skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is another site that needs the "invite code" for new users to register? I know the arguments of controlling the influx of new people and having a trust-chain so that comments are decent etc... but it just feels so elitist.

Well, we're guilty of that, too. It's not about elitism, we let thirty of our colleague's students use our ML platform[0] for their final year projects, and send invites to people who go to our Slack workspace. There are some things to fix before we can onboard everyone, that's all.

I don't say they're doing it for the same reasons, but it's not necessarily elitism. It can be limited resources, etc.

>but you can't be part of the party, you're not one of the cool kids

You're one of the cool kids. Where do I send the invite link?

- [0]: https://iko.ai
In the time since the dotcom boom, the magnitude of Metcalfe's Law has been argued.

Last I heard, the argument was that the effect for social networking was closer to nlogn than n^2. If true, then quadrupling in size may increase the value by some number of percentage points instead of an order of magnitude.

Which means 'big enough' may not be that big.
The problem is that those candidates also support other things. If they donated money to these candidates, they are responsible for those other things too.
I think folks on the left are well-meaning, but I’m not sure if they’re “headed in the right direction.” I’ve been rattled after this happened at my law school alma mater recently: https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-law-faculty-refus...

The ivory tower leftists are now pushing a narrative of pervasive “white supremacy,” pitting whites versus non-whites. And again, the ivory tower folks are being tone deaf. The NYT recently ran an article where self-described “liberal pollsters” asked about the views of Latino people. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/biden-latino-vote...

> Progressives commonly categorize Latinos as people of color, no doubt partly because progressive Latinos see the group that way and encourage others to do so as well. Certainly, we both once took that perspective for granted. Yet in our survey, only one in four Hispanics saw the group as people of color.

> In contrast, the majority rejected this designation. They preferred to see Hispanics as a group integrating into the American mainstream, one not overly bound by racial constraints but instead able to get ahead through hard work.

What the article describes as the views of the overwhelming majority of Hispanics reflects my own views as an immigrant. By contrast, the approach taken by these ivory tower folks is in my opinion unworkable and threatens to blow up something that works about America: our ability to assimilate and lift up immigrant groups. If you look at the data, all immigrant groups are on a path to reaching economic parity with white people. Asians are already there, and Latinos achieve parity within a few generations: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/3/1567/5741707

Ivory tower leftists are leading these chants, amplifying people like Linda Sarsour who call assimilation “racist,” etc. And I think that ends in disaster. Nowadays, I have to keep an eye out to make sure my half-white daughter isn’t being exposed to this stuff. And frankly, I’m a pretty liberal person so this is distressing. I don’t like the direction Trump has gone by alienating immigrants. But there is a good chance that Nikki Hailey is the future of the GOP. Meanwhile, who comes after Biden? Elizabeth Warren, who talks about all of us non-white people as a progressive bloc, constantly assailed by white people? AOC? Ilhan Omar?
I don't agree that these are socially useless activities. They need to be done and therefore should be done at scale with the efficiency of automation and the leverage of capital behind it.

The alternate reality you imagine, with no hedge funds etc, can not exist. The only alternative reality that can plausibly exist is a significantly more inefficient investing and trading sector that sucks more talent from the economy than it currently does.
It's that there's a lot of variation in dishwasher quality.

I used to live in an apartment with a landlord-installed $200 cheapie dishwashers that never worked.

Then I moved to an apartment without a dishwasher, so I bought a $500 one that I could plug into the sink. Worked much better.

After that apartment, I moved into one that had the same dishwasher that I bought, but installed. Worked great! Then I moved into another apartment with a cheapie dishwasher that was so loud I'd only run it when I left.

Anyway, the lesson is that you need to be a savvy consumer... And skip the cheapest models!
probably a subscription fee to access premium features (but only for new users)
I disagree with your characterization of the post I was originally replying to. While I'm sure no one believes there were "no bubbles ever" I do think that the content of that post implies a pretty far off from reality level of bubble permeability in the past.

Also, extremes are useful tools for examining assumptions.

As for the rest, in so far as online interactions have different boundaries and background information levels, I think you have to work harder to demonstrate that these interactions aren't (current covid-world aside) in addition to rather than replacing in person interactions people largely had before. Until we're all walking around with google glass to tell us all about everyone we meet, you are still free to go talk to the person on the street corner about their life.

But even then, your social status has always proceeded you to some degree. Again, your race, visible evidence of your wealth (clothes, haircut, etc), visible elements of queerness or lack thereof, and visible gender, your language and speech patterns are all elements of social signalling that have always acted as barriers to communication between in and out groups of those people.

On the internet, some of these can be mitigated or erased. On the street, while dating, in the workplace they cannot. They are data points that tell someone a lot about you (as with social media, within some error bars) before you even interact.

