skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That still doesn’t guarantee that the winner was the fastest.

Let’s say real times were 58.994999 and 58.995000 seconds. The first gets registered as 58.99, the second as 59.00. Actual difference is a millionth of a second, or, at 2 meters a second, 2μm.

I think they do this in swimming more because swimmers, certainly at shorter distances, more race themselves than their competitors. That’s a huge difference with road cycling, where typically the front riders in a sprint could get over the finish earlier, if they wanted to, but don’t want to do that, as, if they did that, their competition would tail them up to the last few meters and then jump over them.

Rowing is somewhat of a middle ground. They do use finish photos, even though there’s the same. “Tracks aren’t guaranteed to be the same length” problem as in swimming.

A famous example is the men’s scull final in the 2016 Olympics: https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/mahe-drysdale...

I don’t understand why you think it’s easy to have accurate track length in running. Temperature may affect track length. A lot more importantly, I don’t think it’s even doable in events where runners all start in their own track but are allowed to move to the inner track after x meters. But again, it’s less important there because runners race against each other there more than in short swim races.
This actually sounds like a good solution.

That is, you want to allow people to stroll in and start using your app.

Great.

But just don't send out any emails on their behalf unless/until they've clicked the verification link in the one email you will send to them.

This makes me think - should there be a link in the email that says, "This was not me" -- that allows the website dev to ban the offending IP?
What is an "FTP workflow" in this context. "File Transfer Protocol" doesn't make much sense to me here and I couldn't find anything that would. I'm also at a loss at "hollow dash" TBH.
Cyranoid
Think furniture legs, tool handles, spears, bows and arrows, wooden spoons, knives and cups and so on. The bark was of interest for the tannin. The wood was also used for generating charcoal and tar.
Bigger city density means less demand on outskirts and easier life for anyone who wants to live there, i.e. cheaper prices, less regulations, smaller commute.
I feel like you're deliberately mis-interpreting me. It's a small number of women who kick up a big fuss on Twitter about the choices of Apple's PM team.
That's not what I mean. You assume that the TV camera is perfectly aligned with the finish line, because that's how you determine the position of the advertisement relative to the line. However, if the TV camera is offset from the finish line, depending on height/focal length/orientation and aberrations of the camera, the line would appear offset relative to the advertisement. Therefore you determine the wrong position of the line compared to the advertisement. That would always be the same for the full video of the race, so watching the race will not change this.
I would pay, but I don't think it would be the same if it had a paywall.
Gamers as Revenue Generating NFTs
A quick writeup on the Powerboard platform's NFT strategy. Pretty interesting stuff but I have some concerns mainly around data integrity and cheating.
These UML diagram tools are always pretty nice, but strangely enough they all seem to omit the collaboration diagram, which I found to be one of the most useful types. Yes, technically you can kind of simulated with Component diagrams, but it's not quite as good.
>What do you think of the current fear of hyperinflation?

In principle it is justified, the money supply is increasing endlessly. The problem is that this money doesn't flow, it's in some stagnating pond basically. You have to consider though, that although this an increase in the money supply, it is also a liability that has to be paid back eventually. When inflation doesn't materialize for a long period of time and then suddenly it goes up to a level above the target, but not in an unsustainable fashion, the Fed will be able to increase interest rates again.

E.g. house prices can no longer rise because future funding is more expensive/scarce than present funding. People stop taking on more debt and they do one additional thing, they start pay their debts off. Things are heading into the exact opposite direction, as you are paying off your debts, the money supply contracts.

This is why the Fed doesn't want unconventional policy like helicopter money, because there is nothing that cancels out the increase in supply, the problem with debt and QE is that you need to be credit worthy or own assets so it is extremely regressive.

>I.e. the price of things people care about such as food, services and rent will continue to rise even as the Fed sells assets?

This actually has nothing to do with the Fed, rather it has to do with the fact that people are working and they are producing the things that you want to buy. If there is inflation in food this is a signal that companies should produce more food, so the real question becomes whether companies are able to expand production and whether they can do so fast enough to outpace inflation. Of course, beyond a certain level of inflation it becomes increasingly difficult to do this.

Simplified example: Think about it this way, you play an MMORPG and an AI can automatically generate items that people want to buy. People keep putting dollars into your game and those dollars are not consumed. You get a premium currency in the game and from a theoretical perspective it is effectively worthless, you can't buy groceries with it. However, you can buy in-game items. Now lets say you are a "central bank" in the MMO and just send everyone 1 million premium currency. The currency should be worthless now right? Actually, the AI can keep up with the production of new items, its relative value compared to items is still the same, you actually run into a completely different problem, too much money in bank accounts after people bought all the items they wanted. If new players join the game there might be enough money for everyone but it is not distributed equally and therefore they don't get any items.
Punching people in the face is illegal regardless of the reason - I don't really see how that's relevant?

