skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no single elected official that has power to fix this. It's a complex web of responsibilities. Government has immense momentum. It's a herculean task for even a majority of elected officials to significantly change its direction. Many times that's exactly what we want. In this case it's working against us.

In that light, it's really amazing that your parents' town accomplished that. Instituting an income tax where there was none before is also drastic, so that must have helped a lot.
Why would humans become extinct? Somewhere on earth there will be a zone suitable for farming. At worst, only plankton and fish survive so some humans survive like Eskimos.
there are no politically correct views in the workplace.
I think this is a very good and very underrated point. I'd like to see some evidence why there's any reason to assume repetitive movement with less stretching is somehow less harmful than repetitive movement with more stretching. I've been typing on the qwerty layout for about twenty-five years at this point, and I'm up to around 110WPM, so it would really take a gigantic amount of evidence for me to be bothered with trying to rewrite all of that muscle memory. There seems to be a tacit assumption that these alternate layouts improve something that qwerty is doing wrong, but as it stands I'm not convinced that premise has any merit.

Still an interesting article, none the less.
Google Ads still dominates though, and if you're doing paid advertising - you're not just shooting yourself in the foot, but you're lopping off a limb - or two. I wish it wasn't the case.

Any non-Google analytics options integrate well with Google Ads, especially for retargeting?
In some rural communities the police can be hours away, if there's even an officer on shift right now. Virtually everyone in those communities has guns and it works out pretty well.
Surprised he didn't mention the Flynn effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

A book I recently read (Range, by David Epstein) seems to draw a connection through some other research that points to modernization and globalization as the drivers of this trend, in the sense that IQ tests measure pure abstract reasoning ability and we now live in a world dominated by abstraction so our brains get used to thinking about all of our experiences abstractly from a younger age. Basically, each successive generation has more practice in thinking about the world abstractly since it is required use to modern technology effectively.

Anyways, this seems to buttress what Chollet is saying about externalized human intelligence. It is difficult to imagine anything resembling a "general" intelligence that isn't attached to a life-form that is already a self-replicating engine of negentropy, bootstrapping solutions to hard problems through some form of non-volatile memory. I would almost go so far as to say that "intelligence" and evolution are inseparable.
Now we absolutely need police. We might have been able to do w/o them for short periods before these riots and demonstrations occurred, but now the police are guaranteed a permanent and prominent position in American politics (until it no longer exists).

Or perhaps we should settle the matter now, distribute working firearms and ammo to every non-felon over the age of 16 (or possibly 12). Either things will heat up and cool rapidly or everyone will suddenly acquire good manners. In the long run the USA can begin a renaissance of political equality and good will for all.
You could see the "fascist" "mob" protesting last month.

Now we see the other side.
Nand2Tetris Hack assembler implemented in Rust
Nextdoor Says It Supports Black Lives Matter. But People Say That’s Not So
Which becomes pretty annoying if you regularly work over remote SSH sessions to large number of hosts where you may not be the only person on a given user.

(You could have some local shorthand to copy over your vimrc and explicitly start vim with a different copy, at which point you'll only have problems with shared tmux/screen sessions)
> It's actually much more because the DSLR companies, for the most part, are technologically-backwards, and don't get things like platforms, APIs, or similar. It's nineties-style closed thinking.

TL;DR: Because that's Japan.
All they're missing is several fake user accounts on the comment section praising the article with fake reviews.
Slightly OT, but I just now realized that I rarely actually use my pinky finger to type (particularly on the right). Left pinky: ctrl/shift (and sometimes but not always "a"), Right pinky: enter and "/".

I usually shift my ring/middle finger around to compensate. If you asked me yesterday if I touch type "correctly" I would have said yes, but apparently I'm pretty sloppy with what fingers go where and my brain fills in the gaps without me realizing it.
Social dynamics are subtle. For example, group SMS doesn’t support contact names. If you add someone to a group SMS, the other people only see a phone number unless they go out of their way to add the new guy to their contact list. Likewise, the new person has to add everyone else to see names. Decades of research in behavioral economics show just how powerful defaults are, so most people probably won’t bother to add names. Without names, the new person will have a more difficult time connecting with the group.

This isn’t stupid. It’s the natural consequences of tech that doesn’t conform to real human behaviors and social norms.
Good to hear. That would be an interesting experiment too -- add a very unique email address and see if or when spam appears.
Correction: If it's free, your users are the product.

And an addition: If you're enterprise and need Google 360, which is very much not free ($100k+/year I believe), not only are you paying - but your customers are still the product!
The Autonomous Astronauts Association (2015)
The story of the Autonomous Astronauts Association, which fought military-corporate control of space through dance parties.
Why Didn't the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy?
Interesting question. I did some research, but couldn't figure this out. I did find a reddit thread where org's performance with larger files is discussed:
https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e9p84n/scaling_org...

