skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the Israel/Palestine conflict mapped Blue/Red into our politics? So that story would make more sense with the Reds (Labour).

Chances are Tory MPs have a closer to ear to the Jewish communities given how that conflict from abroad tragically maps into our political system. So its likely someone in those communities heard of it and wrote to an MP about it.
Transfer learning in medical imaging: classification and segmentation
It's cheap talk. It's not intended to be followed through. It intends to fool the neurotic, which, it usually succeeds in doing.
As others have noted, the issue isn't a lack of ways to build your own website, it is the capture of the web by the likes of facebook, google, apple.

It feels like a lifetime ago but people forget that one of the things that made myspace so appealing was the ability to "pimp" one's profile page. It was an aesthetic and security disaster but it was also AMAZING.

People who wouldn't know what HTML meant if their lives depended on it were willing to learn the basics in order to personalize their profiles. Then facebook happened.

Even facebook at first was receptive to the idea of some degree of personalizing with facebook apps, but as they grew bigger and powerful it became obvious that total control was the best for their bottom line.

Now people have full blown computers in their pockets all the time and all they can think of doing with them is scrolling down and clicking "like" button. This is great for our "AI" revolution because user interaction/engagement with computers has been dumbed down to its stupidest form thus by comparison the "AI" seems very smart.
The original:

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/04/archives/on-language-the-...

> • Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

But I saw what happened. Googling Safire's rules, the "helpful" top result via Google quoted a source that misquoted Safire, which I'm guessing is how it made it into your comment. So no worries.
Why do you think that increasing performance in itself bad for the environment?
So, I spent many years doing this professionally (and still moonlight in this area).

> each of equal repute

This seems incredibly hard, how would you accomplish this?

So, the whole point of the conversion lift tool is to track all conversions associated with your ad (i.e. post view or click on the platform), while having a rigorously balanced control group.

This allows you to estimate the incremental impact of your ads, which is what you want in order to make budgeting decisions.

Your proposed design doesn't appear to accomplish any of this, can you clarify what you are attempting to accomplish with this design?

So, for my money, I would have the following concerns around this design:
1) You're actually assuming that the audiences reached by platform A and B are identical

2) You're assuming that Platform A and Platform B are identically effective at showing your ads to people

From my experience, neither of these things are true (unless you run untargeted CPM ads, which seems unlikely in a digital world). Can you explain how this works?
I think there's some rose colored glasses here about the "good ole days" where everyone had a personal site. In 1999 almost everyone's so called "personal site" was hosted by either Yahoo (Geocities) or Lycos (Angelfire/Tripod).
Former executive faces prison time in SC nuclear debacle
Agreed on the comment collapse, about comment on the commit message I'd say it's a commit on the main PR (since by the time the PR is done the commit msgs are pretty much not changeable, except for the last one)
For the last few hundred years we’ve been living in a period of exponential growth- in population, in scientific understanding, in production of all sorts.

That was never going to last forever. Every exponential growth process eventually reaches its limit. The exponential turns into a logistic curve as the limit is approached. It’s not the end of the world by any means.

But what I think is inaccurate is posing the regime of exponential growth as a normal state of affairs that can be returned to. Clearly that period was totally unique in all human history. If you assume it was going to last forever you get mathematically absurd results. For example if you assume 3% per year growth in wages over the next 1000 years then every worker is going to be making 274 quadrillion dollars per year. In 2000 years they are making 1.89x10^30 dollars. In 3000 years they are making 1.23x10^43 dollars. In 4000 years it’s 9x10^55 dollars, which is enough money to buy each atom that makes up the planet earth at a price of $100000 per atom. These are silly numbers, but that’s the point: exponential growth ends.
It takes a lot more than a font to preserve a language; people didn't have computer fonts for thousands of years. And for that matter, there are lots of fonts that work for particular scripts. And a given language is unlikely to mix scripts--they won't, for example, use some Devanagari characters and some Hangul ones.

Even if you consider just the need to make the written language available on computers, there are other efforts.
SIL is one organization that has developed fonts for minority (including endangered) languages for decades: https://software.sil.org/fonts/. They're part of a Christian missionary organization, hence their interest. But they make the fonts freely available to everyone, indeed their license is commonly used for free fonts.

Besides fonts, if you want to use a language on a computer, you probably need a keyboard mapper. For languages for which a standard keyboard hasn't been developed, Keyman (https://keyman.com) is often used.

And of course there's the need to develop a writing system--a mapping from sound to characters--in the first place, a task which has not yet been done for many languages, and which is far from trivial for most languages. The linguistic study called phonology is a first step in developing an orthography. And then you have to train people to use the orthography; writing does't come automatically.
> I don't have to follow the rules of the "language lawyers."

