skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not mutually exclusive with the findings of the Brazilian investigators. More than likely this will spur other investigations which should find the same thing if the Brazilian investigators were correct.
I definitely didn't mean to accuse you of anti-intellectualism or science denialism, you've given me no reason to think either of those traits.

But I do have to paint "conservatives" for lack of a better word with that brush based on specifically mask and COVID vaccination responses.

I don't ascribe all anti-intellectualism to the right. Essential Oils, Vaccinations causing Autism, Healing Crystals, and Chakras are all anti-intellectualist science-denialism with a profoundly leftist tint.

But you have to admit that the people downplaying COVID, effectiveness of masks, and saying they are unlikely to take a vaccine are generally conservatives. And when this is the most prevalent subject of news in the world today, it ends up influencing people's perspectives.
This is a very interesting discussion, but the fact that we faked the moon landing makes it all moot.
Having used PlantUML a bit I now see these diagrams everywhere in software documentation. Most don't use the piss-yellow and red default theme but the stick man actor icons is a sure tell it's PlantUML.
Won't someone please think of the ASCII children?
I hand a similar thought. It's just 3 paragraphs and a Twitter link, but the complaint is about the same length.
Gutted that the pictures in this article no longer load.
WFH during a global health crisis != WFH
The idea that it was "an inside job" is laughable. Mark Karpeles was a doofus who got in over his head, churning out php scripts, while bounding up and down on his exercise ball chair. I remember that Roger Ver hostage video like it happened yesterday. For it to be "an inside job", they'd have to effectively be secret geniuses operating on time scales that have never been seen in events of this nature.
So Google recruiters are telling interviewees in the US that they do not need to move to an office location?

From what I understand, you still need to relocate if you get a job offer.
Libraries like cublas and cudnn help the GPU scheduler assign tasks to specialized blocks on the graphics card. Vulkan would slow this innovation down severely. Unless they make Vulkan extensions? I’m not too sure how that would work.

Personally I haven’t used CUDA, but if anybody could comment on its ease of use compared to Vulkan that would be great.
Same with source code. Someone, somewhere, will know some language. And subpoenaing for source code is a thing.
Shutting down even discussion of anti-White racism. So brave.

What would your grandfather think of you, dang?
'Hitler for all his faults took ownership of the crisis situation.

That's what leaders are supposed to do, and that is what the public craves. Unfortunately, Hindenburg just wasn't capable of filling that function for a variety of reasons.'

Means do not justify ends.
Or we could maintain islands and corridors of habitat among our farm fields so we don’t have to import bees all the time.

But that would mean we have to stop spraying pesticides and broadleaf herbicides like it’s Axe Body Spray.
> because of Prop 13 those people wouldn't be paying property tax in 10 years

I'm not sure what you mean. Prop 13 just caps the annual increase at 2%. I've lived in California and owned property here for 30 years. I pay property taxes.
Exactly. Staged apartments are supposed to be dull. Prospective buyers should see a blank canvas, something as neutral and inoffensive as possible. And this applies to all sales, not just new apartments. There's a reason your realtor wants you to move all your stuff out before starting showings, no matter how much you think looking "homely" will help.
Show HN: combogrid – easily draw multiple combo charts with matplotlib
Nobody Has Talker’s Block
My personal view on automated fact-checking is actually quite different than on what I consider to be real fact-checking (ie.: the product of professional human labour), for much the same reason that I wouldn't buy a newspaper written by a bot, but that I see a lot of value in articles written by humans.

I don't know how well this will age, but for now, I think any company claiming to be able to automate fact-checking should be met with a high degree of skepticism.

Just for context, what I imagine in my head when I think of a "fact check" is something like this, basically a specialized or somewhat standardized / formulaic form of journalism:

- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/england-banned-fox-news/

- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/18/joe-biden/...

- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/05/donald-tru...

I deliberately picked a couple of less obvious fact-checks than "is the earth round", because I wanted to highlight how even in politics, on questions where there is high potential for bias, there are cut and dry things which can be fact-checked, or at the very least 'contextualized'.

I'm sure none of this is perfect, but I am not super optimistic that automated content would be of this level of quality.
Honest question, how do we know that this wasn't faked? What makes the 2014 date more problematic, and what would it be faked to be?
That was quick. Happy Hanukkah buddy.
That is not mutually exclusive to investigators finding problems with Sputnik V.
After two years of working on Macs, I realised working on Linux gave me pinky fatigue from having to press control too much. Now I rebind ctrl to super wherever possible.
There are such rules in place for Elon Musk specifically as a result of a settlement with the SEC, but he ignores them.

(The rule he's ignoring is not that he's not allowed to tweet about Tesla from his personal accout, it's that he has to have such tweets vetted by a lawyer.)
> The official narrative that we were all taught in school of "Pyramids were built 4500 years ago as tombs by Khufu" I would say is understood to be highly inaccurate at this point by anyone outside of the Hawass circle.

