skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if there are more Asians in China than Korea, which obviously there are, they should be the more accurate representation of Asian genetics.

The tallest province in China is still shorter than the average European height. And Asians aren't a monolith, there can be genetic variation between Han Chinese, Koreans and Japanese in a phenotype such as height. The average height in Japan for men is 161cm despite being a rich country (so it is likely driven by genetics, not nutrition).

> You say it shouldn't matter yet you also admit your argument is weakened by using the bigger data set.

I say no such thing. I say it is less prone to nit picking. The argument is unchanged.

> By definition, professional athletes are genetic exceptions. So it would make no sense to compare the average member of any population to the elites in the NBA and make claims about race in general.

This is statistically illiterate. If you have two distributions with the same kurtosis, and one distribution has a mean, say, 0.4 standard deviations lower than the other, then the frequency of extreme right-tail performance is going to be much less common in one population than the other. This is just elementary statistics.

Yes, you can have an Asian who is extremely tall and therefore not disadvantaged in the game of basketball, but that is simply not relevant to the statistical claim I'm making. If you have two equally sized racial groups, one has 2% of the population that are extremely tall, and the other has 0.3% of the population that are extremely tall, then the former racial group has an advantage due to this genetic difference in this specific domain, and any elite performers in this specific domain are likely to come from the former racial group than the latter (all else equal).
> The point is that desktop Linux is still pretty much a bunch of standalone components loosely duct taped together.

To some degree it is. On the other hand this is also why I prefer to use Ubuntu or Debian over any other distribution. They are highly integrated and opinionated in the sense that they keep the packages as unmodified as possible.
Now that's an answer. Thanks for the detailed reply!
They added a LOT of convenience features and made it possible to buy ingame time with gold.
> genes that don't confer any particular advantage tend to peter out when inserted into large populations

Not sure that's true.

Natural selection is not the only force driving evolution.

Neutral and nearly neutral (slightly deleterious) alleles can be fixed in a population by random genetic drift.

Source: https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-importance-of-rando...
Quite interesting. Are results available somewhere? The GIF is too compressed to evaluate this kind of content.
Probably, and I was a bit slow on picking that up...
I agree, failing to mention that when talking about Spengler is a bad look. Thanks for pointing it out.
I fin it very unlikely to see distributed social networks like Mastodon or Diaspora completely banned. In the US, this should be protected under the first amendment, in many other countries, it's protected under similar laws. And many countries don't care as much about violating their citizens' privacy as the US does.
There's been a surge of activity in the last year or so due to the re-release of WoW Classic, also known as Vanilla. There are rumours that Burning Crusade will also be re-released soon. I suspect the potential revenue is too good for Blizzard to resist.
If you want them to care, stop by their offices and have a really rational talk with their staffers and the representative. If you can explain things with stories (for example, where a backdoor was used to crack ___ resulting in very personal damage to ____), you will change minds. Get 20-30 tech leaders to go meet with Feinstein and discuss how this will affect them. If she won't budge at that point, then maybe y'all need to vote for someone else. Encryption is easy to explain: if the good guys can use the backdoor, the bad guys will use the backdoor, to. The cops don't get keys to your car, safe, or home for the exact same reason.
Just make the fovea in your game larger to account for the lag; and fix temporal stability for things rendered outside of the fovea, and I think it should become unnoticeable
Ask HN: What are some good software ideas or products that never took off?
The recent news about how some COVID-19 data in England was lost due to using Excel has sparked discussion on Hacker News about the right tool for tasks like this (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689247). In particular, many posters lament there is no consumer-facing database alternative that might have been amenable to non-developers.

This made me wonder, why did 4th Generation Languages (4GL) tools like FoxPro, Clipper, Clarion, DBase, Paradox disappear? They were powerful databases with their own languages. They attempted to be more accessible to beginners or casual users than stand-alone programming languages.

