skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you even read what you've quoted there?

Yes, and I think it's pretty obvious to anyone who is familiar with the history. EEE is about a set of anti-competitive practices, ones that are definitely and obviously being used here. Whether they do that with malice aforethought is unknown, and nothing there is illegal by itself, but it is a pretty clear thing they're doing.

Microsoft didn't embrace office document editing software, microsoft word was one of the first document editing suites. And yet that is one of the examples in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Did microsoft extinguish document editing software? No, they just used their market position to make sure that their implementation was the most dominant.

Another key example is "Breaking Java's portability". Do you want to talk about how the move to systemd has effected the various BSDs? Here's a talk about it: https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/rice-the_tragedy_of_s...
> Guess which has zero tolerance for any toxic behavior?

I find the current push toward so-called equity to be more toxic than anything I experienced on male-dominated teams. People fear saying things because they don't want to be called out. Someone uses a phrase like "off the reservation" or "grandfathered" or "whitelisted" and then we have to have a meeting about how someone might have been offended. Was anyone offended? No. But we'll have a meeting to discuss a hypothetically-offended person. This leads to some behavior change but also some silent backlash.

I get that certain types of toxic behavior might be limited on diverse teams. But it's simply not the case that by adding women and minorities we will eliminate toxic behavior. From what I've seen, we simply swap one type of toxicity for another.
Absolutely - there aren't clearly defined lines between cultural notions of race, and the scientific community doesn't even recognize race as anything but a social construct [1]. So in the end it's either how someone self-identifies, or the arbitrary superficial judgement of race by the hiring team, which is patently ridiculous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

"Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society."
It is also possible that those companies will be suffocated by the fact that banks won't extend credit to them (ESG) or angry Twitter will pressure potential customers not to do business with them.
Yeah, pumped hydro is one of those power sources that doesn't scale down at all.

However, home scale conventional hydro is a thing. If you live on a hill with a creek that runs down it you can install a generator that produces a usable amount of consistent power for the cost of a few hundred meters of PVC pipe, a barrel, some connectors, and a small electric turbine. Search for micro-hydro if you want to know more.

Like all hydro solutions it's heavily dependent on the geography and only suitable for well under .1% of the population, but where it is feasible it can be a huge step towards off-grid living. Add in some batteries, maybe supplement with some solar panels, and you've got all of the electricity you need year round at a somewhat affordable price.
> "please don't make me re-download Xcode for 3 hours using an account I forgot thee credentials for in your terrible app store with its un-resumable download flow before I can do anything", but they came up with this?

I'm glad I'm not alone in that experience. Why the hell do I need an account to get developer tools in the first place?
$2300? Where do you see that? I thought it says $1499?
And the 1h battery life
So.. Nothing about the UX of the PC's main OS going down the toilet?
> The current revshare for App Lab is 70/30 in favor of the developer. Much lower than Apple.

How is that much lower than Apple? If you do under a million a year on the App Store or in the second year of an iOS subscription it's 85/15, else it's 70/30 (unless you have a better backroom deal).
Ask HN: Where can I find an updated AI reading list?
Context: I have a PhD in signal processing from the early 2010 and I went on to have a career in a security-related team. I would like to steer back my career towards AI and need to catch up on everything that came from DNN and after.

I heard that John Carmack got a reading list from Ilya@OpenAI, but I could not find it. Is there something similar that you would recommend?

I was thinking of taking the papers, implement the algorithm from scratch and build some intuition based on that experience.

Anything you would recommend?
XCode is amazing for working on large C++ codebases compared to pretty much everything else.
The closest I have seen is QtCreator, but that's not as polished.
The trendy ones don't even come close.
If in 100 years the earth is a giant bonsai... wow, that sounds like a pretty amazing outcome given the other very likely alternatives. Honestly, it seems pretty unlikely that given the enormous human population and our incredible appetite to consume, that the earth will survive in any state we'd be happy with, without some pretty aggressive management.
According to the article, 222nm would already be stopped by the thin coat of dead cells on the skin. So it shouldn't penetrate far enough to cause any trouble.
Or don't downvote it and disregard. It's very common on HN for people to openly discuss salaries and ask about salaries.
Dr Lowe explicitly mentions the danger of 254 nm:

> That's very much as opposed to (say) 254 nm light, which starts doing damage immediately due to greater penetration into animal tissue.

and that 200-222 is safer because of lower penetration.

> down in that range, the penetration of such light is only a few microns, and it doesn't even get past the dead cells on the surface of the skin and the cornea of the eye!
It's also illegal.
This looks nice. I'm currently using Tutanota and love it. Seems like it would be possible to connect this with Firefox Relay, digging into it a bit more!
One example I like is a binary search Funktion which only allows to pass a sorted list
I hosted a phpbb board out of my room during high school. Our school board had just done the "one laptop per kid" thing, and the machines were all locked down and most of the fun sites were blocked, but not my site, because IT didn't know about it. So everyone went there to chat. We had an IRC server. People became friends that otherwise were in different cliques irl.

