skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>imagine what [sociology] can discover in [a few centuries]

See Section 3.3, "Social Theory is Harder than you Think". It would be nice, but I'm very doubtful.

>our best course is educating ourselves, no matter how futile, because inaction is not a good way to live with other people on the same plane

Many possible rebuttals here, but let's take the simplest one: Opportunity cost.

Huemer argues for political inaction, not freezing yourself in a block of ice. All that time you save on politics could be time you spend on e.g. discovering new drugs for terminally ill patients, or making it cheaper to desalinate water. Or, just doing your normal job. These are not easy tasks, certainly not as easy as reading The Sociological Times for 8 hours a day, but they will almost certainly end up doing far more good for people.
Something in my apartment is consuming a ton of power and I don't know what. I would love a graph with a resolution better than a day.
Houses built post-1960s (with more than one floor) will have more than one socket ring each protected by a circuit breaker at the distribution board, usually one per floor for general sockets, with a separate one for the kitchen, and usually individual 32A breakers for things like electric ovens and hobs.

Lighting rings are also separate, usually on 6A breakers. We cheap out on cable by not running neutrals to the switches, which causes nerds headaches when they want to install generic smart light switches.

My house is reasonably large (worked hard, all my own money) and has a 20-way distribution board with separate socket and light rings for groups of rooms. It’s handy for isolation purposes.

More recent builds’ rings will be protected by a combination of MCBs and RCDs, or individual RCBOs (now the cost has come down) which combine the two functions and is ultimately the safest option for most situations.

Individually fusing plugs (and in the case of high-draw appliances like washing machines and dryers, protecting with a fused socket) is still a very good idea. And don’t get me started on earthing practices in other countries…
16MB of memory in 1992? Boy oh boy, ain't you the most spoiled kid ever? When I got 4MB in 1994 I though I caught God's foot.
I don't know about the person you're responding to, but those operations over what usually appears at the denominator of the derivative purely for notation purpose has always looked to me as complete magical garbage. What object is "dx" ? is it a number ? a limit ? is it zero ? can i divide another number by it ?

I think this notation is single handly the reason why i've never been comfortable with calculus.

PS: i've stumbled a few years ago on a math book that described the original concept of "infinitesimals" and how a whole different way of doing calculus exists. And it seems to me those kinds of computations over "dx" come from there. But the end result of mixing concepts really looks like trash.
Of course it's in Mozilla's interest to challenge Safari's Apple-imposed monopoly on iOS. Firefox does not benefit from being suppressed on iOS just because Chrome is also suppressed on iOS. Removing Apple's restrictions that prevent Firefox from implementing Gecko and Gecko-based WebExtensions (especially ad blockers) can only increase Firefox's market share on iOS. Those new iOS Firefox users would then be encouraged to adopt Firefox on their desktop computers, because they would finally be able to sync desktop Firefox with an adblock-enabled Firefox on iOS.
Just block all traffic from russia :)
Livelier discussion after repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39029279
Show HN: Simple tool to generate Open Graph meta tags
This is not a reddit thread. Give the tired responses a break and read the HN guidelines.
And this is another case where our world is culturally biased to "the West". It doesn't stop at the lowercase letters saving data when compressed and being at an advantage. Take UTF-8, for example, and think about the difference between latin and other scripts. And then there is the whole Pandoras Box of Han Unification...
Purely from a materials perspective, 2x cheap WiFi-capable microcontrollers (e.g. esp8266) will cost the manufacturer something like $4-$5 total for both devices - which is comparable to 3m cable+connectors+cheap chips to handle the cable connection (even ignoring the cost of some person to install the cable which is far more expensive than that) so indeed I don't get why the author considers that doing the connection over WiFi is somehow wasteful.
Thanks for the pointers
You are missing a crucial factor which is that the Post office leveraged prosecution for a much larger 'theft' crime in order to pressure the defendants to plead guilty to a lesser 'bookkeeping' crime along with 'repayment' of missing funds. It was a shakedown.
Check the coffee machine. Full auto espresso machines can be huge hogs
It also might not be better than existing options. Military and aerospace probably want something sturdier, more aerodynamic, and more predictable, while for civilian applications I'm having a hard time thinking of any occasions where you'd want extremely capable but single use heat shielding.
> strategy of continuing with the 737 into the 2020s has causes numerous avoidable fatalities

No that's not the fundamental reason. The strategy of continuing with the 737 could have been done in a save way. There is nothing inherent in the 737 that makes it fundamentally unsafe.

