skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one point one of the medieval European universities (I want to say the University of Paris, but it might've been a different one) required that you give a course of lectures as a condition of receiving a doctorate.

Unfortunately there was a quorum requirement. You had to have a minimum number of listeners in order for it to count.

Some doctoral candidates resorted to bribery (offering free booze was a popular tactic), while others sent their friends out in the street to strong-arm people into attending.
To nitpick, "They also can't proliferate on their own and become self sustaining." - for live vaccines (not the type used for covid) that can be a reasonable concern
Sentences are imposed by judges, so if a judge in a given county has a hard-on for death sentences, you'll see more of them in that county.
I wish GPT 3 api was public. I tried out GPT 2 when I was writing out my SOP but it was really bad whenever there was a pretty technical word in the sentence. I really want to see how GPT 3 handles those cases
I think they should protest. Not all of the contents made accessible via the page was even illegal, and the page itself is not illegal. Law enforcement shouldn't expect to always get more surveillance tools than they need.
I had once a modest hack with an immediate payoff. We were using a troublesome 3rd party C++ library (back in the cfront days), whose source wasn't available.

I took care of one critical bug this way:

#define private public
#include <foo.h>

Now all the innards of the foo class were available to be fixed!
Wifi from those days wasn’t nearly as good as a hard wire. Also, it might have just not been available. It wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous 20 years ago as it is now.
The hack is pure genius, and posting the story as a series of tweets is painful. Did the genius wear off?
I was struck quite a bit by “I don't believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.”

The context it was said in made the statement rather jarring. I am all for their initial stance of "no politics" etc, but their all-hands was a face palm all around.
It's good, but still has some work to do. Still no support for JSDOM (or equivalent).
Wealthsimple raises $750M from investor group including Drake, Ryan Reynolds
Excellent post and thanks for coming around on the town homes thing. It is really the difference maker for affordability in growing popular areas
Making a faster Avro Python library with eval
Easy Fake JSON data generation with Python using jsf
The confidence you express in just denouncing this person as being divorced from reality is pretty shocking.

I'd hate to break it to you but your grasp on reality isn't any better than most humans meaning it's pretty poor.

It's been amusing to me to see this data that shows that when it comes to the rate of hospitalization with covid one side is dramatically more misinformed than the other.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-dis...

Obviously if I were to look at other pieces of information the other side would be the more uninformed one.

The point is if you are positive you are on the side of righteousness you are almost certainly wrong. I have family members who vote Republican and they are not Nazis despite your opinion that they are. I don't know if you're in your 20s or not but you remind me of a young college student ranting at the student lounge.
> - Announced a new company policy publicly before telling the staff

Bad

> - Deleted internal threads that would go against their narrative of why they did so

I am not sure where you are getting this, but I might have missed it.

> - Had a conservative senior employee go off about politics on the call discussing the new no politics policy.

Yes, on 90th minute - we are not sure what was said before that.

> - refused to reprimand said employee on the call

For what? I don't understand.

> - had one founder take this extremely sensitive call from his bed with his camera off and on mute.

We all can be sick sometimes, certainly would be better to it in some other way, but maybe he was just that sick?

- After the employees resigned, did not send any sort of public message thanking them for their time at the company.

Pretty bad, especially considering comments from Highrise employee in this thread.
I often find myself reaching out to friends either to let them know of an opportunity or asking for help. I guess like most of you I go with a mix of linkedin messages, whatsapp, sms etc.

Nothing wrong with that but this approach has no context and hard to organise.

I always wondered, it would be nice to discuss things with some context and privacy. I don't know about you but I usually do not post public messages on linkedin or twitter when I am employed and looking for the next gig..

After speaking with some of my friends and colleagues, I think (or atleast they were nice enough to make me feel that way) there is a need for such a network.

Give it a go and see what you think. This is here to stay, will keep evolving so any constructive feedback is really appreciated.
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How common? What's the denominator? It's one thing to say that failure happens often, but what matters is the ratio: the number of failures relative to the number of successes.

