skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 'harmless', until the same ways of thinking lead to believing homeopathy and rejecting modern medicine.
I personally liked this change. Even if it is the MS MO embrace extend extinguish.

If I want to read your readme ill click on your readme. If im visiting your github page I want to read your code.

Eee, theyre downplaying the focus on cross platform friendly md files showing repo info, instead they want you to use the newly more prominent side bar that is wholy only available on github.
Scientists link bowel inflammation to higher risk of dementia
Honestly seems kinda racist and sexist of the author to imply that people of one or another race or sex are more susceptible to this weird loony nonsense; then David decries “white cis men” while... by all accounts being one.
If only there was a "Feature preview" option where you could ask users and the community what they think about design changes before they go live. Oh wait you have that. You just rolled it out for a couple of weeks basically to see if there were any showstopper bugs before you went live.

I don't expect companies to take on my feedback. I do expect them not to treat it like it's a joke.
The comment I'm replying to suggests the journalist maybe misrepresented the nature of the story. The evidence for this is, well, none. And as to the nature of the story itself, we have neither the story nor the journalist's description of the interactions in question.
Scott Alexander is his pseudonym, which he freely shares, and he blogs about his psychiatry work.
In slight fairness to Aaronson, he doesn't present this as a "universally held opinion of people in tech", as the rest of that excerpt goes to say:

> . . . but not (I don’t think) to the tens of thousands who read Scott’s essays and fiction, particularly during their 2013-2016 heyday, and who went from casual enjoyment to growing admiration to the gradual recognition that they were experiencing, “live,” the works that future generations of teachers will assign their students when they cover the early twenty-first century.

So he's pretty much saying Slate Star Codex has fans who will miss it a lot.

(I do agree with you that the comparison is pretty nuts, even as someone who thinks Slate Star Codex has a lot of good stuff.)
The Kawaiization of Product Design - 33 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23243646
In my experience, people mostly use astrology to excuse their poor behavior.

"Sorry, Mercury is in retrograde right now and that's why I --"

No. You're just kind of a shit person. The sooner you own it and stop blaming the stars, the sooner you can start to improve.
the stat that I read was that 86% of people put on ventilators die

as for those that survive - most have serious breathing problems for the rest of their lives -

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200415/ventilators-helping...
I don't believe it's reasonable to claim that any "firewall" existed. There are very basic things you can do to protect your identity, especially if you blogged at length and with a fair amount of notoriety under your real name, that Scott Alexander didn't do. I'm genuinely confused as to how he could in good faith claim his identity to have been a secret.

You can't have a firewall of "nobody is allowed to Google me". That's not how it works.
I work as a journalist in a third world country ... Today my Telegram got hacked
> I'm tempted to put a stick through the front spokes

You're tempted to risk killing someone because they're doing something dangerous? I'm not sure that's a reasonable response.
Hard to say, eye/hair color have some genetic backing. Astrology at least is pretty good at being randomly distributed

Which may be related to why those who have rolled traits which aren't in the existing power structure would be more partial towards this sort of equalizing trait to build first impression biases on

Maybe we should have a dating app that matches people based on the last digit of their social security number. The idea here is to artificially reduce supply in order to compel people to interact with someone they wouldn't usually
I don’t know if it is covid-induced insanity, but I laughed way too much at this. There could be some dystopian cyberpunk commercial showing how much the inventor loved the invention here...
What's a good ebike? Are the conversion kits any good?

I have a steel frame touring bike that I use to get to work on (a Trek 520 clone) occasionally. It's great but if it was a bit easier I would probably commute by bike more often.
> Rachel has a theory: “The rule quietly went into effect in March (after we had already been in development for almost 6 months), so they’re effectively squashing any competition co-star might face.”

I also saw a slide from WWDC recently that featured co-star's app icon. Why is co-star so special to Apple?
Trying to read through this was a slog. Just endlessly saying people only hate astrology because they're white cis men and saying cis white men are hellbent on denying their brilliance.

People of all sorts also believe in healing crystals, homeopathy, and antivax theories. I'm pretty confident that most anti-astrology types are also against most of those 3 other things, and people who legitimately believe in astrology are more likely to believe in those.

This came across far less as an article wondering why Apple removed an app, and more of an article justifying prejudice against people with immutable characteristics.
Of all projects by Segway, the coolest one is the one they never mass produced: the Centaur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l486tKKIifY
I have had my quest for a week and I'm very impressed but the tech has a long way to go and I'm deeply skeptical VR will ever be more than a niche product.
Just came here to say more of this stuff on hn please.

Wherever you stand on Astrology, it’s ridiculous that Apple is able to just nix this app.
This talks about it some: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/295159-intel-acknowled.... I hadn't read it but this article seems to talk about it as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/technology/intel-culture-....
The "concrete battery". Or, because it runs on gravity, the "earth-powered"... relativity-powered "Hawking battery".

https://newatlas.com/energy-vault-concrete-tower-battery/571...