> You try to make a point it is the right strategy but execution was lacking. I respectfully disagree.

You haven't actually made the point at all. With 787 the execution was flawed. With 737 MAX the execution was even more flawed. You have only provided other examples of flawed execution.

That doesn't prove the strategy was wrong.

Doing the 787 also doesn't inherently mean you can't replace the 737. Boeing had enough money to do both as they have done before.

Saying Boeing should have done some other strategy would likely also have resulted in flawed execution of some kind.

Without the 787, they might have had to do a 767 MAX. And that 767 MAX could have also crashed if the execution was flawed.

All you are doing is imagining a different strategy and then asserting that everything would have been amazing if that strategy had been followed.
"Microsoft took advantage of news of this hack to talk about how they are going to move forward to make itself more secure."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/19/hackers-breached-microsoft...
Continuous Integration (2024 Update)
Streisand Effects in 3.. 2... 1... Go!
I used to use Ceph Luminous (v12) on these, they worked fine. Unfortunately, a bug in Nautilus (v14) prevented 32-bits and 64-bits archs from talking to each other. Pacific (v16) allegedly solves this, but I didn't try it: https://ceph.com/en/news/blog/2021/v16-2-5-pacific-released/

If you want to try it with a more modern (and 64-bits) device, the hardkernel HC4 might do it for you. It's conceptually similar to the HC2 but has two drives. Unfortunately it only has double the RAM (4GB), which is probably not enough anymore.
"Yup, that's mass!"
Yes, and I think most people would consider it a vulnerability if an authentication system doesn't rate-limit or otherwise slow/stop "password spray" attacks.
Technically anyone can arrest you.
Pipeline-Oriented Programming [video]
I should add that I'm also fine with some workarounds.

I tried to make a service that would capture the screen, desaturate it, and then show that desaturated version on the screen (like a sort of, full screen video, with a tap-through to the underlying android system) but that doesn't work.
The SVG path shown is broken, showing slightly why this would be a dodgy approach to apply here.

Shown are these:

<path d="M 1 1 L 1 -1 Z" />
<path d="m 1 1 L 2 0 z" />

But these are inconsistent. These show what I think was intended (a line from (1,1) to (2,0)):

<path d="M 1 1 L 2 0 Z" />
<path d="m 1 1 l 1 -1 z" />

When you look at realistic illustrations, “lowercase everything” is fairly obviously not a good approach in path data: sometimes absolute coordinates will be shorter, other times relative coordinates will be shorter; and the difference, raw or compressed, will normally be more than the case difference.

No, if you’re trying to compress, you should be taking the holistic approach, adjusting not just case, but the entire path data. For example, one of these two solutions, dropping the superfluous whitespace and removing the line-to opcode which is implied after an opening move-to:

<path d="M1 1 2 0z"/>
<path d="m1 1 1-1z"/>

You can also contemplate whether you actually want to close the path. In this trivial case, it’ll only make a difference if you have exactly one of stroke-linejoin and stroke-linecap set to round.
nice, these are always good

altho it does seem inevitable that they get ads and worsened over time, idk
The app gap was the generic bland comment about windows phone every writer put in their reviews/articles/tests. I didn't feel I was missing many apps with my lumia 640 and I don't think it's what solely derailed the platform but that mantra felt like death by a thousand same cuts.

