skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a start, you can't "single out" half of the population. Women aren't a minority.

I disagree with anyone who wants to pin the blame on current individuals or groups for things which were caused by evolution. Check the comment I was replying to here.
I only write black box tests that call the outer most entry point (often a request to an endpoint) and then check if the database contains the expected results or if I get the correct response.
Anti-trust laws (and the concepts that are based upon) do not apply to free services, and portions of YouTube that do collect subscription fees do have a full support structure.

Your assertion that Google has a monopoly in this market is wrong for several reasons. The first is that there is no market for Googke/YouTube to control. Ad revenue which covers less than their overhead makes them a non-profit and YouTube in particular is closer to meeting the requirements for being classified as a government protected service than an anti-trust concern.

Second,nobody makes money in the free media hosting and distribution product domain. This is well known and is a large part of why they have virtually no competition.

Third, YouTube wouldn't even have a system that automatically takes down channels except that laws were written that required them to do so.

Google doesn't make money from YouTube, and they only acquired it for the good will providing a free service generates for them. Recently the head of YouTube has been making weird even retarded decisions, but it's still a free service that operates in an application domain that basically can't make money by definition.
To some extent, yes. Some fact checks are obvious lies of course, falsified to disprove initial claim (talking from conspiracy theory supporter's side). It's really complicated topic.
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Again we come back to the question "who gets to decide what is true?" - still the single most important political question of our age (imho).
Not really. Even the people who train the models and code the algorithms don't have a lot of control over how they respond to ever-changing inputs - and that's kind of the real problem IMO. There was a recent thing on Twitter, where someone discovered that it would consistently generate thumbnails focused on white faces when both white and black faces were present. At a gross level this is clearly because of inadequacies in how that algorithm worked, but literally nobody could say exactly what was wrong or how to fix it (especially without introducing new kinds of bias). Facebook has the same kind of problem, at approximately 10x Twitter's scale.

It's a machine that nobody knows how it works now, and therefore nobody knows how to fix it. Mark can influence it in very vague and general kind of ways, I suppose, but there is no fine control and often these gross adjustments bring their own unintended consequences.
>Our first change, a collapsible sidebar, allows users to collapse the lengthy menu found on the left side of each page

Through hiding, feature discoverability is hampered.

>Our second change introduces a maximum line width

I resize my browser for the optimum line width on my computer, taking into account monitor DPI, viewing distance, visual acuity, and other individual factors. Please don't make content on computer monitor as badly cramped as it is on mobile. One size does not fit all, and there's a reason computer is higher productivity than mobile.
CNN is no better than fox in the realm of propaganda. I'm assuming you are a strongly DNC leaning person if you have trouble identifying the problem with CNN and yet are quite passionate about identifying it with fox.
> In fact raising cattle in a spot like you describe still well require growing the feed elsewhere.

No. Feeding bovine meat cattle with commercial crops is uneconomical. It only happens as a small complement to the main diet or in emergencies. Nearly all of the cattle food grows on the terrain where they are created.
Unit testing, in the way the author describes, is a great way to test your mocks, however, make code harder to refactor and often add little value. Functional tests, done right, tend to be much more useful as they can match business functionality: if I ask for the weather in New York, I get returned a temperature. That code will call many classes and will not be a unit test, but is more useful than mocking the getTemperature method.
An article from four days ago: How Boomer Parenting Fueled Millennial Burnout -- https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/09/anne-hele...

The initial bit of the interview in the article:

> Anne Helen Petersen: There are two major factors. The first is conceiving of children as mini-adults—trying to cultivate behaviors, postures, and skills that are associated with adults, like being able to carry on conversations with adults or advocating for themselves when they feel something is unfair. I think we often admire that sort of precociousness without understanding what’s lost when you cultivate that in a child. The other component is thinking of childhood as a means to an end, and that end is getting into a good college. So instead of viewing childhood as simply childhood, parents are thinking, How can these various experiences—everything from playdates to piano lessons—lead to this larger résumé-building path to college?

> When childhood is treated that way, it can eliminate space for the formation of personality, independence, or confidence. Anything not oriented toward that goal of college—things like hobbies—gets lost. One of the saddest things I heard when talking to many Millennials is that when they reach a point of exhaustion with work, lift their head up, and look around them, they're like, What else is there? Do I have a personality? Do I know what I like? There's no there there, other than their ability to work, and I think that's really difficult.
I guess people overreact to "undefined behavior". If your software runs always on the same platform then you can know what the behavior would be. It might also be intentional and should not crash your program.

Undefined behavior is used when doing a specification for a compiler that will be used in many architectures and they cannot clearly specify what would happen on ALL architectures for a given operation, because the result might change among these architectures.

