skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ironically, Ronald Fisher argues that Gregor Mendel's work, the foundation of modern biology, to be essentially fraudulent despite being correct.

There's nothing weird about that. You'll see exactly the same phenomenon by going through a low-level mathematics textbooks and noticing how many of the problems have small integer solutions. Does that happen in real problems? No.

Does the fact that all the problems are fraudulent mean that the math they're meant to teach you is wrong? No. The math is right; that's why the problems were written up the way they were.
The burden it places on yourself, your child, and the incremental burden it places on everyone else living on the planet?

If the ethical thing to do is increase the total happiness (or perhaps contentedness, or satisfaction) of all humans...well it's just not really clear that adding a statistically average human is the way to increase human prosperity / reduce human suffering.

To your other point, now that I'm a parent, it's easy to see that becoming a parent made me into a better person, but there was no way I could have known that that would happen before becoming one.
What does it do that you prefer?
I've used this example (CSAM-making AI models) as an illustration of the difference between ethics and morals many times. It would be theoretically ethical to use these models. It would, however, be immoral. Since governments are allergic to morality these days, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Chrome was never “lightweight” and it was a fork of WebKit that has actually focused less and less on being “lightweight” since it created its own fork.

In the US, only 40% of buyers are buying Android phones. On desktops, Chrome also has a majority market share and 97% of desktops don’t come with Chrome as the default.
My phone went from a hobby to a tool when I switched to iphone. Don't regret it at all.
Oh my C How they wrote code back in the Quake days
Are you saying we need a lawsuit to determine whether people have a choice?
My understanding is the USSR did make some noises when the US sent an aircraft carrier that direction
Nope, it sometime is. Especially if they advertised on LinkedIn or Stackoverflow or even HN Who’s Hiring. Because these show they are keen.
Not necessarily, there are a lot of species that are functional no-ops, such as the Luna moths that grow up to be unable to eat anything as they have no mouths. They can only procreate, continuing the cycle. They are no-ops because there is nothing they can do besides procreate, they cannot even obtain sustenance. So, they might say that it was not worth being born, had they been able to be polled.
That is, of course, the banality of evil.
By what criteria is it worse than things in United States? You could look at prisoners per capita and say USA is worse. Your selections seem arbitrary
Lots of countries outside the west are not having kids, especially the collectivist cultures of Asia which directly contradicts your "western individualism" view.
The survival instinct is still active if someone would rather not have been born, as is the instinct and desire to reproduce.
Children are the perfect political weapon to get people to accept any tyranny. If you oppose this stuff, they'll treat you like a pedophile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
To me the more important point would be if it can connect to an existing session (like Windows can). AFAIK XRDP on all current major linux distros only work with X11 (not Wayland) and if you try to log in using an account that is already logged in locally, you get a black screen.

IIRC Gnome recently launched something the opposite, where you can only share the screen of an already logged-in session (but it does work with Wayland, but only on Gnome).

A built-in KDE Plasma RDP implementation would be a game-changer, especially if it worked with Wayland (I assume it will) and even more so if it could connect to both existing logged-in sessions and start a new session on demand, like Windows does out of the box.
If you have a problem with the US invading other countries, you should have a problem with Russia doing it too.
A priori it sounds plausible. Their explanation is that you're exploiting plasticity (neurons that fire together wire together), so the whole point of the exercise would be to ensure you're thinking the right thoughts. Moreover, we know minor differences in circumstances do have huge effects on how we think in a given moment.

To the extent the advice is valid though, I imagine there's some significant set of people for whom it won't work. Voice teachers and math professors have a similar task in coming up with metaphors and situations to provoke the right thought patterns and give new ideas a place to take hold, and a defining characteristic of both of those professions is that people are very heterogeneous and aren't usually amenable to a one-size-fits-all metaphor.
And the antitrust lawsuit had absolutely no effect on MS’s desktop market share. It was the free market that allowed Apple and Google to usurp Microsoft’s influence via mobile and the web.
I had two pixels suffer heat deaths on me (after random boot cycles) switching around iphone 8 time and haven't had a problem out of the 3 devices I've owned from them. Got tired of Android being weird plus relaying everything I did on the phone to google to share with 3rd parties.
Rubbing one's eyes is not entirely innocuous, as it can induce or worsen astigmatism.
Even though it is possible to generate such images without training on real-life examples, do you deny if an AI were trained on those examples it would be better at this task? Combine that with the fact that it's hard (if not impossible) to tell after the fact whether an AI model has or has not been trained on any one specific image, and it seems like by allowing this you could be unintentionally creating a way to launder real-life CSAM through generative AI.
Me too but in fairness "Prisoner of War" doesn't come up in normal life all that much either.
> My dad, who hasn’t stepped foot in a mosque in decades was freaking out when my brother turned 30 without kids.