It was as boring and stupid as reading "yeah that igpu is fine but not for gaming of course unless you restrict yourself to 2d or indie games" is.
A somewhat relevant article, it explores an alternative to Leibniz notation: Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09553.pdf).
Old Man Trump (Woody Guthrie 1954)
As discussed in another subthread, it may well be that the secret of the material is not lost, but is still, well, a secret. Of the "top secret" kind.
I'm shocked that PIX2ACT isn't more common
My eyes are frequently googly
My last place had a 1970s Wylex board, which at least had plug-in MCB modules that replaced the fuse wire holders and can be reset. However given you can still buy fuse wire in DIY stores there still must be installations out there that need it. Shudder.
Realization for the license change was a bit different. From day 1 we knew Tart is good and hoped to build a healthy ecosystem around it. Unfortunately, our enthusiasm wasn't met by big companies. You can check this blog post for more details https://tart.run/blog/2023/02/11/changing-tart-license/.

The free usage is pretty generous: free on any amount of personal computers including personal workstations and up to 100 cores (12 Mac Minis) when installed on servers. If your organizations needs a bigger installation then it's probably values the product and can budget out a little bit to support it.
Depending on your water meter this device may be useful: https://www.homewizard.com/watermeter/
> The fraud uncovered in X recently gives us a clear example of how entire areas of Y can be compromised and subverted for decades

Yes, bad humans, need more checks and balances.

> my gut feeling is that Z in Y is fraud

...

> get us to limit beef

Sorry but lol, noone taking away your beef, but now understanding better that "gut feeling" :D

If you want to do something good for some things, could still reduce your meat consumption. ;)
this is neat

i don't have a good use case rn, but will keep it in mind
I see a few people saying to avoid third parties but I’ve had good experiences with Amex travel including with their phone support. Does anybody have any bad experience with Amex travel to share?
Well well well.. how the turn tables.

It's karma after years of my windows machine forcing a restart for a security update while I'm working on something in the middle of the day..
To my understanding, intumescent paint is great to paint on structural elements of buildings. E.g. a skyscraper's steel frame.
It looks so much like Obsidian, except for the Vi.
Nah, humans just blank-out for a couple of seconds mid-task instead.
An aid to diagnosis is quite typical if the sensitivity of the device is considered too low.
The answer to this question is answered in the FA. Leibiz notation is confusing except in the most simple cases.

For example:

> Isn't fractional form useful, for example solving differential equation y = dy/dx => dy/y = dx?

What exactly does "dy/y = dx" mean? What is on the LHS and what is on the RHS?

It acts like a mnemonic scribble for an intermediate step. It doesn't have any mathematical meaning.
If you reduce acceleration, your speed is still increasing if you still have positive acceleration. This is still speeding up, not slowing down.
Blancolirio gives interesting informed speculation:

https://youtu.be/PFCfSMgq3to?feature=shared
How do you know if nothing happens? It isn't like the people siphoning, selling, or purchasing this data are broadcasting their wins on news aggregators.
Try making a game for Safari and then tell me it's not hard. It's definitely not just a case of different browser quirks. Safari is so far behind Chrome and Firefox that it's not worth supporting.
It won’t be. Everyone will forget about this in a week and it will be BAU. Like every other breach.
While the word shape meme is a myth [1] there are some half truths to it.

It is known that mixed casing does disrupt reading [2], which gives some weight to the idea that the shapes of words and letters does affect reading.

For myself I know that my reading speed and comprehension suffers when reading title cased sentences. This leads me to always "fix" [3] documents I update or otherwise contribute to at work when others do it for headings, subheadings, headers and footers.

[1] https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9293635/

[3] I say "fix" because I know it's a generally acceptable formatting method when writing, I just don't like it.
The discussion in Sussman and Wisdom's "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics", about how the Euler-Lagrange equations don't literally make sense as traditionally written, has long resonated with me:

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

They also adopt a notation where partial derivatives are taken with respect to "argument slots".
I'm talking about a runtime permission, something like "App_name wants to use internet" with options "allow once" , "while using the app", and reject. Same with camera microphone storage etc. Internet is the reason camera and mic access are sensitive in the first place after all.
Also this:

"To date, there is no evidence that the threat actor had any access to customer environments, production systems, source code, or AI systems."

