skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever watched a press conference after a sports game and the losing coach is convinced that all the calls went against his team? And then the other coach gets up and starts talking about the calls that went against his team? One could conclude that there is not a reliable way to determine when fouls should be called. And in some sports for some rules that comes into play. But a much larger factor is just self-interest. A man with a great desire to win will be blind to objective reality, all the while fully convinced that he is utterly in the right.

There are very different views on what the United States Constitution means and requires. Arguments about it are had on the internet daily, in congress frequently, in the court system constantly, and there was once even a war over it. One could conclude that the Constitution is such a badly written document that you can make it mean whatever you want it to mean, but I see here the work of self-interest. When the stakes are sufficiently high, men are geniuses at convincing themselves that what they want to be true, is true.

For churches claiming that they believe the bible to be the divinely inspired word of God, the stakes are very, very high. In consequence, the incentives to convince yourself that the bible says what you want it to say are also extremely high. Self-deception thrives under those conditions.
Plenty do. I've even seen one include that in their email signature.
Same. There are enough annoyances with UI gear to keep us all here griping for days. But when you try to find an alternative company for your Wireless needs you realize quick that you're perfectly willing to put up with UI's stupid annoyances. Granted a few glitches have wasted days of my life trying to correct. But I'll be sticking with them for the foreseeable future. Over the years I've had satisfactory uptime and performance.
> Vizio makes the lion’s share of its money selling TV sets. But the company is looking to a future in the streaming ads that appear on those sets, too

As a Vizio owner, I hope they don't make it impossible to use these as dumb terminals. One of my Vizios isn't even a TV proper — it has no tuning apparatus. As long as it's got HDMI (for my phone/tablet/computer), that's all I need.
Why do you need a full TS compiler - you can just strip type annotations ala babel.
That’s the goal of almost all startups. Your chances of being acquired by a FAANG company are millions of times greater than going IPO. It is almost always the exit strategy.
Show HN: Google turns metric measurement into decimal imperial
Searching "180cm to ft" gives the result of 5.9ft instead of 5'11 - Because 90% of 1 ft is 10 51/64 inches

Not very interesting, but could probably cause issues in the world
You can definitely make your own templates. The link I shared above has links to the tool I use for this (https://github.com/moovida/remarkable-hyutilities)
Here's the AP source from AP:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-electric-vehi...
Once you get outside of religion classes and church services, Catholic schools tend to be pretty strong on the fundamentals. (Especially Jesuit schools)

When I went for HS, literally the only elective was Art, and for any student in honors courses, it wasn't an elective: you didn't take art because all of your time was in academic courses except for gym once a week. Don't get me wrong, I think electives are valuable and wish I'd had the opportunity: I'm just describing the educational priorities of that type of school. However they also need revenue, so the ones that remain these days are generally a little more friendly in allowing for an individual's interests.
If a security product/ supposedly trusted projects code loses some company's secrets or hurts somebody, nobody cares whether it was a single bad day, a mishap if you will or something that could have been forseen. The data is now in bad hands, peoples lives are disturbed. Everything else is basically just talk until _proven_ otherwise.
FreeBSD really dodged the ball at the last minute here.

Would you employ somebody for work on a security product that obviously behaved as a maniac, basically robbed his own family of savings and landed together with his wife in prison for years? Is this person that good that there was literally nobody else to ask? It seems, Donenfeld at al. did a good job in 1-2 weeks porting code to FreeBSD, it may be better quality than the Macy's quasi-original developed over months of work. (Some of the code seems to have been rather similar to a differently licensed code elsewhere.)

* Ok, so Donenfeld maybe is right, maybe he just dropped an extra s in an _email_.
* The buffer overflow was quite spectacular. A network professional in a security product should handle jumbo frames. Maybe there are other less obvious and maybe less spectacular overflows elsewhere. This one just hit Jim Salters eye (grep).

Btw. how would you feel about somebody basically doing your trademark (Wireguard in this case) a bad reputation? I could understand it, if Donenfeld took it personally. It seems though, he didn't. Macy on the other hand wouldn't admit to the poor quality of the software he wrote until pressured with clear evidence and even then he couldn't fully swallow his ego.

Ars Technica/ Jim Salter did some great journalism here. It goes way beyond the quality of the average article even at Ars and that is a very decent bar.

