skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I point out that far from preventing it, academia has caused "bizarre, erroneous historical narratives ... gaining traction"

Then you point out that I'm conflating history and anthropology... how academic!

When looking at what happened to people in the past, does reality cleave neatly down history/anthropology lines? Or is that an artifact of bureaucracy?
I didn't attend an elite school, but OP might be referring to undergrad education at places such as UC Berkeley?
Please do not assume that the one who submits the URL is the same as the one that owns the site.
Microsoft and Bridgestone's New Tech Can Alert You of Tire Damage in Real-Time
Episode 6: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality
Now do cancer..

Now do influenza.

Now do suicide..

Here's one for you, take out deaths over 60 and then look at the data.

Better yet.. If you statistically don't want to die, don't be over 70 in a nursing home in a state with a governor who's a Democrat. It's better than a coin flip if you're in that unfortunate category.. odds are high you're toast.

I'll not blow your mind by discussing serology studies, both here and abroad.

And since you enjoy using other countries datas, you should actually look into it.. Multiple countries have already noted that the lockdown are inherently unhelpful. Several countries including Italy, have both serology and fecal matter studies which show the virus is quite prevalent and is far less lethal than was believed, Especially for those younger than 50 with no co-morbidity. They also found that the virus was in fecal matter in early fall 2019, and similar findings have been found in Pennsylvania. We were likely well into the virus in January, long before masks and lockdown became a thing. It's ironic that the elderly and imfirmed are the ones actually at the greatest risk, yet our government solution is to lock down the healthy and young, while totally giving a death sentence to those most vulnerable.

The death count by-day and by-week has been making record setting lows for the past few weeks now, the best since early in the year.

Again, the data gives no fucks about what you want to believe. And no, according to CDC numbers, this hasn't been been even at epidemic levels since early June.

And all those countries you prize so much, all of them are playing sports, with people in the stadiums, even in the UK the PM is under active investigation as to why they stayed locked down for so long when the data doesn't dictate what they were doing was correct..

I'm not trying to smash your beliefs because it's pretty clear you're a true believer and the actual science or data won't persuade you anyway.. But the idea that you would analogize this to something such as the Vietnam war leads me to believe you should've took less classes on basket weaving, gender studies, or most likely psychology, and more in maths.
Sifted vs. packed flour disagrees.
> The other thing we ask students to do, beyond merely encountering these things is to use them to practice argumentation, to reason soundly, to write well, to argue persuasively about them.

If the purpose of teaching the humanities is to teach kids sound reasoning, good writing, and effective persuasion, then why is so little of that evident today when more kids than ever go to college?
Why do electron shells have set limits? (1999)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_density
That’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of YouTube.

FWIW I also understand how valuable moderation is and I think it is more impactful than downvoting. I just had never considered before that downvoting was, at least potentially, a valuable tool to increase civility.
Whether it’s right or not, prestige and notoriety of a college count for a huge amount in employment and earnings. Why should my family not get that chance if they worked just as hard to earn it?
That's the box art. What do the game graphics look like?

(Box art should be screenshots from the game, anyway. Truth in labeling.)
There's this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/pompeo-fi... from a month ago.
I don't like to "just leave them out there." If I can figure out why they are disliked, I may be able to fix them.

Here's an example: A couple of days ago, Antirez made this excellent post[0].

I could completely relate. I have been through the same kind of thing. I have created a project for free that is becoming a worldwide standard, but is tiny, and rather pathetic, compared to redis.

But I could still relate to what he wrote, and I made a post, saying that. I pointed to my own little project.

It immediately started getting downvoted. They were coming fast and furious, so I deleted it.

On reflection, I see that it was perceived as being "small-time loser compares himself to tech god."

I didn't mean it that way, but I'm a bit "on the spectrum," and aren't always too aware of how I come across.

I considered it a lost cause. I nuked it, and wrote a quick "thanks!" post, like everyone else.

The fox just wasn't worth the chase.

[0] http://antirez.com/news/133
>I suspect that a lot of the nice behavior on HN is because, for the most part, people value the community, and consider this a "professional" environment, and it's not a bad idea to play nice in places where employers/ees can see us show our butts.

People here also have made it or perceive that they are on the path to making it. They may think that housing costs are too high or the police are too violent or that outsourcing has been bad for the American worker. But we're by and large not without adequate housing, the target of police violence, or in the poor house. It's easier to be less outraged when you're sitting at the top of the heap.
The default New Reddit experience does hide heavily downvoted comments.
Here is the link to the InfoQ interview: https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/01/q-a-max-kanat-alexander/
Isn't this literally NVIDIA's dlss? And it has already been productized.
In the 1980s the West used boycotts and divestment to criticize apartheid South Africa. It's time the West does the same to China to criticize its treatment of the Uyghurs.

