skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can someone explain why the universe is expanding at all?

I think the answer to this is “no”. If you could properly ascribe a “cause” to the universe’s expansion (and could prove it), you would definitely be first in line for a Nobel prize, at the very least.

And no, “dark energy” isn’t an answer; it’s a placeholder term for that which we don’t understand about the universe’s expansion.
It's a shame. Where will we ever find such worthwhile speech as "I don't have cable/satellite, kikeflix, go to movies or restaurants (even if they were open), and so on. I can only buy so many bullets and bunker supplies. Show me a way to support this website without doxxing myself and the money will flow." again?

If only the flames of this burning cespool would spread to its kin.
Peloton to pay $420M for Precor, longtime maker of commercial fitness equipment
You're entirely blaming web developers for the decisions of marketing and management. Do you think we like including 1mb+ tracking scripts?
Tesla is a Manufacturing company for energy and transportation. It just happens that doing those things well requires you to have 10x better software teams than other companies including older car or even tech companies.
Do you have JavaScript turned off? Or any kind of blocker on your router? Any kind of content filter? Some kind of custom DNS?

Because that is absolutely not a normal experience. My SE2 on iOS 14 loads AMP instantly.

I don't know of any evidence that AMP is broken or shoddily coded in a way that affects a significant proportion of users... it's far more likely you've got something actively interfering.
Held up at gunpoint twice! America is so weird. So many friends of mine in the US have been held up.
Thank you! Looking into this now...
Historically it was possible in England and Wales to re-try people in some particular extreme cases

Historically, it wasn't all that extreme or uncommon and one of the reasons why protection from double jeopardy is enshrined in the US Constitution.
I have a fancy zoji. The main draw for me is that I don’t need to babysit it. ie Switches to keep warm and stay that way for hours without ruining the rice

Meanwhile I nearly electrocuted myself with a cheap one off amazon.
What's the Problem with Bootstrap Layout?
Ask HN: Help me hack my 30 year old shareware game
So I recently found the binaries for a shareware game I released almost 30 years ago. Unfortunately I don't have the source code so cannot generate the "key" to unlock all the levels of the game. I'd like to put the unlocked game up on the web.

You can play the game here: http://play.rabidgremlin.com/gridlok/ (I'm pretty amazed you can play an old DOS game in a web browser) and download the game's files here: http://play.rabidgremlin.com/gridlok/gridlok.zip

The .zip file has GRIDREG.EXE which was used to create the unlock key. Also I guess it would also be possible to patch GRIDLOK.EXE so that it thinks it's registered.

Figured it might be a fun challenge for someone out there!
It's more clever than just this, though. My Zojirushi rice cooker has a timer, so it seems to know how far along the process is and speed it up...or it lies, pads the cook time by 10 min, and keeps it warm.
Organizing the family Christmas isn't, but that doesn't require Facebook. There's enough easily accessible free digital tools for that.

General social media use however actually is scientifically associated with quite a lot of negative effects. From increased self-harm in teenage girls (and to a lesser but significant degree boys), to anxiety disorders, bullying, and well we don't need a phd to see the negative effects of having genocides arranged on the website.

I don't really see what's anti-intellectual about just looking at the evidence of how these industries manipulate human behaviour, spread misinformation, and cause psychological harm.

I think what's deeply anti-intellectual is talking down the degree to which these digital services have changed and intruded into our lives because "it's just an app on your phone bro" which has been the prevailing attitude, that is only slowly changing.

I actually suspect that just like smoking, or drinking, we're going to look at how we interacted with online media in the early 21st century with a lot of dismay in the not so far future.
Apple isn’t a software company and it isn’t a hardware company. Apple is a merchant of “good will”[1]. It does this by creating then selling long term trust. In the words of Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, “we build products because we love them” and “we build products we would recommend to our friends and family”.

Today Apple has the luxury to be exclusive. When they didn’t, they released iTunes and Safari on Windows. Today they are even becoming a “health company”. Don’t be surprised when Apple starts to create implants and prosthetics.

