skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Removal of books from a library.

"We're not burning books. We're just making a public bonfire of wood products."

> If a library includes material glorifying national socialism would you argue it should be removed as well?

I've seen Mein Kampf in a library.
Have we been so throughly baked into anti-intellectualism that people who can read, and use that advanced skill on Wikipedia, along with the other skill of critical thinking, are to be denigrated as "armchair X-ologists"? I know our country's rallying cry is "Math is hard, let's go shopping", but not all of us have bought into that anti-science, anti-knowledge, anti-being-smart-at-all attitude. Thanks to a lot of hard work by a lot of very clever and motivated people, we have humanity's knowledge at our fingertips, and we're supposed to not use it? Just proudly stand up and say "I refuse to learn new things!"

How many worse decisions are made by people who can't read and won't learn about the nuances of a topic?
NTP is trivially MITM. Secure NTP is basically not deployed anywhere. Someone with a google.com cert that's valid other than expiration is probably google and probably has a working clock.
I completely understand having a low risk tolerance. But I think discounting stock offers by 100% is going further than is reasonable even for the most risk averse person.

Put it this way, at the limit. Company A pays $120k + $1,000,000 dependent on the result of a random number generator where there is a 99.999% chance that you'll get the money. Company B pays $125k. All else being equal, any rational person would obviously choose Company A.

But if you're saying you discount variable pay by 100%, you would choose company B.

Or think of it another way. How much are you willing to pay to avoid loss. What you're doing is equivalent to buying insurance to avoid loss. How much would you pay for such insurance? There has to be a limit.
Why not let the user at least give an estimate for the current time & date. Should be close enough for certificate validation.

Yes, that gets annoying fast for said user, but a good incentive to eg fix the bios battery.
You're not alone. Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should. We waste at our own peril.
I'm not sure what you mean about "Stylelint having a problem".

There's a default config, with only base rules, without the more opinionated ones. Then you configure/extend it as you would with almost any other tool. Isn't it the way most tools of this kind work?

Or am I missing something?
I've done that more or less since 2015. it's not easy, and I was lucky to have a large group of generally well-connected coworkers and peers from jobs I worked in the US.

Generally not possible for the average Canadian unless they've got 80% percentile tech skills, and/or did some time working in the US.

Not sure why it isn't more common, even if salaries stay roughly equal (after conversion to CAD), there is tremendous savings to be had just in health insurance costs alone.
Definitely a better deal than I got in my own layoff last fall.
> A literal clone of my game, which raised $6,000,000 in venture capital

Ding ding ding! There's your explanation for you.
It's very early - it doesn't do much yet (but what it does do is compelling!). There isn't a ton of documentation, but we have put a lot of real user research into things.

1. Authentication works through Auth0. We're building towards multiple deployment models, where your account works across all of them. That said, it's all open source, so if Auth0 doesn't work for someone, we're happy to make it pluggable.

2. You can model anything you like. Under the hood it's a hypergraph of Typescript functions - so you would model Grafana, and then make calls to its API when actions are needed.

3. It's built in to the model via change-sets. As you do change the model, we show you whats changed, and what actions we would take. The design is heading toward letting you have comprehensive reviews based on which portions of the entire model are impacted. Roll-backs aren't really a thing in infrastructure land, but you can see old versions of the model and decide you want that to be the current one.

4. We model the upstream 1:1 - so that configuration uses the default VPC in the AWS account (which has likely been deleted if you use Terraform, for example.)

5. It's too early to have very large configurations yet. But there are techniques we can borrow from other domains - nesting, for example, or layers. We're working on the fundamentals first, and then we will deal with scale.

Great questions!
Well maybe Google got specific complaints about this app. It's actually better that they only ban some not all, isn't it?
Not good if the 2nd device is always carried, and exposes tons of stuff the first doesn't.
Cleaning up import paths in JavaScript/TS packages
Haha, oh wow that sucks. I’m sure most of those units are all set to 12:00AM by mashing the OK button after every power outage.
A good human proofreader? :-) Though I do second the suggestion about Vale.
RogueWave Tools.h++ was one I used on Windows and, with some work, the Mac (Cooperative threads). It was a bit like the early Boost libraries. I particularly used the serialisation to send objects over the wire via TCP.

Here’s a copy of the manual: https://bs2manuals.ts.fujitsu.com/download/manual/177
Oh man, there's goes my https://lk99.com community website!
Why is there not even lip service paid to consistent enforcement?
> Vantablack is absolutely an invented "color"

I just can't make my brain accept that vantablack is an "invented" color. It's not even an unusual color. It's black.

