skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now I can see again.

Did you suffer some retinal damage? Maybe too much summer time outdoors without sunshades in your youth? ...and can other people actually tolerate being in your home?! I mean, I can tolerate a 2500 lumen bulb closeish, though I'd enjoy things in the 1000 rage. But 4000 would be torture. Anyway, that's a private space so you can have it your way.

But for public spaces there should be a law against "light pollution" or something, banning anything above 2500! Why tf optimize for people with damaged vision while inconveniencing everyone else?!
Also how much time has to pass before the stolen nature becomes immaterial? I would imagine that a majority of artifacts in most history museums fit some definition of the word "stolen". Is this just different because it was stolen within the last century?
A recent poll on the issue shows that while a rising number of people now believe in climate change, they are unwiling to put as much as $10 a month towards solving it. [1]

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/do-most-...
MMT going mainstream is valuable because it's charging the conversation about what we really should be worried about in terms of fiscal policy. And the answer is inflation, if you want to know why we are still adding 200,000 jobs a year 10 years into our economic recovery it's because the Fed was too scared of inflation to signal that long term interest rates would remain low. The Fed should probably raise their target interest rate, especially if we are going to invest in green technology to mitigate climate change.
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Probably, although you could shape the shield not to.

It's still far more complex than just attaching the thing right to the telescope. And glancing starlight leaking in between the shield and the telescope could be a big problem.

I looked it up, the original proposal was actually to use a mobile shield to occlude far away stars for direct planet imaging. I think a similar approach could "fix" JWT but let's hope we never get there
Wow, this puts things in perspective for me. I knew 5nm was small but I didn't really realize how small until we started getting into "I-have-more-dollars-in-my -wallet-than-this-thing-is-atoms-wide" territory.
Immigrants, they get the job done!
is this a fork for protocol/technical reasons or to use a different currency? it wasn't clear from the linked article.
>As if your average person from Oregon is at all similar to your average person from Mississippi.

They are. Speaking as someone that has lived in California, Kentucky, Maryland, Maine, New York and Florida - the average person in each of these states is almost exactly the same.
what is scary about all these TypeScript, PureScript, Elm, etc, is that for variety of reasons, any one of these can just come and go. coffeescript anyone?

i'd tread very carefully and wisely before choosing any one of these paths.

it only makes sense imo if you come from Haskell, Clojure, or some other ML background to have an explicit interest in these languages.
Apple launched a website to prove the App Store isn’t a monopoly
Solipsism. In communication, intent and perception are both factors that affect how the parties view each other. This is what "know your audience" means.

> apparently form for whatever reasons

I already gave you the reason: they aren't communicating professionally. They do have some control over how they project their image to others. After all, they're the one writing the message.
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> She advocates open-source software, and yet despite her best efforts, she’s a closed-source cyborg!

What a hypocrite. If she truly believed in free software, she would tear out her defibrillator and die. /s
For a few years I was bringing my Happy Hacking Keyboard to and from work every day, meaning (at least) 2 plug/unplug pairs per weekday. I'm kind of surprised it still works because it's pretty old.

I eventually got a second one which I leave at the office, but was kind of surprised that years later they hadn't replaced mini with micro. There are some mods people are building to replace the mini port with type-c, and I expect I'll try something like that when it eventually starts to fail.
It is literally advocating killing millions of people "because their lives will be miserable anyway". That's how you get genocides.
Yup. And I remember how quickly all the press panned subsequent attempts, saying BlackBerry overcharged.

This is one big piece of that puzzle. I'd still kill to have a vertical slider for a phone...
yes, we all know what hanlons razor is, thanks. that indication does not matter in the least, nor is it in any way provable. the rich completely ignoring their domination over the poor does not make them less culpable. it's almost worse, in a way.
You're right, biology doesn't determine gender since gender is a useless subjective term based upon unquantifiable mental states, (in (some) cases their might be some neurobiological differences behind it but not in the direction that gender theorists state. IE The existence of biological intersexuals or a defective protein does not show that biological sex itself is an artificial construct or that you can shuttle between the states freely)

What is not subjective is a biological male who identifies as a woman is a biological male no matter how hard he wishes on a magic star. The left should admit that, and the right should admit that people are allowed to feel how they want for themselves as long as they don't force it on others and we can call it a day.
What I'm curious about is if the existing contracts actors sign with movie publishers that give them the rights to use the actors likeness in perpetuity mean they can use them via deepfakes and stop actually paying the actors. I imagine that deepfake technology was not imagined when people agreed to such contracts, and that it will have to be considered in the future. It would now be trivially easy for, say, Sony Pictures to make the next Mission Impossible film by hiring low-cost actors and digitally replacing their features with Tom Cruises without involving him financially at all.
https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/HumanMicrobiome/wiki
The false positive rate has nothing to do with positive examples (hugely counterintuitively). A false positive happens when there's nothing there but you think there is. The rate of these is compared to all incidents where there's nothing there. So it's the fraction of negative instances where you think there's a positive. No actual positives have to come into the picture.
I don’t think I argued that government intervention was needed to resolve the problem.

