skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well either the oil companies are suppressing the rich people complaints in the general discourse, or the relentless "concerns" about land values are oil-funded astroturfing intended to scare rich people with some sway to get on side against the turbines.

Either prospect smells strongly of malfeasance to me.
> Lisp is probably the poster child of _better languages_ according to many people, including me, but there are many others: Smalltalk, OCaml, Haskell, Erlang.

I think you just have an unpopular view of "better".

Lisp is weird to read and write. OCaml is ok but its infrastructure is arguably worse than Python's. I've been forced to use it recently and Opam is the most annoying tool I've used for quite a while.

Haskell is simply too difficult for most people. I think it's pretty clear that algebraic effects are going to be much better than monads where you absolutely need purity, and I think most people don't care about purity most of the time.

I have never used Smalltalk.

Anyway, his "evidence" is equally consistent with A and B so it doesn't really show anything.

> Not to mention that showing conclusively that a language is "better" than another is incredibly hard, probably impossible as it just depends on too many factors, many of which are subjective.

Of course. But that obviously doesn't mean that all languages are equally good.
You have my sympathies. I admire your phlegm. A friend of mine had a malevolent thyroid, which flattened her body but left her wit standing.
This also sets the standard for the names of characters. (Parentheses are round) [Brackets are square.] {And braces are 'curly.'} There are no 'round braces' and to say 'curly braces' is redundant.
> lol I don’t know where you got this impression but during the one-child policy phase it’s widely known that people would underreport their kids to avoid fines.

The news mostly. But also this guy[1], who I guess is using the leaked data. But even the official data shows a huge drop in the 0-4 bucket.

> Why would the population be overstated?

As I understand it[2], the local governments are reliant on two sources for income: land sales and money from the central government. Both are influenced by demographic change, so there's incentives to adjust the numbers upwards to keep revenue coming in.

[1]: https://zeihan.com/new-chinese-demographic-data-population-c...
[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-13/china-s-p...
It's a DRM free game. I cannot say if the game pings home or not because I don't own it but this statistic is collected by Steam, not Larian.
M3 rivnuts can be press-fit into Technic holes!

>I’m using M3 rivet nuts and machine screws. The outer diameter of the rivet nuts is 5mm; the inner diameter of the Technic holes is 4.8mm. Fortunately the beams are made from flexible ABS, so the rivet nuts can be squeezed in and make a firm press fit. They can be pushed out again with a brick separator.
Or she’s one of the few with the resources & social connections to get this on the country’s radar.
Google's goal is to fingerprint you so they know exactly who you are on every site you visit. That's the point of WEI, to make the environment safe for their ad business, not better for you.

You using a VPN is just as outrageous to them as you attempting to use a working ad blocker.
Not an economist, what type of impact does the 2% increase in demand that you demonstrated do to pricing in an inelastic constrained market?

Also, most of the remaining 11.3 million undocumented still occupy housing. So out of 340 million Americans 35% don't own property leaving around 119 million non-home owners. With 8.3 million undocumented not owning homes per your numbers, undocumented are adding approx. 7% to the needed rental market. Again, what does that increased demand do to housing pricing in a relatively inelastic constrained market? I'm personally for more open borders but I'm also for being honest about what that means including increased housing stocks.
I'd rather quote the full bit, since the final sentence is important:

> What do you need if you’re out seeking services at night? Food, sex, shelter. The staunch of a wound.

What the author is trying to express isn't that someone out at night has different needs than someone out during the day, but rather that if you're out at night then whatever you're looking for has an urgency that outweighs sleep, like a bleeding wound.
It was used as the display language for NeXT and some unix workstations. Just googling real quick it was a direct dialect of PostScript with the main changes being related to using efficient 32 bit integer ids in place of strings and similar performance optimizations.
Suggest you check on Costco's offerings. A TV review some years ago showed they were cheaper than other providers with a complete patient fitting.
I can't access the group, but MK Productions' Killer Bob Saget 2000 changed my life, as a 10 year old learning QBASIC in the 90's. Then seeing his name again as I learned Vim as a young adult. Wow. I'm 37 but never thought he could've been much older than me. RIP, so much respect.
Any large version of this capacitor has to consist of fine layers of material between electrodes and separators. Its structural ability will be very different from bulk cement.
CSC ServiceWorks laundry machine coin bypass
They did post a long writeup if you want to hear straight from their newsroom: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/metas-position-on-canadas-...

