skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's become irrelevant because technology is now the measure of all things. It's an outdated mindset to view science and the pursuit of knowledge as sacred things that must have an order. If the technology is progressing, then the field is, therefore there is no need to care about the abstract concept of "progress of science", as it is tangential in practice.

I think many comments are missing the point though, people care about Kuhn because of his epistemological innovation and the implications of his work on the very idea of science, not because of its reception by science historians, however great it may have been.
The allegation in the indictment claims otherwise, hence the indictment and extradition request. Then there’s the rape issue in Sweden, although I really have no idea how that will stand up if it’s reopened. Still, answering those questions f fact are why courts exist.
How do you manage having a circular desk arrangement in regards to space concerns. I can't imagine that the footprint of this type of setup is very efficient.
I have no idea who contributed what to this project, but measuring someone's contribution just by the number of lines of code they wrote seems overly simplistic. This was a scientific research project, so thinking of a new algorithm that could confirm a theoretical result may have been much more important than actually implementing that algorithm in code.
This is just their feature space. It's just what they use to distinguish between articles. It says nothing about their incentives.

Also, competitive as positive? I'd see that much more as a neutral (or maybe negative).
The article suggests MFA as a solution, surely you just mitm the MFA entry while you're mitm'ing any other contents of a users airbnb session? (if you even need to access actual airbnb contents for your spoof site to seem legit enough)
Only one data point, but I've got a custom search engine for a community that has pretty close to the ideal usage pattern for this: append-only with no update or deletes. A pure count(*) over 6.8M rows on a slow VPS takes 135,015ms and the n_live_tup technique¹ takes 214ms. The latter was 00.009557% high before an analyze and 00.001414% low afterward. Definitely good enough for me.

¹ SELECT n_live_tup FROM pg_stat_all_tables WHERE relname = 'comments';
Reuters. They do high quality journalism, and as a result about 10% of their articles are useful, which is about 10x more than most others. You can also select different regions to get news tailored to that area.

Foreign Policy used to be good, but I've found their quality to be slipping and their views becoming more partisan in recent times.

Al Jazeera is good for monitoring the pulse of the Middle East. Generally good reporting, as long as you are mindful of their agenda.

RT is good for keeping tabs on what Russia wants the world to think of them, which is useful insight into such an isolated country.

For Asia, it's tricky. Asahi shinbun is widely read, but it's heavily slanted in favor of Japan. I've found that Asian publications tend to have stronger nationalist and pro-government slants than Western publications, making them somewhat obtuse reads. Still, it's a view into Asia you wouldn't get from the Western press, so it's useful.
Not really. Specifically,

> they needed me to participate in testing and providing feedback on the software service they were working on

makes it seem like this is not in fact a “private phone”.
Fixed? Google dropped pages inadvertently from its search index
Yea. Another thing I've found is that ideas people tend to see technical ability and ideation ability as mutually exclusive skill. If you're technical and can build a product, you can't possibly come up with good ideas because you're too busy worrying about code.
This is a very powerful approach because there are json schema libraries available in all major languages. TypeScript is a better source for truth because it can represent things json schema can't. It is possible to generate a json schema from a TypeScript definition (see https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema), which means TypeScript can be the single source of truth for API definitions, be used directly in the frontend and, in json schema form, used to test directly against API responses.
The fractalness (is that a word?) of the universe never ceases to amaze.
The LMC is effectively a galaxy that we captured and started tearing stars from. The white disk is the core.
What kinds of image processing are used for this? Do the images need to be aligned, or can telescopes be pointed precisely enough? Are the images combined using mean/median, or something more sophisticated than that? What settings are the original photos captured with?
Former Firefox VP on What It's Like to Be Both Partner and Competitor of Google
However, these allegations have come up before in Manning's trial, and they do not amount to much more than him trying (not succeeding) to help Manning cover her tracks, i.e., protecting his source as a journalist. He did NOT help Manning access more data. This article by Glenn Greenwald is a good read on the subject:

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indi...
Worker 4575 you are not sitting with the optimal number of coworkers for lunch, please move to table 21b.
You should not be getting downvoted. There is nothing wrong with the government taking equity (or at least dividends) in the companies it invests in that nobody else wants to. It's taking a risk. It should get a reward.
Disposition Matrix
> Most Linux distributions consist of packages of vast amounts of unmaintained or mostly unmaintained C code

Well, that's exactly the kind of code I'd expect to simply break when the compiler becomes able to prove new optimizations based on undefined behavior.

When that happened to me, I decided there was no way I was trawling through our massive legacy codebase to fix undefined behavior that ubsan can't catch. Resulted in -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing being added, and any speed loss was noise under 0.5%

Then in our modern codebase, I did my absolute best to ensure we built it no undefined behaviour, including contortions to avoid undefined left shifts... and we still got screwed over by a new version of clang.

