skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pen used is a Frixion pen. If cleaned in a week or so, the ink can wipe off with a damp cloth (similar to wet erase markers). But it can also be cleared with heat/friction (be aware, sufficiently cooling it can cause it to reappear, at least faintly). This also means you shouldn't leave something written with these pens in the car on a hot summer day unless the intent is to clear the page to write over.

Along with Rocketbook notebooks, you can also look into "stone paper" products which offer similar usability but without the scanning tool/app that Rocketbook provides.
> We argue about how it's okay for private companies to censor whatever they feel like, but what if it's the government pressuring them to do so?

Of course, make no mistake, we're about to see plenty of legislation entrenching big tech positions !

Also, it's well-know NYT and other media conspired to sell the war against Iraq. Even though it was a different administration, the same people were in power behind the scene.
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I can’t tell if things like this are real issues or “but think of the horse and buggy driver!” problems.

We were teaching kids to read, ethics, morals, long before we had PhDs.

Obsession with normalizing agency to abide fiscal concerns is the real issue here.

Let wealth collapse by refusing to buy into the idea we owe deference to those that hold wealth.

Teach the classics. Write open source.

None of it has to be done for a dollar, or outsized prestige.
Waterloo is probably one of the more expensive canadian schools.

Not saying others are cheap, but just looking at waterloo is probably not represtative.
They lived in public housing. Quite a poor attempt at conjuring up a hypocrisy from your own imagination there.
Cars in Europe lock silently.
I liked Firebase for prototyping, but for the same reasons you mentioned, I feel I should have just gone with Redis or something else that I can easily run locally.

I get the feeling that Firebase (and some parts of AWS) are meant as services for larger enterprises that are really hooked on GCP (or AWS).
Every aspect about the way people think is on a spectrum. There is also the split between those who have an inner monologue in their heads the those who don't. There's also studies showing these two populations astonished that the other exists.
> I'm being pedantic, but no currency is "real".

It is real in the sense that you can chose where you spend it. While this is like coupons. It may have value but that is very limited and therefore does not qualify as currency.
Monochromatic X-ray source could make mammograms safer
Card numbers all come from BIN ranges, most likely these virtual cards are all issued within some specific BIN ranges (meaning you can tell them apart based on a certain # of prefix digits).
Edit: I just saw the other comments that it was written in C89 to have better support with C++, so I guess the answer is yes.
Opting out usually involved having to pay a fee.
Was able to log in to uk.linkedin.com and accept an invite, but got an error message on logout. Now just getting errors.

Unrelated to anything, but interesting (to me) the copyright line at the bottom of the UK site was reading 2020 a few minutes ago.
I wonder if the recent price drop (from $280 to $180) is related to this.
> misinformation is combat with MORE discussion, not less!

I wholeheartedly agree, but how do you get the other side to listen?

The saying goes something like "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."
Merely useful pawns, I wonder what's they have been promised.
Possibly, but extraordinarily unlikely.

They are working backwards to conclusions that benefit them in particular, and framing the problem in those terms.

That is of course the right conclusion for them.

The chances are that those are the right conclusions for everyone else, are next to zero, since they have a systematic bias against reaching such a conclusion.

Also if their reasons are wrong, then their conclusion will be framed wrongly.

We do sometimes say someone did the right thing for the wrong reasons, but by definition we never say this while still ourselves buying into the logic they used to get there.
I was surprised to recently have a patch to Portal 2 pop up in Steam. That game was from April 2011 and someone at Valve is still apparently actively spending time patching it.
Exactly. I format things like that in my source code. Anything else is too painful to bear. When code by other people who don't care about those things, it's hard to understand :)
great question and good logic.

Many sites are reducing headcount in maintenance due to high labour costs, greasing is one of those things that can be neglected. Our pitch is to do more maintenance with less head count, with GreaseBoss anyone can pick up the grease gun and be directed what to do, with no prior trianing.

Further down the track, we want GreaseBoss to power robotic greasing. But to get to this nirvana, you need to start with manual
> This means professors are not typically rewarded for being (or even expected to be) excellent teachers.

This reminds me of a joke that circulated among students when I was in college. The joke was that being voted the department's best instructor by the students was an excellent way to be denied tenure.
The problem is there's a non-trivial amount of people who consider their ignorance equal to your research, your facts, your studies, your anything.
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US education is hardly "life-destroyingly expensive". It's more than the rest of the world, but it is definitely manageable to pay for it yourself with student loans. If you have financial aid (billions of dollars in aid is out there for good students in financial need). More cost-conscious folks can save thousands more by splitting an undergraduate degree between a low-cost 2-year college (community college, junior college) and then transfer in to a 4-year school to complete a degree.