These 4GL products seem tailor-made for web projects that require database access. Instead we've settled on a mish-mash of clumsily glued-together and complicated solutions for web development with databases.

Why did these 4GL tools disappear? Was there some snobbishness amongst programmers who didn't view these products as 'real' programming languages?

The criticism of Excel also made me remember Lotus Improv - an attempt to re-invent the spreadsheet. That too, unfortunately, never took off. (This video gives an overview of Lotus Improv if you are not familiar with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3M)

What are some other good software ideas or products that never took off (or never lasted)?
The key problem is that massive intrusion into the privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications is a telltale sign of totalitarianism. A democracy by nature has not only no need to access every ones correspondence, it is strictly forbidden.

I find it horrifying how many Americans lack the basic understanding of what they are facing here. The STASI reserved for itself the right to read every letter and before them it was the GESTAPO who argued that, for the protection of national security ("Schutz von Volk und Staat"), all communication must be accessible by the secret police.

The american people have no idea what devil they are summoning.
Hahahaaaa!
Read Naval Ravikant Quotes in a Telegram Bot
Cloudflare already does that, Im like almost always stopped accessing sites behind cloudflare, with the hCaptcha
Again, the ratio matters, not the total cost. Obviously a single player sport isn't comparable to a tech sport in terms of total financial costs...

the racket and shoes don't matter in terms of expenses, at all. RF's cost is in the millions and you are comming up with rackets... he is drawing a completely unfair advantage that only maybe 3 or 4 other tennis players can afford.

thats like saying the F1 team only needs to purchase tyres.
Screego – multi user screen sharing via browser
You could also make the "eye lag" part of the game mechanics. A bit like how your eye can take a second to adjust to darkness. Eyes would become an explicit peripheral device. I also think that the latency problem will be short lived: it's currently slow probably because we haven't had much interest in tracking eyes quickly.
PGP was specifically created to combat this sort of legal threat. It is proof that encryption is ultimately controlled by individuals. The identity management is completely decentralization and it works over pretty much any medium.

It seems that the world has somehow forgotten the lesson. People can only see the centralized systems and don't realize that the problem they are trying to solve is not solvable in general. Encryption is unstoppable.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
What destroyed all the major Bronze Age cities?
City of Panic
As someone who understands hash functions, I understand where you are coming from and got non-zero information from your comment.
Some Netflix series are really bad in this regard. Sometimes the upper and lower part of the picture are really blurry. Maybe they do this to achieve a more cinematic look? But to me it feels like forced tunnel vision and it makes me really uncomfortable.
Frama-C: Modular Analysis of C Programs
Yeah, but how many of those are developers? I'm sure there are some, but nowhere near 25%.
What are you actually talking about, though? Veiled and gnomic proclamations can be fun, but sooner or later you have to show your hand.
Convenience is what killed the original game's atmosphere in the first place.
In fairness, this feature was only released in Chrome a couple of months ago, and has in the past week been merged into WebKit: https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/267829/webkit
Renault is leading EV sales in Europe mainly of their popular Zoe (37K) .
I don't use the word, but I immediately understood it without registering anything strange about it. It didn't seem out of place until I saw this comment thread where I realized it is not actually a word I've ever used. I guess it must be fairly commonly used by (American?) journalists.
The thing is, once you man in the middle it, without https, you can serve whatever content you want. It is no longer a page of "text and images", but one with malicious scripts, malicious links, ... you name it.
> He was an antidemocratic thinker

I do not consider that disqualifying by itself. Plato and Socrates viewed democracy critically, too. I do agree, howeve, that the author paints an awfully one-sided picture of Spengler.
Or GMO male chickens that only produce Z gametes.
When I heard about this, I seriously thought we just only discovered Sagittarius A* this year and that I must have fucked up my memories. Thanks for the clarification!
Ask HN: How to deal with ADHD on your own? (If you have to)
This is not an anti-medication or -therapy post. The purpose of my writing is to inquire about the best self-help strategies for managing ADHD.
This might be useful for people who don't have access to a therapist or to medication.
It would be nice if those strategies are backed up by findings.
So without further ado, here are my best ways to deal with this condition on your own:

