skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But my point is that such a misunderstanding of other people is not a symptom of privilege, its a symptom of being human. You probably don't know how billionaires as a class (and generalising people by a demographic is overgeneralising too) are experiencing covid either, but that isn't a question of privilege.

I guess I just don't like the idea of taking a universal human experience and casting it in terms of privilege. You're not blinded by privilege, you're blinded by the lack of generalisability of the human experience (or the lack of omniscience).
These flags are priceless:

- Seeing their job as “protecting” their team from “the business”
- Talking about “the business” like a foreign entity

I’ve had to clean up many teams whose weak managers tried to isolate them in mini-silos, tossing problems over the fence to nameless mythical entities.
The Design Is the Implementation
First detection of microplastics in honeybees, both rural and urban hives
So what kind of formal verification is it ? Is it proof assistant, model checking ?
And what does it verify ? It's not really clear from a first glance.
That's my thinking as well. But lots of people seem to really like Face ID, and I strongly prefer to assume that there's just something I'm missing, instead of assuming those people are all idiots.
It’s risk reduction.

That was an innovative plane and the reality is that nobody is going to wake up and build it again once production stops. Once you break up a team, the team is gone — that’s why we always build submarines, even if unnecessary. You have to keep the people and plant working.

That tooling was going to be compromised and useful to the Soviets or some other adversary. There is a well established record of traitors selling plans or materials to the KGB/FSB/Chinese intelligence that have been caught. Also, from a PR perspective, a headline like “Air Force spends $50M/year to guard stealth bomber tooling untouched in 30 years” isn’t great either.
it's not overpopulated.

this is a myth that has been going on since the 1970s:

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/12/16766872/overpop...
Interesting!

I had a newer MBP for work at a recent job. I liked it well enough, and it was faster (just thanks to newer processors).
It’s not just that it’s new, but that it is wasteful by design. If you were to create a miner with 2x efficiency and make it generally available, the mining market would not have an incentive to halve their energy use, they would just double the hashrate.

In other industries carbon emissions are an issue too, but at least there are people trying to bring energy use down with technology. Bitcoin’s difficulty mechanism nullifies any such attempts.
My impression is that most people who talk about overpopulation are basing it on old trends before population growth rates dropped off so much.
Well that's my point. The person I was responding to seemed to think this has something to do with Aribus and Boeing.
If Ukraine disappears tomorrow, Western Europe will follow, and with that the only US platz d'arme in Asia against Russia, and the only remaining US nuclear allies.

Following this, don't think you will be able to leisurely spend the remaining of your life. Everybody down to your granny will be forcefully drafted, and mobilised.
The uncertainty isn't just the COVID overload, but also no doulas/support people, and not knowing if the father is even going to be allowed in the building in case something unusual happens.
I think we should be blaming anyone who complies with the mob, since that is the only thing that gives the mob power. If everyone just ignored them, this phenomenon would peter out quite fast.
> Being the lowest status man in the room has an implicit evolutionary threat in the way that being the lowest status woman doesn't.

What perceptible "evolutionary threat" could there possibly be in a 105:100 imbalance, which is so low as to be pretty much unknown to everyone who doesn't follow demographic data?
In case anyone needs cheap GPU compute, I built a little side project - https://gpu.land/. You can rent dirt cheap Tesla V100s at $0.99/hr. That's 1/3 of what you'd pay at GCP/AWS/insert big cloud provider. Give it a go if that's your thing:)
> If I didn't have family on my own, being single during past year would be pretty miserable place to be

I feel super lucky to have had my first son born right before the covid outbreak in the US. The restrictions have basically forced me to spend every waking second with him (and my wife), and it’s been (mostly) great. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know my son, and am happy to have been able to support my wife as much as I have. Like you, I couldn’t imagine doing this last year as a single guy- it would’ve been very difficult for me. My brother, for example, who is in his 20s and single, has had a fairly rough time this past year. Most of the mechanisms he used to combat depression are gone.
>Our results demonstrated the presence of microplastics attached to the body of the honeybees

So not so much 'in', as 'on'.
Well perhaps we’re 10 years since ARPANET. And the World Wide Web hasn’t been invented just yet.
It's a social lubricant, even in healthy relationships wanting more children I'd bet many are conceived drunk.
Most of these projects are crap, but there are some very legitimate use cases when it comes to binding businesses together. Blockchain solutions make it possible to transact easier than before.

