skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Distilling' I think is the wrong word. They describe a person/event/situation from their highly ideological position. It's high-quality writing, but I stopped reading it for this reason.

Edit: from 'AllSides' analysis [1] "Vox's Explainers provide only one side of an issue, making it seem as if the information provided is all readers need to know, when in reality, Right-leaning individuals would likely include other facts or make different points about the topic. This prevents readers from getting a holistic understanding of the highlighted issues."

Which I find to be true. The most interesting thing is they are literally trying to 'explain' something, whilst pursuing their explanations in an obviously biased manner, ignoring information and viewpoints which might contradict their view. Which is to say ... it's the 'opposite' of explaining.

I don't have a problem with the publication, it's well written, but I question the ethics of telling people they are 'explaining' or 'distilling' the news when that's clearly not happening.

[1]https://www.allsides.com/news-source/vox-news-media-bias
I suggest people reading VOX also read articles on the same subject matter from other sources as well. Its easy to explain when you control what is put out and don't enable comments.

Same with John Oliver show. Both have value but take their explanations with a grain or two of salt.
As I understand it, they are using 300-series stainless steel instead of carbon composites. Which relates to some novel techniques in manufacturing parts from stainless [1]. But they don't have a lighter stainless steel, which mostly doesn't make much sense because any steel is basically iron in terms of weight--plus or minus depending upon the additives. Some steels are lighter or heavier than others but within a relatively narrow range.

[1] https://everydayastronaut.com/stainless-steel-starship/
What I don't understand is why I have directories in Mozilla for every website that I have ever visited.
These are under /{user}/.mozilla/seamonkey/{profile_name}.default/storage/default/
Inside this structure is a database.
Local Storage is unacceptable. I have my security setting buttoned down.
"Always clear my private data when I close Seamonkey" is set and includes all settings.
How is a site by site sqlite database file different than cookies. To me it seems worse. At least delete the files when I close the browser.

I have become dis-illusioned with the Mozilla project.
oh, actually it was my fault. I have an air charger and a pro charger, and it turns out they're not interchangeable. The pro charger is, like, 30% bigger, and the laptop battery will not discharge while I'm using that one.

My laptop is one of the older magsafe ones, so the people talking about USB-C might be a YMMV kind of thing.
Don't actually see any one from the National Cooperative Business Association or a director from a coop background.

I hope they are not going down again the route of limiting it to purely American style non profits - which in the past would have excluded the red cross and people like JWZ
oh man. nothing you have said make any kind of sense.

if they have yen-denominated debt, then they have added currency risk

if it is 1% of their cash position, they can just use some cash and buy yens and have those yens available.

if they have hedged the bond currency risk, then they might as well have hedged it after buying yens in the open market

if it's 1% interest, it is still probably more than the interest they earn on their cash position.

just saying...

(MAYBE, maybe, its a tax issue)
This segment repeating thing.

I see it on news sites all the time, so much so that I am starting to think it's done on purpose, but I can't imagine it does good things for SEO, there must be a penalty for repeat content (I would think)?

Maybe it's just sloppy copy/pasting...
Neapolitan pizza is great when made well with great ingredients. That being said, I've also had some pretty bad Neapolitan pizza, and for the most part prefer neo-Neapolitan or New York pizza styles.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Un-Bury-a-Fig-Tree/
Some of the worst offenders are 16x9 monitors. Great Apple did not follow that strange fad, and stuck with 16x10.
You didn't look very closely at the website and just jumped to conclusions, didn't you?

They rank all the ones you mentioned as "Super creepy".
What one night of psychosis felt like to a young psychologist
That's an interesting and depressing read. I also noticed that layoffs.fyi has listed the names and contact details for the folks who got laid off. Do you know if this opted-in by them?
A few minutes with HN Search gave me these threads about Amazon warehouse workers. I'm sure there have been others.

I do not mean this as a dismissal of the issue. It's an important issue that workers be treated fairly. The question I'm talking about is much smaller and narrower: what do we do on Hacker News with MOTs (major ongoing topics) like this one? They will dominate the site entirely if allowed to (along with indignation-inducing posts generally). We can't simply let them go unmoderated—that would turn HN into a completely different kind of site, and not the kind that people currently come here for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22770092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22763057

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22738592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22733938

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22647605

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22597200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21939451
> Are you using the smaller Macbook-vanilla charger or something?

Yes, that's exactly what the situation was. I was just trying to confirm the phenomenon of "battery can discharge if the AC adapter is temporarily insufficient"- but the core problem was my fault for sure.
The most common model that we are putting in front of FDA several times per week for many companies is the AUROC model with minimum FDA requirements for specificity and sensitivity. I have some concern that the commentators on this article aren't actually aware of how many of these ML based software packages are actually being cleared by FDA at the moment through the DeNovo and 510k processes.
I think this is a far better idea than recycling.

