jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's more to the story since behind door trials occur when officials get involved.

I believe it's more than that due to the wild speculation.
It seems like you've moved the goalposts from your original claim/implication that non-Mac trackpads are more popular to "not everyone likes trackpads". As far as I know, no one has argued that everyone likes trackpads?
Entirely irrational but people are people. Have you seen the "Ice Cream" ad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl67TNDW-0Q
Nice article; it reminds me of taking OS at CMU. There's something incredible about learning what happens all the way down when you call, say, printf. Suddenly the computer transforms from an incomprehensible black box into an fascinating marvel of engineering - but unlike a magician's act, the magic only gets better when you see how it works.
Russia launched about a dozen Proton rockets a year at the time of Columbia disaster, two Soyuz spacecrafts and two-three Progress spacecrafts.

Proton used to launch several Soyuz without Orbital Section, called Zond, in 1960s, with booster DM to fly around the Moon. DM adds about 3 km/s of deltaV. Orbital plane change for 7 degrees - between Baikonur's 46 and Columbia's 39 - takes sin(7)*8 km/s = 1 km/s. So technically it could be considered to launch (several) Progress ship(s) with necessary cargos to Columbia while three unmanned Soyuzes would be prepared and sent to the rescue. Soyuz approaches Columbia, gets caught by manipulator, astronauts use spacesuits from Soyuz - which have to be extracted from Soyuz first.

ISS, meanwhile, had to be kept without ships, which means landing the crew, hopefully temporarily.

All that could be considered. But I don't think anybody high in chain of command considered all of that necessary.
I am somewhat not sure how altering brain to achieve disassociation from ones senses could change science.
I don't understand why everyone is so outraged that I don't think the US is a police state. "Airport security is horrible", so I say to take the train. Have you ever taken the train? The security is not that bad. But instead, I get downvoted to -4 and people accuse me of having a stroke.

All I can say is that the hysteria is at an amazingly-high level. I am not sure why I even read TSA-related articles anymore.
The basic gist here is that I have tons of projects with tons of useful code in them. The projects don't often get much attention, but I know the code would be useful. I'd love to create something that helps keep startup hackers like myself fed until they hit it big!
This shows that Facebook have already have you as an entity in other people's networks before you have even joined Facebook. I guess you can cement yourself within those networks by adding them as friends, or saying that you know them.

I guess they also watch to see who you look up, and from that see if there are any connections between those that you look up, those friends might appear as further recommendations.

It can be quite spooky sometimes. The interesting thing with that account is that I never friended anybody, so it's interesting to see who comes up in their list. Some appear quite random, but others I recognize.
I was at a developer conference and one of the original Apple guys was there (name evades me at the moment). He mentioned that after they built webkit and wanted to move into the book space with the iPad launch that Steve Jobs wanted to reuse all of the webkit work. They did that and made epub.
Depth of field effects caused by long focal length lenses (preferred in portraiture for this reason), called "bokeh". In this case the light is coming into front lens elements, and it doesn't appear to be corrected for distortion, and then not uniformly focused onto the surface of the camera's sensor. Potentially this was for a Imax dome.

So, no, this doesn't have anything to do with smart phones.

In ye' olde times, induced background blur would have been a gaussian blur in software. I'm not sure what special magic they do today. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05698 suggests things have moved on.
That's a really amazing way of putting it. Thank you.
Mention of Russian coups reminded me of the following quite relevant Lenin quote[1] that for some reason was repeated enough times by Soviet media to be easily recognizable by anyone born in the USSR:

"Our three main forces—the fleet, the workers, and the army units—must be so combined as to occupy without fail and to hold at any cost: (a) the telephone exchange; (b) the telegraph office; (c) the railway stations; (d) and above all, the bridges."

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/08.htm
> If there had been a BLM rally instead of a MAGA rally on the steps of the capitol the day the election is certified, they would have been kept well away from the building with riot gear.

