skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who are of a right-wing persuasion, this youtube channel, created by a right-wing geologist who used to work for oil companies is good, because it won't upset you by challenging any of your political beliefs, just the science related myths:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoX-Xobr_TfH...

The first video in the series is 14 years old.
This has been a lot more common in my experience.

Driven primarily by folks realizing how wrong/ridiculous their views were years ago, and trying to rewrite history.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33799512, which was posted earlier.

(This is a first-rate submission and I want to share the karma across the two submitters. Unfortunately we don't have software support for that yet, so I have to do it the crude way. Sorry nickmain! I've emailed you repost invites for a couple of other great articles you submitted.)
The Castle of Heroes
> A standardized breakfast, with moderate amounts of fat and carbohydrates, was compared to a high protein (muffins plus a milkshake), high carbohydrate or high sugar (glucose drink) breakfast.

a muffin and a milkshake is likely 800-1000 calories!!! and there's almost no protein in that unless they specifically add protein powder. Lacking strength in nutrition basics in this study.

I lost 30 pounds by switching to black coffee at breakfast and not eating my first meal until 12pm-2pm. They should include research into eating only high-protein/high-fat (i.e. bacon and eggs/keto option) and fasting.
> Then why did they pull Twitter ads? Surely they're losing sales from that?

Probably not really? Compared to Google, Facebook, and even traditional TV, Twitter is a drop in the advertising bucket.
They sound cool but apparently have a sponge that holds the ink between the tank and the jet and eventually that becomes saturated and it's basically game over for the printer because it doesn't sound like the sponge is user serviceable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25047231
Maybe they are referring to Elon's recent unhinged polls as testing.
This is one of the reasons why I think making the workplace Democratic is a good idea. The workers have a better idea of what is important than the management.
>I'd guess it's because you're not logged in.

Thanks for the informative answer.
The soviets used nuclear power plants to build citrus greenhouses in the arctic; becoming a global-scale exporter of a crop that dies if it freezes and growing it in temperatures of -30.
Did Google actually talk to the CCP about launching this, or was this just Google wondering how easy it would be to sell out on their values and reclaim all that revenue they gave away to Baido? My understanding was that this was more of the latter. Unsettling that they would even consider this, but still better than basically every other large tech firm.
Here is some basic info on jxl: https://jpegxl.info/why-jxl.html
a) Not comparable restrictions in the slightest.

b) Timeline doesn't match up that Apple did this in response to protests.
You might note that XKCD stopped at 2012, so 10yrs of major change has happened since.

And 1/2 of the US has ideas that do not match the current left.
Rentry and Txti.es have similar issues. Love those sites for giving me markdown-friendly alternatives to Pastebin for writing FAQs and guides and stuff, but man I cannot imagine what their spam/moderation is like.
It is dying but very slowly, still very profitable and pretty big business. hp's 4th quarter printing business was 4.5 billion with a 20% profit margin.
Anonymous, fail

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/kbyg/money
My Brother laser printer counts toner consumption (i.e. page count) with a keyed gear on the toner cartridge, different cartridge capacities have different shaped gears, resetting the gear orientation resets the counter.
I'm not talking about what you could theoretically do with cache headers, I'm talking about what the author of the article is actually doing.
100% of my flights they have just fed me Coke and pretzels. And every time I read of a plane going down, everyone on the plane died. So could you point me towards info that flight crew were able to save more lives than they themselves lost by simply being in the plane where everyone perished?
> Exceedingly rarely do autodidacts, much less internet randos, actually find Truth, as you capitalize it.

Internet rando and wannabe autodidact here. This comment seems to be written from the perspective of someone who believes that they can determine what is Truth and what isn't (otherwise, how would you come to that conclusion in the first place?). Any tips on how to get there?

That perspective combined with sentiments like "Crushing them is a good thing" sounds like a ... potent mix. How many people do you find admirable that project that sort of vibe?
Oh, I think you misunderstood. I'm literally in the Elixir repl all day every day and do know how I'd don't know how I'd manage without one.
WiseTech is offering a similar solution with CargoWise. Among the users are, e.g., DHL.
A dozen years back I worked at a University. All of a sudden in December we'd get flooded with people trying credit cards out in rapid succession, always small amounts of a dollar or more. What's worse is that sometimes alumni couldn't even get access to the site to make legitimate donations.

The charges that made it through were always reversed. Sometimes they even fined the university and they were viewed as the enemy. It was a royal PITA. So they did two things: Blocked certain IP blocks from Eastern Europe and declined all cards if the amounts were small. I didn't code it personally, just learned about the problem and solution in a meeting.
To me I read this as Huawei is already a “state controlled” entity. So this is egregious but expected by them.

