skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you make the experiments to confirm the theory

The scientific method has usually worked by either coming up with theories and testing them; or by measuring things we thought we knew and finding new explanations when those turn out to be false.

What has not really worked too often has been coming up with mathematical models out of thin air, fitting them to all of the current data, extrapolating them to things we haven't been able to observe yet, and then building those things to check if they also worked.

That is why research into astronomical objects to ever greater precision is a promising candidate: we know what we expect to find if our current theories are correct, we know of real problems with our theories, and we can come up with new theories that predict such and such structures that should be visible in precisely such and such conditions.

This is the exact same model of how physics advanced from Tycho Brahe to Newton - people had models of the motions of the stars, they collected data to confirm those models, and found problems that they couldn't explain. Then Newton came along and found a mathematical model that, for the first time, explained those observations, and even reconciled them with other observations on the ground. We then spent a lot of time testing Newton's theories and didn't find any holes for a few hundred years.

Along came electromagnetism, the study of its dynamics, and the discovery of the speed of light problem, which couldn't be explained - requiring a new model that could actually explain everything we knew + the new data, and so on.
I assume you mean the thin silver one:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MM4T2AM/A/apple-remote?af...

I agree that it's too small -- easy to lose and hard to find. It came out so long ago (2009!) that it predates Apple's Find My app.

The symmetry is annoying but over the years I have figured out how to orient and use it in the dark.

The sensitivity isn't an issue for me: each of the functions requires a firm press, more than I would ever do accidentally.
You realize Satya was at Microsoft before he became CEO, right? Sure, some of these decisions were made before Satya became CEO, but Satya made them. For example bringing Linux into Azure. Ballmer/Gates were very opposed to opensource. They may have dipped their toes a bit but it is Satya that brought about the enormous cultural change.
I think part of the problem is treating models as evidence rather than as hypotheses. Increasingly we see articles (and this is across a lot of disciplines, not just climate science) that are basically "we hypothesised X, and then we created a model that confirmed X". That's not how the Scientific Method works, folks.

The models need to be built on a hypothesis, and then they need to make predictions, and then those predictions need to be proven by measurement of the actual phenomenon. That then gives some evidence (it's not complete proof) that the hypothesis isn't false. Instead, the current thinking seems to be that the models reflect reality and can be used to prove the hypothesis. The problem with this, of course, is that a model can be made to prove any hypothesis.
Don't be a passive aggressive asshole.
I was considering .NET Core for a project but they appear to have fallen behind the JVM rather dramatically when it comes to GC performance. The JVM now has low latency collectors for very large heaps. Is there any work being done in .NET Core to catch up?
The numbers disagree with your assertions.

https://data.tallahassee.com/early-voting-turnout/florida/

About 500,000 more D than R voters have voted early. This is a MUCH bigger gap than we saw in 2016.
On the other hand a lot of efforts to avoid technical debt end up producing more technical debt because in the end you don't know where things will be going. I think refactoring just needs to be an ongoing effort and should almost never be an explicit task.
> You seem to imply that there is a general expectation among grad students that if they just keep at it long enough and do good work, they will become a professor one day.

That's because there is. It's not universal, but it's much more common than what would be healthy. And it's often incentivized by the professors and academic administrations (most with the best interest of the student at their hearth, but also delusional themselves).

> Isn't that kind of a crazy assumption?

Yes. That's what the discussion is all about.

> There seems to be this assumption that it's desirable for everyone to always be progressing upwards in the institutional hierarchy.

There is this generalized assumption that it's desirable for everyone to always be progressing upwards on whatever hierarchy they find themselves. Students happen to find themselves on the academic hierarchy.

It's not a healthy assumption in any circle. But the academics get the worst form of the problem for many reasons.

You are perfectly correct in thinking that an academic formation should primary lead into some innovation related career, or into some high complexity practical field. You are not correct in thinking that people are not delusional enough to be a problem.
The Wolves are representative of the Romans!

Legend has it that the founders of Rome were raised by a she wolf! A lot of roman cultural items have an imagery of the she wolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus
Personally, I think that extreme relativistic stance waters down the idea of "social" status to be meaningless because it negates the social aspect. At that point, it's no different than saying "people chase what they value". That's trivially obvious; the chasing of social status is a subset criteria meant to say "people chase what they value, and what they value is social standing defined by their desired in-group". That can be quite different because the trivial condition can have people chasing all sorts of non-socially minded goals. Regardless, the original point was that when people can't concretely define what they value, they often defer to chase that which their society values.

