skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a lifelong morbidly obese person, and I admit that this is anecdata, this is categorically not true, for me. I feel no normalizations. I feel no mob, on my side. Rather, I feel a gigantic mob on the "just lose weight you fat person" side. I still have doctors that won't take any ailment seriously because their first response is "just lose weight you fat person".

Everything in this HuffPo article rings completely true for me -https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-y...
Approximately Correct Machine Intelligence (ACMI) Lab
> “But Carl, some of us don’t have the luxury of building super high-performance, lightweight, and optimised sites due to client budgets and deadlines.” Well, I think you need to work on your craft, change your attitude and your priorities, or find another profession.

Well, I think my employer doesn't care much about this topic, so I feel like you're talking very condescending to me, while I have little to no control over issues like this.
Maybe this is my mechanical engineering brain kicking in but isn't software more akin to machinery? I press the run button and gears turn and oil burns and a piece of toast comes out.
I think this comes down to the fact that deploying an app and a platform are very different things.
U.S. regulators don’t have enough money to properly check the tech giants
No stores at all would be better.
The irony here is that programming languages and their native APIs are (apparently) not considered part of the stack™ and must be kept away as far as possible from the hands of developers, since this introduces the danger of injecting knowhow.
They gotta figure out a way to bring in revenue with safe/private browsing and email then.
Telegram maybe? Not sure if it works in China though.
Assange Hearing Day 12
Why the downvote? I have no affiliation with this company, except being a customer.
Yeah I like walking around the model aha. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gymaholic got bought out. It’s too good.
Parks and playgrounds both. That's been a real difference-maker for Berlin families with young children up to this point in the pandemic. I have my fingers crossed for a mild winter, but there's no way things won't get more difficult.
Let's make this easy, a fully FAA compliant aircraft fell from the sky, twice. Therefore, the certification process is broken, as in it does not actually work at judging the airworthiness of a new jet due the reason in the previous sentence.
E-mail? (PGP encrypted and signed if needed)

WebRTC-based software? (e.g. Jitsi Meet, https://meet.jit.si)
Oceana Finds 300 Chinese Vessels Pillaging the Galapagos for Squid
Netflix and filesharing?
We use Zoom - that's about the only thing left these days that works reliably other than a self hosted VPN tunnel.
I don't think you need to do that. I think just making the timeline a reverse-chronological firehose, and not filtering any posts out or making any posts more prominent, would do wonders. That's how Facebook used to present the feed.

Giving people tools to make sub-lists of certain friends/groups/etc. in order to organize their experience better (on their terms, not at FB's whim) would be great, too.
Just that some invented the crimes, and then exercised them egregiously. And there's a pattern to that.
So have the shower head shipped to a friend anywhere else, who then privately ships it to you.
"Nobody cares" because they were solving the wrong problem. Existing wind turbine designs work just fine and they are cheaper and far more reliable.

https://despair.com/products/mistakes?variant=2457302467
The Oracle deal didn’t cut it? Did I miss something?
> To many Asian demographics, that's a mainstream chat application for keeping in touch with family.

Really?
Whatsapp is mainstream app not the wechat.
A Spotlight on Tekton
In Sweden you can theoretically work around it using your ID card to identify yourself online [1], but many places don't support it or don't even try to.

Mobilt BankID is very popular app, technically it has a desktop companion that again is not widely supported or known [2].

[1] https://www.skatteverket.se/servicelankar/otherlanguages/ine...

[2] https://support.bankid.com/sv/bestalla-bankid/bestalla-banki...
,,If you're doing your job right, they've at that point been educated about what it means when someone transitions and what sort of impact it has on their life. ,,During that talk, I expect you would speak about why you think that shouldn't happen before they're done growing.''

I have no opinion actually on whether the transition should happen or not, I'm sorry if I came out too strongly about that.

I believe it can be a good decision if a child is clearly behaving and feeling like she is a boy.

What I'm most afraid is that lesbian children thinking that heterosexual girls will like them if they transition.

The parents are responsible for the children as long as they are given the chance to respond, which is taken away by law in a few countries. But I'm right now 38 and I still have lots of secrets about my sexual life that I don't talk about with my parents, and I think that's OK, as none of them can be compared to the consequences of transitioning.

What I see really important is to make sure that people know about the changing laws, make sure that those important changes are talked about.
How to remove all Electron bloatware on exit?
Yeah and they sell bagged loaves of toast. Not warm then.
Your right, a lot of the speculation in the article uses unjustified assumptions to move the reader on to the final point. When a sensible analysis would probably categorize a impact or air burst similar to the Tunguska event as one of the likeliest, if not the likeliest, cause.
The dark side of will power
Unfortunately, there are readability issues in dark mode (Firefox, MacOS) - inline code blocks are unreadable. To fix the issue, run the following in the browser console:

$$("html")[0].classList.remove("paper-noir")
Yup, I searched for a desired domain name on GoDaddy once. It was available at the time (at the standard price), but when I checked again the next day it was registered to some reseller and said I could buy it for ~$2000. I had to wait 2 years for that registration to expire.
OSINT is a simple process, it just takes time. In hindsight the red flags were obvious but you don't just immediately know where to look when investigating or what to look for.