Again, these are changes in the structure of the outer edges of our bubbles and do not argue for a change in the scope or degree of our bubbles on their own.
Dancing is about architecture. ;)
This seems hardwalled, which would make it off topic for HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989). Is there a workaround?
> Continuing the pedantalization escalation the 21st century started 2001-01-01 if you follow the Gregorian calendar "named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582"

In the same spirit of pedantry:

Well, no, Gregory is beside the point; if you are referring to Anno Domini dates, the 21st Century (and Second Millennium) began on the first day of the year A.D. 2001, whether or not you prefer the Gregorian Calendar.

Preference for the Gregorian Calendar or not will affect when you believe A.D. 2001 started, though.
> I can still buy incandescents if I insist... but why would I?

My father had a really hard time getting them for an egg incubator a while ago. A problem that was solved by replacing the incubator (more trash).
One of the few benefits of the walled garden that often gets forgetten by developers is the anti-piracy features. On iOS, installing a pirated version of an app is exceedingly difficult for most people, and that (theoretically) improves sales.

If Epic were to allow side-loading on iOS, developers may notice a financial hit from increased pirating of apps.
This is mostly driven by Gmail and Outlooks spam filters.
I wouldn't say I recommend trying this, but it takes time to find people you are actually interested in on Twitter.

All the obvious "blue check-mark" people have zero insight at best. There is a whole weird world of small follower count people on there. Small communities. People with unique ideas. People that will actually respond to replies.

Again, I don't think it an addiction you should necessarily cultivate, but there is value to be had.
SDFX: Convert pictures into vector art using GAN
Quad9 says its Telstra...and it's not the first time Telstra has screwed up BGPs...

https://www.itwire.com/business-technology/85286-telstra-bgp...
Or the home thermostat that sets itself to "away" mode because you've gone all of 30 minutes without walking in front of it.
There are plenty of times when someone puts in an order with every intent to enter the position (i.e. - not to spoof) where something makes them change their mind and kill their order. Why would we punish the sincere actor who changes their mind rather than go directly after the fraudster? "Better to let 10 guilty go free" and all.
This would make sense for larger infrastructural projects. But for a single feature extension to a command line shell?
If they had a monopoly, they should do better than 30% though? Chums like Google who don’t have the monopoly charge 30%. Hell, Twitch takes 50%, right?

If Apple is the only game in town they should charge like 99%. Developers have no choice, right?
Consider a game that holds a leaderboard on steam, or any app that stores user progress on its servers.

Not exactly pertinent to your comment but pertinent to the conversation as a whole:
If Apple/Google/Steam stored all app data for developers and also did the marketing for developers, that is closer to what 30% is worth imho. For hosting the platform, yes your grandfather was the first to stab a flag into the digital real-estate, and for that I owe you 30%? Feudalism that manages to shift cost to both consumer and developer at the same time -- impressive, but not very noble.
Shure sm58, even being in front of it the sound is very attenuated just by being a feet too far from it :)

yes I'm aware that some software does echo cancellation, as you say it doesn't need to be full mute while you speak, it "just" needs to cancel the signal that would cause feedback...

I started using the dedicated mic because I got complaints that my audio was pretty quiet, due to the fact (I thought) that I 1. keep my laptop farther than you usually would, and 2. sometimes I turn to my second monitor to refer to some info; mic seems to have fixed the issue but I hope echo cancelling does the rest of the job without me needing headphones :D
I haven't tried it out seriously yet, but vgtk (https://github.com/bodil/vgtk) seems to be an interesting approach to GUIs in Rust.
Yup. LED bulbs were good until the market competition caught up. Now they're mostly shit.

At this point, I shop for LEDs at IKEA. Tad more expensive, but they don't break after couple of months because someone soldered them on their knee in the middle of a Shenzhen marketplace (been there, seen that), making them overheat and eventually pop something off the circuit board.

And then I know people who got so pissed at LED bulbs they switched back to incandescent. Because turns out that the ban on incandescent bulbs in my country worked for about a year or two, before the stores got flooded with boxes of these, each with a label telling you it's not suitable for use at home, but only in storage buildings, etc. Which got the sellers off the hook, and also got the manufacturers off the hook for quality issues. My mother had a brief moment of weakness, but after two of these "legal" incandescents literally exploded over our heads, shattered glass flying everywhere, I convinced her to go back to buying LEDs.
It's called parallel construction.
Oh, got it. You highlighted that part from the OP so I assumed that there was some shared understanding of objectivity here that wasn't apparent to me. If it is just the OP's opinion/perception of equivalency (or lack thereof) and nothing else then I guess there's nothing worth discussing here since the person the OP would be in dialogue with could disagree about the OP's judgement of equivalency and it's just two people agreeing to disagree and nothing more.
> But it is foolish to say that they are one and the same

I don't see where in what I said you got the impression I was saying that they are one and the same?

