skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using the gram would not have removed the prefixes from all commonly used units.

In the beginning, the liter was a much more frequently used unit of volume than the cubic meter.

A liter was defined as the volume of a kilogram of water. In a system were the gram was the unit of mass, the corresponding unit of volume was the milliliter.

Which of the gram and the kilogram or which of the centimeter and meter were chosen as the units of mass and length did not matter much for mechanical units, in the way they were used in practice in the 19th century.

A definite choice of the base units has become important only after a bunch of new physical quantities have been defined for use in the theories of electricity, magnetism, heat and light, in the second half of the 19th century. When dealing with so many different physical quantities, not using unique base units would have caused too much confusion. While this necessity has been recognized, for many years 2 different choices for the base units were widespread, that based on meter-kilogram (used mostly by engineers) and that based on centimeter-gram (used mostly by theoreticians). Meter and kilogram were more typical for the sizes of practical machines, while centimeter and gram were more typical for the sizes of laboratory experiments.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it :)
We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

This wholesale purge of data is an effort to rewrite history. Hopefully the Internet can mostly remember.
I completely disagree. I could not disagree more.

A pair of readable words, words that of different lengths so are easily distinguishable without reading them characer-by-character, are far more legible than a pair of line-noise characters -- especially if those characters on their own have wildly different meanings in the language, and -- to make matters even worse -- are also extremely close to the characters for code comments!

Look, to spell this out:

You have your own opinion and that is fine. You are perfectly entitled to it.

But you are making out that your preference is some global truth, and I think you need to realise that what is easier or clearer for you is in fact less clear and much LESS readable for other people.

Those words were chosen for good reasons and have persisted through whole generations of programming languages for something like half a century, and there are good reasons for this.

The C designers chose things shorter and easier to type and that is their privilege. I personally, and thousands of others, dislike their choice and prefer Wirth's.

Nobody is absolutely objectively right or wrong here.

The point is that there are good reasons for both choices, and nobody -- including me -- gets to go and say one is better and clearer and the other is worse.

What you like, I hate. What I like, you hate. But we both have our reasons. I think mine are good reasons. Presumably you think yours are, although you haven't explained them. You just assert them as obvious global truths. They are not.
Mansfield's dual-drill also had a go at this non-issue.
I had the opportunity to use it years ago. A bit cluncky and not really an improvement.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLdAhQ-Hyac
Well obviously!

That is not terribly germane here, IMHO.
Yes, if you don't read the article, I guess.

[...] Tesla has pioneered an aggressive legal strategy and leveraged the patronage of powerful leaders in China’s ruling Communist Party to silence critics, reap financial rewards and limit its accountability.

[...]

Tesla has profited from the largesse of the Chinese state, winning unprecedented regulatory benefits, below-market rate loans and large tax breaks. With a few pointed exceptions, Tesla has enjoyed largely ingratiating coverage in the Chinese press, and journalists told AP they have been instructed to avoid negative coverage of the automaker.

Tesla’s windfall has extended to the courts — and not just in legal actions Tesla has brought against customers. In a review of public court documents, AP found that Tesla won nearly 90% of civil cases over safety, quality or contract disputes brought by customers.

“The government gave Tesla a super status that put consumers in a very vulnerable position,” said Qiao Yudong, a former lawyer for American sports car company Saleen Automotive in China. “That’s why some consumers had to resort to extreme actions.”
Well there is such a field of expertise as Theology.
> Now they seem to want to abandon Europe

We should be clear here, who "they" are. Trump is Trump, he is a populist, so he'll just do whatever. The question is, is the support for his type of populism embedded in the US now, or not. I don't think it is, I think the US will see through his type of populism at some point.

So I don't think the US will be abandoning Europe in the medium or longer term, and mostly only making noises about it in the short term. I think it is worthwhile for Europe to mitigate the short term, strengthen its military, but we should be aiming to keep the medium term alliance with the US going.
It has become fashionable among Very Online people who obsess about social justice to loudly reject generalizations.

They took the very reasonable "you're not allowed to talk about black people liking watermelons" and applied it to every statement about every minority, disadvantaged or not, ethnically defined or not, whether offense was taken or not. Generalization was relabelled a microaggression, and avoiding them (or calling them out) became an urgent imperative, whether or not you're a member of the group in question. Whether or not you take offense personally, it became a Duty To Police this sort of speech.

This alienates one from the vast majority of humanity, which uses generalizations about people and things every day as a cognitive & social necessity. It makes it impossible to communicate or organize, because some sort of nitpicking about social equity, even purely semantic equity, is always prioritized over topical action in SJW-oriented leftist conversation. The rally for women's rights is cancelled because the committee spent all day deciding whether to use the term "women" or some alternative.