College costs around the world:https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-college-costs-aroun...
Bear in mind those are Canadian dollars, not the regular dollars, so the price tag is always going to be a little more confusing for the non-Canadians.
Second that. HaaS is totally a thing in enterprise hardware, and I'd argue it's the one business model in hardware that sort of keeps everyone aligned!

For example, the recurring revenue gives the OEM incentives to continue supporting the platform. Meanwhile, the lower upfront cost for the hardware lowers switching cost for the customer in case there's a better solution out there.

OK, obviously there's a big gap between this theory and reality, but just thought that I'd point it out :)

Congrats on launching!
For thousands of years mankind has found explanations for the world around us and the sky above us: the sun was eating the moon every morning, the stars are little holes in the black canvas of the night sky, the universe revolves around the earth.

It is only when we found scientific explanations, like those of Galileo, we were able to predict and understand correlations.

Makes me wonder if the Mayans knew about the stars and the planets, even though they could very well predict the sky above them.
> Does this strike anyone else as a nakedly partisan move?

Of course, this entire letter is published by two democratic representatives from highly liberal districts (silicon valley and stockton) who want to pander to their base. There's nothing actionable or productive about this letter.

Somehow we still have reactions in this thread on the scale of "we're on our way to a one-party state". This is just Congress doing what they do most every day (setting up for reelection)
New treatment with blue light and plant oil to safely wipe out surface bacteria
Of course there is! The banks provide this service. It's called "Home Banking" (yes, in English). As I said above, and as in most countries, it's heavily regulated by the government as described above—prohibited to the part of the population whose need for a form of savings is most desperate, and limited to US$200 a month—and everyone over 20 remembers when the government confiscated ⅔ of everybody's Argentine-bank USD savings. Something like half of Argentines have a bank account and about half of those (about a quarter of the total) are eligible to purchase dollars with it.

Bitcoin is so far not heavily regulated, but presumably will be. But it doesn't provide the scrumptious, juicy central point of control that the Banco Central de la República Argentina does; regardless of what the law says, there's no practical way to confiscate every Argentine's Bitcoin savings between sunset and sunrise.
Yes. Let the ~hatred~ puppy spread through you. Feel the power!
Not exactly the same, but as a current example there have been no problems finding volunteers for the new challenge trials for covid vaccines. Some people find genuine pleasure from helping the greater good.
So your wife never complains that work is pushing her to do something that she does not want to do, and she's bargaining with management to try to do the right thing? And the transaction costs to her quitting and finding a new job are zero? IMO "at will" is only 99% correct, and the integral of its remainder builds up into some gross misbehavior.
Also, options for AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs:

Intel versions of various new Thinkpad laptops have an "i" after the name—as in, Lenovo ThinkPad T14 i. The AMD versions don't.

Am I inferring correctly that AMD CPUs will be considered the "standard" for this latest line of ThinkPads?
That’s why we collect crime statistics and do police investigations etc. If I specifically get shot it’s only really relevant in a wider context or to people who know me. Having 1 million people hear about my death to then forget about it by next week isn’t really relevant to anyone. Meanwhile my friends don’t need to hear about it on the news.
Have you ever been to the cheesecake factory?
There was nothing deranged about my comment.

Eliminating the Bush family line, for example, before they managed to create a dynasty of wealth and power, would have been a benefit to humanity.

If you don't have an argument against it other than "that's truly deranged!" then that's your problem really.
Yeah, dropout is conspicuously missing.
For those who haven't heard: Dropout zeros out random activations, creating a random subnetwork to make a prediction. Each training step updates a different random subnetwork. (...Keeping in mind that two random subnetworks can share lots of weights...) Then at inference time, you use the full network, which now acts as an ensemble of all of the subnetworks.

You could view it as 'thousand brains' with lots of weight sharing for efficiency+regularization.
you have no idea. i can even sympathize with a murderer. you know, self-defense, impulse... can be anything. but this? this is premediated. just one asshat can ruin entire town. these people deserve lifetime-imprisonment after multiple offence.
Yes it is, but obviously, you only taking these questions at face value.
How is the world more complex? What else needs to be taught today?
How does it make it harder to read? Patterns and repetitions jump out of the page. Indeed, maintaining it takes time and effort, I wish the editor were smart enough, but I only see advantages with regards to reading the code.
It seems to me that even in the PoW is useful, then both the honest and the dishonest miners will be able to get outside funding (from the perspective of the research institute after all, they are doing the same task). So the opportunity cost for dishonest mining is exactly the same - you miss out on the block reward more often.
Some European countries like Austria have been doing this for many years. Roadside noise level measurements with harsh penalties. If you exceed the limits, they take the licence plate off.
> went through some shit in life

