skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem scientists in academia face is that they can’t do actual research. They spend most of their time doing stuff that doesn’t matter. So probably the biggest leverage you have is to reduce the time they spend doing stuff that doesn’t matter.

The most effective way to do that is to establish an alternative form of institution that focuses only on research (and teaching if you like - teaching is not the problem). A tough challenge. One line of attack would be to contrast your costs with academia’s full economic coating model.

Failing that, here’s some things you can do:

- develop a paper reference system that actually works well. Mendeley is the best there is and it’s (IMO) rubbish. Poorly designed.

- build a typesetting system that’s an alternative to latex but is WYSIWYG. Particularly important outside of CS.

- build a free conference organising / review tool that works. EasyChair is popular and utter garbage.

- build tools to automate the grant writing process. A step by step system to create a grant proposal, tailored to each grant scheme. Yes, this would potentially damage the grant application process. But it doesn’t make any sense anyway, so at least this would free up a few years where academics could churn the required proposals out fast until you were somehow disallowed.

- provide free slide materials, examples, exercises for all the main CS etc topics. Some kind of “piece it together” kit so lecturers could save time making slides and other materials that tick boxes. Diagrams, for instance, would be very useful. Pseudocode too.

NB you probably won’t make any money.
As a developer I know this is bad, but I’m not familiar with accessibility tools. Surely this is a result of the compilation of the TeX source, right? In theory it seems like a text-based format would be more amenable to processing by screen readers and the like.

What can authors do to make their documents more accessible? Distribute the source? Stick to some formatting guidelines?
I'm not sure what you mean by "this discussion", but if you mean ideology in general, HN has had plenty of stories from progressive perspectives on the front page. This is an area where perceptions are particularly unreliable. Each side tends to feel that the site is biased against their side, often quite passionately.

We sometimes turn off flags on stories that are substantive and interesting and where there's hope for a thoughtful discussion. Sometimes those stories have one ideological polarity, sometimes another.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169635
> he believed he had found a way to spot the physical attributes of terrorists

Isn't this literally phrenology, risen from its grave?
I mean, just one big reason Fortnite doesn't feel like a pubg rip is because Fortnite's building/editing mechanic sets it completely apart.

Watch one of the Fortnite world cup matches going on right now [1] and tell me that you're watching a pubg rip :)

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/videos/436713934?t=42m25s
I am often tempted to frame it as, "mostly an adulting problem".
I did some napkin math on ad revenues arpu for the big 5 ad supported tech companies and came to the conclusion that you could cover all of their revenues if you could charge $7-10/month for every user, which is netflix money for a set of services that are far more useful than netflix itself.

So I forsee something like 'setapp/netflix for privacy' that could cover it all for $10/month with enough scale.

Because honestly, paying $10 for each subservice quickly adds up to $100s/month
Oh god yes how did I forget. Bury Matplotlib forever, please, someone, for the love of science.
Author assumes that Chrome is for some reason different entity than Chromium. He also assumes that Google stuff is separate from pure browser code. And he assumes that 3rd party "modders" (let's be honest, chromium based browsers are simply mods) would want to separate Google stuff from the pure browser even if it is possible. None which I suspect is true. And privacy is not the only concern with Google. I'm more concerned with anti-privacy enabling "framework", in a way of inventing and pushing "standards" disregarding everyone else.
The Fall of Perl, the Web’s Most Promising Language (2014)
I’m simply saying it as someone who has been selling software to enterprise for 15 years. Whenever we tell them that our software has a full-featured web client, it earns a lot of points over the competition.
I think the point of the parent is that removing forward to email would only give you a false sense of privacy, as there are several other ways to record received messages.
The understatement of existential climate risk [pdf]
Heavily interactive content in the browser is an edge case for vast majority of mobile users.

Outside of that edge case the best solution is usually to use JS to sprinkle functionality not doing heavy lifting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/learn_arabic/comments/ad26ry/more_l...
How are these people not in jail for kicking a man on the ground?

On top of theft at that.
Qualifying “justice” makes it not justice. Is any student at Oberlin substantially “disadvantaged” or are they playacting a story they tell themselves?

The situation reminds me of the part in Foster-Wallace’s address to Kenyon college where he described his default negative mindset toward folks who drive gas guzzling SUVs. The audience hoots and applauds the viewpoint and Foster-Wallace has to stop them saying no, no, my point is to break out of that mindset. Similarly to the Kenyon crowd, my guess is that the Oberlin crowd didn’t pause a moment to step out of their default mindset and realize that their pursuit of “social justice” drove them to injustice.

Best listened to rather than read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water
Those are all reasonable positions, though I sometimes wonder whether the assumptions underlying them are correct, particularly the foundational assumption that the sales lost aren't worth it compared to the presumably higher-valued sales retained.