It's the other material properties that set it apart and qualify for the term "invented", not the color.
The last few ovens we've had do that too. I assume it's something to do with the delayed start function which I never use...
The G3 was a beast compared to the 603. IIRC it was about 30% faster clock for clock. By going with a G3 in the iMac seriously beefed up the capabilities of their consumer machines. The iMac was more than twice as fast as the similarly priced Performas sold the day before the iMac's introduction. It was even more powerful than even higher end Performas approaching twice the price of the iMac.

One of the more tragic examples, from the perspective of laptop buyers, was the WallStreet PowerBooks. They started at $2300 and was easily 30% faster than the high end 3400s that were $4-5k. The original G3 PowerBook (Kanga) was over $5k. It was a huge boost in power for half the price and honestly much better industrial design. The 3400 was a chonky boi.
Fuck those hucksters...

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1619492334961569792
Going by the number of hits Google displays on the first search results page is really not clever. That number is notoriously unreliable.

When I did the same Google search, Google told me on page 1 there were "104,000 results". And in fact, when I clicked myself through all the results for site:techdirt.com, the list stops at 400. After that there was ... nothing.

Neither "400" nor "94,900" nor "104,000" has anything to do with anything.

You'd expect a site like Techdirt to be a little more clued up about Google's results displays.
> Sigh. No. They do not.

Technically, GP is right that they (mathematically) swap, but yeah, it has a meaningless physical effect (the geodesic is always smooth). It's akin to describing the rotation of a kicked ball with imaginary exponentiation and thinking something spooky is going on.
I see, you're right. For sure I didn't mean that.
One simple solution I used was to add a database table that tracks which experiment the user went down.

`create table user_experiment (UserId int references users(userId), experiment varchar(30));`

Later, once I have enough data, I can compare which experiment was the best performing.
Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5
I did my little part to help Debian: I ordered 100 CDs of Debian 1.1 (in 1996? 1997?) from the US to Europe, which I then shipped to 100 people in Europe (and even some in north Africa). I ran out of the 100 CD and ordered 30 more and by then it was already Debian 1.2!

(my old memory may be failing: it may have been 1.2 then 1.3 and not 1.1 then 1.2)

It was hard to get Linux distro for some of us back then: dial-up at best and otherwise we'd buy magazines or books that'd come with a Linux CD.

I've basically been using Debian and derivatives since forever. Did a short stint with Red Hat and Fedora back in the days but came back to Debian.

Before Debian I was using Slackware.

And as you said: thanks so much to everyone who worked on Debian!
Are you saying the Google reviewer is on the take?
Your dollar-store quartz watch isn't on a worldwide network communicating with other watches where there needs to be an agreement on what time it is. The watch also expects you to notice when the time drifts and for you to correct it. That includes DST adjustments, leap second adjustments, and physically moving to different timezones.

Even when using an NTP server to set your time, network latencies have to be taken into account. Otherwise, if the request took 300ms round-trip and that weren't accounted for then your machine is already 300ms off from "official" time. Depending upon what you're doing, being that far off can be critical.

These are things your dollar-store quartz watch simply doesn't need to concern itself with.
How would room temperature superconductors lead to a post-scarcity society?
> The architectural concepts underlying Livebook put it on a path to surpass Jupyter, if only we can get critical mass adoption.
>
> The stuff emerging in the Elixir + ML space thanks to Nx and Axon gives me some hope that Elixir will find a place as an all-in-one home for all things ML. Livebook makes it easy do to incremental experimentation. Bumblebee makes it stupidly simple to use pretrained models.

Totally. My current employer does a bunch of data science and ML stuff and I'm hoping those give us a path off Python. Right now, it's hard for me as a non-data science, non-ML person to just be like, "here, use this Elixir thing instead of $tool_theyve_been_using_daily_for_10_years, I swear it's probably better or at least will be eventually"
I never suggested otherwise.
> canvass the schools with their "think of the children" pleas

Just a little Sharpie can change "think of the children" into "think, children." Encourage child thought. Hand out Sharpies!
I've been looking for something like this for a while. Nice!
Levying a tax on international consumers might be an easier fix than completely rewriting water rights legislation.

Also: our usernames are oddly similar!
Agreed, that section led me to dig into "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz for more information on Internal Family Systems, which I find fascinating.
> ChatGPT used to work great for this, but I've noticed today that it misses simple spelling errors

I've noticed that with GPT 4; 3.5 still works pretty well. Or did the last time I used it for something like this (which was a few weeks ago).
#2 Man Problem
During the War on Terror, a recurring joke or meme is that they (the US forces) kept capturing the "#2 guys", not the #1 guy, that obviously being Bin Laden. It's like they had captured a dozen "#2 guys" or second in command. It seems like the same for me and maybe others in business or other aspects in life : no matter what, I keep finding myself with #2 guys, but never the number 1 or the top person. Why is it so hard to get in touch with the top person or top people. It could be that #1 people do not need to waste their time with #2 people. #2 guys can be competent, but the chasm between #1 and #2 is sometimes huge. we're talking like night and day difference . just sucks how I'm always stuck with #2 people. can never find the top people. anyone else have this problem.
> Would you say the same if that material as glorifying national socialism? Should library carry such books as long as people want to read them?

