skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Middlebrow dismissals and talking down to actual experts.

But I can't fix it, as that would mean deleting my account.
Down vote me all you like. According to law, corporations have rights.
That would seem to be a concern, but it didn't stop Massachusetts from implementing Romneycare, nor Vermont from passing a single payer system, nor NY and California making plans for the same. It was happening before the feds got involved.

Besides the fact that is how it's supposed to work in this country. The constitution doesn't give the fed the power to regulate health care. That is supposed to require an amendment, which requires something more than a 51% majority because it is a big deal.
Both these arguments are true.
"Japan was ready to surrender" should be interpreted as "Japan wanted to surrender if the terms were acceptable".

To spell it out for you:
Japan was ready to surrender before atomic bombs, but held back because the allies terms were unacceptable, and Japan were hoping to get better terms, using USSR to mediate them.
Only when that hope was removed (by USSR declaring war on Japan) did Japan realise they had no other choice. And then they actually surrended.
I'm a visionary, he's politicking, they're ideologues.
> On the other hand, there is proprietary software still running whose company has been gone for decades.

True, I'm sure!

Equally true of free software... and indeed when that situation does happen, you're in rather better shape if it's free software than proprietary.

I think there are good reasons for people to keep their software installations generally up to date, though -- certainly anything that's exposed to today's Internet. And for a given version of $component, the OS versions that shipped it will only continue getting updates for so many years. Because of that, in the example I was replying to I don't think it's unreasonable to see an announcement that, strictly, just says "this feature will be dropped from future versions of this software", and think of it for practical purposes as "this feature will be going away".
It may help to think of it as a medical treatment. We don't withhold heart surgery from a child just because they aren't 18 and can't legally consent to it, and likewise we don't withhold treatment for gender dysphoria just because of age.

Note that the diagnostic criteria for this treatment are very strict. It's not gonna accidentally be given to a mere "tomboy".
Correct.

The feed has always been based on more than just time and votes. For example, flags. Another factor is HN's anti-abuse software, like the voting ring detector. Then there is moderation. For example, moderators downweight certain kinds of stories, such as sensational ones or indignant ones, that routinely attract many more upvotes than others. Another example is the boosting system that was discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871809.

There's no article or essay about it, but I've posted many comments to HN about all of this over the years. None of it is secret, and we're happy to answer questions.
I agree, however I think it's important that we do not use "implicit bias" as a cover. Implicit bias seems very vague and allows people to evade responsibility. I think there's a lot of very explicit bias (in the form of sexist attitudes, discrimination, biased hiring practices, etc) that need to be tackled. The "implicit bias" narrative (that a lot of tech CEOs are a fan of) makes me uncomfortable because it depoliticizes the issue, chalking it up so something more innately human (our biases and mistakes) rather than sexist attitudes and policies.
Falcon 9 rocket rolled out for first dedicated Starlink launch – Spaceflight Now
Glad to see that the one-belt, one road initiative has helped many countries especially in Asia and Africa achieve economical success. China has helped the developing countries greatly.
What exactly do you mean by function composition? If you mean you can't have long chunks of purely imperative code in CL, I'm pretty sure that's not true: CL is multi-paradigm and supports imperative style. I think you might be referring to its S-expression syntax, which is prefix?
Heh, I just built my new blog with zero client side scripting. It's so fast (shameful plug: http://blog.winricklabs.com/)

No real content yet, but there will be regular content about my side projects.
Fantastic blog post! The interactive demos show network effects, including spreading activation, diffusion, and game-of-life style movements.

The real-world examples of epidemiology and city technology expertise are perfect IMHO. Kudos to the author!
I'm not sure about that. There is genuine value created by avoiding the need for a significant fraction of the world's airline pilots to use scarce and expensive simulators all at the same time, and Boeing's claim that they could pull it off would have been just as attractive under socialism. Too many people trusted that claim without verifying it, but wishful thinking is a pretty universal human trait, and I don't think that socialists are immune to it.
Help me provide evidence. I honestly don’t know where to start.

Bayer fell 40% today as verdicts come rolling against Monsanto’s glyphosate and round up. How do you think large scale factory farming Ag will survive without chemical warfare on soil? You can’t sustain that level of hubris without chemical intervention..which we now know is cancer causing and deadly to environment. And. It’s just the tip of the ice berg...

What does all this produce? Corn and soy that goes to feed anyways? Is calorific surplus the same as nutrient availability in diets? HFCS is a by product of corn which is inedible for humans but goes to feed hogs. Which in turn brings about an avalanche of pig poop which has run offs and poisons our water.