Yes, Wireguard is great, Donenfeld and friends have done a tremendous job over the years.
It’s commonly prescribed as an anti-aging drug, which is maybe what the OP meant, though I can laugh either way!
I think that's the thing that people on this thread aren't getting: he's not making an argument!
When someone invents the git killer, it will have a feature called “subcommits” that will be blindingly obvious in hindsight.
A Decentralized Internet? How Blockchain Domains Could Fight Online Censorship
> Lightning is also a bad comparison because most people try to avoid being outside during thunderstorms

It's just an example very rare event that people typically don't waste time worrying over. I could have used deaths in commercial air travel or chances of winning the lottery - it doesn't really matter to the argument.

> Apparently there’s around 200 anaphylaxis deaths annually in the US.

That's less than I expected actually.

> More rarely, anaphylaxis may occur (the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has 234 reports out of approximately 11.7 million vaccinations as of 7 March 2021).

It'd be interesting to know if that were high or low for a typical vaccine or medication.
My take is that if you serve web content to unauthenticated clients, you must expect humans and robot users will look at, remember, and catalogue your content.

To the extent that you want to control your content, you need to take measures to do so. Reject unauthenticated, assert copyright/trademark controls, or do some basic searching to implement open standards which most/all legal agents adhere to.

The thought exercise is moot if you consider how many laws people are governed by in the modern world that they don’t know about but are still expected to learn and abide by. Also worth thinking about what recourse you expect this naive website owner to be able to effect given they have done the absolute minimum to protect their content.
I don’t know the specifics but my guess is that the team responsible for search front end has people who are responsible for Easter eggs. Someone, maybe from that team, would have filed a launch ticket for that specific feature, and quickly obtained approvals from privacy, legal, and product management people. Then some engineer and designer probably volunteered themselves to do the work, and did it. Generally launch approvals are fairly streamlined, and only get bogged down when the thing being launched has complex privacy, security, or legal considerations. In this case I’d imagine those issues are almost nonexistent so that’s why it could happen so quickly.
> They want to focus on leads who've expressed a clear signal of intent...

Let’s not try to wrap it up and put a ribbon on it.

This is for generating sales leads for sales people/automation to attempt to get sales.

That’s it.

You can try to justify it, but bluntly, since there’s no way to control how your information is distributed after you release it, you are only in a lose position as a customer from engaging with this.

You will either a) be ignored, b) taken advantage of or c) have your data passed on for other people to take advantage of.

As a customer, there is no reason for you to engage with this: you get less than nothing from it.

The only benefit is for the company, and fair enough, that’s their job.

...but as a customer, I think you’re entitled to say: I’d rather not do business with you under the circumstances if that’s how you treat customers.

...and it is how Google treats customers.
Doing things that they like would still be working. They just don’t have to engage in rat race jobs anymore. They can have the dignity a billionaire has.
Azure Kinect isn't great at resolution, either. Its depth sensor is an embarrassingly small VGA resolution, which sucks for realtime photogrammetry. Point cloud scenes look like sludge.

Are there any "real time" depth sensors with high spatial and sensor resolution?

I've been looking at FGPA-based solutions like Nerian Scarlett, and this seems to be closer to what I want [1], but still not quite good enough.

[1] https://nerian.com/products/scarlet-3d-depth-camera/
It's kind of funny that linked lists are almost never an appropriate choice on modern systems because of their poor locality and cache performance. Linked lists were a much better fit for 1970s and early 1980s microprocessors that almost never had caches (memory access time in the 1970s was similar to clock speed).

That means linked lists are increasingly relegated to toy problems and unusual domains. They're no longer really a practical tool to organize data - it would be better in many cases to use an array and copy the entire contents on insert.
> A dead person is no more real than God...

I'm unconvinced that remembering dead parents amounts to believing in imaginary beings.

Reality is less relative than you're making it out to be. Dead people are "real" because I can reliably predict observable effects their past actions would have had on the world and then confirm them with observation. For example, if I wanted to track down some college essays written by my grandparents, I might actually be able to find some, even though I don't have them in my memories. Or, more practically, I can ask a mutual friend, "remember when {dead person} said X?" And they will say, "yeah, and then they said Y", and I will say, "yeah".

