skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And fashions also come into play in these judgments. I will eat my 8G-networked collapsible VR headset if, 20 years from now, people aren't horribly cringing at the popular 2020 notions of "solving climate change" and "working for racial justice".

Are people today horribly cringing at the civil rights activists from the 50-60s or gay rights activists from the 80s-90s?

I think people are far more likely to cringe at naive optimism (e.g. postwar enthusiasm for heavy industry and its products) than genuine attempts to tackle problems.
1GB how? I see 112MB in the App Store...
> Citation needed. When Governments had lots of revenue, they assist the population with public services, which tend to benefit the lowest stratum of society the most. But the cumulative effect is to raise the quality of life of society as a whole.

Citation needed.
Good for you. Autistic is probably the greatest honour. Imagine how everyone else is. Watch the new Zappa documentary it is pretty great. No affiliation just a fan. Lets bring the autism to eleven. Thanks dang for bearing with this bs.
You can't do that if you wanted it to be a symbol of its own. The use of wrapping "%" is native functionality so making `%>%` into a symbol would break the consistency of that.
It is sincerely gross of SFGate to run this story without a single comment from a public health or policy expert explaining the rationale for the lockdown. There is journalistic merit in a story about the frustrations and resentments of Bay-area business owners. It is inexcusable to present their dishonest arguments as the only side of the story. I understand that US government officials (deservedly) have lost a lot of confidence from US citizens. But one way to guarantee bad government is by having a press that presents cynical, ignorant mercantilism as straight analysis.

The rationale for the lockdown is simple for laypeople like me to grok:

- COVID is an extremely contagious and dangerous illness, which is still not well-understood

- daily cases in San Francisco have quadrupled in the last month and local hospitals are facing collapse

- it is much better to err on the side of caution and strongly discourage people from leaving their homes

- from an economic perspective, the problem is the virus and lack of Congressional action, not the SF public health department. The virus quadrupling means that eventually too many people would be sick to patronize the businesses without the lockdown (only with more death and economic devastation).

Comments from a handful of professors pointing this out (only less ignorantly) would be very helpful!

Instead we get bad-faith comments from intellectually dishonest business leaders, like the fact that no COVID outbreaks have been linked to movie theaters (among all 12 moviegoers since 2-2020) or that proper outdoor dining is safe (and badly enforced), or whining about an absence of “hard evidence” (as if the proper policy for a novel pandemic that’s killed over 200,000 Americans in 9 months is careful double-blind studies).

Journalists should not believe that financially distressed business owners are nobly assessing objective risks, while the public health officials are corrupt and unreasonable. Business owners are right to be angry. But the SF government has a job to do, and it is not their fault that state governments in the US cannot afford adequate economic stimulus . The anger needs to be towards the federal government for not providing a well-deserved bailout.
> I'm building the UI using ElectronJS and Svelte, whilst the backend is a separate Python project.

Thanks for sharing this. I have a relatively simple Python script that I'm trying to package for a non-technical Windows user so, as someone whose experience skews toward web development, your comment caught my attention.

I just googled "electron svelte python" and found this write up:

https://medium.com/@abulka/electron-python-4e8c807bfa5e

Which references this Github repo:

https://github.com/fyears/electron-python-example

It all sounds pretty brittle. How are you managing communication between your ElectronJS frontend and Python backend? Any references you recommend?
I think 6 months around age 13. That way it also helps kids who don't really see the point of school and it helps ordering school tasks by importance.
No, same here. I tried to recreate some covid rate graphs in python. The ggplot code did facetting and fitted a LOESS to the data. Nothing ground breaking, but it really hit the limits of what seaborn was able to do, and I wasn't able to tinker with it much further. It got to the point where to make it look good I needed to calculate all the curves manually.
How are these fees so low? Is there anything stopping you from taking the money and investing into index funds? I feel like I must be missing something. The most conservative investment options I know of all have >1% expected returns.
Not really, it's Google's multiplatform, but mobile-first framework ( iirc desktop and web are still in beta and alpha respectively). Slightly different than React, which was web-first ( so JS, obviously) and then came to mobile.
Screens can and should last well over 10 years. No matter what hardware or software is put in there, it's going to stop being maintained after a period of time much shorter than that. At that point the convenience of built in smarts, if there even is any, becomes a major inconvenience and you either have to work around it or make a giant piece of e-waste.
10% of Americans have negative net worth, but something like 8% of Germans have negative net worth, and Germany is a much smaller and more homogenous country. Is 10% a crazy high number? And look at Sweden's number. Is Sweden a basket case?
R’s meta programming facilities are head and shoulders above Python’s, which I think explains the brilliance of dplyr and dbplyr. But I feel like with R you have to scrape back a bunch of layers to get to the Schemey parts. I’ve always wondered what Hadley and Co would have done with dplyr and dbplyr had they had something like Racket at their disposal.
I'm sure they wanted to not replace magrittr pipes. R is introspective, and some reckless people (like myself) will mess with functions' guts in a few scripts. Replacing the `%>%` function with a syntax symbol will break those scripts. Even with scripts that don't metaphorically shove their hands down the garbage disposal, programmers might've relied on certain behaviors of the magrittr pipe.

