skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case in point, when you try to tell a democrat they’re doing something wrong they start alibi seeking.

> This is nonsense. Trump is openly trying to overturn the popular vote in PA, GA, MI, etc. That is how electoral votes are decided. He has openly called for the legislature to overturn the popular vote in these states based on nothing.

Yes, he’s trying to overturn illegal votes, he’s well within his right. Had Trump won and Biden lost you wouldn’t be angry. You’re only angry now because there’s a chance, however small, that Trump can still win and this upsets you. Calm down, turn off CNN, this is not what a coup look like.

Republicans tried to secure the vote with national voting IDs, people are too poor the democrats said. India uses electronic voting to secure the vote, yet we’re too poor. So this mistrust in the voting system is again the fault of the democrats. The truth is there’s fraud in every election, it’s just usually not enough to swing the vote. Did you not read of all the problems with non residents and non citizens getting ballots anyway?

> This has been a growing problem, and it is now at the point where it is threatening our democracy.

Agreed, so let’s go for voter IDs so this question never comes up again?
At least I know what it is doing at the moment its blocked (and in many cases I can tell whether that is justified to take N time or not).

With a progress bar I don't know anything.
The Thiel question is stupid.
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I've been wrong about every US Presidential election since 2000! That takes special talent.
I know they say scientific progress is not linear but boy how cool would it have been if a Joseph Lister was around at that time there. We would have discovered germs much earlier. Maybe even avoided the plague?
If the thefts from the Royal Library, in Denmark, is anything to go by, I would look into past librarians. Especially those that have retired.

https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7874/
> But since computers do get stuck, additional indicators should help with that.

They need to be trustworthy. For that, they need to be wired directly into the process doing the work. So no spinner gifs that are animated by the browser/renderer, and can spin forever even if your application dies. It needs to be something where any visual change is directly related to the operations you're monitoring.

That's why a list with textual descriptions of step is a great idea - it's literally too much work to implement it in a way other than the actual completion of a step displaying/ticking off a corresponding label. So seeing that, I'd know the software isn't lying to me.
What the fuck is with all these ^ sino bots on Hacker news?
Who? Russia's pick for US President?
I’m probably a cynic, but I have to wonder if this admission is somehow linked to the inevitable issues with funding because of Covid19, i.e. Cambridge might be trying to get something out of their insurers.
Leafy greens production is quickly being standardized and automated in a highly controllable format. e.g. [0]

It would be reasonable to assume that the farming of many other crops will eventually transition to fully automated indoor formats.

[0] https://infinite-acres.com/
Here, you dropped this: /s
It had a significant educational discount I believe. And I was a college student.
I care to differ (as a developer on a desktop). The reason for developing on a desktop is that my productivity is much higher with 3 screens, one of which is a 40 inch, a full 101 key keyboard and a mouse.
I guess obesity and obesity-related disease being a major cause of death would contract that it's "not hard".

It took some serious lifestyle changes for me to become and stay in shape - and habits _are_ a hard thing to change. ;-)
Interesting, thanks.

Relevant xkcds:

Coordinate Precision https://xkcd.com/2170/

Map of the Internet: https://xkcd.com/195/

xkcd'Splained:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2170:_Coordinate_...

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/195:_Map_of_the_I...
I know, just like https://cn.ft.com/ and https://cn.nytimes.com/ (which are more likely to be worth reading, although not at the same level as the English originals), but the blocks can be circumvented by sufficiently motivated individuals. And I think there are more of those in China than there are sufficiently motivated individuals in the US circumventing the language barrier to read https://www.caixin.com/ or any of the magazines published by http://boyamedia.com/ . (Of course those aren't representative of "Chinese news" either, most of which probably consists of clickbait blogspam.)
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the read. In a similar boat myself, my fondness for beer, pizza and dark chocolate Hobnobs kind of undoes the occasional bit of running and weight training :-)

If you want an unsolicited bit of internet feedback I'd suggest your writing would be even better without the puns - it's engaging enough without them - but that's purely a personal opinion.
I like this list :)

I'd add to it that developers are the ones birthing these projects, and they (or we, I should say) don't like to be bottle necked by UX.
My guess is that they are antennas related to the Palo Alto airport which is right next door. Being in a circular pattern points to VOR, though I could not locate any database, either VOR or AM/FM broadcast that would list that location.

The Palo Alto airport information [1] says: "+100 FT TRANSMISSION TWRS E OF ARPT".