Disclaimer: Meta employee programming games, unrelated to any of the ongoing discussions.
By numbers a third of my network (including me) moved to Mastodon, by engagement it's two thirds. Elk frontend on desktop, Ivory app on mobile.
That stat was surprising to me, I had assumed that light bulbs alone would have made a big dent in things (ie 60W vs 10W per bulb). They had a separate page [0] detailing some consumer habits which had some interesting nuggets. The overall point is that heating/cooling dominates residential usage, which is more than enough to swamp out efficiency gains from TVs, refrigerators, etc.

Evidently light bulb installation is significantly lower than I expected. I was unaware you could trivially acquire incandescent bulbs any more.

>In 2009, 58% of all households used at least one energy-efficient bulb indoors. In the 2015 RECS, which was administered from August 2015 to April 2016, 86% of households reported using at least one CFL or LED bulb. Nationwide, 18% of households responding to the latest RECS reported that they had no incandescent bulbs in their homes.

Also noteworthy that household consumption was based on electricity sales. Homes with installed solar/wind/battery would be under-represented in the stats, meaning overall consumption is higher than reported.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32212
"American and foreign" - very binary isn't it?
https://archive.is/xanUq
Not a written one, this is coming from personal acquaintances involved in the police recruitment process. It looks like a sibling comment provided a source for a documented policy, which corroborates what I’ve been told: that this is nearly universal, even if it’s only documented in some jurisdictions.
The point of antitrust law is to protect competition. It’s not to protect small firms nor to prevent the emergence of large ones. The kind of law you want is different, and in my opinion as an antitrust guy a very bad idea. To my knowledge no such law exists in any industrial democracy.
I know a test case reducer as a thing that takes a long bug reproduction sequence (like, do a, b, c, d, e, f and then X happens) and turns it into a shorter list (just do a, d, f and then X happens)

Which is useful. You get a log from prod, and then you automatically compress it to the minimal steps to trigger a bug which usually gets you halfway to understanding the issue.

See also the work by andreas zeller: https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/16/simplifying-and-isolatin...

Though I also haven’t read the code, so this might be about something else entirely!
Things like context and situations change, risk assessments change. Vaccination rates, new treatments, n new understanding and information, different strains, have all changed since when mask mandate first came in.
But is an engineers time not worth more than an additional key users can do self service with? Seems like a really thin argument given how cheap the keys can be.
For me, a timer just starts, but no response to any key presses or mouse clicks. A refresh of the page does randomize the patterns but that's about it.
great piece. the insecurity of life, and the need for a human connection. bravo
Sure, but you still paid for it. And, modulo that you want to buy a car, yes, you are being forced to buy one with a seat belt. The kind of car you are allowed to buy is being limited. I already acknowledged its a much weaker impingement on personal freedom but there is a thing someone might want to buy (a car without seatbelts), and you aren't allowed to buy it. I think it's pretty clear, even if one doesn't think it's a big deal.
I get what you are saying also, and kind of understand it.

I think I would just prefer if rather than making it illegal to photograph a base that happens to be visible, actual treason or espionage should be the only things which are illegal, and the government needs to prove that.

It might make things harder on the government, but I think it is fundamentally more fair.
This is a dangerous abductive leap: the victim here is one of six people who were incorrectly arrested due to faulty facial recognition, in just a single mid-sized city. Not all of them received national news stories, and almost certainly never will.

We're reading (rightfully) about this woman's story because it has all of the "right" parts: her innocence is painfully obvious, she's pregnant, a professional, a working mother of two, etc. There are others just like her, and the evidence we have points to there being many others just like her; they deserve attention as well, and not to be erased as statistical anomalies.
> I don't live in the US, but from abroad I can tell how messed up the police are over there. The number of stories of brutality, deaths and upright bullying of every day citizens...

Yeah, you might not be getting a complete or accurate picture.

The US is geographically huge and has a large, distributed, heterogeneous population. Be careful making broad generalizations about 330M people in 10s of thousands of cities, in 50 states across 3.5M square miles of land.

Awful stuff happens sometimes. That doesn't mean it's the norm.
A friend of mine just told me her boyfriend doesn't wear a seatbelt as civil disobedience. I don't get it any more than I'd understand illegally burning your own house down or dumping used motor oil in your backyard, but you're not wrong--people are still pushing back.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...

This went to court and the man who sued for discrimination lost his case.