Ok, maybe not the cat house one, which only applies to a few people, but the book/magazine holder, for example, is something everyone could use.

I think more companies should look at making packaging that is functional in itself, so it doesn’t get thrown away.
I am not sure if the comment to which you are replying has since been edited, but the first tweet is a comparison of a Vox article from February, advising against buying face masks, next to a tweet by Vox's founder, saying he ordered his in February when they were available. I agree that that is not a reasonable comparison because the article was not written by the founder, but your commentary does not reflect the essence of (current) first tweet.
Prepper is sometimes used as a pejorative, but my goal is to document building a modern home under ground, step-by-step, including everything required to keep local governments happy. I believe that all homes should be under ground when feasible. It is the optimal path to a sustainable carbon neutral, energy efficient home while maximizing the surface area for garden space and minimizing eye-sores. This would be especially useful for people that live in areas of extreme heat, extreme cold, tornado's, hurricanes, flooding (if done right). If you are curious, there are literally thousands of videos on youtube of folks that have built such homes and they are very nice on the inside. Some people get fancy with tubes that bring in natural sunlight. The temperature under ground is about 50-54 degrees F all year, so heating and cooling is very easy. A rocket mass heater combined with a large stone heat bank can warm up an underground home in 30 minutes and keep it warm for days afterwards.

This isn't a new concept at all. It just happens that storage containers are very sturdy and can handle large amounts of concrete pressure. There are companies that sell / build these as fallout shelters, but they charge a lot and do not design them as full time homes. I am not going to link to the shelter companies, as most of them are shams.
You are not going to get SS with the strength/weight of carbon fiber. Just no way. SpaceX is using SS for its favorable thermal properties that CF doesn't have.
From their commitments:

> Differentiate the dot-org domain as representative of not-for-profit, public-benefit, and charitable purposes, distinct from the intended purposes of other domains.

Does that mean we won't be able to register .org for personal website/blogs?
To a normal internet user, they make it look like they endorse the product.

The 'meets our minimum security standards' seal is still next to the product.
>‘making a plausible guess as to what the image would look like’

people bring this up all the time as hot-takes in these areas. it's conditional inference. it's no more disingenuous than linear regression.
I'm talking about the "creepiness rating". It seems like it might be based on what other people have voted.
> mine uses PPC, which hasn't been in a desktop in quite some time

Raptor sells desktops with IBM POWER9 CPUs – https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html – they are expensive, and the same amount of money would buy you a much more powerful x86 system, but they exist.
> With all due respect, if you defend a position you don't even agree with (or where you can't/won't even point to a single piece of evidence) makes for a very unfruitful kind of debate.

> I mean, for every fringe position you can find some crank that "supports" it with some badly designed study, but strong claims (e.g. contradicting majority scientific opinion) require strong evidence not just "there are studies" (without pointing to any such study; how should one even refute this?).

With all due respect, you are demonstrating a reading comprehension level of a 10 year-old. You have not even one time responded to my claims.
Just in case someone doesn't get the parent post's quote, it's a riff off of a famous George Orwell quote, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face, forever.
This team knows how to execute. Great stuff.
Yea, not very scientific. Seems like ultrasonic tests would be good here. I think they do something similar to check welds on ships.
The UI is quite bizarre. The "not creepy" face changes based on scroll position, not what you point at. It's unclear which products it's even referring to.

I don't understand why they didn't display an ordinary table with checkboxes for each security feature.
I have nothing against the people working at AirBnB and I wish them all the best of luck, but I genuinely hope that the AirBnB business model will get heavily regulated and controlled.

I have heard plenty of horror stories from my hometown about the negative impact of AirBnB on the overall quality life for residents. It was proven [1], that number of AirBnB listings in a city has obviously negative impact on the rents and the price of housing [2] in a given city. All of us pay every month a premium for the success of AirBnB.

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-when-airbnb-listings-in-a-c...

[2] https://www.epi.org/publication/the-economic-costs-and-benef...

Edit: Formatting & grammar fixes
Great read! Curios to learn if you have you considered TCO of such a hosted solution vs. a tool like Apache Pulsar? Has async requests, combines Firehose, Lambda functions on events and (if Presto is an option) even SQL all in one [1]. I am not affiliated with the Pulsar project, generally curious if a comparison was made by OP or others and how it might look like.

[1] https://corp.narvar.com/blog/why-we-moved-to-apache-pulsar
To you, who may be a normal internet user, it makes it seem like they endorse the product. I didn't see that at all. (Plus, a "normal internet user" has no idea how Mozilla makes money.)
Gimp is a great example. If you look up screenshots from the late 90s of gimp 1.0 you think

"Hey wow, that looks pretty great! I know where the buttons are, I can quickly scan them and it's clear what they do! It isn't a grey on grey tiny soup, they are distinct and clear, this is great. When is this version shipping? It fixes everything!"