Denominator blindness leads to people assessing risk solely based on how vividly they can recall failures. Which in turn leads to all sorts of irrational fears and behaviors.
Isn't the point that this mosquito wipes out pristine, non-GMO affected mosquito populations?
"teraflops per second"
Totally agree. No company will think twice of their employees before terminating their employment, inspite of all the "family" talk.
Don't think relative matters much if you have a catastrophic event. One is enough. This hopefully won't have such an impact though.

I'd be more worried with nanomachines trained to consume carbon molecules to clean up oil from the ocean which started to eat all organic matter because of a Friday deploy bug.
That is bashate, not ShellCheck, but there is good reason to use [[ since these operators are not POSIX to begin with and don't work in [.
Gentically modified organisms are also a technology that has been tried and true for decades.

Even with vaccines there have been issues. See for example the Russian vaccine with the live virus. Or people who have caught polio from the Sabine vaccine. Or the kids with bowel intusseception from the Rotavirus vaccines. Or the scare about blood clots with Astra-Zeneca and J&J.

You will never be able to achieve 100% safety with zero risk.

However, you have to consider the trade offs and the baseline risks.

I think when you consider this for both vaccines and genetically modified mosquitoes, the benefits far outweighs the risks.

Edit:

Also, Moderna and Pfizer are the first vaccines to use mRNA technology. Because they haven’t been tried and true for decades, which seems to be your standard of safety, would you advise people not to take them?
Well, I welcome this. Cars do exclude people so it's about time they divide the rich and the aspirational.

There is plenty written about making the LIRR more than a rich suburbanite's 9-5 commute booster, and likewise making the long island buses complement rather than ignore a train service that runs east-west throughout the day.

Nobody need pony up 300 a month because there's no other choice.
like saying white supremacy doesnt exist in the united states
Yes. This is the wide-mouth dimple lock where you can use flag and rake. Those see-through training locks you can get from Alibaba are also of that type. You can even use regular rakes on those by rotating them slightly.
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I feel it's becoming more in line with a religion at this point, how else can you explain such large groups of people having near indistinguishable views on unrelated and complex topics. Knowing someone's view on Keystone XL pipeline shouldn't allow you to extrapolate what their views on gun control or healthcare are.

I'm curious if this is what the Catholic-Protestant rift felt like.
The Inflexibility of Hey Founders Is Killing the Product
This analysis seems to be based on a shallow reading of the content.

Much of the post is a background into the author's experience learning programming to create uniquely featured plugins, intermixed with complaints about the tech ecosystem they're walled-gardened in, followed by a product announcement for Séanceur.

This seems exactly like the posts HN is all about
Pity that Google’s amp “host page” breaks reader mode on iOS Safari. It’s why I use Duck Duck Go on my phone, so I can actually read the pages undistracted. I don’t like the DDG search results as much as Google, but Google ruining my web experience drove me away.

I wonder if amp intentionally breaks reader mode, to force viewing of Google served mobile ads.
Why does everyone want to do strategy?
> "first night curfew, hegirutte gottaa!?" with "first night" in a different color.

I laughed so hard at this. Is it TV9?
> As early as 1996 browsers were already inserting the http:// and www. for users automatically (rendering any advertisement which still contains them truly ridiculous).

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-the-url/
If they're going to have screen time, you can make it a show that they are fully engaged with, but you watch while cooking/cleaning/etc so you can share the experience/discussion with them. My kids got very keen on the survival show Alone which prompts loads of conversations about survival choices, gear, building, the wild environment, etc. And it's not so fast paced that you can't keep up with the season's stories while hanging washing or cooking.
How many executions in 2020?

17

How many people murdered due to the Reign of Terror 2020?

4,000+

Wow, your trendy pet activism of the bailed out rich killed more people than bin Laden. How about a study on that?