Apple however is two faced. Saying that they stand for bigger ideals but quietly supporting the communist party by disabling airdrop.

Edit: I know it’s more complicated than my comment indicates. But it’s still a weird response by Apple none the less.
"As a company we're totally committed to sustainable innovation and action, and inkjets simply use less energy and fewer consumable parts," explained Epson sales and marketing manager Koichi Kubota in canned statement. "While laser printers work by heating and fusing toner to a page, Epson's Heat-Free inkjet technology consumes less electricity by using mechanical energy to fire ink onto the page."

This seems like a really simplistic calculation, which takes no account of the real-world experience using printers.

Unless you're using them on an almost daily basis, inkjets clog up all the time. Forcing you to waste more electricity, paper and ink, trying to get the feckers to print cleanly again.

They also have chipped cartridges which refuse to print when they decide there's no ink left [based purely on a print count. None of them actually measure remaining ink].

The cartridges last nowhere near as long as those on a laser printer. And so more packaging and plastic waste is generated when having to replace them so regularly.

I finally got rid of my expensive Canon inkjet about 7 or 8 months ago because I only print very occasionally these days and, every time I did, it ended up being a half hour or more ordeal of head cleaning, cartridge molyycoddling and general wall headbutting, just to print something really simple like a label for an envelope.

I replaced it with an el cheapo Brother laser printer which has given me absolutely zero problems so far. In fact yesterday I had to print a label and I sent it to the Brother laser printer [which I hadn't used in probably a month]. It woke up, spat out the print and then went back to sleep again. Total time [and therefore electricity use] about 10 seconds. It would have had to be the most inefficient device ever made to have used more electricity & resources [paper and ink] in tha time than that damned inkjet would have done during its marathon 'how many ways can I annoy you?' session.
Americans generally won't appreciate how scary this can be for those on work visas, particularly when the chances of finding a new job have dropped drastically. Generally speaking, work visas and employment-based green cards are based on the premise that you were unable to fill the role with an American citizen or lawful permanent resident ("LPR"). That becomes tricky for sponsoring such a process if you recently laid people off. There are also more job applicants and it becomes harder to lawfully filter them out to justify your case.

For people born in India, regardless of current citizenship, this may end up terminate a wait for a green card that has been ongoing for 10-15 years, leaving them little choice but to leave the country.

The process is completely arbitrary and deliberately capricious. For example, USCIS randomly audits some percentage (estimated to be ~30%) of applications, ostensibly to stop people figuring out how to game the system (ie by figuring out what USCIS will flag for further review). Now that's fine in principle but the audit (at the time my application was in process) added an additional 18 months. Completely randomly. When the audit happened it simply passed. with no requests for evidence ("RFEs").

Another example: examiners aren't consistent. Your case will be assigned to an officer. That officer might be quick or slow. Two different officers may treat the same application different. For example, one may request a form you and your lawyer think unnecessary while another doesn't. If you proactively include it anyway, that too can lead to delays to explain why that form is in there.

Unfortunately immigrants are an easy political scapegoat and a non-voting one at that. No party seems inclined to truly address these problems. Or it comes up occasionally with a bad bill.

In 2004, PBS had a documentary called The New Americans. I can't really find a way to wtach it online. It follows immigrants from a number of different countries. One was an Indian man (and his family) who got laid off in the dot-com crash (and ultimately returned to India IIRC). I suspect there'll be many repetitions of this in the coming year.

This lack of certainty and security in your living situation can hang over your head for years, sometimes more than a decade. It's stressful and cruel.
I guess according to GDPR this counts as tracking nontheless. GDPR does not specifically mention cookies or anything technical. An identifier is enough (does not have to be a uuid). IP, location, browser etc already counts. This probably would count as storing something like a cookie on the client.
I do understand the desire to switch all languages and systems to one encoding, of course. However, Switching a WTF-16 language to UTF-8 removes previously valid values from strings, then exchanging what's errors/mutation on Component boundaries right now with errors/mutation when using string APIs. Can't be done in a backwards-compatible way, and all these languages have a lot of existing code. If backwards compatibility is a goal (say when using a breadcrumbs mechanism as in Swift), one still ends up with WTF-8 underneath, which maps to WTF-16, but is not UTF-8. Hence why I think it's impossible, because the only way to pull this off is by replacing affected string APIs (and/or accepting that old APIs then throw or mutate). Likewise, I see a possible future where JS adopts breadcrumbs, but then with WTF-8 (and perhaps a well-formedness flag), not guaranteed UTF-8. In your use case, that would yield a fast-path if a string is well-formed, but still with the same old fallback. Plus, of course, that having a systems fast-path implies that there is a corresponding JS-interop slow-path (when using AS).
Incorporate as a worker cooperative and not a corporation beholden to shareholders.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25047231
Looking at the speed with which this post goes up the HN page, I would say that Twitter is still very relevant.
This podcast episode by Sam Harris finally convinced me to close my Twitter account. Worth a listen https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/304...
Apparently:

