skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some sites rely on the <u> element giving the presentational effect of an underline.

> The b and i elements are widely used — it is better to give them good default rendering for various media including aural than to try to ban them.

“Some sites”… “widely used”… yeah, because that’s the purpose of those tags. To underline, bold, italic, respectively. This isn’t some concession we should be giving to legacy user agents, it’s the whole original stated purpose of the tags. Any attempt to retcon them to mean other stuff in the name of (something something) “media independence” or some such academic nonsense, is totally backwards.

I know that large parts of this article agree with me, but I still get angry that HTML took this purist direction to make huge swaths of markup useless in the name of semantic/display split that no user actually asked for. When I first read about the em tag and how it is the new way to do what the i tag used to do, I knew the whole thing had already been driven off a cliff.
> You didn't mention why this transition isn't possible. There is also not enough green energy currently to stop using fossil fuels. It is either transition or death.

Nope: I mean that green energy is just not capable of replacing fossil fuels, just by looking at orders of magnitude. Thinking that it is possible by extrapolating some graphs is just naive. It is not, that's all.

Of course we need to build alternatives (both nuclear plants and renewables), but they will only cover a fraction of fossil fuels. Don't under-estimate fossil fuels, they are extremely efficient energy.

> To use much less energy, we would need to give up cars, trains, AC, and heat. [...] We might have to give up food

That's the whole point of degrowth: prioritize what you can keep. Planes will mostly disappear, that's pretty much a fact. Food has to stay under some form, quite obviously (but meat will mostly disappear).

We are at a point where it is about survival: we need to organize our society and cities such that people don't starve in the next few decades. Let's be optimistic, I believe we can still keep a modern society. But probably we won't change smartphone every year, and people living in cities won't own a car.
Most years see one death on the playa.

2010: A man died in his tent from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a propane heater.

2011: A woman died from injuries sustained in a tent fire.

2012: A man was found dead in his tent; the cause was not publicly disclosed.

2014: A woman was struck and killed by a bus carrying festival participants.

2015: A man died from a fall at his campsite.

2017: A man ran into a fire and died from burn injuries.

2018: A man was found unresponsive in his vehicle and later pronounced dead; the cause was not publicly disclosed.

2019: A death was reported, but the cause was not publicly disclosed.
Oh, I meant subjective in terms of your own perspective (informed by world view and life experiences). However you can fit the square pegs into your own round holes.

Regardless, I suppose the bigger point I want to make is the truth for non clear cut things is only as true as the number of people that co-sign it. If there’s simply more people on one side, welp, that’s that. That’s the truth, as far as we know.

Right or wrong or true or false are almost not even in the equation (enter the conspiracy theorist).

I don’t know, based on what I just said, what do you believe?

You see?
The other thing that makes PLCs great is that they can be programmed in ladder logic, more or less visually, by technicians instead of professional programmers. The heavy real time lifting is done for you - the “language” is a descendant of notation for relay racks.
Land property ownership is a very strong and very old form of ownership. Lot of countries the property registries have survived wars, regime changes, civil wars and 100s of years of dispute between neighbors.

When not public, this would surely not work or would not be accepted.

In my country looking up the registry costs like $25 ... So mass exploitation is not really that easy
>> It doesn't help that the hyphen in "block-book" disappeared somewhere along the line in submission.

Sorry, that was my edit of the title to make it fit exactly in the space allowed. The full title is:

‘An absolute mess’: learner drivers forced to buy tests on black market as companies block-book slots

If I understand correctly, British newspapers are famous for their head-turning titles. Famous with the British public anyway.
Framework Failed So CJ Framed It
In the US it’s a bit different than in other countries though. There it’s not “advocating” - it’s “paying”.
Lawyer here. Land ownership has to be public because the only way to establish your right to property is the publicly recorded and government maintained "chain of title": who you are, who you got it from, who they got it from, etc., going back to the original survey of your state (or at least 50 years, where I am). Otherwise it would be chaos with everyone waiving around 100-year-old bogus deeds claiming the right to kick you out of your house. Tax records too, as someone else mentioned - everyone can verify whether or not the assessed tax is valid and the property valuation isn't made up to punish you for stepping on the toes of some county official. There are ways to obfuscate the individuals who actually own a particular piece of land (trusts, LLCs and such), but the chain of title needs to be available to anyone.
I'll take that bet. I'm guessing something electricity-related during a flood, or CO poisoning from a grill or heater inside a tent or trailer.

Also, one death per year is typical.

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2010: A man died in his tent from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a propane heater.

