skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense; thanks.
> When something happens which goes against our beliefs, rather than instinctively updating, we double down on protecting those beliefs.

I don't doubt the fundamental theorem of calculus when things go wonky. In my experience, the breakdown is something like:

80% operator error;

15% moving parts;

4% hardware, especially power supplies;

1% software

As far as the confirmation bias goes, I appreciate Scott Adam's two ideas:

- Beware the headline that's too "on the nose": there may be propaganda afoot

- Beware documentaries on any topic, as the bias is baked in and convincing
Do you still secure your personal services with passwords?
It's also pretty elitist. Reads like "you are not part of the club so you don't get it".
Perfect is the enemy of good. Text based 2FA is compromisable relatively easily but at least it's an extra hurdle.
> beause "you can't hover or tab on mobile, right?" (wrong)

I'm guessing you do this by adding an external mouse and keyboard?
Another equally plausible MOND model is one in which the gravitational constant G increases with distance. This is what is observed in the orbits of stars around the center of a galaxy.

Of course, this is a pseudo-increase caused by, you guessed it, dark matter.
If a labyrinth has only one path to the center, why would Theseus need a thread to help find the exit?
I've also fallen into the rabbit hole in the past few weeks. I'm looking at a rear hub motor for my current bicycle for when I'm going into the office.
The setup is so simple once you understand the basics... it's got me thinking I could build an electric motorcycle in the future.
udemy instructor.

possibly quite sincere.
What do you mean by the "stochastic parrots" (null) hypothesis in this case? Cards on the table, I think by any reasonable interpretation it's either uninformative or pretty conclusively refuted, but I'm curious what your version is.
Maybe any one of your browser tabs has JS listening to the accelerometer. It doesn't even require a permission, AFAIK.
casting vague aspersions

early network engineers were often rude and insulting. It was common to be berated about "vi or emacs" or other dense topic. Communication between engineers was often verbal commands or mild insults like this one.
Yes but you would have to know or try all possible layout
Since you’re already using Cloudflare why did you choose tailscale over Cloudflares WARP?
i use 1password and have never ever typed password, so i am probably safe.
I think you cut to the core of it: genocide.

Governments are entrusted with great power. Enough power to decide an entire class of people no longer deserve to live. Without checks and balances that hold the people we put in government accountable, that power will be abused.

“It should be easy to handle some censorship” is where your point went off the rails.

When you trust your government with the power to control the flow of information, you trust them with the power to hide their own actions from you - including genocide. You trust them to censor people who vocally oppose an unjust war. You trust them to censor people who report on broken checks and balances. You trust them to censor people who question their accumulation of power.

History doesn’t care if you meant well. Our descendants who inherit these political systems won’t care if you meant well. They’ll remember the results of the system you build.
I don't mind having a dynamic IP that changes from time to time (for example every time I restart my router or reconnect). The real troublemaker is CGNAT.

Actually, I prefer having a dynamic IP as it makes blacklisting individual IPs useless.
Sharing a piece of advice Bram gave to me once:

"It appears you think that everybody is like you. But that's not so."

I didn't take the advice well at the time, but now, a little older and wiser, I understand.

Thank you, Bram. Thank you for vim, for your time and dedication, and for taking the time to deposit a small amount of your wisdom into my brain. Sorry for being a dick.
Some old TV remotes used to work this way. They were made by Zenith and are called Space Command remotes. Apparently they are the reason TV remotes are sometimes called clickers.

https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot...
In case anyone's wondering what the model does (like I was).

> With additional fine tuning, the base model can be redeployed for tasks like tracking deforestation, predicting crop yields, or detecting and monitoring greenhouse gasses. IBM and NASA researchers are also working with Clark University to adapt the model for applications such as time-series segmentation and similarity research.
Ohhh, Glen Cook! This guy is in my "to check" shelf for way too long. Gotta get around to him.

Thanks for reminding me.
Your comment:

> Rick, if you're reading this: you need to do better.

Front and center of Rick's page.

> This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting to a lot of people. Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. - Rick Aschmann. (Page last updated: May 2, 2018.

In fact Rick is apparently a professional linguist who's day job involves researching "amerindian" or indigenous languages so he's devoted his career to studying the dialects of people of color. Consider cutting him some slack on his hobby.
> TIOBE and StackOverflow have different ideas of what a programming language is.

To be fair, the StackOverflow survey used explicitly concerns "programming, scripting, and markup languages", whereas TIOBE specifically refers only to "programming languages", and they explain how they define programming languages.[0]

Also, I suspect that if StackOverflow were to separate out programming, scripting and markup languages, HTML would be placed into the "markup language" category rather than the "programming language" category. Mostly due to its lack of Turing-completeness, which is one of the TIOBE criteria.