All this to say, Apple will do whatever they want as long as it has product market fit and they can be proud of having built it.

[1] good will - as it is defined by capitalism and consumerism, not in an ethical sense. Including pretending/trying to be ethical when it aligns with capitalistic “good will”.
Tidbit: Jaywalking is more typically associated with hard-charging city dwellers, but it means "country walking".

Specifically, the word "jay" colloquially referred to a country bumpkin.

Traffic lights were first installed in cities. People from rural areas were not aware of the traffic light system and it was the country folk, not the city people, who were most originally associated with perpetrating jaywalking. Hence, "country walking".

[can't read the article because it's blocked in the EU, not sure if they covered this]
I don't understand. Why is it a disgrace that teenagers talk about politics, or are allowed to do so without being insulted?
I have not been on campus in decades, if I am in a "post-campus bubble" then I guess I'll be stuck there the rest of my life.

There is nothing normal about Facebook and the impact it has had on society.

You can try to paint it as just the salt of the earth sharing baby pics and conspiracy theories if you want, but that is pretty naive, especially for this forum.

Facebook has spent billions building an engagement engine that has radicalized millions of people all over the world.

Talk to burmese refugees about what Facebook means to them and then tell me about my "bubble".
If you can answer the why, then I think physicists around the world would really like to know. We "know" the universe is expanding because we can observe the effects (eg, red shift of further away stars/galaxies), but the "why" has been the big, fundamental question for as long as it was predicted and/or observed. It's almost certainly related to some property of physics that we don't yet understand, but ultimately, we may never know any reason beyond "that's just how it is".
How does that impact Let's Players or movie reviewers?
Why Palantir Moved Its Headquarters from Silicon Valley to Denver
I will walk, bike or buy a horse before give another penny to this people. Management chops, supply-chain, massive scale. Are we so blind that allow big tech to exploit abroad, avoid taxes, buy politicians, kill any prospect of middle class, accumulate tons of user data and prepare level of automation and surveillance non existent in history? Apple car will be like iPhone, closed, with low repairability, with restricted user experience and every goddamn shady legalised practice that they can think off.
Trillion dollar companies shape a future in which you will not "own anything and be happy". What is this nightmare?
> physics is a laboratory science

That would come as news to most theoretical physicists, who rarely set foot in a laboratory.

> we can ... produce quarks

How do you know we can produce quarks?

Also, where does astronomy fit into your taxonomy? Was Newton doing science or phenomenology when he came up with the inverse square law? Plate tectonics? What about (drum roll, please) biology?
I use an ergodox EZ with this layout https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/ZPn5v/la... (I'm constantly tweaking it though). There are lots of inefficiencies but they aren't causing me enough pain to change them yet. My favorite things about this layout are the number of dual-function keys (blue keys), the Mvmnt layer (I use the keyboard for 95% and laptop's mousepad the other 5%), and the sym&num layer so my most-used symbols are easily accessible for me.

There's a relatively easy way to find out what keys you use the most using git log, clean up the output, then feed that into a tool (forget the name) that outputs the frequency of each key. I did that and that's why those particular symbols are where they are.
Here are a series of episodes from PBS spacetime that explain Inflation and Expansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPStj2ZuXug&list=PLKjJE86mQR...
I agree, this doesn't make sense to me unless this person is not good at business. I mean, why not at least try to sell it to parler.
We’ve become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

Humans can get IVF. We can even do in-vitro gametogenesis.

What happens to all the wildlife that's being poisoned by plastics?
I’m sure GNU would love Linux. I’m also sure Linux would be GPLv3 if it was a GNU package for the last 20 or so years. But now people who wrote Linux are dead and they can’t relicense easily.
The implication is pretty overt, no?
Asking OP to explain almost seems deliberately obtuse.