> -- A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

> The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
Most of the school education is simplified to a level. The higher the level the more complicated/detailed it gets.
People use the vast majority of their lives medical expenditure in their last year or so of life if they make it to old age. Someone dying in their 50s before they hit the ground coats very little. Saying that I hope everyone lives long healthy lives.
Yep, they are by definition. Personally, I'm strongly against a government causing harm to you if you decide differently on what you like to do in such matters
It's not specific to the US. It's the problem of doctors seeing every particular patient for literally minutes and having zero incentive to dig deeper. 90% of the problems are of the nature that is either covered by standard remedies or will pass by itself with time. If you have one of the 10%, you need to have good luck to encounter an extra-ordinary doctor that would take personal interest in your problem, usually while all incentives point to "give the standard answer and move on" behavior.
"You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML."

The term "ASCII format" in the submission title comes from the IETF Internet Standard, not me. Contact the author Vint Cerf or the IETF with objections. Not much I can do to change an Internet Standard.

In this comment, I never used the term "ASCII format". I used the term "HTML format".

What is "markdown". Word play on the term "markup".
By your definition, I'm not a human. But then again, I always have thought that Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs was upside-down.
The everlasting cycle of security fuckwittery (with some apologies to Randall Munroe's "sandboxing cycle").

1) There is a protocol for communication that encodes some useful heuristic for regular operations - IP addresses, for example, or ports.
2) Idiots decide that ONLY EVER COMPLETELY SAFE traffic should be allowed. As a result, all communications are gone.
3) That's not workable, so some channels have to be opened.
4) Someone develops a way to encode all the previous uses, including the necessary administrative ones, AND necessarily the malicious ones, over this protocol.
1) as 1) but with an extra layer that now does nothing.

A very* similar process exists for scripting languages. "Why are our employees so unproductive, manually doing easily automated things that security won't let them automate? -> Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could automate all the things with [X]? -> Oh noes, malware!".
> There are per-employee overheads (training comes to mind, probably tax & conditions law too).

The more significant overhead is internal communication. Recently, after coming back from a week-long vacation, I spent an entire day catching up on unread chat messages and e-mails. [1]

In a group of N people where everyone needs to communicate with each other, you will have N(N-1)/2 lines of communication, i.e. communication overheads per person even scale quadratically instead of just linearly (like the things that you mention do). Having a hierarchical org structure alleviates this somewhat by centralizing the flow of communication, but this introduces a different set of inefficiencies which most people around here are intimately familiar with.

I used to work 70% part-time (i.e. 5.6 hours per day) for a while, accepting the trade-off of less money, but more free time. However, as I ascended through the ranks, I ended up going back to full-time because my current position as senior IC involves so much communication work (meetings, mails, workshops, etc.) that I would not be able to do any actual programming if I were still on 70%. And the programming part is what I like the most about the profession, and also where I feel like I produce the most value, so I'm not quitting that.

[1] I opted not to "Mark all as read" because I have learnt over the years that it's actually very valuable to be up-to-date on what people in adjacent teams are up to, even as an IC.
You're right. You weren't speaking with that intent and I brought that context into it. My apologies there.

I think I was responding to the idea that because the government was acting in self-serving ways, that we were necessarily cheering on Facebook, and that what facebook is doing is "standing up to...corruption", when their own efforts are a corruption of a different kind. The phrasing there made me feel like I was being made to choose--that I was either cheering for facebook or for their rivals in this situation--and I didn't feel that that choice was accurate. It's possible to think that both parties are in the wrong, even if they are on opposite sides here.

Your follow up post reinforced that feeling as it maintained the idea that one party or the other was in the right, but that post was also a direct response to what I said, and not necessarily a continuation of what you had posted earlier. So by continuing that thread I reinforced my own misinterpretation.

I will try to better understand my own reactions to people's posts in the future, and be better in responding in the appropriate context, not with a shift.
This is a very simplistic view. Why do believe QC departments exist? Even in an industrial setting, companies make the same thing at the same place on the same equipment after sometimes years of process optimisation of well understood technology. This is essentially a best case scenario and still results fail to reproduce. How are scientists who work at the cutting edge of technology with much smaller budgets supposed to give instructions that can be easily reproduced on first go? Moreover how are they supposed to easily reproduce other results?

That is not to say that scientist should not document the process to their best ability so it can be reproduced in principle. I'm just arguing that it is impossible to easily reproduce other people's results. Again when chemical/manufacturing companies open another location they often spend months to years to make the process work in the new factory.
Basicallyfood.com, but I got heartburn from it. I hear a liquid diet is t good if you have a sensitive esophagus.
There are a few notable inventory improvements, but the most important is that BG3 is much less gear/stat dependent than DOS2. You don't have to sweat trading stats for each slot and character building is simpler (no skillbook type of progression beyond wizard spell scrolls, and that's optional). You'll still get engaging, difficult, beatable combat. The inventory is kludgy and there are a lot of items but it's much less important to focus on than DOS.

