skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question I've been struggling with lately. Downvotes reinforce groupthink, that much is subjectively clear. I've considered solutions, and I believe forcing people to reply before they are allowed to downvote would help.

However, in opposition to my own idea, I consider that simply requiring a more effort wouldn't necessarily change the groupthink problem, but would just stifle low effort downvotes.

Let's consider then the whole idea of votes in the first place. Are downvotes considered "speech" in an abstract sense? Should they be protected in the same way disagreeable opinions are? Is the level of effort necessary to express the speech relevant to the level of protection it deserves? Would restricting downvotes in any way be considered a speech restriction?

So these are all interesting aspects to the problem that cause me a lot of internal debate.
> so it will sound better since there won't be any beating

Unless presence or absence of beating is itself either a thing we learn to detect, or a thing we learn to associate with better-ness or worse-ness, rather than both being innate?
So many things we consider part of our inner core are learned. This result doesn't seem that surprising, although it does call for further study.

The fact that those people don't rate consonant chords as more pleasant than dissonant ones is also interesting.
>>Our solar system is not a Dyson Sphere. What makes you think it will become one?

Because 1. of the accelerating rate of technological progress that we've seen over the last 2 million years, and 2. the deduction that preferential selection leads to economic systems that harness more energy and replicate themselves becoming more common

>>We don't have a population of thousands of trillions. Why do you think we'll get there in a manner in which all of them will be coordinated under one banner?

They wouldn't need to all be under one banner.

>>What makes you think that laser propulsion will be practical for such applications?

Because we understand the physics of it. It's theoretically possible, and assuming sufficient advances in science and engineering, will become practically possible.

>>And now you're talking months. Months to accelerate, months to decelerate.

I don't see such a requirement preventing interstellar colonization.
Can someone explain how does it work behind the scenes?

As I see it, data is stored in a secure enclave separate from the processor and OS. It only provides a match value based on the generated digital private key. So phones will create a separate pair for every site and send the public key with credentials so the server can verify it with the device.

Wouldn't apple have to open source their hardware as well?
That is why I like Typescript as an option. Protect me from my dumb mistakes with types, but let me be fast and loose like JS.
Telegram is 100% crypto in my world and its a riot, very entertaining. It serves a purpose because crypto people will SS7 attack you if you they know your phone number, so whatsapp isnt good.
Then the sandbox is broken..?
>But why is fusion power required instead of better UV lamps in my vertical farm?

Because of the second law of thermodynamics. Your UV lamp is not going to produce light that contains more energy than the electricity you used as input. That energy needs to be produced via solar panels if you want maximum efficiency. If we ignore nuclear or fusion all energy on earth is derived from sunlight.
Haha no. Php 5 has proper class definitions. Php 7 adds a spaceship operator, use declarations (yay Perl language features), return type declarations etc. Js was still prototype based the last time I've checked.
I get the same thing, and I'm on the iOS 14 beta
Defunding the police would create a power vacuum which could only be taken over by something worse. Yet the police are literally corrupt. Reform was already needed before the protests. Gradual, yes, but immediate action nonetheless. I’m not even American but it really seems like you guys are suffering under mismanagement. The police are a symptom of this. America needs to change.
> Nobody's freaking out about NYC right now.

You wouldn't know it looking at the media.
Already discussed previously on HN
Is PureScript nice to use again? Tried it a year or two ago and it relied heavily on Bower and I had a hard time getting anything to work on Windows - lots of Bower errors and such. I tried it a few years ago and got it to work, but in that case getting Halogen to compile the most basic app just stuck the compiler into a freeze for minutes, so I gave up. But I am not shitting on PureScript, it looks like a fantastic way to develop JS apps, and I'd love to use it.
Baby “MIT Cheetah” open source and 3D-printable robot
Any chance you remember the name of the movie that is about dwarfs living in a weird totalitarian regime trying to get some magic potion and escape to our normal-sized world? I saw it as a child and I loved it but I only remember it vaguely.
Are you really intellectually curious if you avoid articles that are too long or 'intimidating' (what does that even mean)? Perhaps you meant 'timid', not 'curious'.
"It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:"

Honest question: Why do we need this feature?

As a user, I am happy to sacrafice whatever benefit it provides -- to end users -- to stop the abuse. Obviously the feature provides benefits to app developer personal data collectors.

OK by me to remove feature.
Sorry, I never said I want to "overcome" an organization.
English is not my first language and if it sounded that way - it wasn't meant to.