1. Fish oil (EPA should be higher than DHA) [1][3][4]
2. Zinc[1]
3. Lithium (has severe side effects, but seems to be effective)[1]
4. Meditation/Mindfulness & Yoga[2]

References:
[1] https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/condition-1021/attention+deficit-hyperactivity+disorder+(adhd)
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18025249/
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321799/
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175558/

Disclaimer: use your own brain first! Or if you can, listen to your therapist. Again, this is aimed for people who have no access to professional help.
I am not an expert in scientific literature.
Actually, reality is counterintuitive. Being in congress is a terrible job where you do not even have time to read 1/2 of the bills you are going to vote on this week. So you count on others to help you. Mostly this is staffers, interns and lobbyists because those are the people who show up and help. If you as a citizen want to make change, then all you have to do is show up, in person and have a friendly conversation with the rep or even just with their staffers. Come with easy to understand stories, and be able to rationally talk about the other side. E.g. I realize that law enforcement has a strong story about encryption, but there is a reason we don't require home, car and safe buyers to give law enforcement a master key. Yes, some bad cops might steal, but what is worrisome is that the bad guys might get the the kes. That's exactly what they are asking for here: a master key.
> The US 'equivalent' would be the CIA having staff at Facebook to intercede in policy decisions and to make sure 'The Man in the White House' has his policy objectives met.

1. You think that US intelligence agencies don't have any staff inside Facebook?

2. I mean, Joel Kaplan is right there. Not even a secret.
Yeah. It fell over on my first and rather simple question.

Me: "why should i use this?"

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you please try rephrasing it?"
What is more poetic than a mathematical model of a black hole? Look at this

A "finished" black hole (The end state of the gravitational collapse) doesn't have a volume or any density.

This is the mathematical solution first obtained by Schwarzschild in 1916. So standard mathematical solutions of the black holes are vacuum solutions.

There is "nothingness" inside the event horizon.

The outside observer would see a collapsing sphere of dust, but over time, as the radius of the sphere approaches the (yet to form) event horizon, gravitational time dilation makes everything appear increasingly in slow motion. The actual moment of horizon formation is never seen, it remains forever in the future for the outside observer.

For the in falling observer, the situation is different. The moment once the horizon is crossed, there is no escape. The observer will find himself inside an ever shrinking “universe” of dust everywhere. The singularity is an unavoidable future moment in time, when the density of this “universe” becomes divergent and time itself comes to an end.

So there you've a vacuum. A "universe" of vacuum everywhere where there is no time exists.
and to enforce that, remove the file association which opens .CSV files in Excel by default. If every machine opened CSV files in notepad a huge percentage of 'Excel' problems would just go away. It could be worse though, try opening and saving a CSV in Word and see what that does.
Watermarks Failed; Piracy Surges
Unfortunately independent forums have more or less died thanks to social media. Even most new forums seem to be offered strictly as services rather than hostable code.

It's not new but if you want to dig into Arc Lisp you might consider contributing to or forking Anarki[0], the public fork of the software running HN.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
This I think is pretty much exactly how I think it should be. Half sounds decent.

But... I don't live in the US. We pay tax and received no services in return.
> Would eye tracking be fast enough to follow saccades

MEMS kHz eye tracking enables even predicting where a saccade will land 20+ ms before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEg4l5KuQgI&t=452 (AdHawk @ AWE 2018).
How did you get accesss to GPT-3?

I’m afraid that the way OpenAI is flicking aside applications for access from mere humans, and instead granting access to large corporate entities, tells us something about how AIs will deal with humans in the future.
As long as workers who trade their labor time for money do not participate in the productivity gains at a rate that sufficiently outpaces wage adjustments to the new productivity, this will continue.
The article is about simulation results, but I have a mathematically proven result for an idealized abstract species notion, published in an article in Acta Biotheoretica.