I already know that I am digressing. Where do I even begin? Ask me questions. I am full of answers. I don’t know if I can satisfy with ‘evidence’. Ymmv.

Monsanto seems to have made people believe that there are two choices: cancer or starvation. Entire Ag complex is designed around round up ready crops, gmo seeds, secondary food dependent on the primary fodder aka ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’, as it were...an Ag system that is based on go big or perish. Economics state that when you go big, food is cheap. But isn’t there a cost to it? What good is a 500k tractor to a farmer growing on 1-3 hectares(as it is in most of the world)? We are addicted to cheap food. It’s cheap because of economies of scale and certain unpleasant consequences. It’s quantity over quality.
Why not find a project somewhere that truly calls for an SPA? Those are the fun ones.
This does not work with domains with hyphens. It seems to think it's part of the record type or stripping it off.
> At my store, they are pushing to reduce checkout staff by "encouraging" customers to use self-checkout. It hasn't been going well, but this is a retail-wide trend, and cost-cutting pressures are immense.

This infuriates me so much, I started to see if I could game the system. Fruit is the easy part, you fill your bag with the expensive fruit, and select apples or something cheap on the checkout scale. Works better on larger stores, the minimum wage person overseeing 6 self-checkout machines can't watch everything, maybe half the people need help, or the scale borks for some reason.

My local supermarket replaced pre-packaged bread bags, weighted by the employees with a complete alacarte system which is complete shitshow. You pick the bread on one place, do your entire shopping and then have to remember what kind of SKU have you chosen. It's a complete waste of time for everyone, and I'm pretty sure the surrounding traditional bakeries won here, the bread selection has lowered substantially on the supermarket.
I didn't know that. Do you have a reference please?
I just left a consulting shop where we didn't use the latest and greatest.

In some ways, it's sort of a blessing to avoid the javascript fatigue; however, in cases where we worked with clients with strong branding/UX guidelines with React components, it was really frustrating having to rebuild components entirely from scratch.

I think the largest changes are behind us - I think the big shift happened at the end of 2014 when Angular 2 was announced without backwards compatibility. It was also the time when Node had really been thrust forward as the backend language of choice in comparison to Ruby on Rails (from my experience).
Note to those in Canada: although calling a toll-free number is... toll-free... sending an SMS to one may incur you an international (USA) SMS fee per message unfortunately :/

This turned out a big thorn in my side when I, as a Canadian, wanted to make my existing toll-free number hosted with Flowroute then Twilio my primary contact number.

Maybe there's some magic to make the number 'Canadian' such as hosting it with a Canadian provider, but just a heads up that not all toll-free are that when it comes to SMS (even though in this instance you're only likely to try it a couple times) :)
It changes everything. I'll refrain from tying it to happiness and instead just say that it increases the quality of life.
How is a hero different than a murderer? It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
This person has taken the wrong lesson from the story. The actual moral of this story is that the auto industry is too conservative and being a little less conservative allows you to build one of the best cars in the world.

So a few touchscreens have yellow lines. The Tesla touchscreen is still clearly better than any other car's touchscreen and if they'd done it this guy's way they wouldn't have been able to ship it at all because the part simply wasn't available then.
> To identify a set of executives for analysis, we start with a list of male CEOs from the Standard & Poor’s 1500 stock index analyzed by Engelberg, Gao & Parsons (in press). We restrict attention to only male CEOs because of the sexually dimorphic nature of voice pitch (Titze, 1994) and the poor representation of female CEOs among S&P 1500 firms (Bertrand & Hallock, 2001).

> We intersect the Engelberg et al. (in press) observations with the Mayew & Venkatachalam (2012) CEO speech corpus, which is derived from publicly broadcast telephonic earnings conference calls archived in the Thomson Reuters StreetEvents database (www.streetevents.com).

> The median sample CEO is 56 years old, operates a firm with $2.427 billion in assets, and is paid $3.692 million annually.

> A test of mediation using the product of coefficients method for large samples following Preacher & Hayes (2008) confirms firm size mediates the
effects of voice pitch (Z=3.15, p=0.002).

The paper states that a lower voice is perceived (by everyone else) to be a better leader. Sounds reasonable enough, I guess. The statistics then show that the lower the voice, the better the compensation of the CEO and the larger the firm the CEO runs, with a strong correlation. This is where I scratch my head a bit.