One particular use-case that stayed with me for a long time is what DeBeers is doing with the diamond tracing. For long time diamond certificates were faked between Afrika and Antwerp, especially on border checkpoints. This is where blood diamonds were introduced into the supply chain. Participants cannot be trusted and a common ledger (a.k.a Blockchain or DLT) is a solution. With a traditional database you'd have again a "super administrator", which is exactly what you want to avoid. This has, obviously, nothing in common with a public network like Ethereum, but it's still "Blockchain" and I believe it's still a very valuable real-world use-case. https://www.tracr.com/

Paul Brody does also a lot of real-world projects with EY.
What would be nice to know is if the 767 shown in the photos is typical for the aircraft using this airport? I can't imagine that they need the plane's passenger capacity (~200), but maybe they use it for cargo? Also, if they want to make the trip from Cape Town and back without refueling, they probably need a widebody airplane (EDIT: according to the aircraft's page, it's even an "Extended Range" model)...
Show HN: I built a service to share source code without signing up
I made an error like that one year. It was as simple as me (personally) not receiving one of the 1099s from a few months of work my wife had done for a non-profit.

For those unaware: You get a 1099 when you're paid as a contractor, which means taxes haven't been taken out yet. It's fairly common for temp work and similar oddjobs that don't warrant a dedicated employee.

There was no audit in my case. They just sent me a letter that boiled down to that I had missed that 1099, and they were correct. I was just a little miffed that they waited almost a year to send that letter, which by then had higher interest / penalties than if I had been notified sooner. Still way better than an audit would be, though.
Starship is doing fantastic. SpaceX's rate of development is unprecedented compared to any other aerospace company. Blue Origin was formed before SpaceX and yet BO has still not achieved orbit. Not once. Their alleged New Glenn will not fly until 2022 for no good reason.

Elon Musk is without peer. He is our premier genius.
> people do jump to conclusion

Just about as much as titles like to feed this habit. They're designed to leave the wrong impression in order to trigger a reaction.

"Jeff Bezos becomes a trillionaire thanks to lettuce". It's going to make you wonder, draw conclusions, call it ridiculous, want to tell someone about it. But yeah, I mean lettuce is what's also sold at Whole Foods, and that may be what takes Bezos from $999.99bn to $1tn so it may be technically correct. The least useful kind of correct.

"Millionaire twin sisters greatly increase their wealth after targeting female gamer market" doesn't have the same pull although it's just as accurate. But it gives too much information and you're no longer interested in clicking.

Regardless, props to them for finding a niche to serve and get rich(er) from, especially in a market that doesn't cater very well to that segment.
Version 3 will explore using AR to realistically melt icebergs.

We already have version 15 in beta testing. It’s the Arctic. Melting seems to have gone too far. Should be fixed in the prod release.
Senate Democrats Block GOP Police Reform Bill
Depends how you set it up. Both are possible, just how you can sell both the rights to own an instance of it and the rights to sell.
Video Game Programming from Scratch
Like RapidYAML, written in C++, which had the bug until 2020? (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302744

"Use a library" is observably not a panacea in practice.
Couldn't get to Dianne Morgan in 40 guesses. The closest it got was to ask in sequence whether the character was British, blonde, an actor and a comedian.

Not many probably know the person in question with her real name - but almost everyone who's ever watched Charlie Brooker's productions should recognise her as Philomena Cunk.
I do love the motion of it, despite the preposterous cantilevered wiggle waggle it would have. The algebra of the inverse kinematics must be something else. I wonder how many degenerate rail positions there are for an XYZ...
You can't in good faith use quotation marks when the quoted thing was not said. The "dirtbag left" comment was already quoted, not written as-is, and the other tweet said:

"I’ve seen some impressively caustic stuff from that area at times."

Also you and other in this threads seem determined to use them as a scapegoat for all that happens around this joke.
There are platforms that don't use PoW that are becoming quite popular. The NBA's Top Shot platform is built [on Flow](https://www.onflow.org/primer) which does not use PoW.

I'm not making _any_ claim about the worthiness/sustainability of the platform, just that it is what is being used. The list of "communities" on the Flow landing page suggests that it's being considered for a couple of high-profile platforms.

> today when you sell crypto art it's PoW.

I think more specifically when you sell crypto art on a platform that uses PoW, which makes this sentence a truism.
I recently bought a new car for the first time and the level of poor customer service, anti-consumer acts and outright trickery were appalling. Do they not depend on repeat customers?

At least if the dealership model disappears, it's the manufacturer's own reputation at stake, not whoever owns the franchise.
How do you know people haven't moved on? Have you got Genshin Impact analytics that the rest of us don't? It's free and getting lots of installs as you'd expect - how do you know if people are sticking with it?

It's a perfectly fine game for the first quite-a-few-hours and then suddenly turns into an appalling grindfest (and yes, the 'quality' is clearly front-loaded, the game drops off a cliff once you get to Liyue)
Same here - my beast hackintosh has now turned back into a barely used gaming PC, because Air is faster and more convenient.
Maya Philosophy – an Interview with Alexus McLeod
I have the same laptop and the fans are on more than they're not. Not exactly a great experience.
I wonder if there's a good way to model the cost of children over the last 100 years? My guess is fewer people are having children due to the financial costs rising considerably.
Working and usable program typically contains wrong code of various kinds.

