skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I wasn't very clear. Would the general public accept the truth of a data model that proved that a previously controversial/unacceptable idea was factually correct to the point it could not be denied by a reasonable person?

Several attempts at training with real world models have produced results that have been attacked for being "algorithmically biased". This isn't because there was anything experimentally wrong with the dataset or choice of model on their own, but because of the result's contradiction of a certain worldview. While, I agree with you that people come closer to the truth in the long-term, in the short- and medium-term, I expect certain people to pad their own data and quash the different findings out of ideological motivation for some time.
This is true but there was a general wave of fiscal conservative liberalism at the time (see: Clinton, Blair).
FYI if anyone from baserow is reading this, I tried following your docs at https://baserow.io/docs/guides%2Fdemo-environment and can't clone your git repo -- I'm getting permission denied.

Once I looked up the HTTP url it worked fine, so I think you may have a permissions issue in gitlab.
Joking aside, I use a Zojirushi vacuum kettle that keeps the water at the correct temperature at all times, so I never wait.
>whether they go in to work or not.

I'm not sure I understand, I'm working from home... shouldn't I get paid?
It's possible that weatherlight is a teapot and inopinatus is a coconut!
It's actually not hard to get into local politics and you can certainly get things done. There's not a lot of competition or money involved and most people haven't figured out you can do it yet. Mainly what happens is older people will scream at you when you say you want a bike lane.

It does take a lot of patience though; you won't get much done in the first year or two.
I was weirdly amused that the article want into so much detail about the Google plan (when it's been dead for a year) and gave just meaningless buzzword puffery about what they're going to do instead.
This is a great reference thanks I had never heard of it but it's bang on.
I should have said it sounds like it could suck very much to the point of being traumatic, but not the level of trauma experienced by those who suffer from PTSD.
You lost me when there wasn't a docker image. I'd strongly encourage having one that can be dropped into a docker-compose config.
Society does not accept any level of car accidents. That’s why there are safety regulations, that’s why there are safety investigators, that’s why there is a ton of safety-related R&D and testing, heck that’s why there are stoplights and traffic laws and rules about using your mobile phone.

Individually, no one ever wants to get into a car accident. Collectively, the desired number of accidents each year is zero. We’re not there yet because it’s hard to do, not because of acceptance.

So any new mechanism for accidents is going to come in for very heavy scrutiny. And by mechanism I don’t mean solely technology, but also human factors, which are huge issues when it comes to the current state of “self driving” cars.
Im not sure your last statement is true or makes sense. Healthcare provision is not solar power bogged down by a specific technological or policy barrier. It's a complex service industry that requires a lot of human touch as well the capacity for innovation has no bounds on cost.

Nobody wants to spend 100% of their income on healthcare, which means saying no has to become a habit.
a common problem back then was chips getting remarked as higher clock bin parts.
The commercialization of the internet isn't without it's many flaws but to say that it snatched it from the jaws of progress is absurd. It was exactly the commercialization of the internet that made it the colossal tool it is today for hundreds of millions of people worldwide for starting small businesses, finding ways of making a side income, creatively expressing and promoting themselves and finding sources of work online (even if they're not all well-paid U.S/Europe based programmers and devops like some of the snidely privileged, disdainful commentators here). That so many people on a site like HN of all fucking things could be so narrowly dismissive of the overall value of a the vast commercial internet of today (despite its flaws), which many of you helped build into what it is at considerable gain to yourselves, is funny at best and grotesquely arrogant at worst. Talk about naval gazing and missing the forest for some broken trees.
> As much as the environmental impact is significant, I'm mainly enthused because I really dislike the impact of the noise pollution

Noise pollution is an environmental impact.
The bulk of Microsoft's income is not from hoarding user data and serving ads. Microsoft makes most of it's money by making good products that people pay for.

I've got my eye on them, but they aren't the same company under Satya.
For the tl;dr the bit at the end (and linked paper) can cover the topic without the backstory if that's not your sort of thing:

"As noted above, in 2021 I analytically derived the Fourier transform of the Magic Kernel in closed form, and found, incredulously, that it is simply the cube of the sinc function. This implies that the Magic Kernel is just the rectangular window function convolved with itself twice—which, in retrospect, is completely obvious. This observation, together with a precise definition of the requirement of the Sharp kernel, allowed me to obtain an analytical expression for the exact Sharp kernel, and hence also for the exact Magic Kernel Sharp kernel, which I recognized is just the third in a sequence of fundamental resizing kernels. These findings allowed me to explicitly show why Magic Kernel Sharp is superior to any of the Lanczos kernels. It also allowed me to derive further members of this fundamental sequence of kernels, in particular the sixth member, which has the same computational efficiency as Lanczos-3, but has far superior properties."
Flagged nytimes version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450270
Because it’s a lot easier to manufacture and distribute the vaccines
> “Some tasks cannot be conducted at home although these are not required by the rules and regulations”

Anyone know where the Hanko stamp is?
I believe open source work is amongst the greatest works of charities ever. It is just staggering the amount of work that goes building/maintainer open source. And I possibly wonder every week on who are these wonderful people creating/maintaining them.