Definition: An "infinitary species" is a set X of organisms which is (i) infinite, (ii) ancestrally closed (contains every ancestor of every member of itself), and (iii) as small as possible with those two properties (i.e., no strict subset of X has properties i and ii).

Theorem: In any infinitary species, every member is an ancestor of almost every other member (more precisely: of all but finitely many other members).

Proof: Let m be a member of an infinitary species X. Let S be the set of members of X who are NOT m or descendants of m. Let S' be S plus all ancestors of members of S. Since X is ancestrally closed, S' is a subset of X. S' is ancestrally closed by construction. S' does not contain m, so S' is a strict subset of X. Therefore, since X is as small as possible with properties (i) and (ii), it follows that S' must be finite (otherwise S' would be a strict subset of X with properties i and ii). Thus S is finite, proving the theorem, QED.

Here is the paper, it has many other fun results like that: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2869.pdf
They literally have such an example in the video; it's definitely not unspoken!
Roofs and walls at sun absorb heat and irradiate it later inside the home. Louvers just block light inside but can not save from having a roof too hot.

Houses next trees instead are shadowed some hours a day, they are more fresh inside and heat less, so are much cheaper to keep at habitable temperatures in hot areas.

Trees are also great blocking street noise and removing contamination.

We just can not remove plants from cities without suffering negative collateral effects
the ipfs hash is interchangeable with other ipfs public gateways, even if they shutdown cloudflare-ipfs, it can be viewed from another gateway.
Such a joy to see Sir Roger Penrose awarded with this honor. One of my favorite contemporary intellectuals.

If anyone hasn't seen it, I recommend his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0
This makes it sound like plant based diets are much crueler than they make out to be - but that harm is surely still an order of magnitude reduced compared to farming animals?

One is collateral damage (mice sucked up etc.) but the other is _premised_ on death.
In Carmack's talk this year he said fovisted rendering was basically a mistake. A lot of it was due to hardware implementation details, but it didn't save much GPU resources for the quality hit you took.

One nice benefit of the Quest 2 is that it can run Quest 2 games without be it.

It's still a feature in the Oculus runtime but they only recommend it in specific situations now, and they try and manage the quality outside of the game because way too many developers just cranked it to Max and it made their games look terrible.
I agree GPT isn't a legal person, it's a website/algorithm. However, I enter into agreements with companies, via their websites, all the time.

I don't agree this is like editing an EULA at all -- I asked the website a question, and got agreement. Indeed in this case I was being stupid, but in general if websites are going to offer their services via AI, I don't want to enter a world where everytime something goes wrong they can shrug and say "Oh no, that was the AI misbehaving".
I don't believe in captcha. its annoying
Has anyone asked the chatbot anything which sows it‘s really built on GPT-3? Ever yonversation here (until now) and i tried could be done by traditional chatbots too. It looks just like some sentence parsing for the desired information snd answers it in a more natural way (maybe thats the GPT-3 usage?)
But it‘s not better in finding information than any chatbot i tried before, too often it doesnt know how to respond.
Not necessarily, a supermassive black hole can have quite bearable gravity at the event horizon (as the event horizon radius depends linearly on the mass and the gravity declines quadratically with distance). You still wouldn't be able to communicate your experiences though.
It also allows civilian police informers (e.g. actual criminals) to kill on their orders too.
Thanks! The last time I read about ISBNs was probably more than a decade ago.
Yes, maybe 2D for multiple processors?
"Every little helps" is the slogan for Tesco.
yes, any gateway can access it.
Google Rebrands G Suite to Google Workspace
TIL: “The best theory is inspired by practice. The best practice is inspired by theory.” (by Don aka "Yoda")

An unpopular opinion: time until the end of ECC = 20 years

Good links:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_logarithm_records