Living in Portland, I had this same thought. Random one way streets in downtown Portland get a much more violent, immediate, and overwhelming police response on a nightly basis than the Capitol building did when there was an obvious riot forming.

If it had been a BLM rally, the tear-gas would have started before any protester had made it up the steps, the same way it still happens in Portland. What a fucked up country I live in.
Is a Bonsai tree a combination of designing and growing? Iterative design? This is all very imprecise terminology.

Grown things can be designed.
Designed things can be grown.
Designed things doesn't always have to be grown. And lastly, Grown things doens't have to be designed.

All this sounds like Deepak Chopra's lectures.
And at the outset, they changed the rules specifically to make his violations not violations (with an exception for leaders motivated by the constant complaints about his incessant violations); it was only toward the end that they restored the idea that there were rules that could apply to Trump (though they were still weaker than the generally applicable rules.)
This is the case in telegram by default when messages aren't E2E encrypted so they (I assume) sit on a server somewhere.
Yes, and in groups! This is a new feature though.
The number of exceptions in that order, and the fact that squads of government officials did not go door-to-door looking for unexempted hoards of coins, suggest that perhaps that order had more to do with PR than actual seizures.
Half of the country.
Advancements in technology lifts people out of poverty. There is no proof these advancements in tech would not have realized without capitalism.

If anything China and the USSR turning their agrarian societies into world powers in the course of a few decades says otherwise. Whether or not the authoritarianism needed to accomplish this is worthwhile is another discussion. That said it is theoretically possible to achieve a more equal society without authoritarianism.
Apps work great if you are a repeat customer; I think Starbucks is best-in-class for this because it combines payments, rewards, and "predictive" ("bonus stars", and an obviously-history-driven one-tap reordering).

The legacy drive-thru interface with a two-way speaker is great for my parents' generation, for whom apps can be difficult to use (small print, fine motor control). As for me, a 90s kid, drive thrus give me nostalgia for being in the back seat as a child, reading off a large analog menu board with fine print. In some sense you could consider this a "compatibility layer" or the "adapter pattern".

In-person ordering (through the drive thru or at a register in-store) also has to handle weird edge cases that the apps don't handle, like a tourist visiting from another country. (McDonald's and Starbucks both have per-country apps, and if you leave the US with the US apps, you can't place mobile orders in other countries or even see local store locations. Contrast this with Uber, who will happily let you order an Uber in Tokyo or Zurich with an app downloaded in SF, but has an app size to match.)
The only anarchistic definition of The State I've ever heard is some kind of body with a legal monopoly on violence. If you're going off that definition, you'd have a hard time justifying it to anyone, as it's pretty much fundamentally counter to self-determination. It's true that the state (and capitalism in general) are fundamentally technological, so successful anti-state victories (say, making it harder for the state to manufacture consent and bypassing the propaganda filter) would be significant. But that's only "certain forms," as you put it. At the end of the day, the state will at some point resort to its go-to tactic of violence. If crypto tools restrict or redirect state action, that doesn't mean the state is suddenly okay, it just means anarchists are winning.
just bought an insignia with fire TV today. Took me 20 minutes to figure out how to tune to a local TV station.
Void is rolling-release. It doesn't need a "new" release. That said, you're wrong:

https://voidlinux.org/download/
You can flex your wealth with it. :)

Or you can make it as collateral to borrow some (cryptocurrency) assets.
> - I have access to the play store for apps, not some proprietary tv manufacturer subset of poorly developed apps. That means I can install the retroarch/plex/etc android apps directly from play.

> - It has built in google assistant which I use every day to play music and yt videos (as well as controlling other stuff in my all-google house.

You're not getting it. The whole point is to avoid constant tracking. If you have Google services, you're being tracked.
This, one hundred times.

Anyone who's maintained even a five-year-old deliberately and well-designed software system knows how unpredictable it can be to mess with random components.