I'm not exactly sure what specifically you are trying to imply here. When you proclaim to ignore language lawyers, it sounds like you are knowingly breaking the rules of the C++ standard. That takes a lot of faith in compilers doing what you meant to do, despite writing code that is incompatible with the standard those compilers implement...
I'm not here to force a debate, I'm merely pointing out the obvious. It is my right to buy a car in consideration with others, but honestly, it should be a duty.
DigitalOcean Introducing Storage-Optimized Droplets with NVMe SSD
I believe they already have an app with that name, but not a website?
You can write C style code in C++ and still get access to features that are still interesting in the problem domain. constexpr functions, typesafe enums, static assertions, and destructors come to mind. No need to even touch a template or inheritance if you don't want to.

The main benefits of C per se are ABI stability and availability of compilers.
So it's the notion that commits should be squashed before merging into master, rather than merging all N commits from the branch into master.
If you haven't read Michael Pollan's book, yet: https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transc...
Only to a degree I think - when you're sitting in a lower car, you can't view over other cars anyway. I guess you can see through other cars' windows, which is harder when the other cars are higher, like for me when I'm between several trucks. I don't recall that as being a 'problem' as such from when I drove a lower car. Maybe other people experience it differently.
> Your car buying decision should be strictly around your own safety.

That is a horrible, selfish attitude.

A car driver is absolutely responsible for their choice of vehicle, their choice to drive any particular journey, their choice to exceed the speed limit, text, phone, chat, and everything else.

I would ban the sale of any car/SUV not in the current top 75% by pedestrian safety. Set that as a baseline, and increase the minimum standard every 5 years.
Mozilla MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
What? In Germany, they tell us we have to buy evil nuclear power from France ;)

And the rise in EV sales is because they're being subsidized left and right, including installation of wall boxes with 900 EUR. It's antisocial, though, because you've got to own a house in the first place. And so is the ongoing exodus of producing small cars in most of EU's car industry because of draconian Euro 7 emission requirements impossible to meet at a reasonable price point; ie. the enormous cost of maintaining roads being financed via taxes are only benefitting those who'll be able to afford long-distance EVs and undesired (from CO2 PoV) e-commerce/road logistics.
This is argument of people that don't know how to drive well & safely. Maybe not tailgating every other car and just keeping the safe distance would be enough? It definitely is for me and my car is lower than average sedan.
...with a very bad gravel road

second or first or gazilionth home doesnt even matter.
There must be a name for this psychology:

“Product A is great value and product B is more expensive than (or same as) product A therefore product b is bad value and I won’t buy it.”

The ROI or otherwise of a product is not related to the first one. Unless your budget is so limited it’s either-or, why is this fallacy so prevalent?
> Let’s say the cto has said no merge to master until after n days.

This seems like the problem you should address first.
I’m done with iPads and will move back to MacBooks. The software just isn’t there... I was just trying to use the Lightroom healing brush over a large area on a RAW photo and the app started rendering at like one frame every three seconds. Any my camera doesn’t show up reliably for imports when connected via USB-C.

They’re great for reading and watching shows and drawing but I don’t see how the software for real work will ever catch up. I think we’ll just start seeing Macs in new form factors with touch screens and Pencil support instead.
South Korean Mastermind of Exploitation Chat Rooms Gets 40 Years in Prison
The "stagnation" argument is probably specifically about productivity growth, which is best documented by Robert Gordon:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w18315

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24554

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691175805/th...

The above are strictly American phenomena, though similar trends exist elsewhere in the world. Gordon also claims that these trends are most visible in the US, since the US is in many ways at the vanguard of technology-driven productivity growth; other economists have well documented that GDP growth is highest among economies playing "catch up" (which is why, in bull markets, developing markets often have far greater growth than developed markets).

I don't have them on hand, but there are some interesting papers on the "cost of innovation", some of which have recently been on HN. The estimated ROI (measured by cost-per-patent or cost-per-new-pharmaceutical development, for example) is claimed to be declining. (See https://hbr.org/2019/11/why-the-u-s-innovation-ecosystem-is-... for a summary.)

To your specific examples:

* Life expectancy increased primarily due to widespread vaccination and better public health (e.g. clean drinking water, pasteurization). These are "one time" gains; the efficacy and returns (in terms of QUALYs) on investment in new health technologies have been much lower in the last few decades, which leads one to wonder if the low-hanging fruit have been plucked.

* Use of space has had some meaningful productivity gains (like GPS, mass wireless communications, or cheaper areal surveillance), but, again, these seem to be declining returns; it's not clear that we possess the technical means to make interplanetary travel economically viable, so this seems analogous to an observation of Gordon's that I love: that in 1960 you could get between NYC and San Francisco in about 6 hours, and today, you can do so in about 6 hours.