I suppose it is best to ask this in emacs-orgmode list.

Re: One Big Text File: About a decade ago I used it daily for everything for about a year or even longer. Strangely, it was actually working remarkably well. I like to think that over time it grows into a nice image of a person's brain. It is very flexible -- loosely structured "dump" where needed, and strictly structured on other places.

I abandoned it in favor of "one thought, one file" type of approaches, just out of curiosity, I guess; I was hoping to create a Zettelkasten That Works For Sure instead. But this never happened.

I still think One Big Text File a great, somewhat forgotten idea. It's easy to add some structure to everyday use with scripting/grep, turning it into a loosely structured database of sorts. I did less of that at the time than I initially imagined myself doing, though.
> If Apple, Tandy, or Commodore sold a computer

I often wonder what the world would be like if Apple still made computers.
I was going to say left but I just checked and it's my right .. like almost exclusively .. for letters on both my left and right hands. My caps lock is mapped to control and I use my left pinky a lot for that...
I've worked on banking software development, and we definitely expect programmers to know nuances of banking.

Perhaps not all the nuances, and many aspects are arbitrary choices and only the spec would reveal what the business unit chose, but there's a lot of domain knowledge required to be productive.

If we need to outsource stuff, that has to be to some outfit that has developers experienced with banking nuances, and often times they are more experienced than internal devs (because they have worked on this parictular tricky corner of banking for multiple different institutions), and if we hire devs from outside the industry, we expect the first 6 months to need a lot of handholding because they don't know the nuances of banking and they can't be productive at all until they learn at least most of them, because no realistic spec will be sufficient for a programmer without a domain knowledge, at least not in the financial domain.
Yes it's theoretically possible. I created an example of linking a table to a scatter plot brush selection. That said, I have never been able to get altair/vega-lite to generate a nicely formatted table to my satisfaction. I mostly end up connecting a simpler altair chart without interactions to a dataframe and hook them together using something like ipywidgets, Panel, or streamlit. It would be really nice though to be able to get the table linked to native altair interactions like selection and brushing.

https://altair-viz.github.io/gallery/scatter_linked_table.ht...
Modern civilization has its roots in the Enligtenment, duh. And it's been generally a good thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/us/historical-study-of-ho...

> New data presented at the conference by a Dutch scholar, Pieter Spierenburg, showed that the homicide rate in Amsterdam, for example, dropped from 47 per 100,000 people in the mid-15th century to 1 to 1.5 per 100,000 in the early 19th century.

> Professor Stone has estimated that the homicide rate in medieval England was on average 10 times that of 20th century England. A study of the university town of Oxford in the 1340's showed an extraordinarily high annual rate of about 110 per 100,000 people. Studies of London in the first half of the 14th century determined a homicide rate of 36 to 52 per 100,000 people per year.

You can thank your local police department, among other institutions, for that dramatic decline in crime rates.
I would buy an Android if it weren’t for the social force behind iMessage blue bubbles and the smoothness of FaceTime.

Green bubbles signal low status. It also makes it more difficult to communicate: no read receipts, no live location, photo/video/audio messages are clunky, worse emojis, no reaction option, and so on.
There are a lot of people in this thread who seem to be very confident and skeptical of the author's position. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to try the exercise he challenges in the article?

Please post your nomination for what’s the least impressive accomplishment that you are very confident cannot be done in the next two years.

We can check back in 2022 and see how we did!
A study out of thin air
I've seen this done by making a fake legend out of a bar chart. As far as I know, there's no way to make an interactive legend in Altair.

Personally I would look into plotly / dash for something with interactivity.
The decisive moment for AI will come when a program can run a corporation better than humans. That's not an unreasonable near-term achievement. A corporation is a system for maximizing a well-defined metric. Maximizing a well-defined metric is what machine learning systems do well.

If a system listened in on all communication within a company, for traffic, sentiment analysis, who responds to whom how fast, and what customers, customer service, and sales are all saying and doing, it would generate more data than a CEO could ever process. Somewhere in there are indicators of what's working and what isn't. That may be the next phase after processing customer data, which has kind of been mined out.

If this starts working, and companies run by algorithms start outperforming ones run by humans, stockholders will put their money into the companies that peform better. The machines will be in charge.

This is perhaps the destiny of the corporation.
Hire an arborists to assess the trees with whatever is remaining; street view images. Also an appraisal based on arborists opinion. Mature trees are very pricey in legal damages. as essentially irreplaceable.