The problem though as an individual consumer is that electronics products made in China are so ubiquitous that it's difficult to impossible navigate a boycott.

Please HNers at big corps, if you are in any sort of position to influence where your hardware products are made, please push to have your products made elsewhere.
That and there is always show dead mode for those that have an account and wish to see those comments. They're just generally hidden from casual browsers and must be turned on by those who want to see them.
From an outsider perspective (I'm Canadian), the politicalization of wearing a mask seems like a huge distraction from action that can make a much bigger difference:

* staying home when even a little bit sick

* physical distancing (esp. indoors)

* hand washing

* don't touch your eyes, nose, mouth with unclean hands

* getting tested if having symptoms

* if physical distancing is not possible, then wearing a mask (esp. indoors)

I kind of worry that in a desperate attempt to improve the economy, US governments will continue to ignore the advice of experts and embrace mask-wearing as a panacea.
For iPhones, Lightning rather than USB-C, no headphone jacks, and inability to use software outside of the app store. For Macs, lack of post-purchase expandability, and it's getting gradually more difficult to run non-store software.

Yes, you can come up with arguments why these things are actually good for users. But coincidentally the workarounds always end up with more revenue for Apple: AirPods, 30% commission on apps, inflated BTO upgrade prices...
Depends on how well sifted or otherwise packed the flour is and how precisely the cup was filled.
Agreed, so recipes call for a cup of sifted flour or to sift a cup of (unsifted) flour, i.e. specifying the approximate packing property.
HN uses downvotes for disagreement, not just because someone is being a jerk. How is that good? The top comment becomes the group-think comment.
Looks like it’s a board game
Slavery is to blame for lack of family support? That’s a new take.

I’m also curious how far this thing is meant to go, at what point do black Americans become fully independent and responsible for themselves again?
That's just a bunch of words, a grab-bag of facts, and it lacks a philosophical or moral foundation connecting it together. However, it would satisfy an automated grading system.

An actual moral reason not to fly the confederate flag on your home or your video game automobile would be because many black people interpret it as a racist symbol, and they might feel unloved and alienated.

A philosophical reason would be if you disagree with the sectionalist politics of it. That's why many groups opposed the introduction of the symbol into state flags in the past. That sounds more aligned with your reasons, but is a different reason. The act of flying Italian, German, Mexican, or British flags to celebrate one's ethnic heritage seems quite different than that of flying the confederate flag.
> The first factor is the password, but the second factor is the device's lock screen / password.

> I enquired how did they know a lock screen was actually set up, let alone solved recently, and the answer was: "on Android, we know - for Windows & macOS, we'd probably need browser extensions".

This blew my mind. How many Google security experts worked on their model and how did they all think "...and obviously we can assume every user has a secure login set up on every machine"?!
Imagine for a moment that a mad scientist is able to grow a human brain in the lab.

Once grown, this brain knows nothing about objects in the physical world. It has had no physical experiences. It has had no interactions with anything or anyone else.

The mad scientist then wires this know-nothing brain to a computer. The computer feeds RGB images from the ImageNet ILSVRC2012 dataset, one image at a time, again and again, to the brain's visual system. Upon feeding each image, the mad scientist measures which of 1000 previously chosen neurons in the brain's cortex fire, each neuron corresponding to exactly one label in the dataset. When the right neuron fires, the scientist activates the brain's pleasure centers; if the wrong neurons fire, the scientist activates the brains's pain centers.

After seeing each image multiple times, one can imagine, the know-nothing brain will learn to activate the correct neuron associated with each image label well enough to get high accuracy on a validation dataset consisting of previously unseen images.

But that poor brain will still know nothing about objects in the physical world.

Substitute "human brain" for "convolutional neural network," and you obtain a remarkably accurate description of how neural nets learn to recognize images.
I bake with whole meal, high grade, tipo 00, zentrofan flour and straight gluten flour. If I do it by volume it gets all messed up. Zentrofan and gluten are very fine and seem to pack down much tighter.
The article mentions the hash is required to begin with a certain number of 0s in hex digits (half byte) whereas the Bitcoin whitepaper refers to it as number of bits. I'm unsure about the comparison (== or >) but the whitepaper seems accurate with regards to the target.
Can you even buy a smartphone that's not assembled in China?
If I scooped 8 cups of flour I'll bet I would get 8 different weights. They'd probably all be within some margin of error, but not all the same.
I don’t think you’re right about that. Groceries, supplies, movie tickets, restaurants, fuel, transit, medical & dental resources, rent, and so on are all much more expensive in the city. The fraction of things you get on Amazon or through other means that allows paying a low competitive nationwide price is pretty tiny and doesn’t really offer any meaningful advantage to city dwellers.