Interestingly, I disagree with the authors of this essay in exactly the opposite direction you do: I think the "Great Stagnation" is real, and I think their "innovations" are underwhelming. (So I can wear a screen on my face instead of holding it in my hands? Big deal!)

Ray Kurzweil somewhat famously suffers from a severe recency bias when he claims increasing rates of innovation: to him, the change from (say) iron to steel is kind of minor, but the change from analog to digital TV—that's a big deal!

I feel these authors make a similar error. In 100 years, I don't think many people are going to care deeply about when we came up with the Oculus.
Yes, but the irony is you're making the same mistake by calling them "messed up". Something is not right with them, too. It's almost like attacking people is the wrong thing to do, no matter what they do to deserve it!

Most of the time what's wrong with them is simple. They are being lazy in their thinking, or they are ignorant of the importance of empathy and acknowledging people's experiences, and helping them through it, even if we don't approve of (or even understand) why they are having that experience. That's not an obvious lesson, and its not "written on the tin" of any baby I've seen!

(Caveat: A very tricky case is when someone seems congenitally devoid of empathy or self-reflection (e.g. NPD, or generic sociopath). In that case you're better off not engaging them emotionally at all, and treat them as a rational actor responding to incentives. A variant, the rational actor who clearly understands the power of emotions, who can learn to simulate them, and has no scruples about doing so--this is the nightmare person because not only are they "manipulative", their existence makes life harder for the rest of us with real emotions, who sometimes get accused of being them. BTW I've read some really interesting stuff about successful psychopaths who are totally open about their qualities, good and bad, and have decided to integrate with society in a classically healthy way! So even here, there is hope.)
Wait, are we still comparing C++ with Java here?
Right, I guess it's time for you to upgrade the UI of your tool then, as when it's inactive it says "Anti-Robot Verification" and once the challenge is done it says "I'm not a robot", while in reality, none of those things are true, as you said yourself.

You might also want to rebrand to use a different word than "Captcha" as you're not actually telling robots and humans apart, you're simply adding PoW to an action, nevermind if they are robots or humans.

So instead of blaming users for misunderstanding your message, maybe try working on making your messaging a bit clearer so for the people who know what captcha is, don't get confused by your own definition of it.
Depends on who your target users are: if tech, maybe any tld could work, but if general public, outside of .com you'll loose.
Perhaps rearrange account tags so that the HN acc info comes last. Every entry on your list has it, so it will arrange itself into a column across all entries.

Edit #1 - in fact, I'd drop media/github account names and format the account info in a table. [icon count] [icon count] [icon count]. If there's no, say, Twitter account, then show [icon -], both in gray. This will make the info easier to scan and digest.

Edit #2 - in the Filters popup, if I understand it correctly, one is expected to click on the label to enable a filter. I'd add at least an ":hover" state to labels then, because right now they do not look actionable at all. Also the popup jerks left-right when toggling the first filter. It's a minor thing, but still a bit annoying.
most electronic market makers are doing HFT these days though.
In many cases n is small enough that looping over a vector is faster than a hash lookup. The vector loop is very ry cache friendly, while the hash lookup typically involves a cache miss or two.
My friend developed a chronic mental illness after one bad trip. It is like playing Russian Roulette with your brain chemistry.
I posted about ChronoFlo six months ago. And got no response from the community. Since then, I have added a ton of new features, including hand-drawn style timelines using RoughJS:

More info about hand-drawn-style timelines here:
https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-time...

Here's a timeline we created about US presidents:
https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...

I am the creator of this. Would love to know what you all think?
Stuxnet notwithstanding, if you've ever worked in a fab, you'd realize that Hanlon's razor is as pertinent as ever, maybe even moreso.
Along these lines, psilocybin has shown promise in the treatment of alcoholism: https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/202630/addiction-m...
It was nicknamed "Don'tPage" for a reason.
Music Production on Guix System
I don't understand what measure of efficiency you are trying to use, in which Diesel would end up being better.

In environmental discussions that measure is usually something of grams-of-CO2-equivalent emitted per km. One oddity is that the usually communicated figure is only that emittted 'at the tailpipe', which is obviously zero for full electrics. Often people try to compensate by taking the kWh-per-km figure and multiplying by the CO2-per-kWh figure for their environment. This is however still misleading if compared with the tailpipe CO2 for an ICE, because the production of gasoline or diesel are also fairly CO2-intensive.

The official term of use is well-to-wheel efficiency or emissions; there is no doubt at all that electric vehicles beat ICE vehicles easily, basically on account of the ICE being relatively inefficient because of size/performance constraints.