May I ask whether you ever collected hard data, at least internally, from trying this multiple ways, perhaps earlier in the growth of your business if you're well established today? Or did you just hire sales people who know that this is "how things are done" in your industry? In my experience working with businesses aiming for enterprise sales who operate this sort of policy, it is almost always the latter, and there are often principal-agent problems as well because of the compensation arrangements for the sales staff.

In my experience working with both smaller businesses or within larger ones, this definitely does cost a lot of money in lost sales sometimes. However, enterprise sales isn't really my field, and I don't have any frame of reference to know how many such failed transactions happen compared to how much extra those same suppliers might be squeezing out of juicier targets.

Edit: As an example of the sort of deal I'm thinking of here, suppose a business with a headcount in the 10K range didn't pursue a SaaS solution to something that they expected to cost on the order of $1M/year, because the decision-makers lost patience with being given the run-around and instead decided to commission an in-house solution. Is that likely to have been a significant loss to a large SaaS business, or is that kind of customer just too small to worry about in the world of enterprise sales?
The 8chan warrant story is still on the 2nd page after a whole day, and wasn't flagged.

And this story is about a $887 million institution pressuring a working-class assault victim to drop charges against their attackers, by using libel and economic sanctions.

So what makes this story 'conservative'? That the victim was white?
Project Nix recipes into Dockerfiles, use the nix hash in the dockerfile name.
... entry level new graduates don't go into interviews making pitches about how they'll impact revenue numbers. Things like that come a decade or more later, after they have learned a whole bunch of stuff about their chosen field and forgotten most of what they thought they knew in school. That's pretty much the whole point of that decade of experience.

I'm always confused by this desire to judge entry level young people as if they are experienced mid career professionals.
The new 2019 Mazda3 has inset the screen and pushed it further back so you can't touch it and it's not even a touchscreen. I've been researching the car and it comes up in every review. The reaction seems pretty split on it so far even though everyone knows why Mazda has done it (less distraction, safer). It's a pretty bold move considering most other cars and touch and even going with bigger Tesla-style screens.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
What if the plebeians don't mind privacy intrusions? What if they are happy to give away their privacy on a platter if they are getting free email, digital maps, traffic stats, cloud drive and a whole lot of other goodies from Google? Never underestimate the power of freebies!
I actually came across your setup when figuring out mine. Thanks for sharing!
>As a frequent LaTeX editor (professional mathematician) -- what are you attempting to accomplish? And what do you mean by a "best practice"?

Well in the simplest case how about something like \bf versus \bfseries versus \textbf?

Google that and you'll find thousands of blog posts, each telling you which is the One True Way™ but not expanding on the why.

Finding actual answers is really hard for latex.
I work on a project called OpenReview (https://openreview.net) that aims to improve scientific peer review by encouraging transparency and research on the peer review process itself. Right now most of our activity is within the machine learning academic community, but we have plans to spread into other areas of computer science and more.

We’re looking for developers, if you’re interested: https://codeforscience.org/jobs?job=OpenReview-Developer

Let me know if you want to learn more and we can find a way to connect.
As I said, we give away the clothes that are not broken.
That’s because CarPlay is essentially a second screen for your phone. Everything runs on the phone, which already has your contacts.
The downvotes are more likely because of the fiery rhetoric in your comment. It's tedious, and there's far too much of it online. People come to HN to be interested, not blared at.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and using this site as intended from now on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Possibly, a plea bargain. Plead guilty to X and we won't charge you with Y. It could also just be leniency towards a first offender, independent of the issue of the protests.
I've used and recommended it until the Go/PostGres rewrite happened with miniflux 2. I've switched to Selfoss since then because it had more costraints when self-hosting (php and no database was easier).
> Sounds like you have been indoctrinated by the same hate

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20192246 and marked it off-topic.
I'll bite - how the hell can it be revanchist in even the worst sorts of strawman? Revanchism is an ideology about reclaiming all territorial losses. The always negative outcome claim is questionable - even considering that it in order for it to be successful by definition they need overwhelming might to reclaim to hold it and it will impair peace for lesser processes. If massively and hopelessly overpowered like say a hypothetical small subset of radicals in the Cherokee Nation proposing to annex large sections of the United States it can pretty safely be declared 'long lost cause'.

That isn't really applicable to anything "Social Justice" - even metaphorically. The closest thing for revauncism would be found in white supremacists and chauvinists who believe they should have complete domain over society by being sole holders of rights or 'rights' over other people.