However, going back to 7th grade civics our government is split into 3 branches to distribute power and provide checks and balances. In this very instance the judicial system (government) is the forum where these facts and bad acts of the government were uncovered and a judge (government employee) reinstated the discharge in 3 of the 4 cases cited.

> Judge Timothy J Kelly of the DC Circuit Court found that the original determination letters had language in them that seemed final, in contrast to the Department of Ed’s claim that it was provisional.
Not true. Pay per minute Internet access did not last that long, by the mid 90s it wasn't even a thing. Image porn on the Internet was a big deal in the 90s, especially in the second half of the decade. Plenty of people had dial up, hence the massive popularity of ICQ and later AIM. And of course email, online gaming, and the dotcom bubble...

And I never said Internet porn. While not free, porn was still cheap and easy to get on cable or satellite, or at video rental stores.
Netlify is serving the content, so at the very least, they (and/or the CDN they store the files on) will have a server-side access log of every visitor. Maybe that's not "tracking" per-se, but, if enough sites are hosted on Netlify, they could correlate the visits.

As far as I know, Netlify doesn't make this data available to users hosting sites on the platform.

My own (perhaps paranoid) theory as to why Netlify is able to provide so much for free is that they're selling the access log data, but I haven't seen any proof of that either, so who knows.

Another theory is that storing all those access logs would be huge and maybe they just store nothing...
The modern inactivated ("killed", if you consider a virus alive) polio vaccine is nearly perfectly safe though (other than one-in-a-million allergic reactions), and can't give you polio. Nobody's used the live vaccine in the US since 2000.

People don't generally get vaccinated against smallpox anymore because the pathogen has been eradicated.
> I wonder if they have a junior person that does/did the writing for them.

Many senior non-technical people have a "technical assistant" or similar, a talented generalist who helps wrangle the thousand different technical things the non-technical person needs to deal with.
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Wow... I suspect this may be out of the range of criteria for submission but it is a astonishing read.

If it's not appropriate here I apologize for submitting it.
Culture, ambition, a very pedigreed group of employees that have had success in previous projects, and a concept that had been tempered by Apple before starting out.
Tell HN: Violent Racial Incitement on Whatsapp and Twitter
South Africa is, in many ways a racial powder keg that has been the victim of a well-documented organised manipulation to create racial animosity using Twitter.

A poorly educated populace makes it prone to fake news. A man of Indian descent may have been framed (
https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/lindsay-saker-service-manager-allegedly-framed-in-k-word-and-black-monkeys-whatsapp-20190531 ) using racially derogatory terms against black people in a WhatsApp message.

After the wrong person (an IT consultant) was initially identified, the "correct" person was found. Both men have had their personal information widely shared, on Twitter by accounts associated with the militant Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), along with threats to "just have a talk". A provincial government minister, Panyaza Lesufi also got involved.

The man's personal information is on Twitter currently. Searching for his name on Facebook doesn't bring up anything. WhatsApp is encrypted of course.

Twitter needs to create a rapid response team to deal with this sort of issue...this man faces the real threat of being killed. If someone from Twitter and WhatsApp reads this, please deal with the issue.
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They have other problems, that's for sure.

But if you need to give Qualcomm money for the 9000 Bold (in house stack, no qualcomm at all, GSM, and sold around the world), because you need to license it to buy the modem for the 9670 Bold (CDMA, sold in select market, and CDMA use was minimal elsewhere), then out of the 99 problems you've got, Qualcomm is one of them.

RIM sold more 9000 than 9670. In its heyday, the GSM stuff is everywhere, but needed to keep the CDMA for NA and a half-hearted attempt to enter China.
Another idea is to make companies liable for data breaches. These may be unintentional, but we have similar laws for unintentional safety problems. If I sell you a hairdryer that explodes, I will be on the hook for that, even if I didn't intend for it to explode. Why shouldn't it be the same for security issues?

If I recall correctly, Bruce Schneier is a proponent of this idea.
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I meant more in the sense of "They have other people write and then send the important email/docs etc" and not the "hey, can you help me write this email".

I've helped several managers over the years write emails and I'm pretty sure they didn't then go tell everyone "Yep, I had help with this email" so I think it be surprising to some folks how often this happens.
If it's cheaper to buy a new mower every year and sell the used one compared with paying someone a salary to do maintenance then which would you choose?
> What is "Miscellaneous"?

