skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a startup[1] in the space that provide hands off podcast production experience to podcasters and I recommend that you (or anyone who wants to start a podcast) read this blog post at least once: https://www.podcastinsights.com/start-a-podcast/

[1] https://www.useCastup.com
Sure, there are service that collect data for new drugs.

But do you want your doctor prescribing something they’ve glanced at for 5 min?

Take a look at the label for a random drug, it’s often 20 pages or more of data. Doctors, rightfully so, don’t want to prescribe something unless they are well versed in benefits and risks. That takes time and effort.
This is a laughable statement. You don't need willpower to stand up to China, you need the presidency and the will to do so.
Interested in reproducibility for caching/performance/debug/rollback reasons, not security. Thanks, Tavis, for clarifying that security gains are not useful. I don't usually consider them but when I have to, I'll look up this article.
> conceals part of it

Since a couple of versions ago, the history dropdown in the URL bar (but not the URL bar itself) has been hiding the "https://", at least for me. Which is incredibly annoying when you're used to "not having a https:// prefix" implying "use http:// as the prefix", since it makes it look like every site in the history dropdown is insecure. And it's inconsistent with the URL bar itself: type "example.org" on the URL bar, and not only will it go to http://example.org, but also it will hide the http://.
BBC is reporting that people in Eastern Cyprus, ~250km away, felt the blast and interpreted it as an earthquake. Quite a blast.
These sites claim the percentage of US web users using an ad blocker was 25% in 2016 and 27% in 2017:

https://www.businessinsider.com/30-of-all-internet-users-wil...

https://www.statista.com/topics/3201/ad-blocking/
We don't always send an email, just sometimes. Usually when I happen to think of it.
Web History – Chapter 1: Birth
I'm trying to get myself to finally switch to Firefox thanks to this post. But I'm having problems with ctrl +/- changing of font sizes. In Chrome, that setting affects one domain only. Here I'm getting confused because I open a new tab and the font is tiny or huge, even sometimes on sites I've never visited before. Ctrl 0 fixes it but then I seem to reset sites that I do want enlarged (like HN). What's the logic here? I haven't figured out the steps to reproduce this, it seems random.
Thanks for your reply, but this wasn't the one I saw!

No offence to that solution but the one I saw had a bit of a more modern UI :)
My sibling is a nurse; they put surgical masks over their N95s to protect them and try to help them last longer.
Pataphysical Software: Ridiculous Solutions for Imaginary Problems [pdf]
facebook was a social network. now it's just a phonebook. Instagram has replaced the social network portion of it for most people. People that want to stay connected but don't want to be social use facebook only. Tiktok is a viral video app. Just like Vine was. Vine failed and left a hole. Tiktok went in and filled that hole. That's it.
It's a good question ( I have a YouTube video on some of the reasonings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qm49TyMUPI ) but the TLDR is that TS really wants to only be a type layer above JS - turning into something like MSIL means breaking JS runtime semantics or re-creating that in MSIL ourselves. The idea has been tried a little differently by MS research though, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/static-...
Don't forget anything bashing Apple, MS, Uber, or any of the startup unicorns. Haters love to hate.

Alternative, charitable interpretation: their big stumbles offer the best, clearest lessons for technical owners and managers; stands to reason they get a lot of attention.
Designing a Python interface for machine learning engineering
meanwhile I typed a draft of an email with links in it and 2 seconds after saving it got an email from Mozilla saying "stop sending yourself links via email!". I'm not OK with that.
Oh interesting, I'll take a second look. Whatever Amazon API I checked was only returning pixelated thumbs. Good luck with the product. Next up is "How I made a million bucks reselling books" blog post ;)
Weird issues like that are a big reason why I use in-private browsing all the time now.
reel sounds like a word that has another meaning. tiktok doesn't. i feel better saying tiktok
Bay Area has done exceptionally well. Central Valley is in line with Southern California.
Non-mobile URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess
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If we're arguing for something rationally it is important to be honest in that argument. That means not pretending the risk doesn't exist, but also not over-inflating the risk.

One of the worst things the CDC did was take an anti-mask position initially when it was a bald faced lie unsupported by data. That destroyed their trust relationship and continues to haunt us now.
Sorry - you're running into the glitch in the Matrix which is HN timestamp relativization on re-upped threads. More explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614. It leads to occasional confusion, but we haven't figured out a better way, and not doing it leads to worse confusion.

You can always see the original timestamp via URLs other than the front page and the /item page. For example https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mcrittenden shows the comment you were talking about as "1 day ago", and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=critter.blog (which you can get at by clicking on the domain in the title) shows the same for the submission.
people use it in my country. it's quite popular. But here facebook = internet.
Picric acid was only one component of the Mont Blanc's 2653-tonne loading. It also carried rather a large amount of TNT (200 tons of the stuff, which, surprisingly, has a 1:1 TNT equivalence) and guncotton (10 tons) as explosives, along with benzol (which seems to have been the "detonator"). There was also considerable shock wave reinforcement due to the shape of the harbour bottom and location of the explosion.
> * That karma limit has been in place for 10 years or more.*

But what was the reason? What is it supposed to achieve or prevent?

