skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's nice for a casual Instagrammer, but then a lot of science and engineering also gets done using COTS equipment. I worry that at some point, a lot of money will be burned, a lot of time wasted, or even lives lost, because someone didn't notice they've based the conclusions of their scientific experiment/engineering analysis on such "computer best guesses".

Most research papers are crap anyway, in a much more fundamental way and for much worse reasons/bad incentives with far more impact than "computational imaging".

This is probably the last thing I'd worry about when thinking about "millions/time/wasted" for some research.
If you take "determines" to mean "is the sole determining factor ... at a given instant" then yes. But with a more conventional reading, unless you define a time-frame, deny randomness or otherwise specify an outcome - no.
"Will have" is a stronger rephrasing, but even with this wording it wouldn't necessarily blame your attitude as long as you're alive (and if one believes in afterlife the promise may as well never expire).
oh, they do it voluntarily, means it's all good?

they do it "voluntarily" because many people still think it's normal; that's the society in which they were raised. they don't know any better. it's something still normal just like we used to think it's normal to beat your wife not too long ago (and probably still normal in some countries).
Improvements are always possible, and on ongoing discussion. Though I have no major complaints with the current system, my kids are finished school and so I pay less attention now. There was a "Gonski report" commissioned a few years ago with enhancements in mind, it's the source of ongoing discussions I believe.

Edit: if you don't like it you can always pay for private education - it to is partially government funded.
> Some of the risks are positively futuristic: they compete against decentralized exchange-like platforms, where market-makers trade directly with users. In a way, this is like any other software company that nominally competes against open-source clones; Adobe users could switch to Gimp, and Microsoft could hypothetically lose revenue due to OpenOffice. But the decentralized entities Coinbase competes against can have a life of their own even if they're not updated or maintained; Coinbase, a company with over a thousand employees, competes against incorporeal techno-economic zombies.

I dont think that this is what open source is about. I dont think that comparing Microsoft and OpenOffice is a relevant statement. I mean at least one means LibreOffice, and furthermore there is no competition to Microsoft, they satisfy different objectives.

Secondly, decentralization is not about moving business value from one entity to 'the masses,' it is about agreeing to a protocol and establishing that protocol in a trustless implementation.
I feel the opposite, productivity is poor or at best unpredictable when working from home.

There is a strong truth in looking at what motivates you though, for me it is just as much the interaction with colleagues working towards a common goal that is key.
That goal is so much harder to accomplish in a WFH setting.

Other than that i very much agree that too many meetings is one of the biggest productivity killers.
Piracy surely does do damage. But I feel as if it's probably a net positive for the gaming industry overall. Maybe I'm wrong but Indie games currently seem to be in a sort of golden age, despite piracy being as alive as ever. As someone who grew up on blizzard and gamecube games almost every game I purchase these days is an indie game, similar patterns amongst my friends.
By the spirit of the thing, Markdown ought not qualify
I’m so glad it’s not just me.

I have been unimpressed with the over-complication and the...lacking API.
I have to ask, every large pick-up I've had a go at driving has the turning radius of an aircraft-carrier, I know that American roads tend to be wider, but how many 30 point turns do you find yourselves doing in it?
Yep. And then you can go spend them on
I have always thought that the fastest browser is the one I don't use daily. That the fact that my daily browser has 50-100 tabs open makes the browser I switch to seem much faster.

Unless of course the first thing that happens when i switch is that the seldom used browser asks me to restart it to install an new version.
The oldest (still active) text based MMORPG
The treatments for HIV are incredibly effective, if you can afford them. It can even reduce your viral load to undetectable. There is a campaign that Undetectable=Untransmittable, to reduce the stigma associated with it. I have to admit I don't know if I'm comfortable with having unprotected sex with someone who had the virus, but the data says it's safe.

There is also pre exposure prophylaxis, which isn't a vaccine but does dramatically reduce the risk.

Between the two, the disease just isn't the problem it used to be -- assuming you can afford it. In poor counties it's still a problem.
Sickle cell anemia? 1 gene malaria, two copies a disease (I might have cause wrong).
I agree. I've been programming embedded systems of all sizes from 8-bit CPUs with 500 bytes of ROM to systems powered by 64-bit desktop processors for the better part of 30 years and I disagree with most of his post.

When I start a project with an STM32 microprocessor, I don't start by digging into the hundreds of pages of data sheet and bit twiddling each register. I start up the STMCube tool and specify what peripherals I need on which pins and let the tool configure the registers correctly.
If I need better performance than it provides, then I start tweaking bits.

