skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was lazily researching applications which bind Command-E on macOS and came across this app. Curiously I've never seen it mentioned before and found it interesting.
> Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?

They can't, because there were a number of high-profile media storms blaming companies for advertising on YouTube when some of the content was distasteful by chance (like videos by terrorists). It's great that you're an adult about it, but the media and media consumers love getting upset over things like this. Advertisers used to be more accepting of YouTube as a platform instead of a curator of content, until the public outcry against it. This is why we can't have nice things.
No man is an island, but you need to draw the line somewhere. The consequences of all bad decisions can't be socialized.

Also worth pointing out that dying is still a "you" problem. Obviously I'd prefer it if people didn't die, but again, if you're actually dying the solution is to switch your power back on and only use it for essentials and take the hit. Debts can be paid off, and should be. Again, I was straight up without power for > 72hrs. I would've actually enjoyed the choice to pay an insane rate for some electricity rather than not having a choice at all.
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I,ve had several niche questions sit around for a week or two, then get answered within 24 hours after I put a bounty on it.

I,m a dev with QA experience, I can write them well.
I've seem some larger projects at bigger organizations where extensive wikis were available. I'm pretty sure updating docs/wikis was part of the "definition of done" on a task. Problem was, most of the devs were terrible, terrible writers. There was little to no consideration made for "explain this as if I don't already understand it" on these pages. They were dry, full of useless generated ERDs and other generated filler, and generally I'd end up reading the source code or reading the integration tests to get a better sense of what was going on.

All in all, I actually agree with you. Knowledge bases are great when done right. But it takes time and a general knack for writing, and that's not something that most devs have from my experience.
This is actually the second time it has happened to the same person. For the same reason presumably.
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I hope what they want is to reduce the likelihood of human error causing catastrophic failure. Not necessarily to take humans out of the loop altogether.
> I think this was a valid mindset last March when we had little trusted data

Ordinary people had little trusted data.

Experts had data from cruise ships showing a low infection fatality rate [1], data from the first quarantined cities in Italy showing 60% of asymptomaticity[2], data showing that the average Covid victim is 80 years old and has three comorbidities[3].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00885-w
[2] https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/...
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
The problem with "tools to distinguish who's worth listening to" is that, as you said, "its an impossible judgement to make and its impossible to find a fair judge."

No individual can be knowledgeable in all the areas of science, economics, medicine, technology, etc, that would be necessary to understand and filter even a tiny slice of the daily news. Any tool will necessarily be making judgment calls for it's users in some way, and once the tool becomes the standard, those judgments will (effectively if perhaps not literally) determine who gets banned.
> As a user, I'm quite happy to continue using a traditional distribution even if it means I don't get to use a handful of flashy programs by developers that disagree with the concept of maintainers.

As a user, I'm afraid that you don't seem to be a representative of typical users. I would be happy to use a traditional distribution if they don't break on updates, which is still not the case. It's clear that traditional distros were not satisfactory on even keeping their own promises. I know they work hard, but ultimately the visible outcome says everything.
The world did nothing when same was happening in Tibet and China was a fraction of its current power.

Nothing is going to happen now when China is obviously more powerful. Moreover, none of the Muslim countries care, ME countries will happily sell China oil and Pakistan touts it’s relationship with China.
Oops... I see the typo now... you wrote RN, and I read HN, Hacker News... ;-)
I supported contact tracing, testing, and forced quarantines, as well as strict lockdowns to reduce cases to the point where contact tracing and quarantines were feasible. That strategy seems to have worked in much of the Asia-Pacific, successfully returning society to normal.

What I absolutely oppose is half-hearted “flatten the curve” lockdowns which prolong the pandemic over a long period of time while putting stifling restrictions on people. It’s the worst of both worlds, and simply letting the virus run wild would be preferable.

I’m fairly confident that an analysis of population-wide QALYs will back up my view.
What does the music sound like?

Link?
>Yes. You did. Solar panels do not use rare earth minerals. Go google it.

Some new designs do call for hafnium
Upvoted and replying because it is something everyone should have to read:

> freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence of speech.

It's a fundamental failing of comprehension to not know that. Speech is free and so are repercussions. Say what you want but know that a response is possible and also just as free.
It doesn’t matter if the state bails out this kind of risky behaviour, if they didn’t then the downside would still be largely socialised through increased electricity prices for everyone else as sellers start to price in the risk of default on their trades.

Electricity market is regulated partly because providing a reliable electricity supply is seen as important for society, maybe more so than the importance of giving consumers the freedom to gamble on the electricity markets.
Do the Muslim countries care, No!
While Result is designed for that, it was built with an Enum (see here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/result.rs.html#241-251)

So you can also build an enum that doesn't have any explicit mention of which is the right path
I think you mean hazardous. Dangerous implies a hazard is regularly manifesting in measurable harm.

