skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, this is what killed internet explorer as well. Back in the day when popups and pop unders were still a thing, internet explorer provided an utterly miserable browsing experience that was the default. And then people started installing Firefox and Chrome to get a better experience. And then internet explorer market share started on a long, unstoppable slide down to becoming utterly irrelevant. MS tried to fix it later but it amounted to too little and too late.

Now Google is repeating Microsoft's mistakes here. The more miserable the ad experience, the stronger the incentive to do something about that. And when the solution is "Install Firefox, add uBlock Origin, Tada!", there are just going to be a lot of people that will figure out how to never see ads again. Firefox works on mobile as well and runs Youtube without ads just fine there. Think about that next time you are forced to watch an ad in the Youtube app on your phone.

The irony with Youtube is that ads are just a part of the revenue stream. They also get a revenue share on sponsoring deals and a few other things. Which for most youtubers is actually their main income stream. Ads are just the cherry on the cake. Which is why Google can't just kill off browser support or move everything to premium/paid accounts. They'd lose a lot of their viewers and revenue. And as a consequence, potentially some of their content creators even. Google is completely dependent on external content providers and viewers keeping the revenue going. No content, no views, no revenue. That's why they have to keep the platform such that it maximizes exposure for good videos.
I belonged to the EFF for many years before they went Full Doctorow. I no longer support either EFF or EPIC because they have gone totally off the rails.
If nothing else works, you could open the TV up and disable the microphone.
But the blobs can change color and opacity depending on direction you are viewing them (spherical harmonics) which allows to encode transparency and specular reflections.
> Afaik mold is only a big topic because of lawyers seeing a nice liability and the media a spooky story.

Unfortunately, mold is also a growing health concern for a sizable portion of the population. My family got severely ill from a moldy house, and it is taking us years to fully recover. The longer we have been aware the more and more folks we find are dealing with something similar.

The EPA Guide is a great start, but in our experience lacks some situational nuance that might increase its helpfulness. Each person reacts differently mold, some folks are just more sensitive than others. There are no federal standards for mold, either for allowable amounts in your home or guidelines for construction. So depending on your health response you may in fact need to go crazy tearing apart your house to hunt for mold.

After talking with ~30 different mold remediators, inspectors, remodeling contractors, etc. We got ~30 different responses for possible causes for mold in our our home. Ultimately, the cost to fix the true sources of mold in our home (due the sources being related to construction practices around the foundation) was equivalent to new construction. We ended up tearing down the moldy house. We're hoping to move into our new house late next spring!
> Arithmetic teaches systematic manipulation of abstract ideas which is the foundation for programming.

I know this is the conventional wisdom, that math is the underlying foundation for programming, etc. And I think that's true in the strictest sense: there is certainly a lot of math underlying all our software and hardware.

But for learning basic programming? Honestly, I don't think it matters at all.

I was first exposed to programming via Logo (as in the turtle mover), and while there's math there, I never really got beyond "bigger numbers move the turtle further / rotate it more".

What really taught me logic & programming was the visual Warcraft 3 map editor, basically an early version of Scratch where you would compose logic out of nodes and make things happen in the game. Having that instant visual feedback of seeing units follow your automated commands was much more effective than sitting in a classroom doing math problems. These days there are a bunch more games like that (shameless plug: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games)

> Would people use post algebra math more if they knew it? I use calculus regularly when I'm building things for my kids. But I've noticed most people have stopped building things by hand anyway and instead rely on mass manufacture

Maybe people stopped building things because we focus too much on the theoretical in-classroom parts, as opposed to the hands-on stuff? I bet kids would be much happier, and learn a lot more, if they could swap out math hours for time in the woodshop, on the potter's wheel, or making maps for Roblox or Fortnite or whatever -- none of which require a heavy investment in math at first. (Reminds me of this place: https://www.blueoxmill.com/blue-ox-school.htm, a continuation school for high schoolers who don't do well in the classroom. Instead, they learn woodworking, smithing, print-setting, etc. alongside the basic curricula).

Then you could ease them into the math by showing them how can it help them make different shapes, then show them how real-world CAD and Unity/Unreal work, etc. Work backwards from instant gratification to ancient theory, and only cover the details if they really care. But otherwise just let them know that somebody else did the hard work (much appreciated) so they can move shapes around on a screen. It's not that different from graphics designers making art without ever having to know how a Bezier curve is calculated.
Wyden knows such a bill wouldn't pass specifically because of its unconstitutionality. This was about picking up media coverage by throwing red meat at voters.

Congress has been in a state of deadlock for too long to pass any actual laws, so this type of performative theater ahead of midterm elections is what passes for statesmanship.
I get that proper unions are pretty baffling from a US perspective, where people don't mind having thousands peeing in bottles at work at Amazon as long as they get the spoon they ordered the next day.

