skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extremely uncharitable view of Firefox and an outrageously generous view of Windows. The things you listed take 2 checkboxes in a new tab window, 2 checkboxes in settings (which has a search bar that takes you right to them by just searching "studies" or "data collection"), 2 checkboxes in settings (search "suggestions"), 2 clicks (right click the pocket button and click hide)... The only tricky one is the recommended extensions but that's tucked at the bottom of a page nobody uses anyways (everyone just googles the extension they want and grabs it from the web), but even that takes like 15 seconds once you know what setting it is in about:config. I actually don't even disable the two telemetry checkboxes because they're transparent about the data they take and what they do with it, so I'm happy to share it. You can easily do all of this in one or two minutes and it won't roll itself back.

With Windows you would be lucky to even have a supported method to disable their telemetry, and if you do get one it will probably be through an obscure series of registry edits that will ultimately get rolled back during a system update.
David J Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics was a fantastic undergraduate-level E&M textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Electrodynamic...
Anecdotally, I’ve been wearing N95 indoors (outside the home) since the pandemic started and haven’t gotten sick yet, even when friends got sick from being in the same venue as me (e.g. office, airplane).
yes. everyone knows chemotherapy agents are going to be bad, and that they can’t be continued forever etc, and yet the long-term prognosis is absolutely clear as to what happens if you don’t take them.

drugs don’t need to be used long-term to have a pretty good picture of the long-term tradeoffs, particularly when it’s something like cancer or obesity that has a clearly negative long-term outcome in the a sense of a successful intervention. Most interventions for obesity are ultimately not successful and to have one that is is a game changer, even if it has some minor side effects (and burden of proof cuts both ways - it’s not clear that they even exist etc, only that it would still be worth it if they did).

in the real world, things usually don’t turn out to have some stealth side effect that takes 30 years to manifest, and nobody is telling you to take them anyway, just to stop injecting yourself into private medical decisions around an approved, well-studied drug with a seemingly quite benign profile.

(why oh why do I suspect that semaglutide skepticism correlates heavily with the “respect my freedom to not wear a mask” crowd…)
Thanks for taking the time to respond and analyze my comment! - The bigger the slope (in space), the faster (in time) the temperature changes at that point -

I have to confess that I got it wrong, indeed: the right side of the equation is a Laplacian. But, rather than describing an average in temperature, it describes the divergence of the temperature field.
Erm, is it bias if it's the standard for navigation?

Historically, maintaining constant latitude (colloquial "Go East") was straightforward.

By contrast, maintaining a Great Circle Route other than the equator was effectively impossible until the 1800s. It requires the ability to track longitude which requires the invention of the marine chronometer.
The frame was rebuilt by reading "Master Your Emotions" by T Meurisse. About the limits, just don't....
Good luck.
You talk like the project is dead, but the blog post emphatically says that it isn't.
Real life equivalent to Shire is essentially Island of Sark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sark
Isn't Cosmic based on Gnome? If yes, at least they did a service to enable the Cosmic DE.
Rational answer : someone found it interesting and wanted to share.

Non-rational : upcycling the news machine for the upcoming European elections on June 9.
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>USB-C

>just as god intended

???
This inspired similarly annoyed responses last time it was posted too. It genuinely surprises me to see that on HN. The whole thing can be summarized as "You might think of 'start facing East and go in a straight line' as being the same as 'maintain an Eastern heading', but latitude lines are only straight in the Cartesian abstraction we're used to, and not in reality."

I hadn't thought about it before. It's interesting. It's not some kind of cheap or stupid trick intended to embarrass you. The negativity is truly baffling.
Like she said, he probably has a mental illness or did too many drugs.

If you ever want to be taken seriously in the academic communities with your "discoveries", you have to understand and engage with the ideas that came before. Usually that means showing other people that you can study the subject, and be successful, in university. If you haven't taken that first step, then you're already in delusion city.
The main difference between theory and reality;

is that in theory, theory and reality are the same;

but in reality, they're not...
I don't disagree that it solves the "in this job until I die". But as you allude to, it creates its own issues and it's not clear to me if, on balance, its better. Churn can also create an ineffective (or superficially effective) organization because the hardest problems can't really be solved in a short tenure. (If it could the Executive Branch would be considered highly effective because it has churn every 4-8 years).
From a benefit perspective:

When apple uses its dominant position to tax everyone 30 percent apple benefits, and the market does not.

When apple uses its dominant position to pay your team 30 percent more and stifle the free market by driving competitors out of business. you benefit, Apple benefits more and the market does not.