> birth parents were irresponsible

This makes it even worse. You should stop posting before somebody contacts the FBI.
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If curious, past threads:

Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658139 - March 2020 (61 comments)

Gridcoin: Rewarding Scientific Distributed Computing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16031912 - Dec 2017 (55 comments)

BOINC – Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524921 - Sept 2016 (21 comments)

BOINC: Compute for Science - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10205904 - Sept 2015 (11 comments)

Help advance science while mining cryptocurrency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8102623 - July 2014 (1 comment)
What are the best counterarguments for the "four basic truths" he claims are broadly accepted?

Taking the first claim as an example (decline in demand leads to unemployment and recession, because sticky wages etc.), I suppose one could argue that just because we've seen this happen before doesn't mean it's an inevitability of human nature. I can imagine a society with a higher level of cooperation and shared responsibility, where everyone _does_ agree to take a small reduction in pay so that others can stay employed and the overall economy suffers less.

If you agree with that argument, my best response to it is that these macroeconomic "theorems" are supposed to be phenomenological rather than prescriptive. They have predictive power in the present economic system but are not necessarily useful in a society radically different from ours.

I agree that it would be an error to treat these emergent properties as some sort of inevitable laws of nature, which is a tendency that I've seen in debates.
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Electric resistive heating is the worst form of heating, though - heat pumps are something like 3-4x the heat per kwh used. So not totally wasted, but a much worse way to get heat into your house, if that's your goal.
Citation to Democrats "wanting to add 12-20 million illegal immigrant voters". An outrageous claim.
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I like this idea a lot and I think I support adding it directly to the testing library. Fuzz testing has been pretty valuable to me in my time using it with Go and I would love to see it have more widespread support.
Yes, obviously this. People who don't understand this either just want to argue, or haven't thought about this at all.
If curious, past threads:

Prolog and Logic Programming Historical Sources Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658770 - March 2020 (33 comments)

The Birth of Prolog (1992) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178215 - Oct 2018 (39 comments)

A Tribute to Alain Colmerauer (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15254369 - Sept 2017 (1 comment)

In Memoriam Alain Colmerauer: 1941-2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14399688 - May 2017 (5 comments)

Others? Prolog itself is probably too big a theme to list here, but Prolog origins?

(Edit: thanks to commenter who supplied now-deleted reference.)
How do you feel about the Stack Overflow solution to this problem?

My app has 300 features. Beginners get to use 8 of them. Once ten people think you are not a wretched toad, you get to use 20.

Once you've solved a problem for 200 people, you can edit other people's posts.

In fact doesn't HN not let you downvote until you get 500 upvotes? It's been a while.
I haven't tried Brave, never understood the point of it. What does Brave + uBlock offer you that Firefox + uBlock doesn't?
I always figured those programs just would lead to people not on the green plans buying less green energy. Though I guess if you got enough of a critical mass of users on the plan it could have that upward pressure. I wonder if any studies have been done? It seems that green energy is often used as much as it can, as solar/wind/geo all have low marginal costs once built, and gas/coal/oil are the ones manually turned on/off based on total demand. That would lead me to believe buying green power would have no effect, but this is all conjecture.
There are volumes written about the subject already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies#Studies...

For example:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/study-explore...
> Sorry, I think there is a meaningful distinction between traditional human intervention in plant varieties and the more recent intervention called GMO.

One is a semi-random process where an unknown (but large!) number of genes are modified in the hopes of getting a few desired good traits to express themselves.

The other is a targeted change to the smallest number of genes to get a single desired good trait to be expressed.

Imagine you are going in for surgery to remove a lump, and the doctor tells you there are two options, he can cut out 20 lumps of flesh, and good chance he'll get the one you want removed, or he can remove just the lump that is causing a problem.

Which of the two options would you choose?

GMO is the later. Traditional breeding is the former.

If people want to criticize WHAT modification was done via GMO, great! Lots of good debate there, maybe inserting some particular gene is a bad idea. But let's have that discussion, not "all GMO is bad!"

Because "all GMO is bad" is nonsensical. GMO isn't some process that turns food into poison. It just changes it, in a more controlled way than breeding changes it.
We’ve had effective source control since the 70s, latest 80s; for the most part working without it was self inflicted.
They're definitely bad actors, but the whole thing is/was much bigger than just packaged food companies. National medical authorities. Your local doctor or nutritionist. The food pyramid hanging in your classroom.