No lone-wolf mode made me wonder if the game would be too fiddly for me, but there are other ways to streamline combat. Champion fighters, berserker barbarians, non-arcane trickster rogues are mechanically simple subclasses that are fun to play. 5e is forgiving for party composition in a way DOS2 isn't.
> household consumption was based on electricity sales. Homes with installed solar/wind/battery would be under-represented in the stats, meaning overall consumption is higher than reported

I hadn’t considered this. Thank you.
Tangentially related, but a number of telehealth operations with hospitals/therapists/etc... use Zoom -- I suspect because their clients can connect without an app or an account over a browser.

When you join a Zoom session over the browser, you don't sign a TOS. And I assume that actual licensed medical establishments are under their own TOS provisions that are compatible with HIPPA requirements. Training on voice-to-text transcription, etc... would be a pretty huge privacy violation particularly in the scope of services like therapy. Both because there are demonstrable attacks on AIs to get training data out of them, and because presumably that data would then be accessible to employees/contractors who were validating that it was fit for training.

Out of curiosity, has anyone using telehealth checked with their doctor/therapist to see what Zoom's privacy policies are for them?
The system is extremely corrupt and broken, from the very top (Supreme court, congress, president) all the way to the bottom.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. I'm sure you didn't intend it, but that's exactly what this leads to. Generic putdowns of other countries always do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Facial recognition is not factual. It is explicitly inferential.

The article explicitly stated that the victim picked her photo out of a line-up. The facial recognition was NOT the basis for the arrest.

"Five days after the carjacking, the police report said, the detective assigned to the case asked the victim to look at the mug shots of six Black women, commonly called a “six-pack photo lineup.” Ms. Woodruff’s photo was among them. He identified Ms. Woodruff as the woman he had been with. That was the basis for her arrest, according to the police report. (The police did not say whether another woman has since been charged in the case.)"
I'm not a fan of review bombing, and I think it's current player score (2.2 / 1-) is an unfair result of that; the over the top backlash to the changes. That being said, I certainly wouldn't say the 86 / 100 critics view isn't reasonable either. It had issues at release, and it's gotten worse since then. My recommendation would be to give it a few seasons to get into a better shape before picking it up.

It's worth noting that Diablo 3 went through similar pains upon release; though with less "read the room" type issues like they're having now.
I am really puzzled how are they able to "quietly" update the terms without notifying their users? Everybody was joking about the emails (We have updated our terms...) raining from every company when GDPR et al. got introduced. What changed?
It seems actually close to classical capacitors. And these are so cheap you can use them as bricks already :)
The human wasnt replaced, its more human to use the tools available to you than to purposefully stay in the past. True artists push the limit, adopting new tools is part of that. “We should instead focus on curing cancer” Oh please
In depth physics look at a ball being swung and released with surprising results [video]
Have you experienced anything like this other commenter mentioned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022878
> Absolutely everybody who owned a PC for gaming in the late 90's played BG1 and BG2, no matter the age.

Maybe among your friends? Sales numbers don't back that up and anecdotally among my friends and classmates barely anyone played BG, but everyone played Quake, StarCraft, Diablo, Need For Speed, etc. Even among RPGs Morrowing and Fallout were much more popular and accessible back in the day.
>Aren't containers never suitable for running untrusted code?

They are suitable provided the kernel is secure.
I agree with what the commenter is saying. But it's off topic. More offshore wind energy has no effect on demand reduction.
No. This is a kind of duff’s device[0] although it is hard to identify. In essence, it’s attempting to manually unroll the loop’s - the while(true) - switch cases, so that if you have a PLUS then a DROP right after it can just run linearly(that is, fall through to case DROP), not having to go back to the top of the loop to go back into the switch statement and then check that ip != PLUS to get to case DROP, etc.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
The indexing / search is still all wrong.

Why isn't there an accurate Opus / K. / Hob. / BWV / D. / WoO / etc search on any of these "classical" platforms? Why can't they keep the movements of a piece together? Why can't they make it easy to search by concert hall, conductor, year, soloist, label, live vs studio, etc?

The hipster techie kids at Apple have No Idea what a mature listener of Western Art Music wants.

From the article:

> Composer Essentials are greatest-hits assemblages of movements and arias—rush-hour classical radio without traffic and weather. This approach defeats the point of listening to, say, Gustav Mahler: if you have time only for the Adagietto of his Fifth Symphony or for the last seven minutes of his Eighth, you might as well skip him altogether. And who qualifies as essential?
Adding personal attack on top of nationalistic flamewar is not cool, and the sort of thing we ban accounts for. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html