skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9/10 times someone complains about politics, they're complaining about those uppity minorities trying to get into their castle. There is a kind of toxic politics that forms in excess order, but in my experience it's rarely what people mean.

Maybe I'm wrong about you. Chaos!

I'll add this experience to order when I find order useful.
They have Montana Rep. Greg Gianforte in the list of false positives. Did they call it a false positive because they are sure he wasn't included in the 25,000 mugs they loaded? His mug is out there.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/756343001
The problem I see with this is that each independent laboratory cannot be easily configured to the same initial conditions. Especially not one on Mars and one on Earth. It would take a tremendous effort to turn Mars into Earth and then use it in parallel to carry out experiments. If the two laboratories are vastly different, comparisons between the two won't have much backing.
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It's quite simple: their server, their rules.

Much like you can ask anyone to leave your property, but can't censor them on public property. The Internet, as a network, should uphold free speech, that's why Net Neutrality is important. Particular servers, even if the POTUS decides to use one as his soapbox, have no such requirement.
Well while I have you, it looks like your field is physics. Do you mind mentioning a few other publications which do a particularly good job of covering physics? The only other one I regularly read is Quanta Magazine, but my background is more math and CS.
>I am however scared that HTML will go the way of Gopher. Why would anyone care to maintain boring hypertext documents when we can have app of the day.

JS or Wasm can't create documents by themselves, they still need a DOM. Even if it's a 2D canvas or some WebGL canvas, it's still a DOM element. Or even if it's just an iframe that loads some blob, on the top level it's still a DOM element. And as such it can be inspected and controlled.
> they are subject to taxes when converting from crypto

Being subject to taxes is a byproduct of the transaction, not the currency you use. You don't pay different tax rates for a transaction in Euro compared to the same transaction in USD.

I'm sure what you mean isn't that BTC makes it easier to avoid paying taxes, right?
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In other news, Amazons "Freudian Slip" Machine is 100% accurate.
This story is backwards. Twitter is disabling shadow banning of prominent Republicans. The algorithm shadow banned them, and they manually re-enabled them. So the favoritism is towards Republicans, not against them.
That has reversed in the last few releases of clang for my codebase.
I know you don't work for Twitter, but the point is Twitter has to be consistent if they want to be seen as an unbiased discussion platform.

If Twitter believe a military leader stating consequences to a foreign regime, or a law officer lawfully stating consequences of breaking the law consistitutes a threat against a group of people, they need to ban all military and police from the platform.

Alternatively, they could state that conducting lawful military and police work, which includes stating the possibility of a response to an action, is not considered a threat. Or that a 'government' or 'people who have broken the law' are not a protected group.
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from his portfolio: https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf1.myportfolio.com/483775244caf67b7...
The problem every news source uses this format.

Remove the fluff and you might get a single page of 'major' science news per month. Sure it would be a little dry but it would also be something I would want to read.
(Ok, before anyone goes running off telling their colleagues about this great new tech: I literally made all of this up on the fly except the batching stuff. That's actually one of two reasons why this whole shadow-DOM-stuff exists. The other is encapsulation. I think this whole thread is a most beautiful demonstration of Poe's law in its original form.)
Yeah, this is the input equivalent of the analog loophole :).

Now ordinarily, on PCs, you do that by means of simulated keypresses and mouseclicks, using scripting capabilities of the OS or end-user software like AutoHotkey. In the web/mobile-first, corporate-sandboxed reality, I can't imagine this capability being available, so Arduino and robot hand it is.

(But yeah, bastards will eventually put a front-facing depth-sensing camera, constantly verifying the user, arguing that it's for "security" reasons.)
Well, you could run flash in webassembly and get all that back.

But it would still come with many of the drawbacks.
There is a well known arms race in ECM and ECCM [0]. The military (US at least) is not relying on GPS alone for this type of thing, and uses various types of jamming detection, jamming protection, and counter measures

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_counter-countermeas...
That is a great talk! Thank you for posting it. This is the caliber of counterargument that I was looking for. I had addressed in my post ("maybe ... somebody figures out a way to target me directly with a personalized disease"). I have added a link to it in my post.
And GIMPLE... and RTL...

And there's three separate forms of GIMPLE while you're at it.

It's way easier to work with LLVM IR.
They weren't "identified as criminals." They were identified as possibly being criminals. (And as other posters have shown, they were identified with only 80% confidence as being a criminal.) And an officer can review the evidence presented by the report and make a human determination to follow up with a physical arrest.
Yeah. Luckily I've managed to eradicate all of my "bad" debt and get my credit score to fluctuate between 830 - 850.

