skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) higgs was confirmed, proven rather than discovered. It wasnt new physics.

(2) Hubble is dieing. It will not last forever but still makes new discoveries, new science, regularly. A replacement is needed. And the JWST is a totally different device, not just bigger. We probably need both the JWST and a new Hubble.
The intent and nature of the article could be important; and where it exists on various spectrums including newsworthiness, public importance, accuracy, information content.

It's also possible that the article - even if hardly read today - could become relevant in future in ways that we can't currently understand.

It could be argued that deleting the blog was an attempt to influence or close down aspects of the yet-unpublished article and reporting process. In other ways it may have actually added additional context.
i can't deal with the fact that i'm okay while so many elsewhere aren't. i've donated a considerable amount of money and still i feel like it's not enough and that i should change course. i've chosen the coming election (in the us) as a deadline for making this decision.
How does this method avoid the moderators implicit bias? Unless we get actual sitting judges how can these people be neutral and not impose their bias on what light is?
Thanks for asking and hope you are doing well! I unfortunately got dumped by a girl I was dating, lost my job and a (non-nuclear) family member while living in Manhattan, NYC. I thought I was holding up okay but once my gym shut down and social events shut down (before later transitioning to videoconference) my mental state and diet declined fast. The lack of human contact was mitigated to an extent by virtual social events but i feel exhausted by them after a short while. All but a couple people I know my age (mid 20s) are still in the city. Since my landlord offered no help and my lease is up, I’ll be contributing to my building’s overwhelming vacancies next week when I move back in with my folks out West.
Think of email - there's Postfix, Sendmail, Exchange, Dovecot, Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, Outlook, TheBat and many more, and nobody died over it.

Matrix should aim at becoming the email of IM and video calls, by being somewhat less obscure than XMPP. Skype and Telegram should die like Microsoft Mail and Compuserve.
I think "AutoFill" first appeared in Excel 4 (1992), and was extended in Excel 5.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=imoPAQAAMAAJ&q=excel+4.0...

I've found searching the web for things like "when was the fill handle introduced" or "who invented the fill handle" or "what's the history of the fill handle" gives hopeless results.
> I wish more people would genuinely listen to those they disagree with.

I had a bit of this discussion on HN not long ago. I love to debate and hear ideas from those I disagree with. But, that's not what people are often doing today. They are using your statement to appeal to others to listen and accept their clearly racist ideas or provable wrong, anti-science ideas.

IMO, it's intellectually dishonest and a debate I have a hard time continuing.
Realize their children will have shed most of the traits you find objectionable (assuming those are Indian immigrants to the West).
I support good journalism when I can, but I wish the profession as a whole would stop taking so much damnable pride. It's clearly edged over into widespread hubris.

I mean no insult to you personally, but I think the worse a journalist is the less money there is to pay them with. Pride is still free though. I'd like to see journalists practice some professional humility.
I believe strongly in continuing education. I have interests in literature, philosophy, science, math, computing. I study and take notes differently depending on my purpose and goals.

My tech research mostly collects snippets of information. Not terribly worried about attribution of any given phrase, fact or passage as paraphrase or quote from the author
(though I am always careful to note the source, mostly so I can find it again ;)

For academic and thought research I am extremely careful. I take notes, riff on what I read [1], and take care to quote accurately.

Throughout all of this productivity, my reading is surprisingly the same. I filter every text with a narrow set of categories [2], and if it doesn't fit into one of these categories, then the text should be quoted (see?) or I'm not interested in the text (yet).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23476470

[2]: Marginalia: Sign-posting a text
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/139g4uFXFCL1ZYrcWKTShbPsw...
Plastics is an example when market economy fails. Plastics is to cheap to buy and manufacture so it’s found everywhere. Ie plastics is an example of tradegedy of the commons where to purchaser of plastics benefits but everyone else sees a loss of the environment.

Trying to explain we need to develop an economic model better than market economy or else earth will become a big waste dump. Ie we need to prize the waste.

Tragedy of the commons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_common

Environmental economics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics
Github login is broken
You have to pretend using the app (you get a download popup for a broken link with whatever non-existent protocol) and only after that, on the same page, appears a link that says something like "app doesn't work? try to join from your browser".

Or at least that's how it worked last time I tried a month ago or so.
Is that actually an assertion that's true for media in general, or was it only true for that gag in Futurama?
> My understanding is that the bulk of the US's arable land (i.e., the Midwest) won't be much affected by climate change. It might move sideways, but it won't turn into desert.