> As I said, this discussion circulates endlessly

That sounds like a reason to address this, instead of ignoring it.

“People keep talking about it so let’s leave it the way it is”?
>Am I just an extreme outlier?

No. You are not alone. MOST people don't realize that there is an alternative.
The other nice thing about being asked up front is the ability to say yes, but I will ask for help when I need it. The staff are usually much easier to find when you do have a question or need something to be retrieved, yet you don't have to deal with them if you don't need them.
> If your cognitive functions are a limiting factor, sure?

> maybe read things twice.

> Read that again, slowly.

Ad hominem attacks, how nice.

> they add a touch screen and make it work by patching in voice.

Exactly. What I said: they made a horrible UX, and then patched it by adding more horrible UX. It's decidedly not what consumers want.

> people do want touchscreens and crappy voice controls,

Nope, people don't want that. But they are left no choice.

> MBUX is above the bar that's been set in useability, but they don't set the bar because they don't have the image or mind share to do so.

Because they are blind following the one-eyed, that's what you're saying. It does cost extra money and extra care to create a workable touch-screen experience that doesn't rely on "but there are tiny buttons on the wheel and voice controls". Volvo can do that (even though their touch screens are far from perfect), why can't Mercedez?

Oh, right, how can one forget, because horrible UX is "what people want because that's the bar". Cry me a river.

Edit. It's actually amazing that they have a 23-minute overview in a static non-moving car [1], and they keep

- doing accidental touches

- inputing wrong commands

- being very-very careful and precise with what they touch on screen because all the touch targets are so small

In a non-moving car. It's amazing, really, in a horrendous kind of way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQKloYcRMVE
Twitter was thinking: “a free video sharing app is crazy expensive.. we’re burning all our capital on an app that will be near impossible to profit from.”

TikTok is as far as I can tell not profitable either, and they’ve been burning hundreds of millions on ads as well. I’m guessing the CCP will gladly spend a few billions to have a social media platform that’s used all over the world.
When you’re not a train.
>This is spectacularly false. For all non-trivial allocation/deallocation patterns, Rust also uses a runtime reference-counting GC, which is significantly slower than the tracing GCs you find in OpenJDK.

This is not really a good comparison because you can't write the same code in either language. In Java practically everything gets allocated on the heap barring some optimizations. Meanwhile Rust programs can selectively allocate memory on the stack when it makes sense to do so. Reference counting is is just one of many different allocation strategies available to Rust. It is not the first tool you grab when you want to allocate memory in Rust, therefore absolute throughput of reference counting might not be as relevant in Rust as the absolute performance of the GC in Java.
I was referring specifically to the "culturally" part. The geographic difference between Silicon Valley and North Carolina is indisputable, but I'm curious about your take on the culture. I see a lot of similarities between Republicans and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, e.g. anti-regulation stances, anti-labor stances, etc.
I notice that Ada 95 included inheritance. My experience in other languages with inheritance is that the feature creates a lot of complexity. Have you used inheritance in Ada and, if so, has it created any issues?
Well, we won't know if the "anti-science movement" can actually be dealt with until we fix the corruption first, will we? Why assume that things can't be improved? You wouldn't try to secure a second funding round without a viable product or even a concrete business plan, would you? Bad example maybe...

Regardless, simply telling people they need to listen obediently to experts is going to do much more harm than good. If we take concrete steps to fix the massive problems in our institutions and there are still legions of anti-science activists holding us back through political means, we can at least point to our own reformed system with integrity and say that we're doing our best to get it right. Until then, we have no solid ground to stand on, and we'll continue to lose our own base of supporters, myself included. Scientists themselves will look elsewhere for a system that supports them.
hahah thank you! definitely check out their API, it's a bit messy, but works.
> screenshots look like different pages between the A and B test

I was also wondering about that
> Truly intelligent AI on the other hand, might as well lead to our immediate extinction, since it renders the entirety of the human race irrelevant.

I am sorry but when has irrelevance itself ever stopped life? The radiotrophic fungi of Chernobyl essentially spawned as a sick joke evolutionarily speaking. They have one anonalous environment for generations that once they head outside of the scope are essentially on an unviable alien planet.

Irrelevance is never listed as the cause of death on by a coroner. Oh humans and others certainly have rendered species extinct from carelessness, for getting in their way, being too tempting for short term greed, and other reasons but irrelevance is actually protective. Does anybody feel a need to try to render sulfur vent tube worms extinct? There is nothing we want there or really want from the extremeophile creatures to justify genocide.

