skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have learned a host of them to intermediate level, and then run aground on getting to advanced, which I think of as the ability to express yourself colloquially and elegantly on any random topic.

If this is your standard, then to within rounding error, 0% of people have reached an "advanced" level in their own native language(s). Elegance is difficult.

(Though some people do seem to believe in a similar standard. My sister grew up in the United States, in an exclusively English-speaking household, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the state department and took their English ability test (I assume for fun). She scored less than fluent - according to the rubric, not qualified to talk to Anglophone college graduates.

I can attest personally that college graduates don't seem to mind if you, as a foreigner, don't know the specialized vocabulary they learned in college.)
Chaos by James Gleick was wildly inspiring to me
What are you talking about? The article proposes, at length, that women’s prisons should be eliminated. I.e., exactly what the headline suggests.
Oh wow crazy. Fire blankets in the belly save the day. You can see them in the remains of the aft fuselage.
Ask HN: How do I build a website as a backend engineer?
Hi,

Over the years, I have accumulated many “calculators” in various spreadsheets to make my personal life easier: tax simulations, startup equity, investment allocation, real estate, …

Clearly calculators online are a dime a dozen, yet I’ve never found the competition (top hits on Google) as accurate as mine, they all seem very wonky, slapped together quickly and missing important details.

What would be the path of least friction to produce a no-backend static website that can host these calculators? I believe that with the right intuitive UX and user-friendly features (i.e. persist the input in the URL query string, instant recomputation on input change, …) they could be valuable for someone.

For context, I’m a software engineer working in FAANG as a backend developer in distributed systems and Linux kernel for many years. I just really dislike dealing with anything frontend-related and I’m utterly incompetent in it, I find CSS to be the biggest monster in computer science (and I troubleshooted bugs in distributed consensus algorithms, ha!), so I’m ideally looking for a framework/template where I can mostly focus on my business logic functions/invariants and get as a result a few static assets to host.

Thanks!
Because some idiots can't read the disclaimer on the page telling them that the model is inaccurate

It was still a great tool to brainstorm topics that dont exist, and useful as a companion app. Shame that academics can be so cringe now. People like emilymbender deserve to be called out as ethics-nazis

That's the problem with Lecun's group working in facebook now: they have to sumbit to all kinds of corporate BS to avoid bad PR
There are so many ARIA guidelines on implementing alerts, modals, comboboxes and anything in between. Yet most don't have any equivalent presentational or functional counterparts in the existing browsers. Writing this comment, just as I'm writing an accessible combobox in a project where I'm not using any frontend framework and minimal JavaScript.
If it’s the same chemical how can it be loaded with carcinogens?
Is a friendship of virtue a friendship? That seems to violate the idea that friendships are low-commitment and non-binding relationships.

I would define my wife as my wife and friend, because our status as friends could become shaky but she would still be my wife. Similarly a long time business partner could be someone I identify as a friend or not. Those are both relationships rooted in a common goal, but I think Aristotle's definition of friendship is a stretch here. I think the wisdom of "don't go into business with your friends" is more relevant in my life.
> What prediction is that?

For example, all the predictions that make us capable of building skyscrapers that don't fall down for centuries. Does it matter that two bricks are not "the same piece of matter" if our predictions work the same for both of them? In terms of their behavior under particular circumstances, they are the same.
To run multiple browsers in one sense, use the --user-data-dir flag for Chromium based browsers. Give each of the 9 instances their own directory.
This argument makes no sense. A stadium excludes the same number of fans regardless of your selection criteria.
Exactly the same experience with the book, and agreed on his smugness since then.
Prompt: A legal document between Stockfish and ChessBase, many pages, great grammar, award winning, breathtaking, groundbreaking, superb, outstanding
I live in Japan too. If you drop into a random restaurant it’s most probably going to be around 1000 jpy. You can find food for cheaper but as low as 500 jpy is going to take time to find.
> Apparently they tried this some time ago...

it sounds to me like OP wasn't a participant in this group (and is only after finding out about what happened), though I could be misinterpreting it
I'm not using any search engines. Trying to browse the web using a combination of organically discovered links, portals, bookmarks and history. I'll want to write a plugin in the future that automatically caches the pages I visit, so I can have a local search engine of everything I ever visited.

Sometimes I use Wikipedia or Wiktionary to find generic terms.

That said... sometimes it doesn't work, and I have to cheat using DDG.
Why are you assuming the Bahamas did the minting?
My subjective experience is that good color palettes don't have too many colors anyway. Colorblind-friendliness tends to mean avoiding pairs of complementary colors that don't necessarily convey information well anyway.