For all the worry about "for (int i = 0; i < array->length; i++)" specifically, how often is that actually measurable whole-program? It's one additional sign extension in a tight loop, plus a store/load in a complex loop, which a modern CPU would completely hide 99.9% of the time.
Bah. When was the last time you saw this sort of focused effort trying to dismiss the contributions of a man?
Yes, I guess one solution to this could also be to create nodes outside of Manhattan. Who cares if SoHo, Chelsea and the West Village are large malls if the soul of the city moves somewhere else?

But that would require sustained public infrastructure development at a scale America hasn't done since the immediate post WWII era.
Privacy-Preserving, Compute & Data-Intensive Computing Using Heterogeneous TEE
It's possible to express an opinion on the relative value of two stocks while remaining neutral on their correlated returns, by going long one/short the other in the appropriate ratio.
Relying on peer reviewed journals as the only source of valid data/information is a logical fallacy, it's an appeal to authority. So I don't think that is a valid debunking to claim "not in a peer reviewed journal, so it's not true".

In the video link below the interviewer asks: "Is there a danger vaccinating populations? As we do today?"

https://youtu.be/BpC0Tbb3diI?t=394 (link is directly to the question)

The doctor being interviewed is someone who is medically qualified to study this subject, and has spent significant time studying vaccines. I think she has a scientifically valid point.

Why do you believe she is wrong?
App-Specific VLIW Processor with Vector Instruction Set for CNN Acceleration
It's very easy to see that this is a publicity stunt (and a quite sexist one, at that). Allegations have been made that Andrew Chael contributed 850kloc, but this is clearly bizzare. Analyzing the git repo[1] shows that this enormous contribution was actually data used to train the probabilistic imaging model used in creating the image. Chael has also addressed this attack campaign on his twitter [2], making it clear that Katie Bouman played a vital role in the EHT project.

[1] https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors

[2] https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/111651854496183091...
High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Systems
Ask HN: Preference? Keyword Search or Semantic Search
I'm thinking about self-service portals on websites here.

When you search in a help desk or a knowledge base, which gives the best results according to you?

Do you prefer something that is keyword + synonym like Algolia, or something that works kind of like Google (semantic understanding)?
Is this from your personal experience of being watched?
"Slackers" is an easy criticism from a CEO who benefits from his employees trading their lives for a thin illusion of wealth. Are you 996ers a bunch of wage-slaving mice or are you humans, and what the fuck are you worth?
Configurable Memristor-Based Finite Impulse Response Filter
Critical Branching Processes in Memcomputing
I was excited, but the fact that this is (well, WAS) violating the GPL by being MIT licensed was a major downer. I'd be very interested in an org-mode parser which is NOT GPL-licensed, specifically because it is effectively impossible to integrate GPL code as a plugin (unless your editor is also GPL), which was one of the stated goals of this project.

Hence, someone would have to properly clean-room reverse-engineer org-mode in order to achieve 100% compatibility, or make a somewhat-incompatible implementation based on the reference docs instead.

As I understand it, Markdown has significant limitations which org-mode doesn't have, but is under a 3BSD-style license. (It also has issues of x+1 slightly incompatible implementations)
the google hamburger won't show up in stamp collections 100 years from now...
I am absolutely interested.

How do I reach you?
In Germany it is enough to stick the German equivalent of “No Ads” onto the flap of your post box.

Doesn’t stop all crap, but certainly most, as the stuff sticking out my neighbours boxes without a “No ads” label proofs
Great, let our money burn. Will be worse for those with money to lose!
> abusive landlord taking advantage of people
from the article: The landlord offered her to install a heater and she refused. From my point of view, it says more about her character ("I do not deserve this") than about the landlord. Moreover, he did install one! and she never used it!

When she moved in, it was not probably a standard feature to have one; and after all, she did live w/o using one for her whole life (despite even having one installed at the end).

Again, it feels it was HER choice rather than a one forced down her throat.
At this point, why wouldn't you just quit? I get that there's equity on the line, but the average tenure is probably around a year (if that) given how new the company is. It was clear from the WSJ article on the drama between the two founders up to the other one's death that the current CEO is a textbook sociopath.

Convinced the only reason why talented rank-and-file employees would petition instead of leave is because we live in a world where we're all expected to become grossly emotionally attached to our work, despite how toxic work environments can be.
I'm always interested in this as well.

Are there any experiments to rigorously prove or disprove the existence of further spatial dimensions?
Make Games with Online Teams
I remember a previous post saying that the Host Scott Rogowsky would have an extreme pull in the company and would present a big risk if he ever left the company. I guess this company could try to pivot onto someone else but I'm not sure they have the ability to do so. (they cite themselves in the article)
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
> one night I saw her eating out of the trash

this means nothing. The lady can simply have dementia or something like this and even having a loving family and a nurse taking care of her, she still could have eaten from trash.