[1] https://www.airnav.com/airport/kpao
Metric zealot here, but on one benefit of Fahrenheit is it captures the range of outdoor/human experienced temperatures well: 0 == very cold, 100 == very hot.
Fascinating stuff. I wonder what kind of theory of disease they were working under
Has anybody ever done something like this for the tech job market? I’m aware of the resume name variation studies, but more interested in what it’s like from the hiring side.
Riker yelling at a bearded Picard to shut up is a good moment.
> I would walk 500 miles — around 15,000 to 20,000 steps a day

Obvious typo here.
To answer these questions one would need to begin with rigorous definitions of 'semantics', 'context', 'memory', 'complex' etc. What we know is that attention models are heavily trained associative memories. Anecdotal perceptions are deceiving, as humans we are often prone to see human/animal-like behavior where it doesnt exist (e.g. cgi/games).
Thank you, and I agree with your point.

My comment is intended more as a step-by-step argument rather than a list.
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The sole purpose of the state, is organize its population for war.

All other stuff a state do, is extras.

There were stateless societies with things like social welfare and public health and so on.

But the purpose of the state itself, as organization, is organize for war, states not only can exist without economists, they exist for 5000+ years, and for much of that time without any economist existing, and some states right now still don't rely on economists.

EDIT: if you disagree with me, explain why, do not downvote.
I'm a globalist but I'll give some reasons to treat China different.

When you buy or use a computer product from China, you also gave a medical company in China money. When businesses are majority owned by the CCP, you are buying from a mega corporation.

I am reluctant to give FAANG my business due to their size, I am just as concerned with a company in China.

Now the US government I rarely interface with outside taxes. I get spam mail from the USPS. I can't think of any other government I work with.
I get that this is a joke, and I haven't spent much time on RationalWiki, but I feel compelled to point out that they aren't actually that skeptical.

It seems to me to embody an unflinching, burning faith that using analytical tools and reason will always yield the right answers.

The idea that the human mind might be too limited to understand everything seems like a foreign idea there.

Ditto the idea that strict formal reasoning is not always the best approach to thinking.

Don't get me wrong - I think logic is an invaluable tool, and I believe we should try to understand things beyond our current limits.

I just also believe we need to admit what those limits are, and always remember our fallibility.
Thanks, I've updated the list :-)
>I can attest that structs use less memory however IIRC they don't have methods so no GetHashCode() which made them way too slow to insert in a HashSet or Dictionary

You can and should implement IEquatable on a struct, especially if you plan on placing them in a hashset - the default implementation will use reflection and will be slow but it's easy to override.
They could try, but given it's been 20 years ago and apparently they never reported it, slim chance at that.
I wonder, what happens when this become ubiquitous? We're all just homeless landlords, paying rent to each other?
I think he was referencing a song as a pun. It’s around ~3-4 miles actually right?
aren’t jokes meant to be funny tho
Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work (2013)
It might be because yesterday was the anniversary of the first publication of On the Origin of Species (first published 24 November 1859) so people looking for Darwin-related news?
Wouldn’t accurate progress bars solve the unsolvable halting problem?[0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
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Fair point. I’ve heard of this kind of thing but have never experienced it firsthand really in any of the places I’ve worked so surely there must be alternative places to work if you’re not ideologically aligned?

But if you go to work for someone you generally have to accept their outlook quietly or move on.
Tesla: The most valuable car company in the world?
Overweight people have more medical problems, and the more overweight you are, the more problems you will have and the more severe they will be (in aggregate, we can find exceptions to every rule).

I've heard this complaint as well but it's usually from people not doing much to lose the weight in the first place. If you've gone from 400 lbs to 300 lbs in 6 months and suddenly you have knee pain you never had before, I think most GPs would take an acute interest in that and not just chalk it up to being 300 lbs. But if you've gone from 250 lbs to 300 lbs and suddenly develop knee pain, you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that it's not the obvious problem.
Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation (1910)
Why a Self-Pardon Is Not Constitutional
Will be interesting to see how they build their management fee in, what realized fees look like, how units are valued and whether that price can be independently verified. Clearly the aim is to dress this up to feel like exchange trading, but there is no open market for some standardized unit of "fractional landlording", so presumably they are always on the other side of every transaction.
It's not just search when the progress bar appears, though. Also when trying to enumerate contents of a folder - e.g. when you're accessing a networked resource, or one that may not be viewable with your privileges. You then get this bullshit progress bar that speeds through the first 3/4, and asymptotically approaches 100%.
Monorepo? Think Twice
The lower bound on civilian casualties is in the hundreds of thousands and the upper bound is a little over a million. A million innocent people murdered by the enlightened, modern, and most definitely civilized west.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
I don't think docker-compose will ever be dead, it's the easiest way to setup a local environment that needs one (db?) or more (db and queue?) components. Deploying locally to k8s (minikube) takes still some time (build the image, push it to the local registry, run the deployment manifests, etc.) which become a PITA for very small changes.

