skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about? It's not free, there is a deductible. And it's not anytime you want. It's a maximum of 2 incidences per year. So you pay $200 a year plus $30 for cracking your screen. Or $150 for loss or theft.

I'm guessing you could get a third party screen repair for less than $230.
Also because they made it, it may feel "simple" to them and it's "lightweight" because they cut corners...
A lot of money and smarts has gone into studying cognitive processes and neurophysiology over <shudder> the past five decades. (I first took an Intro to Brain Science course in 1976.)

It's actually longer than that. Interesting bit of trivia is that the 1956 MIT IEEE conference that is usually dated as the origin of cognitive science as a field, though the term wasn't coined until later, was just a few months after McCarthy's Dartmouth workshop that's usually considered the origin of AI.

I dipped into a recent MIT class on video last year. As far as I can tell, some pretty basic things--like how do children learn--are as imperfectly understood now as they were in the late 70s.
Huh, I did wonder if there was an updated fork but I obviously didn't look hard enough. Thanks!
Git does actually diff binaries and stores them very efficiently :) If you do a single small UPDATE in your db file git will only store the changed information.
It's just kinda slow, and for most binary files the effort git spends to try and compute deltas for binary files is useless - which is why it has a bad reputation for binary files.

Note that the diffs that git shows you are completely unrelated to the deltas it uses to compress it's database - which are always "binary deltas" and not line-based diffs.

Also I'm not sure why you mean that db corruption possibility has something to do with whether or not it stores diffs?
When the US military sets up an AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar, or similar variants, it is typical for these to have taped off (like police tape) sections where the energy is dangerous to humans. These devices, although mounted on trailers typically, are fairly old, and not designed for a point location, but rather distance.

I was told that being overly close to these devices in operation will lead to brain injuries
they have many many software engineers this guy is lying
The same way one can outlaw murder and other crimes. Not sure I understand the question.

Outlawing means it can still happen, but you have to enforce, investigate, catch the perpetrator, go to trial, and punish in a way. Or just apply a fine that you can appeal.
I still find describing anything in biology as a "programming language" to be a bit generous. It still feels more like fiddling with inputs to an ML model.
I'm not trying to downplay the difficulties of helping less privileged people eat well, but you should know many cities have programs that specifically make efforts to put farmers markets in food deserts, and often accept EBT/SNAP at above cash value (or with heavy rebates) - if these kind of programs don't exist where you are, perhaps consider petitioning whatever group runs your local farmers markets to see if they might be possible to introduce.
I found it to be extremely valuable. Managed to get in touch with relevant people I would otherwise never have been able to.
I'm going to disagree on this one. To me, this is telling you to think about which tool would be best. That's doesn't terminate thought; it demands thought.

(Unless someone is really saying "use the right tool for the job, and for this job the right tool is always X". That I can see as terminating thought.)
They have the same height adjustment options that most guitar pickups do, the pickups are held on to the mount with two screws and you can screw in/out to adjust the height accordingly. It works in reverse of the normal system since the screws are backwards, but it works
One of the worst ideas was putting glass on the back, doubling the chance of cracking it.
All true. But you could argue that deposits for roadster or semi are made by people who have a lot of excess cash or are able to make their own due diligence on the subject. Neither can be said about the average Joe who shelled out 10 grand last year in expectation that his car will drive itself in a couple months.
Every place I've rented in London had a dishwasher, and we're talking 6 places over 15 years
Then don't use it, simple as. I doubt miners don't know the risks.

These sort of 'non-argument' articles really joggle my neurons when it comes to "let's talk about something popular because that will drive our traffic and something something industry because that also generates traffic and interest".
If you just want static data, using jsroot or jsfive might be a better option.
Just sayin’

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793296/

The data presented in our work, although very heterogeneous in the manner of collecting and investigating samples, have proved to be extremely consistent in witnessing a deficiency of zinc in serum and plasma of patients compared to controls.
How does the key or token distinguish the original from the forgery?
This is fantastically creative. And the author does a great job of starting out by describing why this is useful.

And then using SQLite to insert and update DOM elements? Holy cow, icing on the cake. Unlike the first part, there’s no explanation of why you’d want to do that. But by that point I was so drawn in that I didn’t care and was just enjoying the ride.
> This is one of the few things that actually makes me happy with the closed ecosystem of the App Store on iOS.

And yet there are scams that are costing users $5 million a year, or more, on the iOS App Store[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26794228
And on iOS at least, whenever you visit the site you'll get a popup that blocks the page with two options: continue in mobile app, or continue in safari.

It's basically "install our shitty app, or keep using the web version?", except it's worded and displayed in a confusing/misleading way with what seems to be an attempt to mimic a system dialog.
Don’t think of it as a purchase so much as a special indulgence to St Elon of Car.