So email accounts of senior leadership and employees in cybersecurity are apparently not production systems.
> There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.

A lot of inventions come about because of laziness. Some guy somewhere got tired of carrying his things around, so he invented the wheel. Of course, I don't know whether the inventor of the wheel was properly rewarded.
> Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading

Why transaction order matters, if you're simultaneously doing two write transactions and a read transaction.
1. containerization is often implemented these days in terms of partial virtualization, because the historical approach that were essentially a bunch of variations of chrooting were not sufficiently isolated to create a sufficient security boundary for a multiuser "cloud" hosting service.

2. virtualization, as my update/comment up the thread said, the definition of virtualization being "host os code runs directly on the cpu" has been pretty much the standard definition for a couple of decades at this point. If you say you offer virtualization, but you implement it using an academically "accurate" definition that allows emulation I would imagine that you would have difficulty finding a user that accepts that definition. Again, as I've stated elsewhere "hardware virtualization support" that CPUs have acquired since the 90s is essentially multi-level page tables and cpu mode options so that a virtual machine runtime doesn't need to rewrite kernel mode code. It has not meaningfully impacted user mode code at all.

It is not reasonable to reject the evolution of language when considering the meaning of a word, nor the context of the environment in which it is discussed. The fact that 30 years ago you could say an emulator was a virtual machine is not relevant today, where the terminology very clearly does not include ISA emulation. This is as true for modern tech terminology like "virtualization" as it is for other tech terminology. For example, no one would accept me presenting a person good at maths as a "computer" either, despite that being what it used to mean.
SIM cards and secure elements still use this, but it's arguably less Java than Javascript. Except that the trademark and tech (JavaCard) was owned by Sun, now Oracle. It's the basis of the claim, that gazillion devices run Java.

JavaCard is a massively trimmed down version which is more a dumbed down C (with no standardization, little documentation and no third-party tool support) which is essentially Java reduced to basic arithmetic operator, an arguably saner, much trimmed down standard library focusing on cryptography and most importantly no GC.
Just to snark, it really is transformative, parents who spend time with their kids!
Interesting, though one could as well conclude from this that all caps is not very readable. We need to know the actual motivation behind this change, not a supposition.

My question would be from title case to normal case for titles. We already know that normal case is readable, that's what we use for normal text.

We also know (?) that people speaking another language with a Latin alphabet don't have trouble reading titles.
It's so funny to see the SPA and RIAA being mentioned in the same context as PMITA prison because I just told my friend yesterday that if I ever released the software I actually want to build, that the RIAA and WMG would PMITA in court without so much as spitting on me in disgust before starting.
I hear these problem types are not as common as they used to be, but here's some recent examples in this direction.

Fall 2023: "Prove that 2^12345678910 - 1 is divisible by 1023."

Spring 2022: "Using induction, show that the sum of the numbers on the line n of Pascal's triangle equals 2^n."

Here's the full exam from fall 2023: https://yle.fi/plus/abitreenit/2023/syksy/matematiikka_pitka...
Thanks! imgsrc.io has a paid offering for generating Open Graph and social images so it won’t need to be ad-supported.

I’m building these smaller tools (like the meta tag generator and Open Graph debugger) to make it easier for myself and hopefully others get a well-tested and up-to-date guidance on the recommended meta tags
I answered elsewhere corn chips and corn tortillas only (excluding supermarket tortillas anyway, those suck too). I’m not immune to tacos, enchiladas or guacamole and salsa delivery mechanisms.