Nontrivial bugfree programs are extreme rarity.

> wrong C is not C

buggy C is still C, if on discovering undefined behavior people treat it as a bug - then it is just C program with some bugs in it.

If on discovering undefined behavior people treat it acceptable people treat it differently "on my compiler it does XYZ, therefore I will knowingly do ABC" then it is becoming something else.
> Machine learning, rendering, and other massively parallel workloads were plenty to keep gpus advancing.

I think the opposite is true. Now that we have cheap GPU accelerators, the machine learning revolution is taking place. But where does that cheap GPU accelerator come from? Clearly, the more frivolous "gaming demand" was paving the way for machine learning, not the other way around. It's similar for mining.

> All the crypto boom did is create shortages and raise prices.

Rising prices are a signal to the market that production needs to be increased, which lowers prices in the long term. Shortages are short term.
Someone with an ~80% accuracy rate wouldn't have any sources that have proven to be accurate in the past?
All I'm arguing is that governments can stop carbon being burned on their soil but they cannot stop PoW existing. So let's focus on the former.
The other statement is not a direct quotation.
To me, the biggest question seems to be whether distributed trust and/or consensus is best served by blockchains, or if we've already established safer and better ways of doing this in prior systems that have been around longer. For now, industry is overwhelmingly sticking with the latter. After all, we've been contemplating and refining trust & consensus systems for the entire history of civilization. It all comes down to relationships and reputation in the end-- and even blockchain tech itself seems to need to deal in those terms (at least at higher levels).

I wouldn't rule out there being certain use cases where blockchain may turn out to be the best way to go, but at the moment that doesn't appear guaranteed to be a huge or lucrative field by itself (and yes, you can say the same about solar in 1975 or websites in 1995, but that proves nothing as there were many more ideas with similar uncertainty around them that failed alongside those). Meanwhile, the intense amount of speculation going on just smells wrong to a lot of us in light of the dearth of clear applications or industry uptake. Personally I'm skeptical, but undecided. It's mainly the speculation that gives me the willies.

I agree the author should have discussed these issues more.
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I'm at a desk the majority of the time. But, sometimes I want to work on something casually while I'm watching TV. Or sometimes my partner is on an important call so I have to vacate our shared home office.

I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation to be able to comfortably use a laptop on your lap for short periods.
Because it's a technlogy with a huge amount of hype behind it but very little demonstrated applications. Especially when that hype leads to huge amount of money being thrown around by people with little familiarity with the technology. This is bound to get pushback. I agree there's some potentially interesting applications, but there seems to be little of that kind of reality coming from the crypto-sphere.
on the other hand our planet has seen 5 mass extinction events.

at the same time, 56 millions years ago the planet was extremely hot:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...

and, to top it off, all we're doing is prolonging the inevitable warming of the planet.

things aren't so clear as that documentary makes it unfortunately.
Somewhat related: I run an http server on the local network for various services.
Due to the large number of bogus requests I set up a honeypot vhost which responds only to requests sent without a Host header, i.e. received directly on the IP address. It also logs these requests separately.

It's fun to check the logs once in a while and see all sorts of exploit attempts. Wordpress and PHP seem to attract a lot of attention.
That isn't a clear cut answer to the game being played, they can play it and not be happy with some of the games practices, we really don't know unless a study is done.

Anecdotally All of my friends who play games hate microtransactions and loot boxes. Some don't care if it's only cosmetic though.
I’d do the opposite. The pandemic is the perfect time to have a kid if you were thinking ahead. Sure, in the short term it might suck, but in the long term, your kid will be amongst a smaller generation. That means more resources can be diverted to them in schools and other activities. Daycares pressed for money because of a sudden drop in the supply chain may start lowering fees a bit for a while. Colleges receive less applicants, mortgage lending, etc... And since a lot of the families that can afford to have kids in a pandemic are probably more affluent, that means a better selection of romantic partners close to the same birth year with better than average socioeconomic status.

It’s a great time. You don’t want to have your kid during a massive boom. They’ll just be a mini boomer.
> the speakers are nowhere near as good

Wow, I need to go listen to 16 inch, when I listened to new Air for the first time, I thought 'wow, those are surprisingly capable speakers for such a lightweight machine'
Indeed. I've had the same generic white good counter-top dish washer for more than 9 years, and it's still working just fine, with absolutely no servicing or repairs whatsoever. They can be built to last, they just often aren't.
This is sad, there is no free expression anymore. You can't have any jokes or sarcasm in code comments, between colleagues or in documentation.