Here, we're talking about a system with 3.5 billion years of stochastic randomness.
A lot of the responses disagree. I generally prefer physical remotes, but a touchscreen remote could be pretty sweet for very complex systems (think whole-room/whole-house systems that integrate A/V with lighting, HVAC, etc.) if implemented well. But the whole interaction model with phones and apps is just... wrong for this usecase. The delays, the many swipes and taps just to get to the right screen, the delays, waiting for the app to load and connect to the network, and also the delays.

I've been meaning to hack an old phone to be an instant-on remote with some custom software, but there are always dozens of higher priority projects. If anyone wants to hire/partner with me to build such a thing though...
Fixed vs growth mindset.

Fixed = your talent is fixed, you will not learn, challenges will either show your talent or reveal you're a fake, helpful sheets and reminders like this are a proof of your lack of talent, therefore never admit that you're don't know anything

Growth mindset is basically the opposite.
I had virtually the same experience in 2018. Gave me an offer for less than half I was currently making too.

It crushed me because I found a team that I was unbelievably excited to work with.
You statements appear to be taken from various institution's brochures ( ranging from $35 wire transfer cost - international, which is what we were discussing, wire average cost is higher ; "shows up in a corresponding bank within a day" - technically true, but virtually meaningless to a sender/recipient ). They are also very definitive, matter-of-fact and made with aura of conviction, but allow me to quote to you stating the following.

"P.S. Non-immediate transfer is a feature and not a bug. "

Since we are playing with words, non-immediate transfer is a delay and it is at odds at the other statement you have made:

"If 20% of those were delayed, it would collapse the global financial system. "

It wouldn't, because it didn't. But clearly that part doesn't matter, because entities and individuals affected tend not to be well-heeled and so unlikely to be able to force the bank to take some sort of action.

All that said, I am done discussing this.
Correct. River patrol boat are counted in this.
This comment just makes me angry to think about all the time I wasted using Eclipse without knowing that a better alternative existed.
The half pixel offset is also a Gaussian convolution (the simplest) with filter [1/2, 1/2]. It's centered at the corners between pixels, so it's not obvious to describe it as such.

You can calculate Gaussian filters by scaling a particular row k of Pascal's triangle to sum to 1. Or rather, a square pyramid for the 2D case.

You can calculate any particular Gaussian (i.e. binomial) convolution by iterating this "half pixel offset" operation (averaging the adjacent pixels) k times.
Why is the default enabled? Defaults are supposed to be sane and this is anything but sane or desired.
Now I'm getting a server error.

I bet 4chan, Reddit, and HN all hitting a Google Doc at once probably wasn't expected.
The article has error or at least it is misleading.

Short version:

* ~1815-~1960 they use the H=1 or O=16 scales. They are two different scales, some people preferred one and other people preferred the otter one. In one of them H has "weight" 1 and in the other O has "weight" 16.

* From ~1960 they use the C_12=12 scale. This is another scale, where the isotope 12 of carbon has "weight" 12.

* There are a lot of technical modifications and, corrections during these 200 ~years. This a simplification of the history.

Also, from 1951 the atomic weights of some elements have uncertainties.

Based on a report by Marble 98 , a range was finally
added to the atomic weight value of sulfur for the first
time in the 1951 report 99 . In the 1961 report 65 ,
ranges were listed for six elements due to the natural
variation in their isotopic composition and experimental
uncertainties were added for five other elements
following a systematic review by Cameron and Wichers.

So in the last 100 years there has been a lot of changes, a los of codifications and a atomic weight had uncertainties. Apparently this will only be a new way to show the uncertainties.

Looong version:
http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2004/2601/1_holden.html
Why not include Japan? 71.9 deaths pM.
For those who have these requirements, you should try Mithril.js. It's small, robust, stable, has a strong community, and has been around since 2014. It's as close to plain JavaScript as you can get.