From David Wallace-Wells's "The Uninhabitable Earth":

In 1879 the naturalist John Wesley Powell [..] divined a natural boundary running due North along the 100th meridian. It separated the humid—and therefore cultivatable—natural farmland of what became the Midwest from the arid, spectacular, but less farmable land of the true West. The divide ran through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, and stretches north into Manitoba, Canada, separating more densely populated communities full of large farms from sparser, open land that was never truly made valuable by agriculture. Since just 1980 that boundary has moved fully 140 miles east, almost to the 98th parallel, drying up hundreds of thousands of square miles of farmland in the process.

Maybe it won't turn into desert exactly but it won't be productive for growing food.
Austin is ~150 miles from the sea, so you'd incur substantial pumping costs.

Solar thermal "flash" desalination is one of those things that sounds obvious but is hardly ever done, so I suspect there are good reasons for that.
Meanwhile, US's DOD budget in 2020 is 718 billion dollars.. So yeah..
People just don't buy newspapers anymore since the net is full of news articles. Your business model is basically attracting as many people as possible to your site. Advertisers were always the largest customers but today the reader is completely exempt from business relations.
I see plenty of critical theory majors complaining about STEM in this thread. What has the world come to.
> PBS/NPR news broadcasts fairly objective

For example, listen for ", without providing evidence" in NPR broadcasts. Notice how selectively it is used.
Yeah, he did admit that. Difficult not to.

Bafin would look a lot better, IMHO, if in addition to investigate the FT and British short sellers, they also had a closer look at WC. They didn't.
unfortunately it is common in the country as big companies or party donor often get "protection" from the govt despite their failings. Deutsch Bank and Volkswagen for example. Big scandal (globally) but at home they merely got a slap on the wrist.
It took a bit of searching to figure out that the selfhosted version of Matrix is labeled Matrix Synapse but I guess the name kinda make sense when you look at the idea of a federated system.
Engineering Antivirus Evasion
I don't understand how his blog could impact his practice. He doesn't blog about his patients. Unless, of course, his practice is worried about the opinions Scott posts on his blog...
If Apple is literally the only entity on the planet you trust, that might be a problem.
Loneliness can be a serious problem. You really really do need some social contact. To keep things safe, I think the best approach is to have a small group of people who meet with each other but nobody outside the group. It won't hurt to also keep some distance to each other.
It’s clear that the NYTimes is in the wrong here & doxxing an anonymous blogger, possibly b/c some of his views don’t align with theirs.

Everyone: please take a minute & send a very polite email to the NYT so we can get SlaterCodex back.
Anyone that cared to try already knew Scott's real name. It was a simple Google dork away because of bad opsec from the beginning.
Uipath and automation anywhere seem to be big players with community/free starter editions. PWC (who are spearheading the RPA at $work) seem to have decreed that all their staff are going to use uipath worldwide.

There are a handful of open source RPA tools, but I don’t think there’s a breakthrough project yet.
Supercolliders are low-odds science. Other instruments are pretty much certain to generate new science. A hubble replacement would not be low-odds given that hubble itself is still making discoveries. A 23 billion-dollar push for new antibiotics would not be low-odds either. Dollars should be spent where they are most likely to generate the most science. That isn't new supercolliders.
I wonder if a better usability example would use the <details> and <summary> elements, which support collapsing/uncollapsing.
Thank you for asking BruceOxenford. Very kind. Good luck to us all in keeping safe and well - physically and emotionally. Don’t Panic!
1. Embrace refactoring/rewriting as inevitable;

2. Understand it's very often easier, faster and better to write something trivially but twice than writing it well once;

3. Realize no matter how hard you try, unless this is something you've already done once (which brings you back to #2 above), then your information of the problem is incomplete and therefore any all-encompassing solution you may have will essentially be partial and based on extrapolation of your knowledge and guesswork.

The above also deals with a significant cause of procrastination - an internal subconscious feeling we can't do what we're about to do well, therefore we'd rather not even start it. Just sit down and tell yourself, "today I'm going to write a bad module X", and with enough time you'll be able to sit down again and write a good X.

The one thing you should spend a bit more time on is interfaces and decoupling, but as for internal implementations of things, or even entire system blocks that you can swap later on - don't bother too much. It'll be OK at the end, and you'll get there faster. Even if you need to rewrite the whole god damn thing.
People in the thread are really gravitating towards using this as a damning piece of evidence for the entire system, and regardless of that might be a fair thing to do, I think this demonstrates opportunity. So the NYT does not have a blanket policy of unmasking everyone, but it does make better stories when sources are named. A reporter with more scruples is going to act differently in this situation and it's all about pushiness & how you present this (do you work with the source? do you push them and pretend like there's no option? do you realize you can wrap your article in EVEN MORE MYSTIQUE by having an anonymous person angle?). Having an independent record of how individual actors in a distributed system act would be incredibly helpful as an interviewee to have before meeting to know what they're getting into. And it'd also help readers to understand more about the kind of person who's writing their news and how that might bias their angle.
I'd guess Prof. Sabine Hossenfelder (herself a physicist, and a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies) must be pretty annoyed, to put it politely. She posits that a lot of current physicists are working with outdated notions of "beauty":

(quote)

But if it’s clear that putting forward new hypotheses just because they are beautiful doesn’t mean they’re likely to be right, then why do theorists in these fields focus so much on beauty? Worse, why do they continue to focus on the same type of beauty, even though that method has demonstrably not worked for 40 years?