I never heard of that before. What is thought to be more accurate?
Most of the media was actively praising Cuomo at a time when roughly half of US casualties were in NY. I can’t speak to your media diet in particular, but it’s not like CNN had their Cuomo criticism on page 2 and their Trump criticism on the front page—their Trump criticism and Cuomo praise were both on the metaphorical front page.
Ask HN: Is YouTube forced autoplay now?
Youtube mobile web page (my main interface to yt) now has no autoplay button. It mostly just auto plays all the time.

Is this gone for everyone? or am i part of a un-regulated pyscological experiment into gaslighting.. aka a/b testing.

Edit: seems to be gone from desktop too. I had a look in account settings for a global option.

Edit: this is me missing it moving and my settings getting wiped.
The US culture around government is really weird. And yes, if people gave the government permission to fail sometimes they could probably do things 10x cheaper. But that requires a level of trust that just isn't there. I don't know why, and I'm glad I live somewhere more functional.
I've used both extensively. The libraries are fairly similar or maybe even the same these days but Spotify is miles ahead on recommendations and automatically generated playlists, radio, things of that nature. Apple was better for mixing your local library in with theirs (you can kinda do this on Spotify but it is extremely clunky). Otherwise they're about the same.
It's what happens when places are investments, meant to be inoffensive for a broad addressable market. If a house or apartment were made for a rich person to actually live in instead of flipping, it could be more personal. https://medium.com/message/the-american-room-3fce9b2b98c5 (discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109595)
It's [^1] on the front page now FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976540

[1]: a review of the vulnerability by the person who found it
Is it a requirement that these common goods and services have private competition that is on equal footing? Private security, trash services, libraries (netflix) all have private competition that seems to be thriving in the spaces that have higher requirements, but the baseline situation appears to be handled for much of the region.
They're only "right" in one of those cases. By definition, a ruby is red corundum, and a sapphire is corundum of any other color than red.
It will be interesting to see if we can use genetic engineering to knock out specific pest species so that we don’t need broad pesticides anymore.
> so it's hard to say things like "The System is out to destroy you";

How do you explain the 9th circuit court and their decisions around gun control while being scolded by SCOTUS for not following proper process? The legal system is highly politicized these days, and if your not on the “correct” side, it most definitely is out to get you. California turned a bunch of law abiding citizens into felons overnight after abiding by a law written by said government.
This is excellent advice. There's something I really dislike about import "./style.css" into JS files - it just seems meaningless especially if you've worked with other languages/ecosystems. A great many tutorials default to this style, so it'll likely live on for a while.

As yet another tiny UI framework creator (forgojs.org), the switch to esbuild-loader was our best developer experience decision. create-forgo-app (our CRA equivalent) takes 3-4 seconds, and running it is instantaneous. Faster builds actually change the way developers write code.
Except that’s explicitly discouraging vacant lots and encouraging tall buildings. These owners can afford the tax better than anyone.
I love this project.

but also, if you are sensitive to flashing lights, this web page has 512 of them.
Or if Chia becomes popular then they're the most likely to hop onboard and use their overprovisioned space to farm Chia until they need it for something else.
racism = judging people / taking actions based on race.

Reality in many workplaces is that the racists making decisions based on race are on the left these days - not the right.

When you say exclude folks who practice racism you need to be very careful. I've no problem with affirmative action, but running around saying folks making judgements based on race should be excluded from the workplace will do a LOT of harm to diversity efforts which generally explicitly recognize race and take actions around race.
No, Sweden is a basket case.

Ikea's headquarters is actually in the Netherlands, and they use Lichtenstein for tax avoidance.

Sweden already had one social welfare reset due to spiralling cots, and are on their second wave now. Because of uncontrolled economic migration, they will need another reset.

Folks, socialism just doesn't work.
Isn't the whole point of a company that spending money is more productive than keeping it in a savings account? Google didn't save $1bn, Google was unable to make use of $1bn in potential spending because of the pandemic.

If that counts as a win, they're doing something very wrong.
For HN leftists (I know, I know - that's all of you), you can extrapolate from the Cuomo media suppression to the suppression of the Hunter Biden story, the election fraud, the two fake impeachments, and Joe Biden's senility.

I've looked at cnn.com a few times, and at least their homepage appears to be dictated solely by the left. The hagiography on Kamala Harris a couple days ago looked literally like something the CCP would publish: "Kamala is the last person in the room", etc. I thought VPs were supposed to just golf? Why is Kamala shadowing Biden if he's not senile? (She's in just about every public picture of Biden, standing just behind him.)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/25/politics/kamala-harris-cnntv/...

