skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that it's a separate discussion, and that losing yourself in that discussion rather than adressing the material harm of the discrimination, is a problem.

And I get it, the discussion is deeply alluring. There is a deep amount of nuance involved. Your point about punctuality is begging for a response about how "punctuality is racist" looks dumb on the surface but belies a deeper point about polychronic cultures that has a lot of legitimate merit to it.

I'll refrain from giving you that full ramble lest I betray my original point, if you or a lurker wants it toss a reply and we can have a go. But note that your link uses a baity headline to grab your attention for a more nuanced point.
Again, it's not clear to me that if you asked 1950s mathematicians to look at math journals in the 1950s, they would react very differently. You haven't presented any evidence of this.

It's certainly true that math is a more fragmented specialized field today than it was in the eras of Euler or Gauss, but without some more concrete evidence or objective claim, I don't know what is so bad about math journals today compared to 1950.
This "opponent assassination" hypothetical gets bandied about a lot but I have not seen any evidence that any court considers that to be an "official act". Official acts are constrained to legitimate exercises of constitutional authority and are not merely anything a President (or especially, an ex-President) does.
I'm Quartz's primary author, and I hadn't seen this proposal until today.

They are similar in the sense of using a faked clock to make things deterministic. Other than not having to inject the Clock interface, tests using Quartz will probably look fairly similar to this proposal in many cases.

The proposal has a simpler API than Quartz, being able to just run some goroutines and wait until everything is blocked.

However, this brings some limitations on what can be tested, such as time elapsing while computation is occurring (not just elapsing while things are waiting for something else). IMO this is an important limitation, as many interesting time-of-check, time-of-use bugs and edge cases occur because time does elapse during computation in real systems.

An example of this from coder/coder that motivated the design of Quartz's API: https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/a5e4bf38fec66c5e7ecc96b0...
I created lockmeout.online for that specific purpose - change your phones unlock code to a randomly generated one and time-lock it away for a period of time you want to be free of distractions. Carrying a locked phone is still pretty usefull: Emergency calls, take photos using camera, taking/making regular calls using Siri, Music, Background GPX tracker etc.
> I honestly do not think it is possible to ignore ads unless you do not see/smell/hear/experience them

While we can't avoid seeing ads in a public place, we can manage how we respond to them. That's really not much different than not liking what someone else says. We can try to regulate everything such that people can be comfortable and never have to build a thick skin, or we can trust that people can and should be able to manage their emotions well enough to ignore things they don't like.

> It seems less and less of an option. Amtrak gatekeeps its best prices behind an app. Parking lot wants me to use an app. My workplace now effectively forced me to have phone on me ( even if I come into office.. I can understand the need for it while remote

I can't stand when companies do this stuff, assuming that everyone has a smartphone and is willing to give them access to it. I choose not to patronize companies that do it, but yeah that's harder when your office building requires a smartphone to enter. When push comes to shove, I wonder what the employer would say if someone raised that it isn't an option for them and they need a different way to enter.

Broadly, we have a real issue today with society allowing conveniences to become necessities. We do it to ourselves, but just because smartphones and cars are convenient doesn't mean we should build a world where everyone has to have them. It locks us into certain paths, and when concerns like climate change come up for example we're hamstrung because we can't imagine giving up things like personal vehicles, air travel, smartphones, etc.
My definition of "running out of problems" as I stated was "running out of problems that more than a handful of people care about", and I think this is definitely true in math.
800W ... total?

I guess for apartments thats better than nothing, but wouldn't it make more sense to install them on the roof of the building and tie it into rebates for everyone?
Tricycle: Deep learning framework from scratch
I'm only on LinkedIn, but not on my phone, so no social media. I'm also very reluctant to install apps to begin with, very few things really belong on a phone. I have very few apps and they aren't the kind you'd use regularly, other than a streaming app and podcasts.

Personally I have some issues with limiting YouTube consumption, but not on the phone, because I don't have YouTube on my phone and using it in the browser sucks. When I've attempted to seek out advise on reducing screen time everything seems to focus on the phone, but the phone isn't an issue for me, because the UI is absolutely terrible for pretty much any activity you could ever imagine. The small screen, touch interface and gestures are enough to keep my phone pretty faraway. I use it for calls and messaging.

It still amazes me that people are willing to do pretty much anything on their phones. So while I have looked into trying to dumb down my iPhone, it didn't seem like it was worth my time.
> There's a reason salaries for this type of work as so large...

That's not the reputation that salaries of places like this have.
Interesting that slapping Linux on a Windows computer doesn't work well. I wonder how OSX would fare.
I disabled notifications for everything except messages years ago. Never looked back.
My house's previous homeowner found a drainpipe with his stud finder. He successfully marked it and put three screws in it.