2011: A woman died from injuries sustained in a tent fire.

2012: A man was found dead in his tent; the cause was not publicly disclosed.

2014: A woman was struck and killed by a bus carrying festival participants.

2015: A man died from a fall at his campsite.

2017: A man ran into a fire and died from burn injuries.

2018: A man was found unresponsive in his vehicle and later pronounced dead; the cause was not publicly disclosed.

2019: A death was reported, but the cause was not publicly disclosed.
Australia's most famous historian, Charles Clark (called himself Manning Clark to be special) admitted before he died that he made things up, because he was more interested in telling a story fitting his own ideas, rather than reporting facts. They still name roads and such after the guy.
SEO spam is just as much of an avenue for propaganda farms as social media is. When people actively search for something, they'll turn to Google, so getting "your" narrative in the first two pages is very important for the propagandists - and it's made easier by the simple fact that no tech company invests money into moderation staff that actually speaks the language and knows context to determine if something is spam or not.
Ford lost a billion dollars on its EV unit last quarter.

“The company loses money on every Ford Lightning it sells — and that was before it knocked thousands of dollars off the sticker price this summer, trying to keep up with a Tesla-triggered price war that's pulling EV prices down.”

Recent npr piece.

Bringing something to market at a big loss is not an advancement unless you have certainty that you can bring the project into the black. Ford has no such certainty. Moreover when there is rapid technological change, every product must be at least break even because product life is so short. “Ford F150” will persist as the name of a branded product, but the components inside will change much more rapidly than legacy automakers are used to.
There are so many -- just search for climate dashboard. I recently saw a meta-meta site which is just a list of lists of climate dashboards, but I couldn't find it in two seconds. I'm sure if you start looking you'll run across it.

If you list it and it lists you then, due to recursion, you will fill up the Internet and it will have to be rebooted.
I actually had a doctor recommend lavender oil capsules for treating a family member's anxiety...was rather surprised but it seems there's at least enough science behind it to persuade medical professionals.
Why? Because the shopping experience at all of those places is awful.

RadioShack's advantages, where it had them, were in its convenience and its ergonomics. Get in, get what you want, browse a couple of human-scale shelves, pick up some batteries, and get out zippity-zap. Try doing that at Target.
> even though I had never heard of her before

Yes, that's the weird thing. I've heard of Dave Chapelle, but I can't remember the last time I watched a clip of his or any other standup comedian. I'd never heard of Taylor Tomlinson before.
In my Canadian town the owners of a given property and the taxes they pay are available to the public. But indeed that doesn't mean we have access to sale prices, which are often very different from assessed values for purposes of taxation.
The removal of choice. I wouldn’t mind if there was just a new type of content but they keep pushing it unsolicited: it’s like half of the homepage with auto-playing garbage (at least show stuff with good production values to sell the concept rather than someone incoherently waving a 2007 camera phone around) and you have to turn it off separately on every device and they turn it back on every few weeks anyway.
Ever heard the saying ”wrong side of the tracks”?
> VC funded startups are not the only way to break free from the dreadful corporate games.

Do people really think this ? VC funded startups are as corporate as it gets, probably worse, just a different kind of corporate.

The second you take funding you have a new boss[1]and have all sorts of constraints which become more and more rigid with more rounds .

There are only few well understood models of scaling and governance that VCs know to work, if you deviate too much they are going to fire and replace you.[2]

It would be rare to have the kind of corporate control Zuckerberg enjoys today for a founder and neither are valuations and preferences terms generous to founders larger you raise .

Whether small business or a giant startup the power dynamics is the same . how much money you need to make payroll(including yours in a solo op) and who is funding it , if you don’t need any money at all then you are the king , if you cannot afford even a small short fall everyone else who can bring that money is your boss

[1] until you raise funding, there are many bosses you cannot afford to piss off : early users/customers , employees, vendors and so on you don’t have the money to attract the talent you desire or runway to say no to capricious user demands

[2] I am not even including the class of funds like a16z who early on will bring in dozens of experts who are on staff and have done scaling many times , imagine part of management, the -1 team reports to your boss also
Trump makes a lot of promises, but he doesn't follow through very well. He tried to end democracy last time and fell flat on his face. He might even be prosecuted for the crimes he committed in the process. The system does still work, at least for now.
By the Duchy of Normandy, which was as Viking as it is French (Norman means literally Men of the North). The Abbaye aux Hommes William the Conqueror founded in Caen, and where he is buried, has a roof shaped like an inverted drakkar.
Indexing the paper with some of the strategy of the paper implemented in the indexing.

