skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The University of Minnesota has a robust and highly regarded Human Research Protections Program

Pull the other one. Their last huge scandal was not so long ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2015/05/27/why-the-um...

> Crucially, an essential requirement for research to be considered as “human subjects research” (and thus within the purview of the IRB) is that it involves collecting information about human subjects themselves, such as age, blood pressure, or related. No such information was sought or collected here. The study was focused on understanding a system by identifying mechanisms through which security issues could be introduced in Linux software.

This seems wrong, asinine, and pigheaded. There is no mechanism magically external to human behavior in a human code review process. The researchers acquired information about individual human reviewer behavior, decisions, aptitudes, attentiveness, and other information about the human subjects themselves through direct interaction.

Collecting information about individual human decisions is collecting information about the individuals who made those decisions.

And none of the exemption conditions from https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/decision-cha... apply. The only one that might requires consent.
If Google saved that much money and the business didn't see a considerable negative impact (34% increase? Quite the opposite in fact.), then that news should be telling not just for Google, but for every company that previously catered to spoiled employees who jump on an airplane just to have lunch with the customer.

Two lies COVID has forcibly flushed out and helped dispel:

Lie #1: Remote work, cannot work.

Lie #2: Business travel, is a necessity.

It will be interesting to see how the corporate travel whores, spin this post-COVID in order to keep their Triple Diamond Medallion Platinum status.
Also it is an opportunity to test whether Signal's persistence on registering only with a phone number was a good idea or not, considering that it is mandatory in many countries to register with your ID.
Somehow the legacy of MLK has been reduced to just that one quote, even though he wrote a a book ("Why We Can't Wait") that advocated for affirmative action programs for black people. His legacy has effectively been sanitized and "abridged" to be less challenging to persistent and harmful power structures.
I loved the Gray back than. It was just right for me and for the time back than. Something I realized at a "revival" party for it. Growing up and out of time sucks some times ;)
Office workers would eventually want all-screen Android and/or iPhone for personal use, which forced companies to adopt those for office workers.

(edit: clarity)
They are just as blatant on liberal news feeds but don’t seem blatant to liberals just like the blatant ones on conservative feeds don’t seem blatant to conservatives.
this is a huge argument for a real estate tax on non-primary residential property. Then, triple the tax its not rented during the year.

do we want to allow wealthy princes to have a pied a terre on park ave ? OK.
Let them pay in blood for the privilege.

Of course, neither "progressives" or "conservatives" will be willing to threaten upper classes, real estate lobby, and political donors, with such a tax.. despite that the people that stand most to gain from this would be lower income AND first time owners ...who are voters in their own district!
Ummm, murdered (dead) people probably can't read anymore, thus wouldn't be triggered?

And a murder-victim-to-be still probably wouldn't be triggered, since s/he hasn't "experienced" it yet.

That's how I interpreted the comment anyway :)
I am too newb to understand half of those terms :)

Do you have any recommendations for a reading material to understand the underlying concepts?
Your "lies" are missing the "outside of a pandemic" qualifier.
I came to believe that Island nations (of a certain size) can develop such trajectories, as they are more capable to shut out unwanted influences.

For me that includes Japan vis-a-vis the world (and Asia), UK vis-a-vis continental Europe and somehow the US vis-a-vis Europe
I get similar view for $400/month. I really do not get this Stockholm syndrome for expensive cities.
You either call it freedom fries, or you're with the terrorists.
“A person, known as the predator, seeks information, known as the prey”

Academics are such oddballs they make software developers look normcore.
It’s a shame the ways he rethought value were so toxic. Defining everything that isn’t primary production as parasitic really isn’t a healthy way to look at an economy.
I got mixed up between m and km so I guess we're even :-)
> material choice and color

If you’re buying a $70mm apartment and living in it, you’re renovating it before moving in.
Show HN: Manage Java dependencies of your Java scripts
Hello,

As you may know since Java 11 you can run single source Java files directly without compiling anything. It is a very useful feature which allows you to write scripts in Java.