Many people claim that nuclear is not unduly dangerous, and have good statistics to back it up. Certainly no one would argue that it isn't hazardous.

Similar things can be said about fire.
How to convert Design to Code in visually simple way
Whoever wrote this hasn't worked on medium-complicated data pipelines / ETL logic.

It's pretty non-trivial to try to make an effective-dated slowly changing dimension with materialized views.

A good tool makes the medium-difficulty stuff easy, and the complicated stuff possible. Materialized views do only the former.

I would love to be wrong about this.
on my sites, the user,s karma score is directly proportional to their voting weight.
The federal government didn't close the state borders in Australia, the state governments did. Australia is a federation just like the USA.
"But unless the industrial and manufacturing base that develops and builds those goods modernizes and adjusts
to the world’s new geopolitical and economic
realities, America will face a growing and likely
permanent national security deficit. "

True. But this will be hard to fix, especially in a broad sense and not only with focus on specific military technology.

I did my STEM PhD in the US that proved to be worthless. Things like SBIR are just too corrupt (I have a pretty good insight and trust me on that one). In China there are much better opportunities, at least for me, even as a non-Asian.
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I am with you on the karma being about the same as a reply notification for me, but then I don't care how many likes my holiday photos gets on Facebook.

I know people for who these systems has quite the negative impact. Below are two examples from Facebook.

Example 1: Someone gets really depressed if they don't get about 10+ likes on photos on Facebook. Positive comments are ignored in favor of the number of likes.

Example 2: Someone got really upset and depressed that only a few people wished them a happy birthday on their Facebook wall. Everyone else had done it either in person or via private chat, yet they went down the "no one cares about me" rabbit hole.
> It is obviously associating racism with something not intentionally racist. But does it not strike to you at all problematic, at the moment, that 'black' is a synonym of 'bad' and 'white' of 'good'? Does it not occur to you that it might improve our language to change that?

Honestly, lately I feel like the opposite is the case. Everywhere I go anywhere online all I see is white people being shit on. I see incredibly racist things being said about white people everywhere online and there are zero consequences for it. In fact they often get praised for it. So no, I think what you're saying is far from being true.

The people who are looking at a word like "blacklist" and thinking it in a negative racial way are the ones that are the problem. They are the ones grasping at straws trying to find things to be offended by. It's a choice people make and it's only offensive because someone chooses to be offended by the word. You have to remember when being offended by words like this it means ignoring the context.

It's just silly is what it is. Language policing is absolutely insane.
I don’t think behavioral psychology counts as politics.
Nice site -- Good luck! I suggest having a native speaker of English do a once-over of your materials for editing help.

Some copyediting help:

FAQ:

Is Tiny Ads GDPR conform? -> "conformant" (or more naturally, "Does Tiny Ads conform to GDPR?"

No specific version numbers or IP addresses are saves. -> "saved"

How does the blacklisting works? -> "work"

It could distract our user when they want to decide to try us out -> This is a statement not a question ;)
The "extremely assorted bones and shells" pot is explained simply by the presence of the dog: stuff the dog shouldn't get.
Just wanted to say that I absolutely love the UX/UI of transferwise, every time I need to do a transfer I am honestly enjoying the process, well done.
YouTube said “Broadcast Yourself”, well, here it is from the Amazon in Brazil
Seems like this extension gets the playlist info by calling the YouTube API via a backend server that uses Redis

This extension still seems like an overkill considering all the info needed to calculate the total duration is already in the HTML markup of the playlist page e.g. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/23174-alert-total-youtube-...
The difference is substantial, not small, and energy density is irrelevant.
I guess it's not... I was thinking "simple" in the sense that we have a solution, and we just need to implement it.
that is not what I meant :-) Does it work to raise money through this site?
Chess played in matches, not games. Being white is like having serve in tennis. At higher levels, multiple games also allow for metagames and adjustments.
It's alright if there the proof is sketched down somewhere, but I had a couple advanced courses where there were important concepts that weren't already written down anywhere.
it is purely an arbitrary exercise in power, making others submit to show them that they must. it is obviously trivial, obviously contentious, and changes literally nothing about the material relations between groups. the entire point is to force you to do something stupid to show you that you don't have a choice.
> Excuses like “protectng human life in the face of uncertainty” seem valid.

Terrorism was the excuse last time, and we were told to support the troops. Now it's a viral infection, and we are told to follow the science.

