skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "This first step is the most important," Mr Ahluwalia explained. "If he [the officer] deems there is no credible fear, your case is never going to move forward. That is very catastrophic."

This one part that really undermines the asylum process. I knew someone who interviewed refugees in an African nation to evaluate them for asylum in the USA. The seekers has to relive their traumas in multiple rounds of interviews. Any deviation in their stories would disqualify you. Any number of seemingly minor things could disqualify you. If you ever held a gun, you were disqualified. It seems very cruel to the seekers, and was an extremely heavy burden on the interviewer. Imagine ever box you check having life altering implications.
This happens for me with YouTube in Safari occasionally. It might be a bug with the website, not Firefox or Safari.
Yes, that is the total number (World Health Organisation) of people who are deaf or have hearing problems worldwide.

And yes there are lots of different languages, which can make it hard to translate things digitally.
> The author of this piece doesn't seem to understand the basics of systems thinking and the entropic effects of non-moral action on human collectivism.

But why should I care about these effects if I am not in charge of such systems?
Yet again the answer lies in the public sector
> I failed to understand what exactly the author wanted to convince people to do.

He’s writing a list as part of his imaginary shower argument with his boss and coworkers as to why they are all inferior and he’s perfect and why all the problems they are facing are easily attributed to his list of 50 points of things he feels he does that they are failing to live up to.

At least that’s my take away.
I'm going to ignore the personal attack and get right to the point. If you redefine '10X' to involve impact, speed, or innovation, then you're going to invite external factors of chance (popularity, adoption, etc) and the work of others in building the tools the individual engineer uses - albeit perhaps more effectively than others. Further, they did not 'write' a 'popular software' in days - it was an early prototype that took years to gain the momentum it has now, as I was saying. Trying to credit Linus for all of git is very much like trying to say that the author of a book on which a critically acclaimed movie is based is an amazing filmmaker. You simply can't credit single people for the work done by more than one person. Nuclear though they may have been to the work being there, their impact is far less than you would suggest. There are >10X teams and times and there are engineers who fit particular >10X teams and who are more likely to fit others, but there are no lone >10X engineers.
Mixing 5-9% solutions will still produce chlorine/chloramine gas and can cause significant lung damage.

The maximum commercially available (sodium hypochlorite) bleach concentration is about 15%, and that’s due to its non-linear rate of decomposition and extremely short shelf-life at higher concentrations.

A 15% solution must be used very soon after manufacture and does not have significant non-industrial uses — that’s why it’s not stocked in grocery stores. It has nothing to do with its safety at that concentration.

100% bleach would be anhydrous sodium hypochlorite, which is highly unstable and can decompose explosively.

Nobody stocks that.
Hi! That's what we are building for at Kommu!

Kommu is a mobile-first social network that allows users to (1) discover and coordinate travel with friends and connections, and (2) propose home exchanges within their personal trusted circles to travel more affordably.

We are prepping to launch by EOY, but if you sign up for the waitlist (gokommu.com) then you can apply to join the members Slack group where friends of friends are actively listing places for swaps and exchanges.
EA adherents can use rigorous reasoning to reach different conclusions, just from having different values that they start with. Case in point: One person might want to maximize quality of current lives; another might want to maximize quality of future lives. Reasoning validly from there, they can reach wildly different conclusions on how to most effectively give.
> An OS without a web browser is hardly an OS anymore; Microsoft won on that regard (credit to Bill for recognizing that).

Sorry, but no, just no.

MS (correctly) recognized the threat that browser poses to OS through webaps. They bundled IE with Windows, however their bundling was a simple and effective (and monopolistic) strategy to take away market share from the then-leading browser, Netscape.

Yes, OS needs a browser. No, MS and Bill had nothing to do with that (and they artificially slowed down web the best they could - hello IE6!).