It's defined in the report.

"10 percent of the budget total (including taxes) to
cover cost overruns."
When you say "must" with the weight of RFC 2119, you need to consider the "or what?". If you're writing a standard, what force does it carry? Is there a certification? Is it a marketing issue? Will other implementations put the bad implementation on a blocklist? Will they actually fail to interoperate in practice? Or can someone get away with violating the "must"?
They should not be allowed to even collect data about particular user browsing.
> It surely is in some ways.

Yes, I agree.

I'm not convinced, from a system perspective, that disturbing a system by poking its most intimate internal parts, and in an unusual way, means that the disturbance was directly required or a part of the emergence of the system.

I will admit that this perspective is mostly logically pedantic and, perhaps naive, disregards the universal usage of psychedelics throughout human history.

I suppose the question would be, what's the evolutionary advantage to temporarily modifying your brains behavior? Any raw structural changes from the use wouldn't be passed to your offspring, leaving mostly social advantages. One could argue that sensitivity to these compounds could promote these advantages, leading to a natural selection of those with more sensitive, and perhaps necessarily more complicated, brains.

What's that social, or perhaps functional, advantage? Maybe epigenetics could have played a role, along with the occasional tribe saving, trip induced, insight?

I would very much enjoy any facts or ramblings on this topic, it's very interesting.

> have you tried them before?

No, just LSD.
Programming in the built calculator language was worse than hand coding assembly language, due to the tedious input method.

I killed the battery by setting the bailout to a ridiculously high value and forgetting about it overnight.

I still have the calculator, but the memory was cleared at one point. I have been tempted to recreate the Mandelbrot program to show my kids, but I can't bring myself to devote that much of my life to it again.
If it works both directions - almost makes me wonder if there are bacteria that can manipulate our brains (causing picky eating) to get their preferred food and keep themselves in the majority in the gut.

Regulatory capture for bacteria.

I mean, look at what Toxoplasma gondii does to mice...
I also think it has to do with the fact that in order to write in a second language, you have to more-closely monitor what they're writing, because it doesn't come as natural.

I don't know any second languages, but I suspect that in order to communicate with the native-speakers of that language, you have to be a lot more deliberate about it.
In my experience, when Google searches are better than DDG (which is not always), it's because the results are customized to your Google account and search history. StartPage generally gives me worse results than DDG, despite using Google as a backend.
> I don't care if a CPU is running at 80% consuming more electricity when I could work for a week and make it do the same job at idle. It's an inefficient use of my time. That same week's worth of effort could be spent delivering more value than the $10k server + $500/year operating cost. (I'm paid less than that, but I deliver more value to my company than my paycheck.) Also, risk. If it works now, it may not after I spend a week mucking with it.

That attitude is perfectly fine and reasonable until people start applying it to user-facing software. That's how you get software that wastes millions of user hours and immense amounts of energy just so some programmer could "deliver more value" and, sadly, that applies to an alarming proportion of modern software.
Can't edit this anymore.

pick-status-files = "!f() { git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0to git "$@"; }; f"

can just be:

pick-status-files = !git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0t git

I'd recently converted it from a standalone script so I just converted it verbatim into a function.
I see Pentaho Kettle on the list and as a user I wouldn't recommend it for large jobs unless you have plenty of time. In my experience row processing speeds of hundreds per second are typical and thousands of rows per second are rare. Loading tens of millions of rows is an exercise in patience.
For sensitive communications within a organization, generally it's implied that the contents are secret and shouldn't be disclosed.

In this case, the communications aren't sensitive (not even a "keep this on the down low" caveat), and the recipients of the email generally aren't in the organization (it was sent to "a few of our other authors", using the royal "our").
That's like saying all of the US's problem is Trump.

Reality is often a bit more nuanced than that.

Patent licensing fees were a big part of the equation, which led to inability to lower costs to compete.
Actually there is some vision science behind this phenomenon. Your fovea is what you use to focus on things and it's got lots of cone cells that are good at picking up colors and specific details but are not so good at picking up motion. The rest of your eye though has tons of rod cells that effectively see just black and white, but are really good at doing motion detection (mainly to recognize predators and prey in your peripheral vision). So instead of trying to use your fovea to find the plane (which it really sucks at doing), you instead keep your eye moving which exposes much more of the scene to rod cells and let their natural motion detection abilities go to work.
Funny, I remember a blog post way back when about how Christmas is ritual emotional blackmail, a holiday which rather clearly declares that there is no existential value outside of the celebration of "family", inadvertently (or not) taking aim at both people with extremely problematic relationships to their childhoods (abuse) as well as people who either have chosen not to be coupled to one person for the rest of their life in order to find meaning or who have issue building intimate, vulnerable connections for one reason or another.
I think that they're running webserver on localhost and they are connecting to it from their website opened in browser, probably for some integration.
How is it a flamebait?

