C++ template" concept: demystifycpp https://github.com/chriskmanx/demystifycpp

etbrain's ide package(s) support gcc cpp directives, so in theory should be able to expand a c++ template in cpp fashion in similar manner as regular code blocks. https://www.jetbrains.com
I think you're confusing LPARS with guests under z/VM. A mainframe LPAR is a coarse-grained (relatively speaking) partitioning of the system. LPARS are created and managed by a Hardware Management Console (HMC), and run on PR/SM [0]. No one creates mainframe LPARS to run a VPS. Those would simply be a guest under z/VM. Realistically speaking, z/VM would be running in an LPAR (less than the whole of the mainframe resources) and then within z/VM's LPAR, z/VM hypervisor allows all of its guests to run concurrently.

[0] https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=PR/SM
You have a good point. I tend to not entertain ideas based on overused strawman comparisons with Hitler and Nazis.