skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how in other threads the past 2 weeks, folks were considering the trump ban a one time, extreme thing that wouldn't happen again.

Heres the thing, what if Biden decides to strengthen consumer privacy rights? Who will lose the most out of it? The same folks who are now controlling popular narrative. "You dont want to end up like Trump, do you?" Think about that. How hard is it for them to propagate anti-Biden rhetoric now? Twitter has free reign of changing people's opinion by Twitter declaring what is true and what is disinformation.
It's unlikely that Netflix could stop it being released
> One of the most important symptoms of low blood oxygen concentrations in the newborn (hypoxia) is a change in skin colour, known as cyanosis. This is where the skin has a bluish hue. In dark skinned babies, this can be more difficult to see. For this reason, always inspect the mucous membranes (inside the mouth and the tongue) to determine if cyanosis is present. If you discover the mucous membranes are blue, this is known as central cyanosis.

https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/neonatal-assessment...
Imagine your reaction if you read about "local warlords" distributing vaccines in some developing nation. How does anyone read a headline like this and not conclude that the USA is a failed state?
> Everything you hear is that the airplane is the safest, most sanitized, place to be, but yet we have to wear a mask.

Even the cleanest armrests and high cabin-air turnover rate won't prevent droplets reaching you from someone speaking or sneezing next to you or behind you.
> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic.

This is giving Twitter way too much credit (and too much power). When did a stupid 280chr “microblogging” platform become a channel for foreign diplomacy? To make an absurd comparison, should we consider the politics subreddit a diplomatic venue too?
Using AppleOS is like living in a police state where the police work for you.
In Germany I only ever eat helix pomatia[1]. Nowadays, they are under nature protection. Only the consumption of cultivated snails is allowed. They are related to mussels and taste similar. I can especially recommend snail cream soup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_pomatia
And why exactly would someone go to all this trouble instead of just throttling that region of space? Surely you don't mean to say it would all run on a single chip?

And if this was a simulation there'd presumably be a purpose to it and once heavy computation emerges the entity running the sim would throw more resources at this interesting phenomenon, not try to get rid of it.

It'd be like "each time the neural net achieved AGI, the humans tore it down to refocus on the real goal, bombproof traffic sign recognition".
The industry seems to have adopted “hermetic” as a word that describes truly reproducible builds, while “reproducible” has a lower standard. In many cases, it seems to be used to mean “not dependent on local build environment”.
...as I think about this more, could I, uh, just in general get more detail on what clients can be used? Asking as someone who has never used Matrix before.
The derogatory sense of the term is widespread among the youth, who deploy it akin to "Boomer" in the US
The hardest thing about compilers is that they are expected to be nearly perfect.

A typical user spends hours every day actively using the compiler and if they manage to observe even one bug every five years, that's probably considered a low quality compiler.
Wow that's really good. Nice job!

This is something I was thinking about doing a few years ago. The serious fitness space is dying to be taken away from TNation and other operators that are basically still at forum or webcam + chat levels of tech adoption.

Something like Starting Strength with this level of tech production starts to look like a really powerful fitness tool. I think that's why TrainHeroic is doing pretty well as an app (and now your contribution!)

Great job.
No idea if it's true but first google git says 45% of pregnancies in the USA are un-intended. Of course it's still a choice to birth the child and become a parent
> They are some of the most well researched and documented subjects (in CS) out there.

Hmm this is the first time I've ever seen someone say this! I would say compilers are famously badly documented part of computer science, with many essential techniques basically not written down anywhere but buried in code, and passed through oral history from senior to intern over the years! It's a real problem.
It's odd, I can't figure out why they designed their own silicon (obviously not from scratch)

I'm guessing they expected to sell so many that they'd recoup the tooling costs.
It's definitely 21st year of 21st century. 2001 was 1st year, not 0th :)
There are bootcamps for that.

> widely respected alternative

If someone ever creates one, it will take off. Meanwhile pretty much all what's on the market right now is snake oil
Did you mean where it says "did you mean . . . "?
Are there any similar boards with built-in accelerometers and BT5.0?
The "rather" connotes mutually exclusive alternatives, doesn't it? (I'm not a native speaker.)
Jack is still the CEO, and based on the leaked conference calls from a few days ago - he's very much in control. The guy is a complete egomaniac.
It was, but it produced LLVM IR from the beginning, iirc
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I feel like calling modern computing a mess is harsh. Modern computing encompasses a plethora of applications, to a point where we can model most if not all workflows. It's the product of millions of humans working together for half a century in a very large graph with little connection between each clusters.