I could never imagine this scenario. But I have a Tree Addendum I had drafted specifically because I don’t want my tenants to even lay a hand on the trees. I’m more worried by negligent tree trimming that kills a tree. But it sets value to each tree too. Something like “$1000 per inch diameter at 18” above ground.” Sorry about this situation you’re in.
And iMessage works wherever I might be.
My understanding is that in different fields different things are called postmodern, and not all of them are in/about art-in-the-usual-narrower-sense-of-the-term .
It can't do that on iOS only software written by Apple gets to do things like that.
Tip, a programmable tooltip on Mac OS X, now supports executing a command
Thanks. Yeah that's not quite what I was hoping for, I was actually thinking something closer like the following:
https://www.m43lenses.com/
Manage Service Bus Queue Messages with Python
Wait a second, I thought the paper’s conclusion was the beans should be cool not warm?
why post anything under your real name ?

for all the lofty scientific & neutral ideals that rational/atheistic/left/liberal people chest-thump, they should be able to judge an idea for its content and not for the person.

but since we know that no one is that scientific, just post views under a pseudonym, unless you plan to run for political office.

if the idea is acceptable, it will be accepted.
One of the most disappointing anecdotes I've read recently.
Zoom: Free users won’t get end-to-end encryption so FBI, police can access calls
JS's built in date formatting/handling is terrible and often do what needs to be one.

MomentJS may be a giant import, but it works an it works really well.
Oh neat. Could use this to start an org-capture.
> it complies with the Blue Book part 4 implementation

I am a huge fan of the Blue Book part 4 which describes the bytecode VM implementation and runtime.
Similarly, I think of it as your point 1 plus no practice.

It’s nearly impossible to prepare for something and get it right when it’s never actually happened. Rockets for example get massive amounts of study and simulations and then still get things wrong.

Yes, sometimes you get lucky, but this is also dealing with human behavior and biology. Less predictable than say, computers.
Random thought: are the satellite trajectories "dense enough" that in the future when ships/people are trying to leave the Earth have to get a delay/launch window and the Starlink satellite(s) may get diverted around the area you're going through.
I bet that was a spellchecker or autocomplete typo.
You can’t expect full commitment from people you may not know too well. The UI/UX benefits outweigh acquaintances, not friends.

Unfortunately, acquaintanceship is a prerequisite to friendship.
the parent said something about problems being solved if there was a standard library, and if perhaps there were a standard library people would be willing to write more code instead of just adding another dependency.

I believe these points

dependencies are carefully considered by users
dependencies try to be dependency-free themselves to assist with the previous point
dependencies solve important domain problems, they are not trivial one-line-functions
dependencies are typically developed and tested by a known team or company, which you trust, not just someone random

would be solved by the parent comment's proposed standard library.
It seems you're overstating the case. When I click through I see causes of death like "heart attack" and "automobile crash". Other people die of those causes as well.

Policing isn't even in the top ten most dangerous jobs. Save the honors for fishermen and lumberjacks.
This seems to be a similar situation to the Bootstrap fallacy where you use the same frameworks every time you make something in a language to make it quick and easy for developers to work on all of your company's projects by just learning one. Using the same familiar libraries is great for reducing the amount of time it'll take to train someone to work on and maintain a large portion of your company's tech.
I’ve never seen people exclude someone with a green bubble from a conversation, but I’ve seen this behavior (use iMessage as a high quality default) in spades.
Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite
That could be it. I'm also a piano player and I think inward finger rolls are overestimated on computer keyboards.

Dvorak also favours hand alternation, which I find appeals to me more. Unfortunately, Dvorak is not well suited to my native tongue (due to differences in letter frequencies) so I ended up learning Colemak instead, which also heavily emphasises inward finger rolls.
> - Yarn helped solve that, but because of its backwards compatibility to node_modules, you could not have different versions sitting side-by-side.

> - Node_modules could have a different version installed vs lock file and no one would know without looking.

> Sadly, Ruby's Bundler has solved this for years [...]

I don't understand your first point. Different projects can use different versions since the modules are installed locally (inside the `node_modules` directory). And nested modules can also have different dependency versions, e.g.:

A
=> depends on B @ 1.0
=> depends on C, and C can depend on B @ 2.0

Regarding your second point, I haven't ever seen that happen in practice and IIUC it's mostly a property of the the fact that `require 'bundler/setup'` checks your dependency versions, and you could implement something similar for JS (e.g. traverse node_modules directories recursively checking if the versions declared in the package.json of dependencies match the ones in your root lockfile).

Since we're on the topic of Ruby and JS, Ruby's module system is probably one of the worst I've ever seen and JS one of the best.

In Ruby, just like in Python, everything in a file is public by default and the only way to make things private, AFAIK, is using Module#private_constant, and that only works for methods/inner classes/things in a class scope.

And, unlike Python's import, require is side-effectful! If you have file a.rb that requires b.rb, and b.rb requires c.rb, everything in c.rb will be visible in a.rb. This is terrible.