And even then that is a metaphor confused and stretched so thin that it is akin to thinking all alcohol should be kept far away from national borders for fear that if spilled it could erase the lines because it could do so to ink on a map.
So like X11 windows when using the original drawing API, buttons and other elements are just a window inside a window that receive events when they have focus.
If you take a look at the issues on the repo, a lot of people agree with you. The syntax was not final at all, we need to convince TC39 first before we can start bikeshedding ^^
It Felt to Come Back to Life
Plex is the best. People should use it wherever possible.
>> This ignores of recent work with large language models that do generalize, zero-shot, to novel tasks.

Which work is that?
Because if you use it in a library you immediately create a hard dependency to Webpack. Libraries should be designed to work with any bundlers, or even without a bundler at best.

Besides, I personally don't feel good with Webpack's do-everything-with-import approach. It is straightforward of course, but is ES6 import statement supposed be used like this?
It's very powerful. Syntax isn't as nice as LaTeX (although it is much more consistent, since context is mostly developed by a single team instead of being a mass of extension), but you really have much more control (LaTeX floats are the devil incarnate).
New research explores why many people seek out scary experiences
Target Stores Crippled by Cash Register Computer Failure
Even older cars have cables (as in mechanical linkages) connected to those knobs.
Very true. Twitch streamers have really discovered a profound truth about what it means to be in entertainment.
A quake rip? Not at all.
Unreal games always meant to be tech demos so their primary business objective: licensing out the engine became successful.
The unreal engine was also one of the first engine with proper edit / scripting tools arround it. They already had them in the 90s with unrealed.
Id software with quake did not really have such a license model (apart from some examples)
Even today the idtech engine is not build to just license out to other companies.
Hopefully, this judgment encourages colleges to reassert educating students in critical thinking and thoughtful societal engagement -- not pandering to students, nor indulging faculty/administrators who are doing the opposite of their jobs.
I guess they got a few C&D letters and decided it’s not worth the effort.
That's kind of an indictment of latex in and of itself; the best way to use latex is to not use it?

At that point why not just use .docx?
It would be great if this was on github - individual sites like this disappear and the history is lost.
With acid rain and other hard-to-control phenomena affecting water quality, I would imagine that something pretty powerful would be required.
CVE-2019-12735 vim/neovim: arbitrary command execution
For me running one docker-compose up is a lot less work than running a php stack so no complaints there and it works without any issues since it's release.
The risk is microplastic, which can escape cheap containment several ways (wind, water, etc).

Yes, turning every planet-wide scrap of plastic into combustion byproducts would release a lot of CO2. It's likely it would pale in comparison to fuel though, since the most it can release is the oil embodied in the plastic, plus the energy used in reprocessing.
I don't see where in the article they show it is green washing? They only mention some criticism H&M received, including the ridiculous uproar about the "coolest monkey" T-Shirt. If that is proof for green washing, it is not very convincing.

Fast fashion - it depends on how much gets thrown away at the end of the day? Just because clothing has a heavy toll on the environment, doesn't mean companies producing it are evil. Toll on the environment or not, people need clothes.
Amusingly, Morskoi Boy/Sea Battle was one of the games in the arcade aboard Typhoon class SSBNs. A submarine game, on a submarine.
I'll echo other comments and say that using pandoc to convert from markdown to latex is the best solution I've found.
Actually I've written myself a wrapper over it that extends markdown with asciimath (which lets you input math the way you would in a calculator) and improves support for embedding latex directly.

The project: https://github.com/corollari/caoutchouc

Documentation & Rationale: https://caoutchouc.io/
As in take it home? That's amazing. They had at least one BBC at my middle school in the early/mid 80s, and we once or maybe twice got to play Frak on it. That was it. :/
I need the 'julian date' frequently at work, and got tired of searching a table, or clicking through a site filled with lots of other 'stuff' looking for it, so I created this instead.

My intent was to make it as single-focused, clean, and fast as possible. Clicking on the day number allows you to type in another to get the date for that ordinal date.

Feedback/criticism welcome!
Please do not post ideological flamebait, or any flamebait, to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The long term answer has to be, produce almost no plastic at all, except those cases where it's a genuine necessity such as medical uses.
I've been lucky enough to visit this place twice; it's one of my favorite things to do in Moscow.
As a non native English speaker,I find letter X fascinating.My mother tongue doesn't have it,unless math is involved.For many years I thought that Xena,Xeon or even Xerox were pronounced with 'ks' rather than 'z'....
So you admit that not all second hand clothing is still very desirable?

