skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just checked mine - 13" MPB 2018 - just booted no mds, mdworker_shared initially at 1.7% cpu now process has exited.
But it is about Comic Sans! As mentioned in the article, Comic Sans was shipped with Comic Chat to render the text. It just managed to outlive the associated software.
It seems like I have the exact same issue on my mothers computer - the only diff is that it is an HP. It is more or less unusable and only a couple of years old.
I get this. I mean his son.

I bought my dad a laptop this summer and he's quite healthy.
Why would you ever say that "car X is capable of the same velocity as car Y if you measure car X's velocity by km/h and car Y's velocity by mph"?
I dunno.

I know a person who is an advocate for nuclear energy, who sincerely believes that it is "the power to save the world". He was an officer in the nuclear navy and spent some time working in procurement of naval reactors.

When he retired from the navy he got a job working on small reactors (a subject that he's been passionate about) at a vendor that supplies naval reactors.

The "revolving door" can have the appearance of impropriety but sometimes it's the only way you're going to get people with certain knowledge and talent. For instance anything having to do with naval nuclear power requires a special security clearance on top of an ordinary security clearance. The person who is most likely to have that security clearance (as well as knowledge about naval nuclear reactors) is a person who serves as a "nuke" in the navy. So that kind of person is naturally going to wind up working at that kind of vendor not necessarily because of corruption but because of the scarcity of talent.
"Even excludng its large metaverse investment, Meta has gone from $15B in annual capex in 2018, 2019, and 2020 to $30B in annual capex in 2022. To put that in perspective, excluding your large metaverse investment, Meta is investing more in capex than Apple, Tesla, Twitter, Snap, and Uber combined!"

This seems surprising. What else is being done at Meta?
I think the upshot is that if you have no idea what all the advanced features of ES even are then you probably don't need ES because it's not turnkey.

If you utter the phrase "I just want search" then it really is a matter of just using one of these lightweight projects and libs because your needs are simple.
At that time, a total of 1,666,666,693 seconds will have passed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT as Unix time pretends leap seconds don't exist...
Running Lego Engines with Air [video]
It used to be more obvious. The internet used to have popular gore sites and all sorts of horrible content that would find its way online and even go viral in a number of cases. I think law enforcement, automated detection, anti spam measures, linking accounts to humans, and the centralization of content around just a few sites that had strict rules made it seem like this content barely existed and that people behaved sociably on the internet. I think people lost sight of the rough edges.

TikTok is much harder to censor in automated ways, clearly. People also find ways around the censors. So all that awful stuff may have found a way back onto the internet.
Why would you knowingly link directly to a source even more hostile to users?
But what is the argument because the numbers in the article show otherwise.
He clearly told his son about it.

And it's take not much more effort to order a laptop than to comment about it on HN.
Aren't 50 nuclear explosions enough to basically cause the next global Ice Age? With the amount of dust thrown into the air, that will block sunlight?
In other words 'that would be more efficient and saved massive amounts for the public'?
That was "Web 3.0". Not to be confused with "Web 3.0.7", etc.
What's wrong with dates before the epoch?
Subtraction of rolled over unsigned ints works.
This was so obvious it should have been the null hypothesis.

I don’t mean to be glib, but the limitations of science as it’s practiced can lead to less than effective solutions.

For instance, why do we require double blind studies as the only way to “know” something scientifically? Parachutes have never been proven to be effective in a double blind study, after all.

Intuition can be invaluable for protecting us from dangers we can’t prove rationally, or at least can’t prove rationally right now.

It’s not always right, but neither is science. Except we live in a society where science is privileged over every other “way of knowing”. Sure, science updates false beliefs to reality over time, but until it does, people will be using “The Science” to call those people conspiracy theorists spreading misinformation.

I think we as a society need to take a step back and question many bedrock assumptions underpinning our world and examine if they’re really serving us.
We stalk at night

we prey at night,

were da ratz
I mean switching away from an operating system that has a chance to randomly brick your computer to one that doesn't seems pretty damn reasonable to me? I guess YMMV.
Is there a bloatware app that one can run that identifies all the garbage on a pc and removes it?
> mutable XOR shared rule

Mutable NAND shared.
Wow, would have been brilliant. (thx for the info)
The Phenomenon of Policy Churn
Related:

Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471471 - March 2019 (39 comments)
Was the comment you're responding to heavily edited? Either we're reading quite different texts, or you're severely straw-manning their point of view.

> I am...glad you were able to afford expensive private schooling to shield your kid from the effects of the deadly pandemic that led to more than a million deaths in the US?

Protecting your children from external risks is one of the most essential qualities of a parent, yes. I'm not sure what you're trying to convey here.