There is rarely any benefit to making things harder on yourself. I use C++ in embedded systems because it makes things easier to abstract than C does. Hell, I've seen people basically recreate concepts like polymorphism in C because they were on a CPU that didn't have a good C++ compiler.

I feel like all the lessons learned in desktop programming over the decades are struggling to find a foothold in the embedded world.
What is replacing C?
I think it is great that they are starting to think about this, but I find the approach profoundly disappointing. While it is a bit silly in form at the moment, this test is starting in a much more useful direction, IMO:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39688/drivers-new-to-automated...

We all know that there are car accidents every year, and it is no secret that driver inattention is the root cause for a very large percentage of them.

But what can be done about them? The NTSB is focusing almost exclusively on driver monitoring while the driver assistance is turned on.

But what about when its turned off? And more generally, how do these systems compare against driving without such systems at all? Its clear that the current state is far from perfect, but an overly heavy focus only on failure cases will lead to misleading conclusions.
>and his criticism of the raise of (Maoist) Posmodernism in academia

I'm sorry but in a country where people call Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton communists without a hint of irony I can't help but at roll my eyes at such a premise.
Came back to say thanks for posting this--it was a jumping off point to organize my thoughts from when I was asked how I would approach reorganizing a documentation system at an internship interview the other day!
Nobody disputes that journalism as it currently exists has a lot of issues. But do you really think that the world would be better off without journalists?
I live in Amarillo and never knew about this building. Will have to visit the next time I head that way.
I ran a small data center, used to qualify backbone routers.

We had a Halon fire system. If there was a fire you exit the center and press the Halon button. The fire dies.

I can't understand how a multi-story, super-expensive, data center didn't have effective fire control. It makes no sense.
you’re a weirdo. driving is not that hard. billions of people can handle it. get your head checked.
Once upon a time, this would have been called "micro-blogging".
> If it means spending a week on safari in some poor country to see exotic wildlife, that likely will not be a reasonable thing to do until at least 2022 and maybe later

But this is a problem. Wildlife conservation efforts in East Africa and Madagascar depend almost entirely on income from tourists, because state support is meagre. Already some activists on the ground in Kenya have complained that the past year with no tourists has severely impacted conservation efforts, and poaching and illegal landuse has already begun to return.

Also, public-health exhortations like yours operate on the assumption that every life must be saved. In the real world, that just isn’t the case: now that the vaccines are out, some countries will accept some degree of higher mortality in order to extract vital income from tourism. Even during this COVID year, several countries have remained open to tourists for that reason.
Release candidate stage now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6x_jSKixg
The network will probably split, and the best chain will win in the long run. That sounds like decentralization to me.
> it seems like every developer with some extra free time has decided that they want to build their own PKM/note-taking/etc app, so competition has scaled up massively in the last year.

Still none with dark mode, native apps, markdown.
An Open Letter to Twitter
One wonders if the impact is imparted not by the piece, then, but by the room. There are elements of physical texture and contrast present in physical works, but is the difference between the Mona Lisa and a high-quality print of the Mona Lisa the brushstrokes, or that one is in the Louvre?
The other popular Switch emulator, Yuzu, recently released their progress report for February in case you are interested in how far along the state of Switch emulation is these days. Yuzu is C++ and roughly comparable to Ryujinx, feature-wise.

https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-feb-2021/
The United States has administered 2.3 million vaccination doses.

Oh, lol no, not cumulatively. I mean Yesterday. We administered 2.3 million doses in about 14 daytime hours on March 12th.

Naturally, the number of vaccinated individuals grows every day. That's what vaccinations do. But the number of doses we are administering every day is growing every day. One week ago, on March 8th, we administered about 2.05 million.

There's no point to harvesting plasma. Why would we, as a society, try to do that on any meaningful scale when we have working vaccines, produced and administered on a global scale that humanity has in our entire history as a species never before reached?

People give Trump shit for his statement that, one day, the virus will just magically disappear. He deserves it, but not because it won't disappear; it will disappear, but it won't be because of magic. The effort that the Trump administration, the Biden Administration, Project Warp Speed, the CDC, and other Federal and State Health Agencies, have put into this is something that, in 100 years, our history books will write paragraphs about. Its invisible to most of us. We still feel the legitimate and necessary fear that kept people isolated and society going over the past year. That fear isn't forever; the US was hard-hit, but the US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy, and the rest of the world will quickly follow.
It's mainly the horrible "enterprise" culture around them, which leads to ridiculous abstraction bloat and the associated increase in resource consumption.
Aids and the AZT Scandal: 1989 Feature (2015)
Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology
What Is Coming for 6G?
Ah yes Manufacturing Consent is a good one! And you’re right I should start pulling down some backups of these videos.
I've never needed to do more than a 3 point turn in my truck. Being aware of exactly how far the front and rear bumpers are is incredibly important for not having to do a bunch of back and forths - which modern sensors make a breeze.