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, Twitter has said they regret suppressing the Hunter Biden story before the election, and WaPo issued a retraction on their quote of Trump asking an election official to redo results (that quote was one of the Pelosi's "reasons" for the second impeachment.)

https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hun...

https://nypost.com/2021/03/15/washington-post-runs-correctio...

The more you compare the MSM with actual events, the less they match.
The American equivalent: demand more road capacity.

Rip out the trees! Rip out the bike lanes and side walks! Rip out a row of houses! MORE LANES! This really is generational, I only get it from baby boomer relatives and friends. X don't give a crap. And the younger generations say we should walk or bike everywhere. Will it last? Or will they be subsumed into this seemingly never ending Americana story line?
Not all use is equal
Well, OK.

$ /bin/units
You have: 1 Gly
You want: m
* 9.4607305e+24
/ 1.0570008e-25
You have: 1 Gly
You want: km
* 9.4607305e+21
/ 1.0570008e-22
$

But I got mixed up on starting the road length, reading it as 60 mi. Fair's fair.
China launches first module of new space station
Maybe we’re splitting hairs or I’m using my construction terms wrong, but I would include “roof timbers” loosely under the category of “beams”.

Perhaps my sense of scale was off in the pictures, but I could easily see poles that size used for secondary beams.
Your comment was awful, and completely unnecessary. It feels mean for the sake of being mean. Take a child to Muir Woods, and see them stare in awe at the massive trees. Then, ask them where the mass of the tree comes from. When they figure out it comes from the air, their minds are blown and filled with more wonder than before. Please don't tell people they should feel bad for spreading their knowledge and joy to others.
For 2, I meant with multiple kids. With a baby is indeed more difficult. You apparently did have the experience of carrying the stroller up and down in subways. Especially when elevator is not working, which is not rare in NYC.

5 and 1 may be a planning issue, but the terrible situation in NYC could because the size of population and geography. It certainly can be improved, but the cost of change must have deterred the management.
If you really want a ps5, then I’d recommend buying one off StockX. The seller sends it to StockX, StockX verifies it as an unopened ps5, and then StockX ships it to you. They’ve been doing this with sneakers and such for a while, and their bid/ask market is entirely transparent.

Some would probably say this is only encouraging scalpers, and while this may be true, scalping wouldn’t be an issue if there wasn’t first a supply issue. The scalpers are actually providing a service here: enabling those who want the product the most to get it first. Why should the blind luck of pressing “add to cart” at the exact right moment between inventory filling up and servers coming back online determine who gets a product and who doesn’t?

It makes me wonder how many other areas in life could be “scalped” — how many products have scarcity that only need a reseller marketplace to ensure a variable pricing that takes into account 1) that demand is not actually an aggregate, and 2) that disposable income is not an average.

Granted, a haggling-driven economy is onerous, as anyone who has lived in a developing country can attest to. But what if haggling weren’t onerous? What if every purchase on Amazon was a bid/ask market? If you want the product now, then bid at the lowest ask. If you are okay with waiting, then put in a low bid and hope for the best. I’m trying to think of a good reason that prices should be fixed, but the only reason I can think of it that verbal haggling is inefficient and that digital markets are not trivial to build.

I’m probably just trying to assuage my guilt over paying scalpers, but I think there is probably a unicorn of a startup somewhere in here.
The dream of a literal gringo.
Did this improve the User Experience?
Another iteration is simply she lived closer in time to the present than the building of the great pyramids. And yet another is replacing her with Jesus
https://cuttlefish.io/

If you dont rely on 3rd parties, 3rd parties cannot screw you
> Bashing white people on company meetings

Isn't that open racism? Or is it ok because it's compensating for historical racism?
Yeah haven't check if it's an option in Gmail but I am sure it is. Emails that get sent to spam however will not show images by default.
Also difficult to know if the CIA gets as much spying done per dollar spent.
There’s a difference?
NBN Co's latest pricing review 'a waste of time'
It all depends on the economics. It's pretty likely that at some point reinvesting in Chia by buying more drives just doesn't make sense.

You can also read more about the power consumption of Chia here: https://chiapower.org/
It's simpler than I made it out to be, which is why it's hated. The distinction between the law and the principle doesn't mean you can't make your own rules on your own property. In fact, they support that.
Some context behind this article for those not in the know -

Reply All (the leading show at Gimlet Media) has had something of a public implosion lately, following their reporting on 'Bon Appetit', with accusations of racism (or at least non-diversity) in their hiring practices, and a lack of support for the unionization efforts there. The irony being that this is the exact sort of behavior they were investigating at Bon Appetit.

Their co-host PJ Vogt and a producer has now left the show (the interplay between PJ and Alex was the primary highlight of the show, so if it continues it will be a very different show).