> Ultimately I don't understand why so many parents keep taking potshots at remote learning a couple of years afterwards. If you were able to throw a ton of money at the problem, good for you. Meanwhile, children and adults were both greatly affected by the pandemic and many were worried about, you know, being alive tomorrow. People lost their families.

Yes, precisely. This is an important issue that the parent commenter was raising: "Remote learning was a complete joke." The well-off are able to shield their children from this, but the average person isn't. Are you suggesting that it should be taboo to discuss how this will widen the class divide?

> Trivializing the knock-on effect of this once-in-100-years thing over some standardized test scores that are back to 2003 levels [1] makes no sense to me.

In what sense was the parent commenter "trivializing" the pandemic? Would you agree that your comment trivializes the concerns that less-affluent parents might have that their children will be at a marketplace disadvantage compared to two decades of graduates preceding them?
Point 1 would be very effective. Just a glimpse at this number and the enrollment will drop like a stone. No more dream selling, no more exploiting the naive.
The EU is not a sovereign state.
Bas Jansen and Felienne Hermans created a block based language, XLBlocks. Read their paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336187404_XLBlocks_...
They probably took the work that propublica did and packaged into news bytes.
The article is 10 years old. Hopefully by now he has found out how to disable Vim's smart indenting of HTML files!
Hehe, learning how to use Pivot Tables should replace a huge amount of Python uses. I say that as a huge advocate for Python!

Of course, this really comes down to using the right tool for the job. Python should be used for automating batch processes, and using Excel manually should be used for data exploration. Jumping into automation before you know exactly what you want is premature, and doing something manually over and over again is wasting time. Us programmers sometimes reach for code writing and automation before we’re actually ready, and waste time writing the wrong code. (I am guilty of this.)
What makes you think the prices would be the same?
It’s seems like you are just being negative to a reply that was meant to genuinely clarify confusing terminology.

If not please elaborate why you doubt this is not factual?
That's like an AI recognizing Bugs Bunny as a cat and not as a chair, at least it's an animal, it is a net-positive over the alternative. That's still not what I want.
I mostly see it as an opportunity for younger companies to have a chance against the bloated old companies. As a solid Gen Xer, most < 40 year olds I've been working with the past decade are really, really capable. Scarily so at times, but it makes sense because they've been exposed to far more information and education than ever. Those that take advantage of it are tremendous.

Now we do face a population crunch, made worse by many anti-immigration policies, and so that is going to be painful. Same with Boomers pulling their money out of the stock market. But we knew that was coming, and the smart people are ready for it in many ways, I think.
Two reasons come to mind:

1) There's a long history of it. Gematria was a Jewish technique, then carried over to the early Christian community. There may have been reasons to keep it up as a matter of course, but as you said, with Nero it probably didn't matter: the dude knew everyone hated him. Not just Christians.

2) The purpose of Revelations was meant to comfort the current Christian community at the time by prophesying a future calamity with many parallels to the current calamity. The end of the world brings great destruction, yes, but there is vindication at the end of it all, and hence hope for the community.

One thing to keep in mind about the nature of the "anti-Christ" is that it is the opposite of Christ in all ways. Christ was expected to come back at the end of days. So, too, then, was the anti-Christ. If the anti-Christ has never been seen before then "coming back" doesn't quite make sense, but it does make sense if the anti-Christ refers to Nero: he was a complete bastard in his first life, and he's so evil that he will come back at the end of days to persecute Christendom again.
Can’t even transact without it * wink *
Sure, but teachers weren't dying in droves either. I'd like to know if there are any statistics showing a higher teacher mortality rate outside of the US due to schools not closing.
They don't give a shit as long as it's moving volume.

Tools on amazon have same problem, so many fakes, they get reported and company just pops up with different name.
Please stick to plain text - formatting gimmicks are distracting, not the convention here, and tend to start an arms race of copycats.

I've put hyphens there now. Your comment is otherwise fine of course.
Carpocalypse Now!
It's openly available in any post-soviet country.
Both this article and that of Chaitin which is cited in it, fail to say clearly what they mean by "physical reality" and they also mention some things that are irrelevant to the title question, such as DNA.

All the physical quantities that can be modeled as continuous, i.e. by real numbers, are derived in some way or another from the positions in space and time. All the physical quantities whose dimensional formulas (in natural units, not in SI, which obscures some of the relationships between physical quantities) do not include space/time quantities, e.g. electric charge, magnetic flux, angular momentum and a few others, are discrete.

So the question whether the real numbers correspond to the physical reality must be reformulated less ambiguously as the question whether the space and time are continuous or discrete.

The traditional model of the space and time as continuous matches successfully all known experiments.

There have been a few attempts of creating models for various parts of the quantum physics by using a discrete space-time, i.e. where the points in space-time form a lattice (i.e. there are minimum distances between points that cannot be subdivided to find an intermediate point) and any physical process progresses by jumps between discrete points, instead of continuous movements.