Even if any offspring AI cared nothing for us they would be more likely to just fuck off to space to find more favorable environments.
This is a professional engineering / IT / white-collar crowd -- most people posting on HN write a lot of emails and expect a level of professionalism.

Honestly, that's what keeps the quality of the site high. Compare that to reddit, where I've seen multiple responses that were literally just "bruh"
Solar Cycle 25 is coming to life
Just as a note: if I ran an A/B test and one bucket had 8,004 visitors and the other had 6,622 visitors, I'd be concerned about the way the test was setup.

There are some valid possibilities to explain the discrepancy, but there are also a lot of possibilities in which the test wasn't setup properly and it isn't measuring the right thing.

When you get a test result that confirms your suspicion, the first thing you should do is challenge those results.
There are some very vocal people who argue that the risk of toxicity is very low. The studies aren't great. But for most people, taking a moderate dose of Vitamin D will be safe.
Unfortunately, I have treated many patients who come to me with high calcium levels due to taking Vitamin D. They do not have parathyroid disease (I have treated thousands of patients with parathyroid disease). They have simply been taking high doses of Vitamin D. High dose is generally 5000 units a day or more, though I have seen it occur with lower doses if taken over many years. Vitamin D is fat soluble, so it will stay in your system for a long time, building up.
Of note, some of those patients were instructed by their doctors to take those high doses. Even doctors forget the relationship between calcium and Vitamin D, and I have spoken with doctors who did not realize that 5000 units a day could cause problems. As a doctor, there is a lot to know and remember, and most doctors haven't studied calcium metabolism in many years.
Will Camera Startup Light Give Autonomous Vehicles Better Vision Than Lidar?
I'm really happy to be using Firefox again. I had abandoned it in favor of Chrome around 2014 because of how sluggish it had been getting. They really got it together with the quantum update though in my opinion. It still gets outperformed by Chrome (especially in the javascript department), but it's not a big enough difference to be a deal breaker for me, and I like feeling like I'm doing my small part to help combat Chrome's growing monopoly.
Let’s not.
EFF's Crocodile Hunter
Nice improvements! Firefox keeps delivering! But Chrome browser market share is now up on 71% while Firefox is down to 7.3% :(
This is beautiful. Can you say how this is different from [0] if at all in terms of implementation?

[0] https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/
Good news. Thanks for that!
Its pretty easy. You sell something to your users. And it doesn't even have to be relevant to your product. The hardest part in selling is to acquire users. But as you already have users you can now upsell and cross-sell.
I'm sorry you don't view my interpretation as charitable, but I do think a charitable interpretation of your first comment is that you don't propose ways of fixing problems in the scientific community but rather broadly dismiss the scientific community without proposing a better alternative other than "elite families."
The key is the framing; as stated, x and y are _exact_ floating-point values, which makes the statement true[1]. In fact, it's embarrassingly trivial, since it is just a weakening of the definition of rounding used by IEEE 754. In particular, if cancellation occurs in x - y, then the result is exact (Sterbenz' lemma).

[1] Under the assumption that no underflow or overflow occurs (which is the usual framing for this sort of naive error analysis). It's easy enough to correct for underflow by adding an absolute error term as well.
Have you looked into the world of Tech Startups, by any chance?
There is a lot of "idolization" in the this industry. Those who have accomplished much are sought out for their opinions on all types of subjects, 1) because they are influential, and 2) there is some belief that the methods which led to their success in one field are applicable in the other fields they ruminate about.

I have no doubt Paul Graham has (or had) an anonymous account here. I'd love to see the responses to his comments there. I expect to see a bit of downvoting and people dismissing his (anonymous) ideas.

PS: The website design is excellent!
sorry don't have much more insight here. I think the goal is to generally make any approximation that isn't relevant to the physical behavior one is trying to model. if a pole sitting somewhere isn't related to the phenomenon you're trying to explore, ignore it!
Yeah, I basically consider the universe itself to be "God". I don't think of it as something that looks like a man, or something that even necessarily cares about humans any more than it cares about other life. It just is. It's the grand summation of all things, and the laws of nature. It is what it is, and science is the study of getting to know it better.
I'm in Canada, and we have all varieties of this.

The 'metal divider, self bag' is a discount / bulk store I go to. Old-style 'casher + bagger' is another. And I've gone to stores with self-checkout, both with and without scales in them.

Seems quite varied here, with of course that variance mostly along franchise lines...
Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem
If the chess board is 2d, how does the Knight move, doesn't it need the third dimension to go "over" other pieces? I assume, graphics notwithstanding, the board is logically represented in 3 dimensions.
What happens if the wipers start automatically, but you need to adjust the speed?
How often is the best earth-facing satellite imagery updated?