More seriously, can you still ask for your money back? This whole business of selling something that doesn’t exist and may never exist is pretty odd.
And then less reputable website will hire consultants and influencers to mark their website as high quality. And then click farms will appear in India and China to mark website's as high quality at a price. And that is why we cannot have nice stuff / nice search results...
You can use Screen Time to prevent yourself from installing new apps. First, delete all applications aside from your banking apps. Next, go to Settings - Screen Time - Content and Privacy Restrictions - iTunes & App Store Purchases. From here, you can disable installing apps, which hides the App Store on your phone. You can also disable Safari from Screen Time. If you find yourself turning off Screen Time, have somebody else set a four digit passcode for you. You'll be left with a phone that can only text and bank.
So the GP is wildly overblown? How is Google Analytics spyware?
If those who can afford it would do it, like the well-off people frequenting hacker news, that would be a start. That would drive up demand, make it worth for more farmers to do this sustainably, eventually driving those costs down, and thus making it more affordable for lesser income people. And it's not black and white, in each iteration more people can afford it. Similar to electric cars.

It's easy to armchair-philosophise those things away with "oh but poor people wont ever have the money, so screw it". With that attitude we'd never hav gotten electric cars. Or solar power.
The only lesson learned by most founders is it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Be it airbnb or reddit almost all companies have employed one shady tactic or another to grow and maybe once the site is pretty popular they maybe take some steps to fix these issues on surface and hopefully people will forget about such things soon (1)

(1) https://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-d...
The answer seems straightforward then. More research to better understand mRNA vaccines and their consequences plus an effort to communicate what is found in a way that is digestible for lay people.
So I love this, but I imagine that all those VC funded subscription-for-x do not... (dollar shave, etc etc)
If your billing address is in California, the NYT do let you cancel online.

They intentionally make it extremely high friction.
Memristors for the Curious Outsiders
What exactly is 'UWB functionality'?

Are they using UWB for RF localization?

I assume you would need multiple beacons for that? Are they using the phone as a single beacon? Wouldn't this just give you a radius rather than a location?
Is that composite bin plastic? I'm trying to save the earth, not poison it!
I used this site for years without knowing what YC was.

EDIT: also, I still don't 100% know what it is. Afaik, it's like shark tank but IRL for people in silicon valley.
Which online retailer was that? Happen to have a news item to link to?
Then you'll be trading a security hole that might not even be exploitable with undefined behavior.
An urge to jump affirms the urge to live (2011)
Throwing off other intelligence agencies. These people never deal in the truth that’s the whole game.
Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless.
Your personal ethics are at odds with those of most people I know.
Your "US" sentence is "correct" in that it would not be considered odd if used colloquially/informally, but it is incorrect grammar. The one you call "UK" is correct grammar, in the US or the UK.
I'm 70 years old. My ability to hear subtle differences in sound is probably at least 20 or more years in my past. This is why I have no intention of buying a PonoPlayer, or any of the other outrageously expensive high resolution music players.
I’m glad to hear that! It also lines up with my anecdotal experience overseeing a marketing department that Benelux, German, and Japanese teams were on the opposite end of the spectrum compared to American, Israeli, and Chinese teams with respect to “marketing bullshit” practices.
Sorry, yes, you are correct. My assertion was about not being about unionism was too strong.

Its far more complex and nuanced, as you rightly point out. The ramifications of Corbyn stirring up the latent 80s unionism have yet to be fully felt.
Not an iOS developer but I wonder if using the default browser requires using a different intent than the former behavior of "always open safari" did. Books, to me, seems like one of the more neglected first-party apps so it honestly wouldn't surprise me if this is just something that's sitting in the P4 column.

Only reason I assume this is all the Google apps on my phone bring up a sheet when I tap a link asking which browser I want to use-- with "system default" being one of the options.

Really there's no excuse for this, it can't be too difficult to adapt system apps to fall in line with the expectations for third-party apps.
I am a huge fan of sqlite and will definitely be giving this a shot in the near future.

Incredible work.

I see myself using this in conjunction with a conventionally hosted pg db for dynamic content.
I used to use PSFzf indeed: it's pretty good and got me started with fzf on PS, but the history reading nor file scanning are particularly fast so currently I'm using some C# code to do those and pipe it into fzf directly. Don't recall exactly but the most basic C# code I could come up with which does 'read history file in reverse and skip duplicates' was like 3 times faster than what PSFzf uses.
My prediction is we get to L4 (bounded limited access roads and weather conditions) soon-ish which is a huge win for both convenience and safety. Getting over the "uncanny valley" is a challenge but seems doable. And pretty much punt on dense urban driving as a commercial research project.
Funny story: finasteride was used to treat enlarged prostates (and decrease risk of prostate cancer) before it was observed to reduce male-pattern balding as a side effect.
I don't know why but I've always enjoyed Amazon's UI, especially MTurk. It is the perfect blend of old school and new school that doesn't break, doesn't get in the way, and doesn't try to be modern to no benefit.
You have our sympathy, I think there are enough of us here which known that looking fine doesn't mean being fine.
But it's a union-approved bottle though.