Are you really saying that it should be impossible for someone to lose their job over what they say? If someone, for example, threatened to kill a co-worker, you don't think they should be fired? I appreciate that this is an extreme example, but when we talk about rights, don't we have to cover all examples of speech?

I'd agree that social media mobs trying to get people fired is a bad thing, that it's become too easy to whip up such mobs, and that as a society we should try to be more tolerant of other views. But I don't see somebody losing a job over something they've said as a rights issue - you don't have a right to a job.
Yes, if their browser's UI has problems distinguishing between zooming and clicking buttons, that's definitely the responsibility of the browser's vendor. Who can only improve that if the browser is actually in charge of the UI – e.g. zooming is implemented by the browser, not by every random website.
> Even correcting people who are clearly misinformed on clear matters of fact can cause offense.

This is so true.

I've seen polling showing that large numbers of people believe that the number of unarmed black men fatally shot by American police every year is in the "thousands" or even "tens of thousands". And the further to the left the media people consume, the higher they're likely to believe the number is.

The actual number of unarmed black men shot dead by American police in 2019 is thirteen.

Regardless of what you think about racism and police violence, this is a fact. People who think that "thousands" of unarmed black men are killed by police every year are not only numerous, they are wrong - so absurdly, wildly wrong by so many orders of magnitude that if you tell tell me that the number is in the thousands, I'm going to assume you're deeply uninformed on many other things, not just this one number.

Yet in the current climate I'd be afraid to even correct people on this enormous, inarguable factual innaccuracy.

(And good luck explaining to people that "unarmed" isn't synonymous with "innocent" - you can be unarmed and still give a cop a good reason to shoot you, for example by attacking the cop with your fists.)

Is it really too much to ask that we leave this stuff out of the workplace?
Thanks, that takes away the premise of my question.
Only if you have "incorrect" opinions.
The real issue here is that people never had to utter "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" in the past because people had an implicit understanding that this was reality.

If a Catholic school teacher declares publicly that women should have the right to choose to have an abortion, what do you think her chances are of retaining her employment at that school?

Conservatives would claim that the school has a right to fire the teacher, because it's just freedom of religion, as if somehow that particular freedom should supersede the others.

So what changed?

Oh, right, the country has shifted left and Christianity is not the dominant social force that it used to be. One man's belief in a man in the sky is no more important than another's alignment with a set of moral values.
Yeah metrics are fine as long as they're not being manipulated. Then you can be aware of their inherent inaccuracy. Amazon reviews springs to mind. If the only inaccuracies is that people tend to be binary in their choices and either give 1 or 5 star reviews then you can for example adjust by giving more weight to the 4 star reviews. But with the current landscape of all of them being highly manipulated the numbers almost don't even matter anymore.
There are a couple problems with your line of reasoning.

1) Even if it's true that humans are primarily motivated by competing with each other, this doesn't put any constraints on what the nature of the competition could be. There are constructive forms of competition, and there are destructive forms. There are useless forms and productive forms. So if it really is purely about competition, there's no reason why societies can't put constraints on what kinds of competition are acceptable.

2) There are unified institutions that internally have high competition. In fact, that's more of a rule than an exception. E.g., every professional sports organization, every company with competitive incentive structure, etc.
Having read the entire article, I believe the point was related to the photo-finish camera being positioned some distance before what is officially the "finish line", approx 20cm+ they say.

The argument is that if Tom was travelling faster, the distance could have been made up in that time, potentially for a win.
I don't know what it is about most of these pages, but their design feels very old school (in a good way)!

Got me a little nostalgic, and it's such a joy to read pages just focussed on the content and absolutely nothing else.

The search results are sometimes bewildering, I guess search quality could be a little better. But on the whole, a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing :-)
We also used to be black. Humans now move to places for which they do not have a suitable skin colour, like Australia.
I am from Romania so I know what communism was about. I don't know how was on the other side, things like "do you want to do X ? are you a communist?", "don't read that book, it will make you a communist".

Thought he main point is if you grabbed regular people from all those different systems and put them on an island on a village they would find a way to collaborate and survive, you just need to not have an extremist with good manipulation skills in there.
How do you know they would pay more property tax than now? These skyscrapers are very tall and thin. They use very little land and the tax would be divided up among many floors.

