skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People also wanted to drive cars rather than take public transit.

Do they? Or do they because of really shitty broken public transport. I know many people in Berlin who had or could have a car but dropped it because it is totally not worth it having one.

(Through yes it's not a conspiracy, just very bad investments into public transport/infrastructure and a lot of lobbying often crippling approaches to improve public transit infrastructure.)

> I think suburbs are going to rise in status after the pandemic [..]

Even more a reason to interleave "non loud" industry with homes because then the people which can't work from home don't need to travel far.

> Plus, nobody really wants to use public transit during a pandemic

Even more a reason to interleave things as with that much shorter distances to work are possible and
as such can reach it their work place by food or bicycle. Not a option in some climate areas but very well an option in others like in Berlin.

> nobody really wants to use public transit during a pandemic

Actually in many EU countries where public transit is normal it's still used. A bit less but still used frequently. People just wear mask and make sure to wash their hand when arriving. Furthermore I'm not aware of any Corona hot-spot caused by public transit, even through e.g. Berlin does much less for disinfecting trains then what I have heard what is done in some US cities.

So my guess is that you might be right wrt. the US, but it's not a fundamental thing but more of a problem with cultural context, history and perspective.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states the positive rate of testing is indeed much lower now, suggesting testing is meaningfully broader.

On the other hand, it's only a factor 3, which is certainly nothing to sneeeze at, but still remarkable that that's enough to so strongly decouple mortality from infection, compared to earlier.
>Sanity check becomes quick check, confidence check or coherence check

why?
As a fellow animal researcher: this article is pretty much devoid of informed or carefully considered thought about the issue.

Many commenters have noted that biological systems are mind-numbingly complex, and we're not even close modeling these systems in a way that's useful for testing novel hypotheses of biology researchers.

The field in which I work, neuroscience, frequently does employ computational modeling, but this modeling is primarily used to provide a mechanistic link between inputs and outputs observed in an in vivo experiment. Present a sensory signal to an animal, observe something about neural dynamics in a brain region, THEN use simplified biologically-inspired elements to provide a plausible mechanism between the two. Even the state-of-the-art in silico model is always child's play compared to the real thing. We definitely don’t know enough about that real thing to build a model that would circumvent its need.
This author also works in a neuroscience lab – they should know better.
Is this the same thing as “pebble bed” reactors I read about many years ago?
And yet they allow Trump to tweet his hatred.
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Could "Spartan" and "Helot" work? Or would Greeks be offended?
https://www.persuasion.community/p/about-persuasion-redefini... seems to have a better description of their ideology than the /about page.

Essentially, their argument is that the populist right is the biggest threat to Liberal Democracy since WW2, but also that the left are not providing a reasoned defense.
Meanwhile, Turkey flooded the oldest continually-inhabited settlement in the world, Hasankeyf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasankeyf

A true loss to world heritage.
Americans learned that they can use zoning laws to put restrictions on their neighbors’ properties, mainly to keep their own property values high.

Unfortunately, American city planners have a lot of bad ideas of what a city should look like. For some reason, stadiums are unreasonably popular ( http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/print_friendly.cgi?page=/osc/... ).
Not really. I spent countless hours at a mall as a kid - it was just where my parents would drop us off to waste some time while they had to go run errands.
Stop posting fake news! DuckDuckGo hasn't been banned by India. Take this crap elsewhere! It doesn't belong here! Breaking site rules!
This endeavor is doubleplus good!
This might be a bit of a different take than the other comments here, but I highly enjoyed reading Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker when I first became interested in maths.
JPMorgan drops terms 'master,' 'slave' from internal tech code
Y’all acting like it’s the end of the world. Slippery slope is a logical fallacy.

I don’t know why we put up with that logical fallacy. Is it because white dudes won’t stop crying about it?

It shouldn’t bother anyone this much. It’s pretty telling that it does.
You're a fucking idiot.... Get a grip communist.
I love Spacemacs but due to varying configurations per build on different OS' Emacs either doesnt work at all OOTB with Spacemacs for me, or it works just enough to show up broken. Without cross-platform consistency I'm better off using Neovim + Spacevim which sometimes fails on me due to fonts, but its less broken.
"Today, people prefer to live in smaller spaces and want walkable developments rather than relying on vehicular transit. This project caters to these needs."