Us Scandinavians on the other hand find it pretty baffling that someone would just roll over to a megalomaniac who clearly states he would like to destroy what makes our countries great, our unions and working conditions.
Don't worry, is wasn't your fault. Blame Microsoft for that.

You might like this after all: https://sr.ht

Not as 'fancy' as GH, but it does the work.
Is everyone here feeling a bit... devilish?

I would pick a standard library sort function at that point.
Sure and platforms _say_ they will give you an ad free experience if you pay them a monthly fee but they always wind up adding ads once they’ve captured their audience.
This is oddly relevant to my recently discovered disaster in the basement bathroom.
> you all just have to figure out new life with it.

then they'll put the whole site behind a paywall, which could have mixed results. Everyone is focusing on paying the creators, but advertisers are also paying for moderation. voat showed us what an unmoderated reddit is like, and bitchute shows us what unmoderated youtube is like: trying to find DIY birdfeeder videos against the tide of holocaust denial and Podcast #598 of "How the Lizard Illuminati are vaxxing us with every toxic metal on the periodic table but Big Pharma Deep State maintains the elaborate coverup"
Housing prices are so high because there's not enough housing and sellers can dictate prices. And that prosperity isn't due to low-paid fungible labour, although believe me, the stereotypical polish boss tries hard to drive down the price of labour...

And while it's better to be with work than without, living paycheck to paycheck in fear is not that great either, and doesn't exactly provide ways out. So sometimes we're left with just what solidarity we can arrange without legal representation, like the time entirety of one of my former workplaces left the job one day for what american management did to one of them.
But my intention was to point out that actual content wasn't being transmitted and that "only" meta data was gleaned since some people seem to think that chat messages are being scooped up. Other people have rightly pointed out that meta data is bad and why and I didn't feel the need to reiterate that.
Adding noise is generally helpful for regularization in ML. Most modern deep learning approaches do this in one way or the other - mostly dropout. It improves generalization capabilities of the model.
I don’t see why it would take more than one PSF board meeting to approve funding for an event. Even if the board had questions, the follow-up is supposed to happen quickly. Several months to approve $9000 is silly. That’s probably just the catering budget for a 3-day, 200-person conference in the Bay Area - let alone for a conference for all of Africa’s Python community.
It is becoming a big topic because more people are becoming sensitive to mold exposure and more time is being spent indoors. Think of how the prevalence of allergies has increased dramatically in our society. Something similar may be happening with mold except at orders of magnitude lower prevalence. Actually there are theories that similar pathways are involved with allergies and mold- that mold triggers immune reactions just like allergies.

When I learned about mold sensitivity I got concerned and started doing mold tests and looking out for mold exposure but eventually realized that nobody in my family is mold sensitive. The "not a big deal" attitude is right for most people, but we should be sensitive to those that are highly mold sensitive.
Compromise a single phone in a target group, send a message to an anonymous chat, and you now know every other member of the group.

Apple needs to know your Apple ID to send you an APNS payload. Now your anonymous chat profile is tied to your real Apple ID. Busted.
> Great reason this beats MUI.

Not at all, mui gives you the option to do either.

I don't want my style library being opinionated about my coding style.
Look around you. Is the building you're in falling down? Or is it standing still? Are the things on your desk bouncing about, or are they just sitting there? Are the atoms in your body fissioning, or are you still here? Stable systems are extremely common. The world would be a much more violent place to live in if they weren't.

And it makes sense that stable points exist. That means there's a well somewhere in the potential (and the stable point is at the bottom of the well). It seems reasonable that if you didn't know anything about the potential of a system, you might suppose it has at least one squiggle somewhere, and in that squiggle you'll find your equilibrium.

Edit: I guess actually it's not so obvious in the higher dimensional case since you can have saddles. I'd have to go back and look at my nonlinear diffeq book to see, but there might be some topological result (similar to the hairy ball theorem) that explains it, at least for compact configuration spaces.
I think routing makes the minimal viable "framework" -- look at the many systems like Sinatra, JAX-RS, aiohttp, etc where you write functions and supply metadata to tie URLs to functions.
I don’t agree with them plagiarizing the EFF’s blog post[0] but I think it is a mistake to use “only”. Both can be damaging and neither is clearly more or less bad since so much depends on the circumstances – like if the police have compromised one party in a conversation, they already have the payload so the real risk would be things like location data. We should probably treat both of those as equivalent risks until enough specific details about a situation are available to say which is riskier.