If you wanted to design a building to pay as little land tax as possible, this is what it would look like.
ViteJS is really faster compared to CRA that I previously used. It's really a breath of fresh air. Thanks for creating it!

Now we only need something that is in the same vein for tooling that generates libraries. I currently am using TSDX but still have a lots of problems with it.
It seems ridiculous that PowerPoint should be the vehicle for in-depth knowledge and research about anything. There is a medium for that, it's many pages of text with a few illustrations.
The result will depend on who the referee is.
What I guess I'm saying is that it's insanely difficult to come up with good OKR's and so many good things aren't measurable, while the fans of OKR's don't seem to want to take this into account.

Whatever alternative methods (judgement of managers) is up for debate though, I didn't say I had a good one. Just that OKR's in my mind are a waste of time for the most part, especially when you make the whole organization do them.

And look at products like Facebook, they seem to be built solely on OKR's.
> how complicated messaging apps have become

Messaging apps have been as simple as they've always been. They're just user-hostile, because we're all okay with that.

The "it's so complicated though" line is something that big corporations like to use to pretend as if what everyone wants would be onerous to provide for them. It would not, they just don't want to.
Context:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2456:_Types_of_Sc...
though for Paris, I think it's mandated by the local law, no?

Regarding Paris, at the current density, maybe it would be better to have higher building but with a smaller ground footprint (not sure if it's the right term), to leave space free for more parks?
> Punching people in the face is illegal regardless of the reason - I don't really see how that's relevant?

The 'freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences' was popularized (repopularized?) and became a somewhat mainstream talking point in America around 2016-17 to justify political violence with the "punch a nazi" thing and stuff. It's the "paradox of tolerance".
I have a lot of difficulty believing any of these numbers.

Source: spouse is management level at G of FAANG. Those numbers don't match up with reality in general. For a few edge cases, sure. Not for most people.
Am I crazy or does this sound a lot like the promises made about Java 25 years ago? What's different this time that's going to make bytecode web assembly succeed where Java didn't?

(Speaking of Java, I just realized that the 25th anniversary of its first release is coming up in less than a month. Happy Birthday, Java!)
Yes. Fortran is used extensively in climate modelling (even newer models).
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> Even correcting people who are clearly misinformed on clear matters of fact can cause offense.

This resonates deeply. I'm at the point where "I'm entitled to my opinion!" is a great signal to change the topic, never to return to the topic of politics with that person ever again
You're right, the camera was in front of the actual finish line.

My point is that Wout was ahead for the /entire/ duration where the front wheel intersected the camera line. The wheel's diameter is bigger than 20cm, so the moment when Wout passed the actual finish line is included in this interval. Therefore, Wout was ahead when the winner passed the actual finish line. QED.
> Hashim (example: 1983, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykK0uEjSsqY)

From the YT description:

"As stated below by Jerry Calliste Jr., this video is not and original version of Hashim - Al Naafiysh (The Soul). Probably it was made for the purposes of one of the UK television programs, like " The Tube", during the early 80's. This recording is one of the first hip hop stories to be seen and published on the British Television. The track "Al Naafiysh (The Soul), was originally used for this video, added by unknown author or crew which worked on the video, as the only thing that was known so far, was Geoff Stern, the director."

One clue to this is that there isn't anyone smoking in the video, and the tube windows have a "no smoking" roundel. The smoking ban on the London Underground came in on the 9th July 1984.
> Please. I am a physician.

Not sure what's the point of this reply. As a physician, do you think that people aren't pouring freakin' cow piss down COVID patients' throats, hence that the videos are faked - or do you mean that you expect cow piss to be an effective treatment for COVID? These are the only ways I could make sense of your reply.
> Speaking of that, lack of trash bin in public space is very annoying too.

The few Japanese I know told me, that it is common (and thus expected) to carry your trash back home.

In Germany there are some regions who are quite similar in that. Germans who live/d in Swabia routinely describe the inhabitants as "Garbage-Nazis" ;-)

> 10 workers cleaning the same square meter
Or people idling for hours until school/kindergarten closes to then guard the kids crossing the streets. Or programmers having to wear Helmets and Steel Toe Shoes every time they leave the desk until they reached the company's gates (because somewhere on that facility there is a production line). I have no explanation for that phenomenon.
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Transponders are very common in club level racing now, and the accuracy available is good enough for the grassroots level of competition in pretty much every discipline (except, possibly, track sprint).