The R Core team is very cautious about breaking anything, including universally acknowledged terrible defaults (I never thought `stringsAsFactors = TRUE` would ever go away). They know the majority of R programmers are not experts in programming. These users just want to write a script, debug it, and then use it for years with complete trust in the results.
Cool. It looks like ad spend and affiliates really kicked things up a notch. Any advice on sane advertising spend strategies? Also which affiliates worked best?
Is there one model that you use more frequently than others as a base for these disparate fine tuning tasks? Basically, are there any that are particularly flexible?
I was referred to a child eye doctor, as apparently no one bothers with adults. Never made it due to covid.

Diamox was almost an over night fix. That’s when I put it together. I had to dig like crazy to learn about cranial pressure and sixth nerve.

Eye doctors were all clueless on it. Even Neurlogist mostly were.
Yikes, huge limitation. Guess I won't be looking into this any further.
Thank you for the excellent explanation.
I think that's a fair concern. If Women and POC are being encouraged by a company to use their time at work on something that doesn't work, they're asking women and POC to sabotage their own careers by diverting their effort from accomplishments the company will actually reward them for, and only asking women and POC to do so.
If you try WizTree, you won't come back.
You can upgrade packages with opkg and via the web GUI and treat it like you would any other Linux distribution when it comes to upgrades.
Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
You can purchase a monitor. This follows the philosophy of buying separate dumb devices that only do one thing. A dumb TV is just a monitor + speakers + a TV tuner, after all.
>Nicotine is not harmful

It's cancerous and one oft the most highly toxic substances (even insecticides are made out of it..well the plant produces it for that exact reason), but on the other hand your smoked beef jerky is cancerous too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Pesticide

>At environmental levels of 5 mg/m3, nicotine is immediately dangerous to life and health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Toxicity

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19371-tobacco-plants-...
I mean their statements are public
Yeah, and the sad part is that the paper copies royalty is different from the ebook copies. And when someone buys your book in bulk or the publisher gives away promotion copies it get counted differently.

Still waiting for hunderds of US dollars worth of royalties :(
> Samsung is not a flagship company, their high pricing has nothing to do with performance. At best they are mid tier.

Their high pricing has to do with the slew of software and hardware features they include, many of which are executed at least reasonably well and later trickle down to mid-tier brands like Google's Pixel line or more conservative high-end brands like Apple. For instance: DeX, more flexible fast USB C and wireless charging than most manufacturers, pen/remote support with in-device charging and corresponding apps, Samsung Pay with magnetic stripe emulation, etc.

Samsung isn't focused on raw computing power, because they largely depend on the same chips as most of their manufacturers, but if you've used a newer Galaxy S/Note device the level of hardware polish and random "gimmicky" but occasionally useful features far outpaces a Pixel or similar.

Disclaimer: I currently own a Pixel (because there are other things that Google competes on) but last owned a Note 9.
Yes, but that’s still different from saying that a particular quantity doesn’t exist prior to measurement.

The uncertainty principle makes this inherent, but the uncertainty principle itself is a consequence of the wave nature of particles.
String of free sudoku sites ad supported have been earning $1000+/month steadily since 2005:

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No. The vague language is to avoid getting caught in fruitless conversations with some holier-than-thou puritanical clown who will comb through any comment I make with the intent of showing how something I said is an unforgivable sin.
About 8 years ago I agreed with this point, but with the development of tidyverse, R has become far superior to Python for anything involving dataframes.

I teach classes involving data analysis, some in Python and some in R (different topics). The amount of time the Python students spend fighting pandas---looking up errors, trying to parse the docs, trying out new arcane indexing strategies---is obscene. On the other hand, the R students progress rapidly. I'd move everything to R if I could, but Python is still better for NLP pipelines.
How much have you made?
Hey! I have been following you on twitter. Your tweets are very insightful.

There was a sharp rise in profits during April and May, could it be because of more people staying home and learning new stuff or is it due to any other strategy you adopted?
No it fucking does not. I interviewed with facebook ten days ago. Management cancelled my phone screen and instead I got a generic interview with a foreign manager "where do you see yourself in five years" followed by a reject within 12 hours.

Stop the fucking bullshit goddammit.
Do you have a source for "red light cameras, which have been proven to cause drivers to burn through yellows at 100 miles an hour (increasing crashes on the other side) to avoid the fine for what would otherwise be a minor issue"?