Obviously the actually interesting figure of merit is the lifetime emissions (and the 'useful work' gained from those emissions) and while methods and tools to compute this exist computing this in a reasonable way means making a lot of assumptions (such as the miles-per-lifetime), assumptions that will be easily attacked on internet fora, and assumptions that can easily be tweaked to show what you want to show.

The reality is that (full) electric vehicles are practical and efficient for most of the population today, if not in the very near future, and that it's hard to imagine that the current dependency on oil will last very long. Ten years is a long time.
With ”Biden sucks” you could expect something more interesting in the context of hackernews. ”Trump sucks” is something so obvious and whole heartedly agreed in hn that it is a blasé/tldr. :)
It's important to clarify what qualities are attributable specifically to NYT vs. the news media generally. For instance I consider The Times notorious for deceptive implication but only insofar as the news is guilty of this in general. For what it's worth I consider The Times to be top-tier. Yet, this is all the more disappointing that even the best engage in such deception.
> privately financed

this means we have no clue who paid right? as in: it could still be tax money through the CIA or smth.
Download Adblock and replace the app with a home webpage shortcut. Near identical experience but ad free.
NeXT was innovative but financially a mess, they wouldn’t have made it if Apple didn’t buy them. Be was another company that made cutting edge machines and OS but like Next they ended up moving to just software.

Raspberry pi foundation. Making small computers, they’re latest fits in a keyboard.
Any non-direct name will work if your website is not your main entry point, something that people have to remember (for example if people should find you through app stores, ...); otherwise they will end up on some other site most of the time and you'll loose them.
Dear troll/hacker(??)/intelectual(you must be interested in learning something, else why would you be here?) of the internet, here is some data to show why your viewpoint may be wrong:

Africa is on a rapidly developing trajectory, and in some ways is developing faster in the last 50 years, then European countries have developed in the last 100 years. Consider for example that Africa leapfrogged landline telephones and adopted mobile phone technology right away. Or that mobile banking was a thing in Africa long before apps like Monzo launched in the UK.

Now to address the specific issue of birthrates per woman. Look at the following chart [1] showing a handful of countries from around the world. Some countries only started collecting data in 1950 and some have collected data long before.

You will see that 200 years ago, developed countries such as the USA, UK and Sweden all had birthrates per woman of around 5-6, and this slowly decreased over the last 200 years to the current rate of about 1-2.

Now look at Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya and you will see that all of them are on a rapdily decreasing trajectory and that their birthrates are at or below the USA, UK and Sweden 200 years ago. Furthermore if they continue to decrease at their current rates, it won't be long before African countries have caught up with the rest of the world.

Indeed birthrates are on a downward trajectory everywhere[2].

Finally it is generally believed that the earth is approaching a stable population of around 9bn people [3]. If birthrates are going down globally then what is driving the increase in human population especially over the last 100 years? The answer is increased life expectancy. You can see this by looking at the official UN projections [4], and of course life expectancy over time [5].

I hope you learned something today. You're welcome.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?t...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/crude-birth-rate?tab=char...

[3] https://www.livescience.com/16493-people-planet-earth-suppor...

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historic-and-un-pop-proje...

[5] https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
good point. The report does say "electrified" vehicle vs "electric"
Opioid addiction is a clear mechanical fact. We know exactly what one needs to do in order to overcome opioid addiction (or how to avoid it on that matter).
I don’t like paywalls but I have learned to live with simply not reading certain articles.

I have a subscription to the Washington Post, and can access content from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, the New Yorker, etc. through the public library I work at.

If you’re in the U.S. you should consider checking out your local library. There’s a good change you have access to some of the above already and don’t know it.
This is 100% wrong, and only seeks to detail the conversation. A toxic way to think, and sets off a lot of red flags for me, essentially ruining their creditability.

Disgruntled people are the ones who often cry the loudest. Just because there may be teams who act like this, doesn't mean that is the case in general.

Is right up there with "we don't know it wasn't aliens"
In terms of perspective a raised POV can generally help with visibility, independetly to how tall other cars are.

Or even how tall the windscreen is can be a significant factor, in my car it is so short that the rearview mirror covers a significant part of the street.
I've had people try to convince me to use one of those apps that supposedly help you write for better "engagement." Invariably, they just don't get it when I say I'm not interested.
> often generated bad markup with a lot of overhead,

I just looked into the nightmarish tree of nested div's and span's (of which FrontPage and DreamWeaver are innocent) that's a Twitter feed. JFC, I don't want to ever have to scrape one.
A big wagon is still a better car - roomier, drives better than comparable SUV (lower centre of mass). If old/injured folks would be the only ones getting them, I would understand it. But that's not the case.