Remember that we are talking about data visualization, not color palettes in general. Red is not particularly important in data viz.

Consider that many non-color-blind Dota players use the colorblind settings because they like the colors better.
Come again? You think he handed it over to the government in exchange for his freedom and share it afterwards? Really? Pretty sure the Bahamas are going to coopertae with, e.g., the Delaware courts in the complex bankcrupcy proceedings that will follow.
The keyword there is visit, it is consensual. People kiss on the lips without making it sexual as well but you still need consent right? If all parties consent I have no problem with it. Why do people have a need to expose others to their nudity or to sexual content against the consent of other people? Even nude beaches have a sign so that non-consenting parties can stay out. That's my standard for public nudity, it should not be allowed everywhere just in areas line parks and beaches with clear signs for others so long as there are similar public places where people who don't consent can go to.
The thing that isn’t perhaps generally understood is that the ruling classes, i.e. the plutocratic and political classes, got there by accident.

We tell ourselves tales of their merit and struggle, and indeed they generally tell themselves the same tales, for it makes the world seem a more virtuous and just place.

In the past, the arbitrary nature of leadership was self-evident, with a hereditary aristocracy - you could have a cocker spaniel on the throne and you’d still have to call it “your majesty”.

Now, in our meritocratic world, it’s possible for anyone to ascend to lofty heights - but the path is not “work hard”, rather “be in the right place at the right time”.

The chances of the latter are enhanced by accidents of birth - but ultimately, who makes it into the upper echelons of society and who does not is largely driven by pure luck, rather than any particular virtue.

And QED, you have a gaggle of rather average people who believe in their own superiority engaging in mutual backslapping at the WEF.
I looked up the company behind this. The info on their site is thin and leaves me wondering, but it implies they do both plant-based and cell-culture alternatives to growing and harvesting mollusks.

Cell-based mollusk substitutes makes a lot more sense. The market for plant-based mollusk substitutes seems awfully small and the task to make an adequate substitute seems daunting. I have had oysters from different oyster beds that are within sight of each other and every dimension of texture and flavor were different. It's hard to think of a more complex thing to try to imitate. A convincing burger is waaay easier, and the market for a non-cow burger vastly larger.
So that granny hasn't 5 toolbars on Internet Explorer and a couple of RAM compression tools and registry cleaners.

Love Windows store and S mode.
> they would market it as a source of accurate text

They did not. IIRC there was a disclaimer in the page that the text is innacurate and that NNs hallucinate. But tweets be tweeting
I am all in for yeast-based food disconnected from natural systems.
I agree with this. The problem for me comes in that elderly patients (again as a class/group, there are obviously exceptions) have no problem with this system. They don't care because they benefit. I've also gotten several snide comments from elderly people and heard numerous tales from other younger disabled people that it's happened to them too. That we're too young to be there/to be sick, snide comments about when/if we can't work, etc. In fact, given that the elderly are living off of social security + investments, they have common cause with the politicians and profiteers as they won't allow any action that either risks their property values or their investment income. If line go down, old people can't retire, so we can't do it.

I will never have access to my enemy until there's a critical mass of upset people, and the elderly seem willing to let younger people die of treatable problems as long as they're not effected, so the only way to get them to care and join us seems to be to make them feel as insecure as the rest of us, which sucks.

I believe the elderly have agency and for the ones who are still alive (since of course the people who live to 85+ to begin with are those who didn't have to ruin their health due to poverty and blue collar labor), they've used their agency to say 'we don't care about you'. Which is fine, but then they turn around and get all mad when they're not cared about in return. Either they want to be a part of a community, including accepting the responsibilities, or they don't. They need to stop wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
The problem with this is whether the emulation ever terminates. Simply put, you cannot emulate an infinitely powerful machine in finite time.
What were the twitter roadblocks exactly?
For me it was the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

His biases are clear, but even if you disagree with him, looking past those there is still the very important lesson that much of what we take for granted as true about the world is really not much more than shared mythology, not some objective, universal truth.

So regardless of what you think about his particular viewpoint I think that’s an important lesson that helps you examine the world and assumptions we all make more critically.

If there is such a thing as a “red pill” moment, that book was it for me. After reading it there were many things about our culture that I just couldn’t take seriously anymore.
What's your endgame here? Stay in jail with the satisfaction of knowing that the government didn't take the $500M and nobody can access them anymore?
> What are you trying to tell me instead of calling me a buffoon over and over.

For the little it's worth, I interpreted the author's tone as one of having some confidence in his understanding of the subject and not intending to belittle people.

And he specifically said that there's no shame in not having good truffle knowledge as virtually the entire industry is lying about it.