(It stores energy by stacking rocks.)
From my point of view is that it provides people and escape from decision paralysis. They’re not going to generally do something they’re opposed to because the stars say so, but they’ll use some arbitrary bullshit criteria to chose between multiple equally good options. It’s no different from flipping a coin, but coin flipping is a fine way to make a decision sometimes.
A fun game is to compress some text, then look up some random Chinese words, cut-and-paste them into the compressed output, and then decompress again.
My vote is for “RMatrix”.

In English, the R makes for a good pun.
> As a side note, I've seen people try this, but there is no amount of testing that can guarantee stability. So, 'stable' feels like a false promise.

Which, by the same argument, makes all branches unstable. Why would you want to name, arguably the least unstable branch in the mentioned scenario - unstable?
Have you seen where "battery" comes from? Electrical batteries are called that since they were made of sets of electrical cells working together, analogously to a battery of artillery.
Unfortunately, I see this reaction all the time. The problem is bikes can do this, not just e-bikes, but the perception is that it's only e+bikes, which is why I fear they'll be legislated out of existence.
I've been told by a handful of colleagues in tech that lot of them come to the US on a student visa via a US Master's program and that gives them time to settle in and build their network and intern at US companies and transition to an H1B position rather than applying with just their bachelor's degree abroad. That's why you'll see so many Indian folks with Masters and they are the most well adjusted, intelligent, and respected peers in my experience. This is in stark opposition to the ones that come through companies like Tata and Infosys and struggle to assimilate and keep to themselves (in my experience at various companies)

Anyone else care to share their understanding on the Indian H1B US Master's degree route to coming to the US, am I missing something here?
There's a source of microplastics people don't see.

You ever notice how your lint trap doesn't quite catch all of the lint, and your dryer hose slowly fills with lint? What is lint from synthetic clothing made out of? And where does it go?
Maybe. I just remember people referring to them as "Blue Meanies" because of the characters in The Yellow Submarine[0]. They were the ones that hated music and creativity, and folks didn't like HIG telling them they couldn't have fuschia scrollbars in their new, five-thousand-dollar color Macs.

But that said, I think you are correct[1]. The last MacHack I attended (maybe 1989?), Dean Yu hadn't yet been hired by Apple, and was infamous for writing system-crashing inits (Kill Dean's Inits!). I think he wrote the "Energizer Bunny" init that could have the EB running around every computer on the network.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Yellow_Submarine...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Apple_Computer)
> In a car, 30mph in a school zone would get you a massive ticket

Bikes can stop faster, maneuver easier, and cause significantly less damage than a car when striking something. You rarely ever hear of bikes seriously harming pedestrians for a reason (but of course yes it does happen on occasion).

I'm not supporting dangerously biking through a school zone but this is a silly comparison to make, of course the fines would be lower for a bike.
> he's pretty much saying Slate Star Codex has fans who will miss it a lot

No, he's not, he's saying, explicitly, in what you quoted, that "future generations of teachers will assign their students" Slate Star Codex as reading material. That's waaaay beyond "fans who will miss it a lot".
The switches would need to be there for a GUI anyway. There would be a drop-down menu to select the authentication type (--webroot), a folder selection field to specify the web root directory (-w /srv/_default), and a list of domain names to certify (-d systemd.software -d www.systemd.software). How else would you configure the options?

systemd.software is just a website and isn't related to running certbot. Indeed, if you'd visit the site you'd see I have a lot of gripes about systemd too!

Systemd here is only used as an example for the renewal service. It actually just calls `certbot renew`:

$ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/certbot-renew.service
[Unit]
Description=This service automatically renews any certbot certificates found

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/certbot
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/certbot renew --noninteractive --no-random-sleep-on-renew $PRE_HOOK $POST_HOOK $RENEW_HOOK $DEPLOY_HOOK $CERTBOT_ARGS

The important bit here is the ExecStart: it's just `certbot renew --noninteractive --no-random-sleep-on-renew` which is indeed a lot of stuff to remember.
As much as I’m not a fan of paying that much for email, the fact that anyone has the ability to interrupt you has an enormous potential cost.

Being more effective with email and communicating is a life changing discipline and skill.