Your argument doesn't hold water because if parallel construction is so much easier then why did it take them 2.5 years?
> I think it's meant to drive home the point is the only thing that actually matters is total energy expenditure and calorie intake

It's not though. That's not what the papers are saying. They're saying a calorie is a calorie. But calories turned into long term fat reserves are not equal to calories put in mouth - calories used in exercise. You can change the outcome of your diet by changing the composition of your diet while holding total calories the same.
Is this yours?

htmx [1] (by the guy who created intercooler.js) was renamed from "kutty" to "htmx" after this comment [2]:

> YSK that in Dutch the name kutty resembles the popular term for the female reproductive organs.

[1]: https://htmx.org/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196095
Good work :)
The key to happiness: Friends, not family
At first I thought that DOD was a new programming paradigm. It is not. DOD is a very smart optimization for dealing with processing arrays. So in short, OOP isn't going away this week.
I believe when one wants to use a software the incentives are not to spend time on testing or improving it but to save time on the original task at hand. Getting help from the software and not helping the software, not participating in its interest group society. For the purpose of the software - helping and carrying out tasks - lengthy digging in discussions for essential information is counter efficient.
8k gaming? Supposedly 3090 is capable, but I gotta ask - who games in 8k? 8k monitors are still far too experimental.

Not to mention that scaling is going to be a pain.
It was pretty obvious...
As I mentioned we got tons of other options besides solar power.

EVs are now increasingly beating gasoline cars on cost of ownership and these often have batteries large enough to store the power required for 4 days of a regular western household.

I doubt you will be entirely without sunshine for 4 days straight.
The New York Times also has an article [1], but interestingly, they used "Princeton Admitted Past Racism" in the title. Only in the 6th paragraph do they correct the misleading impression of the title and mention that he was referring to present racism as well.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/princeton-racism-feder...
That's right. But you'd have to attack an extraordinary number of transfers to have even a small chance of managing to get one by luck, and an attack of that scale would very quickly become obvious since everyone would have their transfers interrupted. I agree with you in principle though, I'd like to see just a bit more entropy.
I want to likes FreeCAD, but it’s just not there for reasons mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

I’ve logged probably thousands of hours in each Solidworks, Pro|engineer (now creo) and onshape (current favorite), so I’m familiar with the productivity costs of switching to a new program.

The inefficiencies of FreeCAD is way beyond any switching cost, probably 5x less efficient to design and iterate.
It isn't cute or funny, nor do I care what you think it is. Why would anyone care how many other people are using an operating system? Why does it matter that a certain operating system isn't used by normal people who can't use a computer in the first place?

Regardless of what you took it as, I don't own any Windows/Mac operating system computers personally and the statement wasn't funny. I've only used linux/Plan9/BSDs for well over a decade and they work pretty well. I completely do not understand why computer use has to be a popularity contest. Consider instead that once an OS has too many simple users who want GUI cruft and bloat, it then ruins the OS with slow bloated "simplifications."

There were many years in which I tried to get all my friends and family to use linux and the reality is, eventually I just realized most people don't actually wish to really use a computer. Those people who just browse social media and email and can't fix anything borked, they are not computer users anyway. The skewed stats really show that there are so many millions of Windows computers out there but really hardly anyone uses those computers to do any computing/programming/scripting/

Anyway, I didn't find your little passive-aggressive quip to be funny whatsoever, either.
Trump Administration to Ban TikTok and WeChat from U.S. App Stores
Investment decisions are based on expected costs and benefits AND a characterization of the uncertainties in those estimates. Parametric uncertainty in climate models can be beaten to death with Monte Carlo techniques and the like. Structural uncertainty — how certain are you in the functions and their couplings — is a lot harder. A single feedback loop missed, a single additional factor unaccounted for...and 3.5 C becomes 5 C, or -2 C.

Consider the models that were used in the first days of the COVID pandemic to predict the trajectory of deaths over time by US State. It wasn’t that they were wrong...that was to be expected. What was problematic was their estimates of the uncertainty in their estimates of those trajectories which, if I remember, was way too small. You will overinvest if the uncertainties are understated...and the very modelers who understated the uncertainties will be first line to sop up the money. Convenient.