Exactly, it's a cultural thing, not a religious one. See, for example, how a lot of Hindu Indian parents would react similarly.
> "The total cost of immigration for the period 1995-2019 for the Netherlands was 400 billion euros."

> Quote from the conclusion of one of the studies mentioned here: https://miwi-institut.de/archives/2028#:~:text=The%20researc....

Thanks for providing some actual research ... It's not exactly a politically neutral report (but admittedly I'm not providing anything better):

The authors of the study from the University of Amsterdam rightly refer to the American economist and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, who explained that the choice at stake is between continuing to accept migrants and maintaining the welfare state.

However, the politically correct politicians and the media look the other way. They refuse to draw conclusions from the unequivocal results of objective scientific research on the negative effects of immigration. The native taxpayer who bears the cost of immigration is paying a heavy price – literally and figuratively – a price that is rising every day.
This has not been true for a while. All the people leaving big cities for cheaper metros have now also made those metros expensive as well since it doesn’t take that many people to tighten up supply.
“There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,” said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; “this paper has just been picked up.”

“What’s in it?” said the Queen.

“I haven’t opened it yet,” said the White Rabbit, “but it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to—to somebody.”

“It must have been that,” said the King, “unless it was written to nobody, which isn’t usual, you know.”

“Who is it directed to?” said one of the jurymen.

“It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s nothing written on the outside.” He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added “It isn’t a letter, after all: it’s a set of verses.”

“Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?” asked another of the jurymen.

“No, they’re not,” said the White Rabbit, “and that’s the queerest thing about it.” (The jury all looked puzzled.)

“He must have imitated somebody else’s hand,” said the King. (The jury all brightened up again.)

“Please your Majesty,” said the Knave, “I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.”

“If you didn’t sign it,” said the King, “that only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”

There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day.
I mean, you could shave off edges as required to match the floor.

Just don't move it after.
My current backup is done by "unlimited" Google Drive (will be dead sometime) + Duplicacy because my RTO/RPO requirement is loose and data is bigger. There are other options like Rclone + S3/B2/etc or just Dropbox/OneDrive like worldwide people use.

BTW, Backblaze is great about PR thanks to HDD stats. News websites frequently advertise their name for free. They also have local reseller.
Just to clarify, they are not just now adding feedback about reaching the limits of the board. Since day one they have had “pushback” which tilts the board backwards in a very noticeable way to let the rider know that a limit (speed, power, torque, battery, temperature) is about to be reached. Unfortunately many, maybe even most riders intentionally ignore this warning and forcibly “push through” the pushback. This update just makes the warning much more annoying in an attempt to change rider behavior.
Was high speed carving a couple of years ago. Blew a turn and rag dolled. Broke 2 vertebrae in my neck and two in my back. Fractured the back of my skull. Speed + impact can get intense.
There are always physical changes happening. External stimuli, and time based internal changes.

> If that's the case, the physical change should precede the changes in thought patterns.

Not precede, are. These aren't separate things.

> There's no chemical emission that can force someone to have an exact thought, dream, or inner dialogue.

How do you know that to be the case? It seems likely to me that an exact set of sufficiently complicated inputs and stimuli could generate an exact thought. Actually doing so would be too complex to figure out, but many physical systems are like that.
People who are responsible aren't having kids because its too expensive. People who are irresponsible probably aren't calculating the costs..or they don't care.
a 1984 law
To be fair, the typical French person has a thick accent in English.

While the "n" in "bon" isn't strong, it's still there. Or half there. Hard to describe. I'm not familiar with IPA either.
The US actions in the past, and presently, have been abhorrent. As a US citizen I have no issue admitting this. I also have no issue also stating I think the invasion of Ukraine is an ongoing atrocity by Russia.