Still, I think there will always be a place for a stone-faced commissaire with a clipboard, freezing their ass off in the finish-line rain, watching the bunch draw near.
I guess if someone provides an api via graphql it’s hard to tell if it’s intended to be used publicly or not, and to what extent that use is permitted. The site and app both use that api end point and going there gives you a nice page with full documentation of how to do every query plus an online IDE.

One might pull the data then start to wonder if they were supposed to get it only after they begin reading specifics that seem private.
I think it also allows for talking and doing business deals at the same time. Other sports don’t have that, unless it’s a board game.
What is hard, you can split people by race or nationality. What is important is why you would antagonize the groups against each other? The reason I antagonize the nationalists and extremists (I am not from US so I am not talking about reds or blues) is because I see what they are saying and is close minded and evil" we are the best nation,race, religion and the only reason we are not on top is because of the other nations, races and religions, we need to get rid of them" (again I talking in general so it might not apply perfect to your local situtaion and experiences)
That page does not refute anything GP said except to note that the prefunding obligations concern health benefits rather than pensions, but that's not core to the point they were making.

Try arguing with what people actually say instead of making a strawman of some Facebook meme.
To be honest I think after the rise of gangsta rap and miami bass, the whole era kinda got discarded: whodini, mantronix, man parrish, egyptian lover, grandmaster flash. Actually you could probably say the writing was on the wall after the decline of the party rockers in 1983-84 (epitomized by the Busy Bee Starski/Kool Moe D battle from 1981). Afrika Bambaataa is still occasionally releasing btw. 2017: https://youtu.be/sOx7VeHPIJY - if you were hoping for a more faithful traditional electro, check out this label instead https://dominanceelectricity.bandcamp.com/

The current narrative still discards it as if big hits like Freeez's IOU and Alexander Robotnick's Problèmes d'amour wasn't influential when that style mutated just a tad a year or two later and called itself techno.

Speaking of Cybotron and electro check out Nitro Delux "Journey to Cybotron Transform" off Cutting Records (1986)
no idea why you're being downvoted. not having money is not only shit because it robs you of all agency, but it's also the most expensive form of existence. Being forced to spend $10 on something later because you can't afford spending $5 on it _today_ is a classic example but it comes in other shapes too such as having to say YES to anything -even it's dangerous or a scam- because it's still better than "no options", or being judged (by usually those who have more) for being "picky".

> The only benefit of not having money is that it makes all other horrible life conditions and outcomes seem somewhat less horrible comparatively. It dulls the pain and stress receptors.

^^ so what they're saying is that if you're being diagnosed with a terminal disease you might be so far into depression and suicidal ideation[1] that it literally doesn't matter any more because you have no power (money) to solve it. Think about your own privilege that causes you to not comprehend what is being said before you downvote something you can't empathize with.

[1] https://www.refinery29.com/en-ca/what-is-passive-suicidal-id...
That's not really the same thing as Athens at all. 250m is ~60 floors.
Wait, there is a kind of fiction that is illegal?

I though that, at least in free countries, fiction could contain whatever you wanted, since it was not real.

In fact, even not fiction, but books in general. You can still buy the communist little red book and the nazi mein kampf, at least in France.
There's not a lot of reward even for the bien pensant.
Property prices, I assume?
We've not had a Labour government in the UK for 11 years and counting.
This website is almost world-shakingly irritating and after scrolling through it I'm still not exactly sure what it's supposed to be. Do you know?
> ... having an orange instead of an apple, which is probably measurable ...

No, it is absolutely not measurable. We have known since time immemorial that you can't compare apples and oranges.

And now if we unanalogize the argument, ceteris paribus, we clearly see that it is similarly impossible to compare the value of an employee's wages with the value they provide to their employer. Cogito, ergo sum.
Maybe. To me this article is useful because it precisely bounds the size of the group that genuinely feels this way. 13%. Not that large, really. Could a determined company get rid of half of those, sending a strong message to the other half to get back to work? Yeah, definitely. Could you refuse to hire people with these views without significantly losing out in the market for skilled employees? I think so, especially as they skew young (i.e. inexperienced).

It wasn't really clear before how large this group of radicals is because they are so aggressive and noisy. But they're a small minority.
Yes, and that's why apps on Android need to explicitly ask for permission first. Giving the app that permission is a declaration of trust by the user. Not letting people do that would be a disaster for user agency in my opinion.

GDPR and similar laws also mandate clear user consent.