All I have been able to find is:

* https://abcnews.go.com/US/red-light-camera-backlash-cameras-... "On the other side of the debate are statistics that show the cameras also cause accidents. A 2005 federal study demonstrated that while injuries from right angle or T-bone crashes decreased by 16 percent at red-light camera intersections, injuries from rear-end collisions increased by 24 percent."

* https://www.iihs.org/topics/red-light-running "When it comes to crash reductions, an IIHS study comparing large cities with red light cameras to those without found the devices reduced the fatal red light running crash rate by 21 percent and the rate of all types of fatal crashes at signalized intersections by 14 percent (Hu & Cicchino, 2017)." (Referring to https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2121.)

"Previous research in Oxnard, California, found significant citywide crash reductions followed the introduction of red light cameras, and injury crashes at intersections with traffic signals were reduced by 29 percent (Retting & Kyrychenko, 2002). Front-into-side collisions — the crash type most closely associated with red light running — at these intersections declined by 32 percent overall, and front-into-side crashes involving injuries fell 68 percent." (Referring to https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/1510.)

"The Cochrane Collaboration, an international public health organization, reviewed 10 controlled before-after studies of red light camera effectiveness (Aeron-Thomas & Hess, 2005). Based on the most rigorous studies, there was an estimated 13-29 percent reduction in all types of injury crashes and a 24 percent reduction in right-angle injury crashes.

"Not all studies have reported increases in rear-end crashes. The review by the Cochrane Collaboration did not find a statistically significant change in rear-end injury crashes (Aeron-Thomas & Hess, 2005)." (Both referring to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15846684/.)

"A study sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration evaluated red light camera programs in seven cities (Council et al., 2005). It found that, overall, right-angle crashes decreased by 25 percent while rear-end collisions increased by 15 percent. Results showed a positive aggregate economic benefit of more than $18.5 million in the seven communities." (Referred to https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/05048/....)
I'd also recommend Sophie's World as a jumping off point into multiple "canon" works as referend by another poster.

I'm sure people out there criticize it as not rigorous or full of inaccuracies, but I've found it an easy read that gives a good overview into the works of western philosophy.
I am somewhat familiar with both, UI/UX and keep relatively apace with a few fields of research. Currently, I'm working to become good at front-end development.

This is an area I'd like to work on, if you have a project that could use someone like me please hit me up here (a comment with your email) or via twitter (@_areoform).
Had a spinal tap to check pressure. It was high.

They removed some fluid to Lower pressure. Massive difference in symptoms. Lasted about a year. Diamox lowers pressure now.

Reddit has /r/iih a good place for learning.
You can safely ignore hegel as I am afraid that if you don't ignore hegel you may think philosophy is useless after you get through 20 pages of any of his works.

Kant may also be a stretch for someone whose new - even the "idiots guide" versions of his works that he wrote because his other works were criticized in his own time for being hard to read

The rest listed here are good - but IMHO you should always start with plato/socrates. I'd throw in Timaeus and the sophist and maybe even parts of republic (at least the chapter involving allegory of cave and allegory of divided line) to this list
When your employer is the government and you can vote out your bosses, why do you need a union and strikes?
If you want one with a similarly styled UI, it's DaisyDisk.

https://daisydiskapp.com/

Also available on the App Store but the sandbox requirement adds a minor annoyances with allowing it access to your disk.

Personally I find the big grid style visualizations make it easier to actually find large files that I don't need, like what you get with WizTree on Windows, but I'm not sure there's a current Mac option. I think DiskInventoryX is gone, but maybe Grand Perspective is still around?
Show HN: Host rendered markdown from source URL, phew
You have your choice: there is a subforum specifically for "Gambling and all "investments" that are so risky they might as well be gambling (HYIPs, pyramid schemes, etc.)", or you can just buy hacked PayPal accounts and cards in the "Digital Goods" subforum.
At some point, most of those things are going to stop working but the screen will still be perfectly fine. What are you going to do with it then?
I don't really understand why three separate people have decided to attack the exact same strawman of my argument. Read my response to the other person's?
Admittedly, I know very little of the battery industry, and not much more about gravity battery viability.

That said, naive me would would ask why we can't just fill ballasts with waste water or other dense waste materials on-site?

Energy density over a gravity battery's working lifetime is a different metric than "per-charge", and maybe more relevant for supplying energy back to a grid (compared to, e.g. a home).
You can’t really account for every externality, without also considering positive externalities.
The Checkrain jailbreak [0] supports several Apple TVs, so I’d bet you could use use certbot to obtain a LetEncrypt [1] cert for it.

Of course, jailbreaking opens up other security issues, so it goes back to what you can tolerate.