Mithril's flexibility is so well designed, we're still finding new and innovative ways to use it, even though the base library rarely changes. Having used React and other libraries for many years, Mithril is still the simplest and most pleasant library out there.
"A drinking game recommendation (careful, it may and probably will lead to alcoholism): take a shot every time you find out how someone’s data has been locked and their business was jeopardized because they didn’t own, or at least back up their data."

That one put a smile on my face.
Because that’s not what it’s about; it’s about having a diverse leadership that more closely resembles the makeup of our nation and communities. Cis white men make up only about 30% of our population but account for probably 80% (and that’s being generous) of positions above middle management. It’s the cultural homogeneity that’s the business problem, and that doesn’t get solved without the right optics. Most of these jobs are not so hard that a person who is appropriately trained / supported couldn’t do them.

Again, gen Z is the most diverse generation in history. If you want to hire talent over the next decade, your company’s leadership needs to resemble your prospective employees because they take it as a hiring signal.

The problem isn’t cis white men; it’s the sense of entitlement that cis white men often walk around with. I have plenty of coworkers who are white men and great allies because they recognize that others are not entitled to the same things based on pretty arbitrary criteria. But the entitlement (“you’re gonna take the job I’ve been working towards for years and give it to a new ‘diversity’ hire!?”) is the problem, especially in the upper ranks.
> uh, no. this is demonstrably and obviously wrong.

Yes? How?
I agree. I was especially surprised by:

> Every last weekend of the month, I will manually backup all the data to Blu-ray discs. Not once, but twice. One copy goes to a safe storage space at home and the other one ends up at a completely different location.

This is one paragraph after mentioning a 2TB+2TB NAS. Even assuming that's RAID1, a standard Blu-ray only stores 50 GB, so you need 40 of those. And then you need another 40 for the other location... every month?? Honestly it's probably cheaper to buy a new 4 TB hard drive every month.

If you're a cheapskate like me, backing up your encrypted (e.g. Borg) backups to a cloud provider like Google Drive isn't a bad option. My org provides me with unlimited cloud space, so I have hundreds of encrypted gigs on Google Drive. No reason to think it'll disappear overnight.
> People were no longer aligned or empowered, and the incentive system was changed to basically destroy engineering culture.

Same with Google. The intentional misrepresentation and ousting of Damore was a turning point where engineering culture was run over by activist culture.
They have a business version (Threema work) and also provide services to the Swiss government.
Sorry to hear. I hope you find something that works for you. I wish I could help, but like me, I'm sure you've already researched most solutions.
In my life experience I have only ever had these kinds of definition debates with people on the left. And I'm confident this back and forth is no exception. Yes, I know full well that conservatives can play this game too and I'm sure you have examples. At no point did I ever claim that the problem is exclusive to the left. They just do it a lot more often.
Hell yeah. Usually metal or some hard-hitting EDM. Softer stuff is nice but it's really easy for me to get distracted if it's not loud and aggressive. When it really fights for my attention and pumps me up I can more easily stick in that zone instead of drifting off to HN... Oops should turn my music back on
I think you're probably right.

> Historically, we've always consumed all these things. Meat, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, seeds, human lineage ate all of this for a very long time. Why would any of it be bad for us?

In terms of fruit, it would have been seasonal, and it would have been good for us to put on weight when we got the chance. So some fruit is probably fine, but I suspect people eat too much of it.

There's also a theory that we only resorted to seeds if we couldn't get anything better. Which would explain some of the research that shows seed oils tell fat cells to stay "open" and keep growing. It was a signal that we were on hard times, and needed the extra energy stored.

For vegetables, I guess it comes down to "which ones". I guess the same would probably be true of fruits and nuts, too.

> And like I said when we did, it would be this very high quality meat. Very different from what we eat today.

And we would have eaten nose-to-tail, meaning we'd have eaten the liver, spleen, heart, etc.

> Modernity has brought major changes in that all foods are now of a lower quality, and come in a much more processed form.

Yeah, I think that's where our biggest problems are likely coming from. It looks a lot like the seed oils might be the worst offenders.