What I think is worth 'overcoming' is a sentiment that if one disagrees with the goals of blacklivesmatter organisation it shouldn't mean he/she is racist, insensitive etc.

I work for a company from USA and I have been 'outed' for not sharing black lives matter hashtag and whatnot, I don't feel I can safely say that I disagree with some points - I talked to handful of people privately and I met with literal outrage.
I think this is really problematic.
Don't forget Křeček v noční košili!
To be fair, I'd blame Apple more than people spreading it here. When I watched the keynote I also immediately thought they block GA.
At some point a word becomes so overused it loses all meaning.

The guy who created the word genocide also created the word vandalism. He intended for both actions these words described to be looked at with abject horror and thus applied as infrequently as possible so that they would retain their meaning.

When everyone is racist, effectively no one is.
Lithuanian:
"Forest of the Gods"

(https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0453366)
The story about one man- an artist and an intellectual- who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called "freedom" of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.
-Anonymous
The new orthodoxy requires this quote to be something awful, and upon reading it, that was my immediate thought as well. "He really said that?".

But it really isn't. In fact, it continues to be an opinion of a large section of the society. He is only saying that the police are not totally racist, maybe only a bit! Disagree as much as you want, this is an opinion beyond the pale now?

And the fact that the culture causes MIT to believe this to be a liability is exactly the point.
I don’t think your car comparison is a fair one. You don’t see your iPhone nag you to take it to an “Apple shop.” They usually update while you sleep.

My Tesla does the same thing, it’s a car that literally gets software updates while I sleep. And it’s AMAZING. I get new features (sometimes a new alarm system, one time a dash cam system, another time Spotify and once it made the car actually faster) for free! There’s no taking it to the shop or nagging or anything. This is an amazing feature.

On the android side you literally have phones that don’t get critical security patches - that’s the scariest type of “it doesn’t work anymore so you need to go buy new hardware” because you don’t even know you’re at risk.

Android devices not getting OS updates after two years, especially $800 android phones, is obscene. There’s no way to defend that.
And this causes virtue signaling on the part of companies, which then causes employees' livelihoods to be directly tied to their ability to express acceptable beliefs in the correct way.
To reply to a part of your comment: I've come to realize that most downvotes can be mitigated by simply adding in disclaimers, explicit assumptions, general kindness and general positivity [1].

In that sense HN really made me a more civil person to discuss with, while I am still able to write controversial opinions when I happen to have them.

So on balance, in my experience, the downvoting has been a good development for me.

[1] There was a year where I was arguably mildly depressed about my job situation. I graduated had all the bells and whistles, and worked amazingly hard for it (I almost burned out twice). Yet, I couldn't get a prestigious job. And for me, that was the whole point. Why work hard if it doesn't get you anywhere? I gave up on a lot of things.

The tone in my comments during that year was more negative than usual despite my opinions being similar. I experimented with being more positive than I actually felt, while still expressing the same opinions, and noticed I'd be downvoted less and upvoted more.
> That's the hill people have (literally) decided to die on.

Only about half of a percent of them.
Looks quite basic versus alternatives like OutSystems.
These anti encryption policies are almost always about online services though. Government is generally not so concerned with encryption in the OS because people rarely encrypt their data at rest and even when they do it is still stored data at rest that can be brute forced in time.

If you are using a web browser for a typical online service any backdoor is less concerning than simply going straight to the service provider where all things converge. If a web browser is used in a serverless context, just for localhost user interaction, it can rely on other aspects of the OS to transmit data thereby circumventing any browser backdoor.
A while back Microsoft announced Microsoft Lists, which is a similar tool. Of course there are also existing tools like Airtable, Bubble, Mendix etc. All these tools are great, but they have some downsides in my opinion.

- If the product ever gets discontinued you might lose all your work.

- All these tools have limits regarding the amount of rows you can store.

- If your business depends on such a product and the pricing model changes, it might bankrupt you.

- You can't create or download real plugin that integrate well if you are missing features.

- In most cases you can't host it at your own servers.

- You might end up in a vendor lock-in.

These are some of the reasons why I started Baserow. It is an open source alternative to Airtable and in the far future also for tools like Bubble. While it is still in an early phase there is a test version at https://baserow.io that everyone can try. In the coming weeks you can expect the open source release. Right now, I am finishing up the documentation, examples, plugin boilerplate and some final small changes. After that you can self host it without any limits, vendor lock-in or price changes.
Ah, that's new information to me. Still she was fired immediately after this statement of her boyfriend, so there is obviously a connection to that, in addition to what she said herself in the past.
I think reposting with a comment is the worst. Mastodon has "boosting" which allows you to repost, but you can't add your own commentary to it.