Undefined behavior doesn't mean that your CPU has either a chance to suddenly blow away or that it would gain self-awareness and destroy the world.

You can actually predict what would happen if you throw away a rock on earth. You cannot predict it for every planet in the universe, so theoretically "throwing a rock" produces undefined behavior.
I was scared of being a little bit too snarky, happy to see you accepted the criticism.

Nice to see you’ll address my comments. I think these are muddy waters. There’s a lot of polarization from people from different cultures, and a new player (such as Svelte) must gain its popularity without giving haters (as myself!) misconceptions to attack.
It is my opinion only: Outside of overthrowing two corrupt governments there is nothing to be done. No protest will change the result.
The recent Twitter "hack" showed that the internal Twitter screens had options to ban users from Search or Trending. It's been widely complained about for years by people on the Right.

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Sho...
Although I agree with his definitions, I meet (and work with) many people who vehemently disagree - especially on things like "unit tests should never use a database". I wish there was some authority who could establish useful working definitions once and for all.
> expecting evidence of the contrary to be provided to you.

I'm expecting evidence to confirm the assumptions of the system. I'm assuming any and all available data would be gathered and analyzed. I assume the MCAS system from top to bottom is riddled with bugs and flaws, designed by committee rather than engineers. There's no reason to trust any line of reasoning from Boeing on this matter, they've already demonstrated their incompetence and are not trustworthy.

You seem to not want the FAA to verify the claims of the system with data. I don't know why that would be undesirable. Even if they only confirm what is being stated about MCAS activation, that data would be valuable and demonstrate that the FAA has at least the competence to gather the data. Publishing the raw data along with their conclusions would allow the public to verify their competence at drawing conclusions.
Ah yes, the deplorables have ruined everything.
I guess I'll be downvoted with you but there was actually an episode of Why Is This Happening about exactly this -

> How did wearing a mask become a polarizing issue? If you’re paying close attention, the arguments against masks might sound familiar: denying the science, cherry-picking data, cries of infringing on personal freedoms. It’s a page out of the Republican establishment’s playbook for weaponizing climate change denial. Back in 2018, Chris spoke with Vox writer David Roberts about the crisis of information cultivated by the current conservative movement and it's a conversation that seems, if possible, more relevant than ever.

https://overcast.fm/+Vm1isKU1Y
Very interesting video of Brian Beckman talking through some of the differences between airplane simulators and racing (car) simulators and why tires are harder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GQCZgCNw8
Yes, it is a risk. But the fears of a conflict of interest are real. What's to stop you giving favourable treatment to the customer at a cost to your own company (though not to you personally)? In a case where reassignment isn't possible I'm not at all sure what the right answer is.
Yes. Plenty of people prefer behind the ear devices because they are either rechargable, or brightly coloured. Young people in particular benefit from being able to chose an aid that's brightly coloured, and you see some YP modify their aids with skins or stickers.

Here's the colour range for one modern aid: https://www.fmhearingsystems.co.uk/PDF/FocusColours.jpg

Rechargable: https://www.phonak.com/uk/en/about-us/rechargeable-technolog...
I wonder how different it is from something like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pocket-Hearing-Aid-Sound-Voice-Ampl...
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Found these two lists of tips insightful:

https://patwalls.com/some-things-i-ve-learned-about-seo

https://twitter.com/jdnoc/status/1308741583140007936
Came here to say exactly that. The author is advocating for mockist style of unit testing, which is quite terrible for many, many reasons. What you are describing is classic unit testing, and this is the way to go.

Good article and book about it:

- https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/unit-testing-depen...

- Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns
Unfortunately jo is not fused on Intel chips, which is a bit surprising.
I became a vegetarian over a decade ago and while it wasn't exactly easy, it certainly wasn't all that difficult compared to most of the other hard things I've done in my life. For instance, losing half my body weight (which occurred many years later because ice cream is vegetarian yo) was at least 2 orders of magnitude harder and maintaining that loss is a never ending battle. By comparison, getting out of bed to go to work is harder than maintaining my vegetarianism. Cutting back meat consumption to a mere 1 or 2 meals a week cannot be that difficult.

I also think all the talk of missing protein, iron, and vitamins is significantly overblown. Every blood panel I've ever had has been normal with iron on the high end and I can maintain an active lifestyle quite easily.
Perhaps always 10 years away.
Could this be related at all to Generic Objects of Dark Energy (GEODEs)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_object_of_dark_energy
Un bazou doesn't mean a car, it's a slang word that means jalopy. In France French, one would say une guimbarde, and I suspect lots of Canadian French speakers wouldn't understand that word. Slang words tend to differ a lot from country to country, no matter the language. A translation service that translates car to bazou or guimbarde is broken, but this has nothing to do with Canadian vs. France French.
Hello HN,

My name is John and I built this project, Jittery, because I wanted a short-form knowledge service that was creative commons licensed, utilized a Q&A format with a topic focus, wasn't commercially oriented, is simple to use for both editors and readers, and is fast.