[0] https://checkrain.org/
[1] https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/
The way I work around this, if I am stuck using a Javscript-enabled browser, is to just view the source of the page.

The information (content) is right there, in the page. I would say there is nothing to fix. It is just the Javascript getting in the way.
Don't get me wrong, Flutter is fantastic. I love that I can write one set of code that covers most of what I need for Android, iOS and web. I just think the way you define component (I'm sorry, widget) layout is ugly. They even have setState like React. I'm hoping when I get further into it that I'll find Flutter Hooks to be a nice addition.
Pradaxa. I don’t like it, but 3 days without and my right side goes numb. Then vision starts going weird.
> Sideloading doesn’t refer to installing apps you have developed yourself.

If you can do one, you can trivially do the other. It's effectively the same feature to the end user. I develop my own apps and upload them to cloud storage to install them on all my devices.
> Do you believe she was let go because she was black or female?

Possibly. I do think it is likely that she isn't fired if she was a white male. In my experience, people have more patience with people who are in their "in-group". This goes beyond race/gender -- just look at sports fandom for an example. Isn't it odd that players for the team you cheer for can do no wrong, but as soon as they're traded then they start doing a bunch of bad stuff, even the stuff they did while on your team actually now looks kind of bad. In the tech industry role/team/company/race/gender are probably the biggest in-group delineations.

> Do you believe that corporations generally accept ultimatums?

Yes they do. The most common ultimatum is given before employment, where candidates will often give a minimum salary/benefits they will take for the job. I've seen and even been involved in these negotiations where a candidate states that they will not go below this offer, period. And then we counter with a number below that but provide some other incentive we think may counter it.

There are other ultimatums I've seen in the workplace. For example, "I can't work with XYZ or I'm leaving the team". I don't think I've ever seen the response come back as, "good luck finding a new team". It's always been to dive deeper into the relationship.

In fact I issued an ultimatum many years ago where I said I couldn't travel any more due to a personal issue or I'd have to find new employment. I guess you could say they yielded to my threat. I like to think that I was just being honest and they helped find a way that I could still help the team, especially since I only traveled a couple of times per year.

> Do you believe the message she sent out would never be a fireable offense?

I can imagine it being listed as a firing offense in some handbook. I can also imagine that others who have written damning emails have gotten away with no more than a slap on the wrist (or less).
But what are you going to do with that information? It's important to know if someone died of Covid or because of our measures against it. Or even of Covid because of our measures against it (stress weakens the immune system + getting infected anyway).
They pay more because they are a fucking GANG and they are probably paying a cut of that 200k up the chain to the people from their own country.
Ouch. I don't know if anything changed on the last ~10 years, but opening .md files used to open start the Windows help, with an indexing window, that never ended. And if you waited long enough (could be hours), it would open a small fragment of your help, with a navigation that could lead only to the system help.
> That story begins in a palace library nearly a thousand years ago, at a time when most of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness.

Laughable revisionism already thoroughly debunked by Sylvain Gouguenheim many years ago. A real shame as it makes me doubt the objectivity of the entire article.
> This is pretty bad journalism and just kind of meant to stoke the fire of controversy.

Imagine not reporting on the fact that a federal institution is trying to test their limits.

Just because something is likely to be thrown out doesn't mean an agency pushing limits shouldn't be reported. The entire point of the press is to bring awareness to situations like this.
The lambda thing may be useful. Sometimes I was tempted to do something like this

> f <- function(expr) eval(substitute( function(x) expr ))

> sapply(1:4, f({ a <- x^2 ; b <- x^3 ; a+b }))
[1] 2 12 36 80

but I'm not sure it would have worked well. The new syntax is of course also more flexible.
I miss when we justified censorship with the fact that children might see something. At least that actually happened instead of being a fantasy.
Completely unable? Amazon runs Kindle Unlimited which is spotify but with text. And then there's Audible Plus which comes with some selection of books.

And companies like O'Reilly have been running services like Safari since before Apple named their browser Safari.

But piracy apologists continue to claim that the publishers aren't tech savvy enough or business savvy enough. The services are there. I can only presume that readers prefer to buy their books one at a time, often printed on paper. That's the only reason the services haven't become household names like Spotify or Netflix.
The radicalisation directly driven by 8chan, in particular, has led to a large number of people being shot. Dead.

There are dead people, because 8chan was allowed to exist.

That is not something that you should be fighting for. You are not fighting for any greater good there. You are promoting something that leads to actual, real people dying.
I strongly recommend reading Peter Singer.

His Practical Ethics [0] and other books are excellent.

Primarily, I think it's important to very seriously think about our moral obligations to others, especially in today's interconnected world (where we not only can, but inevitably do affect others whether we like it or not).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Ethics-Peter-Singer/dp/0521...