JS's module system is one of the best IMO (better than haskell, python, java, etc):

- simple mental model: a file is a module

- everything in a module is private by default, you have to explicitly mark things with `export` to make them public

- You can either qualify imports or explicitly import individual functions, so it's always possible to find out where something is defined by simply looking at a file. Most languages fail here. This is useful for beginners and in places where you don't have an IDE available, like GitHub
The demand in Seattle to defund the police isn't calling to totally remove funding. It's calling for a 50% reduction in the budget.

Just a heads up that "defund the police" isn't actually that different from "we need to rethink the roles where we have police"
Non famous people get Facebook timeouts for memes. The same standards are not being applied in the slightest.
At least, that's we can do. Most of us in HN are blessed with brain, not muscle. We should not help governments or entities who oppress the weak ones, discriminate the minorities, bully one another. However, we should not help the rioters, incite futher hate, provoke the society, destroy small business, etc.

I read news, however I do not forward any of photos, videos from those media to my friends and family members. I wish there's a modern day Gandhi or MLK who promote peace and forgiveness. All of us should be kind to another. We should not help any side to start a civil war, government instability, etc.
Look at Junipers PTX line, they are fairly common in carrier grade networks AFAICT.
Yes and many small message boards on the internet don’t require folks to hold a moderator role.

It doesn’t scale.
I mean, general intelligence exists and is not science fiction. I assume I'm responding to one. What should be the first sign that it's no longer science fiction, and it's acceptable to start making a plan?
Apple set up colocated servers across the world and changed the Facetime protocol significantly to work around a single patent (a patent for direct device to device communication of all things).

I can’t imagine a patent dispute actually stopping them if they were firm on making FT an open standard.
Heads up, ACLU donations are only tax deductible if you donate to the foundation side[1].

[1] https://action.aclu.org/give/make-tax-deductible-gift-aclu-f...
Yes! that's a great use case for Execute.
Parent speaks the truth. I quit because of the garbage referers coming out of Russia that Google would do nothing about.
Why can't it seek just seconds after dropping out from inside?
The UI/UX cost of Android messages isn’t worth it for acquaintances, but unfortunately, acquaintanceship is a prerequisite to friendship.
How do they manage the risk that some other chat system establishes itself? Whatsapp and Wechat had a chance because there was no open standard.

I am convinced that history will repeat itself and Apple will become obsolete again because the PC of chat will eat their Mac Chat lunches.

If their market share depends on peer pressure there will be nothing that sustains them once that pressure is gone.
Not just that, but also after a year of separatist terrorism(/freedom fighting, depending on perspective, of course). The riot(/uprising) was in October 1969, so I question how peaceable Pinker's Canada was at the time:

> In the first six months of 1969, there were 93 bank robberies in Montreal compared to 48 bank robberies in the first six months of 1968.[5] In January and February 1969, the FLQ staged 10 terrorist bombings in Montreal, and between August 1968 and February 1969, there were 75 bombings linked to the FLQ.[5] In February 1969, the FLQ set off bombs at the Montreal Stock Market (injuring 28 people) and at the offices of the Queen's Printer in Montreal.[5] March 1969 saw the outbreak of violent demonstrations as French-Canadians demanded that McGill University, a traditional bastion of Montreal's English-speaking elite, be transformed into a French-language university, leading to counter-demonstrations by English-Canadians to keep McGill an English language university.[4] The leader of the 'Operation McGill Français' protests was ironically a part-time Marxist political science lecturer from Ontario named Stanley Gray who could barely speak French, but who declared that McGill must become a French-language university to end "Anglo-elitism", rallying support from the Quebec separatist movement.[11] Over two weeks of clashes and protests, McGill was reduced to chaos as Quebec separatists stormed into the meetings of the McGill's Senate and administration chanting such slogans as "Révolution! Vive le Québec socialise! Vive le Québec libre!".[11] The climax of the 'Operation McGill Français' protests occurred on the evening of 28 March 1969 when a 9,000-strong group of Quebec separatists led by Gray tried to storm McGill, and clashed with the police who had been asked by McGill to keep Gray's group off the campus.[11] In September 1969, rioting broke out in the St. Leonard district between Italian-Canadians and French-Canadians with differing opinions of the language issue.[4] Italian immigrant parents had kept their children from school to protest the fact that the language of school instruction was now French instead of English, and on 10 September 1969, a group of 1,500 French-Canadian nationalists attempted to march through St. Leonard's Little Italy district to protest the school boycott.[12] Upon arrival, the marchers were attacked by the Italians, leading to a night of violence on the streets.[13]
Building an Azure Static Web App with GraphQL
ipywidgets + altair could mimic that pretty easily I think since with that example you just want to filter with a bunch of checkmarks/radios/dropdowns on a sidebar and then display a chart and table based on those filters.

The place where you start to run into problems is if you want to filter the table based on interactions with the chart. If you're going to use dropdowns and checkboxes to filter the dataframe and the chart then you have a lot of good options.