It also makes one less effective as a thinker, because there are statements that you can make about cultures and people's background that are statistically very likely, or which indicate a very real difference in the center of different bell curves.
I think their point is that you can not just say "children in china like math" or "children in france will drink wine", because those are stereotypes and there are many examples of children within those countries who do not conform.

They say that there are differences between even children living on two different roads in the same town, and these differences matter more than differences between countries, and therefore we should not make any kind of arguments based on nationality at all.

I disagree though, I do think that there are significant statistical differences growing up between, say, Afghanistan or Sweden. That does not mean that you can make claims about specific children in either country, but you can make generalizations about the population as a whole.
> There is no reason for computers to get slower over time. Especially on linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
Firing order, Crankshaft design and piston design explained [video]
Oh definitely, it's a straightforward implementation with a few additions to avoid sending too many emails (both to not irritate the user and to save me from email sending costs)
It is unlikely to work in practice because we have a larger problem: in the current situation, people blindly follow the orders of the newly elect presidents, rather than the law.
Can’t import from Apple Health. Looks promising but this is a major draw back.
Why should Microsoft care about making its own engine? Apple does it because it needs to optimize a browser for its platforms where if makes all of its money. Google does it for ad revenue and to make sure its web apps run well. What’s Microsoft’s motivation?

There is no world no matter how much money Microsoft spent that it was going to out Apple Apple when it came to selling phones or convince manufactures to use Windows Mobile instead of Android with a lot larger third party app ecosystem.

Windows is not irrelevant. But it’s not where the growth is. Neither is selling phones really. Both of those markets are saturated. What benefit is their of Microsoft focusing on its own engine instead of using Chromium?

Tablets were overhyped. Even Apple realize that and publicly admitted more or less they took their eye off the ball and came back and started refocusing on the Mac in 2018. Google has basically abandoned any tablets and is focusing on ChromeOS.

The entire business model of selling subscription music and giving the label 70% of revenue is horrible. Spotify isn’t exactly a raging success. Apple Music exists as an ecosystem play to work well with their other devices as was iTunes before for selling iPods. Do you remember the disaster of the Plays4Sure platform and then the Zune?

Microsoft was right to focus on selling O365 everywhere and Azure.
This is such a good way of presenting code-golf — well done!
> I don't remember if I did any special config in iTerm or installed a nonstandard package (I don't believe I did)

You are remembering correctly, pbcopy (and it’s partner pbpaste) are preinstalled on all Macs as part of the OS.
facepalm emoji

Graph theory is (regrettably) my L3+..

(Secondarily) Moscow is well-known for its distinct layout (compared to Peterburg)
It's not just kids. I find this works with pets as well: be predictable in delivering their necessities -- food, exercise, play, affection -- and they behave better. Make them beg and they behave worse.

Also, businesses thrive on trust. If a business can predict and prepare for conditions, if it can depend on loans, grants, services, the economy, it can invest and thrive.

There's a lesson for our current moment in there.
No bit can survive for long if you're driving hundreds of screws with an impact driver. A very hard bit designed for hand tools will just shatter if you're hitting it with huge pulses of torque; sheared off wings are the usual failure mode for quality philips driver bits. Torx bits hold up better, but they're still a consumable item.
Hah, so I actually went back and forth on that. The original studies around visual inference also included axis labels on the bar chart. The fact that you CAN label the axis on a bar chart that way is actually an argument people make not to use pie charts.
I am broadly from the same tech background, but a decade earlier. (ZX Spectrum and CP/M at home, then DOS at work; "I switched to Linux when XP came out.)

But I disagree with:

> The usability issues are mostly "I'm used to X, so I don't like Y".

I think that's true of some of them, but the usability issues of Unix and C are real, its programmer focus makes it worse for non-programmers, and its legendary lack of user friendliness hasn't changed over the decades -- it's just been wrapped in shiny GUIs.
Bodhi Linux is the one I used on a Celeron based system. The distro is purpose built for retro hardware.

I wish I could explain what is going on but it is physically painful to use, like you are remote desktoping over an iridium satellite
Well, that's always true. It's just that if you demand trust of an adult, they'll pretend to give it to you; children will make it clear (somehow) that they're reserving judgement.
That could really be a gist with a link.
Well yes.

I wish Intel set up a community foundation and funded it with 0.01% of what Minix 3 saved it.
The post says

> His nazi salute was probably not a nazi salute

That’s it.
Why is mass tourism such a problem in Spain but not in France?
It has been a problem for me when the last part gets truncated (e.g. with an ellipses).
> TLS is not an end goal in itself

Correct. Can you point out on the dolly where I said otherwise?