My heart goes to maintainer & family.

Everybody in this forum needs to do a bit.

Request everybody to donate generously via paypal mentioned in the link.
Fuel-cell proponents keep claiming they're just around the corner but the issues with them are fundamental. ~3x the total energy use because of all the inefficiencies, and needing an all new infrastructure compared to BEVs where the grid is already everywhere. If FCEVs show up and are actually usable that would be fine but I wouldn't bet on it. They're mostly brought out as an argument for staying on ICEs until, real soon now, we'll finally have them. Maybe for long sea shipping hydrogen will work, but even for trucking the 3x energy input needed is hard to justify.
You are correct. The pandemic may end after about 20-30 months, but this novel coronavirus will stick around. It is going to be a community virus, such as the Spanish flu turned into seasonal influenza. People pushed back hard against the experts when they started talking about preparing for herd immunity and 70%+ infected. So, this messaging has become more careful.

A few months later the debate will turn to this being leaky vaccines (vaccinated still shed virus, but may not get really sick). Officially, this is also: We just don't know, we are monitoring it. But all the monkeys showed shedding. Trial participants showed shedding. This is a leaky vaccine. What happened to the targeted disease, when we used a leaky vaccine in life stock can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease

Edit: I'd like a single expert predicting that our current vaccines will eradicate novel coronavirus. That would prove the downvoted post wrong. You'll find many experts agreeing that novel coronavirus is going to mutate and live among humans for a long long time after the crisis is over. Facts, people.
I’ve had blue lights that black sharpie could not dim.

The solution for those is black nail polish. Dirt cheap, easy to apply since it’s more of a goo than a liquid which you apply it by a brush that comes with the bottle, and it’s completely impervious to any sort of light shining through in one coat. If you’d like some light to see if the thing is on or off, apply a thinner coat.

It completely solved my aggressive LEDs on things problem.
UBI + Government funded, free healthcare for everyone.

It makes no sense that, with all the excess industrial supply that we have today, that we refuse to provide a basic minimum standard of living for all human beings.
I wonder if “Tom Scott did a video on this” is the new “Simpsons already did it”?

https://youtu.be/xGQgmmrXONk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Already_Did_It
I did WFH remotely for 1 year from India. I had a separate room for office and productivity was high.

Moved to Germany staying in 1 Room 36 square meter apartment and can't work from home.

My meetings disturb wife.
Her watching TV/Cooking disturbs me.

Now I work from office and feeling more happy. Talking to real people instead of Zoom call and going out to grab some lunch uplifts my mood
I like both databases. Saying that MongoDB is a subset of PostgreSQL is not right, IMO. They are both powerful databases. For legacy off-Oracle or off-SQL Server migration, PostgreSQL sure is an easier place to start (though you still likely have to re-write/re-tune your application). For new apps, you could start with either.

The idea that PostgreSQL is a superset of MongoDB is incorrect. As some examples, PostgreSQL doesn't shard, have multi-region, multi-cloud, enforce JSON schema, data governance, full JSON support, etc.

That said, PostgreSQL does do a lot of things MongoDB doesn't do.

The two products have a big feature overlap - both are great databases. I think you could build a modern app on either one. If you want to build in modern languages faster and have a more available system out of the box, I'd suggest MongoDB. If you have legacy skillsets, legacy apps, or just love relational, I'd suggest PostgreSQL.
your qualifications for presenting an hypothesis are...
That's one expensive apostrophe.

I wonder if similar scams via smart-contracts exist yet.
It is hurting families because mostly only small 1 bedroom apartments get built which are more attractive to Airbnb investors. However zoning is probably the biggest problem, yes. Far too much of the city is zoned for single family housing.
If you pay attention it's been created by a carefully constructed narrative by certain media outlets. The switch to anti-tech and anti-billionaire biases was surprisingly swift, and few seemed to even notice. Add to that the complete removal of nuance from news reports, and any platforms (eg, Clubhouse / Podcasts) that attempt to add in nuance are either ignored/treated as fringe, or out-right demonized.
Capitalism isn't the panacea its evangelists want you to think it is. That's the short answer.
Private school says phrases like 'mom and dad' should be avoided
I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.
Dan Jezek died way too early and his family worked hard to keep BrickLink alive - and now it will continue as it’s under the umbrella of the LEGO Group. https://www.danjezek.com/
Yes and I could build this, but would prefer to pay for someone who already built it.
Assuming that the existing wiring can support the increased demand.
https://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-586362-CV-DCC50XT-America-C...