The reason the turning radius is relatively terrible is because the axels are so far apart (good weight distribution).
Not necessarily before work anymore. If I need an extra hour of sleep, I can just set my alarm for 15 minutes before 9.

I can also now take a quick shower in the middle of the day when I need to get away from the screen to think.

Or I can make a granola bowl while I'm in a meeting. Or walk the dog, or do any number of low cognitive load things (especially for meetings that I'm expected to attend even when they are only tangential to my work).
Show HN: Formula 1 Statistics Database
Hello everyone,

I've created a Formula 1 statistics database using a freely available data set.

To create the F1 online database, I used a tool that I developed called Flatpack Apps (flatpackapps.com) That tool will be the subject of a future 'Show HN' submission.

F1 fans might be particularly interested in the 'teammate battles' section. By using this feature, one can get a very good idea of how a driver has progressed throughout his career relative to his teammates.

For example, with Sebastian Vettel having performed poorly last season, many people discount his four world championships (saying his success was mostly due to a dominant car), and discount even further the rating of his teammate at the time Mark Webber, who struggled in those years relative to Vettel.

However, browsing the teammate battles of Mark Webber over his career [1], it is clear that before he was teamed with Seb Vettel, Mark Webber was a stellar performer. He dominated over each one of his seven other teammates in qualifying, including Nico Rosberg and David Coulthard.

[1]: http://www.s1.flatpackapps.com/app.php?pageId=806&driverId=1...

I plan to add charts to the teammate battles feature, and have some ideas on how to algorithmically find the best driver of all time using the teammate battles data (which has already been done very well here [2]), but will always be a fun exercise.

[2]: https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/the-f1metrics-top...

Does anyone have comments or feature requests?
With most software in that price category, the actual software is a small piece of what you’re paying for. It’s really support, custom features, etc.

Additionally, the potential users that can pay have much bigger legal exposure using the pirated version and just wouldn’t risk it.
I am not buying their self driving package so as a bystander in the other car it’s statistically safer for me.

As to the actual drivers/passengers that’s a more complex question. It’s likely going to continue killing some people who would otherwise survive, but nobody is forcing them to use the system while otherwise safe to drive. On the other hand others will only turn it on when tired etc which is likely where the net benefit comes from.
But that doesn’t explain the multiple genetic and chromosomal disorders that are associated with autism.

It’s almost like autism is a side effect of disorders that are associated with cognitive impairment.
The finished talk with a (short) Q&A can be also be found.

https://media.ccc.de/v/arch-conf-online-2020-6390-linux-memo...

Q&A Questions: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/conf-files/-/blob/mas...
Selective lowering of taxes doesn't imply less money for infrastructure for the affected areas. Gov could (should imo) tax big cities more to develop underdeveloped cities.
My take is that he's extremely good at some things, but overall just a mean, vindictive person.

I think we can acknowledge that people are complex animals and that someone can be amazing at some things and terrible at others.

I think Elon regularly fails to meet my expectations of how we should treat other people. He regularly exceeds my expectations as the CEO of a launch services company.
I've listened to some of his lectures over the years but the most I've ever gotten from him, was from a single book that compiled and edited his lectures into a QnA format, sorted by topic.

The book's called 'understanding power'. I got my copy from a used book store for a few bucks. Great stuff full of interesting historical bits I had no idea about. It also helped clarify his philosophical stance, which is simply that people need to organize in order to affect change. He's decided that his part is providing research and it is up to others to use it to do their part.

Chomsky to me, would've been a giant historical figure, if he had found a Steve Jobs to represent his work, the same way Steve Wozniak did. Instead, Chomsky went at it alone, making some of the most juicy and interesting material feel stale, simply because he has no ability to present it in a compelling manner.
Nanosatellites and the Conquest of Space
I'm less worried about coinbase losing my keys than them randomly shutting my account down.
The most dangerous blindspots for me is the front columns to the side of the windshield. Surprisingly my small-ish Mazda CX-5 has much worse visibility in these blindspots than my Ram 1500 (because they are closer to my face in the Mazda, blocking a larger field of view). Old vehicles didn't have this same danger because we didn't shove airbags into them.
Not just to check for license but also to upload all your activity for their AI to comb through :)
C++, Rust, Python. Anything But C!
Messaging apps that were popular in the early 2000s had fairly sophisticated concepts about how available a user was at any given time. That seems to be absent or significantly degraded in most of what's popular now.

