skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was very interesting! Certainly a different perspective.
If someone does something once, they will do it twice. This has never failed me on the big things. People are mostly static
France has only 479 cars per 1,000 people [0]. Only 13% of Parisians commute by car. [1]

Drivers are a minority of the population, whose choices cause immense harm to everyone else. Their getting steamrolled by national policy seems completely reasonable. Their attempt to hold the rest of the country hostage does not.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle...

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/the-automotiv...
It’s an interesting area.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/313/5795/1914

The location of the ‘wiring’ changes the type of information gleaned from the light field. There is no ‘wrong,’ rather, a variation in local optimization.
Ask HN: Grease monkey or other css to make HN work better on tablet?
I have fat thumbs. I can't up vote, down vote or collapse threads without a fifty-fifty mis-hit on my Nexus nine tablet.

I love the minimalist ascii mainly mark up, I just want a smidgen more space around the interaction points.

Does anyone have Grease monkey or other CSS hacks which fix this?
And Microsoft and Amazon both have big offices in Silicon Valley. Bing is (was? it looks like the site is now under reconstruction) based out of their Mountain View complex that's almost literally across the street from the Googleplex, while A9 (Amazon's search subsidiary) has a big office in Palo Alto.
FYI: The main project URL listed on the site, http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/oskit/, results in a "page not found" error.

The correct URL apparently is:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/
And besides Elsagate, those awful "unboxing" videos that will teach your barely sapient toddler to be a consumerist machine.
I was going to mention the same thing. I too up until the puerto rico article blamed insecticides. But something much larger seems to be going on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarm...
A pet is any creatures that has been removed from its natural habitat. Fast forward 10000 years and it’s possible parrots are as common as dogs for pets.
I believe I saw a system like this in Xi'an, as the roof of an entire shopping centre. It was unbelievably good. Covering whole surfaces and making them one giant seamless display can make mood altering spaces.
Glad to know you think raising children isn't important work.
Please excuse my lack of technical biological vocabulary. Here is my take on the issue:

The error in reducing the fps to that of the human eye is that there is no guarantee the two are in sync. To guarantee I will actually see 72 fps (or x fps) as intended, the manufacturer needs to take into account the amount of time each frame is displayed, as well as the human response to changing frames on the screen during one "frame" of the eye. How many times should a pixel refresh during one observation to create a lifelike scene for the human eye?

Something analogous can be said for dpi, and the fact that we can't see a specific pixel doesn't mean that each of our eyes' "units of resolution" correspond perfectly to where a pixel is on the screen. If we are seeing the intersection of four pixels at once but only seeing subpixels of each one that don't correspond to the intended color when taken together, theoretically all the color is falsified. If we are instead seeing a number of complete pixels in each of our own visual pixels, there is less chance of this. Further, the spacing between pixels varies by manufacturer, and this can have effects on the required resolution.
Can you please stop posting to HN in the flamewar style? You've been doing it a lot. We want thoughtful dicussion here, not gotcha vendettas here.

In particular, your comments have broken this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If she didnt want anyone looking there and commenting on that part of her body.... then why did she signal attention to it with a tattoo and then show it off in public?
You're comparing an OS that has one major release (windows 7) to one that has been essentially a rolling-ish release for ~10 years. (Mac)OSX (which you linked to) has been going/supported far longer than windows 7.

Meanwhile, microsoft's track record over the same period, with quite a few (major) OS releases, is.. https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/26/Microsoft.html
Wouldn't global maxima simply be local maxima per planet? :)
Yeah, but think about it: insect population is down? why keep using pesticides at the same level as usual?? And if you reduce pesticide use because there's fewer insects, and if the insect population recovers, then you'll have some very suggestive evidence (still not dispositive, but so what). There's a hypothesis to test, so let's test it.
But there was a time before colonialism. And the comparisons for sub-Saharan Africa don't look that great that way either.
Without knowing performance of other channels, if I found something that I was fairly confident was delivering break-even ROAS on a 1yr value as a SaaS marketer, I'd do this all day.