There is however a special place in hell for the first person to come up with cornbread and serve it to another human being. No redeemable qualities. I’m not even sure if I would call it bread or food for that matter.
I’ve noticed in PR it’s very common (I’d say even standard practice) to use percentages to hide absolute numbers, and vice versa
The benchmark were they accomplish 1025 GiB/s is for sequential reads. For random reads they do 25.5M iops or ~100 GiB/s. See last table, column "630 OSDs (3x)".
Do you have a conventional HWS? These are notoriously power-hungry, often poorly maintained and calibrated, and hard to monitor.

You can buy a power meter plug - that sits between appliance and socket - and work your way around almost all your appliances apart from, typically, oven, air conditioner(s), and hot water systems. For those you're going to need to experiment by turning as many things off as you can, to establish a baseline, and review your switch meter periodically for short (several minute) intervals, with and without the larger appliances turned on.

(You can get induction coil systems to report usage of these larger appliances, but they're typically onerously priced.)
Nah same, I find the typestate pattern to be overprotective against bugs that usually get caught during development, and async Rust is just a killjoy overall.
This kind of reminds me of this dicussion... was kinda famous a while ago: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2JGNJ5ZPJT4YC
> It’s like when Netflix asks if you’re still watching when you’ve fallen asleep on the couch—except this policy actually saves you money.

I assumed this was because they pay for some content on a per-view basis, so they don't want to pay if you're not actually there/awake.

That said, I have found the autoplay-next-episode behavior to be strangely inconsistent, even for the same show. Some nights it automatically plays 4 in a row if we do nothing, and other nights it stops after each one. I've tried to figure out if it's based on time (sometimes we watch pretty late), but there seems to be no correlation.
How the blockchain could solve one of AI's biggest problems
Well for one, we were still using CGI scripts and for two, we didn't have local storage in the browser....
Not sure if this has been mentioned already:

https://github.com/MickGyver/DaemonBite-Retro-Controllers-US...

It's how to build your own demon bite adapters using Arduino, for various console. These are super low lag.

If you Google demon bite you can find various sites selling premade adapters.

These are really popular with mister fpga users:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiSTer

This is a bit of a rabbit hole, the mister is the best retro related thing I've bought / built.

Here's a useful listing of various usb adapters and their latency:

https://rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency
You can rate limit individual users but password spray attacks use a large number of accounts to remain undetected in a authentication system used by an even more users.
We don't do that in Flanders. My husband's name is "Roel Van Gils".
People (and computer systems) from the Netherlands do automatically change this to "Roel van Gils" but they are wrong.

Also, in Flanders, when you do write the "Van" or the "De" in your lastname with a lowercase letter, we assume you are nobility
Yeah, and update mechanisms are not created equal. two way data bindings suck because they elide the challenges of distributed consistency.

When you're immutable, you can still delete or replace data.
The article is about how you can optimize AI for stocks
Or Radio Neptune! Classical during (European) day, jazz during the night, no talk, no ad https://radioneptune.fr/
In most cases uppercase vs lowercase doesn’t matter. Compression work either well. An interesting exception are QR codes. They are substantially smaller if you only use upper case characters because there is a more efficient encoding for them.
This is one asymmetry which can and should be corrected by legal means; markets which require unsubscribing to be as easy as subscribing get a bit more 'healthy' for subscriptions than those that don't.
Falsehoods programmers believe about names number 30:

"There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly."

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
That was always understood. I just didn't want confusion with the word dang.
BLM analysis aims to optimize solar energy development throughout the West
> Heracles holding a club and a lion's skin is a bit of a trope.

But this one does not have a lion’s skin. Maybe a man with a club is just a man with a club.

This kind of thinking would lead a historian living in 3k to identify a picture of an astronaut as the mythical hero of Ironman.
A good number of people here can read that article and incorporate a decade or more of past knowledge of reported interactions between the RCMP and indigenous communities in Canada.

Call it one part racism, three parts utter indifference, with an occasional dash of one or two exceptions actually giving a damn and attempting to do the right thing.

You're correct that no simple definite conclusion can be reached here on logic alone, however from context many can distinguish a hawk from a heronsaw given a favourable wind.