You mentioned, in a decidedly technical forum, that a superior at work made a somewhat questionable tech-related decision by owning a car with dashboard software by a company whose software is commonly joked to crash frequently and be less-than-reliable.
I'm sure it was purely in lighthearted jest, but not exactly subtle given context. I'm sure your boss was/is a nice person.
Designing, developing and maintaining software systems is most definitely a form of ‘real’ engineering, and should be referred to as such. Qualified software engineers have gained their qualifications in the field through various pathways including tertiary study and professional accreditation, which are rigorous. Not all forms of engineering are regulated, because they don’t need to be.
Chinese teenager breaks Guinness record with 7-foot height
https://interestingnewsclub.blogspot.com/2020/11/chinese-tee...

25-foot-tall dinosaur balloon sculpture breaks Guinness record
https://interestingnewsclub.blogspot.com/2020/11/25-foot-tal...

Secret Korean method for glowing and beautiful skin using simple home remedies and a quick method
Be like a Korean celebrity
This will give you natural glow in one day
Step by step guide
https://healthandbeautytips2021.blogspot.com/2020/11/korean-...
Hmmm I got this response when I submitted the form:

pop.com is not blocked by this blocklist

Probable causes:

- An other blocklist blocking it?
- Regex?
- An older version of this list contained it? > Make sure you are using the latest version.

Not sure what happened!
Chinese teenager breaks Guinness record with 7-foot height
https://interestingnewsclub.blogspot.com/2020/11/chinese-tee...

25-foot-tall dinosaur balloon sculpture breaks Guinness record
https://interestingnewsclub.blogspot.com/2020/11/25-foot-tal...

Secret Korean method for glowing and beautiful skin using simple home remedies and a quick method
Be like a Korean celebrity
This will give you natural glow in one day
Step by step guide
https://healthandbeautytips2021.blogspot.com/2020/11/korean-...
...
Thanks for sharing! Seems like a good video but I don’t really enjoy long-form video... any relevant articles or written media describing the same thing?
I grew up in a trailer park that exited onto a highway. The parts with the intersecting streets were a 35 or maybe even 25 zone, but within a half mile in either direction it was at 55, so the traffic coming through was particularly unpredictable.

Directly across the street, with no marked crossing, was a gas station with a 24/7 mini-mart. It's a miracle I was only hit crossing that street once.
They are morons for buying Bitcoin like they did, but they'd be even bigger morons if they actually tried to use Bitcoin by themselves (like these other commenters suggest). If they have any brains left, they outsourced that.
Stodig Arctic Lifeboat
Man stacks 79 poker chips, breaks 47th Guinness record of 2020
https://interestingnewsclub.blogspot.com/2020/12/man-stacks-...
Classic Apple. They dabble in various things for years until the moment is right to strike with a version 2.0 of something that others already make. Apple rarely enters the market with something that nobody has ever seen before.

Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone, and iPod... These were not the first products in their category, but they were the first to get the category truly right. This being said, I have no idea what Apple will get right about cars that others have not. But that’s the point, isn’t it. We never know ahead of time. There will just be a launch and then everything will change.
Sorry, this looks like a bug! We will try to fix it soon (likely after the holidays).
>"I think you may underestimate the potential scope of a domain model and the capabilities of SQL."

I am being practical. There are many languages that are Turing complete but ill suited for particular domain. It's been proven that SQL is Turing complete as well. However should you propose using SQL to write implementation of say FFT you are not likely to find much of a sympathy.
+1 Brilliant. Turns out HN crew is good at this. Better than the template in the article.
I have a different theory. I’ve noticed such (and similar) ads appearing a lot on some news sites. I think these sites use sexy ads to drive future traffic.

In other words, these ads lead to higher future retention by subliminally pulling users back for more content. Perhaps they help to amplify and complete a dopamine loop that occurs from reading bleak content such as war and COVID, or low-stimulating content such a recipes, or making us stomach emotionally-charged political arguments. They make us come back for more.

