skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP isn't blaming humans for animal diseases, but I am.

Human trade spreads pathogens/diseases at a tremendous rate compared to natural diffusion. There's quite a long list of diseases in non-humans spread through human trade.

Human activity might also make animals more susceptible to disease in general through a weakening of overall health through pollution and environmental disruption. This effect is hard to quantify but has the potential to be quite large.
I've been using Notion (https://www.notion.so/) for Kanban-style boards for a few months. After using Trello, Asana, and Jira, it's the only one that does basically what I want it to without spending hours on setup (Jira) or sheer annoyance (Asana). It won't be perfect for everyone, but for me Notion's task management is good enough and actually a pleasure to use so far.
Wow, this is an incredibly bad take.

Sanger claims that, in altering his early, rambling draft [1] of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy [2], the project "no longer has an effective neutrality policy" and has endorsed an "utterly bankrupt" policy of "false balance".

However, the principle of undue weight, which is what Sanger is referring to as "false balance", was already present in the exact version of the policy which Sanger edited:

> Articles that compare views need not give minority views as much or as detailed a description as more popular views. We should not attempt to represent a dispute as if a view held by only a small minority of people deserved as much attention as a very popular view. That may be misleading as to the shape of the dispute.

And this is precisely the policy which he proceeds to argue against! According to Sanger, the article on Barack Obama should focus more on the various short-lived media scandals and conspiracy theories surrounding his presidency, and articles on vaccines and global warming should focus more on their detractors.

Of course, this is nonsense. The only thing that really changed in Wikipedia's policy was the abandonment of the clearly flawed principle that neutrality could be established by "presenting all points of view" on a topic. To understand how that policy is flawed, one need merely consider what would mean for topics with a single, simple consensus view and many fringe theories surrounding them, like Egyptian pyramids. To present every point of view about the pyramids (that they were built by or for aliens, or that their shape or arrangement has mystical powers... etc) alongside well-established scientific consensus (that they were built by Egyptians as royal tombs) would lend inappropriate weight to those points of view.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Neutral...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
My point is that it's entirely possible to encounter the term in a context where the people being described by the term were being bogus and oppressive, so it's impossible to know a priori whether somebody using that term is an enemy or merely an imperfect ally.

Successful activism generally requires forming as large a coalition as possible, and insta dismissing somebody as a bigot for not getting everything right first time is not an effective way to do that.
But the market share was lost to a "rewrite" by a competitor.
Now how do we get aspiring actors to take GPT3 seriously and act out a possible screenplay?

Hopefully one day it will generate startup business plans, and we’ll get people to take it seriously, we may not know the difference.
> Yes, I wish this was easier too.

I've used spatialite, and even though the doc is poor, I've managed to do things with it, and it works fine.

I'm not sure I can generate tiles with QGIS and spatialite.

It's true that open source GIS software is not easy to find, since GIS is not easy in the first place.
I don’t love them, but I’m ok with ads. I’m not ok with tracking/spyware/modern adtech.
This should result in automatically kicked off the app stores... They do it for other privacy violations and abusing APIs. This sounds like a good candidate.
The most important detail is missing from the articles. What intensity of light is reaching the eyes?
Maybe this one "[The Pea And The Sun](https://www.amazon.com/Pea-Sun-Mathematical-Paradox/dp/15688.... It reads in a nice flow and shows theoretical math in an understandable way even though it covers a very complex theorem.
“ No-one knows why the animals are dying in Botswana - home to a third of Africa's declining elephant population”

We are concerned about 300 because humans kill tens of thousands a year and we are driving them towards extinction.

If something goes wrong with the elephant population in Botswana, the acceleration will increase
> Sadly cross platform supports only came with version 3 and that means saying goodbye to the small Windows native downloads, but it's not an Electron monstrosity.

Yes, it's NW.js instead of Electron, but that's still an almost 100MB framework (and the >50MB sounds directory doesn't help much either). It's also closed source, though the documentation is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/writemonkey/wm3/wiki/Documentation .
Surreal Numbers by Knuth is great, although not related to analyis/calculus:

https://www.amazon.com/Surreal-Numbers-Donald-Knuth/dp/02010...
Most apps are being installed for access to notifications. Apple is incentivizing this behavior by refusing to implement browser notifs. The sad state of the web in 2020 is only matched by the irony of these companies being more profitable than ever.
> That's what Copy fundamentally means- make this thing globally available to all my programs

Wouldn't that be:

Copy means- "make this thing go into MY clipboard".

Paste means- "make my clipboard available to THIS application".
TL;DR send per episode alerts as per agreed, but include a prominent easy "click here to switch to a monthly episode summary alert" link in the messages, splitting your list into two lists. Now mail without anxiety.