It makes a lot of things much smoother overall. Basically, no one questions me once they run the credit check. And if they do, it's more like "Are you sure you don't want another? Something else?"

Contrast that with some people I know who have sub-700 scores. Things are just that much more of a hassle. We were comparing car notes and stuff. And my (now) wife was talking about the company handling her auto loan and I was asking where she got her car because I usually get the loan through the manufacturer's credit house (i.e. if I buy a Honda, I'm paying Honda financial). And she got her car through a dealer, but they had to do a little more work to find her the most favorable loan. Basically people are eager to give me a recurring bill while they're a little more reticent to deal with her.

And it's mostly because she has little to no credit history. I advised her: get a credit card with as high a limit as you can and then just forget about it. I have a $15,000 limit card that I just never use. It exists mainly so my overall use is a lower percentage. I don't think she's ever had a credit card. And I think her previous vehicles were purchased through less direct channels or legally purchased by someone else that she paid for (like her mother got the loan, but she paid it). I think this may be her first vehicle that she's purchased at a dealer.
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Keep the web simple, stupid (2002)
What technology behind MRI scans was "built by the space missions"?

The underlying physical phenomenon is nuclear magnetic resonance. This was first observed by Isidor Rabi in 1938, well before the space missions. NMR spectroscopy was developed in the 1940s and 1950s, again before the space missions.

The first magnetic resonance imaging work was done by Paul Lauterbur in the early 1970s. Before him there was Raymond Damadian (who had the idea of using NMR diagnostically but didn't make any images) and after him there was Peter Mansfield. None of these people, so far as I know, had anything to do with space exploration.

Good MRI machines need very powerful magnets, which these days are made using superconducting wires. Superconductivity was discovered in 1911, long before space exploration was a thing. The first superconducting electromagnet was made by Yntema in 1955, before the space program; the first good superconducting electromagnet was made by Kunzler, Buehler, Hsu & Wernick in 1961; so far as I know they have no connection with space exploration.

But don't trust me. How about NASA? Here's a quotation from https://spinoff.nasa.gov/pdf/AIAA-2010-8885-305.pdf:

Confusion about NASA’s technological contributions to daily life exists even at the highest levels of government. In his speech at NASA Headquarters in January 2004 in support of the Vision for Space Exploration, President George W. Bush said, “Medical technologies that help prolong life—such as the imaging processing used in CAT scanners and MRI machines—trace their origins to technology engineered for the use in space.” This, like the previous examples, is incorrect. NASA has contributed in recent years to the advancement of several specific forms of medical imaging devices, and in the past the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has done groundbreaking research in the field of digital imaging. The CAT scan and MRI technologies, however, are specific applications for which NASA can take no direct credit.
What worried me most about those pictures is that there is a can in that fridge that says 'breakfast pizza'. Is that a real thing or is this very subtle trolling?
IMO that's a fairly easily solved problem. Browsers can add "localstorage browsers", you might even be able to do it in a browser extension.

I'd also love it if they gave that ability.
Potentially corrected about 9 years ago? http://fossil-users.fossil-scm.narkive.com/3Gpi9Y1n/fossil-s...
> predicts Gross Domestic Product would grow by 3.6% less than currently predicted. In such a scenario, it suggests sterling would fall by 12%, unemployment would rise by 520,000, average wages would fall by 2.8% and house prices would be hit by 10%.

Sterling fell by pretty much exactly 12% (that's got to be luck though - no way their models are that good).

All the others were wrong though, you're correct.
Some have written about a "reproducibility crisis" in machine learning research:

https://petewarden.com/2018/03/19/the-machine-learning-repro...
I remember having a conversation with [Steve] and I was asking why it could have been perceived that in his critique of a piece of work he was a little harsh. We’d been working on this [project] and we’d put our heart and soul into this, and I was saying, ‘Couldn’t we … moderate the things we said?’

And he said, ‘Why?’ and I said, ‘ Because I care about the team.’ And he said this brutally, brilliantly insightful thing, which was, ’No Jony, you’re just really vain.’ He said, ‘You just want people to like you, and I’m surprised at you because I thought you really held the work up as the most important, not how you believed you were perceived by other people.’

I was terribly cross, because I knew he was right.”

- End of the first paragraph, Jony Ive says to be nicer.
- Next paragraph Steve shuts him down.

edited for formatting.
I don't understand how Voronoi diagrams are an improvement over a stacked bar chart.
If I really wanted mankind to invest more money into exploring Mars, I wonder what the best approach would be. What do y'all think?
1. Make enough money to invest your own capital/start your own company. (Ex: Elon Musk) AKA Do it yourself.
2. Go into politics and get enough support to start a campaign? AKA Get the government to do it.
3. Other?
Because gcc got faster or because clang got slower?
But both are competing for limited capital.
Amazon's face ID tool mismatched 28 members of Congress to mugshots: ACLU
"The e-coli experiment you can buy is an attempt to create bacteria that can survive on an anti-bacterial plate of agar."

That's exactly what we need!
I think you may be on to something here. For smaller companies like us that are in niche markets, the source code being available isn't a big deal because the level of piracy is fairly low (and you don't get support).

For larger companies in larger markets, it's much, much easier to see when someone is abusing a license or pirating the software without paying.
I made the joke on you.
Show HN: React Native router that much better than standard solutions
I would imagine they would work very closely with Amazon and run a ton of calibration.

Do you have any evidence for this? I would have imagined the other way; that it would be badly deployed by ill-trained gung-ho operators who will routinely end up clubbing some innocent guy round the head (if they don't just shoot him) because the magic machine said he was a dangerous killer on the loose. I don't have any evidence my way, but what I imagined is the polar opposite of what you imagined.
Show HN: Vim-buffest, edit vim registers/macros and lists in a buffer
I hate this kind of articles. I've clicked to read about some new, exciting scientific/tech discovery, and the first paragraphs I have to read have no relation whatsoever to what I was expecting. Those paragraphs look like an attempt the author made to show off his writing skills as if he were a novelist or something. Too many times I thought "to the point already!" when reading those paragraphs.
It seems the trend was that it was nice for makers, not so much for users.
I develop multiple react-native apps. Always there was a problem with navigation. Standard solutions (react-navigation and react-native-router-flux) are very hard-to-use. They have very unobvious API and many wrongly designed features like headers, tabbars and animations. E.g., even making screen appear from the bottom is a pain. So I've developed my own router with simple API and independent animations. There are many examples in repository
watchtower (https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower) is the project you're probably thinking of. It works great for me.
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Many times Mercury is too close to the Sun so it is lost in the glare next to it. Mercury is usually pretty bright because it is so close to the Sun and not that far from the Earth. Apparent brightness depends on size, albedo, and distances from Sun and Earth. Mercury is only a bit dimmer than Saturn now.

The larger the elongation of Mercury from the Sun (currently 20 degrees) and the closeness of other objects (Mercury is west of the star Regulus in Leo, the easier it is to see Mercury. Sometimes I use binoculars first. Once you know where to look, I can see Mercury with my unaided eyes.
I shared a similar plugin with HN in the past, but it was only for registers and had some other not-so-nice things. I hope this is a lot nicer.
So I went ahead and tried it. To not have `export PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1` while creating an environment is giving me an environment with the hash value. This is not good. Looks like I am gonna have to keep creating pipenv environments manually and then import projects into pycharm.
>overwhelmingly dominant in all major outlets. You can find some niche science-heavy writing, but they are so unpopular that they don't have any of the resources of the major newspapers.

What sort of resources? NASASpaceflight.com is one of the best space news sites around (along with SpaceNews.com) and it does it on subscription revenue for a private section of its forum (yes, a phpBB-style forum) and a smidge of ad revenue.

Meanwhile, CNN has all the resources in the world and this is what we get: https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/10222467528612823...
Before they were structured as "convenience fees". You could buy with a card, but they'd charge a small fee that was either a percentage of the total or a flat rate.

Minimum purchase amounts were way more common when debit cards were becoming a thing.

Basically, you'll find these things mostly in poorer places nowadays where even the store/restaurant owners are struggling and those card fees add up.
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>I don't follow your reasoning at all. You seem to be quite confused over how beliefs could possibly work in a predetermined world. Firstly, a lack of free will does not imply predetermination, since it's possible that some things are fundamentally random.

Predetermined or random is all the same for the sake of the argument I've made. Both are beyond the control of the subjects.

>Secondly, even if everything is predetermined, it can still be the case that our choices can be influenced by our belief in free will.

Not really. If "everything is predetermined" then we don't have choices, and what we do (the singular thing that we cannot but do) is only influenced by the start event in the casual chain (that predetermined everything).

>Thirdly, whilst we can't "opt" to believe in free will or not, whether or not we believe in it can certainly change over time due to building evidence and argumentation.