Kind of interesting to watch the mall trend fold in on itself. They were trying to recreate "towns" all along. I mean that's what a walkable "development" with mixed residential & commercial activity is.
But the substance is not the videogame itself, but rather is some complex neurochemistry. By this logic, basically all "drug" addictions are actually instantiations of a more primitive addiction to neurochemicals. Operating at this level of abstraction is useless, because there's no actionable decision points.
Too late AI will make it boring, unless it's AI vs AI?
So, why don't archaeologists write more books as interesting and engaging as Graham Hancock's then that also offer refutations of his claims? I see many personal attacks such as stating he's a crank...prove it.
Depend on where you work. Most places I've worked however JPA was part of it.

Spring used to be big but today JavaEE is probably better (I've used both.)

I learned a lot from Adam Bien, he is both entertaining and he keeps it down to earth, useful and real.

Three more things:

1. Invariably someone will come to trash Java. Don't care about them. Modern Java is decent.

2. Learn an IDE. Again, someone will probably say you should learn without one and that is about as smart as saying a "good carpenter never uses power tools" i.e. batshit crazy.

Java is pretty much dependent on using tools. I can enjoy both NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ. All three are better than anything you can get in any other language (except reSharper, but that is basically IntelliJ for C#)

3. Learn Maven and/or Gradle. Learn to love it. I learned to love it after that time I spent three days hunting for libraries for an older (non Java) maintenance job. Coming back to a system that will happily download and setup everything is lovely.

edit: FWIW i wrote this lar year. It is kind of indirectly related : https://erik.itland.no/questions-about-why-i-like-java
To everyone whose first reaction to this is negative, can I ask why? Do you really have an emotional investment in these specific terms?

We have the opportunity to make tech marginally more hospitable to Black developers at basically zero cost to everyone else. Let’s not mess it up!
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There is a lot of "white" and "black" out there to replace, especially on paper.
Come on man, fencing is an odd man out. The biggest Olympic sports have records and that makes Bolts and Phelps. That's what people come in droves to see.

I remember when I was younger watching a guy who had the world record for carrying a 40lb bag of coal a certain distance the fastest (or smth). My impression: Who cares?

Video games are fun and watching people who truly master that dexterity based are are amusing as hell, but let's not include them in the Olympics just because the gaming industry has a compelling "were 'e'-sports" campaign...
Ex-international fencer here - even if there were records, the rules have changed substantially in the past few years anyway. Sabre especially is a totally different sport than it was 30 years ago. The scoring box lockout timing has changed twice, which has made a huge difference. Lots of sports are in constant flux though. The reason I’m opposed to something like fortnite being in the olympics is actually because a single for-profit vendor (Epic) has a total stranglehold on everything about the game. In fencing, any manufacturer can make any of the equipment (if they can do so safely), and anyone can (theoretically) read the rulebook and try to give it a go. The same can’t be said about fortnite.
I did try that for the first six months or so, but I noticed multiple cases where I was still being sent to the new one. Maybe Reddit has fixed it since then, but this plugin was way more reliable fix for me.

Plus when I share a link with friends/coworkers I know with old.reddit.com urls I'm not going to be sending them to the clunky new version, if they don't happen to be logged in or have the right settings. And I've been asked how they too can use old version multiple times already.

We all left Digg back in the day for Reddit for much the same reasons. And I'm usually a big proponent of modern JS frontends, assuming it's done carefully and performance-first. Reddit, like online newspapers, should be as simple as possible IMO. Like AMP minus Google.
That is some crazy stuff. I always wonder what's hiding out there in the unseen corners of (SFL!) YouTube.

I would really like to experiment with engines like this, but decades of experience indicates I am prone to self-injury, and I don't think there would be any "small" injuries with propane jet engines.
No, one just needs to live in a racist society with a racist history.

I am not a fan of ignoring context but I get why American companies, with their specific history would want to do that.
(Non-US opinion) I don't mind changing the usage of loaded terms, either racially or in other ways (like grooming).

Changing the usage doesn't harm me in any way and if it arguably provides a more welcoming environment for people then why not.
Who claimed that? The straw man you built?
Maybe 1000 years after it includes chess.
I literally came here to say the same thing. It reads like someone is just trying to remarket the concept to people in their 50s and up to accept nuclear power as their one true God.
I'm not sure i saw that claim in TFA. Did i miss it?
I can think of one notable exception. Ala Moana in Honolulu. Seems like always a nice community event on the stage! Usually hula!
I have come to the point where I don't think 100% of what shows up in modern editors is a re-inventing the wheel. Multiple cursors, for one, was actually a decent replacement for short-and-not-too-many-lines macros. Roam seems ok if used with discipline.