This seems to work pretty well in preventing the spread of bad messages, as a boost of such message will imply that you agree with it. That way you're not getting the typical "look at what this horrible person said" messages.
I never had any of them and feel great! No LinkedIn either!
Some people here in Australia do pick dandelion leaves and other wild greens, but the general advice (unsure if backed by evidence) is you probably don't want a lot of it in a larger city because of roadside pollution.

I was happy when parsley sprung up like a weed around my house, but it all died out in the drought. Hopefully it comes back soon.
What is G-RoM?
That doesn’t seem to stop the app from checking for, say, string content, and getting access to a copied password.
I believe Google Analytics without enhanced tracking is a net benefit. The information on how many users visit and how they use the site is incredibly helpful. The problem with Google Analytics is that Google tracks are lot more than they need to and use it for their own benefit as well. Safari seems to mostly prevent that now.
There was no switch. Go look up members of congress who switched political party during that era. Wikipedia has a list. You'll find two, one in the house and one in the senate.

Had there been an actual switch, you'd expect to see numerous members of congress switching sides.

The "party switch" narrative is a lie. It's to cover for the fact that the republicans kept voting for civil rights until they were finally able to pass it. Today, being the party in opposition to civil rights wouldn't be seen as OK, so a false version of history is pushed to cover up the truth.

A better explanation for the change in voting is that party preferences changed once the issue of civil rights was no longer under consideration. With that gone, other political goals were able to determine party preference.
Fascism was a political situation in 1930s italy. I think the commentor is objecting to this new, rhetorical use of the term which essentially connects any "nostalgic, authoriatrian" impulse to a 1930s-style tyranny.

The left's use of "fascism" today is much like the rights use of "socialism/communism".
For the past five years or so, I prefer discussing current events with conservatives - not because I think they are closer to truth, but because they are willing to be a good sport in a conversation. This has nothing to do with political parties, which are both dumpster fires. Maybe Republicans started earlier with Tea Party and got worse, but Democrats are heading in the same direction after Occupy Wall Street. And I realize that conservatives are not super tolerant of rowdy burn cars/block highway protests. But in actual intellectual conversations, they are the champs. Sad because I though tech liberals were supposed to be brainy and open minded.
Except we already have an effective treatment, dexamethasone. So all those Swedish deaths could have potentially been pushed to now when the mortality rate is lower due to new treatments like dexamethasone. Instead, they were not pushed so they all died. Had they been pushed, a third likely would have survived. So already we know Sweden's strategy is total shit that lead to avoidable deaths.
Visual Studio Code Assistant rules for nasty Angular bugs
Can one app copy data into the clipboard and then another app paste it out?

They could even collude behind the scenes, once they’ve communicated over the clipboard as a channel to establish a link, to replace the original data in the clipboEOF[CITIZEN:8EF7720=FLAGGED]
It gets even crazier to think about when you realise that cities like Detroit are overwhelmingly Black. The police there are just not providing good value for the people who live there.

Brookings had a great post about this the other day: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/06/11/to-add...
Yeah, but the idea of half == same is very specific to music. In no other domain do we do this.
>"One random variation I tried, was to use LEDs in series with the base of the transistor. In combination with PMBT3904 transistors, this surprisingly

yielded an oscillator that switched between frequencies that were several orders of magnitude apart when varying the supply voltage.

A closer look revealed a region with unpredictable behavior close to the switching voltage."

Fascinating!
Quarantine is where you restrict the movement of sick people.

Tyranny is where you restrict the movement of healthy ones.
Goodbye, Bountysource
The articles are of interest to me, but as I open 20 tabs or so the prospect of diving into thick paragraphs on each link seems tedious and daunting, so I put them off and never actually come around to them. I found bookmarking apps would just allow me to delay them indefinitely, so that didn't work either, so I built this to get the approachable inverse pyramid structure entry into any article.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
Commodore Amiga 2000 Vampire 68080 VS pi3b+ and 4gb Pi4
fwiw the types of questions you mention are often refered to as Fermi problems, after the famous physicist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
For one thing I don't believe disrupting nuclear family model is a thing that will do any good, ironically especially for black families.

It is possible I am wrong, but as much as I informed myself, for this moment, my opinion is just different from the one proposed by BLM.

> If you think that your life will be worse if the demands or whatever of BLM are met then you really need to be honest with yourself and others about who you are.