> The only even remotely reasonable threat … But aside from that?

You either didn't read what I said properly, or are deliberately misreading it.

I didn't suggest using TLS properly in dev was for specific threat protection in dev environments, but for stopping dumbed down things in dev accidentally getting out into prod, and that it is “practise for best practice in production”.

Unless of course someone has (or thinks they have!) reason to breach commonly accepted good practise and have real data in dev, in which case dev is a de-facto production environment from a security standpoint.

> "best practice" (whatever that term actually means)

It is a well understood term. I'll not spend my time explaining it as you'll easily find that information elsewhere if you care to.
> So are the maps that I'm looking at all fake(including the Ukrainian ones) or the Russian army that is in shambles is till beating the Ukrainian army?

In what sense is half a percent of territorial gain for 400 000 casualties "beating" anyone? It is textbook Pyrrhic victory.

Size of Russian age groups (male), for comparison:

20–24 years: 3.85 million
25–29 years: 3.75 million
30–34 years: 5.02 million
35–39 years: 6.29 million
40–44 years: 5.68 million

Russian "success" consists of rapidly burning through its male population for miniscule and unmeaningful gains. And before anyone says that war is non-linear and massive gains are only a breakthrough away: Russia has no armour left to exploit breakthroughs. Armour is depleted, territorial gains have stalled, daily losses are larger than ever before, and there's no end in sight. For most military strategists, being stuck in unwinnable war like this is a nightmare scenario. The war started with Russian media boasting how they'll be in Kyiv in three days; now they celebrate each time they manage to exchange tens of thousands of lives for an abandoned village in rural Ukraine.
No reason those need to be mutually exclusive. Posted this in another thread, but I don't see a good argument against this project (https://www.dear-data.com) being both data visualization and being an act of personal expression.
I don't even care about any of that. I simply don't want to log into youtube because the recommendations inevitably turn to shit and I don't want to be stuck with them. The only sane way to use youtube is to never log in and nuke the session every week or so.
This is the problem with monopolistic for-profit publishers. They have little incentive to fulfill their structural role once they don't need to compete for subscriptions. Researchers are still the heart of peer review but our time and funding are squeezed and parasitized from every direction. Billion dollar publishers who contribute almost nothing to the scientific process are carried on the backs of researchers making $60k/year or less who could be making double in industry.

Much progress has been made in spite of elsevier. If the money they effectively take away from science were instead put into grants to fund more of this kind of detective work everything would be better.
But you still do see ads even if you are paying. They are just included in the video by the creator. It's not like youtube activates sponsorblock.
3-9x equivalent US / European subsidies is a big difference. https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/foul-play-on-the-scale-...

And subsidies don't only affect the final price of a good: they also provide a company more funding for R&D. To say nothing of forced technology transfers via joint ventures.

The EU also still subsidizes a ton of industries, e.g. agriculture at €40.95 billion https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/... (I'd agree that subsidies are needed to support a key sector like agriculture today, but they're still subsidies)
> He's definitely narcissistic. But that doesn't make him wrong.

If you’re right about narcissism, one of the issues there is an inability to realize that he can be wrong. “Maybe I’m wrong about this” literally cannot occur to the narcissist, their entire worldview is built around their being right and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong (and therefore an enemy).
I think you’re right. It is one of the many studies that has failed to replicate[0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impu...
Counterpoint: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impu...
Abolishing consumer protections, going all-in on late stage capitalism, and putting the world’s richest people in charge of dismantling the government is absolutely related to class.

If people wanted to rise up and actually deal with the establishment like so many want, that involves dealing with career politicians (through term limits and getting money out of politics) and especially dealing with big businesses and the ultra wealthy. (By getting much stronger personal rights, from consumer protection to labor rights to privacy rights to health rights.) Many of these should be non-controversial to the average person, if we had some level of class consciousness that helped people realize that our real problems are not cultural divides.

The main point, though, is that many Americans are pretty comfortable, and mostly not interested in direct, confrontational action. That only comes when things get very personal.
Technically the chipset was released in 2008 but I believe this is a 2012 laptop (*)
Custom Game Engines
The point being made is not about removing AI investments. The OP's comment:

> I am urprised how much money suddenly is available where other future-critical projects are starved of funding while needing just a fraction of that amount, specifically nuclear fusion.

