skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you prove that they have stopped improving their technology? Marketing is one of the most dishonest fields out there, I would prefer that voting system companies (much like I’d prefer that pharma) not focus on marketing.

Do you wish that they didn’t use the only tools available to them when someone is trying running a smear campaign against them? Would you sue someone for trying to devalue your company and it’s reputation? Why do you believe it’s inherently wrong to sue someone?
At what point will there be a third layer of ultra private stock market?
GTX 1080 is the most bought, and resold GPU card around.

Still not dying, and it was made in enormous quantities because nVidia made a big bet on crypto craze.
The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility (2009)
Yes. Those bus stop ads are an example of the kind of attorney who uses "esq."
On Firefox Mobile Android search field directly closes my keyboard after input focus, so not able to search on mobile. Don't know if individual problem, but you might want to check.
And curiously, the incompetent that are responsible for this are still in high position in administration; to be compared to the millions dollars and efforts wasted trying to lock up Julian Assange for 'theoritically without any proof having put sources at risk'.

It's probably time for american to realize that they live under a dictatorship of corrupt politicians!
Bitcoin Going Full Bull: Fundamentals, Technical Analysis and Elon Musk
according to Tyler Black (1) who compiled all official numbers he could find there is no evidence of an increase in suicides for the US

https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1357765466601775106

1) MD, Suicidologist, emergency psychiatrist and pharmacologist
People like Musk are proof that MBAs are overhyped.

Would an MBA think like this about a Lidar?
I dunno.

One topic of conversation in the house is how the dynamic range of prints (say Inkjet) interacts with the viewing conditions.

For instance if is relatively dark and you are far away from the print it makes sense to lighten the dark areas so you can see more in them. Under good viewing conditions though the original looks better.

It is like gamma correction but it applies to prints and not just screens.

That article is missing the important thing which is knowing how to pick contrasting shades algorithmically, even if you never look at them. The accessibility guidelines for contrast are half of the knowledge, the other is knowing that contrast ratios are defined in terms of the L in the Lab color scheme.
You definitely can't call yourself a "doctor" in the U.S. just by virtue of having a law degree (unless you also have a Ph.D.)
I would go so far as to say it's precisely the ability to have a protocol designed by an expert in science work for a layman who follows it that separates scientists from which doctors.
That's all fine and dandy, but that has nothing to do with spreading disinformation.

I can have compassion for those suffering worse than me, be it because they are on a ventilator, have to watch their business fall apart, missing a year of their precious childhood, whatever it may be without resorting to contrarian opinions, misinformation, and conspiracy theories.
The article has a whole section called "TypeScript doesn't solve this", with examples and stuff. Is it mistaken?
Assuming that they are in fact private companies would that make it easier to accept their censoring and banning of users?

I think the more important question should be, how much public money is being spent on servicing accounts on these "Private" companies and is there a fair bidding process involved in deciding which of these companies governments spend their reasorces on?

Every time I hear about governments offering a service such as providing more information and said info is available through one of these "private" companies such as a Twitter address or worse a Facebook page in which questions, comments or any other means of communication of it's citizens to the government agencies is set up in such a way that requires their citizens have an unbanned account to use one of these "private" company's services, It makes me wonder how many government dollars are being spent through employee salaries and advertising dollars without a fair and open tender process.

If the reason there is no tender process is due to there being no other "private" company providing the services that they are, then anti-trust legislation should restrict governments from supporting them, including hiring social media staffers that specifically work on these monopolistic platforms.
> Or is this JIT production mostly restricted to the automotive sector?

JIT is a major trend everywhere where logistics are involved, but in car manufacturers it's the most pronounced - simply because the sheer physical size of many components required for a car would mean that car manufacturers would need big warehouses, which they have torn down or sold many decades ago.

Instead, society has picked up the cost of storage - by building ever more and more bigger highways for all the trucks.
White House says its supports Artemis Program to return to the Moon
I can definitely tell a difference, and it's irritating. The authors of these tools might not notice or care but I actively avoid them. Magic wormhole is one such example.
I can't take any usability websites seriously when they waste 50% of screen width on empty margins.
This is the key. Hacking a traditional X-in-the-box and count-in-public ballot at scale is impossible. Yes I could go to a neighbouring ward and claim I'm Joe Bloggs and vote as him. That will work until he turns up later and they tell him he's already voted.

Do that once or twice and it may avoid press coverage. Do it a lot and it's going to get coverage.
Big projects move slowly to newer standards. E.g.[1]:

> Chromium targets C++14; C++17 support is not expected before mid-2021.

[1]: <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styl...>
I assure you 100%, it is required for everything to work, it's not just here for the show.

One of the thing that the virtual environment does is modify the PATH to lookup executables from the virtual environment first.