This is the nature of the disease, unfortunately.
Computational complexity: Good article, terrible headline
> Forcing users to learn a whole new language

Each and every videogame has a lot information to learn about it. Game mechanics, interactions, that sort of thing. Games are wildly different in these aspects, so why would icons of all things be worth nitpicking here?

Since games are so different having unique icons makes total sense, since I can associate them with whatever unique mechanics of the game.

> a game is often something you move on from quickly and on to the next one

For you, maybe. I have 1400 hours in dota, and almost 1500 in tf2. Over time as one gets acclimated to a game, having icons is really helpful for quickly scanning/displaying information, etc.

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Videogames have the problem of needing to visually display a lot of data, and needing to have good menus to traverse among its information/mechanics. Some games have really bad menus but I can't recall icons being the main issue in any of them. A bad menu is almost always one with options in confusing places or hiding a commonly-used option behind 4+ clicks, etc.
I think that a combination of both works well also, especially if the icon enhances the meaning of the text and the text enhances the meaning of the icon.

Where the whole icon thing sort of works, is with tools where the words won’t be able to communicate what a tool means anyways and. when there are too much for (e.g. the tools in photoshop)
That seems like way too much water and surely bad for your kidneys.
When my son was around 2 he became addicted to youtube. We like other parents fell into the pitfall of allowing him to look at videos when we went out for meals to keep him occupied. We strictly limited usage but it got to the point where if he didn't get the phone he threw a tantrum.

One day we decided just to ban the phone outright, cold turkey. The tantrums lasted for a day or two then he forgot about it completely. I cant proove it was related, but we noticed an immediate increase in his level of vocabulary. Fast forward 4 years and we now use the phone only for calling granny and using the stargazing app at night.

PS We took this lesson and hit upon a great related strategy. We started to artificially "limit" book time with the young kids. And of course this just improves their excitement around reading! Scarcity in action :P
Makes for a good bargaining chip. Case in point: The timing on a recent IMF loan to Ecuador, over $4.2 billion [0], is really convenient.

[0] https://www.enca.com/business/imf-approves-42bn-loan-ecuador
Rust is awesome, and I thought of mentioning it; however, instead of proposing to "fix" C, I wish people would focus on getting Rust to have the same sort of footprint that C has. Because right now, sorry, but it just isn't "proven" yet in the same way that C is. I'm rooting for Rust, but it still has a way to go.

(otherwise, yes, just because it's C doesn't automatically mean it's portable. However, C's continued success across the ages can't be exclusively ascribed to its flaws :). How many different Rust compilers do you know, so that you may complain about inconsistencies among their borrow checkers, or about flaws in their codegens and optimizers?)
Are the cloudy puffs remnants of exploded stars?
I opened the full image (14400x14200), which took a good minute to load, and spent some time just looking at every single dot in that picture, which there is a lot of.
Also see the Hawthorne Effect[1] - I think we're actually experiencing this on a global level as we all accept that there's the possibility of being surveilled at any time via use of mobile devices.

It's like the bit in 1984 about never knowing when the telescreens are watching you (if ever) - but the mere possibility that they might be watching was enough to keep people in line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
> Unable/unwilling to pursue new and potentially better opportunities in new places

It so really depends on the actual people. The ones who really want to pursue new opportunities seldom look at the favorable rent in my opinion.
Especially with tax loss harvesting and rebalancing, I'm suspicious of how roboadvisors do when you factor in the bid-ask spread. At least with ETFs, you can be confident someone like Blackrock isn't getting ripped off by limit orders or front-running trades.
Can confirm: long posts that you update as new knowledge surfaces actually work well. Think of your site as a wiki.
Cutting out caffeine reduced social anxiety? I guess I can see the connection, but I don't think I've ever heard this mentioned before, or I just haven't heard about it.
Wow, people really, really seem to care about this. Does it matter, or is this just dev wanking?
The thing is, you usually _want_ to play the video game just for the video games sake. Understanding it is mentally part of the thing.

With a typical application GUI you usually want to get some stuff done and the program is the thing you chose for the job. This means unless you really plan to learn that thing, every friction that program needlessly puts on reaching your objective is gonna piss you off.

This is btw. the same in Games, if e.g. the graphics settings don’t work as expected etc
Is this potentially opening them up to data leakage? Could someone not crawl those pages, analyze the content and use the existing labels as the training set?
Think about factors such as: cost of vehicle ownership, cost of fuel, minimum wage, social policies, unemployment, public transport infrastructure, population density, specific ride sharing regulation, traffic congestion.

All of these directly effect the unit economics of ride sharing.
Successful companies pay a lot in taxes (through employment if nothing else), so technically the government does see dividends (albeit in a non-traditional form). However, given the nature of government, it should technically be enough if society benefits more than the expected investment amount, regardless of the government payback.
At barely two, our toddler is starting to ask to “see see” the phone more and more.