If you create and pass toothless legislation that can be nullified by agreeing to a private contractual agreement that overrules said legislation, it doesn't serve anything but a facade to mislead those it purports to protect. Intent is of course always questionable and unknowable but if the trend is passing legislation with deceitful naming conventions and summaries that confuse the average citizen, it's shameful.

There are cases where private contracts have been ruled invalid when they step deeply on constitutional rights, but even those are typically the exception, not the rule, and require time, money, and risk to pursue litigation on behalf of the individual which not all are inclined or even capable of pursing.
Hopefully carefully considered and well-designed technology will prevail. In this industry we are often too eager to endorse the first-mover as the standard.
Most of your comment is spot on, I thought I'd just nit-pick a bit. In America, it's generally only the rich that have the luxury of walking to work; the rich can afford to live where it's convenient. The poor live where it's cheap, which is rarely close to where they work.
and Gatsby... now you need to maintain this. It’s much better to use something simple like Jekyll. You don’t need all these fancy stuff like GraphQl, SCSS, React etc. And Jekyll can be served directly from Github.
Biotech in general seems like a good fit.
Also, there were some patent infringement claims that didn't last long, and those are the only reason the Federal Circuit ever got involved rather than the appeal going to the Ninth Circuit. So far, the only "precedent" established by this case is that copyright trolls should always include at least a token patent claim so that they can appeal to the more IP-friendly Federal Circuit.
> It was not intended to be shared on Twitter.

That's not how the internet works.
One thing I’m always amazed with - and it’s partly due to my lack of understanding of physics at this scale - is that when a processor with components on this scale is dropped a few feet, they aren’t reduced to smithereens. It’s hard for me to contemplate that whatever is holding these few atoms together is so resilient.
To add to this, you can't just run 5+ tests. You have to run wholly independent ones.
Second that for sauerkraut and basically any pickled food.

For probiotic foods to have any meaningful effect, though, make sure your gut is healthy first. Probiotics foods are good for one type of bacteria but you also need to neutralise the bad types. Stop eating sugars, saturated fats etc. Your stomach is an ecosystem that will suffer any changes quite badly at first, but will thank you in the long term.
It's encouraging to see Plaid making this level of effort to be accurate. It seems like it could be a viable alternative to Mint using something like https://github.com/yyx990803/build-your-own-mint (written by the author of Vue.js).

It's scary to think what would happen if one of these services (Mint, Personal Capital, Plaid) had a backend data breach. If they can log in to your financial sites, a breach would mean the attacker would be able to as well.
> It is with a larger organisation that writing becomes important for messages to reach a wider group of people.

I'm not able to fully agree. An engineer is more likely to write text that reaches a customer in its original form in a tiny startup or consulting firm than in a big organization.

The larger the company, the more of a cog you are with specialized tasks. Writing? That's a documentation person; just give them a rough draft capturing all the info. Customers typically talk to customer support, not to you. Customer support people have to write well, to be sure.

If the engineer started in a small organization which grew, but that engineer's responsibilities grew in proportion also, then that is apples and oranges. You have to compare how much writing is required in comparable roles.
Really appreciate your feedback. Let me pass it along to the team. I agree that we could do a better job of documenting when queries are reinvoked depending on what options and variables are set.

For skip, the behavior with refetchQueries sounds intentional since the refetching happens within the Mutation component. I don't think we pass information about whether the skip prop is set on the Query component to the refetchQueries array (https://github.com/apollographql/react-apollo/blob/master/sr...).
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What about the placebo effect? They've done studies where the patients knew that they were taking placebos, but still saw improvements...
Isn't your argument that `def full_name` is copyrightable, though? Why not the rest, then?
The solution was already known decades ago. Rene Magritte illustrated it well with his painting 'The Treachery of Images.' You've probably seen it. It's the one with the image of a pipe with the phrase, in French, below it saying "This is not a pipe."

Images are not reality, and society has yet to grasp that distinction despite the pervasiveness of images and how long they've been around. No amount of effort will ever make images into reality, nor reality as harmless as images. People do wish for, and maybe not unreasonably so, the ability to trust their eyes and initial perceptions. They want the picture they see on a screen and perform significant acts of interpretation upon to reach some belief that it represents something that happened in reality to be proven correct. But it almost never is. The difficulty of communicating with images is just as large as communication with language, it's just not acknowledged when images are involved.