1) 1% unsubscribe-per-mailing rate really isn't bad or unusual.

2) I doubt I would want a per episode email, BUT if I did suscribe to episode alerts, I might also be very surprised if they stopped coming. So you probably have a mixed population of core fans who want per-episode alerts and are surprised they're not getting them ~weekly, and a bigger group of casual interest who want to remember to look at your website to see if it stays interesting in the future, but who's ideal email frequency is more like once monthly.

That's probably ideally two lists, so ideally you need to split them. If you don't split them, I'd keep doing what they signed up for by default.

3) Keep your simple clear call to action on the web, BUT send messages with a not-next-to-unsubscribe slightly prominent "Hey, you signed up for per-episode alerts, click here if you'd like to be moved to a monthly 'episodes this month' alert instead"

That way the call to action on the web is kept simple (you know this call to action works, maybe don't mess with that), but people get used to there being an action between "do nothing and be annoyed" and "nuclear unsubscribe". This /might/ cut your per-episode-alert unsubscribe rate in half.

I would find this to be polite and considerate mailing behavior, and you in turn could feel free to stop worrying about sending your per-episode alerts.... and focus on a clean simple monthly summary message besides.
I've been reading a ton about Notion - it really seems like the people's champ - may give it a try
Can I use spatialite coupled with QGIS to generate those tiles? How well does it perform?
Why is it for generation Z?
It does not pass the smell test though: Apple has nothing to gain from its non-existent advertising arm, whilst advertisers have a lot to lose if random users can opt out. I have no doubt Apple's solution needs improving and will be circumvented, but I am not going to lament that better is not perfect.
How many people can afford a personal trainer and a therapist while not having a job?
They're not a monopoly, not even a majority. You have choices, but you're not making them.
I got the email and it was focused on:

a) Saying this program was to fight discrimination, and

b) Saying they weren't collecting new data or doing anything nefarious.

What it left out was clearly explaining what they _were_ doing. I had to parse text carefully and use my own familiarity with the industry to understand that they were going to decide my race based on my photo/name.

Without clearly explaining what the new data use is, you can't expect people to make an informed decision about opting-out.
I have to plug Acorn to Arabella here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiDWnTP0WB1xCp6uuUo0VA

I've been watching since around when they smelted the lead keel which it seems was almost 3 years ago!

Really amazing to watch their progress, they are almost done planking the boat.
A bit on the lighter side, I do recommend The Man Who Counted which I read as a kid and absolutely loved

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Counted-Collection-Mathematic...

I read the original in Portuguese but would assume it's just as good in English, given overwhelmingly positive reviews on Amazon

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Counted

It won't really teach him math per se, but if my experience is any indication, it will get him hooked on developing intuition and he'll find beauty in otherwise mundane topics such as arithmetic. It's an incredibly engaging story aimed at younger readers but fun for people of all ages – think Arabian Nights with a character that loves math.

Come to think of it, I've got to buy it again and re-read it one of these days
Do you really want to install a custom certificate to get it to work? Most content blocking has shifted to the browser because of this.
What is puke inducing there? The green?

I'd call that color scheme Liquorice-Absinthmeister :-)
Ah yes that's probably something I should add. It irked me too when I was starting out but then I got used to using the "Home" button and forgot that I needed to do something about it.

UPDATE: There is a back button now.
It’s also how baseball players catch balls, how many animals catch their prey, etc.

There’s no need to estimate position and speed of objects and then extrapolate them to predict whether course collide and how long that will take. It’s easier to directly derive that from optical information (think of it this way: if that train is 10% as far away, and also goes 10% faster, it will still hit you at the same time. That’s a degree of freedom brains don’t have to solve for)

(Couldn’t find a really good link. You’ll have to do with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_psychology, http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Optic_flow#Active_and_ec..., https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-28-mn-59922-...)
Flatland also contains some rather, well, Victorian attitudes. Mathematically, one can get 73.8193% of what the book covers from watching Carl Sagan's bit in the relevant Cosmos episode.
Sweet, other apps to add to my "never use" list.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with cutting and pasting blocks of markdown up/down?
I think there needs to be a balance. Too many restrictions are also user-hostile. The only sure way to stop all tracking is just close down the app store and the entire 3rd party ecosystem.
There is nothing wrong with e.g getpockets functionality to show the url that you have in your clipboard and offer to add it.