There are so many opportunities to reduce churn, increase LTV, etc. that tipping the scales to make this channel profitable are probably pretty doable. The harder part of marketing is finding a channel with strong signal, and breakeven ROAS is absolutely strong signal.
RFC 1087: Ethics and the Internet (1989)
Not sure why you got down voted. The ‘why’ does prejudice a creator :)

It also assumes free will in asking the quesiton.
It's good that the phrase "Cultural Revolution" hasn't been poisoned, say, by some grotesque and cataclysmic series of events that scarred a whole generation in one of the largest countries in the world, or the title of this talk might have been considered in rather poor taste.
Agreed. It's not for nothing we talk about "thinking out loud". That suggests that there is some kind of vague awareness that thinking and speaking are not fundamentally different activities (compare: "feeling aroused/jealous out loud" which doesn't even make sense)

Sometimes I wonder if human acquired the ability to "silently" think thoughts only recently. That the ability to silently think evolved much like how the ability to silently read evolved (even today I sometimes run into country folks who have little ability to read without audibly reading, or cannot transfer their password from phone to computer without broadcasting it to everyone around)

Presumably audible thinking and audible reading were the original forms. Then silent thinking and silent reading evolved because of their obvious utility (it's fitness enhancing to be able to hide your thoughts from your enemy blah blah)
In John Grisham’s “The Broker”, one of the characters finds a spy satellite system that isn’t supposed to be in orbit.

The Chinese it’s revealed were the ones who launched it, by creating a large forest fire in China and shrouding the rocket launches into space under it.
I've read that these charitable Christian orders retain passport issuing rights which were "grand fathered in" to the modern state passport system. Thing is, you have to prove you're travelling on order-related business. Since all the knights and grand Chancellors are citizens of other states, that means no fancy tax avoiding magic passports alas.
> Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway.

This sounds like a very ignorant thing to state. Wherever I worked, the best programmers used Windows and Linux desktops. Why? Because they too busy coding to get caught up in the Apple hype is my best guess. You know just like he talks about being ignorant to what was going on in Microsoft world, many coders I worked with did not know or care about what was going on in Apple world. There was one group of people who I did notice flock to Apple OS's, wannabe developers. The type that talk a lot about new tech but never wrote code that got deployed to production.
How to deal with Technical Debt
> Can you please stop posting to HN in the flamewar style? You've been doing it a lot.

Can you clarify? How have I "been doing it a lot"? And how was my comment "in the flamewar style"?

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

Which part of the GP's comment do you think I'm unfairly interpreting?
Not for those of us with G-Suite!

That being said, I don’t see why Google can’t do paid G-mail accounts. I had to take out a domain name myself to get G-Suite instead of just using my old email.
Can anyone explain to me why I’m not allowed to zoom in on this web page in Chrome on IOS? Edit: works in safari
A car can truly be a necessary lifeline in postwar American suburbs that were designed around it, but in France? In Paris? Wouldn’t you take the subway? Isn’t a car kind of a hassle/luxury there to begin with? I don’t understand the sympathy.
The Knights of the Order of St. John are more about offering cutting edge medical services to the poor than conquering the world. Even today, most of the knights I know are medical doctors. The others do various kinds of humanitarian work through their own foundations, in cooperation with the Order of St. John.
To be fair TV has always had a bit more of a 'real' look anyways, ever since it moved to largely being filmed on video instead of film. It's also always been a higher frame rate (30 frames/60 fields in that weird way where the fields still had motion from each other) and both crts and lcds have some more persistence of image than film projectors.

So I'm not sure that when we're talking about broadcast television it's that surprising to have them pushing for higher frame rates.

And it's entirely possible that like other things pushing modern broadcast TV advancements, the enhanced 'reality' and better motion fidelity is advantageous to television because of the one thing people still care a lot about watching live: Sports.
Submissions like this are off topic, but you can post in "Who Wants to be Hired" threads, which appear on the first weekday of each month, and can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring.
Raise taxes (ie: steal more from people) to pay for migrants on welfare and running grooming gangs. Why would anyone be upset?
I'm pretty sure the order that this article is about does not run the government. Based on my limited knowledge of history, orders like this were generally citizens (super loose terminology) of a host country, rather than rulers. Malta was an exception, until the 19th century.
MacOS is, by far the best generic developer OS.

The best developers I know don't really care what OS they're on, but MacOS is what they'll pick if they get a choice.
I've been less fortunate. Only a couple of items, one of which was a fake Gamecube controller with a USB (!) connector, but it's been enough to dent my confidence and change my shopping behaviour, particularly when it comes to niche items only available through resellers.

Hence my comment about it being a serious problem: the incidence doesn't have to be very high to cause a significant dent in confidence and changes in behaviour.
The 100 Best Films of World Cinema
AI in Movies: What They Get Right, What They Get Wrong
Switzerland has a population of 8 million. The US has 38 million black descendants of slaves, 34 million descendants of Mexicans, 5 million Puerto Ricans, 4 million Chinese, 3 million Indians, 2.7 million Filipinos, etc.
If you're happy with your current btrfs setup, no need to switch.

That said...I'd be curious what data you're storing on that btrfs raid and how mission-critical you consider it to be. Is this a homelab/testing NAS, or is this where you're storing the backups of your wedding photos?