You keep repeating this. "If we ban Nazi content, why can't we ban books about Rosa Parks[0]?"

You do see why that's not convincing, don't you?

[0] https://pen.org/banned-books-florida/
I wish people would just do some deeper investigation before forming opinions based on their biases. If you actually use it you know it's incredibly useful for learning, getting answers to general problems that 99% of the time work fine and it helps you understand those answers. The amount of times it's wrong or misleading is not significant enough to even be annoying during day to day use. Just talking about current practical usefulness here not even speculating about the future, just what it's useful for today.
Yeah, the signal for this is rather weak so you would need to place your watch at least on a window's line of sight or, if it still doesn't work, right next to a window.
Yes. "Piss off the GOP" is a very simple and accurate description of Albini's life.
It was certainly economically viable without LLM help, but the fact that I didn’t have to give up equity, get a loan, or use substantial amounts of my own funds to get it done at what would normally be a longer timeline to boot seems like a loss for some bankers and some freelancers or cofounders I would have needed otherwise.

I do agree that I’m creating something from whole cloth here so it’s not technically replacement as I haven’t let anyone go, but I’m going with the spirit of the question here.
In 2012, I ordered my transcripts from my university (from the 90s) and they sent me a copy. I didn't ask them to send it anywhere else. I was expecting a fee, but there wasn't any (perhaps just because I was sending it to myself?). There was no portal to click, but I emailed in, and had a back and forth email with someone, then got it in the mail a couple weeks later.
> Furthermore, I'm puzzled as to why TikTok would be on government-issued devices in the first place. Shouldn't a standard MDM block non-essential apps by default?

This has been my question every time one of these articles about another entity banning TikTok comes up. My locked down corpo-phone only whitelists like a dozen apps for me to choose to install, largely online banking apps for the big guys, not a single social media style app.
Christendom has email (Fidei Email)
Arcol engineer here! Happy to answer any questions about it.
I've never heard of it, and I doubt most users have.
> ...if it has a network...

But that network is not trusted.

Imagine this: You boot a machine for the first time, and the system clock tells you it's January 1, 1970. You might know when your OS was built, so you could maybe hard-code some sanity checks there, but you basically don't know what the date is.

You want to communicate securely with weather.gov? Sure, you can do that over SSL/TLS. You send it a list of cipher suites and SSL/TLS versions you can use, the weather.gov server selects a cipher and version, and sends you their certificate. It's valid from Jun 2023 to Jun 2024, signed by a DigiCert TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 certificate valid Apr 2021 to Jun 2024, which is itself signed by the Digicert root global CA encoded into your OS's root certificate store, valid Nov 2006 to Sun, Apr 2031.

Wait a second. Or maybe 1.7 billion seconds. Are any of those certificates valid? Do you want to let the attacker set the date back to when a revoked, potentially leaked Trustico or Symantec private certificate was valid?

You don't have a secure network if you don't know what time it is.
> The bigger problem I see is that Microsoft programs don't come with adequate documentation any more like they used to (which was called "online help", though really offline in today's terminology).

It used to be delivered with printed documentation.
> it violates the gambling policy of those countries

FYI for future reference, countries' policies are more commonly referred to as "Laws."
Many Best Buy stores have an Apple section to this day.
Stereo-A Comes Home – Riddles in the Sky
Ideally cars would be equipped with speed limiters. Then the problem disappears. Until this happens, there are many other solutions like you only start paying fines until you do over some limit (like 12 per year) of such minor infractions. Let's not take the focus from the main point: there is currently huge problem with reckless drivers causing death of tens of thousands of people per year (in US alone).
You can always use a gpsd(4) compatible USB dongle as the time source.
> You are conflating crony capitalism with free market capitalism.

Phrased a different way: discussing capitalism as it actually always has been, and as the term was coined to refer to, in the real world instead of nonsense fantasy that isn't implementable in reality, and which was only constructed as a distraction from that reality to deflect criticism of the real-world system.
> Non-ionizing radiation can also damage DNA, in a number of different ways. UV radiation damages DNA in four different ways:

Good grief, what's with all the people confidently lumping UV and RF together? This is not a small distinction, a tiny fudge factor, a little oopsie-doodle. We are talking completely different ball games in completely different parks in different countries speaking different languages. The photon energies (and, therefore, the direct effects on matter) are wildly different. Would you rather be hit by a penny or hit by a car?

UV: 3eV

RF: .00001eV
The difference, which you are falsely attempting to obscure (or are failing to understand), is the REASON and PROCESS behind the banning.

Yes, of course 99.9%+ of all books ever written in history are not included in any given libraries due to space and budget lconstraints. The librarians included the few based on professional criteria and data.