Using a "singular global social order" is a bit of a straw man. It doesn't have to global, just like it can't be individual.
FiveThirtyEight published a well-sourced summary a month ago: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-supporters-arent-...

The main reasons to disbelieve the shy Trump voter hypothesis are that there's not a big difference in responses to live phone polls vs online polls, and that polls missed Senate and Gubernatorial races in 2016 by about the same amount as they missed the Presidential race.
So is China going to surpass America to become the world's #1 economy? Or are the predictions that China's growth will decline true?

Some analysts think China's population is too old and that youth will peter out, whereas others think that all the CCP has to do is ask its millennials to have more babies.

Some analysts think that democratic nations will band together and give China the cold shoulder. China could just as easily form alliances.

Others say that the West will build factories in India, Vietnam, Mexico, and Africa and stop single-sourcing the supply chain. China's also playing that game with their One Belt initiative.

The West has bountiful resources. Oil, minerals. So does China.

The West has a huge military and space program. So does China.

The West has high-paying tech jobs because of its lead in tech, but China is catching up and has more people graduating into the field. This could drive dominance (and salaries) down.

China keeps reporting growth. Others say don't trust the numbers. At the same time, look at what's happening to Western economies and national debt. Is China pulling the same levers, or are they unscathed? What, if anything, can the West do to match that growth? Or is it impossible?

What's going to happen? What's the 20 to 30 year outlook?

Really hoping for some good analysis.

(note: this story was "flagged" and I was unable to reply, but I "vouched" for it because I really value conversation and want informed input to help shape my view. Maybe I was wrong to do so, and if Dang or the mods disapprove, I'm sorry. My opinion on this whole matter is constantly in flux, and I'd really like good sources of information so I can be up to date and well informed. It feels like one of the most important topics of our generation.)
Amazing visuals! This needs more upvotes
I've never heard of anyone outside of physics using ROOT. Have you? The tech open source data stacks are their own quickly maturing but completely separate stacks.
I need some help with the coding of a game I am working on
That's why I emphasised started in March. As in started putting new money in in at or around the low, I think plenty of that happened.

Frankly I'm kicking myself for not doing as you say. I 'thought myself very smart' by being aware of it over the new year, reading how bad it will be, thinking markets will tank, and sticking to my guns because 'I won't try to time the dip'. And then of course with a modest amount of new money in March thought 'if I'd sold in January I'd definitely be pound cost averaging back in now, even if not piling back in, I'm an idiot for being 'sensible''.

If I had though I'd probably be thinking it's crazy at the moment (or especially a week or two ago) and piling back out... Remains to be seen how well that would've gone.

I think really it's all a good argument for separating 'boring, don't touch it, keep buying', and 'fun, dabble, hobby speculation'. Where the latter should be funded appropriately for what it is, a hobby.
> They gave Trump 28.6 which was beyond problematic

How was that problematic?
The first version of Microsoft made BASIC interpreters for any and every "home computer" that asked them to (and was willing to buy it). For a large chunk of the lifetime of the Macintosh, Microsoft was the largest Mac OS application developer, and cross-platform C++ tools was important for that. The Microsoft of "only one tech stack" is probably the outlier, more than the rule.
There isn't necessarily am answer at all. As these people aren't cryotonerds they likely just use the first one their associates use. Telegram was one of the earliest e2e encrypted chats to gain some notoriety as a means to avoid surveillance, and the publicity from that and countries banning it provide advertising others lack.
I would totally count over engineered a technical dept. Any design choices and implementation choices that make a code base limited in its future abilities to change and evolve, and which causes it to require more time and effort to be understood, I consider technical dept.

The dept is that you take time and effort from your future to save time and effort in your present.
I was at MS for his last company meeting and you're right. That guy has charisma and PASSION for Microsoft.

I never liked working there, but watching him scream "I LOVE THIS COMPANY" while in tears made me feel like I was part of something huge and important.
I have said this many times. Do not use anything other than uBlock Origin. Do not trust forks, similarly named extensions (ublock, ublock plus, etc).

uBlock Origin has a lower chance of stealing info because the developer is trustworthy. And almost everyone on HN uses it, and you will know very fast it something it does something wrong.

https://ublockorigin.com//
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The 1 should be one semitone lower, but it's still decent. Contra Walken, there is in fact too much cowbell if you try to play it simultaneously.
No, the current one, which has a smaller aspect ratio, and is flat. It has a little touch surface that is extremely sensitive.
Interesting article. I agree that we should be able to expect that Wikipedia is a neutral source.

