skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a little facile.

Quantity has a quality all its own, and so it is here. It's having lots of sex with lots of other consenting adults, whom you do not know particularly well, unsafely, etc., that pushes it into "idiotic behavior."
Fair enough :) We're working on adding GraphQL support as an alternative approach to exposing your API, and what you suggested wouldn't be that difficult to add either.
I agree that my explanation is simplified, but not in a way that affects my point. Maybe I didn't explain it well, so I'll try again.

Imagine you're trying to draw a flat map of the curved surface of the earth. There are many possible ways you could do it, with differing tradeoffs between preserving sizes, preserving angles, and so on. But any faithful map should respect basic geometric constraints. If your map shows the Statue of Liberty as being in Manhattan, it's quite simply wrong.

Likewise, we can think about which distortions can possibly arise from a physical model of the eye. Regardless how the curved surface of the retina is shaped, light travels in straight lines until it hits the pupil. That means the geometric relationships between distant and nearby points -- that is, which points "line up" with others -- are constrained to match those straight lines. FOVO does not obey these constraints (as mentioned in their explanation, and as demonstrated in their examples).

> 1. The light falls onto a curved surface of the retina, not a flat screen behind it, but more importantly

I didn't say anything about how the retina is shaped, because it doesn't matter. If a distant point A, a nearby point B, and the viewpoint V are all collinear, then A can't be visible because it's obscured by B. The exact details of where B appears in the resulting image would depend on the shape of the retina, true. But wherever B is, A must be mapped to the same point, which means A must be occluded unless the light rays are traveling in curved paths outside the eye.

> 2. Our brains interpret the light that falls and creates the experience of a 3D space in front of us.

Agreed. But your brain can only perceive things that are based on some transformation of the image that is projected on the retina. If it creates the "experience" of seeing an object whose light is physically obstructed, then it's not a perception, it's a hallucination.

> If you actually simply flattened out the retina and mapped out, point to point, the light that falls, it would look a bit like their linear perspective example.

Not really; it depends on how you do the mapping. Their example shows what an image projected onto an extremely wide flat retina would look like. This is mathematically equivalent to a "gnomonic" map projection, which hugely distorts shapes and distances as you get farther from the center. You could use any other projection (defined as a function mapping between view directions and image coordinates) without breaking the geometric perspective relationships, and without needing to modify the 3D geometry of the scene at rendering time.
Does that not miss the point of decades of unacceptable behavior by RMS, harassing women in person, etc., and the email thing just being the straw that broke the camel's back?
This is a perfect reminder that the same people who cry persecution will, without hesitance persecute you and your freedoms as soon as the tables are turned. It will be mildly comical when some of the "libertarians" courting these sort of people at the moment find themselves as the next enemy.
YouTube will robot-moderate themselves into the ground. Too many people are leaving the platform. It’s just a trickle now but soon it will be a flow.

It’s the inevitable result of moderation based only on who’s paying you.
As other comments point out, the sphere would have immediately vaporized. Similar reason behind most impact craters being circular. Scott Manley has a nice explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCGWGJOUjHY
He couldn't have done it without the software developers who wrote clever code to generate fake but plausible trades.
A chat makes things way more interesting, but we need to be able to browse for rooms too (as long as the room's creator want his room public)
Still blown away that he was basically just putting the funds in a Chase bank account and not even investing it.

> In a 2013 email to CNBC from prison, Madoff claimed the break in the market that started the Great Recession led to his scam.

> “I thought this would be only a short-term trade which could be made up once the market became receptive,” he wrote. “The rest is my tragic history of never being able to recover.”

> In fact, investigators said, Madoff did not execute a single trade for his advisory clients for years. Rather than employing a so-called split-strike conversion strategy as he claimed, he simply deposited investors’ funds in a Chase bank account, paying off new customers with funds from earlier customers — a classic pyramid scheme — and providing his clients with falsified account statement. The investment “returns” shown on those statements — some $50 billion in all — were pure fiction.

> The scandal at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities shattered investor confidence, which was already damaged by the financial crisis. And it led to sweeping changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which missed the fraud for years despite repeated warnings, including from independent investigator Harry Markopolos, who set out to analyze Madoff’s improbable returns and pronounced them fraudulent as early as 2000.

It was also a failure of regulators, the whole thing could have been avoided with some basic checks.

> A subsequent investigation by the agency’s inspector general, H. David Kotz, found that rather than following up on clear evidence of fraud, SEC enforcement staffers decided to take Madoff’s word that his operation was legitimate.

> “When Madoff provided evasive or contradictory answers to important questions in testimony, they simply accepted as plausible his explanations,” Kotz wrote.