The point is that money is found easily for such projects, whilst other important projects go unfunded due to a supposed lack of money. There is the appearance of dishonesty regarding budget availability.
The difficult thing, at 19, is that a person has had zero time to at all demonstrate that they have put drugs and/or other criminal activities behind them.
How about we wait until he starts advocating for sterilization in any official capacity before cancelling him? Judging from the article, what he's saying isn't that bad - it's just that we're so accustomed to filtered rainbow love approved comments being allowed by the media. Granted the Left and the Media will paint him as some sort of Nazi, but the article doesn't really give me a good reason to hate this individual.
How about US/California?
...and that's why he spent 250MM on the election. (SpaceX contracts coming soon).
Sorry dang.

Who was personally attacked?

Also i'd love to dig into how I should rephrase my commentary. I meant to draw attention to the selection of members of a known swatting community in doge recruitment.

Based upon the tactics reported by government employees, doge has conducted exfiltration and installed spyware, making them a cybercriminal outfit that exists in a quasi-legal grey area that exists before court procedures can physically occur.

I would therefore posit that there are two qualities (cybercriminal, and under legal duress and thus maleable) and therefore it is logically consistent to use ambiguity in my cursory and real assessment of the situation.
> It always seems to be taken as read that they’re irresistible.

Nah. It wouldn't work if it was irresistible. You need a candy crapy enough to be resited by some people sometimes, but good enough to be desired by some people sometimes.

Experimenters tried the same setup with a turkish delights once. Things went sideways so fast that they needed to get a talking lion to calm the situation down. Kids were betraying their own siblings even without further prompting or promises of more turkish delights.
And please do NOT do what gogle does and pretend that certain values in the Accept-Language header don't indicate a user preference and you should guess based on the IP address instead.
There is a good netflix series about it.
I suspect it has something to do with the concept "magma chamber", as if there is a big, singular hole underneath each volcano, rather than a loose network of multiple layers of melted & semi-melted rock spread over tens of kilometers of crust depth, organized by geological strata, which periodically melts through an obstruction or solidifies into an obstruction.
> JJ works with git servers

For now. At some point, it may want to run features incompatible with git, and what happens then?

> nd people that don't understand git but do understand JJ can just run JJ.

And how many such people would you say are there? I am willing to bet that the vast majority of jj users know how to use git very well, and given the adoption of git, that is unlikely to change.

Secondly, git isn't just run by people, its run by scripts, pipelines, automated systems. git commands live in configurations, and elsewhere. Its a common language for how VCS works, not just a command line tool.

> Just because you don't run into that problem very often doesn't mean that other people, with different roles and workflows don't run into that problem more frequently.

It also doesn't mean that they do.
This is a very condescending way of admiting you did not read the article.

Also this reaction alone shows that this topic is indeed relevant.
Yes, I do. See the following study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3147063/

Personality: ~40-50% genetic influence

Cognition (IQ): ~50% genetic influence in adulthood

Schizophrenia: <50% concordance in identical twins

Psychopathology: Varies, but mostly <50% genetic influence
Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US
Elizabeth Holmes' PR campaign continues
I've always taken comfort from the fact that my two boys were different on day zero. This tells me that although I have a great deal of influence on them, it isn't all up to me: it's both nurture and nature. (Takes a bit of the pressure off.)
> I'm pretty ignorant of the timeline and I'm only going off of some vague memory and what Wikipedia says.

I can see that. That's what I was addressing.

This was not a technical contest. It was not about tech merit. It was not about rivalry between competing systems. They were not competing systems. They never have been and still are not.

When both Linux and Minix were options on the same hardware, Linux was FOSS and capable but incomplete, Minix was not FOSS, not capable, but did work and was available, just not redistributable.

It was not a competition.

AST was talking about the ideas and goals of OS research when he wrote.

Then, later, in subsequent versions, he first made Minix really FOSS (ignoring quibbling about second-decimal point versions), and then later, he rewrote the whole thing as a microkernel as a demo that it was possible.

It is arguably more complete and more functional than the GNU HURD, with a tiny fraction of the time or people.

Minix 3 was AST making his point by doing what he had advocated in that thread, about a decade and a half earlier.
More importantly it means once you have the code you can then give it to others both with and without modifications.
All of Japan got obsessed with they whole 'hydrogen economy' nonsense. This was just the generally agree on 'future' of the economy.

In my opinion this is complete nonsense and after decades very little has happened.

Even for planes I don't think its the future. Just going one step further and making SAF is just a better plan.

With hopefully more trains, and electric planes for many shorter routes.
I've been playing around with Firefly a bit, what it creates is astonishing in terms of realism.

I hope it stays free for a while, but knowing Adoble, I know I shouldn't have any hopes.
You are probably right. I would not discount the importance of many open source tools for making viz more widely available (and far more powerful than excel graphs) but its indeed tooling, not conceptual and in any case already available for more than a decade. Stagnation indeed.
You have to have enemies to unite an army around.
Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads