skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my comments above. When it comes down to it, scientists of all ilks are people and are just as prone to every failing of people anywhere. I enjoy science fiction in its many forms, irrespective if it is based on consensus models or not.

But I do get somewhat concerned when freedom of investigation is curtailed due to those investigations not matching up to the consensus views. If someone wants to devote themselves to a particular field and do it logically and systematically designing experiments and theories based on their results, then why not let them without treating them as idiots, cranks and pariahs. It is their time and effort and if they can make a case for funding, then let them have the funding.

What is more important? Upholding the consensus view or increasing our understanding of the universe around us? Unless we test different models and theories, we have no idea whether or not our consensus models and theories are better or worse in giving us a practical basis for understanding the universe around us.
How Donald Trump Is Helping Bitcoin Grow in Iran
look at the children of donald trump, they basically don't do much other than hang around their father's company.
Ask HN: Do you find static typing inconvenient?
Coming from dynamic languages myself, with runtime metaprogramming, I'm going to recommend my work experiment with TypeScript.

How has static typing restricted your choice of programming patterns? How have things become more awkward or contrived?
Hey, thanks for your comment. As I am no native speaker, I don't understand your comment. Can you explain a bit better?
I think your criticism is overstated. He's fairly clear about whether he's stating the result of a study, interpreting such results, or making an informed speculation. It's not cherry-picking if you're selecting the strongest competitors. The New York Times article is reporting on a meta-analysis by Buscemi et al, very similar to the one he discusses in a prior paragraph.
Earlier posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17635063
This seems incredibly stupid. If you use excess electricity to pump water backward at the dam, you may as well just shut off the flow through the dam instead. That would be more efficient and cost nothing to implement.

If we're talking about so much excess capacity that the dam would be closed AND water pumped back up, that would be interesting. But wouldn't the river go dry? It's not like there's a lake below the dam for that.

This whole thing seems more political than practical. I'm guessing the private producers will somehow get a financial benefit from this at the expense of the taxpayer.
I've been watching him for quite a while. One the most interesting videos is where he gets his rebuilt Tesla (Delores) to supercharge. On the face of it, that does not sound like a big deal. However, it is much more interesting than that. It basically exposes the fact that supercharging is managed by client-side security.

Tesla has all kinds of restrictions on what vehicles are allowed to supercharge, and whether or not you'll be charged a fee. For example, my friend's S is a 2015 with supercharging that transfers with the vehicle, so that if he sells it to you, you can still supercharge. My 2017 X has free supercharging that is restricted to the first owner, so if I sell you my car, you'll end up paying for supercharging. And if either one of our cars is wrecked, and Tesla finds out about it, they will not allow the cars to supercharge at all until they are "recertified" by Tesla, at a cost of thousands of dollars.

If you buy a salvage Tesla, I'd suggest that (unless you've rooted it, and know how to re-enable supercharging) that you just pull the sim card, and don't let it connect to your wifi. That will (hopefully) preserve your ability to supercharge at the price of making the giant touchscreen basically useless.
Yes societies has been doing this for generations.

News organisations self-censor to ensure what they are posting is mostly factual, adheres to journalistic traditions and avoids slanderous and libellous content. We have laws that make it illegal to post certain content.

You can disagree with it but it is the status quo in most countries and I see no reason why social media should be any different.
The article suggest the low dose but mid-day instead of right before bed.
This might sound insane, but the great lakes might work, with a joint Canada-US plan. Raising one of them by a foot would be all you'd need because their area is so huge.

If you're willing to look outside the US, a wild but interesting mega project might be to try to do the same thing with the South Aral Sea. Pump water all the way from the Caspian. The North Aral is cut off by a dam/dyke and the south Aral barely exists anymore, causing major economic harm. Fill it with salt water and salt water fish to revive the fishing economy while using it as a giant battery.
This marketshare might be much more in terms of their userbase though. Macs are dominant in the creative industries.
How is social media not centralised ? Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram etc.

There are only like a dozen major companies involved here and they are not just a delivery mechanism since they already filter what content gets displayed.
It is, but I think it's useful to have a different term for the utility derived from buying a candy bar as opposed to the utility derived from knowing that you will have 4 to 6 weeks of vacation, or your children will have an opportunity for a good education, or that a member of your family's health issues won't derail your family's retirement.
Thanks, sorry for the silly question as well, I aggressively block social media on my laptop and only seen the image. Visiting your link on a PC answered all my questions.
Thanks, all for these extremely useful notes. To address a couple of specifics: I’m thinking of an organization at least large enough to have PMs with that title (per rahimnathwani). The specific in the specific case I’m concerned with is about 30 engineers across about 10 major components (and of course hundreds of smaller components).

In many cases of smaller startups, the CEO or another person with a different title is probably acting PM (per hluska).
It should be salty.

It's extremely arrogant to kill OpenGL and expect all app developers to rewrite their apps using Metal. The last I looked MacOS market share wasn't doing so well. And how much of that market is CAD?

Maybe they did a simple ROI calculation and determined it simply was not worth the development, but might have been if Apple would meet them half way and support OpenGL.
Yes. Because it feels like a blatant attack on alternative news sites and media sources, and makes me worry that any attempt to shut down fake news will be used to shut down real news that paints authorities or the mainstream media in a bad light.

It makes me think of the debates about encryption backdoors and police master keys for security systems. In the same way a backdoor for the police/authorities can quickly become one for criminals and foreign agents, limits on news sites, media sharing or freedom of speech can become weapons of government or corporate oppression/censorship.

Fake news can certainly be an issue, but it feels like any solution will just be another tool for incumbents to secure their power and freedoms to be restricted.
I can understand Autodesk not wanting to bother with Mac development any more. Apple's aggressive and inconsiderate moves make it a pain to even maintain existing app projects on the Mac.
This is the same argument as “men will never understand women because to truly understand a woman, you have to be a woman” Well, empathy is quite a real thing. Also everyone’s experience is different, so even if you are a woman, you “truly don’t know what it means to be a woman”.
It looks like a pint of rice. Are we going to see a redesign of those containers now?
I never argued that we shouldn't teach them.

I argued that it doesn't work. And that it's better to focus on regulating social media companies.
and 3. Public media

I mean we’ve been told for 40 years that men can only perform conjugal violence and never be victims, only to discover the media has been hiding exactly half of the stories, being silent over 1/4 husbands who will be beaten across their life (the other figure, 1/3 wives, is well-known). It wasn’t literally a lie because each sentence said by the media was true, but they only presented a biased viewpoint. And that’s why a famous « info » channel has lost 30% viewers since last election: recurrent demonstrated bias.

People inform themselves on social media because of an immense lack of trust after all media said Trump was going to cause a nuclear war. 18 months later, still waiting. These « fake news » laws, both in USA and Europe, are only the media trying to keep their monopoly in deciding who gets audience or not.

And it’s inimaginably dishonest, but they will be voted, because people are gullible.
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
When I browse HN, I usually pick out a few articles I want to read from the front page, then email the links to myself to read later.

This method works out pretty well for me. I’m wondering if people have other strategies that work better?
You realize there's a lot of regulation requiring certain information to be put on those labels, right? If there weren't real penalties, companies would never tell you half that stuff and would probably lie about the rest.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxNPpte_6m4
> I don't associate with political people, (...) never been to a country not known for tourism

Interestingly, I would argue that it should be perfectly fine for these two, especially the first one. Harassing the friends of political people would not be odd behaviour for a totalitarian state.
When volunteers presented passport applications containing photographs of other people, the officials did not recognize the discrepancy fourteen per cent of the time. One might attribute this alarming statistic to reckless inattention. Yet the system for hiring passport officers likely rests on the faulty premise that applicants have essentially equal skill in recognizing faces.

The obvious low-tech solution to this problem is disallowing bringing your own photo, and having a photo booth at the passport application site, where you have to take the photo in front of the officer.
Why do many countries still permit bringing your own photo?
Mean earners per US household is about 1.3

Unsurprisingly, this number rises with household income. It's ~0.4 for the lowest quintile and ~2.0 for the highest.
I bet Autodesk has extremely precise information about how big their mac userbase is for these products, and I'm going to guess that it's not enough to justify an entire rewrite using a proprietary Mac rendering system.

I'm certain they've done the math and are confident that it's better for them to expect users will either switch to PC's, install Windows using bootcamp, or stay on old versions of Mac OS. They say as much right in the article.
I'm not sure if it's a "blatant attack on alternative news sites". I think probably people actually have good intentions here rather than some establishment conspiracy. I'm not convinced that regulating social media news is the best policy to focus on, though.
> It's not just America

America is not even the worst offender. Check out China and SE Asia. Only places in the world where it's completely normal to center the marketing of every single phone around how good it is at taking selfies. China is single-handedly responsible for the introduction of the beautify non-sense in smartphone cameras.
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That is strangely reminiscent of Larry Niven's "The Magic Goes Away."
> I think an important thing to consider is that if your going to take large amounts of vitamin D, you should also be getting enough magnesium to prevent unhealthy calcification.

You should be taking vitamin K as well.
They're not illegal in the UK.
How does OS/161 compare to xv6?
You probably don’t bring your server to hazardous environments where it can get drinks spilled on it.

For laptops this kind of environment is common; in fact most of Louis Rossmann’s repairs are about liquid damage.
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal: Schnorr Signatures
You could try asking https://scifi.stackexchange.com
46, I took Discrete Math I & II this past spring. It wasn't easy. Last math class I has was (failed) Calculus I in 1989 and (failed) again in 1990.

I got a B+ and an A- this time, but I probably put in 30 hours per week studying and doing homework.
Off-topic: Hey djaychela, how's your 2 year plan going?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13183972
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I think the point is, from the perspective of electricity grid maintenance, it doesn't matter much (given sufficient transport capabilities) if you stuff all the wind turbines on one end, and all the redox batteries on the other end of the country.

No need to integrate the production and storage solutionss at all.
> How is social media not centralised ?

They may be centralized in the sense of them being specific companies or hosting their data on specific servers, but at the same time they are not centralized in the sense that they have an editorial staff that chooses which content to publish / air (as the traditioinal media are). Social media are entirely or mostly user-generated. That’s what I meant.
Socialism is no longer a dirty word in the US – and that's scary for some
They’re elements that appear as inline to their surroundings, and blocks to their contents. In what way wouldn’t you want it to render white space in the same way as other inline elements?

If you’re misusing inline-block for generic layout then you really should be looking at Flexbox and not trying to neuter the intended behaviour.
Niagara falls (Erie -> Ontario) is already a huge hydro eletric power generator with variable flow. Instead of storing water though they decide how much water to allow over the falls for tourists. More during the day, less at night.

Thinking about the terrain, it would probably be relatively easy to setup a dam somewhere that acted as a battery, downstream is basically already a giant bowl... I suspect the tourist industry would complain though.
You have a non-touchpad mouse on a dock there that you're plugging into? If so, you can stop this kind of annoyance by setting scrollbars permanently on (or off) rather than auto in System Prefs->General.

Actually, try it anyway as when I first ran into this fix for such things, I didn't have what I thought was a mouse connected, but actually some non-mouse USB device reported to macOS that it also had a mouse on board for some reason.
Print already fixed it pretty hard. If anything, it's easier to sneak in a custom font and use the private use area than what you had to do to get a new character in lead type.
Oh wow, great idea! Now that I'm working more often with linux, I kinda got Caps+C etc. in my muscle memory, because I set Caps as Ctrl. When I switch back to macOS, it takes a while of wondering why my shortcuts won't work.
Care to explain how exactly you set this up? I guess in System Preferences -> Keyboard you set Caps to Cmd. And then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses_Niagara_Power_Pla...

Evaporation is a real concern if you start talking about storing months of energy.
"Here's a fun game to play with a right-leaning American: say the word "socialism" and count the number of seconds it takes for them to scream "VENEZUELA" in response. It is unclear how many conservative Americans could identify Venezuela on a map but, boy, they all seem keen to inform you that the beleaguered country is a shining example of why socialism will never work, certainly not in the US..."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/social...
Oh wow. I-expressions. Didn’t know that was a thing. So clean and simple! I’m sold.
I assure you that creative space is the arts and the high level software domain.

Engineers (mechanical, low level software, firmware) are Windows and Linux predominately.
The |favorite| link on each story is one way. The advantage, it is integrated to HN.
The article is interesting and raises interesting points. For instance about the "face-recognition" impairment in police officers, which is a serious problem.

I was however surprised that this ability was not well known, I remember clearly reading stuff about it a LONG time ago. Using it in a systematic way & in a police unit may be new however.

And, of course, as EVERY TIME the topic is raised, I was aghast by the complete off-hand dismissal of the human right issues of the CCTV network. It is a HUGE mistake to underestimate the abuse potential, that's why it must be addressed NOW, because when surveillance will be 100% widespread and accepted as "normal" by people, it will be too late to go back. And we are going there very fast as the example of the UK has already shown us.

Some of the worse things are created out of very good intentions, here the police officer is clearly very honest & sincere about his use of the CCTV footage to catch criminals, but he forgets that he will NOT be the only one with access to it. I'd like to ask him: okay, so can you vouch personally for ALL the people who will use that system in the future, most of whom you have never met (and never will)? Do you REALLY believe that there will not be criminals, corrupt public servants or authoritarian officials who will access it (for nefarious purposes)? Note that this is already a HUGE issue with the secret services in all countries: there IS abuse, a lot of it is publicly known, here we'd be giving "the eye in the sky" enabling even worse abuses (more information available to more -potentially bad- people)!

From the article:

> “There is a friendly eye in the sky,” a Home Office minister proclaimed in 1994. “There is nothing sinister about it, and the innocent have nothing to fear.”

Stupid quote. The simple fact that he feels the need to say that there is "nothing sinister" is already raising a huge red flag. The truth is that history showed us that Nobody is EVER "innocent", there will always be someone to blame you for something: too thin, too fat, too short, too tall, too religious, not religious enough, etc. You know what I mean, it's a constant in humanity's history: the "need" to find an enemy, a scapegoat, someone who is "different" to blame for whatever issues are currently happening.

It is unfortunate (and worrying) that that stupid belief is so widespread (I hear and read it very often)...
Fun fact: Most people also simply cannot defend themselves against guys in tanks with machine guns and infrared cameras.

I do see where you're going with the bit about justifying crimes. But at the same time, if you shout "fire" in a crowded theater, the people that tried to get out aren't responsible for the deaths of the people that were trampled in the crush. I actually don't think that "blame" is a particularly useful concept. I believe that a more effective cognitive framework is along the lines of "what action is available to us which maximizes the expected value of society". The causes of a person's crimes matter exactly as much they as they inform the likelihood of further crimes and the action that would do the most good for them and the people they affect.

I think that the issue is that the kinds of attacks we're talking about now leave injuries that are persistent, invasive, and infectious, and that simplistic systems like "blame" have obvious breakage when faced with such complex scenarios. When you spam a micro-demographic with falsely-attributed hate speech, you haven't just incited a riot, you've damaged the worldviews of a bunch of people enough that they're going to require active rehabilitation to participate in civilization again. It's like you dumped something into their neighborhood that left a bunch of them with brain damage. Punishing those victims is useful only as a way to rehabilitate them. A much better solution might be to force them to go back through high school history and civics courses or something, same way you'd help the victims of the chemical dumping by sending them to the hospital instead of to jail.
Yes, I am for food being labelled correctly.
Or perhaps people shouldn't curl | bash? I don't want curl to buffer all output, I use it on devices with little RAM and do stream processing.
Character sets in general will certainly continue to grow — look no further than the ever-expanding emoji set. Unicode is designed to be able to incorporate new characters.

Whether the CJKV¹ set will grow is another matter entirely. I expect that there will be a couple more extensions for characters found in historical sources; the goal of the Unicode standard is — roughly speaking — to be able to digitize any and all existing texts, after all.

But for actual new characters to be added they would first have to become popular enough to warrant inclusion. Neither Chinese nor Japanese is a language that produces new Chinese characters like they did historically. The barrier to get a character excepted beyond a fringe group is quite high — in any language — and there really is no strong need to create new characters.

1: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese (the latter two historically used Chinese characters as well)
Our circumstances are different, but I'm going through a similar phase, and the last few weeks I've thought mostly on the idea of self-motivation. I'm asking myself what does this really mean and what makes it sustainable? Seeing that you're doing this too reassures me, and it shows me that you've also identified the issue.

The question I'm asking today is: how do I define my purpose in life?

It may be that your true goals in life are different than the ones you set when you were 20. You're not a stupid idiot by any means, and it seems like if wanted to coast the rest of your life you're setup to do so. Be proud of getting to this point because most never will. But if you're looking for deeper fulfillment, you'll need to either set new goals or redefine the purpose for the next phase of your life.

My hypothesis is that when I resolve my purpose, I'll have stronger incentives for self-motivation.

Defining purpose is hard and it's interwoven with your world view, thoughts on religion, death, etc., but you have to start somewhere.
Actually the situation is more complicated than that. Japanese Kanji include some characters that were created by the Japanese, following the basic principles of Chinese characters, over the past 1000~ years. Everywhere that Chinese characters have been used there have been local variations. There have also been various hand-written simplifications, which in some cases became "new" characters that over time were repurposed.

It is also not true that simplified characters could be do again without changing code points; it is true for Japanese but for Chinese simplification there were several characters that were "merged" i.e. two formerly different characters are now written the same way. I would actually argue that the idea of "code points" makes no sense for Chinese characters, and that instead an approach based on the components of each character should have been used.
I noticed that on your Patreon, you have that you're creating "Software". To many people that's too vague, (despite the header). I noticed that concrete software titles do better, like "is creating Vue.js" instead of "Software" or "JavaScript libraries", or "Mastodon" instead of "Social Networking software" etc.

It's a minor thing, but may be something to consider.
https://cdn.eso.org/images/large/eso1825g.jpg

https://cdn.eso.org/videos/ultra_hd/eso1825e.mp4