> There is no shame in not knowing that. As the best truffles are extremely difficult to find, most chefs and journalists are unaware of this. Even the “experts” hand out awards for this aromatized garbage with only bits of decorative truffles. Almost everything with the truffle label that is available in stores or served in restaurants is a lie and a fraud.
> The solution to this is probably technology

This is HN in a nutshell. When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Maybe this isn’t even a situation that needs to be solved?
AI Time Machine
> However, the technology does have quite a few advantages, provided that you’re investing in a legitimate project with a good & planned-out vision:
>
> 1. It’s a great and risk-free way of earning interest on your crypto holdings

This section is where I basically stopped reading. Anything that earns interest is not risk-free. Full stop. The whole point of earning interest is to reward the lender (and to be clear, "staking" is lending to the system) for the assumption of the risk that they may not get their money back. There are low-risk opportunities (usually accompanied by low interest). And in the case of staking a token, the staking comes with the implicit risk that the value of the token may decline substantially.

I see a lot of talk of "risk-free" opportunities in the DeFi movement, and that's why I stay away. It sounds too good to be true, and it is.

There are other issues in that article -- in particular, most DeFi APY calculations are variable and constantly changing -- but that one was the full-stop for me.
And also has legal entities in the Bahamas. Plus, SBF is their himself, so the legal HQ, where decisions are made (an important factor in corporate and tax law) is to an extent yet to be determined by the various courts, the Bahamas.
> "Yet much remains unknown about the Euler equations — including whether they’re always an accurate model of ideal fluid flow."

In general the word 'model' implies a mathematical construct that mimics the behavior of a real-world experimental or observational system, i.e the experimental or observational data can be generated by the model. Where's the real-world ideal fluid flow? No such systems exist.

> "In principle, if you know the location and velocity of each particle in a fluid, the Euler equations should be able to predict how the fluid will evolve for all time. But mathematicians want to know if that’s actually the case."

At some scale in a real fluid, quantum effects become important, and the notion that it's possible to know both position and momentum falls apart. To quote Peter Atkins:

> "The trouble is when you're dealing with operators, is it turns out you can't always extract explicit information about all of them simultaneously, and this leads to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which most people think of as a great confuser of the world and denier of information. I like to think of it as a great clarifier because old-fashioned people, like Newton and Einstein, and Lagrange, and all the people who developed classical mechanics, took it as certain that to specify the state of a particle, you had to specify where it was and how fast it was going."

That's why there are no perfect ideal fluids. Atkins expands:

> "What quantum theory did, through the uncertainty principle, was to clarify - what it said, was discuss the world if you like in terms of positions, or if you prefer, discuss the world in terms of linear momenta, don't try both at once. You get very simple descriptions in terms of positions, you get very simple descriptions in terms of linear momenta, it's only when you - like trying to start a sentence in English and ending in Latin or something, trying to mix the two together, that you get into confusion. So think of the Heisenberg principle as a clarifier - try to think one way, or try to think the other way, but don't try to think like Newton thought."
Wow multiserver, so it would seamlessly distribute tasks to different servers? That's really cool if I understand it correctly.
How Did SBF Convince West Africans Crypto Was Their Future?
Can you expand a bit more?
Another useful setting one could potentially use in conjunction with the panic timer is

vm.panic_on_oom = 2

In my experience, most systems get into a precarious state when not engineered to only use a percentage of available memory, factoring in the apps that spike memory using when forking child processes. This is most useful on NFS diskless machines, any machine that is managed as cattle vs kittens i.e. treating them like disposable VM's, dev/qa machines and especially machines used for application load testing.

One could even use in production after a significant amount of testing but it requires a few more settings and having automation doing a little bit of math as OOM/vmscan often picks the wrong processes to terminate and leaves the machine in a broken and sticky state and increases downtime impact on SLA. The probability of an OOM panic can be reduced by using:

vm.overcommit_ratio = 0

The default of 50 or 50%, 1.5X ram+swap allows the kernel to permit an application to spawn even when there is no memory available. This is handy on development systems but can lead to problems when automation does not properly calculate how much memory is available and permits an application to request too much memory as the kernel does not protect it's own future memory requirements.

One must then use a little bit of math based on the total memory installed in the system to calculate the values of vm.admin_reserve_kbytes, vm.user_reserve_kbytes, and most importantly vm.min_free_kbytes to prevent applications from grabbing too much memory. This also requires adjusting automation to deal with grabbing enough information when an application does not spawn correctly. This can be further improved by containerizing applications or using cgroup memory constraints when feasible. A percentage of memory must remain unallocated by applications for the kernel to use.