[0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...
I had a different take on Asimov, in that his future was so far fetched and ahead that it seemed like just a different form of fantasy. Too much was hand waved away or just ignored that it might as well have been about magic.

I still enjoyed it, and I enjoy lots of fantasy books, but I drifted to more "hard" sci fi pretty quickly.
Because they have a habit of removing stuff, and/or retro-actively censoring shows to fit in with whatever the latest witch hunt is. :(
HN Enhance for Firefox, been using it for years. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-enhance/?u...
The probes aren’t big enough. That’s why it’s often a big screwdriver and jump lead to earth.

The better option is the Fluke 80K 40.

https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/accessories/probes/fluke...
Nah, it won because of GitHub.
There's a section in the Parmenides which addresses this particular idea, though as a part of a larger argument on the nature of the one. Later platonist / neoplatonist thinkers also occasionally had similar notions. It would be incorrect to say that this idea is absent from platonism.
If you are so against posting on social platforms, why are you posting here? You don’t need to post anything.
Contolled fusion may give way to real alchemy (think synthesising water and steel just from hydrogen atoms).
As someone just getting access to the net in '94/'95 and also learning programming via Turbo Pascal around that time, ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi was a lot more important! Now sadly gone.

(https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.programmer/c/Kcoc7...)
I have been told (but not confirmed) that recent versions of iOS won't let you add non-DRM protected music to your library (and for a monthly fee you can get a service that provides you with DRM protected versions of any non-DRM protected music you have). That seems bonkers to me, so does anyone know what the actual story is there?
The "FTP" archive is also served over HTTPS nowadays, and has been for a long time. The hostname may still be ftp.funet.fi but there's an HTTP(S) server listening.

I'm actually a bit surprised that they do also seem to still run an actual FTP server there as well.
sounds great, but is it a good idea to use polymers inside the body? can't they degrade into sub-cellular sized particles which could then damage cells? And when those cells apoptose their insides come out, including the polymers and those polymers go on to damage another cell.

I've got a sneaking feeling that nanoparticles of plastic are going to be a major health problem in the future. I hope I'm wrong.
Please correct me if I'm misreading this, but are you saying bad actors have an inherent right to exercise their bad actions? It's on every individual to defend themselves against whatever harm is being inflicted, and society should stand by because, again, inherent right to be awful should be protected?
Does anyone know if there's a method to effectively "subscribe" to news pertaining to topics like this? I'd greatly appreciate being able to keep up with the latest research in certain fields, such as this one.
I work with massive repositories, and creating new worktrees works in an instance, because it only creates hardlinks instead of copying files. Saves disk space, too.

Also, all branches stay in sync between worktrees. For example, I do git fetch on one worktree, and remote branches are up to date on all of them.
I've worked with enough "professional" programmers to know I don't want to work with them and their sloppy, reckless, uncurious, and inconsiderate ways.
IPv4 availability is low,
IPv6 isn’t implemented everywhere.

My ISP don’t hand them out and charge per IPv4 if you want static at a lovely $10 per month. And they don’t have IPv6 implemented..
> It’s easy to understand code as you are writing it. You are executing it and refining it as you go. But it’s hard to understand code just by reading it after the fact.

After it's written, you can execute it and refine your mental model of it as you go, and you're relieved of the burden of having to write the code. So in theory it could be easier. The problem is programmers have an unreasonable expectation that they should be able to understand legacy code just by reading it. When it should be treated as a science project to understand a mysterious ancient artifact. Don't just stare at it and chin-scratch, probe it actively.

Oh, and the stuff they didn't document? They didn't understand it at the time, either.
I'm not?

Just about every serious critique of the treaty of Versailles makes it clear that the way the war ended set up Germany and Austria for the populism of the Nazis.

The other important thing to consider is that while it's true that there was nothing the Allies could do militarily until quite late in the war, there was plenty they could've done, but didn't, either because of fears of communism, fears of lost business opportunities, or fears of encouraging more Jewish/Polish/Slavic/Romani/etc immigrants. Look at what happened with the M.S. St. Louis, or what role IBM played in the late stages of the Holocaust.

What I'm trying to make clear is that while it takes a genocidal regime to do a genocide, it also takes the apathy of the rest world, when the rest of the world still has the means to do something. A lot of narratives around how the Nazis came to power hinge on this idea that only the dedicated ideological core of the regime was responsible for what happened, and that simply isn't so.
There is a relativistic MOND theory that has predicted the CMB spectrum[0]. And perhaps. MOND is first of all observational. AeST is just the latest (and AFAIK best) attempt to create a theory that reproduces the MOND acceleration artifact.

0: https://tritonstation.com/2023/01/13/what-we-have-here-is-a-...
The Wikipedia page on it looks pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

Sociocratisch Centrum co-founder Reijmer has summarized the difference as follows: "By consensus, I must convince you that I'm right; by consent, you ask whether you can live with the decision".
Moving work/commits from one local clone to another is something I do regularly - just using vanilla git push/fetch.