I do agree with the rest, but to credit MS that every OS needs a browser nowadays... Just no.
I remember about a decade ago I was living in Singapore and there was a minor controversy coz the country appeared near the bottom of some "happiness" country ranking. A lot of people felt vindicated by this.

The government got really mad and decided, in true Singaporean fashion that the only logical solution was to create their own metric and ranking. One where, coincidentally they were #1/#2 happiest instead of #1/2 unhappiest. A completely different set of people felt equally vindicated by this.
People don't realise how much stuff the ISP does. It took me over a week to make an extremely basic profile for a new camera chip. And I had all the tools and the documents OEMs use. There is a 100 page long procedure I had to follow taking multiple pictures of calibration standards illuminated with various calibrated lights. Then at the end it still looks like crap, but it is pretty true looking. Then the work to make it look good really starts. I had no idea before I started.

There are simple things like debayer, but even just talking about exposure and gain control based on illumination is a pretty complex subject in itself. First you need to define parameters when to change exposure and when to leave it alone and just use camera gain. Then you need a set of parameters for when to use analog gain and when to use digital gain as communicated to the sensor. Then you have another two sets of parameters one for adjusting gain on the ISP (as opossed to all the previous stuff that feeds in to the camera chip) and some ISPs I'm told also have more advanced builtin correction based on curves. All this and we haven't even touched on how you measure the Illumination of the scene. At the very least you need one profile for back-lit and one for front-lit scenes. Then you need parameters for how the isp decides which profile to apply automatically and so on.

Mind that this is just brightness, we haven't even started talking about color correction, white balance, denoise, sharpen and 13 other ISP blocks that are there. BTW, you need another profile for every resolution your camera outputs too.

I don't know a lot about different ISPs. I only worked with one, but it gave me enough of an understanding to know why there is no way one profile will work for two camera chips. Or one profile will not work with two different versions of ISP hw.

That's why I hope libcamera succeeds. They try to standardise all the isp control, but it is a huge task especially when every single isp is different.
I'm just going to straight up call my crypto scam Pyramid^2.

"I mean what did you expect when you bought in, based on the name?!?"
hehe all good, just making sure I wasn't missing some much more interesting story here :P
> This isn't "childish", it's exactly what Brexit was intended to do.

I find it hard to believe that the UK v EU red tape is more implacable than that between the US and China. However, if it is then it is arbitrary, petty, and vindictive nonsense. If it’s not then it’s childish and petulant reluctance to get to work overcoming the obstacle and getting on with the real work.
I've just worked with LaTeX for a long time and know all the tricks to make it do exactly what I want. Equations, figures, tables, cross-references... I can get it all to work on the page. And some of my collaborators still print things out, so using the tricks to get a good-looking PDF is still worth the trouble to me.

When I want to get my rough, fluid thoughts onto a page, it's going to be easiest in Markdown + Sublime. But once the story and structure is basically there, the final product is easiest to achieve in LaTeX.
To be fair- Auto has been acquiring features at an insane clip (recently getting banned from the SD discord for accusations of code theft lol)

I think Invoke is competitive for now, but biggest advantage is an improved UX, and a large community with an ambitious roadmap focused more on enthusiasts/pros.

I’d give it a whirl and see where you end up preferring to do your SD projects :)
Interesting you mention guitarists thinking in terms of flats. Is that rooted in music theory, preference/convention, or something else?

A sibling common mentions "c#, g#, c#, f, g#, c#" which is exactly how I would think of it. I'd guess that without a key signature to reference it doesn't really matter, but I'm a theory novice so curious about this.
The quote in the footnote[1] says that `f` means something different on the two sides of the equation ∂f/∂x = ∂f/∂u ∂u/∂x + ∂f/∂v ∂v/∂x.

Why is this true? I think about ∂/∂x, ∂/∂u, and ∂/∂v as higher-order functions that take the same `f` as their argument. What is wrong about this thinking?

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/bo...