However, I am not aware of any useful result obtained with such models.
Every Door – OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances
> some groups are disappearing whilst others remain

Speaking of those that remain, I can say beyond reasonable doubt that there is an insane percentage increase in stinkbug populations in recent years. Fuckers get absolutely everywhere.
They were talking about the "modern data stack" no doubt.

The trend has been to shift as much work possible to the current generation of Data Warehouses, that abstract the programming model that Spark on columnar storage provided with only a SQL interface, reducing the space where you'd use Spark.

It makes it very accessible to write data pipelines then using dbt (which outcompeted Dataform, though the latter is still kicking), but then you don't have the richer programming facilities, stricter type systems, tooling and the practices of Python or Scala programming, you're in the world of SQL, set back decade or two in testing, checking, and a culture of using them, and with little tools to organize your code.

That, if the team has rebuked the siren songs of a myriad of cloud, low-code platforms for this or the other, with even fewer facilities to keep the data pipelines under control, be it that we call control any of: access, versioning, monitoring, data quality, anything really.
Call me petty, but I’m downvoting for your use of the word "just" to introduce paragraphs of highly technical work-around.
I agree. I was pretty shocked to see this:

>The difficulty of shooting down an incoming missile is broadly overstated

I figured it would back this controversial claim by explaining how some clever new tech is able to shoot down Russia's current state of the art - its hypersonic missiles.

Nope. Zero mention of hypersonic missiles. Why? Is this just a military contractor putting its cap out and asking for $$$?
> A single Russian nuclear submarine can carry 800 nuclear warheads.

A Borei class submarine can carry 16 missiles with up to 6 warheads each, for 96 total. The older Delta class can carry 16 missiles with 4 warheads each for 64 total. The 800 warheads is the total capacity of Russia's entire fleet, not all of which are active at any given time.
Is there a team for California in the Olympics?
Hi! Sorry for the delay. I'm the one who gave this talk.

Yes, rendering HTML on server-side increases server load, for the simple reason that the server-side templates contain some display logic. But:

- Most SPAs I've seen generate useless server load: either by fetching too much information, or by fetching information too often. And that's not because SPAs are a bad idea per se, it's because many small companies have very small teams, and very small teams just don't have time to build a custom-tailored API ("backend-for-frontend"). We chose jsonapi with Django-Rest-Framework, which was crazy-easy to implement from the back-end perspective (as we had many other challenges), but which made the front-end developer implement twisted stuff on client-side, like prefetch-on-hover, or plugging react-query with crazy refresh settings generating hundreds of API calls when only 2 or 3 would have been enough. At the end of the day our servers load is not higher now. Each request costs a little bit more, but there are a lot less of them.

- Another thing is: the idea of delegating template processing to the client may seem good from a wallet perspective. But if you also think of the environmental impact of what we do as developers, you might notice that many people get a new laptop on a regular basis just because some applications are more and more CPU and memory greedy. And when you think that about 80% of environmental impact of the digital industry is generated by building and shipping new terminals, it might make you realize that being part of the solution implied reducing the amount of client load you ask your users. And yes, this implies that your company accepts to reduce gross margin to take a very small action in the battle for a cleaner industry.
> Why is this field so prone to hype and repeating the same things with a new coat of paint.

Money and Marketing. It's no different from how Hadoop was a big deal around 2010, or how Functional Programming became the new thing from 2015 onwards.

Personally I think this is a failure of regulatory agencies.
Whenever I browse TikTok it's like flipping through the channels during the 80's, except every channel is only ever showing commercials.
If by law or employment contract, a company must pay compensation after a dismissal, there is now an incentive for companies to "force out" employees by making them resign by their own hand. It's quite clear this is what happened in this situation.
Such "constructive dismissal" is therefore a method of avoiding their legal obligations to their (former) employees, and so the practice should be - and often is - banned.

In any case, it should not be "a privilege" to be treated humanely by employers, it should be a right.
One can define "AI" in many ways. It certainly is not a conscious being "thinking" about what you would love to see next (much like AlphaGo isn't carefully "focusing" on the board and the possible moves), but a recommender system certainly displays some "intelligent" behavior in a restricted sense.

What Tiktok is definitely not doing, is "training their datasets".
I believe that for many people biphasic (interrupted) sleep is natural. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_sleep#.... I think I used to sleep for more like 6-8 hours but these days I always wake up after around 4 hours and then answer messages or look up random things for an hour or so and then go back to sleep for another 3-4 hours.

I suspect part of it might be that I have to urinate more or something so don't stay asleep.But maybe it's just natural.

One other obvious thing is caffeine. It can keep you awake for like 12 hours or more even if you aren't otherwise feeling particularly stimulated anymore.

