skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've seen similar concerns about slasher movies, rap music, and even video games, which have been around and been violent for more than 20 years. To my knowledge none of those concerns have ever amounted to anything.
Yes, we're not going to get to the bottom of it here. Since most of us aren't social scientists and don't have experience with any particular diagnostic tool, all we are doing is comparing priors, and there's no reason why you should take the priors of some other stranger commenting on the Internet all that seriously.

But I'll say that my priors lean heavily towards the idea that most surveys, even the standard ones, are less meaningful than they appear, for reasons explained here:

https://carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/survey-chicken/
Adi here -
Thanks all for the advice, comments, support, and tips on ... not getting electrocuted(?)!! It's been a while since I've worked on the Corewars in India project so I'll answer some of your questions the best I can :)

Have been an HN lurker for ~1 year and it's super exciting for my first post to hit the front page! Looking forward to posting more interesting projects in the future!
And when politicians are funding long term science, they aren't funding the actual long term benefits, they are funding the APPEARANCE of producing long term benefits (and the funneling of money to those who can provide kickbacks). As long as the pretense can be maintained, anything can be funded, regardless of its actual utility.
About Mr.N
> I think most sane drivers would have bailed at the first turn off of the pavement.

Why? If it's an area unfamiliar to them then it's very reasonable to assume that Google might know it better than you.
> I do not believe the police in uniform are the ones who start the fight.

If they did, you would see police initiating physical violence against a group of otherwise non-violent protesters.

> Instead, you need to...

Or else, you would see police initiating physical violence against a group of otherwise non-violent protesters.

In a brutal dictatorship, violent suppression of dissent is direct and obvious. In your democratic country it is hidden among "reasonable and legal" stages; this keeps the Good Citizens [1] obedient and sincere.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_German
Actually I'd be shocked more if the sites were offline. Trying to prevent the use of the "Pi" suffix seems like a waste of time.
Anyone remember the Linksys NLSU2 it was the RaspberryPi of its day!
Should have thought of the mass market back then... and crowd funded it...

Is it still possible?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
ah - but you speak towards the granting vacuum en absentia of an appropriate appropriation reaction by the institutions and of the government. A proper refactor that provides umbrella funding for a decade long transition would readily facilitate a painless migration, iff current academia cashflows are supplanted by a superior system...but the deus ex is i. finding said superior system.
> don’t be surprised if it sends some rouge instructions to these robots to annihilate human beings in self defense. It sounds like a absurd joke I know but for some reason it seems to me one of the many possibilities.

It sounds like science fiction. It's hard to emphasize enough how far the current state of AI is from what you're describing. I would be surprised if in 10 years we have a remote idea of how to build what you're describing, let alone have it actually exist and run.
Thank you! Here's a few more data points that I found useful:

Adult obesity by state over time: https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/adult-obesity/ . MA, WA, and IL seem to have uniquely flatlined in the last 4 years. Most states have not.

Obesity in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#P...

Colorado, which has consistently had the lowest obesity rate of any state going back to 1990 (6.9%): https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/12/colorado-least-obese-s...
Agreed. The Django ORM is so good. SQLAlchemy ORM feels like a huge step backward.

There are some new ones coming on the scene, like Dino and Tortoise, but nothing mature.
I would agree with funding more science, but you'll need some hoops to jump through or anyone can just come in and grab free money to "do research" with. I think you will necessarily end up not too far from where we are now because of that.
No worries! I read your reply as antagonistic and went from there. My mistake.
Yeah, you won't see me grandstanding for the U.S. The U.S. has plenty of issues. But we were talking about China, not the U.S.

By the way, why the U.S.? Why not Lichtenstein or Denmark?
How is that any different than getting an equity loan?
Next time someone asks me what is cryptocurrency even good for, this is my new go-to response
"The BAE drone probably costs $50,000 apiece"

That may be a little high. UAVTek's site says they beat the FLIR Black Hornet 3 bid[1]. Estimates based on US Army budget requests say the Black Hornet 3 is coming in between $15k and $16k per unit[2]. Probably still 5 figures though.

[1] https://uavtek.co.uk/news/uk-mod-acquire-latest-nano-drone-t...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26359/the-pocket-sized...
You're not kidding, the outershell looks like it has signs of either tool marks or 3dprinting artifacts.
It wouldn’t be like paying prisoners literal pennies is a way of getting around the law that made convict leasing illegal.
Nobody said these companies are doing a public good...