The problem which I was always struggling with is how to use any Java library available in Maven repository right from the Java script.

To address this problem I wrote depresolve command line tool. It will resolve all dependencies, download missing artifacts to your local repository and build a classpath for your script.

https://github.com/lambdaprime/depresolve
That has got to be the worst scrolling behavior I've ever seen on a website in my entire life.
what materials give up their electrons to moving air spontaneously? are there tricks you can do with the (perhaps nano-) patterning of this material, like arrays of little needles? have any labs attempted this? it looks fun.
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I think you were a bit lax on the kon-tiki hypothesis. It didn't just posit the west-to-east colonization of Polynesia from South America, but that this was done be white-people originating in the middle east.

So while there is genetic evidence for contact between South America and Polynesia, that evidence is also evidence against the Kon-Tiki hypothesis.
Cigarette companies spent a lot of money on advertising [in Europe]. When cigarette ads were banned, they continued to sell cigarettes, but saved on the marketing budget. Still, it would not have been wise not to advertise beforehand: The level playing field is all that matters. For some reasons, e-cigarettes are allowed to advertise, and the shift to these products is substantial.

So for sales/consulting, it might be fine not to travel to your customer when nobody can. Afterwards, you might want to reevaluate.

(And I am speaking as an ex-consultant that hated corporate travel).
> I don't have time to run that experiment

How surprising, I wonder why.

> Opinion polls don't tell us what the truth is about anything except opinions.

If you honestly believe that there's some sort of objective "exactly here is the line, don't cross it!" I feel bad for you.

> the facts I am presenting

Facts? It was a blatantly fact-free reply with your subjective "takes"; - "maybe the old times was better because I think women can't handle this new reality".
You’d think right?! So why the hell is the same marble used to craft David already in the unit? Why spend so much on finishings if it’s just gonna be redone. That’s part of the 70 million. Feels like rentseeking and waste to me
Thai police can be corrupt sometimes (not always - I've even been busted for pot twice, talked my way out of it both times even though they knew they could have gotten some western cash out of me), but Thai justice system is usually quite fair even for foreigners. There are exceptions of course, but usually you won't get into real trouble unless you are doing something that is obviously illegal (doing drugs, running prostitution ring, something something royal family). Even some my friends have sued and won against a big bank or people hustling money from them.
Yep, with proper high-speed rail one could travel from Minneapolis to Chicago in under two hours.

Without the airport security theater, with proper in-car restaurants and remote working facilities. Who wouldn't take that offer?
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The shift from “two factor” to “multi-factor” authentication
Nice write-up.
Instead of these photo-finish cameras, would a piezoelectric sensor strip on the road (plus perhaps a regular camera) be a better solution to judge the winner in such cases?
I think you could say Einstein proposed the fundamental equivalence between mass and energy as a hypothesis and there has been much evidence since. Apparently it was based partly on a proposed symmetry between space and time. Einstein being Einstein probably had some deep reasoning behind it which was not necessarily all put down in that paper.
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> this is a huge argument

What was the argument. I didn’t see an argument. That fact that expensive apartments exist?

> let them pay in blood for the privilege

Why? Follow this thread of envy and it ends at a guillotine for anyone with wealth.
I've also worked on large teams, and for us every published version of every change within our project is automatically tested. If your CI is too expensive to run on every commit it probably needs optimization -- something I've done myself a few times.

Not investing time or resources into making your CI fast and reliable is a false economy IMO.
I am a little confused how we can add up to $50M.

Let’s say they only hire the best of the best, and it somehow costs them $200k per employee used to build the site.