There is something wrong with sharing that information anywhere else - which should result in a permanent revocation of the dev cert for the organization that has produced it, as should any type of telemetry (spyware, as we called it in the old days).
If they might enjoy something on computing, I'd recommend
"The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work" by W.Daniel Hillis. It's very clear and well written, is quite short but covers a lot and can be enjoyed cover to cover more like a novel than a textbook.
This isn’t true. Many people like being subscribed to content they actually want. I know I do! If I’m on the list, email me.
There's the Adrian Schoolcraft incident, where a whistleblower was forcibly institutionalized. Allegedly the commissioner was involved in the incident. I'm still not seeing them at different levels.
Drug overdoses skyrocket during Coronavirus
Same reason why all road vehicles have brake lights. Too difficult to detect the (decreasing) speed of a vehicle in front of you.
If they have been exposed to diff eq at all I can recommend Strogatz Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. It's a very interesting subject, and the text is one of the most approachable I've come across for any subject.
It absolutely is, but they just picked up a tweet. At least you can trust their motivations are to get back on the good side of privacy minded folks.
Nothing special - just working at a temperature of 32C* while waiting for an Asana task to load from external links just drives me bonkers.
> ...and today the idea of critical thinking and critical reading is not just mainstream, but part of public education...

Critical theory is not critical thinking

> The best criticisms against critical theory are listed on Wikipedia

That's quite a bold claim, how often are the best criticisms of anything listed on Wikipedia?

> What sorts of similar "showstopper" evidence do you have against critical theory

Well, it is explicitly not concerned with evidence, the thing you are attempting to appeal to in this question.

Hacker News calls upon us to assume good faith, so I'll stop here.
> But long before the rewrite project achieve feature parity with the original, it is already marred by the same issues that motivated the rewrite.

I think there are definitely counter-examples. Can you imagine using an OS in 2020 based on incremental improvements in Mac OS System 9, or Windows ME. Or browsing using a browser based on incremental improvements in Netscape 4.7?
As a child, I greatly enjoyed "Algebra the Easy Way", "Trigonometry the Easy Way", and "Calculus the Easy Way". They present each of the subjects not as already-invented concepts that you just have to learn, but as things being invented by a fictional kingdom as they need them. I greatly prefer that style over rote memorization; I can remember it better when I know how to recreate it. Even more importantly, it encourages the mindset that all of these things were invented, and that other things can be, too.

(Note: the other books in the "Easy Way" series do not follow the same style, and are just ordinary textbooks.)

Also, in a completely different direction, I haven't seen anyone mention Feynman yet, and that will definitely encourage a broader view of mathematics and science.

Or, to go another angle, you might consider things like "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
I think I mostly agree with your take, but if I could defend the counterargument for a moment, there exist stronger cases for a rewrite than "we're smarter than those other guys." Namely, what happens if your requirements have fundamentally changed?

Classic Mac OS was written at a time when computers had kilobytes of memory and black and white graphics. It was not designed for multi-tasking, because at the time it was written, the world had insufficient hardware to make multi-tasking practical. It was not designed for networking, because the internet mostly did not exist at the time. It was not designed for security, because computers were a less important target for criminals, and no internet meant far fewer exploit vectors.

All of these features were post-facto bolted onto Mac OS, and the result was an unstable mess. It was ultimately a full OS rewrite that fixed the platform.

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I'll make a separate case too, for a rewrite I wish would happen: it's all well and good for Slack to build their client in Electron as a small startup that needs to experiment and iterate quickly. However, Slack is now a reasonably-sized public company, and they (should) have a stable product that will not undergo rapid changes.

Now would be an excellent time for Slack to rewrite their client to be a native app on each of the major platforms. They have the resources to create a snappy, performant app that more customers will enjoy using.
Open Source Hardware Association members to deprecate use of Master/Slave terms
Use oathtool Linux command line for 2 step verification (2FA)
Ask HN: Is it ok to post academic papers for discussion?
I am brand new here and I found a paper on relative locations with a question about the authors use of hilbert's axiom of betweenness. Is this appropriate content for HN?
There's a proper proof, which is too long to fit in this margin (i.e. I'm too lazy to find a link), but I can do a much shorter one:

1. Non-determinism is equivalent to determinism plus extra, random input.

2. The addition of random noise does not bestow free will upon something that didn't have it without the random noise.

3. 1 and 2 imply no non-determinstic systems can possess free will if deterministic systems cannot possess free will.

4. 3 implies free will is independent of determinism.
> collusion from Google and Facebook

Is there a good reason to believe that Google or Facebook are involved? Seems like it may be a tenuous connection given the article's vagueness: "some" of 16 unnamed "associations" are "backed" by Google/Facebook, according to a source we know nothing about.
Aside from the specifics of the political squabble, an elected official (Harris) has far more to lose from "bad associations" than an appointed official (Mnuchin) who is accountable to no one except his boss.
Google tends to rewrite without all of the features. I guess you can get a way with that if you’re Google.
Locusts have hit east Africa hard
You could replace both with ublock origin.
There's a Domain-Driven Design pattern that encapsulates this entire problem. First, never even think about rewriting an entire system. You will likely fail. Not because you're not smart and capable, but because the business won't be patient enough to allow you to do it properly. And they'd be right not to be patient. They have things to sell and customers to support...today.