Nothing at that scale is a "mess". It's simply what was created by our collective distributed system of humans and we should appreciate that it's not really a problem that can be solved instead of talking about it as if we could "fix" it.
Okay, but why not a newer AOSP?
I will buy an electric car when they make one that doesn't require me to use a touchscreen.
Containers promote bad software development.
A few more interesting observations:

It doesn't seem to have any on-chip flash. While this is a common scenario on application processors and FPGAs, this is unusual on a modern microcontroller. It's not really a problem... XIP flash is cheap and ubiquitous... I'm just curious what the reasoning here was. Cost? Process restrictions? Silicon IP licensing issues? Not necessary if 99% of the chips are used on this RPi carrier board?

The (hard) boot rom is open source! I honestly can't remember the last time I saw this.
We are beginning to approach a point in our technological development where we can beam information into our brains to be perceived as sensory input. Maybe someday we will be able to subjectively experience things not provided by our natural senses. At that point, alien art may become a lot more interesting.
So far, it sounds like a pretty good alternative to many other newbie-friendly microcontroller kits (like Arduino). However, for more complex tasks or advanced users, in my opinion, there are better (and cheaper) options, such as ESP8266/ESP32.
Mostly right. There were the Papal States and the Kingdoms of Sicily, Naples and Sardinia and Corsica during this period too, but they were often under foreign control. Also there were things like the Republic of Venice spreading throughout the Mediterranean.

It wasn't unified until around 1870 though.
> By that logic, you should be blaming the police. Why did you stop tracing back once you got to BLM?

Police are a controlled variable, they existed in 2019, 2018, 2017, etc...

BLM protests and the associated violence that occurred during the summer months directly coincides with a spike in 2020 murder rates. These protests turned brutally violent after dark; to not acknowledge this is troublesome. While this conclusion may not be in vogue, it maps with the data.

And to round this out, COVID and unemployment are likely also factors here... but I'm merely responding to your initial question below.

>>>How exactly do you think the BLM protesters are responsible for these murders, or could have acted to prevent them?

Cheers amigo!
> I don’t think employers seriously believe that a BA in history teaches useful skills for a menial office job

Teaches to write properly. You can't graduate from a BA in history without writing non-trivial papers and having some ability of conveying critical thinking.

> Anecdotally, the biggest benefit of a degree for me was just meeting others with similar goals. The meta knowledge about how to get a job, what skills I need, credibility when contacting recruiters, etc. along with the positive peer pressure from being around more successful students. These things are were all “unknown unknowns” before I started. My hometown has no tech industry.

You nailed it. These are impossible to replicate with online learning.
Are you comparing political suspensions with Habbo preventing child grooming?

I think that is how it could be interpreted by someone that only knows Habbo for that.
Yes... you can. Why are you acting like this can’t happen today? Any store can turn you away for any reason that isn’t a protected class.
What causes crypto trading losses? Leverage trading, FOMO or lack of knowledge
It could be same as stock trading, but I have seen a pattern among crypto enthusiasts, following others in fear of missing out and since Bitcoin and other coins are too volatile sometimes, many people lose huge amounts. Thoughts?
Grant money is definitely accessible at least here in the USA. I have seen grant funding available for various industries in my state alone, and it doesn't require any specialized expertise to apply for. Typically anything <$100k seems easier to come by.
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Social media has lots of power. The choices they make have a big impact.

Is that a controversial opinion?
> How has that experience been? The thought crossed my mind but I didn't know if the effort/cost would be worth it.

It's been awesome, really. I run Pleroma[1], which is magnitudes lighter than Mastodon, and I can comfortably run it on my Raspberry Pi, from home. And due to the nature of ActivityPub, my server going down doesn't mean I miss out on messages/mentions etc. It all federates when I come back online.

> Also, how much of your curated feed is Mastodon-like, and how much is other kinds of content? Been poking around at blog platforms that connect to the fediverse and would love to hear some insight if you have any.

It's all mostly just Mastodon/Pleroma and PeerTube on the occasion. The other stuff doesn't get too much traction across the network, at least from my experience.

[1]: https://pleroma.social
AGI seems like a likely option and under discussed for what could be met first.

It’d be easier for it to travel great distances than organic life, it’d be possible for a variety of organic life to arrive at creating it, it may be hard for organic life to solve the control problem to limit it, etc.
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For what its worth, the Chinese people are only going to see what the CCP wants them to see anyway, or at least in the lens through which the CCP wants them to interpret it. We shouldn't let "how the Chinese might perceive us" to influence us very much.