The fact that dead people are dead doesn't make them "hokum" in the way that Zeus or Thor or Moroni are hokum. It's fine to doubt your own mind's relationship with reality, but don't doubt it so much that you become totally disconnected and consider all the people in your memories who you can't immediately re-confirm the existence of to be as immaterial as God.
I appreciate hard-hitting, important news like this: https://imgur.com/a/Yh0rZ12
How about we start with not providing a tax break for advertising?

The problem though is that a bunch of forms of sponsorship dry up if you do.
There is a system that transports protein fragments to the cell surface and “presents” them to the immune cells: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen_presentation
I imagine that many people might read this quote (out of context) from his speech "This is Water" and in this thread discussing US church membership, and think, "This seems like DFW is defending religion." But, I think this is far from the case. I think this was DFW indicting modern secular consumer society as no better than religion in its vapidity. "Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship." This is the modern consumer choice, boiled down.

The point of the speech is not to convince you that worshiping religion might be a better idea than worshiping money, things, power, or vanity. Instead, the point of the speech is to convince you that a human's "default setting" (another phrase he uses in the speech) is to worship something. And, often, that worship of something simply happens to adults, as they are going through the motions of the modern drudgery of everyday life.

Thus to move beyond worship requires a level of education (and introspection) not typically accessed by everyday adults -- yet, it's still available to all, should they try hard enough to pursue it and to see it (that is: the water surrounding the fish who swim in it).

This being a college commencement speech, DFW encourages the young graduates to use their education, and the introspection it allows, to rise above the various human psychological biases (especially self-centered behaviors and attitudes) that might make their lives feel meaningless and miserable in the moment (or in retrospect).
IANAL, but my understanding is that an individual fact can’t be copyrighted, but an organized collection absolutely can be.

The example I remember is that A baseball game score can’t be copyrighted, but if you run a website that lists all of the baseball games throughout history and you gathered that data and did work to organize it (other than to scrape it from another collection), you have a claim to a copyright.
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Definitely! That's a bit different from how you previously put it above:

> Learn the languages that people actually speak, they are much harder to learn, but in return you can actually talk to people, which is the point of learning a language.

Maybe we could emend this to

"that people actually speak or have spoken ... in return you can actually experience other people's thoughts and feelings, which is the point of learning a language"

and then it would work well for widely-spoken modern and ancient languages alike?
Fantastic thread! Thank you for sharing. This has dramatically expanded my "to read" list
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Yes I agree it's better to have one library with 20 helper functions than 20 libraries with 1 function each. Think Lodash.

Although some people will then complain about the size of the library...
Maybe those lipid particles are too unstable if they are not spiked with various proteins?

Moderna vaccine has to be kept in -70 C. Viruses that can survive for any extended period of time only in -70 C won't find many hosts.

Also maybe the process of creating virus shell can't naturally be done without protein scaffold.
Hagarty has a program with Jason Cammisa where this was recently debunked as well [0]. Many manufacturers do this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWKJHvYK54
Facebook Reality Labs VP: We Won't Have Phones in 15 Years
Barely remember... I think it was some staff/user directory listed within robots.txt, which also happened to not verify edit credentials on the backend so I was able to 'borrow' a login from a backup admin :)

Plenty of similar stories about other better known orgs/corps but this isn't the venue for those :)
Yep. It's a pity there isn't more attention for churches that answer questions clearly and dig into nuance - but complexity doesn't get attention.
Figma to HTML/CSS/React
And now it's unfortunately nearly impossible for us to have a discussion about what various religions did or did not say about topics like homosexuality.
IIRC NetSurf already supports JavaScript, using the Duktape library.
> I really hope this injection of funding does not come with requirements or pressures to censor content on Substack.

It will. VCs will be at it again and will join in the pressurising with the pro-censorship activists so that they will not want to be tied in supporting the so-called questionable content on Substack even though they may disagree with it.

> If Substack ever implements a censorship regime that goes much beyond blocking spam or removing illegal content, I will move on.

This is going to be inevitable due to the guilt by association of some authors who bend (not break) the ToS and that worries the VCs. So its either do little to no moderation and the VCs run away and taking their money with them or moderate, deplatform and ban authors who break the ToS.

The latter keeps them happy, unfortunately.

> I simply see no differentiation for such a product if it ends up being another Twitter/Facebook/Medium/whatever with the same old content that repeats progressive worldviews and disallows everything else.