Chase eventually ended up having to pay some fines and changed reporting, but ultimately it is amazing he pulled it off with just money in an account. Banks will do pretty much anything it seems as long as you are capitalizing them as FinCEN reports show.

>In the end, in addition to Madoff, more than a dozen individuals, including Peter Madoff, were convicted of federal crimes, but none of the others was accused of knowing about the fraud. JPMorgan Chase, Madoff’s primary bank, paid $2.6 billion to the U.S. government and Madoff victims in 2014 to settle allegations that it did not maintain adequate controls. After Chase instituted some unspecified reforms, prosecutors dropped charges against the bank.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/bernie-madoff-dies-mastermin...
And ransomware and botnets too: https://www.avg.com/en/signal/mac-ransomware-remove-protect

Fortunately iOS users don’t have those problems because of the security model that you are so quick to dismiss.
It also works when buying successful startup shares. In fact, it applies to almost everything that is successful: get in early and reap the benefit.
Not entirely accurate. It's a dock connector, not just power. The $160 USD dock gives you two more USB-C display adapters, two USB-C ports, 2 USB-A ports, an ethernet port and 170W (if I recall) adapter. It's big but incredibly useful for a desktop dock. Slip one reversable magnetic connector in and you've got all your accessories out of the box. If you just want to charge, USB-C is fine.
Has that ever happened in vaccine studies? What would the biological path be that would cause you to have a severe reaction from the vaccine but not from the disease itself? Why wouldn't that already be present the data around the millions of people that have already been infected by the disease?

The type of severe reactions you'd expect are allergic reactions. They would show up right away, not as an event 2 weeks later. Given that J&J has already done 6 million dosages it seems pretty safe to say that those allergic reactions are pretty much non-existent.

I see a lot of maybe and mights, yet never any actual evidence or example of the fear around vaccine safety or a cogent explanation of HOW these things could happen. That's because you'd have to explain how proteins from the vaccination are somehow more dangerous than the same proteins present in the diseases.

The linked explanation would have been a reason for a longer and wider phase II/III study. However, now that the cat is out of the bag and we've got millions of people who've been dosed for multiple months, that's the study. Until we start seeing severe negative side effects in the 100s or 1000s of individuals, it doesn't make sense to pull a vaccine.
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There's always a tradeoff. MWEB allows for scalability whereas Monero won't be able to handle the same amount of traffic MWEB or Litecoin can handle. Also, for people to use XMR, they'll need access to XMR and they do not have that in the U.S.
Eh, I'm comfortable calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme because all profits extracted by early investors come from later investors.

That's, like, a very specific and applicable definition.
Wow, I had no idea about Invidious. This perfectly solves my use case of needing a REST API to get MP3 urls for YouTube videos. I was looking into building or finding a REST API for youtube-dl, but this seems a lot easier.
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What is this obsession with jailing people?

Prison is pretty inhumane, especially in the context of a limited lifespan. Even if we're immortal, it's still inhumane.

Moreover, how does making people go to prison fixes anything? It's just a way to assign punishment and blame people.
I like the % of income idea.
Even your email? I feel like in this one domain, we have pretty much won the war against spam. Gmail does a great job of spam filtering, and I expend some effort to guard my email address against 1) other people's mistakes, and 2) real spam. Wrong/spammy things that come to me get an unsubscribe or a Gmail filter, or right into the spam bucket. Have you looked inside your spam folder lately? My God!! The only thing people want to sell is money and sex.

I'm annoyed by McDonald's France, someone who presumably lives in France made a mistake and subscribed my email to their list, and when I tried unsubscribing using their link, I get a "you're not in our geographical service area" nonsense, so I can't unsubscribe truly. Right into the trash filter they go. On my shitlist are all companies that allow subscription or signup w/o an email verification.

My phone is on answer-only-if-known. It makes me hard to find, true, but I like it that way. If someone really needs to find me, they will. Dentist, contractors, recruiters, applies to all.

My mailbox is next to the paper recycling bin. Garbage gets sorted in there immediately. It hurts me to see resources get wasted this way, and I wish the USPS would raise the price for this garbage. I've read somewhere that first class mail subsidizes junk mail, I don't know if that's true. I'm all for the USPS making tons of money off commercial mailers. Do you ever see junk delivered by UPS/FedEx? Even one bulky envelope? Never!
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http://amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/index.php is i feel the best for learning to actually write something in prolog. Though it's maybe not so great for logic programming as a paradigm.