I don't think you'll find a lot of people being caught in a gotcha when you ask about the US vs Russia as far as impinging on the freedoms of other countries without a right to do so. They will readily tell you that both are wrong.
Why is it a requirement?
For me the difference isn't the amount of JS, it's what the JS is doing. A page that requests JSON and renders it to HTML in the frontend is fundamentally different from one that uses JS for basic interactivity.

Both uses absolutely have their place and there are products that would be noticeably worse for the end user if all HTML was rendered on the server. I've just learned to have a high bar there, the complexity grows quickly making bugs more likely and debugging more difficult.
we have 3 layers at my job

1. a custom bash script that wraps curl with some shortcuts. good for quick simple experimentation

2. postman collections. for reference and deeper investigation.

3. playwright api tests. for progamattically checking our backend apis in our ci/cd
> As a programmer, it's my experience that the computer itself usually works correctly. It's almost never a hardware bug.

> But software.... software gets things wrong all the time and the computer hardware just blindly does what the software told it to.

That's not a distinction that's relevant to this article. By "computer" it means a system composed of hardware and software (and which is almost always what "computer" is used to mean):

> The presumption that computers are presumed to be operating correctly, unless there is evidence to the contrary is what lawyers call “a presumption of evidence”.

> This means that a court can be satisfied that a relevant fact can be established just by computer records, unless there is evidence that the computer is not working properly.

> And so when the computer record shows, for instance, a financial shortfall by postmaster or postmistress, the court will accept that as evidence of an actual shortfall - unless the defendant can show that the computer was not operating correctly.

> In short, when the computer record is the essence of a prosecution case: computer says guilty.
Androids had widgets in version 1.5 over a decade before the iPhone.
> It does not appear that a circumflex will generically clobber other accent information; the verb "listen" was formerly escouter and now, pronounced with /e/ and not /ɛ/, is spelled écouter according to the pronunciation rather than êcouter according to the etymology.

This is what I was referring to. As a French learner (I just recently began the journey), you don't know whether to pronounce something as é, è, or e when you see a ê. And there's not generally a rule for figuring it out, at least not as far as I've encountered. For a native speaker this isn't really an issue, but as a learner it's quite annoying.

I recognize that those learning my native language, English, have a far worse time of it however.
Fascinating! Are there any other countries with traditions of intentionally aged "vintage" pickles?
The History of Windows 98
This is the first I've heard of this scandal. I'm curious what the major problems were with the software that caused the discrepancies. Dropped connections? Wikipedia didn't go into much detail with that.

Ok I found this: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2021/07/15/what-went-wrong-with...
where I am, they're only required if you have over a certain number of seats. The mostly pickup/delivery pizza place near me has 2 tables in a comically large empty foyer because I think that was their workaround.
> By contrast, I feel like most American Christians wouldn’t react that negatively to someone in their family declaring they don’t want kids.

That depends on whom you ask, as those who are as culturally (or actually) religious as your Muslim friends and family would react the same way to someone in their family declaring they don't want kids. In other words, it is likely just you not realizing many American Christians' lived experience, as that is not your own lived experience. I see a similar phenomenon with my Indian family thinking that Americans are more cavalier and distant with their children and that Indians treat them better, when in reality they simply don't know the lives of many other Americans.
Having a place to wash your hands is one stated idea of why they're usually required in Canada.

I'm sure governments like the idea of not having to build-out public bathroom infrastructure (which gets a lot harder in places that freeze).
I highly doubt that :P. It doesn't make sense right -

1. The nearest habitable planet is atleast 100s of light years away. No way they can travel this far.

2. Even if an alien reaches Earth, don't see any reason on why they would want to transform and live amongst us.
One day I decided to ride a cheap, narrow, narrow-wheeled skateboard down a fairly steep access road that led to a beach parking lot where I grew up.

At some point during the descent, the board started to shimmy violently, forcing me to jump off... but I was already going faster than I could run. But run I did, and my feet and legs literally fell behind my torso... upon which I fell and skidded down the asphalt, shirtless. I did manage to keep my chin up and off the pavement as I slid, however.

It was night-time and we were at the beach with some relatives. I gritted my way through playing in waves and showing my relatives around. Nobody noticed anything. When we got home and I walked into the light, my mom gawked at the shredded skin on my chest and, being a woman of considerable decorum, did NOT shout "WTF!!!" But that was definitely the nature of the response.
In the US at least it is hard to bring source code into the trial, even though you technically have a right.