Let’s say 20 to build the front end. 20 to build the back end. 20 to integrate with third parties. 20 to manage deployment. Let’s put another 20 on QA. 20 managers . 20 PMs. 10 translators. Running out of roles and I’m still 100 employees short (or 350 employees short had I used a more realistic $100k average per employee)...
You're thinking of "theorem".
Exactly. It's a bit arbitrary but it's the final call.
True, though if Wout won by the rules but Tom crossed the finish line first that is not a great outcome.
> It might also be possible to undistort.

It might be possible to res it right up using that new photoshop feature.
A joke obviously...
The folk hanging around to ask follow-up questions are my bet. Some of the questions really show the person is sharp enough to suggest you can put them into the system.

Obviously this misses the good leads that simply don't care about your today's topic. That's in line with Google's approach being fine with a lot of false negatives.
lol...Nothing drives competition here and the upstarts are squashed by large telcoms who have historically gobbled up government funding and then did very little with it.

In the heart of Silicon Valley there are only a couple real options for high speed, reliable internet.
Tell HN: Some DigitalOcean customers' billing details are hacked
I received an email from Digitalocean saying that there was a vulnerability that allowed a hacker to access some of the customers' billing info.

Here's a screenshot of the email that i received: https://imgur.com/a/ISrXmp5.

Text version: https://gist.github.com/gowthamgts/228174c7a9f8330a18172c532...

edit: covered in mainstream media - https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/digitalocean-says-...
> erasing everyone else who made the job possible: the dozens of educators who taught the worker from pre-Kindergarten through postsecondary education, the road crew members who paved the streets to the job site, the nannies and care workers who enable a parent to go to work — not to mention the worker filling the position

A meal is made of ingredients. It takes a chef to make a good meal out of ingredients, who would have to apply a lot of skill and energy to do it well. The author of the article, it seems, would argue that there is no value in that. The chef is not the "meal creator", because s/he did not create the carrot and the oil and the stove. Which is of course true on some level, but also useless as an argument for any sensible thing.

The job creator typically does not create just the job, s/he creates the company, which has to create value on the scale that transcends anything a person can do on their own. (Hence the company, a collection of people working on a common goal.) Job creators apply immense amount of thought, risk, and investment into doing this right. Job creators multiply the contribution of pavers and nannies, build on that, utilize it in a most efficient way.

I believe that this article is insincere demagogy.
> there are many other places to work, many that share those views.

We might be talking past each other. I don't think there is a private sector entity that empowers workers or opposes the military industrial complex, because these stances are inherently opposed to most firms' profit motives.

Despite the way the issue has been framed, companies aren't being stormed by left-wing radicals. The "progressive activism" decried by this article is myopically centered on representation, language policing, and—presumably in the UK—the validity of the EU. These all dovetail perfectly with the standards of the HR/marketing departments and do nothing that threatens the company's bottom line. This divisive behavior is tolerated because it actually enforces discipline.

Employees haven't been radicalized. "Bodies and spaces" is just the new "did you get that TPS report?"
The wikipedia page on ticket locks has a good overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_lock

Generally speaking you don't want to be dealing with this stuff unless you really have to. For 99.999% of people the locking primitives that come with your programming language are good enough.
Some thoughts from looking at amstel_Finishphoto_AGR21.png.

a) in the horizontal axis, everything changes at 6 pixel intervals, I'm going to call those samples

b) I count ten samples as the narrowest of the front tire at both the early samples and the later samples of both riders. (including the fringing).

c) there's a two sample gap between the front of the front tire of the top rider and the bottom rider (pixels 835 - 840 for the top rider, and 823 - 828)

d) there's also a two sample gap at the back of the front tire (pixels 355 - 361 for the top rider and pixels 343 - 348 for the bottom rider)

I'm not invested enough to try to figure out other points of reference to compare, but it seems likely that if the riders were separated by two samples when their front tires entered the line of sampling, and also separated by two samples when their front tires left the line of sampling, that they were separated by two samples throughout that time. Since they would have crossed the (marked) finish line while their tires were being sampled, I'm comfyish saying the bottom rider was 2 samples behind the top at the finish line.