Everything must be soulless and sterile. Just churn out your work as an appendage to the machine, with no culture or expression.
When you’re driving please focus on driving or you’ll end up killing someone.

If you’re paying attention to driving you’re not paying (full) attention to messages; you’ll have to listen to them again once you stop. So just use email :)
It is a reasonable expectation. There have been studies linking high birth rates to blizzards. "blizzard babies" But of course, this was not a blizzard. Increased anxiety and depression can be a libido crusher.
I found Hades was squarely in the iterative category. The studio used a very similar forumla as their previous games (Bastion, Transistor, dead ells) then mixed in rogue like elements to give it interesting decisions.

Super fun and cool, but given the context of their previous games, def in the iterative camp.
Chain: The Secret Life of Components, A series of guides for makers
I have their everyday messenger (kickstarter version) and camera strap. Both have resin parts that degraded into sticky mess after a couple of years. They were decent otherwise, but not really "for life" kind of deals.
It doesn't answer the question you posed, but I read a study[1] just yesterday that estimated that the largest factor of young people having less casual sex now than they did ten years ago is a reduction in drinking rates. It was still a minor factor (explains about 25% of the drop, by their estimation), but it seems less alcohol use does correlate with less casual sex.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023121996854
A huge amount of industry all over the place ends up like this. The engineers produce the theoretical form of the design, and the tooling up process refines it into a practicable-at-scale reality.
> legally free to wear a skirt in my country, yet I've never done and I've also met almost none who did - because of the socials costs this would incur.

I also have never weared skirt, but reasons are entirely personal - have no internal motivation to do so, have opinion that trousers are more practical and have no skirt in wardrobe. But i assume that if i ever wear a skirt, nobody would give a damn.

You can say that lack of my personal interest to wear a skirt is an effect of societal indoctrination and it may be true, but there is a clear difference between accepting/integrating that position and being forced to it by fear of societal costs. The second is oppression, the first is not.
Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
You’ve never walked down the cereal aisle of the grocery store, have you? For nearly every variety of cereal, you can buy the name brand sucker version, or the generic cheapskate version for $1.50 less.

Amazonbasics is just the generic version of much of the overpriced junk they sell. The only people being ripped off are the ones buying the name brand versions.
> there home without much entertainment

They were pumped to the brim with entertainment. Passive, internet-based entertainment.
Become aware of it and acknowledge it.

Consider ways to improve your perspective around those without the same privilege, and adjust your communication so that it isn't incorporating arcane assumptions.
I suspect what you're calling a blockchain is actually a merkle tree. The blockchain is a merkle tree structure shared via p2p communication over a protocol designed to prevent double spending.

Merkle trees were invented in 1979. If companies looking to prevent data tampering didn't make use of them until they got rebranded as "blockchain" then those companies are just bad at what they do.
Open source media service and computer vision
We help you but you need to handover your personal data at first
But it's the worst possible time to have a baby. Healthcare is all round degraded, hospitals are risky places to be, new parent services are degraded, socialising with other parents is limited. Why would you risk doing it now rather than waiting if you had a choice? Most people have a choice, so are choosing to wait.
And it's available for Visual Studio, so you don't even need to be running Linux.
Hi, this is a small hack/demo for broadcasting short audio commands using talking/recording buttons. I thought it is cool and can find some fun applications, so decided to share it here.
I'm getting lost with the number of changes going on here. Can anyone point to what's changed from the policy they were pushing to users in Jan this year? How different is it from the policy that existed before August 2016?

The information from the EFF appears to contradict what WhatsApp says here.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/how-keep-your-whatsapp...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/what-facebook-and-what...
Yes. Everything is O(1) if N is constant, including log(N), N^2, 2^N, N!, etc. That's a tautology.
Here we go again... Idiots...

1) They have always had the right to repair.
It was harder to exercise it because appliances tend to be designed for the average customer who wants to refresh and does not want to spend money on servicing old crap.

2) What this reallly is is socialist busybodies forcing manufacturers to design products differently.
What's wrong with that? Well, it violates rights of manufacturers (designers, manufacturers, business owners, etc.).
Secondly, it increases the price of products for everyone. Now that guy who hates fixing old crap still won't fix it, but will have to pay more for a fixable product. It is nothing more but yet another tax for the poor bastards in the EU.
What is this project? Can anyone ELI5?
If that is the case then we should stick out more because later it will be even harder and hiding would not work anyway.

Jordan Peterson: Free Speech & the Right to Offend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pERGAaKHw

Rowan Atkinson on free speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU
An absurd argument. If a new situation emerges Government should not act because it was not in their manifesto?
You claim it’s common but I haven’t seen that speed out there a lot. And def not in a package close to apples.
Much more of the decrease in the past century is due to increased access to education and full time employment for women, increased availability of contraception, and decreasing child mortality.