https://news.csu.edu.au/feature/are-feral-cattle-the-brumbie...
I have plenty, and cynisism, in case someone is interested!
If not for the voices and politicians that resisted group think and sheep mentality the US could have very well been locked down like China. Let’s also not forget that lots of people lost their jobs and livelihoods in the US for not getting vaccinated or wearing masks.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't mean it was weird that Linux would be able to do that. I meant I thought it was weird that a user would choose to do that. Because without any co-ordinated locking in place, or double-checking at the end (which most won't unless it's been specifically added), having one program read a file while another is modifying it will most probably produce confusing or unexpected results.
Off the top of my head: He was peddling the conspiracy that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a spurned lover.

He had to quickly walk that one back by deleting the reply and pretending it never happened.
"Human years" makes it sound like you're differentiating from some pseudo timescale like 'dog years'. Man years doesn't have any connotation of sex of the people involved. Ironically the person objecting is the only one projecting a gendered interpretation on to it; it's like punching yourself in the face and complaining that punching people in the faces shouldn't be allowed.

"Man" is just Saxon/Old English for person (and is considered to be from at least PIE origins).

My late mum used to complain about the term Chair instead of Chairman, "I'm a person not a piece of furniture", she was chairman on lots of committees.
An aside, but if you like grilling with charcoal, chunk "natural" charcoal produces a hotter fire than briquettes like Kingsford.
Seriously, what do you think that looks like if not exactly what was written?

> We sped up our hiring to catch up with our growth and started many new businesses in response to feedback from our audiences.

> Most of our investments are paying off, and while we’ve always been disciplined in how we have managed our business and operational metrics, we were not as rigorous as we should have been in managing our team growth

> While our business continues to grow fast, given how quickly we hired, our operating expenses – if left unabated – would continue to outgrow our revenue.

We grew too fast and revenue wasn't catching up. What other tangibles do you want? Would they somehow help the situation?
Oh great thanks! I always need content to share with my Dad. I will say the video I linked is happily neutral. I felt like I could share it with my Tucker-Carlson loving Dad.
The opposition to national registries and national ID here is extremely strong.
One thing that I remember is a tough consulting project where I travelled every week to a customer site (note: long long ago).

However, I did pick up some light morning yoga since my schedule was so packed I couldn't go to a class but I needed some additional stress relief.

I noticed that after I started doing that (part of the yoga video involved actively relaxing your face), I tended to adopt that relaxed face a lot more. It was serene, welcoming - compared to my very intense normal visage given the stress levels.

Suddenly people not only reacted to me in a much more honest and direct way which made things easier. I then decided to ramp it up and use that face explicitly on calls and meetings - where I was received very very well (even conference calls without video). I gained visibility with the client higher-ups. In fact, I could probably still be working for them if I wanted to (ended contract as my first kid was on the way - too much travel).

It's not a lot of time investment and a great learning lesson.
The ideologically driven hyperventilating over Twitter is so ridiculous.

Pre-2015 Twitter wasn't the apocalypse before all the content moderation policies were rushed in as a response to widespread narrative that a bunch of people in swing states changed their votes because of Russian accounts.

It's not the apocalypse now. You can block hateful trolls anytime you want.

At the end of the day, there's a chunk of the US population who believes that they are much, much smarter than most of their countrymen, and that their unique ability to identify misinformation isn't shared by these buffoons in swing states who don't vote the way they want them to. There's a huge swathe of people like that in the software industry.
I was just reading about SharedArrayBuffer recently, specifically about supporting Firefox. Lemme see if I can find it in my notes.. Ah yes, it was about ffmpeg.wasm which requires this feature. Apparently this security restriction is coming to Chrome also.

Does not work in Firefox 79+ because SharedArrayBuffer is undefined #106 - https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm/issues/106

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The solution is to add cross-origin headers.

> As a baseline requirement, your document needs to be in a secure context. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...

> For top-level documents, two headers need to be set to cross-origin isolate your site:

Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp

SharedArrayBuffer: Security requirements - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Rice lab’s catalyst could be key for hydrogen economy
The V-Chip: Options to Restrict What Your Children Watch on TV
> The bigger news to me was that Apple blocked AirDrop in China - specifically to limit dissent and for preventing people from organizing [1]. A company that misses no chance to showcase its liberal credentials, bending over backwards for perhaps the most dictatorial government in the world to suppress the most basic of freedoms.

It's a private corporation, which are known for manufacturing sweet-smelling lies. I mean, a "new an improved" label on a package often literally means they're just giving you less product. If they'll be that blatant, there's no limit to how low they'll go.