That said, I think there are other reasons to not like this; specifically while I appreciate some acknowledgment of the human rights issue, I don't especially like Twitter playing moderator for so much of the world's discourse--even if it correctly moderates a handful of high profile issues, it can still shape the enormous torrent of lower profile issues to its liking and deceptively point to those high profile cases when people challenge its neutrality. Consider for example how easy it would be for Twitter to turn a knob tomorrow and boost the amount of subtly pro-CCP content we see (or replace pro-CCP with whatever issue you don't think we should want more people exposed to). While yes, Twitter is a private entity and (in many western countries, anyway) they are legally free to moderate how they like, I still don't think it's a social good--I don't know that our various free speech laws considered the possibility that so much communication could be at the discretion of a single private entity (or even a small handful of private entities).
Low bar squats allegedly do wonders. I believe there's a lot of dialogue in fitness circles from the perspective of postpartum muscle rehab already.
I’ve often wondered about something like this for eBay to make transactions more trustworthy.
You can pretend it's like that, but that's not how it is. I'll reply you tomorrow
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As far as I'm aware it's supported (something like `apt-get install virtualbox=5.0.18-dfsg-2build1 -V`). It's just not commonly used because you usually just choose a distro with the desired update granularity (whether you want to the newest version out there or a consistent version with backported security fixes, or something in between).
We can feel pretty safe that they would not say that, because if they liked Hitler, they would be invading, not chatting about history.
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You look at ants, you don't look at every ant.

It would be absurd to conclude the absence of entomologists just because most individual ants go unobserved.
> Internally, corporations function like centrally planned economies.

Well, they try to. But unlike Governments, they don't have access to Departments of economists or planners that can spend all their time looking at the data and deciding the optimal plan. The decisions corporations take is most often based on the whims of its decision makers (senior managers/HOD/VP of X) who will cherry-pick metrics that suits their perspective.
100% certainty isn't possible, so you must weigh risks. Covid is at least as likely, probably much more likely to have unknown future serious consequences. That's to say nothing of Covid's extremely known consequences.
"I never quite understood why catnip was so socially acceptable when we view other drugs with such different eyes."

Do you treat "drugs are bad" as an axiomatic statement, or do you accept "drugs are bad" as the contingent conclusion of a series of more fundamental statements?

We drill the former into (young) children because it is true enough for them, and they aren't ready for the latter.

If you can understand the latter, then take the underlying statements, and apply them to the cats. You'll find most of them simply don't apply to cats. Maybe a couple of them slightly do, but none of them work like humans. Humans have a unique capacity to be affected by drugs due to our superb executive functioning. Non-humans are all but incapable of bending their entire life around drug-seeking behavior the way we are partially because we're really good at making them, and also because we're uniquely good at refining them. (It's a long cognitive distance from "let the fruit sit a while to taste fun" to "let's build a still!".)
It is important to remember when analyzing such things that evolution does not optimize the reproductive fitness of organisms, it optimizes the reproductive fitness of genes. Organisms are a side-effect, a result of the fact that cooperation often provides a competitive advantage [1]. But evolution neither knows nor cares about civilization. It just so happens that, at the moment here on earth, genes that build brains that build civilizations reproduce better than genes that don't. But that has not always been the case, and there is no guarantee that it will continue to be the case. It is entirely possible that this whole civilization thing is just a transient.

IMHO a prerequisite to the survival of civilization is the recognition that the interests of civilizations can be, and often are, at odds with the interests of genes, and so we are necessarily in active conflict with the genes that made us. The best example of this is birth control, which is an obvious existential threat to the reproductive fitness of our genes. So genes that build brains that have an instinctive revulsion to birth control will, all else being equal, reproduce better than genes that build brains that don't have this revulsion. In the absence of active intervention, the result will be overpopulation.

For a civilization to succeed long-term it has to recognize that it is necessarily in conflict with the genes that produced its individual members, because otherwise the genes will win.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
Just curious: how come the total observations of the confusion matrices are so different? Shouldn't the same data set be used in each trial to fully evaluate the performance differences? Maybe I missed some details in the article...
My parents grow large bushes of catnip. The cat walks up to the bush, chews it some, and passes out in the bush. Seems to enjoy himself.
"I am a programmer"
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I don't think this conversation is going anywhere to be honest. Maybe I misinterpreted your point.

My central point was I see no reason for Apple to disallow altnernative browsers (not just shells around webkit) other than to gatekeep. Your points about safari being better or users not using a PWA for netflix don't seem to relate to this I don't think. I think Apple is only concerned about staying in control with regards to what users can install on their devices. I don't think they want other browsers to be genuine alternatives to iOS safari so they've essentially neutered the competition.