If my calculation is right, each front tire took 80 samples to clear the line of sampling; and if it was 2000 samples per second, that's 0.04 seconds for the bikes to clear the camera; might that be enough time for the second bike to have been pushed forward and pulled back such that it may have won; I dunno.

also e) now I've used up my evening time I had meant to do something else with :P
Well, there are slow mo cameras that go well over the 2,000 or 3,500 FPS mentioned in the article. If oriented the same way, they would provide a strict superset of the information of a strip photography camera, since you could recover the strip photo by just extracting one column from successive frames of the video. It doesn’t seem like the price is even particularly different. I’m not an expert, though, just judging based on Google results. Maybe there is some obstacle I’m not thinking of.
I suppose it‘s because Covid hit China in the first quarter 2020, almost a quarter earlier than everywhere else.
Good. Would be nice to more companies to get to their business of serving their customers and producing useful things, rather than competing at woke olympics.
This is... built using Fortran, NICE.

Writing a TOML parser in Fortran is precisely my definition of FUN.
She is listed in FINANCE.MDB as one of “Rover’s Awesome All Stars”.
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Yet another free tool to reduce long web links, but it also allows to reduce long addresses.

#google #googlemapsplatform #pluscodes #addressverification #urlshortner #tinyurls
Legal Tech Pioneer Mishcon to IPO, All Staff to Be Shareholders
It’s probably quite hard to make an orthographic streak camera that is pointing vertically down in the same plane as the finish, but that seems like the optimal solution.

Moreover, if the camera is used to identify the times and finish positions of all the riders, it’s probably quite hard to identify them from above. Perhaps a streak video synchronised with TV footage would be convincing?

How about a prismatic laser and fog machine at the finish? It’ll look like an 80s rave but the streak camera will clearly show where the finish is.
they used to, that was part of the debate about title-2 or not and net neutrality. That's why when DSL was the fastest internet there were so many choices and options but now it feels like there are hardly any (depending on where you live).
That would only work if the wheels were exactly the same diameter (assuming that the actual line is where the most forward part of the wheel crosses )
Most artists do not sell their NFTs, and are instead stuck with the fees they paid to mint them.

"These numbers do not show the democratization of wealth thanks to a technological revolution. They show an acutely minuscule number of artists making a vast amount of wealth off a small number of sales while the majority of artists are being sold a dream of immense profit that is horrifically exaggerated." [0]

[0]: https://thatkimparker.medium.com/most-artists-are-not-making...
I'm not a quantum mechanic expert or scientist. I have become a believer in multiple realities through personal experience.

(Edit: I'm not usually conspiracy theorist, I don't believe in god/religion, I believe in science, global warming, wearing masks, etc...but sometimes your eyes see things you can't unsee).

You read about how Apollo 13 the movie with Tom Hanks has a calm Tom Hanks saying: "Houston, We've Had a Problem", then you read a list of Mandela Effects a few days later and it says that the actual lines are "Houston, we HAVE a problem", you verify with your wife who watched the clip all 10 times last week, and you watch it with her another 10 times just to make sure, you have her pinch you...

Lo and behold, reality has changed. No idea how, others agree with you, but that's irrelevant since you don't need to believe them or not because you now how personal proof, which most people will say is not proof it's just "Mis-remembering" but have you ever watched something with full awareness and intention with another person to see what the actual "fact" is at the time?

Did you forget the outcome 3 days later? Most people would say empatically no, they did not. So if 3 days later you have not forgotten the fact, but the fact has changed via sources online that are trusted (often the same sources), is it not suggestive that something has changed? Or that perhaps reality is really some-part subjective?

Is it hard to consider that reality could be partially dependent on those in the reality? what if reality is consensus based?

If 10 people have a fact and 6 people believe chartreuse is maroon, and 4 people believe chartreuse is green, then it's really green. In fact I'd say a lot of facts in life are based on consensus. Colors are labels, and if the majority think blue is green and green is blue, then seems like people will be calling green blue and vice versa.