Is apple being a giant market dominating force a good thing or a bad thing? Your getting the high salary does not reflect your value, or the market value of your skill. It reflects apples desire to put your former employer out of business.
Then I guess you missed the huge pile of mess that CSD made when they were first introduced to Xfce.
A straight line along a constant latitude is a perfectly valid interpretation of the words. That interpretation was reinforced by the image. You're right that warning was given that it was a "puzzle". Still I'm with what it seems the GP was saying and felt the statements of correctness with certainty were intellectually dishonest. Rather than enjoying a clever thoughtfulness, perspective, and new knowledge, I appreciated the description of how they got that answer while feeling a bit abused. If the good and invalid interpretations had been recognized and the bad dismissed then the chosen "selected" I may have had smaller objections but recognized the right to choose, especially if there was something in the statement of the puzzle teasing that interpretation. In lieu of that it is an unsatisfying a game of guess the teacher's answer for me.
The title is asking for something different from the problem statement.
Even in-universe the Hobbits aren't fully "realistic"; they are supported by the Rangers keeping the many and sundry threats of Middle Earth off of their borders. Without that protection the whole system actually fell apart even in-universe. There's not a lot places in the real history of the real world where a society had no defense burden, and they don't tend to be long-term stable either.
BTW, this is the actual oldest server (and it's still up): https://minecraftonline.com/

This is a close contender (it's is also up, and really thriving; it's even on close to the latest version): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2b2t

I can recommend 2b2t if you don't mind the 4chan-like mentality in the chat. Probably the only server where coding is actually a desired, core skill in factions/teams/groups.
Nobody familiar with navigation would say "go east in a straight line" because it's a paradox. That's why they say "maintain an easterly heading", or, for shorter distances (e.g. car directions), "head straight east", as in "exactly east", and not "east in a perfectly straight line", which would be less relevant for shorter distances.

It's also why the question is (paraphrased) "start facing east and go in a straight line", and not "go east in a straight line".
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We're hiring pretty broadly across engineering - AI research, high performance Rust (e.g., we build an in-house vector DB), and full stack. If the mission of organizing the Internet motivates you, it's a good fit :)

https://exa.ai/careers
"How does YC square this statement about the organization's current stances with the fact that someone who doesn't work there anymore but who had previously communicated similar stances has now apparently changed his mind?"

Why would they need to square anything there? There's nothing contradictory about a former exec not matching the current values of a company.
Yeah it feels like a logical/semantic confusion, where the author gets to "well actually" the reader.

To me "go east" means something more like "travel with a velocity vector that is always aligned with east on a compass", not "travel with a velocity vector that is fixed with east from your initial position"
CosmicOS: Coding for Contact
"CosmicOS is a way to create messages suitable for communication across large gulfs of time and space. It is inspired by Hans Freudenthal's language, Lincos, and Carl Sagan's book, Contact. CosmicOS, at its core, is a programming language, capable of expressing simulations. Simulations are a way to talk, by anology, about the real thing they model.

CosmicOS is structured to communicate the usual math and logic basics, then use that to show how to run programs, then send interesting programs that demonstrate behaviors and interactions, and start communicating ideas through ”theater” and simulations. This is inspired by Freudenthal's idea of staging conversations between his imaginary characters Ha and Hb."

The REPL is great:
- https://cosmicos.github.io/evaluate.html
Frustratingly, they scan my comments, so hopefully they won’t bother filing a DMCA for that.

(Seeing "sillysaurusx" appear in print on official court documents was pretty amusing out of context, though.)
At a small scale, pick the smallest set of boring technologies possible and be strict about using them. Introducing a new technology should only be done if it gives a sizable advantage that can't be had with your existing set. https://boringtechnology.club/

As you get larger (> 50 engineers in my opinion) you may need to switch things up a bit. I really like the "golden path" methodology described by Charity Majors: https://charity.wtf/2018/12/02/software-sprawl-the-golden-pa...

Short version: pick a set of tools that are fully supported by the organization: projects that use them get backups and deployment and testing and ops and development environments all provided by default.

Teams can stray from that golden path, but they'll need to solve that operational stuff themselves.

UPDATE: I just read https://developer.app/expectations/code-neutral/ and I mostly disagree with it: allowing developers to mix and match any langauges and frameworks they feel like is a huge competitive disadvantage and will greatly damage your ability to maintain software and build features productively over time.

The exception is editors and personal development tools - developers should be able to use whatever works best for them there because it has no impact on other developers - my work in unaffected by your decision to use Emacs instead of VS Code.

But don't make your Python programmers on a tiny team have to fix bugs in a Ruby app because some other developer liked Ruby better!
How many internet users would pay anything at all for a web browser (or its engine)? Can browsers only be produced as a loss leader? What alternate revenue source besides browsers (and advertising) should Mozilla be funding Servo (and Firefox) with?