If using idrac/ilo/ilom cards, some of them have a feature to grab screenshots and will save the screenshots that led up to the panic, though will not always get the right moments.

[Edit] I should also add that the math calculations assume all deployment teams and all of their automation tools are aware of one another and math-all-the-things. e.g. production code, monitoring tools, analytic teams all add their numbers together plus overhead. If this is a Kiosk then maybe that is just one team.
You think that heat pump installers won’t increase their prices by a few thousand when those come into effect? Based on tracking prices across the start and stop of utility rebates, I seriously doubt that whole $8K will land in consumer wallets and would even be surprised if half of it ended up there in the end.
That reminds me of repackaging a traditional historical male dominated marriage, including occasional corporal punishment, as a BDSM kink to make it normal again. You think you’re seeing a woman in a dress, but actually it’s fetish gear showing her submission.
Your story reminds me of how different we all are. I left my home town when I left school and essentially cut off everyone from that school and that town. I was friends with everyone in school, very friendly with the teachers, but that town was just not going to be where I excelled in any form. I am not even sure what I would do if an old school friend reached out to me!

A lot of people from tiny country/rural towns I think end up in this situation, because we often end up fighting the "Crabs in a Bucket" phenomenon when trying to be better humans, and leaving can be easier. Whilst I do think about people from my childhood and that town, it feels like an entirely different life to me.
The way it works is actually slightly more favourable, if the actual price is above the strike price then there is a mechanism to return the excess back to the government. A cost of a wholesale cost of 34p per kWh would be very bad. It's the current retail cap for electricity.
How do you mean? Presuming a person give consent by default and making it public and accesible without warning and explicit consent is the same as ... well not asking consent . Same logic as nude texting and flashing.
Yandex feels like google classic.
I really like this palette. If I had one caution, it would be for using it for symmetric or diverging colour scales. i.e. for anomalies with 0 at the centre. Typically zero would be at the lightest greyscale which for this palette is the yellow, offset from centre. That said, in the example visualizations on their site, colour is used to indicate unique values, and are strikingly clear. So, all good!
So, Charles is also in direct control of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
Wait, so you are saying the Government would actually make quite a nice profit out of Hinkley Point C? That this strike price is the strike of a forward contract rather than a put option contract? But then this does not look like a bad outcome for the UK Government (and by extension the UK consumer) at all, it looks like a really profitable arrangement.

Am I missing something?
This is just some random guy's tweet?
It is strange to assume an either/or, which is an unhelpful polarising stance to take. The answer can be both.
The wine industry is pretty well regulated in the EU. In my country wine was generally a hit and miss before we got into the EU. Now, almost everything bottled over 5€ is okay and also cheaper wine sold in bulk. This year we've bought some excellent white wine by the bulk directly from the producer and it was cheaper than gasoline. I mostly buy local bottled wine rather than imported table wine sold as premium. Why? Because I know most of the big producers and also some of the smaller ones.

If we go to another country with good wines, we ask the waiter and it works out better than looking at the wine menu and making assumptions. One waiter in Sicily even suggested that he chose the wine for us and we were very satisfied with his choice after we also tried to get the same wine ourselves and ordered something different.

Also, Moldova used to export crappy sweet wine before their agricultural products were banned in Russia. Now it exports mainly into the EU and they have some good quality wines if you skip the ones made from hybrid grape varieties, which I wonder why I've even found on the EU market. Must be the new 2021 regulation allowing hybrid varieties in wines with protected denominations of origin. Apart from the usual varieties, they also produce wines with a Georgian variety called Saperavi, which I like quite a lot and also a local older variety called Rara Neagra which is popular but I don't like because it's acidic, however it can be sucessfully used in blends where one needs more acidity.
The WorldStrat dataset – Nearly 10k km² of free high-res satellite imagery
"Data usage & personalized ads" is not the setting I'm talking about.

Personalized Ads is a different setting than the one I described, located in the "Apple Advertising" section, not the "Analytics & Improvements" section that I think the relevant setting lives in.

"Data usage" isn't the name of any setting on iOS, that phrase is too vague to be sure what they mean.

This is why I say that I'd like to see a screenshot of the relevant settings panes. How do I know this person didn't accidentally flip them back on during an update?

OCSP isn't relevant to this issue. It's not "analytics," it does not seem to collect personal data, anonymized or not.

OCSP is used to verify/revoke certificates, essentially for the purpose of removing malware and spam, which is a basic function consumer-friendly OS: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/420002

To me that's a really legitimate use of a "phone home" when we're talking about commercial consumer operating systems.
Well funnily enough the only place where it's not is Hong Kong.

But to the opium war analogy, most of the world was not involved.