This should not ever be a valid excuse, especially since one doesn't have to be that old to remember the last time these sorts of excuses were made - to justify the West's horrific and brutal Middle East occupations. We knew better, and in the face of those facts this excuse is either made out of ignorance, or to cover up for remarkable amounts of incompetence. Neither should be acceptable justifications to the citizens of those countries who hide behind that excuse.

> Not to mention there is a gray are. You be a supporter of lockdowns but also believe the government did not sufficiently protect people/businesses.

Under what circumstances would a government be able to lock their people down and shutter their businesses, while also sufficiently protecting those people and those businesses? Which governments would have the resources to actually achieve success using these strategies?

Governments have a responsibility to operate within their own laws and any country whose legal code allows for the government to overreach into the movement of individual people as they have over the past year, are at grave risk of morphing into the sorts of evil regimes we haven't had to deal with since the end of the second world war.

EDIT: Programmers should have better social intelligence than this. Most people in this world do not want to live like programmers, locked up in a room looking at screens all day, transporting bits of electricity from one place to another. In fact, I would reckon many would rather die than live like we do. If people want to live this way freely and of their own choosing, fine - but to impose this on others as the only answer to a multi-faceted issue is just cruel to the broader public.
>Load shedding is implemented at the distribution substation level, not individual customers

Not really, what I'm talking about are devices that turn off high load devices when system load is too high, so the load can be reduced[1]. While it might be true that these devices aren't activated on a per-residence level, the general effect of raising prices, and people's electricity getting cut off in response is the same. The only difference is that you're shutting off power to people who are willing to pay for it the least, rather than the whole neighborhood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_response
Advertisers have always been extremely risk-adverse. If your ad (either it’s contents OR it’s placement) hurts the brand you’re in trouble.

Notice how there’s tons of product placement in PG-13 movies, but far less in those rated R?
Is it? Again, I was without power and water (not by choice) for > 72hrs and I didn't freeze to death. I would've appreciated having the choice to pay the insane (market) rate for electricity, but I didn't get a choice at all. If you're close to freezing to death and have access to a supply of electricity, turn your power on and take the hit.
After looking at this for a few minutes, I still don't understand what it is. Where's the anti-spam system? I thought there would be a write-up outlining the anti-junk algorithm.
The difference here (that I hardly believe needs explaining) is that the argument for evolution and natural selection is firmly rooted in observed reality. Even if you are a die-hard creationist, you don't dispute the existence of a wealth of evidence ready at hand that can be marshalled in the argument, for or against. We live on a planet teeming with life, and we are all agreed on the problem that needs explaining (we started with hydrogen and got armadillos, what happened?)

Compare this to the debates about hyperintelligence and the anticipated behavior of posited hyperintelligent beings. These consist of (1) an argument by extrapolation that machines or other organisms can surpass human intelligence bolted onto (2) endless from-first-principles blathering about how such a posited hyperintelligent entity would behave. It's like looking at the vial of hydrogen in an otherwise empty universe and trying to deduce things about armadillos from it. In fact, it's much worse, since we are trying to infer things about hypothesized beings who are, by definition, beyond the ability of our minds to encompass.

This is exactly unlike any scientific discourse, and exactly like deist arguments about the nature of the gods where (1) you first prove a God must exist, from whatever 'unmoved mover' argument you find personally convincing, and then (2) infer a huge mount of information about that God's behavior (omniscient, benevolent, likes justice) through a series of intellectual non sequiturs. The only innovation here is people swearing up and down that we can build the god ourselves.

The one thing we know about hyperintelligence, in any form, is that it is fundamentally not something whose behavior and nature we can infer from first principles, for the same reasons your cat will never understand why you didn't get tenure.

I see nothing wrong in the intellectual project of trying to frame questions about the nature of intelligence, and how computers can behave in intelligent ways. Nor do I think it's foolish to wonder about what it would take for machine intelligence for arise, or approach even deeper questions, like the physical basis of consciousness.

That's not what we see here, though. Rationalists like gwern take the football and run it into the end zone of GAME THEORY, in the end revealing far more about themselves, their anxieties, and their hopes than shedding any light on the world we inhabit together. They are accompanied by a bunch of otherwise smart people who have scared themselves silly by the prospect that we might build these gods by accident, abruptly, and that we are at imminent risk of doing so.

And to the extent that large numbers of smart people (including ones with access to great wealth) have bought into what is fundamentally an apocalyptic religious cult, I think we at least need to call it by the right name.
We need to get to this point:

(number of people vaccinated) * (vaccine effectiveness) > (herd immunity threshold)

At this point, the R0 drops below 1 and the pandemic dies out by itself.