As usual, you gotta get the one made in Japan.
The 2020 stats say it's 250k, so not quite 500k/600k. But that's only the nominator, the population is aging and dying, and the birth rate is low, so the fact that 250k immigrants come in per year doesn't actually mean there is a need for more housing.

So we have 300k deaths each year, 350k population growth of which 250k is immigrants, for a 1% YoY population increase.

So you'd expect a need to grow housing by 1% and that would flatten prices, but it doesn't, so I feel there's more to it.

> but this is the (as I said) elephant no one wants to discuss publicly

I just did like 30min of googling, and almost all articles discussed immigration as a factor for Toronto high prices. So I'm not sure it's an elephant, it just doesn't seem like the simple explanation people want it to be. It isn't obvious at all that just lowering the number of immigrants the country accepts per year would have a drastic impact on Toronto prices. It seems there's many other factors at play. And you also need to consider all the other impact to the overall economy that lowering the number of migrants would have as well.

I think people just don't really know, it's a hard problem, there's no clear solution, and so no one can come up with actionable remediations.

One thing that I saw which might be a bigger elephant is the fact that old people don't downgrade, they stay occupying the single family residence they've owned for their entire retirement and end of life. Making no room for others. When they most likely no longer take advantage of the city or the extra space afforded by their home, and that limits the pool of homes dramatically. Especially considering Toronto has issues building more since land is scarce, and taxes are high for construction + zoning. I feel the thought was always that when you retire, you cash out your Toronto home, and downsize somewhere else cheaper, making room for others in Toronto, but this doesn't seem to be happening. And this is compounded with life expectancy growing year over year.
Here in the Czech Republic, doctors in Brno are trying a combination of remdesivir and convalescent plasma in oncological Covid patients. They say that the combo has, so far, worked much better than either of the components in isolation. Out of the small cohort, they lost no one so far.

Source in Czech: https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/jihomoravskykraj/3278822-brnen...
Unlikely. If you expect something different you’re missing the point of open source. Roy didn’t have to fix anything if he didn’t want to.
Rabbi Dov Fischer on ‘People of Color’ and ‘Systemic Racism’
I took a test drive in an S a few years ago, and also found the interior ugly and the infotainment system lacking. The sales guy was pushing the car hard with misdirection and deceptions[0][1], even calling me days later. Eventually I had just tell them to stop calling and told them exactly why I’d never buy the car.

[0] “It has a streaming service like Pandora!”
“Is it Pandora?”
“It’s Sketcher. It’s like Pandora!”
“So it’s not Pandora.”
“No.”

[1] “This car has full self driving.”
“So is it going to turn here?”
“No. It has FSD capability, but it’s not on because of regulatory approval. It should be here in a year to two.”
(That was four years ago.)
There’s this half formed view I’m finding interesting: currency based economy is one way to assign workforces in the Earthian human society, but not the only way, and not just in motivational sense, there truly are other ways, in existence or to be studied/theorized or the world is in need of.

If I was super rich or in power I could gather and pay a group of average people to make dhcpcd financially driven, but I can’t see that working.
That lawsuit wasn't successful, partially because Subway's use of the term "footlong" is not supposed to be taken as literally a foot long.
I've seen a similar change in recent years. 10 years ago Intel Fortran was usually faster, at least 20%. Good 20%. GFortran seems to have caught up a lot.
It's crazy to think about how HIV has killed some ~32 million people, and yet we rarely hear about it anymore. COVID probably won't even hit 4 million deaths (barring some much deadlier variant that we can't easily produce a new vaccine for).
I could probably have been more specific.

What I mean by lack of clarity is that Kay in 1998 thinks that messaging is the key idea, and suggests that was always the key idea. But none of the historical sources I've seen suggest he was clearly and consistently saying that in the 70s.

That's really a minor point, it does nothing to invalidate Kay's contributions. You can design a system that has value, and only later find the best way to talk about its value. That happens constantly: people create something and then end up saying "in hindsight, I got X right and Y wrong" or "back then, I knew this worked, but it was only later that I knew why".

It doesn't disprove the idea that focusing on messaging gives you the best version of OOP. It doesn't even disprove that "real" OOP is about messaging (though I think that argument has a high bar to clear--most terms are messy).

What it does disprove is that messaging has a right to be the core of OOP because Alan Kay defined it that way back in the 70s.

P.S. Maybe the title isn't ideal, but Hillel was literally reacting to someone who said Alan Kay invented objects: https://lobste.rs/s/8yohqt/alan_kay_oo_programming#c_5xo7on. Actually, that might be a better source than what I linked to, because it marshals more evidence that Kay was not consistently saying "messaging is what matters" during the 70s. He may have believed it, he may have said it sometimes, but he wasn't consistent about it.