After <0.01% of the books are included on professional librarians' criteria, you now try to claim that efforts to DELIBERATELY REMOVE some books BASED ON NARROW DEMANDS of a few religious bigots is the same.

Bullshirt.

Of course the numerical result is superficially similar.

The results of choosing books based on the criteria of professional librarians or schoolteachers vs religious bigots is obviously different.

If it were not different in important ways, the religious bigots would not bother putting so much effort into replacing professional librarians.

Any claim that these are the same thing is either box-of-rocks-level ignorant, or intentionally disingenuous. There is no third choice.
Get a load of Mr. "everything I hate is communism" over here.
We've got a fairly large monorepo, with code primarily in Rust, Typescript and PgSQL. We wanted something that would scale as we grew into things like remote execution and build farms, but that would let us be pragmatic in the meantime. Buck2 fit the bill at the time we needed to solve the problem. We also needed it to understand cross language dependencies.

One of the great things about it is that our CI system uses BXL to automatically generate pipelines on the fly from impacted code, taking into account dependencies. So things generally move as quickly as possible through the system.

It's been real work to adopt, but the upside for us has been worth it.
Also, if anything this black-and-white view of the world is responsible for the bad outcomes associated with optimism in hyped science. If we could distance ourselves from the binary result/truth and simply engage with the topic without that weight, we would have much more productive discussions.
Super interesting idea, especially combining text + LLM + procedural generation.

Also, a great idea to use pixelated emoji to provide a body of existing data that is already labeled.
> How many research decisions will be influenced by the possibility of going viral? How many bad decisions will be made as a result of pressure from millions of non-experts who briefly become armchair X-ologists?

Ask L Ron Hubbard?

The willingness of the crowd to believe in counterfactual things is not constrained to science, and whatever damage/risk is posed by that is not new - as Galileo can attest.
> arguing about it publicly isn't going to change much

Okay fair enough. What is going to change much?
Fair enough. I think this is why hybrids are an evolutionary dead end in cars. GM said the era of the hybrid was already over when they discontinued the Volt in 2019, and I agree with that sentiment. They were a transition technology for a transition that is mostly already past and 2019 is a good enough death date for it to me. (I still drive a 2012 Volt myself, so I lived the transition. I would not recommend to anyone buying in 2023 a hybrid, and I expect my Volt may move on to a second owner for some time, but I would recommend an EV first to anyone that isn't the potential buyer for my car when it is time to sell.)
The Attention Trap: How we became domesticated by engagement
Yup, Wolfram Alpha is much worse than it once was. Even simple things like comparisons using "vs" no longer works. Peak WA was a few years after release. It also used to be able to evaluate Mathematica expressions, which it can no longer do.
Radio syncing is perfect for those who require accuracy down to the second.
How is that different than writing "bg-color-blue-500" in every component that needs it?

As for the class, it's the name of the component, the same name you give to the component file. Does it really add that much work?

Correct me if I'm wrong but as I see it, that's literally a couple of seconds of "work".
The Aging Brain: Is Misplaced DNA to Blame?
And of course, we're hiring! Reach out if you're interested - james@arcol.io
I have a Roomba and you can just press the button when you want it to vacuum.
Because running a global service in multiple sovereign jurisdictions makes it impossible to have consistent enforcement. Would you have it so only the laws of the country of the company's HQ matters?

If you mean why isn't Google bringing the banhammer down on every app that fails to meet the criteria isn't that what you want? Allow as much as possible until a government complains?
Oceanus S100 is absolutely brilliant. Solar powered, radio time sync, titanium (so incredibly lightweight), waterproof, and looks like a dress watch. The only downside is they are only sold in Japan so you have to import them.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130200
This implies that every state constitution has provisions similar to the ones in Montana’s state constitution that were used to uphold the decision and have already given it the distinction of precedence. The ruling on its own is not legally binding on other states, they can refer to it at their own discretion.

This isn’t a question of the decision’s influence in the future or its likelihood. It’s about the decision’s effect today. Either way, as far as I could find, the text of the ruling does nothing to convey concern for the measurable effects that Montana’s coal industry could have on you or your children elsewhere. That’s what we’re talking about.

By law, your self interests were not referred to at all. The "good news" is that your country is governed by self interests, and I’m inclined to believe that The Powers That Be ® are catering to yours this time around.

And people wonder how Jim Crow became a household name…
Seriously - if you took the profits from a single tech company ($60 billion for Google in 2022), you'd be able to single-handedly influence every major election in Canada to the point of basically picking the winners. The organizational power of Canada doesn't really matter when the entirety of it can be bought and sold by a single tech company.
They're all underweight.
StarRocks handles latency and concurrency as well as Clickhouse but also does joins. Less denormalization, and you can use the same platform for traditional BI/ad-hoc queries.