The loudest voices, whether politicians or scientists, will generally overestimate how much confidence we should place in their predictions. “The seersucker principle - for every seer, there’s a sucker.” Especially when there is a 10 Trillion Dollar international slush fund waiting to be established and milked. That’s a lot of graduate stipends, and somebody has to eat all those Viennese pastries at international conferences.

Well, what about consensus? You mean a Mongolian cluster...umm...let’s just say that there is no way to quantify the reduction in uncertainty when a group of experts, who stand to gain reputationally (for at least as long as it takes for their kids to get out of college), say that something is a sure thing. I believe that a relevant phrase from finance is “lipstick on a pig”.

But we have to do something, right? Well, are there lower risk investments? Well, a lot of folks are going to die in China, India and the like from air quality, if certain health models are correct. Models that can be verified a lot more easily than global climate models. India needs technologies to plant crops without burning fields. Those are well-established technologies that could be implemented in India today with a small fraction of just 1 Trillion. Scrubbers on coal plants in China? Direct lives saved this decade. Electric vehicles? A win-win according to some analysts for both short term and, if the climate models are correct, long term. Nuclear power? Replacing burning wood with cleaner household fuels? Let’s address deforestation too.

What about climate modelers? We still need researchers and research...because we live here. On Earth. Nice to know where the light switches are, for a lot of good reasons.
Only a small percentage of US beef production is grass fed and worldwide grazing systems supply about 9 percent of the world's production of beef, the rest are crop fed in addition!

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401
> It is simply unacceptable that I, a European in a European country, can have arbitrary apps on my phone blocked and removed by the whims of the American president.

Well, I think in Europe you could probably have regulators say that these apps have to be available in order for the companies to operate in the EU or in specific countries. Not that I think that's a good idea, and the EU's approach to try and placate both China and the US has been a failure in my view (both are just taking advantage of fragmented EU member state interests).

But let's take a broad perspective here. Countries all throughout the world can take actions that have consequences in other countries. The EU implements a tax on US tech companies or regulations (which I do largely agree with, but that's besides the point) and that affects me in the US. With a globalized world, it should be obvious that when the big movers make moves, things will reverberate around the world.

Here's another example, I am (if you take a look at my post history you can confirm this! :) ) a HUGE fan of the Apple App Store model. If the EU forces Apple to allow multiple app stores, I imagine Apple will do that in the US too. It is simply unacceptable that I, as an American in America, can have arbitrary rules and regulations imposed on me by the whims of the EU bureaucracy.
If you're in an isolated cabin in the woods are you still allowed to use cloud servers?
That's missing the point, though.

The Commerce Department choosing not to go that broad doesn't make it less concerning that they can go that broad.
I don’t think software is speech, but to play devil’s advocate for a moment; if money is speech then why can’t software be speech? Both propositions seems equally ridiculous, but the Supreme Court has affirmed that money is speech.
No, you need to be able to MITM the connection and inject packets in order to get one shot at trying to break into that specific transfer.

If you guess wrong, the machines trying to do the transfer see an error.
This is just too simple to believe.
"Same network" is usually the hard part...
Google Drive will start deleting trashed files after 30 days
Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased
Review of Ryan Holiday's New Book: “Lives of the Stoics”
Your opinions are flat out wrong. Unless your market is in Japan you don't market your product with html1.0
His presentations are also a fine quality
TLDR; maybe

A very interesting read !
It's not physical, it's just an suite of ideas written in the form of a (programming) language, just like a book, so nothing to do with machinery. This is essentially the same argument against software patents.
No, an option to hike royalties is very much on the table given ARM's very liberal fees by industry standards.

High volume, high margin fat lambs like Qualcomm merrily eating grass around, or obscenely high margin high-end network chips would've ended on a dinner plate much, much earlier if ARM had an American business culture.
Anyone else getting this annoying jerking fixed menu at the top when scrolling?

Why do people insist on doing fixed menu bars? Does anyone like them? I don't think I have ever used a website where it improved the experience. Phones have had reactive scrolling for years, so a quick flick and you're at the top. So I don't even know what problem they're trying to solve.
Apple's response looks very silly or childlike. I guess they want to pick a fight but I don't know what they have to gain from it. I pick Apple devices because they are easy to use. I don't play Fortnite but if this happened to any software I used on a weekly basis I would be pretty upset at Apple.
Climate Change Should Terrify Us All
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/07/03/nrel-study-backs-hydr...
What Are Data Scraping Tools, and How Is It Helpful in Generating Leads?
Honestly, people complain about the impact of FANG on the crushing effect on the market. The counter balance has always been the consumer good and innovation they provide -- but it's been a LONG time since we've since anything that isn't just incremental from Apple (others too - but not relevant here).
Good on Epic and Tim S sticking hard to it. I hope they prevail.
Developer: Damn camera takes almost half a second to start!