This is to ensure that when a script calls binaries like mypy/python, it's going to find the same binary from the environment it's currently running in.

Typically if the environment is not activated, python is going to lookup to /usr/bin/python and might be something else.

This is most noticeable when there are different versions of python on the systems and when having scripts that invoke themselves.
>Little these so-called bio-hackers do is known to be effective

quite effective at getting themselves on FBI watchlists
There are few dozens of Junaid Bengalis at any given time. Last time been in the country in 2017, and some weird molana promising salvation for 5 lakh rupee was holding a rally in Islamabad right at the time I arrived.
So? I’m not worried about the effects on others if I squirt peptides and chitosan up my nose. I’m worried about the effect on me.

A homemade vaccine is both unlikely to be effective (and therefore do nothing for others) and probably more likely to harm me personally than covid. It’s certainly the greater harm for most people.
an archived version from 2021-02-05 in case it's down (was for me)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210205214936/https://www.field...
I think you make a fair point. A counterpoint is that those people should have known what they were getting into when they decided to live near a historical landmark, similar to people who decide to live in a hurricane or flood zone, for example.
Sounds apocryphal or just flat wrong. A cat that jumps up on a bunch of beds in such a place is bound to do so on the beds of dying patients. The dying ones probably got more visits from doctors, family, etc. and the cat could've been responding to the presence of humans, or any number of other factors. To assume it was smelling imminent death and jumping on the bed to signal it is way beyond what you could possibly prove.
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What makes them seem to be Trump supporters?
The main problem is probably that as a hobbyist you can only perform "N=1 experiments", and even without a control.
I'm also on an i5-2500K from 2012, I only upgraded the GPU so far. I recently ordered a new pc for roughly the same price as the one i built in 2012, curious to see how much of a difference I will notice day-to-day.
Show HN: APCA and Research Mode
APCA is the new contrast method for WCAG 3, it is part of the SAPC perceptual contrast appearance model. At the SAPC dev site, there are some additional tools, click on "research mode" under the font display.

The difference between the WCAG 2 contrast and the new paradigm of APCA, is that SAPC/APCA are based on perception, whereas the old method is not. APCA also considers font weight and size, among other many things, making it far more accurate.

The research mode tools include a simplified version of the middle contrast experiments, and a constant contrast mode, where you can examine contrast over a range (the slider moves both the text and BG colors at the same time, maintaining constant contrast).
Because you use the school you went to as a class signifier rather than a title.
> The hubris is to expect that someone at home can manufacture something worthy of being called a vaccine if they're just smart enough to follow the science.

Are you defining "vaccine" in a manner that makes those 19th century things called "vaccines" not actually vaccines?

Vaccines aren't magic that can only be done by a suitably blessed priest and aren't necesarily even very high tech...
Don't equate 'having a little empathy' with supporting or allowing these kinds of disinformation campaigns. Everybody has 'a little empathy', but these self-serving anti-vax anti-lockdown cronies deserve none of it.

Yes it's sad that people lose their jobs. But do you know what else is sad? if they would lose their lives :(

> This isn't disinformation.

It certainly is. Don't try to whitewash what's happening here. People know how trollfactories shape online discussion, and you're being very obvious.
Let's stop calling it Putin's vaccine. Call it what it is: Gamaleya's vaccine, a research institute that has a century of science under its belt and successful track record of breakthrough microbiology and medical research.
That's good to hear. I completed all but the final chapter of this book. I don't have a CS degree. A colleague told me I seemed to know a lot more about computing than his computer science class mates. I do wish I'd at least done data structures and algorithms in uni. Catching up now on coursera. next I want to through the book computer systems a programmers perspective
> computational thinking

> computational history

> computational documents

Whenever I see an article by S.W. I do something very unconstructive, which is to just search for occurrences of "computational" to see how he manages to put it into just about any context.
Current shortages shortages are not even because of 300mm foundries.

200mm is what most of automotive chips are made on.

Cheapest 300mm equipment is many times more expensive than 200mm.
Just a reminder: There was a time AMD was a butt of all jokes about their paper products and stupid bordering on insulting marketing. Then Intel came along and hired top AMD PR people away.

https://www.techspot.com/news/79579-intel-hires-marketing-ex...

https://www.eteknix.com/former-amd-marketing-director-chris-...

They also hired Raja Koduri to launch a mobile GPU in a desktop form factor ...
The word “till” in the abstract is certainly out of place. I’ve never seen slang like this in a scientific paper.
No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour (2018)
The short of it is that the title has arisen as a result of a form of professional jealousy, primarily with medical professionals. Everyone wants to stand out and mark their social class even in supposedly "classless" societies.