I also think you flippantly dismissed that a very large portion of the world is mobile first (not just the third world anymore) and this to me makes having the choice even more important.
Twitter's users are essentially volunteer contributors on a privately owned and operated web site, and Twitter has every right to do as it pleases with whatever content it hosts.

This is basically whining about the actions of mods on a free web forum.

Maybe governments shouldn't be using some poorly run private sector web site to communicate with the public.
The Capitol riots probably spooked them into upping the strictness of their enforcement.
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I feel the type of user who'd buy into this would also be the type of user who'd simply be willing to contribute a small amount monthly to pay towards moderation, etc.
> The word derives from the Old French word escroue, meaning a scrap of paper or a scroll of parchment; this indicated the deed that a third party held until a transaction was completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrow
I think this is great for maintainability.
I saw a blog post earlier advocating for using long form arguments in scripts, "—-help" instead of "-h"

The same applies here, as "/\d/" might be as recognisable for regex savvy developers as "ls -l" for bash savvy, but for other maintainers not as familiar this makes it way easier to maintain the code
Depends on if it was actually toxic, or just full of people who want it to be toxic so they have something to fight against. I recently read a book by Alan Watts, and he said that one thing that liberal and conservative morality police have in common is that they don't actually want things to improve things, it's just the justification they use to try and control people. If either group were to "win", they'd just find some other cause to be upset about.
I've just started a bootstrapped biotech company in the last ~4 months, and it's definitely possible, but does depend on your niche. I'm lucky because I can live with my parents and convert my room into a lab, but normally you have to rent a lab to even get things shipped to you. I also previously had intentionally developed the skills to do work on an actual "DIY" capex budget, which most folks coming out of academia don't have.

Intense domain knowledge + knowledge of programming + affordable automation is really a fantastic combination to have with biotech. When the software isn't advanced enough, you can do tricks with hardware. When the hardware isn't advanced enough, you can do tricks with biology. When the biology isn't advanced enough, you can do tricks with software.

It really does depend on connections, though. All of my early customers are folks I've known in the community for years, so I can get paid while working out all the kinks in the system.
Sanity restored, now back to waging war overseas!
>The problem is that negative tests are counted each time, while positives are per-person.

The point I was making is that whether this is a problem or not is not a resolved scientific issue, which presupposes the data and presentation.

Furthermore 'this' is a 2 fold issue: do you count negatives more than once; and, do you count positives more than once? These are 2 separate matters; however, I would say counting negatives more than once is the least controversial part.
Because discoveries are useful. If the collective reason for your species' existence is writing birdsong, you're going to want agriculture to ensure people can eat, medicine to prevent them from dying, and electricity to make rad synthetic birdsong dubstep remixes. Tech solves problems, and everyone has problems. Doesn't mean you need to leave the solar system though.
Being a good boy hoping current admin doesn't bring down the antitrust hammer.
Foreign governments are a protected class within the governmental community.

Can Twitter ban members of protected classes if they don’t ban all members of a protected class, can the coffee shop do the same?
Cryptol: A domain-specific language for cryptography
Worse, I sometimes fly CPH-Toronto.
Watching a movie. The captain comes in to tell us what the outside temperature is at 20000 feet, etc. The movie continues after a random time: [5-25] seconds. Then he comes in again and do the same in French. Random interval, then the same in Danish. If it is a Lufthansa code-share plane, then we also get it in German.

And the same for the dinner menu (always chicken or pasta), informing us that they will soon be handing out forms to fill in, etc.

And all this information you can just look on the infotainment system if you really want it.
The lack of resources devoted to the counting of ant species is a reflection of it being very uninteresting to most people. Relative to the entire universe, our world really doesn't have many places to look for ants, and we don't need to travel faster than the speed of light to find them.
Let's talk about what's really going on here. Certain factions of society would like to present white supremacy as more prevalent than it is, and these include white supremacists, but upsettingly, also include organizations and political stances that "fight" white supremacy. These "opposing" factions would love to hijack the OK symbol as a white supremacist symbol, so that each can claim that white supremacy has more support than it does. Each of these factions will feel satisfaction of fighting their fight, as they point at pictures of West Point cadets, Mexican truck drivers, Japanese tourists, college kids having fun and say "See! White supremacy is everywhere!"

I have contempt for all of these people, who insist that "OK" is white supremacist. They promote white supremacy, irrespective of whether they are for it or against it. They turn a stupid joke into a battle cry, because they want to. This is despicable. Reprehensible. Awful.

If you actively insist that OK is white supremacist, you are a bad person and I have zero respect for you. Noam Chomsky talks about how the most violent of two opposing factions gain prestige within their factions by escalating drama and violence with the other faction. That's you. You "fight" white supremacy by promoting it. Contemptible.
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