[2] https://dldb.loria.fr

[3] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/arch/discrete.logs.pdf
Friend or foe? Who cares if you got to manage 'em all
Didn't GitHub spin off from Tekkub's hub back in the Burning Crusade days? Fun to see GitHub still being used to enable writing WoW addons a decade later.
Is there a place we can signup to be notified when you open the code? Loving what you are doing here!
Here's a simple explanation, with pictures:

http://visualrelativity.com/LIGHTCONE/schwarzschild.html

And here's a more technical one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_diagram#Black_holes
s
for s in [0] # for every s of 0 (there is only one)
for x in data # for every x in data
for s in [s + x] # s is s + x.

so s = 0 + x[0], then s = (0 + x[0]) + x[1], then (0 + x[0] + x[1]) + x[2] it results in an array of rolling sums.

Edit: someone already answered, I am blind.
I'm not saying that it doesn't exist anywhere, but if I had an earthquake interrupt my scribing I would probably just throw the page away. It would be novel to me, not historical.
They used to be able to record phone calls with a warrant.

They used to be able to read letters with a warrant, IIUC.

With E2E encryption now widely available, no sane criminal will use any non-encrypted channel.

So, a lot of methods law enforcement used to find very helpful effectively no longer exist.

The steelman principle says that this is what you need to argue isn't a problem.

Disclaimer: I lean towards the EFF's position on this one, but I can see there are some debatable issues here.
Or they could use a more customer-friendly service like TransferWise.

TransferWise gives me bank account numbers in multiple countries (service may be limited by nationality), and has a more sane ~0.5% conversion fee. They charge a small flat fee for withdrawals to (some?) bank accounts, but it's not outrageous like 3%.
The Apple Card isn’t really what’s classically called a store card to me (along the line of a Kohl’s or Sears card). To me, it’s more similar to a top tier airline rewards/cash back card.
Like having a python programming interface to seamlessly defer tasks to arbitrary local/remote workers?
Do you have a source for this? I thought they were a direct prediction of GR and this link says the same: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw
Can this apply also to Spiking neural network?(SNN)
Are you talking about Critical Flicker Fusion here?
way harder to invent something like OLED..... unless you're massively ignorant to the huge logistical supply chain needed to make something like this economically possible and technological advances that took hundreds of years for it to happen
Percona | Multiple roles | Worldwide | Remote | Full Time | https://www.percona.com/

We Are Unbiased Open Source Database Experts. And we are hiring.

We are looking for a MySQL Engineer. Location - APAC business hours. https://www.percona.com/about-percona/careers/database-engin...

Technical Operations Engineer. Location - APAC business hours.
https://www.percona.com/about-percona/careers/technical-oper...

A Golang Developer with strong experience with K8s and databases. Location- anywhere. https://www.percona.com/about-percona/careers/golang-softwar...

A Software Engineering Manager. Location - EMEA https://www.percona.com/about-percona/careers/software-engin...
I'd paid good money to get this done for my reddit saves, catalogued somehow.
Fudge Chrome Extension Helping Charities Boost Amazon Smile Donations
It is sometimes possible to write code to alter your CSVs to retain the strings.

The first thing would be to write them as: entry1,"0123456789",entry2 rather than entry1,0123456789,entry2. This has worked for me in some instances in Excel whereby I have to escape certain things inside a string, but I would not be surprised if Excel still messes this up. For example, giving the triangle exclamation mark box and then helpfully suggest to convert to number.

If you want to go further, you can do something like write a routine that alters the CSV, such as entry1,hospitalString(0123456789),entry2. Sure, there are problems with this too, but Excel can break a lot of things and the above examples I do use in practise (the first example I put the double quotes to escape single quotes in foreign language unicode).

Another thing Excel can do is break your dates, by switching months (usually only for dates < 13th of the month, but often a partial conversion in your data for < 13th and >= 13th) or convert dates to integers.