I want to be able to indicate my availability or lack thereof to any of my regular contacts before they send a message, indicate how urgent a message is when sending it, and control what level of urgency triggers a notification (with an option to put urgency limits on specific contacts if they misuse it).
I've been working as a contractor for more than the past 10 years, and I'd say salary banding is one of the primary reasons I've been able to remain employed 100% of the time. A big company will be able to get some portion of the labor it requires within the bands they set out. But the more in demand the skills they're seeking are, the less likely they'll be able to convince people to work for the band rates they've set. When they encounter those situations, their only options are to hire contractors at even more expensive rates, or to not get the work done. There's plenty of reasons why contingent labor might appeal to a company, but hilariously inefficient salary banding practices seems like one of the more common ones to me.
Really like the last part of your comment. the fact that (collectively) we created, tested, released, and are now distributing vaccines in less than a year is an incredible achievement.
He was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest of skin cancers. He also mentioned in his first cancer blog entry that he had a malignant melanoma cancer removed two decades ago.

Immunotherapy came from left field as a cancer therapy - and for stage 4 cancers, the 4/5-year survival rate is much better than control groups - about 50%.

Jim Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in cancer immunotherapy.

There's an interesting documentary on Jim Allison's work - see https://www.breakthroughdoc.com/ (for USA PBS viewers: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/jim-allison-breakt..., for TVOntario viewers: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/jim-allison-breakthr...)
Maybe, while having high intelligence is necessary to really understand those problems and how to approach them, a lot of the resources around these interviews seem to involve simply memorizing the solutions to the most common problems.

To be fair, these also seem to be targeted towards entry level positions, I can;t say how that strategy would assist someone trying to get in at another level.
Seems like a very proactive development
The Honda Ridgeline isn’t a masculinity truck but it checks all the other boxes. They really do need to make some basic pedestrian safety rules in the us and enforce existing laws against aholes Rolling coal. I don’t really care if folks buy trucks but the F-u arms race is forcing me to consider buying one just so that my wife and kids aren’t at risk of getting squashed by one.
My wife wants a small electric but having everyone drive a car 2-3x the weight is kind of a problem when you have an accident
It's one extended good part. I have the audio for this on my phone, have listened to it many times start to finish.
> Imaging a progress bar showing progress of two consecutive operations eg. download and process. How should that progress bar be displayed? 50% for each? If download is 30 seconds and process is half an hour that is skewed.

Display a progress bar for downloading, and then another one for processing. You can caption them, too.
> The increasing rates of Autism now are most likely the result of increasingly advanced maternal age for pregnancies

Wiki seems to say it's either even split between parents, or leans paternal:

> It is not known whether mutations that arise spontaneously in autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders come mainly from the mother or the father, or whether the mutations are associated with parental age.[74] However, recent studies have identified advancing paternal age as a significant indicator for ASD.

There's also the other factors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism#Causing...

But as another mentioned, the increased awareness and access to medical professionals could also explain an upward trend in diagnosis.
Another alternative is that they use success in ramping up the car business to raise capital for investment in other on shore advanced manufacturing. The market they go for may not just be cars.
I never see a mention of this even at any of the "awesome" lists but this is really well built and has more features than baserow.

Baserow's mobile support is quite poor but Seatable does it very well and I've been using it for several months and love it.
That's ridiculous. Collaborating with clients should almost always be free.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of collaboration are you doing with clients? I'm the CEO of a platform specifically for businesses and their clients, and we loosely compete with Airtable.
There should be a poll in HN to see who likes working from home over working in the office.

For me personally, I love working from home. The company I work for offers free lunch but the quality is terrible but the management usually invites you to a lunch meeting so I have to eat the unhealthy food. Not to mention ping pong after lunch, useless meetings and mandatory greetings (hello, how was your weekend, happy Monday, happy Friday) and etc.
Reinventing Tabs
Not sure what you mean either by ghosting or by munging to be honest...
It has already happened. Back in 2013, Xerox had a copier that changed numbers, for similar reasons.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
That's quite possibly true. Again, I do pirate things sometimes, and I'm not trying to rule one way or another on piracy.

What I'm trying to get at is that saying on the basis of a priori arguments about what "property rights" a person has that they don't stand to "lose anything" through piracy is incorrect reasoning, and maybe even hurtful to the people who do stand to lose something.

You might as well pursue a long theoretical argument with the conclusion that the Department of Homeland Security has no right to exist, then claim that a janitor who works there has "nothing to lose" from calls to abolish it. Even if you're right about the DHS, it's a complete non sequitur, and a rather callous one at that.