I'm a longtime member of HN, going back more than a decade, and I welcome all feedback.

I'm in this for the long haul. It took a long time to build from first idea to now, to figure out how everything worked together properly, and I have planned for a ten year investment at a minimum. I knew if I was going to start something like this, it would require a serious commitment. Whether feedback is positive or negative, the project goes forward regardless. I consider it to be ready for a public beta.

You're among the first people to see it in the wild. That breaks norms with how you're supposed to build things of course. It's what I chose to do though, I built the thing that I wanted to see exist. I think there should be more experimentation with approaches to knowledge services. Now I'll find out if there are other like-minds that also want it to exist. I believe the profit motive corrupts knowledge services, so Jittery is driven by a knowledge motive rather than a profit motive, and I've assumed it will take a very long process to build out even if it's successful.

Jittery is Web-first. I love the Web, or certainly what it used to be. I built Jittery to not have the things I dislike about the modern Web. So it has no ads, no social media trackers, no social logins, no analytics trackers, no modals, no pop-ups, no pop-unders, no pop-overs, no pay-walls, no AMP, no dark patterns, no entry or exit prompts, no email spam, no stick headers or footers, no scroll bar tampering, and so on. And it's fast, thin, by intentional design. I built it with the Web I used to love in mind. Its stack is also intentionally simple, boring even. It's not perfect, I aim to keep making it better though, this is just the beginning.

Thank you for your consideration.
Do it.

Don't expect anything significant.

Cigarettes have images selected to be revolting or upsetting to keep people away.

That is not the reason people stop smoking cigs, or the reason cig consumption is down.

Social reasons, huge taxes and a concerted effort to make this unviable for a majority of people, in combination has made the dent it has.

And yet, people smoke today.
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For sure almost all cattle are 'fattened up' at so-called "feed lots" immediately before butchering. In fact "grass fed" is one of those misleading labels that imply one thing but the true way to get what "grass fed" is implying is "grass fed and grass finished."
> I suspect social conservatives have so much power in the US because they attend church and that forms a nexus of political organization.

I think it's more that it's easier to agree on things as a conservative. "I don't want rapid social changes" is pretty much the defining trait of someone being conservative, and since it's based on the past or present, there isn't much room for interpretation or different viewpoints. For progressive voters, they want things to change, but there are a ton of different ideas for how they want things to change, so you see a lot of "snake eating it's own tail" as groups don't agree on how things should change. Conservative politicians can just sit back and go "look at the crazy libs tearing themselves apart" and get people to vote for them.
As an aside, there's a lot of exciting regenerative work going on related to hearing at the moment. Sometime soon we may no longer need hearing aids. There are some neat drugs either in clinical trials or about to begin clinical trials that will re-grow hair cells and broken synapses in the cochlea (ex: FX-322, OTO-413, OTO-6XX).
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A few notes here:

* This is intended to treat presbycusis, or old-age hearing loss, where the highest frequencies are lost first. It would not be effective for noise-induced hearing loss, where the frequencies around 4 KHz are lost first (the "s" and "f" sounds in speech). This matters in the low-income countries it's targeted for, because occupational health is not as strict and PPE is not as widely utilized, so people are more often exposed to damaging levels of noise at work.

* It does not handle loudness recruitment, a common effect of damage to the outer hairs in the cochlea which causes loudness perception to become non-linear. Someone with a moderate hearing loss would hear an 80 dB sound as just a few dB softer than someone with normal hearing, but a 40 dB sound as many dB softer than someone with normal hearing, and a 20 dB sound as not audible at all. So if you do what this hearing aid does and boost it all by 15 dB, the 20 dB sound becomes barely audible, the 40 dB sound is perceived as "about right", but the 80 dB sound is perceived as nearly 95 dB (really freaking loud). You have to have some non-linear compression in there to adjust for this, and not just overall -- it needs to be per frequency band (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_scale) to match the way the ear works.

* Another commenter mentioned that the "bandwidth to the brain" is not available. That's only true in the case of damage to the inner hairs of the cochlea. What's more common is damage to the outer hairs, which amplify the sounds, and that can be compensated for with a hearing aid.