system> User entered, `what are knowledge graphs and how does the paper describe using them?`.

bot> Knowledge graphs are data structures that represent entities and their relationships in a structured manner. In the paper, the authors propose a method called Knowledge Graph Prompting (KGP) for Multi-Document Question Answering (MD-QA). They create a knowledge graph over multiple documents, where nodes represent passages or document structures (such as pages or tables), and edges represent the semantic or lexical similarity between passages or the intra-document structural relations. The constructed graph acts as a global ruler to regulate the transitional space among passages and reduce retrieval latency. It also serves as a prompt for Language Models (LLMs), assisting them in answering questions by providing contextual information. The authors demonstrate through experiments that leveraging knowledge graphs enhances the prompt design for LLMs in MD-QA.
Yes. It was skewed against E-scooter from the beginning. Who use e-scooters?

- Students (middle grade to college): half of those can't legally vote, and the other half wasn't eligible to vote.

- service workers/vendors: most of Paris is too expensive for them, so like 95% wasn't eligible to vote (not counting visa workers not immigrants, else it would be 99%).

- tourists (or 90% remote workers like me) : none are eligible. I think that part is okay actually, even if we bring money to the city, we aren't essential to the city (unlike the first two groups).

The referendum was mostly peddled by mail (physical mail) which target especially older people.

Like I said, I think the ban might not be a bad thing overall, but this was a travesty. I would rather have hidalgo ban the e-scooters without consultation.
If you're a solo freelancer, there's no difference between paying yourself for your time and paying yourself out of the profits. The money goes to you either way.
> I need an OS where I never ever have to think about the OS.

After one malware too many I confiscated my wife's Windows PC and gave here my old PC and installed Ubuntu on it (FWIW I don't use Ubuntu, I use Debian since the nineties).

It's been, what, 18 months? If my wife can use Ubuntu, I think nearly anyone can.

It's been literally fire and forget: zero issue.

Now it's desktop Linux, as in actually running on a desktop (with an Ethernet cable), with a dual-monitor setup (I prefer a single ultra-wide monitor but the wife prefers to have two monitors).
I still remember those days quite clearly. Including the fact we virtually never got spam calls.
There's actually some very interesting criticism of modern cognitive sciences, one of them contradicting the common idea that neural network based methods were inspired by a model of "how the brain worked". The criticism basically says that instead, we should be looking at the opposite, with modern cognitive science coming out at a time when computers were the technology de jour.

It builds off previous histories and theories of technology which debunk the notion of "neutral" technology. Humans are very much influenced and inspired by doing things because of the technology they have at-hand.

Great example is looking at the most common mechanical models of the human heart. The original models for the heart describe it as a system of "pumps" because it was designed right during the height of the end of the industrial revolution, when the technology at the time were big mechanical pumps and machinery. So, the abstract model of the heart as a pump was born and used, not because necessarily its an "accurate" model but mainly because the terminology made sense to people at the time. Nowadays this model is criticised for a lot of reasons.

Cognitive science suffers from a lot of assumptions which may have been indirectly influenced by computer science (afterall, you're a researcher coming in at a time when you have these powerful machines that could crunch data. Well surely then you'll need to model the brain in a binary and computer-readable format).
> vote in primaries too because that shapes so much.

You are on the right track to influence who is on the ballot for a particular party. Last time in PA the Rs put up the Dr Oz with lukewarm conservative values. The R voters in PA were so underwhelmed that the D with literal brain damage was elected.
Also, States with a caucus process give people who show up to caucus enormous influence of which names the party will put on the ballot.

> What if we had compulsory political party membership so that parties and primaries reflected the population

We could allow for more representative government in the federal House of Representatives by allowing the House to expand with population, as was written in the Constitution. The census was to count the people to expand the House to track population growth.
> How do you propose to use much less energy without starving everyone?

That's the whole point: degrowth is about re-organizing society such that we don't starve. There are big efforts of planning for that in many places. Look at the "shift project" in France. It seems to me that the US are very, very, very far behind on that matter. The US seems to still be stuck on the Silicon Valley mindset ("they will save us with new technology"). But that's not representative of the rest of the world.

> Where does the energy come from if not fossil fuels without conscripting people to be peasants? Does it matter if mass death is caused famine or "degrowth"?

The idea of degrowth is that in order to avoid famines, we have to drastically reduce other stuff and reorganize society. Planes are not even a question there: planes will go away, because everyone agrees that we'd rather eat that fly. There are many decisions that are harder to make, though.