From https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status#RAID1.2C_RAID... :

> RAID1, RAID10

> The simple redundancy RAID levels utilize different mirrors in a way that does not achieve the maximum performance. The logic can be improved so the reads will spread over the mirrors evenly or based on device congestion.

Which reads to me like a sugar-coated way of saying "if you have 2 mirrored drives, it'll try really hard to read only from the first one, rather than splitting the load evenly across the two".

> RAID56

> Some fixes went to 4.12, namely scrub and auto-repair fixes. Feature marked as mostly OK for now.

I personally don't trust a NAS filesystem that claims to be "mostly OK for now" for RAID 5/6 and throws away the biggest performance benefit of RAID10.

My own home NAS runs ZFS, and has for 5+ years, under various iterations of FreeBSD and Linux. I'm quite happy with it, but I'm also looking forward to bcachefs, once it hits the mainline kernel. Especially as the root-on-bcachefs story matures, since as happy as I am with ZFS on Linux, the impedance mismatch between ZFS and Linux bootloaders continues to make ZFS root not impossible, but more complicated than it ideally should be.
Not all broadcast television is fictional. Allowing the spec to support 120Hz allows 120Hz programming for news and sports, which do benefit from the additional framerate. Fictional works can still be broadcast at their original framerate.
It is great to verify by yourself how healthy the products can be, even in a city like NYC: https://www.mycuistot.com/nyc-healthy-food-prepared-meals-de...
This will seem very low effort because I just looked up USB Microscope on Amazon but I have a similar one and it's very cool. https://www.amazon.com/Jiusion-Magnification-Endoscope-Micro...
"One of the foundational problems with the soft/social sciences is that many of its practitioners have such weak analytical thinking skills (Note below)"

Andrew Gelman argued that a fundamental problem with peer review is that it is done by peers.
Peers whose background and skills are similar to those of the authors, and thus not likely to catch things that were missed.

[When does peer review make no damn sense?](https://andrewgelman.com/2016/02/01/peer-review-make-no-damn...)

I'm sure something could be gained via education. I don't think you necessarily have to be good at math to understand the concepts.
But a lot of undergrad courses focus on hypothesis testing and p-values (despite those methods being condemned by the American Statistical Association), and encourage memorization of steps to do simple math, over understanding what any of it means.
I think the ad-hoc approach of many machine-learning intros would do better. Maybe programming isn't any easier for a psychology student, but simply hammering the ideas, with short demos of pitfalls, may help.

For "small n" problems like in psychology, psych students are much better off with a statistics background than machine learning. So what I'm advocating is a change in how these classes are taught.

Of course, I've known plenty of students who program via copy and pasting code, and modifying it until it runs as necessary. The equivalent of memorizing steps math steps.
So it will take more to solve the problem.
> MacOS is, by far the best generic developer OS.

How so?
Somewhat famously, tar format is so bad, when kernel needed an compression format for initrd, they went with cpio:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-r...

Quote: "tar is ugly as hell and not going to be supported on the kernel side"
Shoelace formula
All these years later and the UO Parody songs still make me smile:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2D6D575572C1A7C6

Don't Bank So Close to Me ... Just a Thief Ya Know ... 50 Ways to Loot Another ...
Ex Facebook manager Mark Luckie: Silicon Valley’s racism is bigger than Facebook
High framerate is very helpful for sports... and the 2020 Summer Olympics is in Tokyo.
I guess you haven't visited the East or West Coasts of the U.S.?
I'd say give it a try because I think it's the only way you're going to know if you enjoy it or not. I mean what's the worst that's likely to happen? You hate it and go back to freelancing?

I'd considered something similar myself but, as you seem to have discovered, most studios want experience in the industry for roles above entry level.
If my reading of 1999 constitution is correct, the canton(s) involved must approve and a majority of Swiss voters and a majority of the cantons. It does not have to be approved by the Federal Assembly.

"Any change in the number of Cantons requires the consent of the citizens and the Cantons concerned together with the consent of the People and the Cantons."

https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19995395/...

Not sure that is any easier than getting Congress to approve such a change. But such changes have happened in Switzerland and the only one that's happened in the US was due to most of Virginia seceding at the start of the Civil War. Of course, Switzerland is much older.
I am a huge fan of this book. The Pragmatic Programmer and this book are the two that I recommend most.