Edit: I'm guessing the footnote's reasoning is that on the left hand side, `f` is thought of as `f(x, y)`, and on the right as `f(u(x, y), v(x, y))`.
This article is very ironic: it is written by the CERN's Ombud, who has a lifetime employment contract like all of CERN's management, and probably obtained it at a time when CERN was printing them like hot cakes. Today's reality is much different: the chances of obtaining this contract are very low and mostly depend on older colleagues retiring, otherwise you are limited to a 5 year staff contract. The disconnect between the Ombud and the people she talks about is striking, for example when she describes them as "obviously disoriented" for refusing to get into the career grind.
That's a fair statement, and I should have been more clear about separating views of the government, sects of the government, and many of the actual people.
The muscle memory of touch typing, by definition of muscle memory, does not carry over to thumb typing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory
I just rolled a 6 sided die here and looked at the outcome. For you the probability it is a 6 is 1/6. For me is isn’t 1/6. Same object!
You object to people writing things and trying to charge for them?
But if you don't want to hurt the other oil exporters, and just hurt SA, THERE IS NO way to do that
Can linkidex display bookmarks as a grid page of favicons? I find this presentation more dense and using spatial memory helps me get to a bookmark more quickly.
Ask HN: Does a Civilisation OS Exist?
The threat of nuclear war seems to be rising rapidly:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Dod9AWz8Rp4Svdpof/why-i-think-there-s-a-one-in-six-chance-of-an-imminent

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/biden-armageddon-russia-nuclear-threat-pentagon

Is anyone aware of a 'Civilisation OS'? E.g. instruction manuals for rebooting civilisation from scratch in the event that some large % of it is destroyed?

I am thinking about something like nested txt files covering everything from how to make a fire to how to smelt aluminium to how pencils are made.

If it doesn't exist already, anyone want to work on it?
politest RTFA
Using any sort of aggregate metric is probably a bad idea, as you're losing too much information to generate useful results. It's a better idea to identify particular deficiencies in economic production, such as poor appliance lifespan or lack of suitable housing, and assign specialised teams to address those deficiencies, with a central committee coordinating between those teams.
> Another good example is Death Cafe, local groups that meet regularly to have tea and talk about death. The ones I went to were profound and meaningful without being theistic: https://deathcafe.com/what/

Ironically (or not), Buddhism definitely involves meditating about death, but it might be harder to encounter it in the modern world where you don't have nine children six of whom died of consumption.

It sounds a bit boring though. They should start a fight club, or throw themselves off cliffs, or something.
It's certainly something someone could do as a side project, even if that wasn't strictly the case here.
Even if the battery life is not that good as with Safari, there's nothing like Multi-Account Containers extension on other browsers. Helps a lot with separating accounts with added conveniences. Can't really go back to any other browser after having used containers on Firefox!
Don’t a significant minority of people vomit or otherwise feel ill with VR? Is that adoption limiting?
Electric Plane Crosses a Major Milestone
The term "app" today implies something controlled by a single company. Whatever the "application layer" might have meant in days of yore, the term now derives from the "app store" and not other earlier usages. That's how language works. (and I'm old to remember those usages in the 90s and they were technical/unusual compared "something the user runs" even back then, jeesh).
Yes, and as others point out iOS has long supported Dvorak (and Colemak and a few others) where that desktop muscle memory matters: when using a hardware keyboard via Bluetooth.