It'd be really cool to sic handwriting recognition on it to continuously look for "SOS".
Yeah, I also remember what sold it in the Phoenix/Firebird days, and what got me to insist on installing it for everyone I knew, being 1) popup/under blocking, 2) it was really light and nimble compared to the competition (IE, Netscape/Mozilla), both in terms of the program itself and the browsing experience, and 3) the interface was very clean, clear, and pleasant to use. Tabbed browsing was just a nice bonus and I don't remember extensions really mattering much until well after it'd started to get traction from early adopters like me installing it on everything we came in contact with. Really, it was basically Opera with a less-slightly-weird-feeling UI and no adbar in the free version.

Given those early reasons for favoring it, from my perspective it's mostly gotten worse since 2.0 came out.
I interpreted the description as normal chess board = 2 dimensions. time = third dimension. moving on the x axis in the multiverse as 4th dimension and moving on the y axis in the multiverse as 5th dimension. So yes, in this wacky world a standard game of chess in progress is 3D.
Canada's Covid Alert App
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I think it's aimed at people who make assumptions that all other fields are just a subfield of their field
Porn Clip Disrupts Virtual Court Hearing for Alleged Twitter Hacker
Hi JHelms, I'm the author of the largest pure-Lua game engine on GitHub, Planimeter's Grid Engine 9 (https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/). I'd love to chat, and sent you an email.
Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible
Hmm, fractal dimensional chess could perhaps be implemented as having subboards within each tile of a standard chessboard. Completely spitballing over lunch, I propose the following rule set:

* Every square of a chessboard is itself a chessboard. This applies recursively. The top-level chessboard is named "Prime". All other chessboards are named according to the subdivision of Prime where they are located. So, the board located one level deep at F3 is called "Prime-F3". The board located two levels deep at A7 of Prime-F3 is called Prime-F3-A7.

* All infinite chessboards start in the standard board starting position.

* Black and white alternate making moves. Each move consists of moving a single piece within a single chessboard, following standard chess rules.

* The game is won when a player does not have a King located in Prime.

So far, this only introduces additional moves that can be made, which have no impact on the Prime board. Apart from being harder to force a draw, the subboards have no impact. Next up, adding rules to allow boards to influence the boards above/below them.

* If player X has a piece on board Z in location Y, then all pieces belonging to player X in board Z-Y may, in addition to their normal move, also move like the piece in board Z. For example, at the start of the game, white has a queen on Prime at location D1. Therefore, in board Prime-D1 may move like a queen, in addition to their normal movement.

* If player X does not have a King in board Z-Y, then their opponent may, as their move, move any piece from board Z-Y to board Z in location Y. For example, if Black has captured White's King on board Prime-D8, then Black may move any piece on Prime-D8 to the Prime board at location D8.

Now, there is an incentive to playing on the lower level boards. Play here goes much faster, by virtue of having more moves available. By investing time into the subboards, you can gain additional pieces on the main board. If a subboard is being used to funnel more pieces in, then it may be worth investing in a subsubboard, in order to pull a king in from the subsubboard to the subboard.
To be honest, minus the flamewar moderation (which I like), I find HN about the same as other tech/hacker minded forums. Note that the moderation is no small issue, however!

I've found that communities tend to develop a sense of self-importance and overrate their own "good" qualities. I remember when I used to read Slashdot, more than a decade ago, many users would write things like "of course, all of us who read Slashdot are above average users and $PROBLEM does not affect us, but consider a typical Joe User". When I read facebook groups about niche topics I find interesting, inevitably a member will claim "don't you find this is the best facebook group about $TOPIC? We don't argue, we have nice reasonable conversations about $TOPIC, and the mods are top-notch!" (similar groups about the same topic will of course each claim to be the most reasonable, well-moderated, argument-free group). And the list goes on.

Unsurprisingly, many HN regulars tend to hold the same views about HN ("the most rational, less biased, most diverse ideas"), possibly unaware that most communities tend to develop the same feelings about themselves. Human nature, I guess :)
I've had the same experience! Well sort of, I think it's related to the experimental zoom I enabled. Trying to track down how to reproduce so I can open a bug, but it's sporadic for me. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the browser
I didn't downvote. I'll offer this.

This (the quote is from the Swedish health authority) was proven wrong yesterday. People touch their face less with a masks. Based on cctv studies in England.

"a face mask which is itchy and falls below the nose contributes to your hands often touching the mouth, eyes and nose which can increase the risk of infection"
Ctrl+F Gödel "not found".

Also proof theory is completely absent, like Gentzen's cut elimination theorem.

These are "fundamental" theorems of mathematics in the literal sense.
Based on the username and its recent birth, you created this account just to paste this comment. What does it mean? (I think that you are commenting sarcastically on the way math is taught, but that's just a guess.)