... So I have historical evidence, math, and data. In my book I lay out these points and tell the reader what conclusion I have drawn: Beauty is not a good guide to theory-development.

I then explain that this widespread use of scientifically questionable but productive methodology is symptomatic to the current organization of academic research, and a problem that’s not confined to physics.

(/quote)

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I'd also recommend listening to the EconTalk podcast[2] where Hossenfelder was a guest.

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PS: I'm not judging this decision of funding, not least because I'm no where near qualified :-). I like what CERN does in general (and I sometimes interact with one of their Cloud Infrastructure teams.)

[1] http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/10/you-say-theoretical...

[2] https://www.econtalk.org/sabine-hossenfelder-on-physics-real...
You just assert things as facts. You assert that American gun rights are the cause of levels of crime. You assert the wealth gap is responsible for levels of crime. You assert the intent of the crime bill was "a) racism, b) profit, c) power, and d) racism". That is not true. The 90s were not Jim Crow 1890s. People did actually care about crime and impact of crime and it was really bad. Did people just forget that during the 70s, 80s and 90s crime destroyed inner-cities? That the urban renaissance of the 2000s didn't actually occur until AFTER crime-rates started to fall? Also, it is a well known fact (though conveniently ignored) that the crime bill had the support of minority communities and minority leaders, because it's not pleasant to live and raise children in a neighborhood with gang violence, crime and open drug use.

You have no basis for anything of those things.

>2. Overpolicing and overprosecution

America has an over-sentencing problem. American prison sentences are higher than anywhere in the world. The people who are actually in prison, are guilty of the crimes they are accused of being guilty, the difference is that in Europe a rapist may get probation, while here (e.g. Weinstein) gets 23 years.
> I'm under the impression that one cannot distribute GPL apps in the App Store

That meme is rooted in an analysis and statement that the FSF made about the App Store agreement several years ago. Those terms have changed many, many times since then, but the FSF has never revisited the question of compatibility. The best thing to do would be to either read the terms to make a decision for yourself if you're confident that you can grok them, or to seek advice from a lawyer if not. But don't assume there's anything solid that can be concluded from dead memes.
Fantastic addon. Google your own phone number and then repeatedly "Block this site". Search "pinterest" and block away. Rince/repeat.

Great stuff.
That's what I use for mine. I even messed around with using Snap's PC application to generate a virtual green screen, then using Snap's virtual cam as the input into OBS. Then in OBS I do any cropping and color correction before adding a chromakey for backgrounds and overlays and sending the OBS virtual cam to WebEx, etc.

Way more elaborate than just buying a green sheet but I didn't have to go anywhere or buy anything ;)
Highly recommend going outside, maybe hiking for a day.
Those are two of my favorites also, especially "In the Penal Colony." For anyone looking for more, I would add "The Burrow" as great introduction to the weirdness of Kafka as well.
You are loved.
Hah, yes, like JK Rowling! If you are a self made billionaire, you are pretty immune from the twitter mobs, and can make controversial statements such as "there are only two genders."
It’s not a scheme to make anyone do anything. Notably most Americans take out their own trash and tend their own lawns. It’s more to do with individualism and independence (quite the opposite of a scheme to force people to do manual labor)—the belief that the government has no right to take your money and redistribute it to others. That’s the philosophy, anyway.

In my view this hasn’t held up well in practice and we need to move toward a more socialized society, but we also need to reform our government agencies so they are competent to perform these social services.

Lastly I’ll say that manual labor isn’t stigmatized in the US as it is in the UK and other parts of the commonwealth). People are pretty proud of their humble roots (I’m from a working class family and I would never think to be embarrassed of that in most parts of the US). Further, many skilled labor jobs in the US pay comparably to engineering jobs in the UK. The highest figure I found for average software engineering salary in the UK is 48000 GBP which comes out to $60K, which is the average salary for a plumber (https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/plumber-sal...) or an electrician (https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/electrician/salar...) in the US. The average salary for a general contractor is $90K (https://www.indeed.com/career/general-contractor/salaries). For an HVAC repair technician, $70K (https://www1.salary.com/HVAC-Salary.html). Arguably these positions won’t have the same quality of health insurance and they’ll be working ~10% more than our UK SWE, but they’re not making bad money by UK standards even after adjusting for healthcare and hours worked, and they’re making great money by UK standards when you factor in cost of living differences.
Harassing?