Qwerty is useful for "swipe typing" on a touch screen and Dvorak/Colemak is great for touch typing on hardware and the way "muscle memory" works those are such different media/muscle movements that they have separate "muscle memory".
This is the “stop drinking $9 lattes” meme but amplified 100x.
The real problem is that they imported the concept of null/nil being a value of every type from C. Null/nil is fine (although Option/Optional/Maybe is better when you want to nest), but it should be an opt-in part of the type such that it is a compile time error to assign a null/nil value to a variable unless it's the nullable variant of the type.
I thought for a minute this was going to link to news.ycombinator.com!
Mozilla VPN is a skin of Mullvad VPN I believe
It was a tongue-in-cheek suggestion but page reloads are pretty fast these days with http/2. Maybe there's ways of submitting a form in the background for the same effect, no reload needed! now we're surfing.
That's not a full time job, you know that.... right?
PayPal Pulls Back $2,500 Fine Customers for ‘Misinformation’ After Backlash
It should auto synchronize with browser as another devixe, not just import export. Sync code in Chromium and Firefox is opensource ...
Like electric cars?
I don't know enough about the Marvel (or whichever) universe to answer that question.
When will firefox backend become a complete rust codebase ?
Impossible to jump pages, know how much there is, often breaks native scrolling in awkward ways without recourse.
I used the word game because game implies a sort of "formal structure" or "submission" to a set of rules and constraints. This kind of structure relieves us of the anxiety of choice. It's so powerful it can be euphoric, that's why people pay for others to dominate them . I think it's also why we get into drug habits and a lot of other vices that add structure to our lives.

It's fine in moderation but tackling ambiguity regularly makes magic happen.
The Cost of Safety in Java
Oh I see that my comment might be interpreted as snarky, I was literally just asking to please list the stuff that are new or different cause that would be very helpful for everyone.
Is this even technically possible? Haven't they already postponed the shutdown a few times?

Currently at 34449/50000, although I don't know if brigading then like this will be okay.
Keep note that the article is about the use of colonoscopies for screening, which they found only very minimal benefit.

But after screening with something like FIT, if blood is found, then a colonoscopy is totally called for.

The shortness of the title makes it sound like they may not be effective for anything. The article states it correctly.
Why should they? The U.S. has left every country of recent military intervention in a much worst state than before they came in.

It’s honestly scary to see someone suggesting this, even if I’m no fan of Saudi Arabia.
A hundred-dollar bill is lying on the ground. An economist walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the money there?" The economist replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been $100 on the ground, someone would've picked it up."
> Peter Thiel pretty much want to lead us back to feudalism. He has some sick, totalitarian ideas for humanity,

That's a pretty extreme accusation. Can you be more specific on why and/or how Thiel wants to get us back to feudalism? Are you just guessing based on investments he has made or has he actually said that? What are some examples of sick totalitarian ideas that he has for humanity?
In 1980 it cost $6,000 to get a computer with 64K memory and 512K storage. That's roughly $15,000 in today's dollars! Another thing that I've always found interesting is Apple tends to keep their computers in the $1,500-$3,000 range, going back to the Apple II. Today for that money (which is actually less than half the value) you're getting undreamed-of processing power, portability, memory and storage. It's been amazing watching this industry over the past 45 years.

But the 80's were truly special - that's when computers went mainstream, Big Tech didn't yet exist, and every manufacturer had slightly different ideas on what computers should be doing.
Assuming you are talking about tracking protection, you can turn that off on a per site basis by clicking on the shield symbol on the url bar while you are on the website that is breaking, and clicking the slider next to the "enhanced tracking protection is on" text. Unfortunately I don't know anything about how TouchID interacts with Firefox.
iPadOS has supported Dvorak for Hardware Keyboards for a long time. There's a separate picker for Hardware Keyboard Layout than Software Keyboard Layout.
Someone posted this on HN last month and I think it summarizes very well what people dislike the most about infinite scrolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32789617
In most engineering disciplines, some degree of fault is permissible and is accounted for
What it misses for me personally is an ability to search over the pages my links are pointing to. Ideally within some additional radius over the links these pages have. Perhaps, it won't be easy to implement, but it looks like the only way to find a page you've bookmarked a year ago when you vaguely remember what was it about... Even integration with Google Custom Search would do the job here.
rent...
Strawman? Really? I’m just talking about my own experience of how I use my own computer.
Since EA is a kind of philosophy-from-scratch attempt by STEM types, actual trained philosophers would be the "loyal opposition".