I’ll grant that saving disk space is a concern for many - not for me - the largest repo I use is 2-3 million LOC with about 10 or 15 years history and the 4-5GB per clone doesn’t bother me.
bioforming
My hypothesis is that unknown emissions like these is why climate change seems to be happening faster than the models suggest.
Below, what Google's Generative AI [https://www.google.com/search?q=flat+v+conical+burr+coffee+b...] says about this:

Consistency: Flat burrs are known for being more consistent and producing a more balanced extraction

Noisiness: Flat burrs can be noisy and heat up quickly without good ventilation

Price: Conical burr grinders are cheaper than flat burr grinders

Coolness: Conical burr grinders are cooler than flat burr grinders

Gentleness: Conical burrs are gentler on the coffee beans, which can result in a sweeter cup of coffee

Control: Flat burr grinders offer more control, which is good for cafes or commercial uses

Espresso brewing: Conical burr grinders are good for pulling espresso shots

Grounds: Flat burrs often retain more grounds than conical burrs
It's not banned in NL, I can access it just fine.
The previous discussion was flagged and dead. It's a paper in Nature, one of the most prestigious scientific journals, how does one justify flagging it?
Ask HN: Does posting to social media make you start doubting your grammar?
And do you then look up grammar issues on the web that you would not otherwise due to this increased self-doubt while posting to social media?
why is a lookup necessary? surely we just need a subtraction and conditional move - this is how hexadecimal is designed.
There's a difference in the balance that people like to do, and what's best for the organization. I definitely can't deny that I've sometimes gone for the side that made my job better for me, but not necessarily helped the organization the most.
Personal anecdote:
I had lived and worked in southern Uganda with a Canadian organization called Kibaale Children’s Fund (now Kuwasha). One day Bram came by our location. We talked a bit - someone told me he was influential and “worked for google or something” and then I learned his real identity and the software he was a part of. I was just on the brink of beginning a career in IT at the time and later in life as my skills and toolset grew I realized his significance. He never spoke of VIM in person during our time and was an incredibly humble quiet man, dedicating his time to helping children in need through ICCF Holland, which operated out of the same school I was working with as I recall. I found Bram incredibly genuine, and was also highly impressed with the ethics he brought to his efforts in the local work in Uganda (where it is typical to see fundraising dollars sliced and diced with admin-fees - ICCF turned every cent of a dollar back into the community.) He will be missed by many in that part of the world for such a massive impact he was able to have through funds raised through VIM. May he rest in peace.
How do you know someone is insecure about their diet? They'll tell you a joke about vegans.
The problem is corporate interests usually demand expedience and individual, short-term output while dismissing any notion of craftsmanship, completeness, correctness, or long-term investment. More and more corporations have completely stopped investing in employee education, career, and professional development apart from harassment and privacy training videos.
I work with university professors that develop high-tech solutions (all types) and one of the biggest problems they have is in market research. I think this is similarly true of many software startups. They can’t afford to pay a market research company thousands of dollars to write or provide a vague, useless report. They can’t afford to pay Google thousands of dollars for fake “impressions” that might suggest market interest.

So, what should these folks do? What is a no-BS process for doing decent market research that doesn’t cost thousands of dollars?

Thanks.
I agree. I get the impression that the intended message is "USB not necessary" rather than "unavailable". I can imagine that many users seeing the USB port would think that it is required (since it was on older printers), not understanding that WiFi-only is an option.
1. You're pre-supposing that intervention in these cases is both common enough to affect things on a sociological level, and necessary enough to also contribute to the effect.

I suspect given that the rarity of many serious ailments until much later in life simply no intervention would suffice in any reasonable epidemiological sense.

2. Your hypothesis presupposes that serious medical care is commonly necessary enough to significantly improve public health.

I know of young people that have been harmed by medical science, and not many come to mind whom I would consider having been in absolute need of medical intervention.

Given that medicine often harms patients demonstrably, with mistakes and opiates contributing majorly to human fatalities, it occurs to me that I can more commonly produce anecdotes where medication or medicine harmed rather than helped where it would have been absolutely necessary.
> In addition to it effectively destroying the community aspect of schools where your kids go to school with the neighbors which facilitates neighboring families meeting each other and becoming friends, walking to school together, and so on.

This is the reason I'm hardcore opposed to bussing. It disrupts the ability of your stereotypical battle axe mothers from riding the schools ass. I'm sure school district goldbricks love that.