Investigative?
It's not the "truth" and the "facts" that people are afraid to discuss. It's their opinions about truth and facts.

When you see phrases like "wrong/right side of history" and you see things happening like mass cancellation of brands or people for their opinions, you are seeing it. When a police officer is immediately fired and then charged with murder for performing his job the way he was trained to do it, you are seeing people fear the mob more than they care about the truth.

JK Rowling and Terry Crews are two famous people that come to mind who recently stated unpopular opinions and were attacked by mobs of people. There was no desire on the part of the mob to look for logical reasons for someone to have a
valid opinion that differs from the mainstream.
Do you think that some scientist if you give him a ton of money can invent a cheap way of removing Carbon from air?

The solution is much more simple, stop putting Carbon in the atmosphere, this is something society needs to solve not scientists.

Think it live Bob is throwing shit in the river and you blame scientists that they can't invent something to clean the water that is cheap.

We could build modern nuclear reactors, we can fund research into fusion at the same time but until fusion is ready we could at least stop closing nuclear plants and finish/upgrade the existing ones. Probably much more money is spent in the entertainment industry in a year then in all CERN history.
Yeah it was an excellent name. Strong link with the "matrix" network and no weird associations with violence like Riot.

I always assumed it was some trademark crap that made them drop the name Vector but I don't think they ever communicated the reason. It's very hard to find some name that's not trademarked by someone somewhere, or even a close resemblance to it.

Consider the eelo Android distribution, they had to change because one tiny consulting company had a trademark for something resembling it (not even the same name, and not the same industry at all!)
Please no. It's not unique enough for a Google search. There's a reason all the major brands are unusual or made up names.
Show HN: SUPA – It's like Figma but for videos
I just tried it, worked fine for me. Can you please try refreshing the page? If you're observing any browser console error, would you mind filing an issue here: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues
For end users, this transition will be fairly seamless. For developers, let the nightmares begin.
What about if you have say 7 downvoted comments in a row, you might be shadowbanned [forever]?

That seems much worse. As well as not being transparent at all.
Do you think regular people out there who are not experts in housing, policing, government, economics should remain silent and not express opinions on things they don’t have insight to?

Everyone has a right to express their opinion even on topics they are woefully unqualified for. Including clueless techies.

The only instance I agree is when celebrities spout opinions as fact (or promote a pet diet or cause) only because it could send millions of people on wild goose chases. That said it’s more of a wish and really not a desire to censor them.
Humans: Ah, they're doing some good stuff I like. Let's move on with my day.

Also humans: Oh no! They're doing some bad stuff I don't like! Let's tell'em off!
Sounds like a lot stuff to deal with at the same time. This would be hard for anyone. Hopefully the move back out West feels like a bit of a fresh start and you get back on your feet quickly! :)
That's an awfull name as it is used all over the place in technical documentation. As soon as you'll look for help in a search engine you'd get bazillion of unrelated results.

If you founded you company in the 1980's for sure you can choose any good sounding name, even a very common fruit and it willl be alright.

But in 2020 please don't hurt the community of devellopers that deal with graphical element by reverting to such a generic random name...
Its interesting to me that you bring up 9/11 since that was my first thought as well. I remember that time as a surreal haze of watching the news with a near constant "is this real and happening?" thoughts running through my head. I recall the feeling of waking up and how things felt normal again until the realization of the current state of the world washed over me. It took a long time until things felt "normal" again which is crazy considering the wars that were happening and the waste of life that the events led to.

I haven't really had that experience until the last few months. Its just as surreal now as it was then.
Some time ago, I mentally reformulated the journalism industry as an information processing engine which ferrets out and then publicizes secrets -- any secrets -- for advertising revenue. Your secrets: our clickthrough bucks.

While this was pointed at government corruption, this had some kind of utility. When it was used to find a neglected neighborhood bistro of thirty years that was going under due to the loss of foot traffic, this was laudable.

Now it seems as if any sort of secret at all is fair game, and the more you want to hide something the more they want at it, whether or not it is of value, privacy be damned. Right now, these secrets are hunted, devoured, and excreted for the howling Twitter mob to fixate on in a permanent hurricane of outrage, bashing its way up and down the coast, as a result of the temperature of the Internet climbing up, and it has been incredibly convenient for these journos to at least try to guide the storm to whatever targets they've had their eye on in the long march through the institutions, but the collateral damage is immense. We're seeing it here.
When I try this, it just repeats the items in order, e.g. "New York, London, Tokyo" autofills to "New York, London, Tokyo, New York, London, Tokyo,..."

Do you need to do something special to activate intelligent autofill, e.g. adding "Paris" in my example?
Relevant reading from April 2020: "Atmospheric microplastics: A review on current status and perspectives"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282521...