You also mention Jim Crow. May we look at the slavery you commit today, far worse than any other time in human history. Where do you think all your drugs, and sex workers, and cheap clothes and cheap electronics and child soldiers come from?
Your suggestions of how to tighten it up seem good, were their only goal to communicate to the largest audience.

But I'm guessing that's not their only goal, especially since the topic is of course a major personal investment for the writer.

What if the exercise of expressing themself is a primary goal, and this is how they wanted to do it?

What if they want to communicate more, to a smaller audience, maybe within that community, where some people will invest more time in reading than the median HNer?
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> anti-science

Science is a method of inquiry, and that inquiry is typically and always ought to be bound by ethical restraints.

I hope this particular experiment goes well and that we see a large benefit, but dismissing all ethical objections to ecosystem manipulation as "anti-science" is ludicrous.
Confirmed. https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA
Every now and then I play the “is it bullshit” game on Wikipedia. When I come across a reference that just gives me a gut feeling as being off, I’ll follow up on the citation.

Usually it’s just a strangely worded sentence (common on biographies of not-famous people). Every now and then I’ll find completely fabricated information with sources that either a) don’t exist at the URL or b) say something completely different.
> I don't think there were people who thought segwit was bad.

Well there were people saying it, how much anyone feel for their false claims is unambiguous.

Rick Falkvinge, for example, put out a series of articles and videos falsely claiming that segwit was patented.

People falsely claimed that segwit removes signatures from the blockchain.

People falsely claimed that segwit would make it impossible to prove ownership of coins.

People falsely claimed that segwit would make bitcoin less secure and that users funds would be stolen.

People falsely claimed that segwit would reduce scalability by using 4MB of data for 2MB of transactions. (other people claimed that they were 10% larger, which is also untrue).

People falsely claimed that segwit would not fix the malleability attacks.

People falsely claimed that segwit would require everyone to upgrade, and that it required "all bitcoin software to be partially rewritten".

People falsely claimed that coins using segwit would be less valuable.

People falsely claimed that segwit didn't solve the quadratic computational cost of signature hashing.

People falsely claimed that segwit was not a softfork.

People claimed segwit was activated in spite of majority opposition (in fact when segwit activated >90% of nodes were running the software and 95% of hashpower).

People claimed that segwit was a "poison pill that would result in a network suicide".

People falsely claimed that segwit was a plot by Bilderberg to give some shadow "jew" coalition control over Bitcoin. (I really had no idea how much anti-semitism was still a thing online until I was getting a bunch of fucked up shit sent to me ... and I'm not even a jew, but the facts didn't stop the people hating on segwit).

I'm actually copying these brain damaged arguments out of published articles, I just don't want to give that retardation traffic. This doesn't even include the more hyperbolic nonsense that got taken offline as it was embarrassingly disproved.

:)

By the time segwit activated bcash already existed-- so the bigger block people had thing and were basically in full on sabotage-bitcoin mode.
>"CNN says the White House is discussing a new plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance of Americans—by paying private companies..."

How does doing something you're not supposed to do suddenly legal because you pay someone else to do the bad thing?

It's been 20 years since the WTC/9-11. This is just inertia and it's not going to stop at the government's hand. People need to demand that all those provisions get sunset and all organizations built around it dismantled and sent home.
The same metro area can present a tradeoff between short train ride/tiny apartment and long drive/big house. If your statement were true there would be little demand for the former. But it turns out there’s a lot.
Your format might become viral (not the best wording since last year I guess), I'll borrow it.

> I don't have experience working with engineering team larger than 4 people

I've yet to see a team of 5 who have the exact same responsibilities unless it's a support.
Who underwrites this kind of experiment?

I can’t imagine that the FKMCD or Oxitec have liability insurance that covers the externalities of modifying wildlife. They also don’t have the manpower but I see this comes under the umbrella of the EPA and therefore the Federal Government.

