skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if they were being serious, but as someone who never used a mac back then, I really struggled with this UI. Why do folders all open in a new window? Why can't I maximize a window by double-clicking the title bar? Why can I only resize windows with the little handle in the bottom corner? What is the point of the settings dock in the bottom left of the screen? Do I really need to change resolution and colors that often? Why do I have to browse the whole hard drive to find any of my applications? Why can't I right-click files/folders? What is the point of the bigger/smaller window button, why not maximize? Why does minimizing just collapse windows to their title bar? How do you even turn off the computer?

These are all features that work how I would expect on Windows 98. I'm sure if I had used a mac back then this would all make sense to me, but even as someone who uses modern macs, I was very lost in the old UI.
> the vehicle becomes inappropriate for multiuse paths and bike lanes

I’m pretty much riding it in on the streets with the flow of traffic, where less power would have cars whizzing past me and would feel unsafe. If I do take it on a bike path, I slow down and don’t use the full power. It is easy to reduce the maximum power on the control interface and move at a relaxed pace. I’ve been cycling for 20 years, and I have no interest in behaving in a way which would be upsetting to other people. I know too that inappropriate behavior reflects poorly on the ebike community and could get them banned, so again I am thoughtful with my riding.
> I believe the deterrent is the combination of these two changes.

Yep. Pre-9/11, if your plane was hijacked, odds were that you would get out alive. Once 9/11 introduced the world to the suicide hijacker, that basically stopped hijackings. Passengers will simply overwhelm anyone trying to take over the plane because everyone assumes it's a suicide mission.
So you’d be okay with changing the name of the product while at the same time changing the lifetime agreement
The instant I found out that a device like the Cronus existed, it brought me great joy to know someone created it and turned it into a business.

That thing exists to solve a very real problem: the game mechanics the Cronus mediates or exploits are being used by game devs to cover up otherwise-boring gameplay.
Do either of those rest on "defending a conclusion based on made-up facts"? I don't think, say, proofs-by-contradiction are really comparable to the bad-faith "let's say, hypothetically" argumentative style under discussion.
“How Agile Cost the BBC Millions”, with Gojko AdžIć and Dave Farley
People remember bad experiences much more than good ones, so if half of the answers on website look reasonable but do not work, the overall impression would be "website with garbage answers"

And it seems that AI has much more than 50% answers wrong.
I apologize this may sound a little strange, but let me ask:

What if they said "sorry, we can't fix your car because it doesn't run"?

What do you think of this quote?

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead."

What about the person who says "it worked yesterday" when yesterday they were using somebody else's computer?

Just asking for your thoughts...
Although: https://crag.asn.au/5-ways-wearing-a-bicycle-helmet-can-resu...
I've loved Dwarf Fortress for a long, long time and learned to read the matrix not long after, though in recent years I've had less time to play. Truly an icon and an artisanal pet project if ever there was one.

I am excited to see DF get a commercial release, and a wider audience.
> But if you're unfamiliar, I'll explain that a common evangelical christian belief is that a national ID card may be somehow related to the "mark of the beast" stuff in revelations.

This is a parody by non-Christians of what most of them actually believe. For most of them the concern is over microchips, implants, or something physically on their person, not an ID Card, and even there is not uniform concern over it. Revelations itself says that it will be on their right hand or forehead, which no ID Card is. One could argue that it is a foreshadowing of things to come, if not itself it.

As for where the concern comes from, it's not the ID itself, as much as the implication that in the future, people will be required to commit apostasy in order to get an ID, or the chip, or whatever have you. Thus, they are opposed, so as to prevent such a lockout.
AFAIK, depending on the destination, the airline and other parameters, there will be air marshals. Contrary to the US, these are „normal“ special police, and they won’t do this on a regularly basis.
So if you found out that a top pentagon official was working as a military advisor for the Taliban, that wouldn't ring any alarm bells to you. It's completely normal and there's nothing to worry about.
Eater has been releasing some incredible food-related mini-documentaries! This one is great, too. Gotta get my hands on some of this butter
I had the same experience in spring 2021. Totally obnoxious customer service.
That's about 15,000 pounds of battery, correct?
True, but then the content is still cherry picked or curated by humans. It is not pure AI.
> I remember an American colleague of mine absolutely freaking out that I was slicing up chicken without wearing gloves, and he was convinced that I'd be dead by morning from some hideous chicken-borne disease because of it.

Most Americans aren't like that person.