The knock test shouldn't be skipped.
All insurance specialises in certain groups. Regular holiday insurance is cheaper than snowboarding holiday insurance (and regular holiday insurance doesn't cover snowboarding). Why would this be different?
We all lost our minds when Google tried to pull their privacy-preserving Federated Learning of Cohorts thing. I expect an even bigger outcry when Firefox, whose entire brand and reason for existence is privacy, quietly tries to do the same thing.
Now you've learned how parliamentary politics function.
This is unrelated. Paywalling != tracking.

If it wouldn't work, then I'd see no ads in my paper-based iX subscription, yet it is full of ads even though I'm paying for that paper.

But the paper has the benefit that the ads I see there don't collect information on me. This is what I want the internet to be.

Ads OK, but no tracking of me if I don't want it (which I express via cookies when in a browser).

Also, you should note how greedy these companies are that they show you the paywall after you have consented to the cookies in order to read the article. No hint on that accepting the cookies is only useful if you also have a subscription. When you can't read the article, they don't revert the setting of the cookies, but just pretend that they gave you access to the article and keep the cookies around for days or years.
Can companies not see how their ads are performing by looking at their income statements? An ad campaign costs x dollars. Widget sales increase by y dollars. Companies were able to run this method for a long time. I think ads have gone way too far. It’s shocking we’ve gotten to the point of this discussion on data collection to fuel ads.
yeah, I have seen this in Germany as well. I guess the companies get incentives for installing these chargers, and then just let them sit there until they rot

In our city (~100k) alone I have spotted over 10 chargers that have been defective for at least half a year, some even longer than 1 year. And that's only those that I regularly drive to.

As long as there are no requirements to actually service them and have them in a working condition, the raw numbers of installed chargers are meaningless
I can't help but wonder if Dell tweaked the firmware. I know that I, and everyone I've seen discuss it, haven't been able to get a vanilla XPS (non-Developer edition, sold with Windows) with a typical off-the-shelf distro, including Ubuntu, to work 100%.
The article doesn't use the word "racist" or "racism", it says that a university enacted a policy of being more understanding about tardiness due to cultural differences.

As someone who has never been in a meeting that started on time, usually due to white male managers who are bad at time management, I can understand this need to be tolerant of other cultures and their idiosyncrasies.
And an imperial ton, which is different again.
I ran nixos on a surface pro 5 for 3 years without issues. Even the stylus worked. It was one of my favourite "laptops" I had. The superbad thermals forced me of surface pro line.
There's a validity to your criticism that I'm not enough of a domain expert to really dismiss, but also --

We're already like, really good at measuring the mass of atoms. We know the hydrogen atom's mass to ten or eleven significant figures, something like one part in ten billion. It's not the most precise measurement we have, those are at around one part in a trillion or so, but it's still pretty darn good.
I get the perspective of comparing based on price per unit of specs, but you're not just paying for that. That consideration may not be the main consideration in purchase for everybody. People make subjective assessments that are hard to quantify and compare across individuals.

I guess if you find yourself being disappointed but you otherwise would have liked it, I suggest you may be looking at it the wrong way and missing out on what could work for you.

For me, I think the weight and mobility are important too. I love the stylus and OS. I like the look and there's a bit of a f-you status, not in terms of the money involved which is not that much (especially considering what people drop on gaming rigs, Mac stuff, etc), but because it is a bit different.

I think you're wrong that there's no hate towards Surface: you may not be picking up on it, there definitely is. Maybe people dislike that it's flashy and costly when they expect it should be utilitarian, so it kind of clashes with their expectations in a way that upsets them, and they dislike seeing other people enjoy what displeases themselves. I find it humorous that the same people may see another item, a Mac or whatever, in a different light, despite obvious similarities, and enjoy its flashy costliness. Heh! :)

I encourage you to consider how the people who like and enjoy it see it.

These topics have a way of turning people a bit mad, or at least creating conflict. So please let me turn the heat down a little bit with this olive branch compliment: hey, cool username, are you a mathematician?? :)
Decoding the Brain: Understanding Brain Activity with EEGs [video]
Yep. I check out Instagram and reddit primarily on my desktop. I don’t have apps for any of that on my phone for many reasons, including privacy.
I don't think the average people from the 1600s cared much about John Napier and his treaty on logarithms published in 1614.

But we care a lot about logarithms now.

Maybe people never cared about current mathematics. Maybe that's just the pace of progress.

If most of our current problems are solved by results from 50 years ago, could it just be that our future problems will be solved by results from right now?
Even if it was a credible idea, how exactly do you think that Firefox - the browser that the minute anything changes, the internet blows up over - would significantly alter their product in a way to differentiate themselves from Chrome?