We're not good at mea culpas and the baggage hangs around.
Thank you so much for the feedback. Yes, I agree. We will get that designed and shipped soon. Probably this week itself.
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good point on individual users -

using the multiuser support for automation sub-accounts ("service accounts") would be one thing; general 'separation of concerns' for higher security isolation (gitolite runs under a separate SSH account that can only run gitolite), has some hooks for offering read-only pull support using the git protocol pretty transparently.

but yes, i suppose pure single user it's not the hugest advantage.
Anonymizing BTC via BTC -> XMR -> BTC seems hard these days.
UML was all about that. I find myself doing sequence diagrams very often. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram)

Overall, UML was over-engineered and too complicated for most people to learn. Nonetheless, the various diagram-styles are great for communication and white-boarding purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language#Diag...
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> Who do we really help by pretending that we're more organized, coherent, and linear than we actually were?

You help the reviewer.

To understand why git is the way it is, you have to understand the workflow of the original git-using project (other than git itself), the Linux kernel. Whenever someone proposes a change to the Linux kernel, it's sent as a sequence of patches. Each patch should contain a single logical change, and will be reviewed individually. For instance, suppose you want to change the way a field in a particular structure is stored. The first patch of your series might introduce a couple of helper functions to access the structure fields. Patches 2-5 might each change a separate subsystem to use the new helper functions, instead of accessing the field directly. The next patch changes both the field and the helper functions to use the new representation. When reviewing this sequence, it's easier to see that each patch is correct. And that was a simple example; it's not rare to have patch series with over 15 patches, and even longer patch series are not unheard of. I've seen patch series which refactor whole subsystems, where each patch in the series was an obviously correct transformation, while the final result was completely different.
From the NY Times of 1885, October 24:
There is no saying to what extent martyrdom in the cause of art will go. It has just been discovered that nature, when designing the human hand, forgot to make allowances for the invention of the pianoforte, and that, consequently, all who are anxious to excel on that instrument must undergo an operation known as digital tenor-my, or the severance of the tendons which prevent the fingers from being stretched very far apart from one another.
Doctors have, naturally enough, expressed their approval of this proceeding, considerately adding that there is certainly some chance of the wound thus inflicted not healing by first intention, and therefore patients should be warned of the risk they undergo previous to the operation.
This is, perhaps, not quite so bad as putting out a horse's eyes in order that he may pump up water properly, but it is a step in the same direction. and it is scarely to be expected that in these days of infant prodigies such a royal road to success will be confined to those who are old enough to fully understand the steps they are taking.
I agree with you that GP's post hardly makes any sense but

> ... yet you are trying to convince us there is people depositing 800m daily into bitfinex?

800m daily would have meant 300 bn USDTs created in a year. They create 30 bn in a year, no 300 bn. It's huge but you are one order of magnitude off no?
Making something a core language feature means it has to be completely right. Doing something in library leaves more of an option to fix it later or creating another version of the thing inna different header.

I also would like if std::variant were a language feature, not library :)
I've had third party cookies completely disabled for years, and first party cookies only allowed by exception. It works fine on everything I use except for whatever it was Atlassian were (are?) doing with their very odd collection of about two dozen domains they round tripped through on authentication.

To be honest though, browser fingerprinting makes this mostly irrelevant unless you carefully use a script blocker with a whitelist too. Any domain that includes trackers that drop third party cookies almost certainly includes scripts that can fingerprint you and send results to a server without using a third party cookie.
No, is still has an effect. CORS operates on a per-origin basis, while privacy mitigations operate on a per-site basis. You might want withCredentials if www.site.example wanted to share cookies with forums.site.example.
This article doesn't disprove much.

Being "pro-trump" doesn't make the death not count. 3 of the five died because of the protests - it doesn't matter which side. You can argue that a stroke/heart attack may not have happened in a non-high pressure environment.

We don't need any more evidence than the mountains of video of people storming the capital. It's bad enough as is, it could have been far, far worse.
There's actually a lot of clips of CNN & other reporters helping and pushing protesters into the Capital Building...

https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/134990457311734169...

Also, only two persons died of wounds confirmed at the Capital (both protestors). The only person who was shot, was recorded by the "reporter" in the video above was egging on the police & protestors at the time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/16/sullivan-vi...

Further, regarding the "7 deaths" two additional people died from a stroke and heart attack going to the Capital.

Yes, there were then three additional fatalities in the _days_ following the event. None of those deaths were linked back to the Capital building in a meaningful way (including the officer). While facts and the evidence can change, the current facts do not support the claims being made.