Those who don't believe in degrowth and instead think that "there will be a miracle technology that will save us" are just naive. Degrowth advocates are the ones who are actually trying to play with the cards they were dealt.
Yeah? But what benefit is the name to buyers; and does providing the name in that context violate any fair practices? Those are the real questions here.
My thought about unused variable is the compiler should assume someones trying to debug something and not optimize them out.
I'm still miffed that when I search for "coronavirus" into Google, I seem to get hand-picked results about covid-19, which is just one of hundreds of coronaviruses.

The wikipedia entry (which is often first for most search results about generic topics) is on page 2 and still likes to their covid-19 entry, not the one on coronavirus genus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus
> There was another early 2.5D game that ran on my IBM PC that I played in around 1994 that this reminds me of.

Catacomb Abyss was also a John Romero and John Carmack game.
Taiwan is paying for US protection by securing some of the chips supply for US companies in case China invades Taiwan. They were pressured into doing this because in their interest is keeping most of the fabs producing cutting edge chips on the island, which would make invading them a huge hit into US interests, which in conclusion would make higher chance for US to defend Taiwan.
Animals developing resistance to medication. Evolution in action.

We should note to start that this seems exclusive for UK.

The targeted animals are blood sucker crustaceans that multiply exponentially in cages and also affect wild fishes, therefore even if we don't like to eat animals, we should want to do something about it.

Is a well known old problem, causes huge economic loses in the sector (436 million dollars lost only in a year) and is not fully solved still. There is a promising way to attack it with zero chemicals, but is not easy.
> Homesteading in the US (claiming public land as private land) only ended in 1986.

Is this a contributing factor to rising home prices? Maybe not, but it does seem weird that we no longer let people homestead public land.
I mean, really any site I visit on the internet I assume is one mistake away from trying to exploit by computer. I don't trust the links off Google either, they are pretty apt to serve malware laden crap. Especially when you search up 'free' anything.
First of all, why not give that blog a go, and share your opinions of it here or via e-mail, if you prefer?

Now, on to your question.

I don't believe words have to be strong or provocative or divisive to be true. Life is not black and white, neither my choice of words. Also, I practice zen in my daily life, so my writing is both a reflection of my inner state and the state I aspire to be in, at the same time.

Yes, as a human being, I want my blog to be read, and get some feedback occasionally, but at the end, it's a blog for myself. An instrument for taking note of my life and my journey on this pale blue dot.
Just curious, what is the theoretical biodiversity solution to the apple maggot?
Unfortunately I am in the middle of central New York, but I sent you an email anyways, just to say thanks for what you have done and continue to do!
The check out process at radio shack is infamously part of why people stopped going there - the insistence on getting a phone number or email address
The way MacOS throws notifications for shit like app store software updates at the top right of the screen (by default) drives me up a wall lol. It feels like there's always something wanting to float around up there on one of my computers these days.

I miss the old days when Mac OS X was the ultimate "leave me alone and let me get my work done" OS.
So that private interests can figure out how to do exactly that--contact the owner of property they'd like to own or drill on or obtain water from or get an easement through or put wind turbines on?

Edit: blatguzzler's sounds more foundational.
I just searched for my address on Google and the sixth link is from PropertyIQ and shows my name and my wife’s name as owners.
> Every mischievous child figures out the "it was merely an accident" excuse and it's not as though adults who are up to no good somehow forget it.

Hanlon's razor doesn't argue you should accept "it was an accident" as a given excuse. Hanlon's razor states, that without evidence, it's safer/more likely to be correct, for you to assume incompetence than it is to assume maliciousness. I have also used an unknown domain for emails, as well as never given them a phone number. Just because you can't figure out the entirety of the logic doesn't mean they're intentionally trying to gaslight users (which is an absolutely insane take). Especially when there's plenty more signal they could possibly be using to determine if the account is likely malicious. Off the top of my head, I'd hope that list includes, number of IP addresses per session, number of sessions per IP, amount of maliciousness from current ASN, number of user reports, number of servers connected to, maliciousness of the servers for each user, knowledge source IP is a VPN, amount of abuse from the VPN provider.

You suspect discord is being malicious, or attempting to gaslight users, but not because you have any evidence they are, but instead because of a lack of ability to imagine how it could function the way it does with the limited slice of information you're already aware of. Some system, or some code not doing what you expect is more likely than some Trust and Safety team all got together and decided to gaslight people...
This IS the real noews. If the conditions don't improve markedly in the next day or two, it will start to really impact people.

The death is not out of the ordinary, and if anything should be a separate headline.
45k USPS Workers Aren't Getting Paid This Week Amidst Union Decertification Push