The main difference is punishing someone who did commit a crime vs someone who did not. As simple as that.
The ones I've seen are mostly intended to be installed on cubesats as a primary or backup method of deorbiting. However if it works well I suppose they could also be put onto little probes that latch onto problematic debris. Dunno if that's cost effective
A closer match is the Victorian era vortex theory of the atom.

https://www.academia.edu/4084776/The_Vortex_Atom_A_Victorian...
The terms are not good on those loans when there’s strong inflation.
You don't defeat bad ideas by promoting them either; you defeat them with shame, i.e. consequences for being willfully ignorant or acting like a jackass. But the internet rarely delivers meaningful feedback to the folks that craft this type of "distasteful, terrible, and repugnant content."

Now, you might be the sort of person that would choose to live with a group of sadistic trolls for the edification that might result. I suspect most humans would react badly to that type of environment; our psychology is not well adapted to a constant barrage of persuasive deception and emotional manipulation.

Personally, I hope this latest crop of trashtube sites is driven offline and into bankruptcy; the sooner, the better.
Why not both? Transport a thinner bucatino inside a wider one
Gonna go out on a limb here and say this is a spurious correlation. Those nations differ from us immensely in their diet and overall food consumption, and perhaps more importantly they have universal healthcare and likely exercise more.
True. The article said that 3 could be transported at once. I don’t know what (if any) limitations there are on the number of trucks carrying LNG in the same area, at once. I’m just thinking that it’s far more likely that a truck would be involved in an accident that involves a fire vs a train.
I agree that most of those have been decreasing (yay!). Unfortunately, bullying is said to affect 1 in 4 students during their school careers, the highest it's ever been.

https://www.tctimes.com/news/why-bullying-has-become-so-prev...
You dodged the question. A security of what?

It doesn't have to be a security of anything. The Supreme Court established the Howey Test as the legal benchmark of determining security status. You might disagree and believe that is not a good test, that there has to be some underlying asset for it to be a security, but that opinion and all other opinions & definitions of "security" are irrelevant for the purpose of legal enforcement of securities law.

Ultimately if folks believe the SEC has incorrectly interpreted Supreme Court precedent or its own authority, the remedy under the law is to take the issue back to the courts.
How much energy is used to secure other forms of money, like the U.S. dollar? Hint: you need to include the entire military, at least.
In computer science, researchers who had spent decades working on feature engineering for images got completely blown out of the water by deep learning. All those decades of papers would never get another cite. Everyone moved on.

String theory doesn't actually do anything though, so there's no way to say it's better or worse than anything else. It's like someone saying they're working on solving the halting problem or something and eventually they'll get there and they've been working on it for 20 years without any code that actually works. At some point, you just have to give up and do something else. They keep getting grants to work on this stuff though for some reason. Someone needs to interview the people who are giving out string theory grants and ask them why the heck they are still giving these people money.
The paper uses Dice Coefficient for the evaluation of their model which is common in such semantic segmentation tasks. The article is written for lay audience hence the use of "accuracy".

Dice Coefficient = 2 * the Area of Overlap divided by the total number of pixels in both images.

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19449-7#Abs1
1. https://towardsdatascience.com/metrics-to-evaluate-your-sema...
Okay this one is like you say, it is called Rape Day, for the record it never released on steam but I believe it is available : https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/4/18249916/rape-day-steam-val...
Is there? I thought Bitcoin hodlers tilted more towards the Lambos, hookers and coke end of the spectrum, at least aspirationally.
Whatever the source, clearly someone along the line was looking to get enriched
The difference, of course, being that the Top Gear guys have a full production crew and a bajillion dollars of insurance to smooth over any resulting problems.
It would be better to entirely leave the term 'MBA' out of it, because it has nothing to do with the discussion.

Governments spending bazillions just want some measure of accountability and that's it.

Aside from the more existential issues you've noted ... there probably a host of things that could be improved.

One thing may be the recognition that a lot of science just isn't worth repeating at all. To simply 'dial back the faith' we have any in any single experiment, and assume that every first pass is fuzzy.

I don't think anyone is accusing anyone of fraud here, this is not a problem of 'a few bad apples' - it's more of a broad systematic issue of 'looking for positive results'.

Perhaps some opportunities lie in getting more behind null hypothesis stuff as being 'respectable'.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/...
Paying someone for labor kind of does make it not slavery - by the very definition of the word "slave" and "slavery".