Apparently almost everyone agrees but somehow we're still going the wrong way, what's going on here? Why aren't we in control of this?
>> distribute directly to those in need or allow

I'm not sure what you're complaining about then. This is exactly what those federal agents attempted to do (and chose not to do). Are you saying it'd be preferable if these masks were seized by the Feds and sent to e.g. New York?

>> institute price controls

That's a very good way to ensure those masks go to other buyers. I'm just not sure that's what you were aiming for.
Also, the "creepy-ness" face only works with JavaScript enabled... I scrolled down the page and thought all these devices were "Not creepy!" because the face was smiling at me. It was only when seeing Ring Doorbell endorsed by Mozilla as "not creepy" did I twig that something was wrong.
Is there anything actually in that database?
"Robota" is still in regular use in modern Czech. And when R.U.R. was written (1920) the days of serfdom were pretty far in the past for Czechs (abolished in 1848).
False, unemployment numbers include part-time and fixed-term contracts, and they've only gone up 42k compared to last year[1]. Part-time and fixed-term contracts are covered under the French partial furlough reimbursement plan.

[1] https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-h...
A step-by-step guide to rotating a 3D cube with three.js
The real problem is doing ad hoc SQL string concatenation. In the situations you point out, one could (and should) write a simple formatting library that makes it easy to join string literals (the operators) with dynamic data, the same way one would write a basic prepare wrapper around a SQL driver that lacked prepared statements--a simple (and proper--not regex hack) format string parser that quotes and concatenates its arguments. Doing this ensures you'll end up structuring your code for easier auditing of code and data admixtures--there should literally be a single line in the entire code base calling the abominable "escape" routine for quoting and escaping special characters. Ironically, this is the type of thing that's really trivial in C because it's so simple to write a small state machine (while + switch loop, with a variable for escape state) for parsing the format string and building a new string character by character.
> where he can draw a racecar (2D) and then be able to drive the car in the game

If your nephew just would draw outlined 2D car side view, then its would be easy to convert it to 3D by extruding and in one two clicks export to supported format for game.

Just two apps needed: Inkscape + Blender

P.S.: If your nephew no need to play 3D game and top-view racing game (such as DustRacing2D[0]) is enough, possibly only Inkscape would be needed to draw top view of racingcar for game.

[0] https://github.com/juzzlin/DustRacing2D
Having built a glass/kevlar/epoxy kayak, it's a little mind blowing to read about people building a supersonic airplane, using similar (albeit far^N more precise) techniques.
Yeah, the UI isn't great. The fact the face got out of your way and animated made its changes non-obvious.
Have a look at the Stanford Machine Learning Group projects [1]. What most articles miss in my opinion is that AI progress heavily depends in the data being available and that‘s where there are huge opportunities in the future.

[1] https://stanfordmlgroup.github.io/
This is a good resource, but the presentation needs work. The big emoji smiley face on top implies that all the products listed below are "good," but you have to actually click through on the product to see the actual rating (like Amazon's Ring Doorbell is rated by users as "Super Creepy").

The explanation of their Minimum Security Standards is pretty helpful and reasonable though: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/about/m...

This reminds me of Mozilla's Observatory project (https://observatory.mozilla.org/) in a more consumer-focused package. I just wish they'd make it less confusing.
That is just nonsense. You don’t adjust for demographic bias in a sample by conditioning on a second parameter. There’s no universe in which underweighting the underweighted group makes any sense at all. Moreover, there isn any support for the idea that “bored white women” are more or less likely to get tested for symptomatic illness than anyone else.

Your entire argument boils down to “I don’t like the implications of their adjustment, and this other one would have produced results more consistent with my theories.”
I laughed out loud when he said this. I take for granted how much gambling knowledge I have (especially since I generally think gambling is stupid), but I thought everyone knew about Monte Carlo.

I'm going to have to look up Las Vegas algorithms though, this is the first I've heard of them. Course, it's been a while since I've broadly looked at the current state of probabilistic algorithms. Makes me think it might be time to step back and look at some more general theory, especially since some recent DSP work led me to look into particle filters in an attempt to estimate a pair of rotating phasors.
Dogs and cats only work for us because we're already so familiar with those.
> Zoom has lots of issues, but the pile-on is just dumb. Everything has issues.