Again, that's not a criticism of Kay, except the super mild one that his 90s/2000s memory of what he said 20 years earlier wasn't perfect. But I forget shit I said last week, so I'm not gonna judge.
I'd like to gently encourage that perhaps the Catalyst forms be published too. I feel like we're getting the not-as-understandable, downcompiled, kiddie-script version of the real thing via this process, and that while open source, we're not getting an experience with how the sausage gets made.

Also it'd be lovely for those who are going in on Catalyst to have some well written robust components to either imitate or extend. And if multiple components are leveraging the shared Catalyst library, the marginal size of using a new component ought be significantly less.

Even without, thanks! Leaving Catalyst version available does seem like an excellent learning opportunity for all, & have some great technical upsides, but it's great that these components are available.
Why will those factors not be applicable to crypto? (People taking custody of their own cryptoassets may mean that the exchange can't lend them out, but as exchanges continue to pass the test of time more and more people may be willing to leave assets on exchanges.)
Fossil find contains a dinosaur sitting on an entire clutch of eggs
https://draftable.com/ https://api.draftable.com/examples is a secret weapon I've used frequently as a non-lawyer, including to silver-platter documents for counsel and to review things sent by external parties: you can give it two versions of a contract, and it automatically derives a redline, meaning that as long as you have sane file naming schemes, you essentially have `git diff` for contracts without ever needing the overhead of managing a repository. It's remarkably robust and has self-hosted options.

Thinking more broadly about tools for lawyers, I feel like too many attempts have fallen into the trap of "we need to disrupt everything and remove all rote work." From the lawyers I've talked to, the common thread is that they just want better visibility and a second pair of eyes; they'll be responsible for their work product at the end of the day and will need to type changes manually, but if something could help them find the "gotcha" buried on page 93 with slightly greater speed and reliability (or, to wit, find all typos from Word's automatic numbering), without requiring a full change in toolkit, it could meaningfully improve quality of life for counsel and clients alike.
Looks like Airtable took a lot of 'inspiration' from DabbleDB!
Because the concentrations in the kettle increase locally due to boiling, and there is precipitate that doesn't happen in the filter jug.
Show HN: Eezy – super simple project automation for all your projects
Most people seem upset that they said / did mean things to competitors or bundled IE with Windows. Meanwhile the FAAG (facebook, amazon, apple, google) is being investigated for antitrust not in the distant past, but right now.
"Amazon built the Fire stick to be compatible with Chromecast. Google then changed the Chromecast protocols repeatedly to prevent this."

I don't believe this is true. Do you have a source?
Comparing a parent's in-office productivity to WFH productivity while providing childcare strikes me as oblivious.

Clearly parents aren't the entire workforce but we're not a minor portion either.
I never found much sense in this line of reasoning. MS as a corporation is an abstract legal concept with a name. Every action taken under this "umbrella" is an executive's decision (or a group's), not the actual abstract corporation doing it.

It's fair to assume most of the leadership from '90s MS has moved on. So is your concern with the current leadership or the abstract concept of the corporation? Is it that "they did it once so they might do it again" the real worry? Do we assume the corporation has hysteresis and the executives of today will take similar actions to those of the past because of operating under the same "umbrella" named MS? If so how far back do you go with this record of bad or good deeds?

I see a lot of people sort of bragging with being old enough to remember evil '90s MS (so around 35+). How far back do you look at a company to judge them? I can think of a lot of companies who flip-flopped several times because the leadership changed and the market demanded it. So once they go bad do they stay forever bad?

Your worry should be MS's current leadership and their ability to execute in the future, not what Gates did 20 years ago. Similarly you don't judge today's Google by their actions of 20 years ago. Saying "I don't trust MS because Gates in the '90s" tells me you might be stuck on the actual name and that's the only aspect that will ever matter to you (a simple "if MS then Bad").

You've seen Google go from do no evil to whatever they are now. Apple from whatever they were to champions of user privacy. MS from whatever they were to embracing open source and such. None of it because corporations are sentient beings with intentions but because of leadership and market imposed necessity. If anything you (and I) are more rsponsible for what MS, Google, Apple, etc. do than those companies themselves. They do what we allow them and what we reward simply because their leadership acts in the interest of profits.
It doesn't say anything about the inverse. You can simultaneously believe success is determined by yourself and failures are just bad luck. It's positive thinking. Some enjoy it, some don't.
Go code can still have ownership issues around channel lifetime (panic on sendin to closed channel, etc)
Here the billboards are advertising $700 for plasma donation.
I just said I'm not welcoming it. But I also distinguish between copying in terms of implementing the same protocol/standard and copying an innovative product that is unique (or was unique when it came out). I don't think in this discussion there is a right or wrong but I think that if you put 10 years of thinking into a concept and another person just copies it it's just not fair.
Do you need a PayPal account or is there a "take my credit card and check out as guest" option somewhere?