It should be easy to do. You look at your user retention in control vs test groups that don’t show and show these ads, and track retention. At the (small?) price of a worse conversion rate, you retain your users better with such ads. If someone has a nice psychology source that could corroborate this, I would be thrilled.
I agree that this is absolutely terrible and I agree that it is not unique by any means. It is likely fairly widespread. I also disagree with the other comment on the thread saying it is your family's fault – it's not.

If Facebook somehow disappeared overnight, would Fox, OANN and the like throw up their hands and stop? Or would your family just find them on YouTube or Twitter some other platform instead? Or does your family already watch those news sources on TV? Facebook's news feed is certainly a part of the problem here, but it is not the underlying cause for polarization. I haven't studied in depth where the distrust in our institutions is coming from, but as long as there are people seeking to capitalize on it, they _will_ capitalize on it.

The reason I am bringing this up and getting a bunch of downvotes is not because I like Facebook. It is because I want to make sure we focus on the right solutions to solve the actual problem at hand. So, if the problem is radicalization specifically, algorithmic news feeds (plural) are an important piece to focus on. But it's not the entire story: the rest of the news media and other platforms also have things to fix.

If the problem is a concentration of monopoly power, or blatant abuses of privacy, then those bring different problems that warrant different solutions. People like to combine all of these concerns into a single bucket and say "Facebook is bad" but when we do that we lose sight of the other trouble makers: the news networks, the other tech monopolies, and credit card companies who actually sell user data.

Despite all of this, I still think a global network of people connected with real identity has a lot of benefits for society. Maybe a better way of phrasing it: if you haven't deleted your Facebook account yet, then why not?
The point has nothing to do with whether they do now, but the relative complexity of building a car vs computer.
Yea.. The owner (or w/e) is talking about how he loves them all - i don't get it. At best i feel like he could say he loves some of them enough to not burn the whole place down before now. Eesh.
But sometimes the bug is in the code not the test, and you wouldn't have known about the bug if you didn't write the flaky test! A flaky test which fails once in every N test suite runs is better than no test at all.
It's a disgrace that people have taken to discussing politics in a democratic-republic?
> Apple isn't known for being a machine learning company, I'm sure the car will be very pretty but they're kidding themselves

Remember the first versions of Apple Maps compared to the (relative) incumbent's? It felt incredibly half-baked and received user/media feedback accordingly.

I can already see this happening with cars with the same response - "Well... building a [map/car/ml system] is hard..."
Why Developers Should Look into Clojure
Ever since they’ve started nagging to get the app, nagging to log in, not letting me read more comments without logging in, I’ve stopped using Reddit. I came here instead. I opened Voat one time because I found some people in a ~6 year old FOSS Reddit thread who had used a script to replace all their comments essentially with ‘Screw Reddit, I’m going to Voat.’ That place is a _cesspool_.
I'll take it one step further.

Don't just write pure functions. Write point free combinators.

Have you guys ever wondered why no matter how much care or planning you use to organize your code when you begin a project, some time down the line you will always encounter a situation where the organizational scheme you chose is less than ideal or even flat out wrong? It's a sort of inevitable technical debt that occurs.

The industry spends an endless amount of time debating and coming up with all kinds of solutions to deal with the above problem. First it was OOP, the latest is microservices.

The actual solution to the above problem is to use point free combinators as much as possible in your code.
They could only afford to do so because the government subsidized it, at the behest of car companies. id check out strong towns research on how suburbs are unsustainable
Thing about the big bang is that, as current theories go, it wasn't really an "explosion".

Take a rubber band- one of those big wide ones- and draw two dots 1cm apart. Then stretch the rubber band. The dots aren't moving, but the distance between them is growing. That's the big bang.

During the big bang, the distance between things increased at speeds faster than the speed of light. They didn't move at all (no FTL movement), just new space existed between everything. Still happening now, just at a slower pace (but a pace that seems to be increasing?).

Why? Answer that definitively and you'll earn yourself a Nobel prize or two.
Tokyo's residential neighbourhoods without pavements are great - it makes the whole road a shared space rather than one that belongs exclusively to cars.
Point is that cable was stuck to a single household.