> Apparently chicken in the US really is that dangerous

Not to my knowledge. On the other (ungloved) hand, I don't know of any culinary tradition involving eating raw chicken.
Your response really drives home how I need to be careful with terminology, i.e stay away from "offline first". Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of it and I'd read most of those links before. But if I zoom out there's a lot of software solutions that need to work with irregular connectivity, and only a fraction of those would be well suited to being built using a PWA with pouch/couch.
(Presumably) only when the fate of the entire aircraft, or a substantial portion of the passengers, is in jeopardy.
Putting the question in verbatim led to a somewhat unimaginative, albeit technically correct response.

> The entropy of the universe, also known as the thermodynamic arrow of time, is a measure of the disorder or randomness of a system. It is a fundamental concept in thermodynamics, and it is widely accepted that the entropy of the universe is constantly increasing over time. This is because according to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of a closed system can never decrease.
You just assumed a brand new battery, fully charged, and then taken to empty in optimal conditions.

Nobody would actually use a truck like that day to day, you need slack for every thing from aging batteries to making it to charging infrastructure and running the AC.
That's because the US required TSA like checks for flight in and out of the US.

From my experience in EU -> EU flights they pass your bags through the machine and a metal detector, and that's it
Designing Electronics That Work
Palo Alto homeowners aren't considered wealthy even by Bay Area standards? Since when? It is one of the wealthiest cities in the world. The fact that his parents own a house that is worth above the $4M median price, which 10x more than the media price in America, means he is from "wealthy background."
the groundwater well is full of radiation and the plants all died from radiation and lack of sunlight...
> And the insurance market.

No. Insurance is subject to the "insurable interest" doctrine, which generally prohibits using insurance as naked speculation. There are also far more backstops, reserve requirements, government guarantees, etc., designed to prevent this kind of implosion. Not saying it doesn't happen, but we've had since the South Sea Bubble to learn how to regulate insurance to prevent this kind of thing.

The key difference is that insurance is generally regulated from a consumer protection perspective, since many insurance lines are sold directly to unsophisticated consumers. CDSs are, by contrast, sold primarily these days to sophisticated financial speculators, who are presumably fully aware of the kinds of risk involved.
Not only was this study covered up, a Pfizer commercial aired that recommends oral treatment for high risk groups including smokers without disclosure of potential side-effects or a list of studies that confirm the claims of the ad. I’n not sure what loophole makes this legal but maybe it is because the actual drug name is not spoken and that allows Pfizer to advertise without listing the side effects by saying “ask your doctor if an oral treatment is right for you?”
The actual reason is probably unrelated to the act of smoking. Smokers are different than the general population in a number of ways
- Smokers are addicted to an appetite suppressant and are skinnier than the general population. Since obesity is linked to poor covid outcomes that could play a role.
- I'd guess that smokers are younger on average since, grimly, they don't make it into old age as often (or they quit). Age is also linked to poor covid outcomes.
- Smokers spend more time outdoors and are more likely to sit outdoors at restaurants/bars.

It's definitely an interesting statistical effect but I don't think there's any actionable information in the correlation.
I'm not sure what's motivating this question, but I've asked it myself at times and that search led me to my doctor and to an ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescription (Vyvanse). For me personally, less stress (both in how I dealt with things, the expectations I put on myself, and asking for and receiving more help from others) seems to have done more than the medication, which I no longer take. Again, anecdotally, omega 3 and l-tyrosine supplementation have had positive effects as well.
Because it was built with the newer design language that Apple was developing - they used it in Quicktime too. I'd hazard a guess that the key difference was that at the time that MacOS 9 came out, you could get something in as long as it appealed to Steve.

It's not that Apple didn't experiment in earlier days, but this was a time when the push to the next OS and design was really strong after so many failed efforts to get a next-gen OS out the door.
They most certainly are not sitting on all that money, it was used to fund the project.

It’s not defraud if he decides to pull the plug and stop development entirely, but then no one will be able to enjoy it. They could also change the name of the product and loophole out of the situation as well. That’s honestly what they probably should have done given the backlash here.

The whole thing is silly and overblown.
The single time I've ever had an issue with the IRS - I forgot to sign a 1080X - They sent me a letter, I signed it, and everything was perfectly fine. They collect a massive amount of payments and paperwork every year. I don't know how you could say they're barely functioning.

The DMV on the other hand is the joke in American culture about incompetent bureaucracies.
I don't know much about technical drawings by hand. But I am very experienced with AutoCAD. And I cannot appreciate much of what CAD has. On the contrary, having met senior people who took technical drawing, they could appreciate it very much so and were able to teach me concepts that I had a hard time understanding before.

Nowadays, when I teach very young people what AutoCAD is, I make them use a mini rolling ruler and tell them to watch youtube videos of how to use a rolling ruler. My understanding of CAD is high enough to know that every tool in CAD was inspired by and modeled after the rolling ruler. Sufficient to say, they understand and enjoy CAD very much after that point.
It’s very much not being argued that the increase is due up speculative wall st bets.