Also it's got some small incompatibilities with SWIprolog and I don't know how well amzi works under Wine so it can be frustrating if you're on linux.
We can't manufacture it or change its atomic number, but the powerful can (and have) manipulated its "value" in all the same ways as they could manipulate bitcoin. They can buy up supply, insist that taxes be paid in it, or threaten to lock up anyone who mysteriously comes across a large amount of it.

Gold's status as a physical element is basically irrelevant. Bitcoin is basically gold you can email.
It may be one of the rare instances where blockchains might be useful!
Maybe not a starting point because it’s too advanced, but Make A Lisp has example implementations for +80 languages now: https://github.com/kanaka/mal
Bitcoin is as much or as little a ponzi scheme as things like the US dollar.
The M1 Macbook Pro has active cooling, if that's important to you as a matter of principle. However, real world tests show that the performance gains from actively cooling the M1 are pretty marginal.

More broadly, it seems that you prioritize performance over everything else when it comes to laptops. Apple doesn't – especially not in its 13" range. What they are providing is a small form factor with crazy good battery life and performance that's more than good enough for most people.

Thermal throttling is not inherently a bad thing – it's a sign of a balanced design. If you have a fixed amount of thermal headroom to play with, then you want a processor that uses more power at peak loads than you can dissipate (so that you can take full advantage of the cooling off periods provided by non-peak usage).
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> but I could see SQL "dialects" in various languages.

IIRC AppleScript used to support French, but it's an unpopular variant of an unpopular language, so I'm not really sure how many people actually used it.

> But even then I feel that in that case non-english speakers might have a bit of an advantage as they don't assume things about SQL because it doesn't look like their native language.

Yeah, the sooner you realize it's the abstract and not the concrete syntax you're actually manipulating, the better. IME (natural) language is just not a barrier at all.
While I know Scientific American is a fairly mainstream targeted and softer science publication, this

>And the problem is now poised to get much worse because of the rise of satellite “mega constellations” requiring thousands of spacecraft, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, a broadband Internet network.

really could have used a LOT more qualification particularly since it's become a major recent talking point. There is one ultimate sure-fire way to reduce space junk: launch stuff to very low orbits. There is still some atmosphere (varying with heating and other factors) up a long ways in "space", and it's only above 600km or so that orbital drag becomes negligible enough that lifetimes really stretch out. The ISS for example requires regular reboosts or it would decay back into the atmosphere.

SpaceX focusing on economics has made it feasible to start planning constellations of comm sats that are low and very low earth orbit, with the understanding that inherently their lifetimes will be measured in single digit years. But that's ok since they can be replaced so cheaply. This is much better, not worse. Even if they go offline or got hit, the debris would have a very restricted lifetime. The media should do a better job of conveying how cheaper $/kg to LEO opens up a lot of new possibilities in what regulations are feasible and how we think about the basics of satellite design. A simple "Mega constellation bad!" is all wrong, and that's not necessarily going to be intuitive to everyone.
I will say I do like the focus on telemetry and tracing - honestly that's the thing I have the hardest time setting up in applications, distributed or otherwise.
Thank you for such a detailed response, this is really valuable. I would try to experiment and see what works for me.
In the medicinal literature there is a lot of controversy over whether the first line of treatment for high blood pressure should be a ACE/ARB or a Calcium Channel Blocker.

In the astronomy literature years ago people couldn't agree if the Hubble constant was 40 or 80 the longest time. Nobody knows what that missing mass is, or if maybe you solve the equations of general relativity correctly stars just move that way.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is... CNN. On slow news days reporters wind up "becoming the news" such as

https://nypost.com/2015/04/16/espn-reporter-berates-parking-...

CNN is very smart in pushing fights to the point where they rarely have to fire anybody -- developing notoriety around a personality is an investment as long as you don't cross the line.

As for cancel culture, I'll say this.

People who write for the NYT editorial column don't like it because they get paid $10k to give a talk here or there so it is money out of their pocket.

Parent-of-college-student liberals seemed to like Milo Yiannopoulos at first because they liked "free speech" as a concept. Except in this case Milo feels like it is a failure to give a talk at some school and have nothing happene: really there has to be a riot and he has to get the next one "canceled" because that adds to his fame.

He burned that bridge and conservatives think he is fresh because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", he gets invited to CPAC... Then the CPAC people see one of his videos on Youtube and they use the name of the Lord in vain and hit the cancel button on Mr Y.

How about that football player Colin Kaepernick who got canceled because he took a stand?

Names have power, and a name like that is a curse that will bring trouble of some kind.
I think there's a line where it stops being reasonable. If I know every comment on a Show HN is going to be blatant self promotion, I'm not going to view those posts even if the OP is interesting to me.
She's heard of him:

https://twitter.com/VRSVirginia/status/1174108999039406080

And yes, it's absolutely appalling that RMS is doing cover-up for Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. That his friend Minsky got busted is NOT an FOSS issue, yet RMS has made that and arguing for a lowered age of consent his call signs.
> As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin. Billions in global capital controls and taxes are evaded every day with Bitcoin. The fraction of black market participants who are revealed on the basis of "chain analysis" is still a rounding error.