Streaming is cheaper than cable because we can use it across a few households. Amortize costs down 2x-3x, on top of the fact that added up all these subscriptions still cost 20-30% less than cable.

This is just an extra bonus on the easy to cancel aspect, and the no ads aspect.

I think longer term you’ll see the Kickstarter/Patreon model for streaming be the final evolution of the Cable to Streaming transition. Which is likely what you’re still waiting for.
> He contends that most of what Americans now buy in supermarkets, fast food stores, and restaurants is not in fact food

Oh, just fuck right off.
Therein lies the problem, frankly.
This does not appear to be true at all.

Newspapers are very willing to admit natural immunity. But scientists point out they don't know how effective it is, and/or how long lasting it is.

It's very clear newspapers have been way to casual with admitting natural immunity.

If you want some fairly clear evidence of this, if you were gonna ask a 1000 people whether they were immune if they got the virus and recovered from it, I suspect 999 of them would say yes. And you wouldnt get those numbers if newspapers were stating the opposite.

What the rest of your comment ignores is that we actually don't know whether people who are immune, can nevertheless transmit the disease. Furthermore, false positives do exist.

In fact, even people who are vaccinated will be advised to wear masks, because we do not know whether the vaccine prevents spread, or if it only protects the vaccinated. The Pfizer and Moderna trials did not factor this in their testing at all. I am not sure about the AstraZeneca one, but their trials have had a lot of issues anyways. And no other vaccine's trials have been completed yet.

E.g: A NYTimes article comparing natural immunity vs a vaccine from 2 weeks ago. Note the concept of natural immunity is considered a given, and is not even questioned (and it includes the statement, for example, "Natural immunity from the coronavirus is fortunately quite strong"):

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-natural-immu...
Exactly.

Apple's not going to go into cars unless it's confident of being able to make equivalent margins.

That's the entire point.
Are you saying you don't understand how the woman's successes at getting Google to hire qualified (at least some of whom were _more qualified_ than other candidates according to https://twitter.com/RealAbril/status/1341135830425894913) black and brown students from HBCU is something to be proud of? Or... something else?
> It was truly the culture that dominated the site.

Voat is proof that we are not yet deserving of free speech.

I find beauty in the principle of FoS: we would never have e.g. legalized same-sex marriages without it - and this is why we need it for future ethical advancements, possibly (as one hypothetical example), the right to die/destiny. Advancement of the moral zeitgeist is impossible without it.

The utter impossibility of it in practice is unavoidable. There are few more willing to violate the rights of others than those who demand the right to speech.
Those days ended fast. I saw it happen. On my forum, that very question was asked, and it wasn’t a philosophical debate. It was an operational one - how do we balance free speech ideals vs actual forum evidence.

The framework that fits the evidence and the ideals was

1) we want a market place of ideas to function

2) there is content that easily dominates and sidelines all other ideas.

3) there are Maliciously engineered arguments that need complex rebuttals to Massive emotional payloads, which will never be accepted.

4) cat videos, pictures and memes will out perform everything else

We let things be for a long time. Very light touch approaches. It doesn’t work. The good ideas will become irrelevant before theY are even read, and that is long after bad ideas redefine reality.

The underlying nexus is that our ideals on free speech do not take into account human wetware bandwidth.

If reality must be perceived, and the perception system is flooded, then it doesn’t matter how good our science or reason is. The system is still blind.
OP asked specifically asked for Google Pixel 4a. If the market being fragmented is working in your favor, why not use it?
> The engine of my electric car has one moving part. One.

Your electric car has doors. The doors have hinges, latches, interior handles, exterior handles, locks, lock switches, power window motors, power window switches, power mirror motors, power mirror switches, etc. Those are all moving parts. Those are all just in the doors.
This is a great example of using statistical inference to solve a problem at scale. However I had one question: Since this using Bayesian inference, how was the prior over the parameters p_f and p_b determined? I could not tell from reading the article.