The 30/mo should be seen as the hundreds or thousands it can make or safe some people who have to be effective with their time and communication. Again, maybe not for everyone.
11-99 Foundation in California, by persistent legend:

https://priceonomics.com/can-you-buy-a-license-to-speed/
How does astrology help express emotional needs and wants? Is it something that only works for some people, whose emotions happen to match those predicted by astrology?
>This type of “warrant-proof” encryption adds little to the security of the communications of the ordinary user

>"It adds so little but we actually need to remove it because we can't see it"

It'd be funny except for the senate.gov URL
You're looking at the wrong side of the veil. Yes, it's trivial to find his real name if you know of his blog, but it's not easy to find his blog by searching his real name.
Valgrind does something similar (x86->intermediate language->x86), and is only about 4x slower than native with all the analyses disabled. I’d guess they left some optimizations out to make it easier to implement the dynamic checks it supports.
Quest is better just because you can buy it relatively quickly, and for Valve Index you have to wait many weeks in line. Valve Index (or Rift, for example) is lighter, because it doesn’t have battery, and has better tracking (pros), but is connected by cable (cons). But you need cable for Quest to play PC games anyway!

But it’s not significantly cheaper - you want 128GB version because games are huge, this is $500. Then you need a case - this is relatively fragile equipment, and you don’t want your lens to get dirty since it’s hard to clean - $40. Then you need Oculus Link cable to play Half Life: Alyx or other more demanding games - $80. Quest doesn’t have built-in headset - $50 more (I’m actually using over-the-ear headphones with $10 short cable). You may also need grips (magnetic battery cover is the most stupid thing!). You can buy cheaper accessories, but they are hit or miss, so I opted for first-party case and cable at least. Anyway, this is $670, which is getting into Valve Index territory.
Heh, it's always funny to see a long paragraph in a dating bio discussing profound belief in progressive ideology: intersectional feminism, black lives matter, eco-mindedness, etc -- all good things in my book!

And thennnn a postscript at the bottom: "must be X height."
This is inevitable whether this bill passes or not. There's simply too many political points to score here and little downsides as far as the government is actually concerned.
Using VMS in the 80s at my university, it was a solid foundation for creating a proper OS that NT became.
Is the solution numerous hyper localized governments, with highly limited federal government, so people can choose the policies they are subject to for the most part by changing where they live?

In the situation where federal government has the clout it does, people feel slighted when they are not in the majority, and may find anarchy better than living under rules they don't like.
The same can be achieved using 3-wheel kick bikes of the type often used in hospitals or bicycles. They're cheaper, they give the staff a bit - but not too much - of a workout, they rarely break down and you never have to update any firmware.
Twitter.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 11
Likely, he started out blogging when he was comparatively unknown. His audience grew, but he could not flip a switch a fix his prior lack of opsec without nuking his community.

It seems he is now taking the nuclear route.
I agree and think them making this about "white men" is wrong, unreasonable, and perhaps even racist itself. I also agree it's fun, harmless, as it's pattern matching they're doing and a conversation topic for them to try to relate, connect to others. Whether it's fluke that they think they have observed a pattern matching or not, or perhaps if someone resonates with the majority of described traits of any sign, is harmless. Maybe everyone or just some people's biology and development is somehow guided or influenced by the position of the energy and certain traits are more highly selected for because of that, who knows, I don't personally believe we have a certain deep or full understanding of consciousness nor how our brain/body-mind interact, etc - and so I leave room for the potential.
“Pushed to prod”
"Incentivizes architecting sturdy and secure buildings using only toothpicks as foundations."
Mob rule is not anarchy.

Arguably, it's one of the risks of democracy that motivates anarchists. (Now, there's a case to be made that anarchy also risks devolving into mob rule by a different path than non-anarchic democracy does, but they still aren’t the same thing.)
The first accident was coming down 15th by the treasury where there are large bollards on the sidewalk- an older gentleman in his sixties was zipping around and he went full speed down the sidewalk and clipped the wheel on the very edge of one and it spun around throwing him off- very much like going over the handlebars on a bike. I assume he broke something between his wrist and collar bone (or both).

The next one was going off a sidewalk if memory serves but was minor.

The third one was over on the north side of the Capitol- we were idling around while the guide was talking and this older lady in her fifties or sixties was kinda floating through the crowd but didn't seem out of control- she went around this big tree and either lost control or wasn't paying attention as it was getting dark and went full speed around the side of a tree and ran right in to a lamp post. It knocked her out.

I was getting nervous riding back feeling like we were all going to experience some mishap.
You could say the exact same thing about dioxin, mercury, arsenic.

It's not when it's in the water that it's a problem. It's when it enters the food chain. Plastic in plants means plastic in ruminants. Does it stop there, or does the plastic degrade and enter the bloodstream?
If competing with Atlassian is the point, then they're going to have to completely revise their licensing model for a start. GHE is _far_ too expensive compared to Atlassian's whole software suite to be any real competition.
The last version of GitHub had as many rounded corners. They didn't change that, they increased the roundness (they increased the border-radius).
Can I say that the plain meaning of these words --- "generations" connoting teachers en masse, the way generations of teachers have for decades assigned the "I Have A Dream Speech" --- is also pretty obviously hyperbolic.