But on the flipside, state and federal taxes collected from city dwellers do heavily subsidize much more expensive infrastructure and operations costs in suburban and rural areas.

So rural residents get safe roads, remote snow removal, remote power lines, heavy freight supply shipping, equal prices for US mail shipping, school systems and so on, despite not having their own tax base capable of actually sustaining all the costs.

Basically, middle class and upper middle class urban workers subsidize pretty much everybody else. Any richer and you have access to tax avoidance resources and lobbying, and poorer and you consume much more in government resources than you pay in, especially in rural areas.
Power of 2 volumetric measures are actually quite nice.
i guess there are no gamers at BMW...otherwise they'd know about the rage that micro transactions elicit
... and that cute little germ/bran tail that automatically pops out and tells you when it's done cooking.
And we are still having this discussion in 2020 with Kafka [1].

A DBMS is one thing, but data platform components are something else.

And I think this is good, actually - IMHO the ability to use unbundled components of a "database" for different purposes has been huge. A distributed processing query engine - Apache Spark. A distributed "transaction log" that acts like a queue and can handle real time streaming and permanent storage - Kafka. Distributed file storage - HDFS. Efficient storage and open file formats for compressed data - Parquet for columnar data.. Snappy compression, ORC, etc.. etc..

As a result, we have tools that represent the unbundled components, and we still have traditional monolithic DBMS. And we still have queues that are transient (ex. nanomsg or ZMQ). They can and do coexist and this is good. We have lots of tools in the chest for different jobs, it's great!

[1] https://dzone.com/articles/is-apache-kafka-a-database-the-20...
Oh man, they taught QBASIC in my first programming class in high school as a freshman in 2001. We had to make a game, we had to learn about loops using WHILE WEND, and now I can show my kids what I used to learn programming because it still works. This is exciting!

As a continuation of the story, the next year I took AP computer science and we learned using Borland C++. the year after that we learn Java 1.4 for AP computer science. Blast from the past, no?
Show HN: WebAssembly System Interface for Deno has been merged into Deno
LOL, I was wondering how long it would be before someone commented, ignoring the entire first part of his post and blames the victim. Not that long it turns out!

As I was wading through paragraph after paragraph where the author acknowledged fault and berated himself for it, I was thinking, "This is annoying, but I know if he doesn't write all this crap, someone out there will just ignore everything else he writes. They probably will anyways..."

And sure enough, here you are!

Moral of this story for people who write things online: Don't worry about the critics. You can't please them no matter what you write, or how much you bow and scrape and beg forgiveness for your human frailty up front, there will always be someone who will be a jerk.
It's a good reason not to use Google as your password manager - too many goodies under one key.

(It's already bad enough that Gmail is probably the account recovery email, even if the passwords stored in the password manager.)

It got me to go through my accounts and delete the 5 or so password that managed to get into that manager over the years.
I honestly feel it would be a good idea to remove them. Just let people upvote. There's something disproportionately mean about downvotes. They're not just a lack of upvotes, they're like beating someone up with a stick.

They're almost never used for their actual purpose anyway, which is to rank down uninformative or just dumb posts, they always end up being utilized in heated discussions as a way to stick it to whoever someone is arguing with.
Nice! I could actually use something like this, for a subset of notes, or nested (and disorganized) folders of files, books, etc. Thanks for sharing.

https://github.com/zikani03/groupby
Eggs are just... eggs, no matter how you write down your recipe. If you made a great cake and wanted to repeat the process, and it had three eggs in it, you'd... write down that you used three eggs. It's not really relevant to how you describe the quantities of the other ingredients you use.

But if you used 220g of flour, you're more likely to recreate the cake accurately next time if you write that down, than if you write down '1 3/4 cups flour'.
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So this is somewhat of a followup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23548491 which was about deno-wasi, an implementation of the WebAssembly System Interface for Deno.

Well, I merged deno-wasi into deno about week or two ago, currently shipping in stable.

Please feel free to break it :)
Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism
> the Europeans who have been becoming increasingly proud to have societies that favor authoritarian nepotism

Which ones?
But the high cost of nuclear power is probably due to the extraordinary (and perhaps very excessive) safety procedures, no? It's not like the raw material or basic principles are very expensive. So I presume the idea is to hope that having a more intrinsically safe fuel will allow those expensive safety procedures to be relaxed (although, given the sclerotic nature of nuclear regulation, probably not).
>a regulated weight range

Under a single region-bound regulatory body, making it useless internationally.
For devs transitioning into modern java development, I always suggest:

https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/

Lots of new java stuff (for example newer springboot tools and projects) and old stuff (custom built applications that are no longer being updated and dynamic web applications that uses older building tools or older frameworks no longer supported like struts) are used at companies simultaneusly, so if you learn the new stuff, which is probably easier and more rewarding because its faster to build applications with, keep in mind you will eventually need to learn about the "magic under the hood" so dont hesitate to learn and read how things work.