What we really need is a common way to program a hearing aid, so we can have apples-to-apples competition. Right now, when you go to the audiologist, you get an audiogram, which tells you the minimum threshold of sound that you can perceive at each frequency band. But beyond that, there are proprietary adjustments for compression, noise reduction, profiles for different types of loss, and so forth. It's not like getting glasses, where your prescription fully defines the lens, and you can take it to any vendor and have them make it for you.

Edit: If you're really into this stuff from a technical perspective, http://refined-audiometrics.com/wordpress1/ is worth a read -- it's a project by an engineer who experienced a hearing loss later in life who has built a software system to make music sound right for him again, basically building a "super hearing aid" running on a desktop CPU to do more fine-grained processing than what is possible within the power budget and form factor of a regular hearing aid.
They do periodically check Google safe browsing (or simply have a webhook for safe browsing) and disable websites that are flagged there. You can also submit the abuse report forum and CF regularly disabled websites for malware that haven't been detected by safesearch.
> In Australia a significant amount (can't remember the specifics) of cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production. My own experience confirms this.

72% of all deforestation in Queensland and 94% in the Great Barrier Reef catchment areas is a direct result of land clearing for beef production.

Edit: One source was missing.

https://www.wilderness.org.au/images/resources/Beef-Deforest...

https://www.wilderness.org.au//images/resources/The_Drivers_...
The guys in Närpes has an impressive thing going, but they're simply an excellent example on how you can produce things locally if you have a lot of space and cheap electricity available. That doesn't automatically mean it's more efficient in regards to CO2 emission, so you're pretty much proving the grandparent's point; they could probably grow food on Antarctica too.
Both in mice and in humans. Link to the original paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18512-7
I bet you could write the author. A brief, polite, note will almost always get a reply.
oh, for sure! Humans just aren't designed to communicate in a one-to-millions paradigm, and it shows strongly in the political divide we all face.
My previous comment was discussing paid DLC - content that may require an active connection to check authorization for and may disable features if it cannot verify online that you have purchased.

Free DLC/software updates that do not have such a check would not be impacted by a loss of network connectivity, but thank you for raising that issue explicitly.
weird how one of the messages we keep hearing is that automation is just around the corner and everyone needs to be paid to not work. with the breakdown of this and many of the others in the list, it seems to me like someone understands this and doesn't want a cohesive society.
Why did you ellipse before the word "indoors"?

> The fact of the matter is, the right was more correct than the left when it comes to Covid; it's mostly a nothingburger unless you're over 70. Even the CDC says so at this point[0].

This is assuming that the only negative outcome of COVID is death, but that isn't the case.

People come out of COVID with long term health complications such as lung scarring which may affect them for the rest of their lives. We don't have good data on the rates of injury in those who recover yet.
That is quite obvious, you can be unhealthy with any kind of diet if you are nutrient poor...
I suspect this is very much one of the major problems facing the US populus today.
"This is a book full of things that I believe to be true. It therefore belongs in non-fiction" - random nutjob with a blog

In real libraries, they only stocked published books, and publishers decided what to publish. So the publishers acted as gatekeepers and fact-checkers (sometimes not so well, as the Howard Hughes example shows), and the library could accept their classification.

Now, anyone can write a book and add it to our hypothetical library. If the librarians aren't going to classify the books, then who does? Because someone has got to...
Yep, I've been a professional programmer for about twelve years now working in all kinds of large scale systems at a certain internet company. I can say definitively that I've been saved by functional and end to end tests far more often than I have been saved by unit tests. Not that you shouldn't do both, but err on the side of writing tests that will find bugs in the entire system.
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How long until Tesla (or some other car maker) goes the EA Games route and requires pre-owned buyers pay fee to "activate" their car after the transfer of ownership?
Yeah, and probably Zuck has better data than both ;)
In the article he mentions that his own family isn't even getting notifications about his posts. So he verified it. I don't know how you and I would go about verifying it, but I believe him FWIW.

> My own family have not been getting their notifications of my posts on either platform.
However, regarding cryptography, the NSA's cryptographic expertise and resources are secret, so it's very hard to include them in a threat model.

They could know more than civilian cryptographers, have new direct attacks that we don't know yet, e.g. algebraic attacks and specialized hardware to solve gigantic systems of equations. Or, they could have a working quantum computer with many qbits. We don't know, do we?
I heard someone say the other day that they would skip this version and wait for the next one. Just because of the version number. I found it somewhat sad and very poor judgment, but after thinking about it on my way to home, I think a lot of people will do the same.

It would be interesting to keep an eye on the number of downloads from containers and packaging systems to see if this is the case.
> Your answer misses the point

Sorry, but the claim was this:

> Schema doesn't seem to have any benefit to anyone but Google

If that's not "the point", then the comment shouldn't have suggested that it was.