No difference to those who take VC capital just having another boss sitting on the board telling them to censor/ban/remove the content that they don't like, criticises them or makes them guilty by association over a scandal they refuse to comment on.

When I see VCs like a16z hyping companies like Substack, in the long term the direction is always the same.
The other criticism is that the sheer amount of data in use shows we’re doing something wrong. A child can internalize the grammar of a language with only a few years of exposure. Modern AI corpuses consists of terabytes of data. Why are the results so lacking despite using vastly more input?
I feel the same way (but wonder how much is me getting wiser as I aged) and I think the death of The Puzzler was a sign of the Atlantic's slide into pseudo-intelllectualism.
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> I have not sighted these ballots, but it’s a yes/no choice isn’t it? Unionize or don’t unionize: that’s a fair choice. You don’t need equal time to have a legitimate election, time can buy you mindshare but you’re not buying an election overseen by the NLRB.

Yes, it's a binary yes / no. You're correct, you don't need equal time to have a legitimate election, but you do in order to have a fair election. Do you favor giving one side (Amazon) more power than the other to influence the vote?

> Because no one in an employer-employee relationship is entitled to that relationship: not the employer, not the employees.

This is irrelevant. There is a relationship. You want it to be an abusive one? I don't get it.

> I also don’t see the government having a compelling interest here, and your proposal is toothless without government enforcement.

Government has a legitimate interest in serving the people. If it does not do that, there may as well be no government. Notice I said "people," and not "unions." I am not proposing that government come down on the side of unions; rather that government come down on the side of the people, by making the employer / employee relationship as fair as possible in this context. Again, why would you oppose this? What's wrong with restoring fairness to an unbalanced relationship?

I truly don't even understand the point you're trying to make here, other than "Amazon should be able to abuse workers because workers don't deserve jobs." If that's literally your point, I'm afraid we're done here.
So, in summary: we're not rational beings, therefore improvement through self-delusion?

I'm sorry, but I have two problems with that approach:

1. Knowing I'm willingly drinking snake oil believing it'll somehow improve me makes it very hard for me to look at myself in the mirror in the morning. On a good day, I'd call myself an idiot, and on a bad one a pathological liar.

2. Once you open the door to being told fairy tales in hope of improving yourself, you also open the door to letting yourself being manipulated into believing *any* kind BS by other, manipulative people. This is precisely the kind of mental attitude that has given us all the "interesting" byproducts of religion: religious wars, religious persecution, faith-based terrorism, death cults, debasement of arbitrary category of people (eg women, gays) etc ... (the list is long and extremely gruesome).

Nope, none of that for me, thank you.
It worked great for me at times, but after too long, it gives me anxiety and makes things worse. The 5 mins is too short to rest from doing real work. The 25 mins jerk me out of flow. I end up procrastinating on starting the timer, because I don't want to deal with being pulled from flow, and I do even less than without the technique.

If you have to try to make it stick, it's not for you. It's either magical or it doesn't work.

It's great for project management purposes though. I use it as a way to charge clients - I charge them per "pomodoro" instead of per hours sitting in front of the computer. And it helps to track how long some jobs take to do.
They also just deprecated a whole bunch of hardware, some of which barely a year old. I was just about to upgrade my whole setup and drop a decent chunk of change for a home office setup (outdoor APs, wireless backbone between two buildings, etc.). Between them dropping support and this… what is the best alternative to their access points? I plan on using an opensense box for my router.

Edit: looks like Aruba Instant On/Aruba Networks is a frequently mentioned solution in a similar price range.
Yeah, the whole Spectre/ Meltdown was handled very badly by Intel. Illumos, OpenBSD and others basically found out from the media/ mailing lists of other projects where people were told under NDA. Not a great position to be in, they did, what they could in the shortest time possible.
This isn't wrong, but it's mildly misleading. Pax is mentioned right at the top, but glosses over that pax creates "ustar" format tar files, which is specified by POSIX.1-2001.

ustar tar files are compatible with almost all tar archivers, and are in fact well-specified.
But there is no union yet. This is only about the election. Does the union get the same ability to "inform" the electorate as Amazon? Can the union threaten peoples' jobs to get them to come to "information" sessions?
The actual cost is $$ million in total, substantially less than a billion.

Source: friend who is a merchant marine officer

I expect commodity prices and spot shipping will jump short term but long term disaster avoided.
Satellites, space debris may have already brightened night skies 10%