If you want to learn about legacy dynamic web app or legacy spring (not springboot just spring, as they are different), google a tutorial for that and you will learn more about how annoying java web development used to be (and still is at most fortune 500 companies unable to upgrade to newer infrastructure, people that complain about java probably worked with one of these old applications),

If u are unfamiliar with the tools required to run these applications (like maven or gradle, or installing the java sdk and setting it up, getting your IDE working), you will learn about setting up a java dev environennt, as it can be a very frustrating, bug filled experience, dont get frustrated just google the error messages you will learn a lot,

Real life java application scenarios/projects that you can build for your portfolio:

-a SQL DB (google: how to connect java springboot to mysql database tutorial) connected to a Java API(google: springboot rest api tutorial) that talks to a JS front end

-a java powered calculator, chess, or hangman application to be run in terminal/console

-A java api that can send out json responses of true or false based on question and answers

The main reasons companies use java is because they built java apps ten years ago, and its easier to hire java engineers who can maintain that code, rather than get the company's major apps on a new language that would be harder to hire to support for

Im sure most companies wouldnt use java if hiring/they didnt have active users wasnt an issue, but regardless of that, the java development industry is very healthy and people are optimistic about its career growth for devs

Also suggested:

-improve ability to be able to complete "easy" java leetcode questions so if they give you those you arent caught off gaurd
Being partisan does not guarantee you are dishonest.

Everyone has biases, but that doesn't mean we're all incapable of feeling or finding truth.

The GP said clearly that the field is broken due to everyone preferring to shore up their worldviews rather than follow the evidence.

People disagreeing with the Biblical narrative sounds like the opposite to me.
And yet recipes are usually specified in volume in the US. This means packing properties are assumed to be in some default range so that can be neglected:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17481/simple-white-cake/
I have contributed heavily to google maps but have recently tried to do same in OSM.
However, that proves to be very difficult
I’ve noticed these “click to appeal” links (on YouTube, and other places) always have a near instantaneous turn around time, and they always rejected. Conspiracy me, suspects that all appeals are rejected by rule, to scare people from appealing further, and only these much fewer second appeals are actually reviewed.
Unfortunately, people who can't afford to pay for any but the cheapest goods far outnumber those who can.
I'm sorry, perhaps I'm being stupid, but I don't understand the point you're making.

Obviously not everyone agrees on the Bible's meaning, source, or value. I'd go so far as to say no two people do (like any large document, it is possible to have an infinite variety of interpretations of it).

I'm not sure how that relates to what I wrote.

I'd appreciate a clarification.
This is a very loaded and racist term against wasps, shame on you!

EDIT: It is a joke (just saying because there is a lot of angry people here)
“Out of our regard to them we gave them Bing, two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.”
— William Trent, William Trent's Journal at Fort Pitt
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan must learn how to share the Nile river
Sure. Nokia apparently is making some in India. Samsung does some in S Korea and some in Vietnam, unless that's changed recently.
Honestly it's unlikely. At most they will delay China, maybe make it pretend for a bit it changed.

China is clearly pursing US Tech independence since a long time. They are not there yet, but they constantly get closer. If Tech companies in US/EU would have been more careful with cooperation and IT-espionage maybe then it would be true. But by now it's pretty much to late. They already have a solid enough foundation to become US Tech independent. The question is just how long it will take. And how it currently looks not too long.
Part of me has reservations about depriving ignorant people of an opportunity to get educated, but another part of me thinks not booting them will probably result in more racists in positions of power.
yeah the problem I have with that type of system is it’s easy to be muted simply for not engaging in group think...
Not really. Most studies show that what college you go to only matters for a few professions.

Way back when I graduated, 3 years in, I was making just as much as people that went to prestigious schools for my same area (computer science) and I paid less for one year of college than they paid for four - and no debt.

If I were graduating today and wanted to work in Big Tech, I would spend six months to a year preparing for white board interviews.

Especially in tech. What college you go to only makes a slight difference and that’s only for your first job. Being able to do algorithms and data structures is the great equalizer for Big Tech.

https://www.collegechoice.net/will-what-college-i-attend-mat...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-elite-colleges-lead-to-highe...