> So from my readings, I currently conclude the best course of action for your average healthy person is to eat less food overall, eat unprocessed foods of the highest quality (organic, grass fed, wild caught, etc.), In mostly equal quantity of each kind (based on calories), like consume the same calories of meat, fish, veggies, fruits and grains.

I'm not sure about equal quantities, but I'm also not sure what the right quantities are either. I'm not convinced we should be eating grains at all, and we should probably be careful about fruits. Maybe only eat them when they're in season? I dunno.

Fish is tricky, just because you have to be careful of mercury, even if they're wild caught. So I guess just try to find the types with the lowest mercury levels?

In terms of vegetables, it can also be tricky. Nearly all plants have some kind of toxins to protect themselves (they obviously can't run or fight back with teeth and claws). Our livers have mechanisms to deal with toxins, of course, but which ones we can handle and how much is not clear (to me). I guess it might be one of those cases where you have to experiment and figure out what seems to work for you, at least until we have better understandings of them.
I never learned touch typing. I am a free floater myself. Rather trying to split the load evenly between my hands. Touch typing position puts a strain on my wrist.

Incidentally I also own a Topre board. I also have my trackball to the left and I have to reach out less to move the pointer. To the right I would have to cover additional distance and the arrow keys and num pad... I felt that in my shoulder, hence the change to the left.

I also don't hate myself if I make a break or typying more slowly occasionally.
> My typing style avoids all the risks they identify.

From the article: "This is the Way"

Also: "The hands should move freely over the keyboard"

These are good examples of why we should not listen to advice based on a single example of RSI and contradicts the conclusion "no universal solution for everybody"

A lot of people experience contraction and sometimes pains in the shoulders, trapezium, arms due to moving the hands over the keyboard instead of not doing so.

It's a well documented problem.
> If you are experimenting with a limited budget you really cannot afford to give it to absolutely everyone;

A real UBI program would also be experimenting with a limited budget. The universal part is a big part of what makes UBI unusual in comparison to the common means tested approaches, and is therefore the part that needs some of the most careful research.
Gold provides better permanence and durability; and what immutability Bitcoin does provide is a bad thing rather than a good thing, because it prevents refunds in cases of fraud — something which you need to anticipate and be able to respond to in exactly the “trustless” environment which Bitcoin is supposed to enable.

And the environmental consequences of the network are not opt-in, they are born by us all even if we do not use the currency. Thus can energy be said to be wasted: it is bad for us all, not just the spender, when Gigajoules are spend when spending millijoules would have equivalent of better results.

> Knowing how many SHA256^2's my rivals can hash a second is also pretty useful information

For?
Your rent and groceries do not typically fluctuate 20% or more per month, so why would you want to be paid in Bitcoin, whose dollar value does? The program is voluntary, but let people who want to speculate in Bitcoin do so on their own.
The funniest part is that most of that cash just gets burned
Pretty disappointed at the "its just supply and demand" rhetoric. Supply and demand curves is an indicator of the market, NOT the ground truth of the market. Policies change the elasticity. Perceived value change the elasticity. Collective bargaining changes elasticity. Consumer changes elasticity. Simply treating the curve as the truth rather than the representation of the current state is extremely disingenuous.
Upton Sinclair is why you see this behaviour. Google pays well, very well indeed.
I submitted this because I found the content of the paper which led to Timnit Gebru’s exit remarkably non-controversial:http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Stochastic_Parr...

Reading the paper, does anyone see any reason why there would be a legitimate reason why someone would move to block submitting it for publication?
It has a threadsafe mode. It is disabled by default and to my knowledge hardly anyone uses it because you would need to audit all your dependencies to make sure they were threadsafe as well.
Sounds like you need a new job too.
> The original idea was very good and inspired many clones idea.

Reminds me of Groupon.
If that's metaphysics, then every famous physicist--Newton to Einstein to Feynmann--has been a strong believer in the power of metaphysics.