A couple of thoughts for why this may be, all guesses, really:

1) Listed companies on the S&P 1500 are mostly very mature and the CEOs may not do much of the value creation. Other people (CTO, COO, CFO, etc) might be doing most of the value creation with the CEO holding the company together. (This is in contrast to many tech companies - Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc - who are strategically involved in the company. It is their strategic directional leadership that they bring in that people trust, rather than how they make you feel when they talk)

2) In mature markets that aren't tech related, innovation is not a strong factor of growth, it's usually intangibles like connections, communication, convincing people, alignment, deals, etc. Having a "leader voice" can have a strong impact to get buy in from everyone, internal and external.

3) There may very well be a physiological link between a lower voice and strong leadership qualities, rather than just the perception of it, who knows? Or people who have a lower voice get innate advantages in leadership due to people trusting them more and them having an easier time because of that, kind of like a flywheel effect.

4) The statistics may be wrong. This doesn't seem to be the case with how they designed it.
From my favourite Usenix paper (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf):

Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad.

If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru.

If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

And:

Threat: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email account

Solution: Magical amulets? Fake your own death, move into a submarine? YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON

(That's perhaps a little too light-hearted humor, considering the youtube link in the post I'm responding to...)
How do you square this with all the major regulatory organization's experts concluding that there is no evidence glyphosate poses a cancer risk to humans?

Organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization, European Commission, Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment have concluded that there is no evidence that glyphosate poses a carcinogenic or genotoxic risk to humans. The EPA has classified glyphosate as "not likely to be carcinogenic to humans." One international scientific organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), affiliated with the WHO, has made claims of carcinogenicity in research reviews; in 2015 the IARC declared glyphosate "probably carcinogenic." [1]

[The IARC] dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate that were at odds with its final conclusion that the chemical probably causes cancer.

Reuters found 10 significant changes that were made between the draft chapter on animal studies and the published version of IARC’s glyphosate assessment. In each case, a negative conclusion about glyphosate leading to tumors was either deleted or replaced with a neutral or positive one. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Cancer

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-who-iarc-glyphosate-speci...
This is aviation standard. Nothing special.
> Your concerns are warranted. However. You are wrong tying the problem to joins. ... It's a matter of determining the cost of the data access strategy

I was using joins as the common example. Sure, there are many other ways of using SQL to shoot yourself in the foot, but most of the issues I've run into seem to come from joins.
If by ethnicity you mean genetics, then no, you can't change that (not yet anyway). But if you mean outward appearance of ethnicity, then yes, there are plenty of ways to adjust it that are widely employed. Everything from skin whitening cream to tanning to bleaching to plastic surgery to whatever Rachel Dolezal did. A lot of this stuff is very widespread in many countries, e.g. it's very common for Asians to get eyelid surgery to look more white.
"47 kilofeet"
If you're playing chess against someone, it would be absurd to ignore the positions of their pieces when deciding your next moves, especially given that the positions of the pieces are open knowledge. Stop trying to make strategic decision making into an illegal or unethical thing. That's absurd.
Lmao, I love this angle (calling himself the Cosmic Engagement Officer and donating to MAPS.) It makes me like Bronner's even more
I develop on Windows, and I like make as a lazy default you can just type in and as long as you maintain the make file, it will build the thing.

It is also a nice document of what you can build and how.

I also like it because Netlify supports it, so you can get it to run make to deploy your site when you push a commit, giving you a lot of control about your CI, while keeping it simple.
I think in general no. Even high quality coal has huge amounts of impurities, and coal in general is hugely variable in quality. Even with scrubbers etc. removing ash etc. you pump all sorts of dangerous emissions as well as the huge amount of CO2.

There exist “high efficiency low emissions” (HELE) coal stations, but that moniker is only true in relation to conventional coal stations. They’re still some of the dirtiest generation we have. From the experience of the ones we have in Australia, they appear to be more unreliable in hot weather than older coal plants too - I believe probably because they would operate at higher temperature/pressures to improve efficiency.
Apparently these Teslas log to the eMMC so much that after a few years the part wears out. The screen goes black and the car falls back into limp mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q
Former NYT columnist and Pulitzer prize winner Chris Hedges now works for RT. Does that mean that RT is credible, or that Hedges has become less credible? Neither. It means that neither Google or the US government should be deciding which news outlets are credible any more I would trust Google to work in partnership with the Russian government to decide who is credible.
The 'Netatmo' home weather stations record CO2 level. Mine shares over wifi. I get around 400ppm with windows open for a while, or 1200ppm with windows closed.

I don't know what the calibration mechanism is, nor the specificity.