I prefer to run DBs using docker and docker-compose on my homeLab linux servers than installing MySQL through the package manager. A lot cleaner/easier/faster to configure.
Isn't this just a REIT with no diversification?
To whomever downvoted this: I'd assume that you misunderstood this comment. How I understood this comment is that there's no easy or defined way to contribute UI/UX improvements. For code improvements it's pretty clear, but the whole issue/PR workflow can't be applied 1:1 to the UI/UX process works from what I've seen. So I'd definitely agree with that sentiment.
I haven't seen that before thanks. I believe what it's showing is why echo chambers form or for that matter why people of similar nationality tend to live in the same neighbourhoods.

Not necessarily that all the major news agencies all push the same story and never question or challenge anything. Or for that matter only challenge the reverse.
It can happen sometimes yes, I've been roasted in a bad on some subs before.

That's really not the majority. What i understood afterwards was: the guys there weren't my target, my product didn't help them at all.
They felt like I'm promoting out of the blue, and i got my ass kicked.

I just moved on and found a most targeted subs
I tried it out with a picture of Brad Pitt. The results are NOT close, unless you think "Yes that's a white male" is close. The hair color was wrong, but that could have been due to using a picture of Pitt where his hair is dyed blond but his black roots or showing, or just due to shadow.

I guess they have many hundreds or thousands of images pre-generated, and when you upload a photo, they find the closest ones.
The immediate purpose is probably to boost SEO (but for what end I can't say).

A wikipedia article about these type of websites : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraper_site
I still get disappointed.
In the equilibrium, this would probably lower rents and increase house prices?
I commonly hear farming described as "Geographically distributed manufacturing" in the industry. It's a lot closer to a uniform process than people think.
Ask HN: Which one is the primary reason why startups fail? (Choose from two)
1. You built something that nobody wants.
2. You couldn't find the right people who needed your product.

Which one is more critical? I believe the 2nd one is more impactful than the first one?

Often, startups fail even before they could say "We built something that nobody wants." because, they weren't able to reach out to the people who needed their product?

What is your opinion?
It's not a sustainable model. Apple relies on the rest of the market being open and interoperable for their products to be useful (even the fastest computer is useless without content). If every competitor turns to monolithic solutions, they all lose.
I split my time between front end development and UI/UX design. I believe this is because achieving a good UI/UX requires a holistic knowledge of the entire software suite, and detailed information about who is using the product and for what. This kind of thing takes a ton of research, and it's the kind of thing that only a BDFL working side-by-side with a talented UI/UX designer can achieve. Basically, it takes a small group of people with a vision, who know the product and the user very well, and can afford to spend dozens or hundreds of hours on it. This is not something that most open source projects have, unfortunately.
Whilst this is no doubt innovative, everything that is abysmally wrong with property ownership in the UK stems from complicated ownership structures like that being proposed here. Just look at the leasehold scandal (and upcoming reform), the push for commonhold, and the things that go wrong (such as the cladding scandal following Grenfell).

Homes are not investment vehicles to make people wealthy - they are a fundamental human right that many people are priced out of, or subject to unscrupulous landlords and freeholders exploiting what is still essentially a feudal system.
A common refrain in arguments that we don't need laws to protect privacy is that the market will take care of it. The market can't act against what it can't see. Privacy loss is often irreversible.

A common refrain in arguments that we don't need to reject closed source software to protect privacy is that being closed source doesn't hide the behaviour, and people will still notice backdoors and privacy leaks. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

Parts of the US Governments unlawful massive domestic surveillance apparatus were described in the open in IETF drafs and patent documents for years. But people largely didn't notice and regarded reports as conspiracy theories for a long time.

Information being available doesn't necessarily make any difference and making a difference is what matters.
Yes, for grammar results are probably more contrasted, I can’t tell for sure since most papers I read are about vocabulary.