Some bold statements there. Do you have any evidence to provide?
I want to see FAANG CEOs do public service, instead of being fined pennies.
Iran never had democracy. Soviets were in the picture as well. It's almost like the US is not omnipotent and there is more than one actor.

Historically, ordinary Persian citizens, regardless of regime, were perfectly fine with both Jews in general and Israel in particular. At worst they didn't care, why should they, the two places are very far apart.

Little spoken about in western press even the Ayatollahs initially were not hostile to Israel, as their interests aligned. That's how realpolitik works.

This changed and they made the calculation like any number of colorful despots and dictators in the ME and further afield to distract their populations from their failures with an external foe.
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I agree with the GP. It frustrates me when the surface syntax and the semantics are not split apart. The constraints of old compiler technology (pre-3rd-millennium) continue to dictate the overall architecture of compilers. LLVM is a tiny baby step in the right direction.

Note, I'm not advocating for a single solution, here. I'm advocating that language authors should always think in terms of a front, middle, and back-end: front is surface syntax (their preferred one?); middle is the semantics, with a prescribed API; and, the backend is the implementation side — nicely abstracted by a 2nd API.

That way it gives those of us stuck in not-your-language a fighting chance to integrate Your Cool Thing™.
I'm sorry, but how are "depression-era bank robbers" in any "robinhood-esque"? They all did their actions for personal gain.
The site's artwork is amazing. Love the details. It seeems that the transition effect when changing channels is generated and genuine each time, instead of randomly selected from a library.
So the only difference is that returns aren't guaranteed at either the upper or lower bounds? Sounds like a Ponzi scheme just with more risk.
These reports are aimed at foreign investors. They don't particularly care about what locals have to deal with.
Not sure what the fuss is about. Plenty of languages[0] have existed that used native keywords over English. Unless your natural language's grammar introduces some novel syntactic or semantic features to the programming language, this is superficial. It's just a kind of localization. You could adapt the parser for any language to do this. Heck, in a Lisp, you can just define a bunch of aliases and wrappers and load that into your current namespace if you want.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
The 15 million vaccines which the EU and Italy claimed were some secret shipment to the UK without any basis, and actually turned out to be part of their already publicly announced deliveries to the EU and South America (with the latter being vaccines of non-EU origin which they were just packaging)? Those 15 million vaccines? There's been some astoundingly dodgy political narrative-pushing against AZ.
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Check out Toastmasters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International
Awesome! I have always wondered if language like spanish and arabic have (widespread) programming languages.

As an aside: I guess the fact that k only uses symbols makes it a very inclusive language :)
Watch people do cold call sales. I sat around it earlier in my life and it’s kind of a demoralizing job. Calls go no where and you have to maintain positivity, brush it off, get on another call.

There might be videos on YouTube. Failed interviews are also good and the same goes for dating. You pretty much need to learn rejection isn’t the end of the world. Once that clicks, you’ll be less affected by ‘I wonder how this is going’.

In fact, call up a restaurant right now and pitch a fake delivery app service. Do stuff like that a few times and I promise you will never care what anyone thinks about you ever again.
While I agree that you learn to treat them as symbols, it certainly elevates the barrier of entry. I know what “while” means in English, so when I’m reading code, there is less of a mental load to interpret that code. As a beginner, if I had to translate “while” or “throw” or “parse”, I’d make learning more difficult.
Common? Sure.

Well educated, comfortable people who rob others of their livelihood? They deserve state penns, just like the poor folks who got three strikes for walking off with hedge clippers.
They absolutely could have, and have been entirely within the rules of the DMCA. My best guess is that the ContentID system is either (a) a bribe to get media companies to partner with youtube's paid streaming, or (b) a bribe to convince media companies that it isn't worth lobbying yet again for stronger copyright monopolies.
Yeah, you get to choose if you're the one sending the money. But sometimes people who want to send you money think that they're being helpful and find you on Venmo before you've had the opportunity to talk about payment privacy.

If you're using a privacy focused app, it should guide you towards defaults that maintain that level of privacy. Explicitly choosing a medium that has different privacy profile should be non-default behavior.

Letting people who don't want to think about it say "good-enough-for-signal-is-good-enough-for-me" and use the built in wallet is totally in line with Signal's mission.
An observation that I find kinda nice: passing a default value is essentially just a special case of CPS :)