One time we were supposed to be doing work during class, but everyone was on IRC chatting. The classroom was completely silent. Somebody wrote "somebody say penis" in the channel and the whole classroom started laughing at the same time, for seemingly no reason. The teacher was confused, it was a good time to be a 15 year old dorking around with computers.
You can do both. You can incorporate these tools into courses that teach the "why".
Google Cloud and Coinbase Launch New Strategic Partnership to Drive Web3
That's why the enterprise shift is so key. Those users don't get a choice!
No OLED and no eye tracking, which are needed for the perfect VR experience.
I experienced this in two different roles:

- One applying to one role at github/microsoft: After ton of meetings, I would have to talk with their diversity manager, it was a 60 minutes meeting, which i just didn't feel well to go through after some googling.

- As hiring manager (in another FAANG) company, I couldn't hire the best candidates, until all other 20 more diverse were interviewed. Everyone, regardless of qualified or not, had to be interviewed, before we could hire someone less diverse (aka not "white", not European, not "Man"). The position was for senior developer, and I had to go through a tedious set of interview with people straight of coding boot camp.. We ended up hiring one (guy), which wasn't in our top 5. All top 5 were able to get a new job, since our process took almost 6 month, from starting the process up to onboarding him. It was frustrating and actually the main reason why I left the team, to become architect. The process was called "agile/fair hiring", how ironic..
Maybe that statement should come with an explicit topological constraint on the meaning of “inside” the body. Viewed as a donut, gut contents would be considered “outside.”
So the equivalent to rust's usize?
We're planning to make some revisions to the book based on some of the early feedback we've gotten, so for now the Holloway reader is the best place to read the book. We do plan to offer PDF and ePUB versions in the bundle in the future though.
There are health concerns around unfiltered coffee (which includes percolators and French presses) that make some people not want to use those methods every day (especially if they consume lots of coffee): https://www.thehealthy.com/nutrition/why-french-press-coffee...
> Hiring the best people invariably leads to hiring a very diverse team

If this is true, then I guess affirmative action isn't needed, right?
> On Windows ULONG_PTR is not an unsigned long*, it is a pointer-width unsigned integer.

So the equivalent to rust's usize?
Here's a good list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/b0n7u6/which_book_is_...
I host a website with 20k daily visitors from my living room. If you want something that feels as small and convenient as a pi but with a little more muscle to it, mini PCs are your best friends.
The sheer amount of propaganda on Reddit is insane. You could take a random selection of titles off /r/popular and repost it to the /r/circlejerk of 5 years ago and it would've been a top post. I think that's part of the reason for its declining popularity: it's hard to make more absurd posts than what actually becomes popular nowadays.

Every community develops its own biases, HN included, but Reddit is in late-stage groupthink. It wouldn't be a bad thing if what got traction wasn't doom and gloom. So many posts boil down to "the world is a mess"/"I am a mess"/"other political side is so stupid how can other people think different?"/"hate this person for expressing X opinion or doing Y (at least for like 3 days)".

It's not just an online thing only, I've seen many people who have internalized some of these beliefs since they see them expressed so much online. Being ruled by what the internet thinks is acceptable is a horrible way to live your life, but if you're an awkward teen you might very well end up like that.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic but the early internet had this care free spirit where every interaction, good or bad, seemed somewhat fun at least since it was crazy you were able to at all, and there were no stakes. People would flame you for your political opinions but you'd just shout at each other until a moderator told you to shut up, not have an entire community go against you since you don't agree with them. It was fun!. This "ganging-up" OTOH induces the brain to start modifying its beliefs to fit the group. A very normal process, but harmful. And younger people, the audience of Reddit, are exactly the most vulnerable to this online peer pressure.
Yes! I don't mean to start a flamewar, but I've actually found the Aeropress to consistently make the best cup of coffee. I was a pourover guy for years and still love the ritual. But the aeropress process is more repeatable.

I can't, however, claim to be a minimalist about this since I am also one of those rubes with an espresso maker taking up space on his kitchen counter--and a whole cabinet still devoted to the coffee apparatus that has fallen out of my rotation.
I'm an aeropress fan, but that hasn't stopped me from pairing it with a grinder and a milk frother. Still a lot more space-compact than a full-blown espresso machine though.
This is the problem.

I got banned from one of the main subreddits for asking an innocent question on something I knew nothing about, something kicked off, I heard about it first on the reddit, couldn't find much info about it as most content around it had already been removed online, questioned if it was really that bad as I could only find one bit of information and was instantly banned for supporting sexual abuse.