No one seems to have that answer, and without that, it’s unclear how Mozilla’s slow collapse is newly interesting and relevant to this Servo thread.
At $LastCompany, someone gave them Contributor (Create/Read/Update/Delete) access to Azure because it was easier than scoping to 5 roles they required. I wouldn't be shocked if we were not only ones.

Edit: Their software should really check and refuse to work if someone does that but obviously Vanta doesn't care. They can begin scanning and billing.
An individual's immediate remuneration is not the only variable in the discussion. There's a balance of power in play, in which smaller companies are on the weaker side when large corporations are left unchecked. Sure, in the short term, it's always better to get a higher paycheck. But we also need to see if this is sustainable in the long run. If Big Corps can easily undermine competition progress will be impaired, the market will eventually become less diverse, leading to fewer jobs and lower salary pressure.
That sounds potentially dangerous? Distilled water lacks electrolytes, so you shouldn't drink in large quantities.

(And your comment on taste is interesting. Distilled water doesn't taste like anything (except possibly slight tingling if it "burns" your tongue), which is why minerals are often added to drinking water to make it taste "good")
Wow, I never thought about how Voyager communicates with Earth. But now I wonder: if Voyager just sends photons towards the Earth, at the receiving end how are we recognizing which photons are coming from Voyager and how is the "signal" decoded?
I'd nearly be offended to get a hard question related to Bing since it sucks so much ass.
From the preface of MTW:

> It supplies two tracks through the subject. The first track ... is suitable for a one-semester course at the junior or senior level or in graduate school.

As you say, it picks out bits and pieces that an undergrad can understand.

Today, there are better GR books, so use those.
Weird. As an anecdote my "Daily Mix 1" has 50 songs, and only two bands I didn't recognize. 62% of the songs are by artists with more than one song in the list. The most songs by an artist? 7 songs over 3 albums. Of the 50 songs, only 4 were put out this decade, only two bands did I not recognize.

"Daily Mix 2" is better with 30 bands, with the top band having 4 songs across 2 albums. Coincidently 62% of songs are also by artists with more than one song in the last, but the most common artist only has 4 songs across 2 albums. 19 unrecognized bands, so that's something.
Minecraft was the first game I made long term friends from the internet in. I went on to play other games with my friends from minecraft for years. My first real relationship was with someone I met on Minecraft. I flew across the US to visit her multiple times in high school (working as a dishwasher to buy tickets). 7 years later I bought her and her child plane tickets to visit me (earlier this year).

Also Minecraft got me into programming in Java, which let to my programming career. So yeah... Minecraft has been a pretty big part of my life, even if I mostly stopped playing it in early high school :P
The purpose of bopomofo was, historically, to standardize Mandarin across the whole China (ROC, not PROC). It was not invented to spell foregin words.
LLMs seem to do more of what brains do unconsciously, rather than consciously. Which means brains may be better at rating e.g. trustworthiness of some text, but they don't surface specific ratings to the conscious level. Meanwhile, language models seem to be able to expose those features as knobs, allowing you to boost or attenuate them. So you get to drag the e.g. "excited" slider down to minimum, and get a text that may be easier to process at a conscious level. Having a slider to remove rhetoric from text would be really useful development.
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We’d probably be living like the Jetsons if the Middle East was stable, China wasn't so aggressive in the South China Sea, and Russia didn't have some illusion of being able to restore the Soviet Union.
Reduced, no. The best available evidence is that it would have made no difference either way. Sad and depressing but that's where the data takes you. This is physically possible for any virus that can spread long distances on air currents including through air ducts, as SARS-CoV-2 can (just like its predecessor SARS-1). As it's not possible to be outside 24/7 nor to wear a mask inside 24/7 regardless of mask type, the chance of not being exposed fairly quickly is pretty low. The epidemiology of airborne respiratory viruses is not the same as measles.

The best evidence of this is still the nearly controlled experiment that happened on the Diamond Princess cruise ship early on, which was completely ignored afterwards due to what it showed.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...

Why are we limiting this to western countries?

This is clearly a problem with (checks list) Bhutan, Maldives, Puerto Rico, Nepal, South Korea, Saint Lucia, Taiwan, Carbo Verde, Djibouti, and Bosnia. I'm missing the list of "most western countries" there in the most critical ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#Caus...

Is the reduction in fertility possibly more influenced by things like... https://www.statista.com/statistics/259518/birth-rate-among-... https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/02/why-is-th...

Or https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/05/07/family-...