Interestingly enough in francophone countries lawyers have their own commonly used honorific "master" or in french "maître" (Mᵉ). I don't expect that title will ever gain much traction in the US as lawyers would probably get tired of being asked to seat people in restaurants.
What are you making, if not a secret?
Facts are irrelevant. The culture war is being fought with behaviorism. It’s a much stronger weapon than rationality. Speech is behavior. Behavior can be controlled by threat or bribe. Belief aligns to repeated behavior. Then reinforcement is no longer necessary.

It’s not that strange. We do things every day at our jobs by bribe or threat. Why? Because it benefits the owner. Now somebody found a way to benefit from certain forms of mass delusion. Now we work for them.
I have to admit that i dont have a good idea of what greek sounds like.
If it happens often enough, you might train your kids to use the high pitch screaming sound though, as that will get them the attention. Scary thought what might develop from there!
The PCR argument is a great example of where government transparency is lacking where it could easily be used to counter critics.

The “PCR is fake” people should clearly be ignored, but one of the more persuasive arguments from the “most tests are false positives” narrative seems to be that the amplification cycle thresholds are being set far too high and tests are therefore finding fragments of RNA from previous infection weeks or months ago.

Now I don’t know how much scientific merit that argument has, but is it not irresponsible of the government to withhold details of the testing parameters they are using, given the impact the results are having?
Fair. Not sure how tax works in america, but those types of income are taxed at a far lower rate (marginal tax on £1k being bunged at a £30k/year worker is 13.8% + 10.5% + 17.6% == 40%. It's 20% for £1k being bunged at a retiree drawing a £30k pension, or less if that income comes from dividends.)

And without having to pay rent, the outgoings are far lower too. Someone living on a net of £2k a month after £1500 a month rent would need £3500 net income and cost an employer £52k a year. Throw in student loans and commuting and you'd need even more.

Someone owning their house and getting a net of £2k a month would need just £26k a year of income, or even less if that was funded from dividends.
No, most of automotive is on 8bit MCUs, which are made on anything in between 90nm, and 180nm.
Reading the text of joint resolution 101, I can’t see how it would ban cannabis but not alcohol. I’m not a lawyer though.
Old people run the world so get policies that benefit them. Young people are far more empathic and actually care about "not killing grandma"

Farage did try to push his populist views on young people, it didn't go down well.

There aren't any prominent young people calling for say a rebate on rent paid to say boomer house owners in university towns.
It is illegal to live in the forest in most "civilized" societies.
I heard about this on south park
The thing is, most of that flexibility or any of the things that could be considered quirks/flaws of the language have been around for a long time and probably will be due to browser compatibility issues. It isn't great, but it is what it is.

I enjoy TS and for web applications I wouldn't want to do without it, but it for sure isn't the "end all" since it still needs to work with those issues. Ultimately though in the case of some of the examples, a type system in a language with optional parameters doesn't excuse you from having to use your brain. Especially if you're the kind of developer who thinks testing your code is just unnecessary.
Alternative explanation: Oscar the cat was just really good at murder.
Kinda like f-droid
> Let's say you use the Tor browser to browse some regular (non-Tor) site that is illegal in your country for whatever reason. But let's say you then remember you still haven't paid your taxes so you open a new tab and quickly go do that. But you're still in the Tor browser, so your e-banking traffic is going out the same exit node as your "illegal" traffic.

That isn't how Tor works. Tor creates a new circuit for each new host you connect to, and they also create new circuits for the same host fairly regularly (every 15 minutes I think) -- both of which are done specifically to avoid this precise attack.

I also don't have experience dealing with an authoritarian regime, and there are many more aspects to OPSEC than just using Tor (after all, Tor doesn't look like normal internet traffic unless you use obfuscators -- so an authoritarian regime can just target all Tor users, which is why having Tor be used by more people is important for improving anonymity). But Tor has already dealt with obvious attacks like the one you outlined.
Global Carbon Emissions -4.4% in 2020; US Emissions -14% in 2019, -12.5% in 2020
They call it both cannabis and marijuana here too and yet it is not associated with blacks nor mexicans. Countries without a significant black or latin american population have the same laws, I think that you have an american-centric view regarding this topic.
https://solus.substack.com/p/moral-basis-for-regulating-soci...
This is indeed a good test. I realized how bad Youtube UX is when I was using it to find children's song with my baby in my strong (right) arm. That's when I realized how much swiping, scrolling and tapping you need to do when you use Youtube. Also the recommendations were really a pain in the ass. We watch Youtube in 3 different languages and that is beyond the ability of the recommendation engine.
War is irrational...
Meta-heuristics aren’t the current buzzword, likewise evolutionary algorithms won’t be front paging anytime soon... unless it’s neuroevolution disguised as a novel contribution in 2021. Sprinkle on some blockchain and you’re onto a winner!
Unfortunately, diagnosis is almost never the actual problem in any of these diseases... it's what to do when you discover it. Not to mention the problem of over-diagnosis and iatrogenic harms that happens when we know that you might have something but not where or to what extent you have it, requiring more tests and stress.
But the GP was talking about having a JD, not just any law degree. Dr. Biden does not have a PhD (or an MD), which led to the mentioned controversy, but the majority opinion seems to be that any doctorate (at least a non-honorary one) confers the right to use “Dr.”, right?
How to create a non-interactive Discord bot in Python
In canada, when we legalized marijuana, it came with massive attempts by law enforcement to grab power: the government passed unconstitutional new laws about screening impaired drivers, police forces and government bureaucracies demanded _more_ funding (because somehow legal pot was harder to deal with than illegal) etc.