Tech lead: Can we just leave it on or pre-start it somehow?

Developer: But...

Tech lead: I will think of something.

Tech lead to management: We made camera start 150% faster!

Management: Wow wow wow. It is so great to have such an experienced tech lead we pay so much for.

Tech lead drives into the sunset with his brand new Tesla.
Lambda Hiphop – A Hamilton Parity
That’s cheap. I wish my electrical simulation software cost that. It an order of magnitude more.
> I question the wisdom of posting this publicly

Ultimately, every employer has a different set of things they look for and red flags. There's a time and place to hire someone who will shut up and do as they're told; and there's a time and place to hire someone who will manage up and push you to do your best.
They also don't understand how to make money. They think eating in the hand of Google is a viable financial strategy.
>> My concern is that a premise held by diversity advocates ('people of different races have different perspectives') could be used justify racist acts (e.g. not hiring a person from a given background).

> I don't really see how this follows without some other premises

You don't see how the idea that different races have different perspectives could be used to justify racist acts?

How about this? "We don't hire black people because a black perspective would not be a good 'culture fit' at our organisation" or "we feel that a white perspective is necessary for the kind of work we do".

Typically, racist people like to seize on the suggestion that there are intrinsic differerences between people of different races to justify racist acts, so I'm surprised you see it as a stretch that a racist would readily agree that people of different races have different perspectives and use this to justify their behaviour in much the same way that white supremacists now talk about 'incompatible cultures'.

> Now there are contexts where presuming that racial background makes one's perspective more valuable probably is racist, but just because that is true in some contexts doesn't make it true in all contexts.

No-one has claimed it is true in all contexts. I said that presuming (or pre-judging) someone's perspective based on their race used to be called prejudice and was seen as a bad thing. Are you disagreeing that pre-judging someone's perspective used to be called prejudice? Or are you disagreeing that prejudice used to be seen as a bad thing?
I looked, and what I've found tells me that you make a false claim. Your lack of sources is just as telling.

Solar and wind power have their merits, but they are not the ultimate solution to clean power problem.
I suspected for a long time that they are doing the same on Android.

There must be a very small mechanical part in my phone's camera (probably the lens when it focuses) that makes a subtle noise when activated. I noticed the noise was present every few minutes when I browsed on Instagram, but only when I forgot to turn off camera permission.

It is creepy, no matter what the reason behind this.
Or maybe Epic is ending them? I think all they have to do is comply with the App Store policies and they'll be welcomed back.
That stood out to me as well. There's a real opportunity cost to not moving more deliberately: those few extra months represent several hundred thousand lives lost. Could a vaccine be worse than that? Of course if the answer is yes, then that would be horrific -- you wouldn't want to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people and then discover that you've unintentionally shipped Thalidomide 2.0. But at the same time, the probability of such risks should be balanced against the certainties of what will happen without a vaccine.

Anybody who says that this is a simple or easy calculation frankly has no idea what they're talking about.
You generally need to show damages for liability.
The dot-com boom returns with exuberant Snowflake IPO
No new 2p or £2 coins to be made for 10 years
WeTransfer has been abused the exact same way for as long as they existed even though I don't think they have the e2e encryption. They are still operational.

That is, it's an issue with the file transfer services as a class that can be managed, but Mozilla decided against wasting time/resources on that and just nuked it instead.
Every time you buy a US made phone, or use Google for searches, you are supporting the existence or the development of this situation. There was nothing stopping a European company (Nokia?) from making a good phone. But they didn't - at least in 2020 Apple won and Nokia lost, that might well change in the future.
Call it for what it is. Complete Malware. Plain and simple fact.
> I think it is far worse to attempt to condition people by showing them things they wouldn't otherwise engage with". What is scarier, showing somebody something they want to engage in based on their past behaviour, or showing somebody something they wouldn't have otherwise seen if you hadn't gone out of your way to shove it down their throat?*

I don't think that makes sense, and I don't think that's what anyone's advocating for.

If you friend someone, or follow a page, or whatever, you are explicitly saying "I want to hear what this person/group has to say". They aren't saying "I want FB to carefully curate what this person/group says in order to increase my engagement of FB". FB shouldn't promote, hide, or reorder anything coming from someone who I've explicitly chosen to follow. It should just show me all of it, and let me decide what I do and don't want to see.
...I had not seen that.

Luckily my not trusting web apps means I am already backed up in non autodesk formats. But exactly why when sketchypoved to wrbapp I said I wouldn't trust it
WeChat ban won’t ban users from WeChat, DOJ says
> I doubt you will be entirely without sunshine for 4 days straight.

Come to Russia, some place like Yekaterinburg. Or Saint-Petersburg, where the sun can be unseen for months.