All the new things do however prove the Emacs model at least partially right: most things can become well integrated into Emacs. Multiple cursors and editable fired (file manager) buffers? Worked from day one!
Yes, CS counts and Source can be considered a successor to 1.6. Similar with Dota2 and Dota. While the game changed in big parts, the concept and required athleticism remains the same.

It's comparable to how tools for other sports changed over the year. No one would want to play with tennis balls or rackets from 50 years ago. It just happens that change happens much more rapidly in esport games.
Ask HN: Favourite process/ceremony for staying connected with co-workers?
I've been tasked with coming up with new things to try for keeping the engineering department connected.

I'm interested in hearing what are your thoughts on that but also what's your previous experience.

It can be a fun activity for bonding or even a weekly formal ceremony or a process. For fostering better relations between people but also to ensure inclusivity and diversity.
An aside but generally reading about archaeology makes me somewhat sad about the focus in modern society, so much of what we must use and interact with to live is in fact intended not to last more than a few years to keep people's money incoming, yet the people who made these structures had things that survived even their own civilization. It would be great if we even had a modicrum of sustainability in our focus when we make or sell things.
I don't think it's a reasonable takeaway to say that her inaction on BLM, etc., is a significant factor in the employee complaint at all. It's about her comments deflecting blame again, and deleting her previous apology.
What about Beer Pong and Dodgeball?
That "How To Make Everything" site is pretty funny, esp. is $3500 salad. It reminds me of the book, "The $64 Tomato". About a guy that spends tons of money to grow a tomato and that's what the final cost turns out to be.

Here: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=536076...
Similar to how we no longer use "retarded" to be sensitive to the disabled, people have been rethinking words like "crazy", "insane", or "sanity" to be sensitive towards those with mental illness.

Update: Not sure why I got downvoted for stating the rationale for why people are making this change. Objectively I haven't even stated my opinion on the change, just the rationale I've seen for it. If you want a source here's one from NPR around this language: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/739643765/why-people-are-argu...
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23723433
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That quote about hating Erdos is interesting. I think my professor for UCLA undergraduate honors seminar from years ago, hated Erdos (he at least express dislike for a colleague of Erdos who operated similar). My impression is Erdos appeared to operated as something like a whirlwind of chaotic fact and theory finding whereas at least some other mathematicians aim to build larger unifying structures. It's a sort of Erdos versus Bourbaki divide (not to say who's right).
We now live in clown world.
This is going to be controversial; thus flagged, but I'd like to have an actual conversation about this.

It's my understanding that slavery has very little to do with race, blacklist has nothing to do with black people and "man" is the default term of humanity that comes from a completely different etymology than the word we use to refer to a male person.

I'm generally pretty stubborn but given the amount of traction this is getting, can someone _please_ explain to me the logic here? I'm perfectly willing to change my mind but right now I cannot fathom that these terms were harming people- unless those people were looking for reasons to be harmed.
Maybe if you are white and straight you never had to.
Wonder if "yinz" would be acceptable, too...
congratulations on having the privilege of not being reminded of your race every waking moment if you live in the US.
"Grandfathered" comes from
from laws passed in the late 1800s and early 1900s to disenfranchise black people. States created new restrictions on voting but exempted descendants of people who had been allowed to vote before black people were allowed to vote. You could vote if your grandfather could, in other words. The exemptions came to be called grandfather clauses.
I would like someone to professionally dispute and counter Graham Hancock's work. And I don't mean a random blog posts or some short clip of him having a godawful debate. I mean a thorough break down of "Graham says X, in reality it's Y." He has published a handful of books. It shouldn't be that difficult to find word-for-word factually incorrect statements he has made, that he still clings onto, that can be readily disproven.

The Joe Rogan show that he did where he debated was nice, but again, it's more for entertainment. Near the end it turned into ad hominem attacks against him and had some libelous pieces too. He could have taken legal action against the person.

So far all I have heard have been, to say the least, vague statements of how he is wrong, how he's causing archaeologists to have a bad rap, and whatnot. Okay then, show me the work.

I haven't found much in the way of anyone refuting his biggest points, namely the ridiculously precise celestial knowledge of the temple builders, and how these temples came to be constructed so well, considering they are massive slabs of stone that remain to this day. He touches on things like water erosion patterns and whatnot in areas that have seen very little water. At least one of these should be easily disprovable.
Please explain to me how "sanity check" or "dummy value" can reasonably be considered non-inclusive.

There are multiple definitions of these words including:

Sanity - reasonable and rational behaviour.

Dummy - an object designed to resemble and serve as a substitute for the real or usual one.