I'm saying that, in a working democracy, you are a part of the government, which is very different from seeing the government as a seperate entity you are subservient too.

> The entire purpose of society, and of a state, is to stifle the motivations of the individual for some group

The point of a democratic society is to create a friendly association with others. For it to be friendly, it kind of requires all participants to benefit and feel fairly treated. In turn, this often means that a democratic society will put a stronger emphasis on the individual than non-democratic alternatives. That is to say, the goal of a democratic society is to maximize everyone's rights at the individual level.

Now yes, that does mean that a democratic society is a group of people that assemble together in order to overpower individuals or other groups that would try to dominate over them through force. Maybe that's what you meant here, but it seems a bit of a sideway conversation. Since they do so in order to protect their own individual rights from being taken by force by others.
Wow! Looks like a really cool movie. I'm kind of surprised I never heard of it.

Thanks for the link!
The price dropped like a stone!

> When we moved in, I replaced all of the incandescent bulbs with CFLs

I did that when I bought a house in 2014. Then when I built a house in 2018, I did all LEDs.
Interfacing with the Subterranean (2011) [pdf]
I don't know. Do left-wing people really put so much effort in empathizing with minorities, or is it rather that they come with a complete theory of how the minorities think, and only interact with those who agree with the theory?

How much would a white left-wing person be willing to debate with e.g. a conservative immigrant? Would they treat them as an equal, or even defer to their lived experience? Or would they simply find another, less conservative immigrant, who would not oppose their world-view, and choose this one to be the speaker for the minority?

In my experience, there is not much difference between left-wing and right-wing people in willingness to help oppressed people. Seems to me they mostly differ in style: a left-wing person would probably create a non-profit organization and also write about what the government should do, a right-wing person would probably work under the umbrella of some religious group and also write about how individuals should help themselves and each other. On each side, a few people would actually do something, more people would talk about how someone else should do something, and most wouldn't really care. I am not saying the sides are exactly balanced; I am just saying empathising with people (but also twisting their opinions to better fit your ideology) exists on both sides.

(By coincidence, today I saw a debate where a strongly left-wing person dismissed some complaints of a marginalized person as "anti-scientific", without actually addressing the substance of their argument, just because that person disagreed with some organization that has a mission to help this marginalized community. No more detais, because it happened in a private conversation, it's just a funny coincidence that first I read this, then I switch a browser tab and read about how empathetic left-wing people are. Some of them are, some of them are not.)
The UI can be quite confusing for these though as it’s not at all obvious that “flush and hold down” will yield different results or that the result will be less water used.

I think I had one cistern that was siphon based (guessing based on needing to push the button hard) but had two buttons for different sizes of flow. Then again, it would often fail in a way that made me think it wasn’t siphon based.
No I mean something that uses:

1) data builds the UI

2) widgets, don’t really care if they are native but some building blocks (button, lists, activity indicator etc.) The list from React native will do for now.

3) layout using flexbox and the exact same simplified css with the cascade.

That’s what I’m saying to take anyway.
Thank you!

Do you know how far along are we in understanding how to build an effective blanket that can withstand the neutron flux while maintaining its physical integrity?
Because Windows 10 is an endless beta with forced updates/reboots.
In a literal sense of the word, yes cooking and egg is processing it. However, when people are talking about processed food, it's usually in the context of the industrial processes involved. For instance, boiling a ton of vegetables in a giant vat, then draining the water that all the nutrients leeched into during the cooking process, and only using the vegetables sans nutrients. Sure, they're still vegetables, but they're less filling, leaving the body more hungry, which can lead to overeating.
Oh hey that's why I have the username I have.

I'm nearing 1k karma I'll likely cycle this account soon.
What you described reminds me of these two things (visually):

1. 6-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds with Ricci flatness
https://vimeo.com/81756249

2. Hopf vibrations: https://juliahub.com/docs/Porta/4MpHD/0.1.1/_packagesource/f...
That's a rendered video of the Ocado warehouse system, which I think is a ripoff of the Swisslog Autostore system. There was a lawsuit. Then Ocado hired Swisslog...

Btw: This Autostore system is becoming the standard automated warehouse system for Swedish e-retailers, as they prepare for Amazon entering the Swedish market in a month or two.

I think there are at least like 10 very large Autostore installations in Sweden for various niche online e-retailers. And like 20 "large" installations.
The public correctly ascertains things all the time, so this is a good assumption to make.