This isn’t even getting into base level stuff like available engineering resources, or the scenarios where the other vendors often control or have deals to give them favorable distribution on platforms.

This isn’t the IE6 era. It’s a significantly different and harder problem.
> Mozilla in particular is frequently pulling crap like this and getting flak for it. They have to constantly apologise and back track. After a while you’d expect they learned something.

Well, they learned: they fuck up, backtrack & apologize (it is free, no real impact, so no worries), and life goes on.
I turn off all notifications apart from messaging apps, and I use a smart watch to "screen them". I noticed I had a bad habit of getting a message, picking up my phone to see if it's important and then mindlessly opening Reddit/HN and getting stuck there.

Now I just glance at my wrist, decide if I'm going to respond or not (or just reply with "Yes" from my watch), which limits how much I get stuck on my phone. I wish I had self-control to not have to "hack" around it, but alas I don't.
> Rust having to define a new stdlib to be used in Linux kernel because of explicit allocation failure requirements.

This is phrased in a way that’s a bit more extreme than in reality. Some new features are in the process of being added.

> Why wasn't this possibility factored in from the beginning?

So, there’s a few ways to talk about this. The first is… it was! Rust has three major layers to its standard library: core, alloc, and std. core, the lowest level, is a freestanding library. Alloc introduces memory allocations, and std introduces stuff that builds on top of OS functionality, like filesystems. What’s going on here is the kernel wanting to use the alloc layer in the kernel itself. So it’s naturally a bit higher level, and so needs some more work to fit in. Just normal software development stuff.

Why didn’t alloc have fallible APIs? Because of Linux, ironically. The usual setup there means you won’t ever observe an allocation failure. So there hasn’t been a lot of pressure to add those APIs, as they’re less useful then you might imagine at first. And it also goes the other way; a lot of embedded systems do not allocate dynamically at all, so for stuff smaller or lower level than Linux, there hasn’t been any pressure there either.

Also, I use the word “pressure” on purpose: like any open source project, work gets done when someone that needs a feature drives that feature forward. These things have been considered, for essentially forever, it’s just that finishing the work was never prioritized by anyone, because there’s an infinite amount of work to do and a finite number of people doing it. The Rust for Linux folks are now those people coming along and driving that upstream work. Which benefits all who come later.
I'd say it's kind of a cool topic and would probably lead to some interesting recreational math but it probably won't lead to new, significant research, which means a new theoretical understanding of some abstract structure or another.
> Or take a look at any undergraduate text in mathematics. How many of them will mention recent research in mathematics from the last couple decades?

The Einstein Tile was discovered in 2022, and that's received a decent amount of press
That's a good example. Duolingo really left me with a bad taste. All the silly emails enticing me to come back seemed so manipulative.
> People forget that the reason we have all of these "free" services is because of ads and that's coming from someone who hates ads.

People forget that before ad-supported "free" services took over we had community-run actually free services.

The internet does not need ads.
Aye. It's not the smartphone that's the problem, it's the async notifications pulling you into social media traps.

I dropped those apps about 8 years ago, but started to do most of my _reading_ on my phone - when I pick up my phone and habitually open something now, it's a book of some sort. It's a good idea to have something to replace habits with, if possible.
As long as people are getting paid to be mathematicians I'm sure this will never be the case.
> At one point Mozilla was literally selling a VPN subscription. That point is now - you can go buy one today.

I don't want a VPN. And I don't want to pay money to a Mozilla VPN of which some unspecified percentage will actually get used to pay for Firefox development (with the rest actually paying for the VPN). I honestly feel my money does more harm than good paying for the VPN because it creates a false impression of where the demand is.

I don't want a subscription to an unrelated service, I want a subscription to Firefox. I want my money to go into a stream that unambiguously shows my support for the single Mozilla project that I care about.

> You can even donate money today

That money will not (and I believe cannot) go to Firefox. As presently structured the corporation does all Firefox development, and the corporation cannot receive money from the foundation, so donations to Mozilla do nothing for Firefox.

> Not only have they tried both donations and subscriptions, but their efforts have been resoundingly ignored.

Not ignored, for the reasons stated above they haven't actually done what you say they've done.
Accessibility> Display & Text Size> Color Filters> On then top option is Grayscale.

Color Filters also has a true no blue mode for night.
Yes! I have 2 personal emails. One that I want to be alerted for, and one where I check it once a day. Other than phone calls, the only time my phone reaches out to me is for calendar alerts/reminders, which I set myself, and texts and messanger apps for people I allow.