It strikes me as incredibly sensitive to say these are unacceptable for use. Sure, we can use different words but that is not the point - the point is how can words used as commonly defined and with no spite or foul intention be banned?

The comedian Stewart Lee has an excellent routine on this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zdyz5
I’d say the siloing is necessary, but your concerns about its consequences result from poor leadership.

It’s a problem that I’m sure most of us have seen play out at work. Companies tend to be divided into specialized departments, but if any of those departments gain too much influence over the rest of the company, things can go badly. Overly influential sales or security departments are a common thing people like to complain about. But if you end up with a company led by its sales team, it’s not really the sales teams fault, they’re just doing their job and advocating for the interests of the sales team. That failure would be with executive leadership, who’s supposed to listen to the advice/concerns of many different groups, each with their own specialized area of interest, and balance all their needs out according to some sort of over arching strategy.

The same thing happens in public policy. For example, police are always going to advocate giving more power to police, because it helps them do their jobs and achieve the goals of their organization. That by itself is not a problem, because the role of government is to listen to those concerns and then to balance them out with all of society’s other interests. If that doesn’t happen to your satisfaction, it’s a failure of government, not of the police.

It’s also one of the reasons why leadership during a crisis or after a tragedy is so prone to producing bad outcomes. Because those circumstances put one area of interest in the spotlight and make it very easy to forget about everything else. That’s how we ended up with the patriot act.
I'm on board if quake 3 will be in the olympics, and especially defrag.
Race has always been everywhere. You've just been able to ignore it.
I do, if done right I guess. In my previous house, it definitely wasn't urban, but not what you'd think of as suburban, either. Lotsa smallish houses in neighborhoods with good yards on both sides of a central road, which had tons of small shops. You could walk to get basic groceries, vet, eye clinic, donuts, couple restaurants. It was very quaint and to me, perfect. However, I currently live in some monstrosity of a neighborhood that requires driving at least five minutes to get anywhere. This isn't the future, and I don't understand how people can stand it.
We need to refer to currying functions in some other way, some Deloitte developers may take offence!
That would make it to #73 on the list of reasons to never install an app when a website would do
There's been a movement at my employer to replace some of these terms for years, though it seems to be getting more widespread attention lately.

Some of the terms, especially 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', are also very confusing to many non-native english speakers. 'Allowlist' and 'denylist' are just a lot clearer in those cases.
If you are planning on majoring in math (or related), why not get a head start and get some textbooks corresponding to actual courses you would like to take at the college/university you are planning/hoping to attend?
Activity. Substance means imbibing a chemical (e.g. eating, injecting, breathing).
Orange is the New Purple
Are the athletes also expected to be software developers? Are the viewers? Are the judges, broadcasters, and commentators? This is like telling a football player they should have a kinematics textbook in their pocket just in case they disagree with a referee.
That's an interesting question. I'd say that it's at least conceivable that meditation may help mitigate some of these phenomena.
Seems like mostly also strictly better names. Though being German replacing master with leader is ironic in our cultural context (the literal translation of leader is Führer...).
Nice to hear.
ridiculous. context is king
Hearthstone is a popular esport where games are decided by strategy (and maybe luck) rather than physical reflexes. So that does not seem to be a differentiator.
The rules in sports change pretty frequently. Little changes to the rules have a massive impact on the way the game is played at a high-level. See fencing, or goal-line tech in football (soccer).
If you hate it so much, maybe you’re a part of the problem.
also the US has a pretty ugly history of throwing up nonconforming people in mental institutions when it's convenient (see: suffragettes, gay people, etc.)
I'm guessing because there might be a possibility someone might be offended?
Why Law Enforcement Needs Jiu-Jitsu
To further underline what you're saying is both true and OK; once they started doing that, death tallies started at least getting close to excess deaths, although (IIRC, and I might have misremembered) despite diagnosing covid without PCR, excess deaths always exceeded diagnosed cases - i.e. almost certainly the doctors etc were being fairly conservative.

(Although they didn't try to diagnose people that died before even reaching the hospital, which were thousands - and would have contributed to excess deaths, but not covid numbers).
I suggest Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz. It doesn't matter if they already took a calculus course, I guarantee it's a much better way to make them appreciate the the subject than any textbook. And if they don't know calculus yet, that just makes it even better!

If I'd read this book as a teenager, maybe I would've passed Calc I on my first try as opposed to my third. With a C-.
I would think racism and slavery are two different things. Usually slaves and masters are of the same race. But I understand why this might be a good move, the word “slave” itself is pretty loaded with negative connotations.