Personal view point which may not be universal. It's supposedly a lottery. But my friends with mixed race kids all got accepted to the better schools. And my friends whose kids have Norman Rockwell nature all got accepted to the schools where the district dumps the problematic kids.
So we can't see them?
Having an upper bound is super useful...when paired with more reasonable estimates. But if you are only going to run _one_ set of numbers (which appears to be the case here), it's much _less_ useful than having just the "reasonable" numbers.
Are you talking about the City of Hope discovery: AOH1996 inhibitor of PCNA?
Yeah, that's the point. Create a negative outcome for companies that perform politically biased censorship, as many do. It gained a ton of popularity during covid because so many were against the government banning public assembly. Yet the only remaining avenues for broad speech censored views that went against the CDC's demands
Well, `binwalk` is no dice on either of those EXEs, so that's already a bit tougher...
The point of the quote is that mathematics requires more imagination.
robots building robots installing solar panels.
> apparently, the protocol allows for building bidirectional DP devices, which is certainly idea-provoking

https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/bi-directional-...
Because the quote says so
Tillman Act of 1907
It's a catchy phrase but my experience with children is that "why" and "how" is painfully frequent in their vocabulary. So as far as asking those questions I think every healthy human mind is capable and does pretty frequently (at least at some point of development). Answering is a different matter.
Copyright infringement is not protected speech. Google is free to provide or not provide results however they see fit.

To me- freedom of speech is the right of citizens to criticize the government without reprisal.

This does not mean that adversaries have the right to flood our airwaves with propaganda, lies, and other bullshit under the guise of protected speech.
As much as I appreciate what they offer at no cost, I have experienced more downtime from their service then I would like. My Uptime Kuma dashboard reports a 99.98% 30-day uptime from their service (mainly small 1-2min down-times every couple of weeks), but I have experienced at least one 7ish hour period a few months back where no duckDNS queries were resolving for any domains I checked. And I never found any official source giving a reason or even acknowledging this this outage. Again, free service, I do appreciate what they offer.
C++ compilation times can become quite slow even when you're doing what you describe manually (known as a "unity build", and not particularly rare in some niches), even if you avoid including the same headers multiple times. Of course, a lot of this depends on what features you use; template-heavy code is going to be slower to compile than something that's more-or-less just C fed into a C++ compiler.
I brainfarted a grammatical error into a tweet a couple of days ago and didn't notice until after it had got a few retweets and likes, so since then I've been extra paranoid about anything I write... but generally no I don't think social media use affects how I think about it.
Why would careful study contradict learning?
Available also at /etc/services or %SystemDrive%\%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\services

id Software's Doom having port 666 (unofficially) assigned is a nice touch.
Sounds like business as usual, which is very sad. This was very entertaining, however.
Depends whether they are inert. I suspect lack of internal UV light might help a bit. I'd reckon something breaking polymers down internally won't stop until the nanoparticles degrade.
Now add some third party dependencies. Have fun!

vcpkg makes it tolerable, but it's very very recent.
Any examples of that? That sounds pretty far fetched
Plenty of people do, but zoning rules make it expensive.

Suppose you want to build a 20 story condo. The most efficient thing to do is to find an empty plot of land or a single family home and build it there, but that's prohibited by zoning. 20 story buildings aren't allowed there.

Now what you have to do is find an existing 10 story condo and knock that down, because it's in a place zoned for tall buildings. But that costs a lot more, and you also have to remove all the people who are already living there instead of just buying one house from someone who is already moving. It's so much more expensive than the first thing that it's not profitable, so it doesn't happen without a subsidy. Not only that, even if it does happen, you've now paid to build a 20 story building and only added 10 stories worth of housing.
If you live in an area where there's only one bakery in town, then there's no pressure at all for that bakery to improve their process. What is your point? I live in a city where it's common to see multiple bakeries on the same block and where I could visit a new bakery every week for the rest of my life.

Again, it sounds like your little town or wherever you live is just lame. If there is no competition, there's no reason to innovate. I'm sure every business in your (real or hypothetical) town is years behind the curve in every metric if your only factor for patronizing a business is "well, it's the only one close by".
Yeah, the methodologies aren't directly comparable (JMH is dark magic as well). For the record I used JMH 1.37
The idea is that people should have the skill of critically assessing the information they see, not trusting it by default, and knowing how to verify it. Like, check for conflicts of interest, historical precedents, correlate independent sources, etc.

This skill only develops if people have to deal with lies on a daily basis. If we delegate the function of telling what's a truth and what's a lie to a 3rd party, it quickly starts abusing it for its own gain and the quality of life starts sliding downhill.
Can ants "see" us?

But no, not directly. You did give me a good chuckle.
Sadly, low quality IT articles took over medium way before ChatGPT became a thing.
Yeah, this webpage really should have a big prominent warning label at the top.

The flyback transformer can fucking kill you, and anyone who needs this webpage or is interested in the instructions (ie someone not working professionally in electronics repair and aware of such hazards) is less likely to know that.