That only applies to a universe with free will. If free will doesn't exist, then evidence and argumentation doesn't matter -- as those are not the causes that shape our beliefs. Instead both our beliefs and any evidence that appears are determined from the entire predetermined casual chain (or are random, as you said, and as such, are still not based on the presence of evidence or not).
I found flexboxfroggy (http://flexboxfroggy.com) to be an excellent resource for learning flexbox when I came across it.

Just enough gamification, and enough straight concepts to allow me to build confidence quickly and make it a bit easier to remember the knobs flexbox offers.
> telling a compelling anecdote rather than actually delivering important facts

I worked in this industry, including with some of the companies named. Business is about people. The human aspects are important facts. If you just want the science, consider subscribing to science journals' e-mail lists.
Heh. The obvious answer is "because Voronoi tesselations can convey a 2D location in addition to the data set size". But this doesn't use that. So... yeah, they're not.
Yes, this is what I do, and I agree it's a little more cumbersome. That's why I asked ;-)
I also opened an account at a credit union less than a year ago. $5 was enough for a checking and saving account, though I had to wait a few days for my debit card to be mailed. I needed proof of residence and ID, but no proof of income.
Macs have always been throttled frying pans. They sacrifice much performance for the sake of thinness and design.
No wonder Flash always performed badly on mac devices.
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> The true form of the data is forever hidden from me, a secret of the application that "owns" it.

But that's been true for almost all users, and not just webapp users, forever.
Perhaps more of an issue in a country where being arrested can involve being murdered by the police.
An enterprise would have a process for you to follow. It will most likely mandate that for each change / deployment you will have to submit an Request For Change (RFC) explaining the purpose of the deployment, backup procedure, roll back procedure. The will have a form you to fill out.

It will, with almost certainly, not be you that performs the installation / deployment. It will be someone else and he will use the instructions you provide in the RFC

<How will I manage to keep the software updated with the latest features

You will not or rather, every time you want to update it you must submit a new RFC. Enterprises are not interested in "the latest" features. The are interested in stability. So a stable product might never be updated unless there is a compelling business case for why it should be updated.

You will (most likely) not get access to the servers or infrastructure and you can not just log onto some server and upgrade / change something. Everything you do will have to be tested and approved in multiple environment (test and preproduction) before it hits production
I guess the question is: do we trust any operator to know the specificities and limitations? I for one wouldn't trust Joe Cop to use something like this with the degree of discretion or understanding of statistical nuance called for here.
I guess this means there'll have to be some belt-tightening in the Zuckerberg household.
My theory: when you have to crank out several articles a day to pay the rent, you tend to need a formula to go by. This formula is more suitable for some kinds of stories than others, but what I know about the economics of journalism suggests they don't pay enough to spend much time thinking about who the audience would be for _this_ story, and what that audience would appreciate reading.
It's not too faint. Whether or not it's too close to the sun depends on where it and the earth are in their orbits. When Mercury is at greatest elongation, it's quite visible, but you have you only view it just after sunset or before sunrise (depending on whether it's eastern or western elongation).
What will he do when he finds out that they were shadow banned because they were using armies of bots to increase their reach? Will he admit that it's a totally appropriate way to reduce the spread of fake news?
Correction, the only choice on Android as of NDK 18.
We don't as a society respond the same way when someone involuntarily does something harmful and when someone voluntarily does someone harmful. If all acts are in fact involuntary, it's hard to justify that. (We could of course keep acting as we do now but without the justification.)
> I'd rather read about the technology, with detailed illustrations of dissected engines and graphs and all the interesting details, rather than read yet another description of a yet another postdoc's day in the lab.

I personally like both, but I wouldn't go seeking hard tech and science from Bloomberg Businessweek. It's a good publication, but hard, detailed science is not it's MO, and never was. It's like a series of pointers to hard science subjects (if that happens to be among the subjects) for business minds and investors. It covers politics as well, but it's stated purpose is how these matters reflect on the business world, not overly concerned with details of policy unless they affect the subject of business. Occasionally they have more hard-hitting pieces, but for the most part, that's what it is. I think that's a good thing.

The many people decrying "watered down journalism" and that there are too few technical details here, are really missing the forest for the trees.
AFAIK he's fucking with you ^^
Using the EU office of a US corporation and assuming they will actually act in your best interest without them having been forced to in the past (and even then...) is very unwise, as multiple examples have already show us in the past. Please just use an EU lab (they exist, and they already removed your data before the GDPR if you asked) and accept that it's maybe a hundred euros more expensive. At least you can be a lot more certain you will not be invasively data mined later on.