I remember one case where the FBI installed malware via a browser exploit on thousands of computers to get their IPs and one defendant tried to get the source code but the government managed to keep it secret.
By all human rights measures, it is worse. Freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of religion … you name it.

Feel free to read the yearly reports from the HRW:

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/china

Random selection from the report:

> In May, a court in Hainan province sentenced former journalist Luo Changping to seven months in prison for a Weibo post that questioned China’s justification for its involvement in the Korean War.

Details on his case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_Changping#Arrest

> Sanya Ji'an Police Bureau summoned Luo for investigation into his "illegal remarks" suspected of "insulting heroes and martyrs".
In a ruthless way. Cuckoo birds have a mating strategy that would be immoral by human standards. As would that of the praying Mantis

All this is to say humans treat animals better than animals treat one another. We condemn cannibalism, rape and Necrophilia as natural species engage in it. If we observe that behavior in a zoo we actively prevent it. We impose that mortality upon them
>One of these RATs is already known to be part of the Lazarus toolkit, specifically a variant of the BlindingCan backdoor with limited functionality but identical command processing logic.

The attackers were using already known Lazarus malware. The researchers aren't simply basing the Lazarus attribution solely on an insider trading strategy or time zones.
You should identify specify diagnostics that represent situations you don't want in your code.

Then use -Werror=<warning-name> for each such diagnostic.

The problem there is that GCC fails if you give it an option it doesn't recognize, including just a diagnostic one.

If you use -Werror=funky-new-warning, it will fail on an older GCC that doesn't have funky-new-warning.
Sweden?
> https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2018/06/13/how-religiou...

10% of Germans claim to go to church every week? I've got friends, relatives, and acquaintances all over the country and of all age groups, and I don't know a single person who would even remotely qualify. That's at least a hundred people. Plugging that into the PMF of the binomial distribution gives me a likelihood so minuscule I should consider buying a lottery ticket. I call bullshit. That research is bunk.

Even the churches themselves claim their weekly attendance is only about 3,300k (catholic church, 2017[1]) + 770k (evangelical churches, 2019[2]) - that doesn't yet mean the same attendees every week.

I still don't trust these numbers, but that's already less than half the above research, making their self-reported attendance numbers essentially worthless.

[1] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gottesdienste-laaaangweilig-1...
[2] https://www.ekhn.de/aktuell/detailmagazin/news/studie-ueber-...
If you look at the actual countries, it is obvious that the young people not having kids are also relatively individualistic.
> Yeah I’m not sure why someone would argue that consciousness isn’t physical

Reading the comments, one thing that's been unsaid is whether each person discussing is religious/spiritual or not. My guess is that if you are religious then the idea of there being another layer in the universe goes without saying, and if you are not then it's ridiculous.

It's probably a waste of time debating across that line.
>”Several is usually used for a number greater than a couple and a few. Occasionally it is used in the same way as couple and few.“

Like when the speaker/writer wants to emphasize that was more than two. “The suspect had several beers.” Vs “The suspect had a couple beers.”

The number of beers in this hypothetical example is the same. But the meaning of the sentence— perhaps the intention behind the sentence— is entirely different.
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Wow, looking at that table of GDP per capita makes you realize what a crazy outlier the US is. Every country ahead of the US is either a relatively teeny financial haven, or in the case of Norway and Qatar, small petrostates. I'd say the only other countries that are even close in terms of overall economic structure that are near the US in GDP per capita are Denmark and Australia, and they are still significantly behind.
Yeah, it's a good way to get your personal things brought in to discovery, snooped on by corporate security, or erased when you suddenly get laid off.
I think you mean favouring their own ethnicity (which is fantastically narrowly defined, socially, in Japan. If one of your grandparents was Korean and the other three Japanese, you're mostly treated as Not A Real Japanese Person by Japanese who know. Which affects promotion prospects, for a start.)

"Favouring your own ethnicity" has a simpler name...
My cousin, an Australian, married a Canadian, and they live in North America. After they’d been married for over five years (a surprisingly long time before this confusion arose, in my opinion), she once asked him to fetch a couple of something from the shops. He dutifully returned with two, and she asked “since when does a couple mean two?” They consulted with her family, and sure enough, they largely thought of and expected “a couple” to mean more than two. Meanwhile, when in Australia, I would expect “a couple” to absolutely always mean exactly two.
It's the date, I guess, written in a different set of numerals. Kinda like how Arabic writes the numerals different in many places.