0. https://ssd.eff.org/module/communicating-others
Once I self-published a technical book, and 2 years later I applied for a job and I got interviewed by someone who had studied that topic on my book and blog.
While Tokamaks have gathered a lot of attention, one alternative approach is the stellarator [1]. It attempts to solve plasma drift problems with a twisted torus design, potentially allowing continuous operation. Although overshadowed by Tokamak research, advancements in stellarators could provide valuable insights into plasma stability and containment.

Separately, in the 1960s scientists developed the plasma focus device [2], which, instead of trying to suppress plasma instabilities, sought to exploit them to compress energy. This approach, though less mainstream, could offer alternative methods for achieving fusion.

Finally, research into deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel has dominated, but DT has drawbacks, like neutron production and associated radioactive waste. Since the 60s, there's been knowledge of aneutronic fusion reactions [3] (like hydrogen-boron or pB11) that produce no or few neutrons. These require higher temperatures but offer advantages for cleaner energy. However, research in this area has been minimal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
Same way that fusion power companies are making money: they don't.

Everyone is sinking tons of money into these ventures with the hope that they succeed before their competitors, and get that sweet sweet first mover benefit.
I think the preeminent issue is that AI is just not trustable for anything that matters. You cannot rely on an unaccountable stochastic model to handle important stuff like money.
In Poland it is extremely hard to fire an individual with regular employment agreement.

Lots of rules about overtime, work schedule, total working hours, vacations, sick leaves, payment, notice period in case of mass layoff.

Labour law is strong. But people are cheap - that's what attractive for international employers.

Minimum wage, costs of living in Germany is higher than in Poland. What is a minimal wage in Germany is a decent wage for factory worker in Poland.
>At some point the truth will come out

I don't agree.

>Without risk, there is no chance of reward

I also don't agree with this. What you're saying is that we have a mechanism to prevent people from scamming each other, but you'd rather not implement it because you see yourself as more capable of profiting off the scam arbitrage. I think that's kind of sick. Companies aren't people, there's no natural expectation of privacy rights. As with software, a society where the books are open is more secure and more able to capitalize on that security.
I don't disagree. Communication is important and allowing use of the name but withholding funding, unless something was communicated beforehand, sends mixed messages.
Because they are not concerned with those things, the lack of knowledge in those areas creeps in.

If you don’t understand how the OS works at a very fundamental level, you will write sub-optimal code. This is usually fine, because people are smart, compilers are good, and hardware is absurdly fast. However, the fact remains that it’s probably giving up some bits here and there.

More germane to my point, though, the amount of libraries and tooling and abstractions being spun up to avoid having to run a server seems like more effort than its worth. Serverless sometimes has cost merits, but as a counterpoint, you can get a 1 year RI micro EC2 for something like $3/month. If your app is struggling to run on that, either you have the scale to justify more cash outlay, or your app has performance issues – and now we’re full circle back to the previous paragraph.
+1 ours got so moldy inside. Especially after the hardwood installers ran them while sanding. I've gotten quite good at deep cleaning and sterilizing them, but it's a long and messy process.
I block ads both because $14/mo is too much for me (I simply don't use YouTube enough to get that much value out of it), I object to ad-funded models (I don't want to watch a few ads instead of pay for Premium), and I strongly object to giving Google money because of their extremely broad portfolio of evil behavior (e.g. the terrible DMCA process - it's actually bad for creators to stay, and I want them to leave!)

I would pay to watch videos using microtransactions on a platform that is not owned by a depraved company. I have no objections to compensating creators for their work in general (unlike a lot of people here, who feel entitled to get everything for free).
The point of solidarity strikes is that there may not be a specific point. It's simply a way for workers from unrelated industries to show support. Apparently, even trash collectors and mail delivery personnel are skipping Tesla.
When the robot overlords come, they will listen and possibly accept bargains and bribes.
South Africa is great except they have rolling blackouts(load shedding) and can be somewhat unsafe. Don't get me wrong, I was there for 3 months and didn't experience any problems, except one time when I was parking at an almost empty beach and my car didn't lock when I pushed the button on the remote. But I could definitely see a bunch of less savvy folks coming in with a bunch of apple goods, flashing them openly in the wrong place and something bad happening.

The rolling blackouts would also probably be pretty annoying though.
Yes, that's indeed the point being made.
"revert the EU to its original purpose, before it was taken over by overreaching bureaucrats: A free trade area."

That seems completely reasonable.
TBF the last time that part of Germany had that much snow in such a short time so early was about twenty years ago. Those parts of Germany where snow is more common (mainly in the mountains) saw no or little disruptions.
Recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530880

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530795
I think you are implying that the presence or lack of a continuity plan is what determines whether something is a hobby project or not.