Short-sighted Western economic policy has allowed China to grab companies like Apple by the balls, which means the Chinese government is the one Apple ultimately is accountable to (with varying amounts of smoke-and-mirrors to obscure it). Tim Cook knows who his boss is.
I figured. Good luck on becoming one.
Mine doesn't, some nozzles clogged every time I wanted to print (infrequently, sometimes months). Now I'm printing a test page every week to prevent that (maybe should add a cron job).

A contributing factor could be that the best-before date on the bottles is in the past. Though I have no idea how that date would matter for filling up, and no idea how to observe it after the ink is in the printer and the bottles disposed of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifYuvgXZ108
This is being a bit too generous. If that were the case, they could provide a warning about print quality instead of just saying that the toner is low. But then people wouldn't be as compelled to needlessly buy more overpriced printer supplies.
I bought a Samsung printer a few years ago. A couple of months later, I discovered that Samsung's printer arm had been acquired by Hewlett-Packard - the company I least wanted to buy a printer from.

My printer has no number pad. It has a horrible menu system you navigate with arrow-keys. The cartridge it came with was tiny - it lasted for less than a ream. But the replacement I bought is still going strong (I don't print more than a couple of pages a week, which is why I didn't want an ink-jet).
Maintainers are great, and working open source projects are good, but not every project has an active maintainer, and it's my opinion that practically no one in Open Source signed up to be a "repo owner", unless they've gone to the trouble of developing some kind of governance structure to signal that they should be counted upon for support. That signal is an affirmative signal though, it's not implied.

If you don't get a reply, and a robot closed your inquiry without comment then my guy, it seems that the signal has been sent clearly and received! If you disagree the fork button is in the upper right hand corner, you are the maintainer now!

I don't mean this to be disrespectful, but there are a lot of open source projects supporting companies and the companies often don't contribute back in any way. So while I appreciate the PR, and I'm going to be as polite as possible before I close it, not everyone has time for that, and nobody owes it.
that paul pelosi is a gay man who got beat up by a prostitute he picked up while drinking.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelosi-co...
Lettuce modelling for growth control in precision agriculture
To be clear, this is human controlled robot, not AI. Terminators are at least 25 years away. Short of advanced alloys, I don't see them as fool-proof for any opfor armed with high caliber weapons. For example, a 7.62 x 39 round puts 2000+ Joules on target. That's more than enough to penetrate aluminum frame and plating, as well as slicing through most light-weight armor.
Cancellation is using speech and other means to limit someone else's ability to speak. When you demand that your local theatre forbid someone from speaking, rather then just choosing to not attend and listen to it, that's yes, technically, using your right of free speech. It's what you're using it for that is the difference. In one case, to get your message heard, in the other, to prevent someone from doing that. In essence using free speech to stop free speech.
In principle, screen resolution would in most cases be useless for trying to distinguish individuals. After all, it wouldn't even distinguish the underlying hardware, let alone a user of that hardware. But given omnipresent tracking, it's one more bit that can be used to identify you.

In addition, your comment shows a severe lack of imagination. Suppose I'm a malicious server who wishes to track users.

* For each new user, select a random "late-modified" date. Now, I can clearly distinguish between multiple different users, because "1985-01-01T00:00:10" is probably the 10th visit from whoever was given "1985-01-01T00:00:00" on their first visit.

* If I have too many users for the above approach to uniquely identify a person, add more cached items. With HTTP/2, both HTTP requests would use the same TCP connection, so I can correlate the requests together.

And, bam. That goes from "useless for trying to distinguish individuals, much less identify them" to a unique identifier stored in the cache invalidation dates.
How Much Better Is OpenAI’s Newest GPT-3 Model?
Which is nearly one day of holiday people can save every year. So I would call it very impressive, as most people work during the opening hours of public services and would need to take time off to go there.
> We have a National Id Number for every citizen and residence permit holder, that acts as a global foreign key for all the services, the number alone can't be used for anything, is public, and should not and is not used for authenticating anyone.

It's important to point out that a key part of this is having personal privacy protection (eg GDPR) that prevents private companies from abusing this identifier for their own nefarious purposes. Without private protections, such an identity number becomes a vulnerability for individuals. Like in the United States as it stands, it's a feature that giving out your social security number might result in a huge headache, otherwise every retailer would demand it for their consumer surveillance ("loyalty") programs etc.
It's about marketing, the A/B testing they do, not science.
I didn’t do a close read. My comment was in response to this:

“ research has identified some factors that predispose children to be targeted by bullying behaviours. These studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.”

To be clear I said nature shouldn’t be our guide. Nature often means that life is nasty brutish and short. I even quoted the famous Auden poem as support. Sheesh!