> Shuichi Tezuka and Linda A. Ashtear are pseudonyms of two American academics.

Do academics in the USA therefore have to expect repression if they publish such articles? Or are there other good reasons why clear names are not used?
The title is a reference to Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the greatest novels ever written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber
The wolves in this case are the Romans themselves (The wolf being a symbol of Rome thanks to the Romulus and Remus myth). republican light infantry wore wolf pelts, and legionary standard bearers wore animal pelt headdresses, including wolves.
Agreed. I once worked on a project which was a microservices based system for managing various types of infrastructure. Progress was painfully slow.

There was a separate testing client that was used for a lot of the demos. The demos on the 'real system' would fail so often that somebody came up with the idea to just take a lot of the code from the microservices and drop it straight alongside the testing client, as a monolith.

It was so much more stable that after becoming the default way to demo, it became the default way to use the tool.

5 years on and I believe it's still running that way. In this case microservices were massive over engineering.
On Tesla filings: Attempt to make NLP difficult?
How dare you? None of us have ever said something in a comment that was over the line! Um... at least not so far this morning... I think... um... (furtively checks comment history) nope, not me. I don't do that kind of thing (mumbling) so far today...

We've all been there. Props for recognizing it, admitting it, and dealing with it.
Doesn't imply that positions popularly held by self-proclaimed liberals are closer to any objective truth. Reality is what we make of it through our biased consciousness, colored by our value system and sense of morality.
Fair points all,and I agree. My comment wasn't meant as a critique, I meant it as an honest question.
I think a lot of today's massively tested, microservice and dependency injected systems will end up as huge piles of technical debt in the future. If you think modifying a COBOL codebase today is hard, wait another 20 years and see how much "fun" it will be to rework today's systems once their platforms are viewed as outdated.
Ask HN: How do you remember comments you read from Hacker News?
I've realized that it's hard for me to remember many of the comments I have read on HN, or Lobste.rs.

I can remember the articles and that are linked, but not the discussion about the articles.
This sucks since the discussion adds nuance and background to the article that is helpful.

Have other people noticed this, and if so, why do you think it happens?
Is it a UI issue (maybe mental energy is wasted keeping track of where we are in the comment tree)? Or is it a cognitive issue (just pay more attention)?
I think a better wikipedia can be built along the github model. Allow each entry to be forked and reforked, but with wikipedia serving as an index rather than a content repository. Use something like github stars for sorting purposes.

This would replace neutrality with plurality, the merely aspirational with the achievable.
I think it’s because of cancel culture that people are quite fearful to disclose or invite scrutiny of their political choices.
Very recently this startup WhiteHat Jr. was acquired for $300M by another EdTech startup Byju (valuation: $11B!).

Byju is known to be very aggressive in sales and marketing.. and they have been controversial.

https://www.moneylife.in/article/criticism-of-top-marketing-...
Fair enough but to some developers who know how to use git it could work. Regarding files and embedded stuff, gitlab could just be used as a file host and webserver also. It think it now displays a download button for blobs.

But yeah, maybe not for non-technical people...
Surprisingly sensible article!
Some readers here might be interested in the history of the technology that has enabled cryo-EM. One of the key innovations was the development of CMOS direct detection devices that are able to detect electrons with extremely high signal to noise ratio, operating very close to the thermal limit of the DDD itself. I think it is an excellent example of the fundamental interdependence of cutting edge research and cutting edge engineering. Some (maybe most?) of the initial research and development [0, 1] on the cameras was done in my grandadvisor's lab. Another part of the story is related to the massive improvements in algorithms that in some cases have enabled nearly real time reconstruction and visualization of viruses from cryo-EM samples (I don't have links for these handy), and the work to increase the resolution of the reconstructions presented in the linked article.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359769/
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210420/
Be cautious about being so quick to dismiss a tool just because it's expensive.

How much caution, expressed in dollar amounts is warranted? If you had the visibility into our accounting that I do, would it change your mind?
> Mobile platforms are fundamentally different, and the terminal is not relevant for most things I want to do with a phone.

Computer freedom and programming is about far more than the terminal.

My biggest issue with the locked down nature of phones/tablets is that they hold the next generation of programmers, and instead groom users to be just dumb consumers.

For many people a phone or tablet is their first and often only computer. Especially in emerging markets. You can't create on these devices, they are designed only to consume.

No more curiosity driven discovery of programming. You're not allowed to extend your device, that is reserved for silicon valley elites who can afford an additional $1500 device. So stop asking and just consume what they produce for you.
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As your links point out, much as it was about "light and air" it was also about keeping out poor people and undesired races.