And that is what I am talking about.
It seems to me that you think that all BLM demands are universally good - and if I don't fully agree with them I must be somehow a bad person.
I refuse to believe that they have monopoly for morality and truth.
Yes.

You can add types if you want. And maybe one can discuss if there is a more elegant syntax than the C-style syntax of JavaScript (there is ...).

Other than that. I think the code is about as concise as it gets.
And in 2020 I can use Qt and Boost and FFMPEG and ... which are a gigantic C & C++ libraries of things that I can reuse too. That's what reuse is.
There's a small but mighty new project "Netflix for modern Ukrainian cinema" called Takflix https://takflix.com/en/?lang_id=2
No clue about the likelihood of police using similar facial recognition matches for the rest, but normally the alternates need to be around the same height, build, and complexion as the subject. I would think including multiple potential matches would be a huge no-no simply because your alternates need to be people who you know are not a match. If you just grab the 6 most similar faces and ask the victim to choose, what do you do when they pick the third closest match?
Concurrency in the Erlang VM
I briefly read the doc and it requires assistance to decrypt local device storage and remote storage. So it's a full spectrum demand for decrypting data.
Then we should just treat it like a tough flu season.
Fun.

As a next step, you could create a publicly trainable model where the public could submit a drawing + value.

Then you could share both results, the one you've trained and the one the public trained.
Always heartbreaking to see a parent eulogize or comment on their child's passing, no matter how old the child was.
"Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT"

That short course looks like its still available on edx - though it's archived - I seem to be able to access the material.

https://www.edx.org/course/street-fighting-math
One of the problems with upvote/downvote is that it is binary, while topics of discussion in the social rarely aren’t. In the social space of forming opinions, many things happen in a grey spectrum, and need not be polarized all the time (upvote / downvote)
It's a shitty thing companies are forced to do if they want to sell to Chinese customers and/or operate in China. I see they have listed Huawei as a customer so that probably explains it.
Computer criminals (especially the commercial variety) and foreign intelligence agents must be drooling right about now. If something like this becomes law, it's only a matter of time until a mass-breach gives, e.g., China or Russia the dirty laundry of thousands of politicians and business leaders in one fell swoop. I don't think I need to spell out what that would mean for what's left of democracy in the USA.

I'm curious to know if anyone has any insight from the inside: do the particular congresscritters drafting these bills genuinely not understand the damage that would be done if this sort of drivel passed into law, or do they just not care?
Yes I was thinking of the creation/fall, not the whole of the Silmarillion, sorry for not making that clear.
I’ll read more about it before I post the idea again, thanks for the correction
A lot of modern art is actively moving away from skill and effort.
Just like some developers should learn that developers are users too, and not all of us enjoy doing the stuff the hard way just because it feels better somehow.
Kingsajz (1987). Love the movie!
Most routers support guest network. You do have to share the password manually.

Any new device on my network other than my own logs on to guest network.
I understand that there are a lot of people who are hurting right now, and I empathize with their pain, but how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other or convey important information to the public if we believe there might be serious reprisals against us if we "say the wrong thing".

For example, I personally helped work against slavery on the Black Market in the Middle East, and I wanted to raise awareness of this issue.

But now I have to be worried that I'll insult people by using the term Black Market, and will also insult people by giving off the impression that the the Middle East is a 3rd world primitive place where they buy and sell slaves.

There is no "right" way to convey the issue above without offending someone. So what should I do? Just shut my mouth and don't say anything? Then the slave trade will continue to operate freely...

All speech besides threats of violence needs to be free, or we can't progress as a society.
Keywords: (Strange) Attractor, Chaos, Memristor, Negative Impedance Converter, Negative Resistance, Non-Periodic, Oscillator
> Eg, people out protecting Churchill statues in the UK are labelled as racists in several stories

You missed out the bit where some of them were doing Nazi salutes or carrying EDL / Britain First etc flags.
Doing profitable activities illegal if done by ____, by saying “we do not consider ourselves to be ____” is the core of the business model for companies like Amazon or Uber
I'm also wondering the same thing, after the whole Elm meltdown I've been looking for something similar to learn on the side.
Sam Harris once proposed a “this changed my mind” button as a way to encourage discourse.
Romanian I would also recommend "Moartea domnului Lazarescu" https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/comedy/the-death-of-mr-laz...
Apple can do whatever they want. They are big enough.
As a European, and a beneficiary of an OTF grant, I concur: they are up-front about what they want, and my interaction with them didn't even hint at a hidden agenda.

I would hate to see them go.
Apple ML Compute