It is nice to have such initiatives, but I am not yet convinced that they would be enough to make retailers of clothes superfluous.
(I rewrote this comment after the warning)

I think the kind of rationalizing you're doing is not much different from the rationalizing people on the other side of the political spectrum do. I had similar discussions with people from the other side and they argued similarly to you. I think your quote is broadly applicable to both sides as well.
most people would agree that authoritarianism is bad, and it's infections are certainly not bounded by the limits of one political party or one poltical ideology.

so why not peel apart oppressive behavior from social justice and just denounce that by itself? why does it need to be lumped in with social justice?
I wouldn't trust their ability to monitor and properly
neutralize the etch back.

All Chinese plating is crap, always rushed through rinse
and usually contains residuals.

Can't believe no one mentioned this, a ticking time bomb
for corrosion and failure.
So, in other words, they're not paying a premium for privacy, they're paying a premium for the other things you bundle.
Holy crap. This is huge news. Isn’t a cyber attack on critical infrastructure kind of an act of war? I’m not sure how wise this course of action is.
I'm not sure what qualifies this as a "conservative" story. This is a human interest story concerning people who were quite clearly harmed because of this school's actions.

To me, that takes precedence over partisan politics. And it's not like this is Tucker Carlson reporting on Fox News, this from is a pretty respected, left-leaning site.
Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. It's tedious and breaks the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All of chemistry and physics as far as we're aware are described by mathematical rules that can be computed. Things like the strong and weak forces, gravity, etc. all have mathematical descriptions. There may be other, non-computable aspects to physics, but I am not aware of them if so.
> After a lot of arguing and furious paper writing in the late 80s-90s, everyone began working on how to deal with that bias, moving it front and center where it can be handled instead of subtly hiding it in a bunch of numbers and pretending it didn't exist.

And the result of that is... what exactly?
I can replace a resistor pack for $20 with a single Phillips screwdriver. I can even (and have) replaced a transistor when I couldn’t find the part in stock (I had a box of large transistors from an old project). With a screen I am at the mercy of the dealership for what seems to amount to a ‘coolness factor’. Hard pass.
OMG, i will definitely put my hands on any game, arcade or not, that has a ship wheel! it looks so awesome. we have all these forms to explore and yet we have been leaning towards standard forms introduced by consoles for years now... i was reading how gamers were so happy about the new xbox controller announced at E3 recently, and yet as a casual gamer i see the same thing. maybe their latency / responsiveness issues is all that was addressed.
"The whole purpose of Free Speech is to enshrine discourse."

Nicely stated.

A lot of the activism happening right now is constructed a way as to annihilate any of the nuances against the position. So the discourse isn't happening inside the issue, which isn't terribly surprising. But just like Congressional leaders voting for bills they haven't read, certain forces of our cultural debates right now are gaining ground without the presence of much discourse.

I look at people like Mike Monteiro (screaming for Jack's head), the anti-de-platforming crowd decrying certain de-platformings, and the free speech crowd decrying all de-platformings.

Is this the discourse? I'm not sure it is.
We don't know. We just think it likely. We are unaware of counterexamples, or reasons to suspect the existence of counterexamples.
Wood gets eaten quickly if it's wet (and untreated). This seems to be a limit on microbes turning civilization into mush - most of our artefacts aren't wet when used normally.
Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. It's tedious and breaks the site guidelines.

Also, personal attacks, which you crossed into, are not allowed on HN and will get you banned here. Please don't do that again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cool idea. The site is infuriating though. Auto play video bullshit.
Good write up. I manage multiple ongoing projects and my company is growing a team under me. This is a great approach that I will put in my toolbox.
> Is that actually true?

I believe it can be disabled.

> That doesn't sound like it's GDPR compliant.

GDPR compliance hasn't been litigated enough to actually know what the term means, so maybe it's not.

> I'm in Germany, no idea if this is region specific.

It's available everywhere.
> Either de-platforming "works" because it delays sectarian conflict, or it delegitimizes discourse altogether and just accelerates it.

I think de-platforming works because the targeted author is actually just an entrepreneur riding the "hate" wave for profit. If there is no profit to be made, then they have something else better to do. All these guys can host their videos themselves, however without a free audience they can't make money.
Machine learning finds 'sound' words predict psychosis
I'm a little unclear if they launched but didn't see engagement or traction or if the projections didn't match the cost to develop it. Anyone else has a clearer idea?

I'm also curious if this was Patreon + Discovery or a different direction.
Looks like it’s already happening: Figma and Framer X are quickly gaining ground.
I agree with this problematic way of focusing on only a particular kind of artist. It is also my beef with the word 'creator' as used online, which is, designers and graphic artists with a spattering of Youtubers.
I wouldn't have known about them if you hadn't posted. Kind of a bummer Chrome doesn't show alt text on hover any more.
Related from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668085. Article at
https://web.archive.org/web/20100819104026/http://adangerous...

And from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10171304
I'm sorry, you're right I went to far.