When I first read Refactoring, IntelliJ wasn't released yet and refactorings still needed to be done by hand. Automated refactorings are so incredibly useful when it comes to improving code quality over time that I don't know what it was we did without them.
BTW, why would Microsoft even need to release an antivirus if they can patch the bugs in the OS the viriuses exploit as soon as they get discovered instead of just adding them to the virus database?
The evolutionary game theory of sperm donation is fascinating. On the one hand, there is the prospect of a huge number of offspring. On the other hand, donors are pairing their genetic legacy up with genes from people who are reproductively challenged.
Kissan Rally के पीले पर्चे और Arvind Kejriwal के दावों की निकली हवा
That’s an interesting idea. The human eye (and the brain in general) isn’t a clocked system, different parts work at different speeds. You can see this yourself if you have an old fluorescent lamp that works on the mains frequency. You won’t perceive the flicker in the main part of your vision because the colour receptors aren’t that fast. However the edges of your vision where the rods dominate can perceive a 50/60hz flicker.

The same is true of visual resolution. You only have high resolution sight in a tiny portion of your vision, the rest is much lower resolution and your brain uses a combination of rapid eye movements and spacial memory to fill in the blanks.

Additionally one of the issues with perception of a pixel is your eyes have nothing like a pixel grid, it’s pretty random. You can see this if you use a digital camera to take a photo of a screen, you can see interference patterns as the grids align and unalign.

This makes the whole equation very complicated, certainly nothing I can answer. I guess I’ll have to find an 8k/120hz display and find out.
BTW, please note that on Windows I can use various types of Linux variants right from the Windows App store. So the excuse of having a Nix shell on Mac OS is no longer a point for Mac OS. In fact, because we use Ubuntu in prod, and I run Ubuntu on Windows, that point might now be for Windows for many users.
Assam की इस लड़की ने की Donald Trump की बोलती बंद
The idea is that it might take you longer to learn, but when you are applying it in the real world and hit real world problems that are messy, you’ll be a lot faster
I guess I’m missing how credentials with access to KMS are any harder to come by than credentials with access to RDS, and why it’s easier to monitor KMS queries than RDS queries. Are the latter privileges more widely distributed, maybe? Where is it useful to have access to a database you can’t actually read? Do your dev/staging environments just no-op the decryption and put ciphertext strings everywhere prod shows plaintext?
How Instagram hides behind Facebook – and rakes in billions
Yes but I'm also looking at the individual years. OS X has many releases and Windows has many releases; they're both effectively one product. Windows bugs are counted twice if they exist in different versions but are still effectively the same bug.
What is the impact outside of academia? Are there similar effects in the corporate sector?
CPR with chest compressions? Because that’s what CPR is. If you mean breathing by itself, that isn’t CPR. Doing CPR for someone with a pulse is incredibly dangerous and if you are doing it correctly, there will most likely be cracked ribs assuming you don’t induce cardiac arrest first. CPR for an hour with someone who’s heart is beating is a ultra-dangerous idea. You could cause severe heart damage. Perhaps you mean rescue breathing?

Why the hell would “friends” do CPR for an hour and presumably not call an ambulance? Some friends. Good Samaritan laws wouldn’t protect you because a reasonable person might do rescue breathing but a reasonable person would also call an ambulance. Unless you are in a very rural area, a first-responder response to CPR in progress would never be an hour.
Iirc (it's been a while since I read the article) I thought 'dead' was used to mean "they are not the dominant power in the world of software (in terms of tools, languages, leadership, driving change) etc, like they used to be in the nineties" not in the sense of "they are a declining company in terms of revenue or market value"

The present news just says Microsoft's market valuation is higher than apple's (today). Not sure if it really affects the central thesis of the article.

EDIT: literally the first paragraph of the article

"I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?

Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite believe anyone would be frightened of them."

People fear Facebook and Google and Amazon, if only for the immense amounts of damage they do to societies and polities. Who is afraid of MS (or IBM)? Do startup founders even think of MS as a factor in their plans (which seems to be what the article is about)
If you just want to get those promo code without listening to podcasts, search here https://lnns.co/GCrJF9YQ-k4
As for resident antiviruses I would generally agree (even for purely logical reasons - that means adding another 3-rd party to the 100% trusted list, you grant their app godlike access to your computer and everything on it and let it talk freely and secretly to their vendor), nevertheless a live-cd version of something like Dr.Web can be of great use in such cases, Windows Defender a well as other antiviruses ran under an infected system can often be futile against viruses infesting it. Perhaps open-source ClamAV can do the job too but I'm not sure.
https://twitter.com/autokad/status/689896734542069760

https://twitter.com/autokad/status/689897031414886400

keep in mind these profile pictures are not centered, some are group photos, etc. its not 'super strong' but it seems evident to me, let me know what you think
Ironclad facts, science, studies, & research are great. However, if we are facing imminent collapse of pollinator populations (which would lead to a lot of human suffering) the precautionary principal starts to look interesting.

In other words, if we run the risk of population collapse within ten years, and population collapse will lead to crop failure and mass starvation & death, but rigorous studies on cause will take fifteen years to complete... do we wait for them to finish?