Following that, there's been a few articles like this one looking at some of the behind the scenes at Gimlet.
Pollarded trees in Great Britain are in many cases several times older than the average life expectancy of those species. It very much depends on the species of tree of course.

I think I once heard that most trees that coppice or pollard well are adapted to beaver predation. We just make a cleaner cut than the beaver.
>Thoughtcrime became a law in the US in 1996

Briefly, and was recognized as unenforceable. As evidenced by the fact that repositories of alt.sex.stories still exist to this day and still host many, many example of erotica containing children, both old and new.
Uh, kind of? It has been shown that there was some contact between the Polynesians and the west coast of South America. The Kon-Tiki hypothesis is usually understood to be something like "the Polynesian islands were populated by a group of indigenous South Americans who drifted there in a boat", which is certainly not exclusively the case (an overall west-to-east migration to populate Polynesia is all but certain and corroborated by evidence across multiple scientific disciplines) and might still not even be partially the case, as the contact could have been Polynesians sailing to South America and back (as the paper's authors acknowledge).

Given that we know the Polynesians to have been expert navigators who explored basically the whole Pacific basin over the course of centuries, that explanation for the contact seems more plausible to me than the drifting-from-South-America explanation for the genetic admixtures reported last year; but even if you think otherwise, the hypothesis wasn't really "proven right".
If you enjoy building PCs, it's an interesting challenge; plotting and farming have very different performance profiles, and there are multiple strategies for viable builds depending on your expertise (big JBOD vs. raspberry pi with USB drives, etc). Feels a lot like the early BTC/ETH mining days where we were building crates full of GPUs zip-tied together, before ASICs institutionalized the mining process.

> the high performance plotting hardware is only needed temporarily

I'm not sure if you're ever done plotting; if the network space keeps increasing, then you need to increase the number of plots you maintain to keep up -- else you'll gradually farm fewer over time.

I think you probably need more plotting hardware in the initial buildout phase though.

Some are already talking about "plotting as a service", selling disks full of plots once they have finished their own plotting. In the spirit of "selling jeans to gold miners", that might be a viable business model.
I agree about email. And the main thing, and what distinguishes it from Telegram, etc., is that it is a protocol, not an app. You can use any client you want, or write your own.
But we haven't seen long term effects of mRNA vaccines.

I am not expecting a "children of men" distopy, and I'd rather have an mRNA vaccine than any other, but it is possible there might be some unexpected issues in the long run.
> many of whom got their wealth in shady circumstances

Like inheriting it, which is the shadiest of shady ways to make money
One of my first thoughts when playing with AI dungeon was to try and get it to write something erotic. Glad I didn't follow through
Well, if you want to ruin their investment then issue building permits for more of them.

> They cast these huge shadows and block views

Talk about first world problems. Expecting a city skyline to never change is ridiculous. The only problem is that so few people use these buildings. The best kind of density regulation requires _more_ density.
We build a Nocode tool from our MVP to build chatbots
>Because 1EB is a minuscule amount of the hard drive capacity

Very much agree here. I purchased about 144TB of raw storage a few weeks ago for future video and data projects, and it's possible to purchase 1PB of raw capacity (with no redundancy, nor anything to connect to) for as cheap as around $13000 USD at retail pricing.

1EB could be acquired for somewhere between $12-$15M. Not chump change, but considering the number of players pre-mining, absolutely nothing in the scheme of things.

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What will be interesting is how this increase in mainnet capacity grows over time, and relative to manufactured capacity. 1.1EB of footprint today is nothing ... but we might start to care if it were to grow at a rate of 1.1EB/day or faster, as manufacturers like Seagate, WD, Toshiba, etc. can't instantly respond to such a sustained demand spike. Channel supply could be exhausted relatively quickly.
Fortran Package Manager
Oh what a fantastic podcast. I think my favorites were 'Googling Stangers' and 'The Lascaux Paintings'
Maybe we can just call it a hole.
Tesla allegedly failed to demonstrate compliance with certain EPA requirements
OK now I have to go check out AI Dungeon. Is this some clever marketing ploy to get me to try it out?
Sounds like you'll really like DeltaChat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25893626
Fixed that for you:

> racism = judging people / taking actions based on race, but only if you are white

It goes even further than that - anything that supports the dominant class - technology, science, logic, math and even common sense concepts in language - are considered racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5uXpwoq0_M
What makes you think they didn't find something else to spend that money on?
Probably Arkansas SB 74, which was passed unanimously by the Arkansas state legislature, which has a Republican majority.
How about a RAM disk?
I think it's hard to blame BSD's (collective) loss of market share on their reluctance to add system calls, or even their pace of evolution more generally.

Are there some specific evolutions that you think Linux adopted, and eg. FreeBSD didn't, that were/are crucial to Linux' now overwhelming dominance?