Personal experience however tells me that explicit teaching is a good way to know what’s going on, which is very valuable for highly grammatical languages. Again, in a perspective of "bootstrapping". I think what institutional language teaching is missing is that the needs of students, and thus the effectiveness of various methods, change with their proficiency. Like the fact bilingual dictionaries are better for beginners or intermediate learners while monolingual ones are more suited for advanced ones. Sadly, too often teachers (as well as students) are trapped in dogmatic approach where something is either good or bad on the whole spectrum...
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Just what this country needs, more barriers to entry for struggling would be owner occupiers.
It must be said that in the UK property is governed by specific law and specific rules. These may vary per country (E.g. Scotland vs England), I'm only familiar with England.

For example a contract to sell/buy property must be done by deed, which among other things requires special wording and witnessed signatures.

Owners are also registered with Land Registry and there is a limit to 4 legal owners. If there are more owners a legal instruments like a trust must be setup in order to create beneficial owners.

Bottom line: it is not simple. Whatever this website allows to sell and buy it is unlikely to be actually shares in properties, but rather some contractual rights to receive a share of profits based on level of investment (however that might be calculated as it's not clear), like property investment funds, which this effectively likely is.

Values of properties do go up and down. How can they adjust on a daily basis? They cannot. Best one can do is to hire a Chartered Surveyor every 6 months or so to get an independent valuation.
All Swift/ObjC software has been doing ARC for ten (?) years. Virtual memory usage will be the same under M1. It will just pay off in being faster to refcount (ie as fast as it already is on an iPhone), and therefore the same software runs faster. Probably won't work under Rosetta 2 with the per-thread Total Store Ordering switch. And it's probably not specific to NSObject, any thread safe reference counter will benefit. There are more of those everywhere these days.

2 more points:

- All the evidence I've seen is gifs of people opening applications in the dock, which is... not impressive. I can do that already, apps barely allocate at all when they open to "log in to iCloud" or "Safari new tab". And don't we see that literally every time Apple launches Mac hardware? Sorry all tech reviewers everywhere, try measuring something.

- I think the actual wins come from the zillion things Apple has done in software. Like: memory compression, which come to think of it might be possible to do in hardware. Supposedly a lot of other work/tuning done on the dynamic pager, which is maybe enabled by higher bandwidth more than anything else.

Fun fact: you can stress test your pager and swap with `sudo memory_pressure`. Try `-l critical`. I'd like to see a benchmark comparing THAT under similar conditions with the previous generation.
I work at an organization using this as it is upgrading everyone to Microsoft 365. I get a weekly MyAnalytics (think that is the name) email with my weekly engagement score for things like collaboration. It is all meaningless, and the email just gets deleted without being read now. My co-workers are doing the same with theirs.
No more practical value than a painting.
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> There’s been a misnomer floating around the bodybuilding bro-science industry for ages:

>> 1 lb of extra muscle = 50 extra calories burned per day

[..]

> But in reality — those 50 calories are a myth.
Studies estimate muscle burns only around 4.5 to 7.0 calories per pound per day.

This was new to me, I always heard that building muscle is key to permanent weight loss and that increased metabolic rate from muscle mass is the main reason.
> the step to 1080p was massive,

the step to 1080p I'd say that, for some, could have been seen even as a downgrade. It was possible to use 1600x1200 back in the late 90s and early 2000s, with CRTs.
The concept of "high definition" was already known by PC users (gamers and professionals, that is)

4k is a nice upgrade, and I'd say that many professionals already were using it with proper monitors

8k eeh, we'll get there
The time-dilation Effect as a Computational Resource
Why would their username being the same name of their website be a ban worthy problem? Sure it may feel "wrong" but I don't think it should be a ban-able offense
One that's not online.
Deep Sea Rush
Everything should be digitised; if Google is willing to do it for free, let them.
I think one of the canonical UK examples (which I can't find despite googling) was a member of parliament in the UK was asked flat out if the government planned to devalue the pound. Obviously he had to lie as the official announcement had not been made.
Ah, since relatively recently even, thanks! I'll look for them soon.

Then the question is: which would be preferable, these or organic eggs?
What I get from this: The author decided to try and make an inciteful libertarian rant while smoking crystal meth.

Is there something I’m missing as to why this is on HN? Was this written by an ai, or is it’s relevance that it name drops Peter Thiel?
Which is a sane pattern if a language has proper destructors (a seemingly non-existent thing in GC-enabled languages, unfortunately).

In C++, you'd stack-allocate an object representing a spinner, that spawns said spinner in its constructor, and deletes it in its destructor. Then the spinner doesn't outlive the processing code, no matter what path execution took to end the processing.

There are similar patterns in GC-enabled languages ("with" idiom). Async does throw a wrench into this a bit, though.