The bis report quite clearly points out that the vast majority of the swaps market dollar obligations are outside of the us and nothing about the report suggests it’s due to speculation.

Rather it’s about the central bank policy issues with the way the swaps are accounted for and their short term nature.
We'll I've spent years on notepad++ and I will have to disagree (ofc VSC can be almost like full IDE but I don't have a lot of plug-ins)
Tesla making empty claims on this is even more annoying since Toyota, which has a far more conservative approach to AV announcements, thinks this is near-term attainable for their Hino semis.
The race to build a better Twitter
OK I lied and opened the article:

"FX swap markets, where for example a Dutch pension fund or Japanese insurer borrows dollars and lends euro or yen before later repaying them, have a history of problems."

Isn't this false? If we do a swap nobody borrows anything, we just agree to track the returns and pay the difference in one direction or another. An FX forward does the same thing, but actually involves borrowing from a bank, which is why the swap is easier.

Anyway that's my understanding
A team of hijackers could almost certain break the cockpit door given sufficient time (maybe hours) of unfettered access to do so.
Driving a car without a backup cam feels like being blind
I thinks that’s the key though - the argument is that the program should be shutdown, not that they should all be put on border patrol duty… assigning them to a random alternative post is going to make recruiting good new folks really hard.
My filter is blocking the website, can anyone provide a mirror?
Yes, there should be legal consequences for the officers involved as well. Blame is not zero sum.
Sure, anything derivative can be misused but the regular currency markets and currency futures are much simpler and higher leverage.
Ah, sure, yeah, those are fairly consistent here, that's true. A couple exceptions (e.g. one grocery store dead center in our downtown) but yeah, mostly accurate.
Logically you should be able to tell if a candidate is technically competent from their resume and referees. But it's blatantly clear that different companies have very different standards around what's considered a "competent" level of coding skills.
I'd also say the fact a candidate is prepared to commit the time and mental energy to doing a good job on a test just for a particular company is a pretty good indication of how keen they are.
Do you need to change your accent in the UK to get a top job? [video]
While I can (unfortunately) see this happening - it seems incredibly futile and pointless to try and fight such an arms race. When AI-supported writing becomes the norm having students write essays without AI-assistance will be like trying to force students to do complex arithmetic without calculators.

Universities and schools need to accept that writing essays without AI support will simply not be a useful skill anymore, much like doing complex arithmetic without a calculator is not a useful skill anymore. Instead, they should focus on teaching students how to use AI support as a tool to write better, more comprehensive texts, rather than try and force students to write without it. That will ultimately make the students more productive members of a society in which AI supported writing is ubiquitous.
I'll never understand how people in the US believe their prisons are "entirely inhumane". I see it surprisingly often. Every time I've seen a video about an US prison they understandably don't seem like nice places to be at but definitely liveable albeit boring.
Automation locks in the status quo essentially forever. Human agents can and are expected to use executive judgement when conducting themselves, and are held accountable for abuse. Automated systems just endlessly watch us, with no "person" ever at fault for any transgressions.

It's simply a bad faith argument to compare a detective watching a single individual to every single person in a large international airport, because one must have a causal justification for their actions while the second simply performs it's programming, endlessly.

If we're going to become endlessly surveilled and tracked, we as a society should at least has the smallest bit of dignity and complain about it. If we all let our privacy be eroded so tacitly, we go down like dogs.
Do you have any reference that specifically discusses the transitionary period into post scarcity? I'm extremely disinterested in violent revolutions and tearing something down and putting it back up with a theoretical system. I want to see a system that still pushes us quickly towards post scarcity, and that's something I haven't seen that isn't also extremely vulnerable to authoritarian takeovers.
I was amazed in the US grocery shops - plenty of warning signs about how eggs are dangerous if not cooked properly etc.

Funny thing is that all those signs were next to actually healthy food ! Nothing next to the massively processed food that make up 90% of the shop.
We won't find out from this case, which was accepted for its freedom of speech rather than religion arguments.
66 billion dollars is hardly pretending

[Edit] Less snark
This is great news. Hetzner is our choice for inexpensive redundancy, especially on non-US soil for data duplication on other continents. They've been very good with us on customer service and their auction prices can't be beaten.

The latency to the EU somewhat stops us using them for production-level work, but this deployment to the US (especially on the West Coast, how lucky) will definitely shift our spend from DigitalOcean (which has been garbage lately both in terms of customer service and product offerings being much worse than advertised) to them.

Hetzner's control panel and automated systems are pretty bad, but that's a small thing when the price is right and customer service is much better than other offerings.