It seems to me that a lot of the problem is (and will be) the instrumenting of jobs. The ability surveil a workforce is only going to go up. Everyone, medical techs, cashiers, plumbers, non-rockstar software developers, are going to end up with that bottle.
Note that the person I originally responded to (hopefully helpfully) is different than the person who took offense.
Any kind of choice between "yes" and "later". That's BS. If you offer "yes" you must offer "no".
That's the spoiler of a 1973 movie about a green flavor food product.
I ran into this myself 18 months ago. I had subscribed years ago online, but was unable to cancel online.

I informed the person who canceled my subscription over the phone that I'd never consider doing business with them again, unless they fixed the problem.

I hope it's fixed now! That'd be a great improvement
Minor nitpick: Git does not store diffs for any file format but always the full file for each version.
So it does not really matter that its binary (except for not being able to VIEW the diff, but I guess you could even implement a plugin for that) but just that it's a big file. Even a huge text file would be fully stored per version.

/edit: The sibling comments mentions that git can infact delta compress older commits for storage efficency. But my point was that git commits are not deltas but full snapshots.
I think it’s probably both. The api and db querying are dog slow too.
Honestly, they look very useful to me. I'm just being sarcastic to the grandparent humblebrag. I don't lose my keys, but I'm so bad at keeping track of them I keep them on a lanyard and hang them around my neck (which is why I don't lose them.)
Weird thing to say for a dying industry that's basically whoring itself for the highest bidder. You want objectivity and unbias? Those are not cheap, and until the whole journalism industry is fixed, you're going to keep getting what we have.
Very cool DIY. Was hoping to see what it looks like from the back with all the electronics in place? And maybe a video of how the swap works in practice would be helpful to illustrate.
Might want to look at Somnium Guitars for a more refined (not DIY) version of this. They have a really nice system. Not cheap, but the build quality is excellent.
darkpatterns.org is a pretty good reference: https://www.darkpatterns.org
I found that a lot of those have commonly named elements you can create rules for in noscript so you never see them. Not sure if it would effect the dark pattern ones though.
There is a hole in joe public visualiser apps that will work with any input, without too much additional setup, and taking that visualisation and superimposing it anywhere, with little or no 'setup'. There are many that do incredible things with video (EFEKT) but it's not obvious how to add to, say, OBS. Joe Public are spending more and more time making little digital things, if they could play together, that would be something. Audiobus for video.
> If we start creating laws around these things, then it’ll only be even tougher for up-comers to challenge the existing big players

This is such an unimaginative take. Laws could easily demand easy export of _all your_ data and interoperability of chat systems.
The article is just shockingly poor. to wit

> or provide any way for users to exercise their data protection rights

the privacy policy, in fact, does. Per it's update date of 5 April -- before the publication of this article on 28 April -- the privacy policy says

> Please log in to your account or contact us (at support@alphaexplorationco.com) if you need to change or correct your Personal Data, or if you wish to delete your account.

Not to mention the persistent use of single companies and their actions used to malign every startup. See, eg, the article about clearview. (If the author weren't lazy, they probably would have realized clearview is not actually a silicon valley company: it's in ny, and the primary investors are Kirenaga partners, an east coast vc firm. So really only tenuous connections to sillicon valley)
New Brunswick Cluster of Neurological Syndrome of Unknown Cause
There’s got to be a large market for that given the entire elderly population is offered a flu shot every year. Doing that as a one off would be a huge cost saving.
I mean I personally keep Slack on my Dock since it's open pretty frequently. This integrates it even more into my workflow since I can quickly check and see if I have any unreads/etc. making it more grating to switch to another chat app. Maybe it's not a "dark pattern" but it certainly is a method to increase adoption.
Paying for news in 2021 is a lot like paying for porn in 2021. Who does that.
Can formal methods succeed where UML failed?
Over the last few months I tried to think of a clever way to set up a legacy site for a dictionary that I serve on a VM just because I also need to run sqlite. Since I want to make sure it'll run for longer than me paying for the VM this is the best possible solution. At some point no more updates will happen and it's going to be a static website. So bundling it like this is incredible. I can run multiple backups on different hosts with no additional costs.
Someone I work with (female, 25 years old) had inflammation on her knuckles that is similar to what you describe. This was after her second shot - not sure if it was Moderna or Pfizer, but it was MRNA. She's fine and it eventually went away, but it's certainly interesting. She doesn't have any autoimmune disorders that she knows of.
I can’t look into your use case, but I’m not sure you realize how spectacularly bad xoring with a fixed value is as a way to generate a ‘random’ permutation.