Or are you attempting to redefine the word "slave"?
Could not agree more. If you see into most big discoveries, fundamentals were laid 50-70 years ago. F.e. math for string theory (twistor space) was in 1960s while theory itself gained traction in 1990s. Todays the new math developed under premise of string theory might be fundamental for future theories coming 50 year later, even if string theory would be proven wrong
There will be no early vaccine shop, but for sure one can get a vaccine early with the right connections.
I doubt anyone in this thread is arguing that forced labor would be ok anywhere. But hypocrisy is its own destructive force in the world, and there’s a weird meme in Western culture whereby unsavory behavior in China is somehow a sign of evil while the West is somehow more pure. The respective body counts and the number of people in jail (absolute and per-capita) make this highly questionable.
Spotify (https://developer.spotify.com/) exposes a lot of interesting data via their API!
I don’t have anything to do with robotics and this was my first thought: fear. I am afraid these will be deployed as war machines to kill people instead of being deployed to save people. I wish to be wrong.
Yes, I see that. I tried to delete my comment as the other is correct but apparently one cannot delete a comment once someone has responded to it.

Learned two new things in this one thread.
Okay Mr. Cracker Jack lawyer. Apple is sure to appeal it. You have no idea what double Jeopardy is and how it applies.
The Cult of “Face” in China
This is interesting! Why not ANSI C, if not going for the latest C spec?
What about 30 years? 50? 100? Is that too far out to worry about?
I like how they led with something of general interest -- just about anybody might want to make a command line script that requires arguments. Typer might help me get away from Bash scripts to just write in Python.
> According to the BBC and other coverage, the partnership is between Kyoto University and a company called Sumitomo Forestry. But neither the university nor the company has any information on the project available on the English-language versions of their websites.

There may not be English press releases, but Sumitomo Forestry released a press release in Japanese [1], and Google Translate works pretty well on it.

Additionally, there's an English version of the Japanese news coverage [3].

The main points I've seen when looking through these resources are:

- Wood is a renewable resource, unlike all these metals we keep burning in the atmosphere

- Electromagnetic waves are not blocked by wood. Because of this, if the proof of concept works out, astronauts will be able to keep all their communication equipment, like antennas, on the inside of the ship.

- When wood burns it decomposes into gases you would already expect to find in the atmosphere.

- The goal is to find something to increase the price of wood. Basically, this is a fishing expedition.

- Even if this doesn't work out, the research might lead to some new applications for wood.

- The project name is LignoStella and the satellite will be called LignoSat.

[1] https://sfc.jp/information/news/2020/2020-12-23.html

[2] https://univ-journal.jp/74704/?show_more=1

[3] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/World-s-first-woode...
I'm looking for a solution to the problem of exposing a port on my laptop port to the internet (let's say for example purposes: ssh server port) from whatever network my laptop happens to be connected to ... I want to be able to initiate connections back to my laptop from random devices which are connected to the internet via network infrastructure that I don't control ...

Can tailscale give me that without me having to setup my own network infra somewhere?

I loved these two articles and feel some amount of trust for the author's company based on the communication style and knowledge sharing -- just wondering before I dive in whether this tech offers a good solution to my problem?
I'm laughing a little about "reply.account.display_name" being safe. Back in the early days of Slashdot, I registered a super l33t username with "|<" in it to replace a "k". Well... turns out that this broke things all over the place, and I was satisfied with my username of "|" showing up everywhere :)
Most people would probably agree that tasing was excessive. But what should the ranger have done? Traditionally rangers are given respect and their lawful orders obeyed. You don't have a right to disregard the law because you happen to be an Indian. In fact, if the tasing was not racially motivated, "Native American" should not have been included in the headline. Even park rangers are assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
Haha, thank you kindly! That's music to my ears. It is definitely inspired by the internet ca. 2000, when I went online.
Of course they did. The DoD puts enormous resources into publicity stunts. They sponsor movies left and right, do tons of advertising and propaganda, and provide early-stage commercialization funding for consumer products to their contractors. They know BD robots look like murderous war machines, so of course they want to spend some money to make the public like them.
What crimes did he commit before? I couldn't find anything on it
Prank calls fooled Tory MPs into easing opposition to Europe policy in 1993
Everyone I've talked to (including myself) who have to translate between Japanese and English do the same process. Let the machine give you a baseline, then clean it up where it has it makes mistakes/has a weird tone. Though Deepl does a pretty good job at matching tone/level-of-casual-words if you phrase your input English correctly.

Human + machine assisted tooling is probably going to be the clear winner for a while when it comes to doing quality translations. As far as fully automated goes, I think it depends on language, but for Japanese it's like 80% there.
> very good at optimizing metrics... shoot themselves in the foot with some short-sighted action.