Everything else can eat shit.
Plenty of states have legal weed and abortion, but certainly not the rest. Health care is broken at the federal level, and I don’t think individual states could fix it even if they wanted to.
Thank you for your feedback. Currently, animations are handled using transform: translate by directly manipulating the styles of elements with JavaScript. I think this offloads the work to the GPU. This approach also gives the ability to animate in response to user actions which could be frequent like scrolling and no fixed time frame is known beforehand.

However, I agree that using the Web Animations API could be beneficial when user actions are not involved. This is a great suggestion, and I haven't given it much thought before. I will consider adding a separate API for it using the Web Animations API.
Those are two precise examples that benefit from single core compute power, and are wholly unsuited to distributed computing…
The article mentions enabling Color Filters as a shortcut action via triple-clicking the power button. It just so happens that the default filter is greyscale.

If you want to play around with the other options (or permanently set greyscale), it’s under Settings —> Accessibility —> Display and Text Size —> Color Filters. Or just search Color Filters from the main Settings search bar.
Yep, no notifications except sms+iMessage. And only family uses that to contact me, and only when it's urgent.

All the other apps, especially chat apps (including family if it's not urgent) are muted, and the mute slider is nailed down so it can't move accidentally.

That should solve 90% of the problem. Even doomscrolling if you ask me, because if the doomscroll app doesn't notify you, you'll forget about it. At first rarely, but more and more often in time.
They are not all rapid chargers of course. But the point is that mostly those are only needed if you run out of juice on a longer journey. For most normal drivers that only happens a few times a year. Otherwise you just top up at home or using one of the many slow chargers overnight or in a few hours while you are doing something else.

My parents in the Netherlands bought an EV two years ago. They live in an apartment without their own charger in the building. Mostly my father just uses one of several public slow chargers in the neighborhood; once a week or so. He checks on his phone when one is available, drives there and plugs in. They also use chargers at hotels when they are traveling and are typically booking things with chargers available. Destination charging is a thing. Drive somewhere, plug in, do what you came to do, and drive back with enough charge to get home.

They went on a longer trip to France half a year ago. That's the first time he used a rapid charger. The most stressful thing with that is figuring out the payment systems. It's getting better but there are still way too many options for that. Recently Tesla super chargers became an option as well for them (lots of those) and those seem to work best. They drive a Renault.

Anyway, this is very typical behavior with EVs. You charge when it's convenient instead of when you have to. Mostly you are not going to run out on a normal day. It's only on longer journeys that you need to do a bit of planning (make sure the car is charged up before you leave, pick where & when to rapid charge). The worst case is having to take a 45 minute break or so when it's not convenient. That can happen but mostly you can plan to combine that with lunch or something else. And my father is 75, so he needs to have breaks more frequently than the car.
https://privacytests.org
The Sackler's company bribed and "financially encouraged" doctors into over-prescribing opioids to millions of people who weren't necessarily mortally ill and with lesser individual risk of those people dying from these prescriptions.

It's a largely different clinical and treatment situation from specific cases in which people are genuinely, terminally ill and a genuine though dangerous treatment option exists that might save their very lives. The Sackler case is a valid and powerful criticism of medical/pharma dishonesty, but it's extremely unfair to desperate patients that it be used to prevent them from having the autonomy over their own bodies and literal chance at life that they might legally be allowed to pursue.

Also worth noting that even in the market for prescription opioids, the Sackler case has more recently been used to wrongfully prevent patients who are in deep pain from obtaining a drug that provides needed relief despite its addiction dangers. So even here, obsessions about malpractice are hurting legitimate use.
As the article says, right at the top: "The plan is to demonstrate techniques that “everyone knows” because everyone, in fact, does not already know them."
OMG! I am totally shocked than an arrogant egomaniac did something like this. Shocked I tell you.
Yes but not of guns. See that’s called hoplophobia and would be irrational considering they can be used for protection. It’s also a mental disorder caused by environmental effects, so there’s that.

So, I am scared of being a victim especially with criminals being released from jail at an alarming rate. But with a gun it’s less of a concern.

But again, the inflammatory rhetoric, your bigotry around guns, is what divided the nation enough to cause this today.
> What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson.

Please. This is never about learning and better communication. This is universal corporate English for: "you got us, but we really don't give a flying ef and we will fulfill our goals step by step - no matter what you say".
Meanwhile, the economy is investing billions of dollars into researching and using neural networks, an almost purely mathematical construct that nobody yet really understands.
Why only the women? Aren’t men working in the same conditions?

I’ve read the article, but it doesn’t explain why the disparity between sexes.
And of course this setting doesn't sync to new devices by default. So you need to remember to opt-out on every device.

The underlying pref is dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled. I'm going to force this off in my policies.