For example, it will still alternate odd and even numbers.

Also, an adversary can derive the xor key from a single sample, and predict the entire sequence from it.
My bad misremembered
I'm always disappointed when I read stories like this. It saddens me that people are like this.

My team of 15 has a whopping 2 female engineers and they're amazing. Thankfully I've never witnessed a single instance of sexism here. There's a fair amount of ignorance and some awkward terminology though. (they often use "Hey guys" or "Hey lads").

I do remember in college we did have a female student. Of course the reaction was "Wow! A girl in the class!". She didn't last long before transferring courses...

I hope our future female engineers persist and we can get a better split between men and women. I hate being in this men's world

Please! Respect your fellow engineers, no matter what they look like or where they come from.
If you look at the prior conversation, you'll see that it isn't centered on the question you are posing here.

There was a statement that Cuba's only "transgression" was a desire to not be a US puppet state. That is a false claim.

Ignoring the language of "vehement" this and "opposed" that, I believe that my prior comment addressed your question. The present regime in Cuba is a direct descendent of the 26th of July Movement that orchestrated the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s. Cuba continues to be governed by the same faction and ideology that governed the island for four decades of the USSR's existence.
You would likely get something faster and nicer to use too, but you can’t just do it once ... you need to keep moving because otherwise the team shrinks and you lose the expertise to make even smaller changes. That stagnation is what kills a lot of custom systems.
That's interesting! I recently cancelled my NYT subscription using their live chat with no trouble at all.
There are also scams costing people money without using iOS, for example where the person is tricked into thinking they have a debt and sending thousands of dollars in cash to a random address[1]. What’s your point?

1: https://youtu.be/VrKW58MS12g (it’s the Mark Rober phone scammer video)
Don’t have a news article because I learned about it through internal channels.

It’s the one that does it for the smiles
I appreciate the discussion, but I believe you're arguing in bad faith.

> Yes, you can definitely do all of those. But almost no one does

<shrug> That's what you say. What is this based on, considering that until a few hours ago you didn't even know that Java has this built-in code generation facility?

When I search for "entity component sytem java", the first hit is this project: https://github.com/Rubentxu/Entitas-Java which uses a "code generator [that] generates classes and methods for you, so you can focus on getting the job done. Radically reduce the amount of code you have to write and improve readability. It makes more of a sea code less prone to errors to ensure the best performance."

Sure, it's probably not as widely used as other frameworks in other languages. Java isn't necessarily the first thing on people's mind when it comes to implementing AAA games.

> and those that do, usually silo themselves from the ecosystem.

You have not shown this. And if you mean that your C macro implementations do this -- fine. But you still seem to find them useful enough to keep using them?

> Yes, if you like Java, you can definitely implement a Java compiler/interpreter in C and get everything you like about Java using C.

That is a Turing equivalence argument. But using a very simple code generator for a very simple problem is not the same thing. Given that Java syntax is very similar to C, I wouldn't be surprised if your existing macros could be used 1:1, with the hardest part being getting a Java build system to call the C preprocessor on a Java file. Not quite the same thing as implementing an interpreter.

(Also, as far as I'm concerned this was never about Java per se.)
"We need all these types of work for the gears to keep turning."

Ok, we can all agree that until a high level of automation is achieved, such jobs are necessary.

But how many of the people defending the need for such jobs would actually want to do them?

Usually they're happy to let other people do them, but would balk at doing them themselves.

This is especially true for "dirty" or "unsavory" jobs such as garbageperson, exterminator, food processing / slaughterhouse worker, etc.

People are usually happy to hire such people or consume their products, and talk about how essential they are, but would never want to be one themselves.

On top of that, they'd usually look down on people with these jobs and never dream of associating with them or inviting them to their parties.
Not disagreeing with your general message regarding individual risk assessment based on age, sex, health etc. What I will say though is that you seem to be comparing to the baseline scenario "Covid stops spreading".

After one year of Covid (and its mutations) that baseline simply doesn't exist (any more). Instead we are in a no-win situation:

(a) We keep lockdowns/non-pharmacological measures and border closures,

(b) We let Covid spread slowly,

(c) We vaccinate.

Each scenario has associated cost. Now back to your point:

> But because everyone gets vaccinated, we require exceptional proofs of safety.

Safety is neither binary (exceptional/not exceptional) nor absolute and always relative to Covid. Each and every vaccine up to now is orders of magnitude safer than Covid for the vast majority of people (YMMV!).

Not an expert, but what's even more interesting is that among the already very few severe side effects, even fewer are due to the 'vaccine ingredients' (e.g. allergic reactions incl. blood clots) and many are conjectured to be due to the 'SARS-Cov-2 ingredients' (e.g. myocarditis). Heuristically speaking you can choose between Covid or a very very very mild version of Covid.