That's why Eric Evans came up with the Autonomous Bubble pattern. You rebuild features one at a time and connect them to the old code through anti-corruption layers and translation layers. Over time, the older code will be set aside. In a year or two, the plug will have naturally been pulled on all of the older code.

So there's some truth to Spolsky's 2000 blog post. But it's not smart to maintain older code forever either. You have to be careful, thorough, and use the right tools.
From the article:

"Rather than coming off as a legitimate attempt to help legitimate problems, then, this form of gender activism appears to many like an unappealing combination of ideologizing and attention-seeking and raises the question of whether everybody who says they are trans is sincere or correct. It seems likely that some people have jumped on the train due to an ideological commitment to gender non-conformity and many trans people themselves have complained of this and coined the term “transtrender” to describe it."

This is pretty clearly "gender-conforming trans good, icky weird attention-seeking trans bad". The thing about "many trans people" is mentioned without any evidence and probably refers to people like Debbie Hayton and Buck Angel.

My demigirl friend microdoses on testosterone for the facial hair and voice deepening effects, though she would rather be read as a woman than a man. I know cis men who take the standard spironolactone and estradiol HRT combination.

Sorry, forming coalitions with people that seek to divide a marginalized community rather than work towards unity and solidarity is not a good idea.
Zimbabwe moves to suspend mobile payments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE2Gh8BUA-Q

Engine made of JB Weld might be the dumbest, most amazing thing, best thing ever.
I have to use Win10 on some machines at work and just find it so much less refined. The latest Edge full-screen modal is another example of Microsoft's UX misses. The "are you sure, really sure, OK fine" change the default browser is evidence that they don't put the user first. No, I'll keep my Mac thank you.
Usually via the general fund of the locality where the video was recorded.
Thanks, this sounds pretty easy.

For my and others' future reference, here's a random video of how to do this with an obd2 port, as suggested by a child comment: https://youtu.be/dDY2lMMrpLU This may or may not be more convenient than the accessory socket.
The next Olympics should include Fortnite
I'll see if I can find the article but a couple of years ago there was another mass die off of a type of deer that has an enlarged nose. It appears the the average temperature had risen just enough to allow a common bacteria they had in the nasal passage to replicate at speed and poison them. It wasn't just the temperature, but the humidity (or lack of) that also led to this, I'll see if I can find the article.

https://phys.org/news/2015-05-mass-deaths-rare-kazakhstan-an... edit here was the detail. It appears it was the rain that caused the issue and a third of the total population died.
1Password, which works everywhere and I get for free through work.

If I didn't want to pay, I'd switch to Bitwarden.
An engineer at LinkedIn says, "We've traced this to a code path that only does an equality check between the clipboard contents and the currently typed content in a text box. We don't store or transmit the clipboard contents."[1]

Why? What is the reason for doing that check?

1. https://twitter.com/eberger45/status/1278843576638570496
Chatbots, when done right, properly field answer your questions across a limited scope and domain, and allow for an easy exit to talk to a human. As a customer support platform with bots, my company helps businesses reduce their customer support load effectively using chatbots while making sure customers are able to talk to a person if they need to.

As a business, when you have customers asking the same question over and over (shipping questions, where is my order etc), it makes sense for a bot to handle that, and have your staff handle other more specific issues such as refunds, payment issues, or any other questions that the bot wasn't able to handle, or if the customer specifically hits the 'I want to talk to someone' button

My guess is the "bots" you've dealt with are dead-end bots that don't offer a way to speak to an actual person and are meant to make it as difficult as possible for you to actually reach someone. That's unfortunate - maybe it's a business decision (a poor one), or the chatbot just doesn't work very well and doesn't have a way to escalate.

Chatbots have gotten so much flak because a bunch of them try to use as much AI as possible to answer every possible question and businesses think chatbots makes needing an actual human support team unnecessary, which unfortunately is not the case.
Websites request access to my location data constantly. They also likely have some semblance of where I am even before they ask due to IP geolocation. If I'm using an offline application this transaction wouldn't be happening.

My point isn't that either apps or the Web are better. It's a more fundamental issue of software I use constantly talking to systems I don't control. It just so happens that the Web only exists if I accept that this will happen. Applications can exist even if I don't.
FB could buy your data from other networks, provided via some other app.

Also your coworkers probably looked at your FB profile.
They're simply too introverted!
Cases where JavaScript generators rock (+ understanding them)