> The more education a mother has, the fewer children she will have on average in her lifetime. While fertility drops somewhat with each additional level of education, the biggest fertility gap occurs between women who lack a high school diploma and those who have completed high school.

> Moms ages 40 to 44 who lack a high school diploma have about 2.9 children in their lifetimes, on average, while those with a high school diploma or some college have about 2.4 kids. Mothers at the end of their childbearing years who have a bachelor’s degree or higher have about 2.2 children on average.

Though I would certainly not say that one should be encouraging teenage pregnancy nor hindering the education of women in an attempt to boost the fertility rate.

Blaming the declining fertility rate in western nations on pornography seems to miss the more obvious causes.
> I doubt rust is anywhere near as popular as Ada, but I don't know how to measure that.

I would have the reverse guess, but like you I can't think of a reliable way to get reliable numbers. Here's why I get my guess though: There just aren't that many defence IT people proportionally and only some of them are writing Ada. I saw no sign of non-defence Ada in noticeable quantities.

Sometimes people are just upfront, we're a defence contractor, all our clients are military, everybody who works here must get clearance. Sometimes they're a bit more shy, please come talk to our specialist recruiter, and fill out all these forms that are surprisingly interested in you as a person not an employee (because they're pre-screening you, you will get security cleared). Nobody was like "Ada has been so great for our CRUD web sites" or "Come join our team writing a trading platform in Ada" or anything like that.

So I think it just can't work statistically.
So, one criminal gang steals data from another criminal gang, and then sells it to a 3rd criminal gang.

Sounds like capitalism is functioning as intended...
I just looked up the USB2514, and it would seem to not support PerPortPowerSwitching. (used by e.g. uhubctrl to toggle/switch power to individual USB ports). Am I not reading the specs correctly?
Amortization (174) probably isn't getting fixed this year.
> Non-human entities aren't entitled to 1st amendment protections.

The vast majority of speech that needs to remain protected for speech to remain meaningfully free happens through non-human entities. Removing that protection is an absolutely insane step.
The optimal vacancy rate isn't zero, renters (and relocating homeowners) need to be able to move and to reject bad landlords.
> stripping non-human entities of 1st amendment is effectively repealing the 1st amendment in the US

Human individuals would still have a right to speak whatever they feel.

And arguably, I'd extend that onto platforms above a certain size that can verify human identity (ideally anonymized after verification).

IMHO, newspapers/printmakers/movies do need to be regulated.

They deserve rights, but those rights should look very different than individual 1st amendment right.

Which seems reasonable -- nobody would ever confuse Alphabet-the-company with me-the-individual-person in terms of capability and capital.
It's an interesting point. Whether non-human entities are entitled to 1st amendment rights. Since they have the potential longevity that far exceeds humans, and also can't be punished in same manner for potential wrongdoing (i.e. send an entire company or lobby) to prison.
No message, just a gray background with a pixelated frowny face. Not sure if it's coming from your game or from itch.io. Chrome 125.0.6422.147. (I don't have the phone set up for developer tools, so can't tell if there's something in the developer console. Sorry.)

Holding Z down to roll back everything is near instant, so I think it's purely a presentation thing then. Both the screen wipe and the sound effect are very obtrusive. I spot-checked a random puzzle game (Monster's Expedition) with higher than average production values for the genre, and the undo is instant with no transitions or animations, and a sound effect so subtle it took me a while to realize it was even there.
The parents might be willing to attempt a rescue when the police are not.
This premise means that the extra dollars would be spent in a way that would justify your comment. Schools in Texas, Florida, et al would probably just replace those liberal texts with much more censored versions. They'd probably find a way to build bigger football stadiums or those other sportsball programs. New uniforms and things too. Then it'd probably pay for perks for principles and sporting directors, but sadly, there wouldn't be enough to increase the base pay of actual teachers. I'm sure there's other ways to spend that money and not a bit of it improves our advance towards the Jetsons' world.
I guess what I'm wondering is more about the opposite of the "cool/neat" where orgs either prohibit development in non-standard langs (and that was good/bad) or allow development in non-standard langs (and that was good/bad).

What criteria is used to determine when it's ok to deviate from in-house langs? What justification is used to prevent deviation at all costs?
A Trove of Whaling Logbooks Will Help Scientists Understand Our Changing Climate
Shortly after a contraction, if anything the forests would regrow.

Fueling the war machines a decade or so later, of course.
I guess the Shire is probably small enough to maintain such a political structure. J.R.R.Tolkein does model it with an ideal English countryside in mind, in which people like Bilbo Barkins, who are wise, participate in the politics of the community.
If the harm is hard to assess, is it worth caring about? At some point the effect becomes insignificant.
its unclear how efficient they are in deep ocean.