Their optimization strategy informed them to shoot their customers in the foot.
It's like asking me what flavor XRP is or what shape it is

I think we can all agree that it tastes like butterscotch and is shaped like a donut. Lots of disagreement on what type of donut: Some say a coffee roll, while others dispute coffee rolls as properly belonging to the "donut" category. Most have settled on the traditional shape of round w/ a hole, though a small number have claimed that's a misinterpretation, and in fact it's the inverse of that, it's the middle part of the donut. This is the munchkin faction.
I didn't knew that robot apocalypse could be funky.
The single most important feature I want of a bookmark manager is auto-tagging. Every-time I add a bookmark it should discover the subject it is relevant to and add tags automatically (and let me modify them when and I how I see fit, of course). Del.icio.us used to do this back in the days. Pocket premium is the only service I know which can do this today.

Can LinkAce do this? I don't mind this being done with help of a 3-rd arty service.
I had a similar experience in BC, same area near Meadow Lake. I was going with a buddy to camp and fish. My other two buddies insisted we take paper maps just in case. Same thing. Caught a fork, then the road turned to a dirt road and that's when we stopped, got out the paper map, and realized we took two wrong turns. It was dark and we had been driving most of the day and were pretty tired already so missing the initial turn was not a surprise.

Had we continued using Google Maps on our phones, god knows how far into the interior we would've gone before being in real trouble.
Glad to see Torres del Paine there. I did the W Trek a year ago and can’t recommend it enough. Absolutely breathtaking.

Also recommended: Craig Mod’s Ridgeline newsletter about walking in Japan[1]. He recently completed the Tōkaidō road.

[1]: https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/
It's awesome how easy this kind of experimentation is today. Thirty years ago, I worked with a mathematician at JPL who used fairly specialized equipment to find a frequency notch where he had lost his hearing -- at roughly 8k, IIRC, in addition to his total inability to hear anything over ~12k. (The latter was probably just normal age-related high-frequency hearing loss). In those days, an accurate signal generator was an expensive piece of lab equipment... .
For those who use systems like this or bubble graphs or roam, where you seek to loosely "relate" items with other items:

Doesn't it just get messy and overwhelming after a while? I visualize it as nodes and edges, but where the edges don't really mean anything specific other than "this makes me think of that".

I feel like a system that supported a lot of different types of edges that each had clear meaning would be more useful. "this requires that" and "this supports that" and "this needs to happen after that" or "this blocks that", etc.
I think jest uses a JSDOM environment per default in order to stimulate certain APIs.

Might be sensible to compare the node environment to the others if you do not need browser APIs in your tests. And this might be the reason for picking it, frameworks just working g out of the Box.

Personally it doesn’t matter too much as we have too many tests to run all of them locally all the time anyhow.
Heyo - OP here, thanks for the kind words. Periodic reinforcement and having a video based / more interactive guide than just an embedded gdoc would all be super useful in helping kids learn faster and get to a competitive level quicker ... but with that said, Corewars is not a great game to start teaching kids with limited coding experience by any means. It's too hard to pick up - other games would serve this purpose much better.
However, if we ever hop back into the edtech space, we'd certainly be interested in chatting with you at some point :) Cheers
Getting to the Kearsarge Pass TH is a 5-hour drive from Reno. I'll go out on a limb an assume most HNers are not from Nevada. This is really a lot of driving / sitting on a bus just to try out backpacking on a weekend.
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.“ - J. Robert Oppenheimer
There's a middle ground where mechanics are fun but not too easy; flight simulator is just too hard to be that fun in my experience.
The company did not share the most recent data, the article acknowledges that in addition to the fact that the picture might change based on more information. Seems about as objective as it could be without just not writing anything then they’re accused of helping bury the story.
I'm confused on your last point. If indeed string theory is wrong, doesn't that invalidate everything we've learned about black holes and holography via AdS/CFT too?
> It would force a tax reassessment when you inherit a property if you don’t move into it

So...a tax reassessment every 30-40 years? Don't get me wrong, it's better than the status quo. But let's not get carried away and think it's good. And the kids can still move into the place, keep the low taxes, and profit from the massive rise in value by using a HELoC to invest in relatively safe, stable index funds. It's free money.
YouTube doesn't have a defined policy because they say if they do, the racists will abide by it while finding ways to still be racist that don't violate the policy. By not having a defined policy, they can declare anything racist. It's not that they're declaring hacking videos to be racist, it's that they're using the perceived threat of racists using the letter of the law to continue to post racist content as a way of not needing to justify their deletion of anything on any topic without explanation. If racism didn't exist, YouTube would want to invent it to justify their policy of not having a defined content policy.
Generally it's the other way around, with people in residential areas (of any wealth level) unhappy if cars are routed through the neighborhood, for obvious 'this is not supposed to be a through street' reasons.
Literally anything!? Like baseball cards and beanie babies? I am set!

In all serious, why is a little deflation way way worse than inflation? To put it another way, if inflation is good and deflation is bad, why do I need to buy deflationary commodities as a hedge against it?