EDIT: I am a consumer of dedicated servers from them only. I don't really believe in cloud-based / AWS-type services for small businesses, and would like to get off most of our VPSes as well.
Well in WA, we already switched to RealID-compliant driver's license numbers, even for standard licenses. Next time your license is renewed, take a look at your license. I didn't even notice this for months after I got my new one. I was filling out a form and I put down the old one since I had it memorized. You still can't use it to cross borders though.

I'm sure this means we will have RealID-compliant cards as the norm here soon.
When Windows 7 was the latest, people said that about Windows XP. When Windows XP was mainstream, people said that about Windows Server 2003 with the classic theme.
I think this is one of those cases where you didn't ask the right question. The TSA officer of course doesn't know the ID issue policies of 50+ ID-issuing regions.

If you had asked "How do I know if my ID meets the Real ID requirements", the answer is very simple: "It has an image of a star on the top of the ID".
While backing up to a cloud is good, and gets the data offsite, bear in mind the chance of losing data there.

The primary issue is not the 10 to the minus X failure rate they quote, but the much more likely chance that you will lose access to the data for some reason. For example, the account is hacked, someone closes the account, or the account just deleted/restricted by the provider.
>Russia has an interest in sowing energy chaos amongst European countries.

There was as much energy chaos before as there was after.

The presence of a stopped pipeline simply meant that there was an off switch on the energy chaos in Germany that could be flipped - presumably a switch that comes with Russian strings attached.

Somebody was pretty desperate to remove that off switch from Germany's hands.

It's also a switch that, if flipped, would render a multibillion dollar investment in LNG port capacity instantaneously worthless.
The paper says it both predicts sex, but also says gender. I am guessing what it is actually able to predict is which sex hormone is dominant. For example: If a man with prostate cancer is taking estrogen to suppress T (and hopefully prevent the prostate cancer from growing/spreading) for even six months the colors he will perceive will shift as estrogen is dominant and the cells in his eyes will respond to that change. The paper briefly mentions this: "Others have demonstrated variation of ocular blood flow and have suggested the effect of sex hormones, but thus far, consensus is lacking".
I don't think this is true on both accounts:

* There is no such thing as "conflict free". When users edit data disconnected from each other, they can conflict, because the user intent of the edits can be different and not possible to reconcile. Nothing can fix that, not even crdts (As a thought experiment - two users are working on a report about ferrets. While offline, one decides the report should be about lemurs, while the other decides it should be about otters. The resulting set of changes will not be mergable without conflicts in any reasonable sense.)

* What CRDTs give you is actually convergence which is very important. But there are other ways to get convergence, and it can be done transactionallym as long as your are willing to weaken the D (durability). Replicache (my thing - replicache.dev) is one way, the way described here is another.

In general game networking is also transactional in this same sense. Operations are transactions, that can affect multiple data items and enforce arbitrary invariants. But the order they apply in drifts, and so durability is sacrificed.

Stepping back even further, CRDTs are also often transactional in the same way. Each operation in an op-based crdt can be thought of a transaction that applies completely or not at all. It's just that the set of available operations in a CRDT is typically fixed.
Built-in social distancing, heh.
> The studies do appear to show that smoking cigarettes is correlated with a lower probability of getting the Covid

The problem is that non-smokers is not a single category of people, so the confounding factor for the correlation is "why X does not smoke".

For example, if you had a study which compared moderate drinkers to non-drinkers, but not carve out "cannot drink due to other medication" from the second group, you get a more discriminatory result from the study. The real problem of course is that confounding factors are almost fractal in nature.

On the other hand, if you had a comparison saying "Smokers replace their mucus linings more frequently than non-smokers, expectorating the virus with it", then that I would buy as a causation. Coughing up phlegm does offer a direct means of explaining a reduced exposure.

> I would not recommend taking up a cigarette habit just because of the Covid

So there's a weird thing that happens when news about a new improvement in life comes up.

A study gets published "people who eat dark chocolate live longer", but then a bunch of relatively unhealthy but optimistic people actively choose to eat dark chocolate or drink red wine or whatever new superfood, but fail to live longer as a result. Mostly because they just made that one change, plus there are now a thousand more manufacturers of the same product (say Manuka honey), with varying fades of quality as time goes on.

So a change in human behaviour is triggered by a study both for consumption and production, which ends up proving that the original study modified the circumstances in which it was originally true. And we are in the quest for a better causation of the original observation.
Both the original SARS and coronaviruses in general are known to spread via droplets in the air, and from the beginning folks assumed this was one way SARS-COV-2 spread.

What was unknown was how long the virus could remain viable after the droplets landed on surfaces. If it is a long time, then mishandling a soiled mask could easily undo any benefit of wearing it. This is the same reason people were washing their groceries and mail. We now know that is spreads very poorly this way, so we wear masks and we don’t wash our groceries anymore.