Any tips?

You and your wife are probably chronically sleep deprived and not being engaging enough for the child. The phone is an easy answer for entertainment. The child's vocabulary isn't sufficient to express "Damn, y'all are boring me to death here! I need my mind fed, people!" any way other than asking to "see" the phone.

Solution: Find other ways to be adequately interesting to your toddler. A two year old has substantial need for intellectual inputs. Make sure the phone is not the only non-boring option available to them.
ESPRESSObin SBC (2.5Gbps Serdes, SATA, 2xGbE, MiniPCIe, lots of goodies...)
I go to Freenode all the time to ask questions. I answer some sometimes, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to pay forward all the help I've received there.
"Ive never seen him find or watch anything inappropriate."

Did you ever hear of Elsagate? I'd make sure to really check what he's watching, I found some incredibly disturbing videos in the YouTube Kids playlists my nephew was watching, never would have thought anything of it until I played the video, really nasty.
That's interesting that you mention that. I have ADD and I've taken Adderall for most of my life to treat it. One of Adderall's most common side effects is suppression of the appetite. On the days I don't take it I also feel like I'm able to concentrate way better when I'm dehydrated and my stomach is empty. I've always figured that's just because my body has adjusted to the side effects of Adderall after many years, but I'd be curious if there's any research that associates a lack of gut activity with higher concentration because I feel the exact same as you.
Ok, so this is Startups for Employees 101. The warning signs to get out were here 1.5 years ago [1]. And they are:

1. Nut-bar egomaniac CEO bordering on the delusional; and

2. A business that probably should never take VC money. Producing content (which is what HQ Trivia does at the end of the day) is a notoriously hard business to scale. I can remember years ago when Rovio (remember when Angry Birds was a thing?) took VC money. Huge mistake. HUGE. It is seriously detrimental to your long term viability as a business that generates an income.

So yeah, stay at your own peril.

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/ceo-of-hq-the-hottest-app-goin...
Yes, the Great Canada Post Nanaimo Stamp Conspiracy... it's the perfect crime.
The problematic code is:

if (dbs_per_call > server.dbnum || timelimit_exit)
dbs_per_call = server.dbnum;

The post focused a lot of microarchitectural issues, but I saw no mention of much bigger fish: is it really the case that the if statement always evaluates to false in Twitter’s use case? Knowing nothing about the code in question, I bet that the if condition, in fact, sometimes or always evaluates to true, and that the code doesn’t work as well when this happens.
Hey CosmosDB team in the comments:

Building distributed databases at scale is hard af, few people know what it’s like to run hundreds of thousands of databases. Don’t be discouraged by random negative posts, remember you’re doing something most of the world can’t do.
The company has been diversifying hosts and games for awhile now. I never thought the success of the company was going to or should ride on him alone.
I came here to say this. That one feature makes their site unreadable for me on mobile.
Alibaba Puts SDK Flutter to the Test
The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea
This is a cool overview! One suggestion: if you want your links into the Github source to point to the same code in the future, you should change `.../blob/master/...` in all your links to `.../blob/a7cc60b902a2ad3e39f75ae9b4c3ef08712fc171/...` (I just picked the latest commit).
Wells Fargo did not start fucking over their customers in January 2017.
The Yes Men approach:

> AG: How did you get started?

> MB: We got started by accident when Andy put up a fake website for the World Trade Organization in 1999 and people started writing for advice and questions. Eventually people started inviting us to conferences and we realized we didn’t have to be the WTO to go. Pretty soon we had been to half a dozen conferences. No one objected no matter how ridiculous the thing we proposed.

> AB: We got invited a textile conference in Finland as the WTO by a technical university. We lectured about the WTO’s solution to various problems, including the problem of modern slavery. The problem of modern slavery is they are across the world in places you don’t want to go, so you have to control them remotely and you want hands-free operation. The natural place to mount a view screen is at the crotch. We developed “the employee visualization appendage,” basically a 3-foot golden penis. People from major corporations were in the audience, including DOW Chemicals. They applauded.

0) https://indypendent.org/2009/09/the-yes-men-speak/
This is because software in contrast to games is usually meant to get shit done with the least possible friction.

While experimentation will always have a driving force, standardization allows a program to lower the barrier of usage to everyone. Especially to those who are not a typical HN user but rather like your stereotypical parents.

Games are not about getting stuff done, so people enjoy learning how it works, which in its own way reduces friction.
The other hosts are pretty meh, TBH. Scott is pretty charismatic and I think has a lot of power because of that.

Edit: I see now that Scott is no longer hosting. That’s a shame IMO, he was a big reason why I personally liked the game. Oh well.
I... I'm confused. They're permanent stamps. They always have the correct value.