It's around $100 on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Netatmo-Weather-Station-for-Smartphon...
yeah i don't really understand this. Like why do you need a whole squad and feds to break down his door with a battering ram for a single "leaked" document. Could have just knocked and said they had a warrant.
People are already getting leg surgeries to adjust height. It doesn't seem worth it to me, and there's lots of potential negative side effects, but this is something that is actually happening.

And I don't even need to explain all the surgeries people do to add or remove fatness.
For those not in the exclusive clique and up on the jargon: EVA = Extra Vehicular Activity.
AR is essentially in beta. There are no consumer-oriented products and the improvements between generations are huge. Much, much too early to say it has failed.
Try control e
Clearly your life is filled with struggles. Without the great StanislavPetrov none of us would be here today, which is why I chose this moniker.
There are plenty of others but these are some that have stood out to me.

SIGGRAPH has a VR Theatre where they show short VR films [1].

EyeJack is a platform for AR art, though you may need to visit an exhibit to see the actual art. [2]

[1] https://s2018.siggraph.org/conference/conference-overview/co...

[2] https://eyejackapp.com
Good question. Ideological axe-grinding leads to predictable arguments in which people have nothing new to say and merely flame each other. That very much destroys the curious spirit, so from an HN point of view—totally different. We moderate all that heavily, since otherwise flamewars would consume the site. If you want to see how heavily, check out how tedious it is: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I don't think you're characterizing this article fairly at all. The quote you cherry-picked earlier made it sound much dumber than it is (I actually objected to that earlier but decided to let it go) and "fundamentalist feminist" seems to me way off base. Are you sure it's just "speculation" that you're upset about? To me it feels more likely to be about the ideological vibes the article could possibly be giving off, or the buttons it could be pushing. I say that without judgment; it's understandable if so; but in that case we're simply not talking about curiosity. I don't get the impression that the author is grinding an axe. She just went down a rabbit hole that surprised her, and dug up a lot of interesting information along the way. Sure it's speculation, but it's an interesting ride. If you don't enjoy that ride, others are not far away.
how long with smartsheet last?
This essay feels like an instant classic. It's a very thoughtful blend of prose and code, in service of teaching some wildly relevant lessons about networks.

One eye opener is the extent that the "Degree" parameter reduces the critical threshold.

> The degree of a node is the number of neighbors it has. Up to this point, we’ve been looking at networks of degree 4. But what happens when we vary this parameter?

And here's the power of this interactive essay, you can try it yourself. It's a toy model but makes a visceral argument. It adds up to the kind of media we dreamed of for the world wide web.

The degree parameter has exploded via social networks, greatly lowering the critical threshold of idea transmission. Our cultural DNA is being revised at a supercritical pace. This piece helps make a little sense of it in a way that static words couldn't.
Uix Kit is not a framework, just a toolbox based on some common libraries. :) Hope you like it!
Approximate Windows equivalent of DTrace is sysinternal process monitor, freeware. Very useful sometimes.
On a macbook. Ah, I found it
I was staring at a picture today (I think it was a screen capture from the Apollo 11 documentary).

It was a view out across the Moon’s horizon and then total darkness. At first I felt this strange sense of dread and emptiness but then reframed the feeling into awe.

I can’t even begin to imagine what that must have felt like to be actually standing there. Or to be in that tiny little shuttle orbiting around the moon at what is essentially the height of an airplane flying across the ocean.
Tepco conducts test to halt water injection into crippled reactor
Glyphosate is almost certainly not a human carcinogen, but, more importantly, glyphosate isn't the topic of this thread. Ag tech is: things like sensor-based control of computer-configurable combine harvesters. These devices generally increase yields for a given input of water, soil, and energy. So, if you're going to begin somewhere, please begin by explaining how those increased yields are a bad thing.

Note that I was specific to crop farming; I chose my words carefully. I'm not interested in debating CAFO meat here; it's not the topic of the thread.
The 4GB iPhone 1 was $499, with contract. The 8GB iPhone 1 was $599, with contact. A few months after launch they lowered the price by $200 and gave store credit to the people that paid the higher price.
NSO wasn't the group that did the WhatsApp hack. They are the software the hacker installs after they exploit has been found.
Links please. You are making a lot of statements without any backing like "are gaining traction" and "have worked". Since you are having to educate us on these basic facts of the thing your excited about, could you go further and provide us good places to learn more?
Russia is one of china's biggest allies. Why would russia push an agenda that 5G, one of china's biggest products via huawei, is harmful to anyone. See how that NY times news story makes no sense.
Maybe you'd like NixOS?