Illegal pot had always been about government wielding power that can be used arbitrarily against people that are not liked for some other reason. When we talk about making it legal, we don't talk enough about havjng the government explicitly give back that power, instead of trying to transfer it to other regulations.
No offense, but you do sound a little triggered, and I completely understand why (in some sense). That being said, there are many different types of wrong/right, and the way in which the self-vaccinating Rationalist is "wrong"/"right" about the world is somewhat inverse to the way in which decorated science commitee can be wrong / right.
The first segment, on Dr/Mrs/Mademe/First Lady/etc. Biden is ill-informed.

The use of titles carries very different implications in different cultures. America is diverse. First name can signify disrespect or familiarity. Titles can signify high status, or stuffy pretentiousness. "Dr" can be reserved for medical doctors, can extend to PhDs, or even extend to JDs.

I spent 15 minutes, the other day, on an inane debate with a colleague, before we realized we were using a word with subtly different meanings.

There's a new form of strawman attack, where you point to a crazy on the internet with some opinion, and stereotype everyone to have that same opinion, and the linked article is clearly from someone with issues. But the fact remains tht there are cultural pockets of culture where all the terms are appropriate and don't convey disrespect, whether "Jill," "First Lady," "Dr. Biden," "Mrs. Biden," "Madame President," or even "Hey you." Conversely, there are cultural pockets where all of those convey disrespect.

If you're aware of it, and look for it, it's not hard to tell which is which, even.

In a multicultural society, we should try to hear what the other person is trying to say, assume good intentions, and not pick battles over semantics. Your words and body language mean something different than mine, and that's okay. We should try to communicate. Disrespect isn't about a title, but what's behind it.
If it is not a scam, I like it. Simple and clear, site usable without JS involved, to display a simple information, which is: "I am offering this. Call out if you want what I offer." Out. I hope this is working out for the person(s?) behind it. No asocial media stuff I need to sign up to, or other wall I need to climb over, to be able to use the service.
Cross-compiling is a need that almost no user ever has.

The only legit need on macOS was for a long time iOS only and now, the two supported CPU architectures. But that is covered by using XCode.

There would be now need for a Apple Homebrew to use or provide universal binaries.

Homebrew's design is for providing tools for the need of the single user of the system (it doesn't even work well in a multi-user environment) with the tools he needs on this system. Switching CPU architecture would be solved with reinstalling Homebrew on the new system (like it is now).
More context about the paper: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5253
> The developers of toReadableNumber felt they were making a backwards-compatible change.

To me that’s the real point. In JavaScript where a function’s signature is not changed by the number of parameters, adding even an optional argument probably constitutes a breaking change.
On mobile Safari, navigation is fine. It’s probably a simpler versions of the desktop one.
Excited to see plenty of WebRTC talks in there. 2020 was a huge boost for WebRTC but I think 2021 will be the year for lots of innovation around it now that the tooling has started to mature and the browser vendors are actively on it.
Politicians must be held to account for mishandling the pandemic
Telescope Building with John Dobson (2014)
Fixing 200 broken Raspberry Pi’s and donating profits to charity
Positional optional arguments seems to be the bad idea here.

If you have to have optional arguments, its probably best to make them named.

This would this make an unintended clash a lot less likely. The name has to match - and if you have the types, both the type AND the name would need to match.

Not only that, it also it lets you have any number of optional arguments with a lot less fuss, and pass any subset of them.
I assume AUR includes hashes, which could at least hint to deterministic builds. `curl to | sh` can change from build to build and there's no way to find out from which source other users built.
Yes it is (JavaScript is so widely used that probably every pattern is in use somewhere. I myself have done this many times and seen it being done as well!)
The first several paragraphs are ranting about Dr. Biden and sexism.
Can't have a rando library break on you if you don't import any rando libraries.
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It's not flat wrong nor apocryphal, check your facts, his performance was studied and published in a book and in the New England Journal -- do you think the NEJM is likely to publish pure aprocryphal falsehood?

I volunteered in the Steere House and met the cat, and my close family member was a higher-up in the org and personally witnessed the cat's abilities numerous times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_(therapy_cat)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078108