The first zoning laws in SF were used to selectively drive out Chinese people.

Just want to make sure that this often hidden part of zoning is above the fold.

It's also largely why racial segregation and housing wealth has not changed at all over the past 50 years. The laws are used to prevent integrations if communities, ensure that infrastructure like schools are unevenly distributed, and enforce our current racial divisions.
Good work really interesting read. So many possible use cases.
I wrote the above before caffeine really kicked in, so I neglected to add: pnp is itself achieved in part by obfuscating your entire dependency tree. That takes a loooot of trust, on a matter where trust has already exceedingly deteriorated. In hindsight, I regret even considering it.
How to Speed Up Object Detection Using NumPy Reshape and Transpose
Very true. Is it the case that PoW provides the same security value as PoS?
Wouldn't a single image of an animal greatly improve understanding of animal behavior if previously we were unable to see the animal at all?
> In any case nobody I know feels constrained by their choice of messenger app.

Probably because you've already excluded them
I don't pretend to know whether Trump will win Wisconsin or not. I did recently read the NYT piece entitled The Relentless Shrinking of Trump’s Base [0], which at least seems somewhat data driven. Obviously, the characterization of "White voters without college degrees" as the Trump base is certainly a very rough approximation, but using their demographic groupings, they estimate that the Trump coalition shrunk by 48,000 since 2016, and the "Biden coalition" grew by 140,000. This in a state that Trump won by less than 23,000 votes.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/us/politics/t...
This is incredible, and an entertaining use case for stylegan. Big fan of the first example track (Kupla x j'san - raindrops) which caught my attention. Keep up the great work!
Ryan definitely deserves credit for the initial development of node.js. But that phrasing makes it sound like he moved from node to deno - which isn't the case. He moved from node to other projects. Over the total lifetime of node, Ryan was _not_ involved for far longer than he _was_ involved (even when only counting the time before Deno was created).

The top-level comment seems to suggest that Ryan was an integral part of node development before deno and that "getting him back" was relevant. Which isn't what happened. There are people who worked on node and moved to deno. But Ryan isn't really one of them.
From the header of the article:

"Gender and sexuality"

"Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration."

I do love talking about gender and sexuality. I just don't know who Simone de Beauvoir is. The headline is about Simone, not about gender or feminism.

It's like if there was a biography of Steve Klabnik. He's got something to do with Rust. I'd love to talk about Rust. I don't have any useful opinion on Steve himself.
Wait, so you normally don't have food, coffee, power, or internet at home? you moved into a bigger home to create a home office?

If I had a job (i freelance), I'd still have my office setup, my pc on 24/7, and fiber internet. Still the same $$.. but I never had a place w/ free drinks either, so coffee was on my own dime.... same for lunch/food.
Automated lost language deciphering using Phonetic Prior [pdf]
> Avoided the sort of ridiculous cash burning acquisitions to inflate growth

It's funny how Apple has often been exhorted by industry observers to make large acquisitions, and instead has done quite well with smaller ones. Beats has been a commercial success. PA Semi (dating back to the Jobs era) was the foundation to a hugely successful VLSI design division. The success of Siri is a bit more disputed, but it's playing an important role in many products.
They have removed the standalone app because it's not in built into iOS 12:

`The app allowed users to control their Apple TV using a simulated remote control on their iPhone or iPad. But now that the feature comes already built into iOS, we can see why the app seems a little obsolete and unnecessary.`
This is not far from the truth, except the detectors are actually relatively small (and very expensive), there's more aluminum foil than the Victorians used, and we have slightly better hair on average. The last time I used one of these facilities, it looked like this (and still does):
https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/sites/lcls.slac.stanford.edu/...
Compared to this electron microscopy is downright boring - and a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper to set up.
Several commenters make the point that the big successes under Nadella were initiated when Ballmer was CEO. This is true, but business success is often the absence of big, ego-driven mistakes. <cough>Nokia</cough>

Microsoft has a huge number of very smart people. Aligning the company behind what they are good at will enable Microsoft to thrive.
I'd rather distribute that money into all kinds of other research ideas that if successful would help people directly. The poor and the hungry don't benefit from knowing that dark matter exists. We need energy, food, medications and treatments. Those are better places to invest than another accelerator.
The Bongos correspond nicely with the left and right hands. Left side ( letter a ) corresponds with the cat's left hand (from my view ), and right side ( letter d ) corresponds with the cat's right hand.

This is reversed for the Piano and Marimba for some reason which I think should be fixed.