Maybe you believe the blog was headed in some genius direction, and lament a lost future. But you can't reasonably suggest that the SSC that exists today is going to be taught in schools.

Or, again, if you do, you can't claim to hold the mainstream opinion on the matter. I believe all sorts of weird shit nobody else believes; I'm not casting stones.
>black lives matter

That's also mostly a farce and social status signalling. Most of them wouldn't date a black person to save their life.
I was thrown by the same thing. Both the article and the parent comment have the same premise - the author presumes that Rachel, as a woman, is more qualified than the average person to judge whether Apple's rejection of an astrology dating app is an act of discrimination. And then parent comment says that "as a gay man of color," he's more qualified than the average person to judge whether Rachel / the author's complaint about discrimination is well founded. It's a subtle form of the argument to authority fallacy.
India? You think they have the disease under control?

The US is at the top for two reasons, huge and extremely varied country, lots of testing and accountability.

China most likely has had more deaths than the US, they just simply chose not report it, ergo they are all good (and that's what Trump wishes the US could do).
> while providing law enforcement the tools needed to protect the public from everyday violent crime

uhh.. I'm thinking joke too. Nothing improves protection against _everyday_ violent crime, like... removing end to end encryption??
TFA states that white men are against astrology because women and POC like it (???)
Why wouldn't they stay mixed as a liquid? They're highly miscible, if you leave liquid N2 out it can actually enrich with oxygen with time as oxygen dissolves into it. You need to distill them to separate oxygen and nitrogen cryogenically. That happens in the boiling off part, but as another commenter mentioned you could pump out what you want to boil to avoid boiling the bulk liquid and causing the remaining liquid to be enriched in oxygen.
Blue Lives Matter
Haskell does have an issue of people using it being more interested in doing clever things and researching topics than building cool applications.

Haskell jobs do exist, I have one of them. The big problem is that there are more people who want to do those jobs than there are jobs, so they seem very scarce.

But anyway there are also a number of investment banks I have heard that use Haskell as their “secret weapon” and do not advertise it, in fact those who could speak to details are all under NDA.

Personally I am hoping to help with this issue by building cool open source things in Haskell (and purescript)

I was skeptical for years for all the reasons you said, but I finally decided to set my skepticism aside and see for myself, and oh boy is Haskell great. It has a lot of problems, but I consider myself at least 2x more productive in Haskell.
This is good. Perhaps it will clean up the internet a bit. It's quite the cesspool.
Yes, bicycle helmets.
So if you read the actual text of Apple's rejection, it seems even worse that merely doing something asinine and dumb like rejecting astrology:

> "We continue to find your app to be an Astrology based dating app. As such, it duplicates the content and functionality of many other similar apps currently available on the App Store. While these app features may be useful, informative or entertaining, we simply have enough of these types of apps on the App Store, and they are considered a form of spam."

So, holy shit -- Apple will reject your app because there are already "enough" other apps that incorporate some particular functionality or theme?

While not illegal, that's so blatantly anti-competitive because it says "no more competition, nobody else can try, you lose, sorry".

That's infuriating. This isn't a grocery store with limited shelf space. Either reject an app because it breaks policies or don't, but don't reject an app because we already "have enough". Look, if it fails, it'll sink to the end of search results and nobody will find it anyways. Or de-list apps that don't meet some tiny minimum number of installs, but to it in the open, for all types of apps, with explicitly known thresholds.

But don't prevent someone from competing in the first place! It's just so... unsportsmanlike. And ultimately harmful to consumers who want better apps.
The point isn't that I know she's having a panic attack. I'm not trying to force that to be the circumstance.

But she could very well be having a legitimate physiological response (of which a panic attack could be one)... in which case she's not "being an idiot". As long as it was a good faith emotional response, your conclusions still aren't warranted.
Not sure if this was true of the newer Segways, but the first generations of Segways had the performance limits encoded into the key. So you could turn it on with a key to train someone to use it, or if you had access to the tools, program an unlocked key that allowed you to go faster than factory spec.
WSJ: Chinese with government ties funneled 100s of thousands to Trump campaign
or Virtual Desktop + sideloaded Virtual Desktop version that supports streaming VR + Shadow.tech cloud gaming pc + Half Life Alyx
Don't you think you perhaps have selection bias? "... people mostly use astrology to excuse their poor behaviour" is quite the generalization, especially since this thread is about using astrology for people to meet other people, not make excuses.
The problem is your resolution. I have a 4K monitor and have Git/IDE side by side and the layout is a real problem.

It's 30cm/1ft between the Issues button and the main table.
> you can't reasonably suggest that the SSC that exists today is going to be taught in schools.

I'm not. But I'm not so sure Scott Aaronson wasn't. Call it hyperbole if you like, since technically Aaronson put those words in the hypothetical mouth of a hypothetical SSC fan, but my reading is closer to "Freudian slip".