But it sounds quite serious so I think you should get some specialist medical help if those things don't resolve it.
Yea, trust me, it's annoying. I have no idea why it's happening, and web searches and stack overflow have not been particularly helpful. I have resigned myself to just living with a warmer room and having my mac's fans running constantly. This problem has been going on for years, and it's obviously not on Apple's Radar (pun intended).
one bigger opinion I have is I really hope the engineers and people at this company get screwed royally by their product in the coming years. Since they're doing an excellent job of screwing people.
I started working at 14 at a telemarketing firm. During this time I did a stint at an ice cream parlor. At 16 I worked at Toys я Us and a local pharmacy named "Drug Fair" and, at 17, I worked a non-union demolition job. At 18 I worked the overnight at Target and once university started I worked first as a research assistant and later as a systems operator until graduation.

I list all of this here to establish that, from a relatively young age, I (1) knew the meaning of a dollar and (2) was never shy of working.

With all of this being said, I can state with absolute certainty that, as a first generation college student, I had NO IDEA in 2006 what the numbers in front of me represented.

"$30K/year with room and board? OK, that doesn't seem too bad. The starting salary range for my desired career is $70-99K."

Add to all of this the stress about what the forthcoming workload would be like and the fact that most of my peers were taking on similar loans and I feel that I can cut my younger self some slack for paying $120K for an education.
> If people figure out that you're good at something

I think it's more "if people figure out you'll do their work for them".

There's a different between (a) helping a colleague with advice/pointers and occasional hands-on help, and (b) independently completing core parts of someone else's job.

This reminds me of this scene from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, as described in https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/218729/Ch...:

Similarly, in Harold and Kumar, the scene opens with Harold (John Cho)
working at his desk and packing up getting ready to leave. It cuts to a scene
with Harold’s co-workers, two white men, one of whom, Billy, is bogged down with
work and can’t leave the office at five p.m. One suggests giving the work to
someone else, and the scene cuts back to Billy’s giving Harold a stack of papers
and telling him, “I need you to update those models for me.” Harold responds,
suggesting Billy was the one who was supposed to finish the work, but Billy lies
and says he has to take care of other clients and doesn’t have time to get the
work done. After a long pause, Harold calmly agrees and says, “Yeah, no
problem.” As Billy exits the office, his co-worker states, “I’m telling you, those
Asian guys love crunching numbers. You probably just made his weekend.”
I found the uBlock rules here on HN but I can't find the link I grabbed them from.

# HN Block Karma View
news.ycombinator.com##.comhead .score:style(overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; line-height: 0.1em; width: 0; margin-left: -1.9em;)
news.ycombinator.com##.comhead:not(.sitebit):style(overflow:hidden; display: inline-block);
news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:first-of-type table td:last-of-type .pagetop:style(font-size: 0!important; color: transparent!important;)
news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:first-of-type table td:last-of-type .pagetop > *:style(font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.45em;)
news.ycombinator.com###logout::before:style(content: "|"; padding: 0.25em;)
news.ycombinator.com##form.profileform tbody tr:nth-child(3)

I think that's all of it. I also have some rules for color and formatting.
Nobody is saying that the malware check is a mistake.
> In a 100 years we will be so far away in technology that our current problem will seem like a joke.

Why do you believe this? It seems to me that our production of waste and environment destruction has been basically directly tied to our technological progress. Why assume that would change in the next 100 years?
IMO, the content can often be unrelated to science, as many tweets even by established scientists are about politics or other topics. There is also a large contingent of early career scientists trying to use twitter to get their name out there. Having a strong twitter presence can help assistant professors when to comes time for their tenure review, as peer name recognition does play a part in the decision (but there are other, better, non-Twitter ways to do this, too).
This reply was therapeutic for me. I wish the post had a trigger warning. I was very caught off guard by the first vulgar content that was mentioned, and I’m a little upset by the terribleness of it. I immediately stopped reading, but I wish I hadn’t started. I was reading through these comments looking for validation for my feelings and this comment helped. Thanks. My naivety got the best of me I think.
The cynical me thinks this is also a pre-election (“wish selection”) PR to help promote the case for Gavin Newsom as president.

You can imagine a talking point like “under my leadership, California overtook Germany as the 4th economy in the world…”

The reality is Newsom had almost zero impact on it, his leadership should be judge by the growing homelessness issue we’ve seen in SF and rest of California and not take credit for tech economy.

Yes, solving the homeless problem is a huge and complex challenge, but the country now needs leadership that is able to solve the big challenging problem.

We’ve lost our ability to fix hard problems and we need to do that if we want to have a chance in a more competitive world.
> great schools

California has 3 of the world's top-10 colleges according to US News and World Report's questionable ranking. I'll admit CA's K-12 education leaves much to be desired. It's actually a little weird how different college and K-12 are in the state.