I stupidly, avoided the ban by going to a different account as i felt I hadn't done anything wrong, after trying to speak to the mods about it but then Reddit managed to discover this and then my whole account was banned that i'd used for years on reddit.

Insane. Now I just make new accounts every few months and access via VPN's, but I don't get involved in most discussions, only use it for when i want to ask someone a question.
Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Bet Similar to Marissa Mayer's Yahoo
I end up fermenting and preserving a lot of stuff I know I will not eat - fun thing probably to do with kids too. Plus it generally makes the stuff you may not like taste way better (assuming you like pickled stuff). Pickled cauliflower or romanesco is amazing for example

My problem is they always have too much of a focus on leafy greens which go bad way too quickly - I prefer stuff like Broccoli in general which has a pretty similar nutrient profile and lasts way, way longer.
A more reasonable compromise might be to give disney contol over the discord.gg/disney namespace but leave the existing server and it's community unmodified under the control of the people who actually built it.
$2300 CAD*
I use Logic and I barely understand it. I need to watch some YouTube videos!
The Web’s Next Transition
What an arrogant reply. Of course a ~ten line comment about a complex subject is simplistic. It is also accurate to a first approximation. If you want an in-depth study or treatise, buy a book.
"Hiring the best people invariably leads to hiring a very diverse team."

Only the diversity may go along the lines that the contemporary DEI philosophy does not like or even accept.

E.g. a Ukrainian refugee, a kid of poor Korean shopkeepers, an ex-Muslim atheist who does not even want to pretend that he is still Muslim.
Couldn't you do this thought experiment for any product? It would be bad for any company to have a massive monopoly.
I did actually submit a link to a GitHub issue about this, but it seems to have been blocked by HN. I can see the post title when I'm logged in but as a guest it doesn't show anything at all. The post wasn't even flagged as dead. It doesn't show up in my submitted links list when logged out either.

I don't know if it tripped an internal filter on HN or something. Here is the link to the post in case you're curious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33146603

In case it matters I used the GitHub issue title as the name of the post - "Stable-diffusion-webui is using stolen code".

Here is the actual link I posted.

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu...
Does anyone know of a lighter than air project that uses evacuated or at least partially evacuated containers for lift? The use of helium always seems so wasteful at this scale.
I think if diversity leads to lower profit but better work experience tech companies will get rid of it.
For me, two things, neither of which is a conspiracy theory:

1. It's communism, for money. We live in a society in which prices for nearly everything: food, housing, laptops, etc, are all set my supply/demand equilibrium. The market finds a clearing price, and we pay it. We accept it, and we use a bit of regulation to handle edge cases in which market forces cause externalities and distortions. It works. But for some reason, we've decided that the price of money itself should be decided by a small Politburo. Why?

2. They're always wrong. Not only does the Politburo set the price of money independent of market forces, but they are incompetent. Dot plots one year off are consistently, and embarrassingly, wrong. Comments about "froth" during an obvious housing market collapse, or "transitory" to describe persistent, and growing inflation. These are 140 IQ people who have access to the best, and most timely economic data on the planet, but they are still dumber than the 94 IQ purchasing manager of a small feed supply company who knows within 5 seconds of glancing at corn harvest and transportation KPIs that there won't be anything even remotely "transitory" about inflation.

It's bad enough having a Politburo dictate prices to us, but it's a whole other matter when the mantle adopted by these tinpot Philosopher Kings turns out to be nothing more than gross, and consistent, incompetence.

My primary objection to central banking is that their existence is an affront to freedom, and that they are catastrophically bad at their jobs.

You don't need New World Order conspiracies hatched in the woods wearing gargoyle masks and conducting Satanic rituals to know that this is a terrible idea.
As an outsider, it's obvious looking in that racial classification in the US is just crazy -- they took some racial stereotypes from 100 years ago, gave them neutral sounding names, and started pretending it's not racist to group everybody south of Texas as "hispanic". And then build official policy on top of these simplistic classes that fail to describe reality in any meaningful way, only serving to reveal to everybody else in the world what the people in the US think about them.

At least the people calling anybody with slanted eyes "Chinese" and anybody that's slightly brown "Mexican" are being sincere in their ignorance.
After 8 years of home espresso machines (a super automatic Saeco, Astra Pro Heat exchanger, Crossland CC1 - the last two with a Baratza Vario) while also doing lots of pour over, chemex, aero press, etc… I obsessed a bit and purchased a Lelit Elizabeth six months ago.

I have used it most every day since then, and even made my wife a coffee lover.

It was pricy, but I think for the form factor (it is really just marginally bigger than the Crossland), capability, and price - it was everything I could have wanted out of a machine. It takes up some space - maybe 20” with grinder, but because the machine is shallow compared to most, you don’t lose as much space as you think.