And I think that's an extremely silly way to determine if something is a hobby project or not.
And? The US doesn’t work the way you think it does. It operates illegally and protects its powers over people. As a factual observation. What then
Rest soundly Ray Wilson; I owe much of my passion for electrical engineering to having pored over your site as a kid.
Yeah we've been trained well in the US. Only our corporate overlords should have that kind of power.
Good article, seems to represent the paper well which can be found here.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375744216_Do_Black_...

Basically, as I understand, Kerr thinks it's most likely some kind of star at the center of a black hole.

"The Kerr metric shows that there will be a region between the event shell and the central body where an eagle can fly if it flaps its wings hard enough. It will, of course, notice the outside universe spinning very quickly around it. It may also have a problem with the radiation building up between the star and inner horizon."
Splats change color based on direction, but opacity is constant.
So where are the test results for the Cybertruck? Most modern cars are built in somewhat similar ways, Cybertruck is a huge outlier in construction. So I think it is very reasonable to ask whether that affects the safety of the vehicle.
And you guys have Spinoza, though you don’t commonly netherlandize names much these days. But it’s neat.
Ok, maybe a direct quote from another source will suffice?

“If you’re ever in an argument with another car, you will win,” Musk told his fans at the delivery event in its Texas factory in Austin. “Here at Tesla we have the finest in apocalypse technology.”

*https://fortune.com/2023/12/01/cybertruck-elon-musk-tesla-de...
Afaik only the more expensive models are manufactured in Germany, model 3 is manufactured in China, so will come by boat to Europe. The Nordic federation of transport unions has expressed support so it will be hard for Tesla to ship things by rail and road.
How long until Qanons think it's their Messiah?
Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome is the mother of all rabbit holes.
But after suffering severe multi-system symptoms for many years I 90% recovered.
Several experts in the field have told me that most if not all migraines are due to environmental exposure to toxins (mold and actinomycetes).

Environmental illness is real with measurable physiological effects.
And it is treatable.

https://www.survivingmold.com/
https://www.survivingmold.com/docs/SHOEMAKER_PROTOCOL_ESSAY_...
What was the better alterative at the time?

EE was basically bankrupt in the early 90's. How could they have caught up to join the wealthy innovation driven countries like UK, Netherlands, Germany and Nordics, on mere fractions of their education and research budgets and considering the massive social damage 45 years of communism has done to eradicate free thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. Basically, post 1989, nobody had any idea how to run a business, how to do market research, marketing, sales, any of that, let alone build businesses that could challenge wealthy established players from the west, since none of that was taught in schools and universities during communism and now you have to catch up with over 45 years of lost progress over night.

It was just not possible at the time, so being cheap outsourcing labor was the only choice to get out of poverty.
> He really, really, wants to be internet liked

Which is different than "liked by 100% of the global population"
There were huge downsides for battery life before, and privacy is somewhat orthogonal since you’d be at risk from more companies and they’d all be subject to the same legal demands, so I think the answer has to be regulatory. In the EU, that seems possible but I’m not sure the U.S. government is currently functional enough to do anything about this.
Fair enough, that would be a good start. I just see such a smooth workflow in being able to do styles for elements with only a few custom styles inline.

I mentioned below, I do this with mui sx right now when <= 4 styles

E.g. sx={{ alignSelf: 'flex-end' }}

I think the reason it works so well is the same reason people love tailwind (it's all in one place), so the plugin would be helpful but still take away from that workflow when it comes to reading and maintaining.
Aphyr.com is built with Luminus. :-)
I'm not saying they lie about it, but as a hypothetical there could be many reasons to lie.

- realizing their model leaks confidential information against malicious prompts

- copyright claims against them forcing them to remove bits of data from the training set

- serious "alignment" bugs that need to be fixed

- vastly improved optimization techniques that slightly affect results in 0.1% of the cases

If updating the model would save the company a couple hundred million dollars, they might want to do it. And in some of the cases, I can imagine they have an incentive to keep the update low key.
There is a melancholy, defeated aspect to saying someone with such notable imagination and success as Elon is motivated only by insecurity.
Woz is being played.
Some people are so used to their western privilege they can’t fathom the idea of a culture not accepting things like being gay. It’s really not hard
You give money and your personal information to an advertising company. The advertising company then does god knows what with your personal information and gives some of that money to some of the 'creators' that you watch, in a way that isn't transparent to you. Who is getting how much money? Do the 'creators' you value get most of that money, or does it go to some clickbait crap you click on in a moment of weakness? You don't know.

What you should do: starve the advertising company (you shouldn't be donating money to support "the platform" which is a trillion dollar for-profit corporation!) and donate directly to the people who ask for it and deserve it.