However, if everyone keeps wearing masks, it looks more like this:

(number of people vaccinated) * (vaccine effectiveness) + (mask effectiveness) * (number of people vaccinated) * (1 - vaccine effectiveness) > 1

This makes it easier to get R0 below 1 with fewer societal restrictions. Given that it's trivial for most people to wear masks, this seems like an obvious choice.
> > It is obviously associating racism with something not intentionally racist.

> it is not just not intentionally racist -- there is no way any normal person would construe the term 'blacklist' as racist. it is as logically coherent as banning 'black pudding' for racism. it is purely an arbitrary exercise in power, making others submit to show them that they must.

Exactly this. Addressing one issue does not trivialise everything else. 'Addressing' something that isn't actually one of the issues at all[0] trivialises everything else.

0: And there are plenty of actual issues to pick from!

Edit: HN seems to be bugging out, so reattaching reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219976 here. Edit again: Parent seems to be back at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220021 - id change on edit? shrug.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3XDkIKT0E

The compressor blades hardly seem to notice. They are shot out of the rear of the engine as a pink mist.

Birds do stop engines. You just need to fly through enough them. Flight 1549 lost both engines while turning Canadian geese into deli slices.
You can also do just fine with an LTO tape drive. The main problem is that people want automated convenience and automated convenience can be hacked before people notice.

An LTO backup tape on a shelf might as well be stored in Fort Knox as far as a hacker is concerned.
To be clear, it requires R < 1, not R0 (which is the initial rate of spread). More importantly though, we don’t really need herd immunity - once everyone has had a chance to get vaccinated, the virus ceases to be an issue, as contracting covid is no different from contracting the cold or at worst the flu.
Will the company operate in the red instead of in the black as well?
Are you seriously bringing up the wind turbines that ERCOT repeatedly failed to winterize and failed in a major storm as evidence that wind turbines are bad? This is an extremely bad faith argument. Wind turbines in the rest of the country where it's even colder aren't failing, because they're actually built for the weather, and the power company didn't cheap out.
Johannes Kepler was apparently the son of a mercenary who disappeared when he was young and an innkeeper's daughter.

Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a legal notary and a peasant.

Brunelleschi was the son of another notary.

Sebastien de Vaubon was the son of minor, broke nobility whose first position was for Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conde.

Quite a few of the famous in the Renaissance lived by patronage from the aristocracy, but were not themselves wealthy or powerful.
I manage teams at Amazon and personally, I will look into the GitHub profile if they have called it out on the resume. But I do it only to understand the candidate's interest and not as a hiring decision point. Amazon interviews look for leadership principles and technical skills (more specifically, coding on whiteboard, system design within 30 minutes etc.). There is a lot more emphasis on quick thinking, being able to understand what the interviewer is looking for and focus on that, asking questions to disambiguate the problem etc., none of which are answered by the GitHub profile. Further, a lot of senior engineers would not be active on GitHub.. Most of them are already working full-time elsewhere and it would be unfair to them to consider what they do in their free time as a hiring decision point.

We can argue if the interview is fair and provides the right set of candidates, but that is going to be pretty much a different discussion.
One way could be to split the image file into RGB or CMYK channels, and then compress the relative brightness of pixels per channel.
As long as we are constrained by vaccine supplies, it is rational to prioritize mask compliance rather than vaccine uptake.
Yeah, the first time I tried to add, I got an error message along the lines of it not being able to reach the product URL (which is absolutely available). It wiped out my competitor URL list, so when I resubmitted, they were empty.

So I created a second ad that did have the competitor list, it failed again, this time I re-added the competitor list and it seemed to go through.

This all because there was no edit button. But the icing on the cake is that the DELETE button doesn't work, either, so now I just have two ads up there.

I guess we'll see how this goes...?
> You don't get to ignore broadcasting rules just because the delivery tech is Internet Protocol based rather than radio.

Of course you do, the whole purpose of the Payola law has jack shit to do with music. It’s about sponsored airtime being transmitted over public frequencies without being identified as such. It’s very specifically a property of how the FCC wants public radio incentives disclosed.

Payola doesn’t apply to MTV and it certainly doesn’t apply to a TCP/IP connection from a browser to a server requesting a song download. Payola doesn’t even apply to Sirius/XM. It’s a property of public broadcast, not music.
>But does it not strike to you at all problematic, at the moment, that 'black' is a synonym of 'bad' and 'white' of 'good'? Does it not occur to you that it might improve our language to change that?

It's not just a language thing. It's an extremely deeply rooted symbolic system. You can't arbitrarily change it, and even if you did... what improvement does shifting the symbols around yield ? That's just increasing the noise to signal ratio.

Even then, isn't the real problematic part assigning elementary colours to skin tones ? Can't you just try to change that instead of contorting the deepest part of a culture on a Procustean bed ?