I think the Breville Dual Boiler is probably closest in spirit, though usually not much cheaper (and a bit bigger)

The breville bambino is popular partially because of the size.

The future will be smaller machines with smaller boilers and more electronics - I just think that the lelit gets it all right.
If you have a Pi hole, you are already running a dns server. Otherwise, it's not too hard to set one up.
Meta figured out legs for its avatars
Usually people are not doing full VR with these - more like a large TV in front of you and you can look around but not behind you.
It seems different. You may no longer need the service after a few mnonths.
Or decide you don't like the service, and look for another one. In either case, you pay far less than what you'd pay for lifetime service.
You can use mDNS [0] to publish an internal domain to others on the same LAN. Alternatively, you can use something like a Pi-Hole [1] to be the DNS server for your LAN. Pi-Hole gives you GUI way to point any domain to any IP [2].

[0] https://wlog.viltstigen.se/articles/2021/05/02/mdns-for-linu...

[1] https://pi-hole.net

[2] https://docs.callitkarma.me/posts/PiHole-Local-DNS/
the article (titled Two-Twenty-Two presumably because it is about this specific wavelength vs the whole UV-C range) does say "222 nm light does not induce DNA damage in mice, even at much higher flux than would be used for disinfection. That's very much as opposed to (say) 254 nm light, which starts doing damage immediately due to greater penetration into animal tissue."
>It seems to me that a large nationally sited organisation should be naturally representatively diverse and inclusive, and if it isn’t that organisation should take steps to identify why and address whatever issues lie behind that.

This seems to assume that preferences don't vary with race and gender, which isn't true. This is extremely well-documented with respect to gender, and it's called "The paradox of gender equality"[0]. TL;DR: Men and women are different from each other in lots of ways, including what they prefer to work on. As you increase gender equality in a society (moving from, for instance, Saudi Arabia at one extreme to Norway at the other), you see a systematic /increase/ in the difference in what men and women end up working on. More gender equality --> fewer women engineers, more women doing child care.

Edit: oh,and I would encourage anyone looking in to the literature to view it in the correct light: the field is overtly hostile to this data, and that greatly skews what gets published. And here it is anyway.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
I wasn't expecting this list of complaints to be read so positively. So, props for that. Might just see you guys on discord...
I'm not sure about in the US, I know in Canada we've had lots of university faculty positions advertised recently that are explicity for women or some other groups. I don't understand how it's legal but it is.
Maybe Microsoft managers think it's enough if everybody can decide for themselves about their pronouns.
Not really. The App Store installation first scans the entire bundle before installing the bits it needs, then it downloads the update and applies it, which goes through some not-very-optimized installation code that compresses the bundle on disk using zlib. This is ok for normal apps but for Xcode this can take a while. Blowing away the entire directory and just installing a fresh copy is usually far faster, if you optimize this you can do it in under five minutes.
If you're assuming a global workforce this would mean the representative share of African Americans would be 0.5%
We have a reasonably decent understanding that "abundance" state is bad for longevity. This is a decent overview:

https://www.lifespanpodcast.com/
If you look at the way discrimination was actually carried out a hundred years ago, you'll find that it was primarily done through strong hints rather than through having policemen standing outside. If a department head is sending out memos that cause middle managers to get the message not to hire black people, that is all it takes. It did not even require 100% compliance, as long as there is a strong headwind at every step of the advancement process, nobody will make it to the top that's not being favored.
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31841051 – Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server
I’ve used Fiverr for quick solution to WordPress site. I created three test environments and hired three freelancers to address my problem. The results were underwhelming, unusable, and a bailout.

This was for something that should have been straight forward for PHP developer.

But for something you want to implement that needs research? Yikes. All the worst behaviors of SO, but with a race to the bottom. Most minimum answer all the time, ignoring your edge cases, telling you that all of your boundaries are ridiculous and their way is the only way.

Is Microsoft answers community have paid experts? I dunno, but they’re always polite in that same way. And they don’t answer the question you asked, but politely. It can take several attempts to get them to recognize the issue. Only then you might get a reasonable answer. Why is that if not the economic pressure to answer as many questions as possible as quickly as possible?

Look at paid help from a different direction—customer service or technical support for anything. You know they’re paid agents with training, paid by the company they work for. They always have a bias.

If you pay for SO like questions, where is the bias? Can you figure it out? How can a user contextualize answers?

It seems like conditions for low quality answers.
Another approach would be to have a longer length of piping. The rate at which the soil temperature drops when you extract heat, and then 'recharges' naturally, will vary greatly if you have 100m vs 1000m of piping. This is why ground source heat pumps use pipes laid out in coils, as it greatly increases the surface area.