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/economics-and-philos...

The unloyal opposition being people who want to donate to local charities, people who hate charities because they're billionaire conspiracies, people who want to keep their money, and humanities types who don't like STEM types and want to do radical poetry reading meetings instead[0]. And people who've noticed the "longtermists" don't actually have positions that involve being "long term"[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/146925467086249574...

[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/whats-long-term-about-longtermi...
> Being able to check if some identifier isn’t bound is useful, but as soon aa you do so by means of an “unset value”, you need abother way to detect if it was really unset or just set to the unset value.

"Unset" has that problem. But a sentinel value for "unbound" is very doable under certain limitations. A language can have "being unbound" be exclusive to data structures, and "containing the sentinel value for being unbound" be exclusive to local values. Then it's never ambiguous. This also implies you won't have a "locals()" equivalent.
I once had my temp contract terminated on my way home from work one day.

I was called by the staffing agency halfway back on my commute and they said "Don't go into work tomorrow. They'll mail you your things."

I'm not sure if I ever got those things back (to be fair, it was only like six things).

Also, I was so insulted that they didn't just tell me in person at the end of the day and let me pack up my stuff and take it home with me. But the staffing agency claimed it was the company's policy to do that with contractors.

...after that I stopped bringing much of anything to the office. Currently my office has a ton of crap in it, but it's a home office :).
And he found it less boring too!
ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL
(My charitable reading was that those good-to-150MPH walls were build atop foundations which were only good enough to withstand gale-level storm surges & waves. In Tornado Alley, Oklahoma...that'd be pretty good. On the coast in southern Florida...no crystal ball needed to foresee how it would fail.)
A couple look like they were, yes.
> Why is VR more restrictive than my 27” monitor? Doesn’t that defeat the entire point?

No sir, restrictions are the point. Restrictions are what prevent a reality from simply being a bunch of abstract concepts floating in and out of existence without rules or reason.

Our physical reality has many restrictions: we cannot move through objects, energy is conserved, entropy cannot reverse. These are the restrictions we have to face. And in virtual reality you will have virtual restrictions.
We already had decentralization. It's called the BitTorrent protocol which is more decentralized than most Web 3 projects.
DD: "Fortune favors the brave"
Whether or not well-being is as easy to measur, your assumptions about free-market as a stand-in for well-being does not have a solid foundation.

> in a free market people presumably make rational choices and spend their money in a way that maximizes their well-being.

There is no particular reason to presume this is true, and many reasons to presume it is not.

Psychology is littered with well-demonstrated examples of humans acting against self-interest. 1) People are consistently willing to incur personal cost for the benefit of a perceived community, and are even willing to incur personal cost to punish those working against it. Community recognition is not required to observe this behavior. 2) People are quite susceptible to marketing. The history of the American tobacco industry is a great example.

The assumption that self-interested rational entities leads to a healthy or productive society has been similarly discredited. The Honduran Free Trade zones and Eddie Lampert's catastrophic reorganization of Sears are great counterexamples.
> Aljazeera is a model of journalism excellence and integrity!!!

I might have been able to respond to this proclamation if I could find their damn website under all the popups and consent modals.
What kind of Mac do you have? My “power down” habit was learned from my PC days, where my laptop would slowly burn down battery on sleep/hibernate, combined with the slow degradation in performance from extended sessions.
I wouldn't say that "Measuring Economic Productivity Is Pretty Much Bullshit" as the author says. Measuring economic productivity is fine, as long as that isn't your end-all, be-all. I certainly think that how we measure GDP should be radically changed and economic productivity should be a SMALL piece of GDP, but not the entire damn thing.
Wouldn't t be a cube root of -1?
t=t^2+1 => 0=t^2-t+1 => 0=(t+1)(t^2-t+1)=t^3+1
How do they expect to fucking keep talent when we can just jump house and make that much more to companies that have adjusted to inflation?