Why is reacting to known security vulnerabilities in the software you distribute so controversial? It's not rocket science to keep your openssl dependency up to date. I agree that there will always be unknown vulnerabilities that they introduce themselves, but if they knowingly ignore public vulnerabilities it's just negligence imho.
" we do have the ability to synthesize billions of base pairs"
This is a valid point. We don't have the technology yet. There was once an SBIR opening for long DNA synthesis but I did not keep track of it. But, given we have the technology it still would not be enough. To slowly make an elephant a mammoth. Yes. Maybe. But making a Tyrannosaurus Rex from scratch is tricky, you also need cells, mitochondria, DNA methylation etc.
You are using seamonkey, which is governed by a separate legal entity.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/association/
Sounds like you have taken this pretty far, do you have any example outputs? The only one I found via your website was a PDF with a low res image with no context.
Reminds me of the Apollo parachute packers, highly manual job with specialized human-only techniques.
Other way around Mozilla is endorsing google home as 5/5 "Overall Security Rating". Users going to this site have rated google home as creepy. Mozilla is not the one saying it's creepy they are giving it the 5/5.
I see your point, and I personally enjoy most posts that are not political and satisfy my intellectual curiosity. Maybe the middle ground is articles such as these that explore new and interesting topics (internet organized labor action) while delivering information that advances the rights of the vast majority of human beings on planet Earth (workers).
Problem is, would that even help? What I want is what Gnome 2 already was. Their changes indicate they themselves don't want that anymore. Any attempts at voicing my concerns are met with disdain. What more can I even do as a developer?
"Actual infinity" is merely an abstraction, not unlike many others. It is very useful. Abstract thinking is part of what separates humans from (other) animals.
> That is just absolutely not true. Hence it is an unsupportable claim. At least for the US, the CDC tracks every known case, and it is the unvaccinated that get the measles: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html

That's nice. Now go present it to someone that is having a discussion about that. My discussion above is regarding calling people names instead of presenting evidence.

A better use of your time time might be to take a remedial reading comprehension course.
OpenAI Puts CV Models Under Their Microscope – Synced
Yep--just email us at hello@zoomerbackgrounds.com!
Well, correct me if I am wrong, but I would assume that it takes months of discussions and negotiations to get celebrities to do a training video in the exact format you want. You need directors, lighting, sound and then video editors to cut and place your timers etc (as seen on the app). And then no celebrity comes out willingly saying I want to do this. You have financial and legal discussions and what not. So, I really disagree with you saying that they did this in a matter of weeks. I do agree that the timing to release these couldn't have been any better.
There was a time (roughly between 1982 and 1993) when very few could sit down in front of a GUI. I do feel like I am returning to that time. Here are some interfaces I could do without, except that I can't:

→ The command line. In 2020, I need to do a lot of things at a command line because there is no other way. For example, starting and stopping sshd needs to be a checkbox.

→ Tabs. Tabs. and more layers of Tabs: boot tabs, workspace tabs: work-spaces/virtual-machines/containers/emulators, Apps ⌘+Tab, Windows ⌘+~, the sad return of "Multiple Document Interface" in the form of tabs and hierarchies of tabs within those tabs, tabs within the page and hierarchies of tabs within those tabs, Views within the page with tabs within those views and hierarchies of tabs within those tabs, keep going recurring tabs possibly forever.

→ You deserve better than this: window snapping. And so-called "tiled" window managers which are little more than poor versions of 1980's window splitting.

→ Right clicking and yet another menu/sub-menus pops up of things I don't want.

→ JavaScript. Advertising. "Block pop up windows" has been enabled by default for a long time, but what about blocking pop ups within a page? An ad blocker for now, I guess.

→ The hamburger menu. Or for that matter, any menu with sub-menus and any menu with more than 8 to 9 menu items.

Here are some interfaces that have improved:

→ No modes.

→ The ability to go full screen when needed without compromise. And, being able to, fairly easily, get out of full screen.

→ UTF-8

→ more guides: the translucent lines or boxes that help align UI elements in flexible ways

What is missing:

→ pop ups/menus used extremely sparingly.

→ Tools that float, in the sidelines — not on top of content, only in the context of when you need them. For examples, see game interfaces, or excellent graphics applications.

→ What you deserve is "Zoom to fit" which when done well is great.
> the thing they want a lot is the 5th button from the left

I agree it's normal and expected that people get used to buttons being in certain places, and moving them around too often is bad usability.

That said, the fact some of my elderly relatives use and understand technology this way, by memorizing how many centimeters from the edge of the screen they should look for a button, makes life needlessly tough for them.

They'd be better off understanding what a button is conceptually, what forms it comes in (e.g. standard button vs. underlined link with no outline, etc), and how buttons might be grouped.

I know it's a lot to ask of elderly users, but it pays dividends.

After many years of Q&A with me, my mom understands her iPad conceptually and as a result gets much more from it than my aunt does, who only understands procedurally that if she presses her finger on 'the button in the corner' then 'x' should happen.

If there is no button in the corner, my aunt is lost.