/s
These are in the hospital.
What’s the IFR ounce the hospital is saturated and won’t help you survive? Probably much higher than 3%.
a.k.a taking issue with a non-issue.
I had the same experience doing game programming. It's not at all like gaming, and almost exactly like all other programming, except with more linear algebra.
Sounds like we could probably have a fascinating discussion. I get so tired of the same old tired name-calling and finger-pointing that most people count as political discussion. My Facebook is filled with posts from both sides which do nothing more than hurl insults at the other side.

Nobody actually wants to talk about issues. Bring up anything specific and everyone just goes silent. It's boring, and a bit offensive. People with so little imagination do us all a disservice by expressing it so strongly.
it extends past facebook. Tweets, community slacks, etc. It is just a re-hashing of what we were told when the internet was young: things you say and do there can stick with you and haunt you later. At the time, we thought that meant nude selfies or drunk pics. Turns out it can be anything that puts you out of the purity spiral and can come back and bite you.
As a vegan I agree that these foods come no where near the nutrition qualities of meat or organs. But I do not think that’s the point.
There are ways to say you wrote a book without being arrogant about it.
I don't see an issue with wireless ear buds, and on an online call only one person should be speaking anyway. Zoom rarely fail to filter the echo, unless you but the mic so that it creates the high pitch sound.
Your previous dismissal of in-person social interaction as evidence comes across as stating there was no progress on this front until the internet "finally" forced people to interact across cultural lines. My apologies if I misinterpreted your point.
Do you mind telling us how many missionaries you've met and engaged with in your adult life?
> The judge repeatedly told Epic's lawyers she wasn't particularly persuaded by their arguments with regards to several key aspects of their case.

It is a bit more complicated than that. This was the preliminary injunction stage of the trial.

It is more that Epic did not pass the very high bar that it is so very likely to win the case, such that they should be able to force an injuction to happen right now.

That is a very high bar to pass, and it is more that the judge is not willing to effectively declare epic the winning, right now, all on her own.

Instead, the judge has said that she wants this to go to a jury, and that this is no ordinary case. She said that it is an extrordinary case, that is on the bleeding edge of technology monopoly law, and basically, that such an important case should not be decided by a judgement from the bench.

Or at least this was my impression of what she was trying to say, when I was listening to the trial live.

Which I agree with. I expect this to be a landmark technology monopoly case that is going to make its way all the way to the supreme court. As such, it would be inappropriate for the judge to basically decide the winner so early by enforcing an preliminary injunction, even though I ultimately believe that epic will win.
> I'm guessing it compresses well.

In terms of text inside html, transferred compressed; yes, it compresses extremely well.

Reading the title I was guessing the title was coming through in 14 different eventual xhr requests, not more simply being displayed.

Could it not be in the actual HTML 14 times, sure, but you drastically hurt the document usability (by humans, machines, social networks, and more) at the cost of bytes... as you're about to serve hundreds of megabytes of video.
Good info to have, Thank you. I am sure people will think twice about huffing mercury fumes now.
That's an item every 10 seconds without missing any. Not sure about the exact work, but damn, did a human even look at those numbers and try to do the job?
>"This will vary between jurisdictions but my understanding is that, yes, you can be sued for making a false promise to buy from a specific seller even if you don't get to the stage of a formal contract."

Absolutely but simply stating interest or saying "We want to buy X quantity of Y", without having any agreement with a company or stating company name isn't agreeing to purchase nor should be seen (except certain situations) as bad
Yep, I've heard that story a few times, and haven't heard the contrasting "I needed a 125 watt incandescent for the EZ Bake oven I bought at a garage sale for my daughter, and purchased it, no problem" story, ever.

But that's just anecdote. This being HN, I look forward to the reply which will shortly set me straight on the subject.
Anyone can claim to work for Google in any of the Social sites.

Also, nobody but small potatoes use the term 'employer'. They usually use the term company/firm
1999 Toyota Corolla – Fine AF (2018)
The vast majority of the world does not use smart phones.

And all of what you listed above applies to computers.
It was an artful way of saying that we have to be very careful in our collection of data, in the analysis of the data, and in our reproduction of the work before such claims can be believed.

He wasn't speaking to scientists. Otherwise he would have spoken of rigor. What needs to be extraordinary is the rigor that produces such evidence.
Any sufficiently advanced noise is indistinguishable from signal.

(... not saying dumps are advanced noise, but this is on the right track. Don't hide the needle. Produce more haystack)
Not that this takes away from your overall point, but that article you cite states that Telegram has 400M monthly active users, not daily.
How do we know that people from formerly communist countries are any better at media consumption? From what little I’ve read about Russia, people seem to be pretty pro-Putin and there are lots of conspiracy theories.

It doesn’t seem like people there are obviously better at media consumption, let alone inoculated?