That's more though about a group-think decision on what something means. When a literal historical fact or video changes almost before your very eyes, it's very hard to dispute...
Theoretical aspects of the KNN algorithm. Where it can be applied and when it fails.
Afghanistan sits on top of trillions of dollars of mineral resources, including large reserves of copper, lithium, cobalt, and rare earth metals.
A single Fortan
When Apple created the iOS SDK and opened the App Store did they increase or decrease developer freedom?
Yeah but even dropbox got negative comments here. You never know which startup is interesting unless you see it in action
Proper techno is like tribal music on steroids imo. Same time of communal trance vibes.
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Agreed. Smooth scrolling should never be used in majority text readable sites.

I ended up using the "Reader view" on Safari read it.

I archived it and here's the archive version of it to avoid the scrolling problem:

https://archive.is/rk0DB
How old are your kids and what are they doing all day?
I feel sad for you that you think people cannot create something from nothing.

So if you gain something, does that means somebody else needs to lose? Is that how people justify stealing or scamming? Or is that how they cope with their envy that rich people must be stealing or scamming.

I once knew a person that had this theory about happiness. If someone is happy, someone else needs to be sad.

I feel sad for anyone who has this mindset. It's way nicer on our side, where we do win-win deals, and know to be happy, the people around us need to be happy.
If you are interested in reading it, here's archive:

https://archive.is/rk0DB
Are you suggesting these people are reading from beyond the grave?
So you'll rather drive and do nothing else vs sitting in a train with a full restaurant with a bar, comfy chairs, wi-fi and a quiet spot for working[1][2]?

I've done multiple 3 hour train trips this way, I'll NEVER choose driving over it.

I can sit down and order food from downstairs, it'll be brought to my seat. I've got a quiet spot to work in with an 230V outlet and working Wifi. I can do billable work every minute I'm in the train. I can even close my eyes and take a nap.

Compare this to driving, which would take an hour longer, I'd need to be 100% focused on the road all the time, I can't bill my hours, I can't relax.

[1] https://www.vr.fi/en/facilities-and-services/working-on-the-...
[2] https://www.vr.fi/en/facilities-and-services/upstairs-of-the...
I agree. I find the claims about WfH being inefficient very amusing.

I work for an international American SW company in Czechia. We have a big office there, but for the first ~8 years there (since 2006), I was the only person working with a team of Americans, or only with a teammate, because they "outsourced" work to us. It was more annoying than WfH today, I remember all the really incomprehensible phone calls (no reliable video, only screensharing), making sure I get everything I need done in the morning so I could batch the questions for afternoon due to time zones, etc. And yet, my bosses were happy about my performance (more than they are today).

(It's interesting when I think about it now, IMHO constant communication can have downsides, too. There is something about having a half day where it's only you who has to solve a problem, and no one can help, you will learn a lot.)

OTOH, I was never a big fan of work from home, but I tried it now and I found it more pleasant with almost no downside. It's very similar to how I used to work in the era of "outsourcing", actually it's much easier.

To sum up, outsourcing was efficient but individual WfH isn't? Gimme a break, of course it's propaganda.
Yes, each separate service wants to show you ads, hence each service has its own app.
> It just isn't suitable for proper server-side rendering, we'd need access to chunk names at build time

You can at later rollup hooks (it doesn't make sense to access chunks that don't exist yet).

Actually, there are SSR frameworks being built on top of Vite such as SvelteKit [1] or vite-plugin-ssr [2] (vite-plugin-ssr is not a framework but gives you a similar DX than Nuxt/Next.js; I'm its author), and many people are implementing custom SSR solutions.

Join our Discord #ssr channel and ask us questions https://discord.gg/PkbxgzPhJv ;-).

[1]: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit

[2]: https://github.com/brillout/vite-plugin-ssr