That gives some assurance that if a Really Bad Thing happens, there will be global-scale resources to implement a cleanup.
Never prioritizing your own needs is a good way to end up bitter and divorced. Also competitive sports before high school should be considered child abuse. After all kids aren't the ones signing themselves up for these intensive programs.
Biden team may partner with private firms to bypass legal limits on monitoring
Who’s to say that our greatest writers didn’t “trip over meaning”? A lot of poetic processes involve finding, curating and re-contextualizing interesting phrases (see found poetry), and there’s potentially a lot of value in applying the same process to computer-generated writing.
It's an outpouring of the author's thoughts, feelings, and background of the whole space. Through it, you get a sense for how invested she is in a niche space. I can't speak for the author, but it felt like catharsis in blogpost form, rather than a plea for understanding or a call to arms -- such a post does not need to get to the point or cater to your wishes.

It's unfortunate that your takeaway was "TL;DR plz, also stop whining". HN's rules specifically call out this behavior:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Your comment comes off as a very shallow attempt at critical feedback, and I have a hard time believing it's intended to do anything other than tear the author down.
Countless species are already going extinct all the time, both known to us and completely unknown to us, and both "naturally" and from human impact, and no one really cares.

Here's a rare case of a species that there is very good reason to deliberately get rid of, and suddenly people care and object, a lot!?

Of course there's justifiable skepticism and a long, sorry history of unintended consequences of introducing, eradicating or in any way modifying a species or its behavior, but seriously, read up on it, this is not one of those species, pretty much everyone who knows anything about it (including otherwise very environmentally minded people who as a rule would never, ever agree with deliberately eradicating anything) agrees it can be eradicated with no meaningful impact on the ecosystem. (and yes, that includes even the armchair criticism from cynical misanthropes who consider human deaths resulting from this species a good thing "because humans are bad for the environment" - while these mosquitoes do cause a lot of human deaths, the environmental "benefit" of those deaths are completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things)
Python's integers are unbounded.
From a section on theory of self-reinforcement

Once an office assembles a staff that has handled a capital trial, it draws upon this capacity to pursue the death penalty in subsequent cases, which further augments the office’s institutional capacity to pursue the death penalty. This self-reinforcing dynamic between capacity and caseload makes it more likely for offices that obtain death sentences to seek the death penalty going forward. Conversely, offices that cease to obtain death penalties (or never obtained death penalties in the first place) may be less likely to reverse course as institutional capacity for death penalty sentencing erodes (or is never developed). … This path dependency may reflect practices of prosecutors who make the charging decisions whether to seek the death penalty, but it may also capture defense lawyering, judges, jurors, and other features of a county that make it more likely to continue to death sentence over time

Wow, Kafka couldn't have said it better himself. Morbid bureaucratic mechanism of horror
Yep. It sounds like a fork at this point would probably be a good thing, but it's hard to get momentum behind a fork effort if mentioning the fork means being censored or banished from the existing VCVRack community.

This also makes me wonder if maybe any open source software community should ideally be based on some platform moderated by a neutral party. Or at least that there's some mechanism to escalate censorship issues to someone unaffiliated with the project. One of the problems with reddit seems to be that the moderators of any given subreddit are basically monarchs
Great example of what happens when you disrupt one part of a food chain:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral-overfishing.html
Since when do we elevate a difference of opinion to rudeness?

Not every maintainer has the same objectives for their project being open source. Not every project maintainer gives their time or attention to (potential) contributors.
Would be awesome to see the original artist open source the art work for official download, and perhaps for a price which could go towards some OSS development. I’m sure people would pay for it.
> Then why does every billionaire and national newspaper support those things

1. Most national news, by number of publications leans left. Conservative publications get more eyeballs per outlet, though. Most local news, of course, takes the installation of a single bike lane as evidence that the ghosts of Pol Pot and Stalin have just succeeded in an unholy socialist coup of the local city council.

2. Right leaning billionaires tend to keep their mouths shut more than left-leaning ones.
Singer clarifies in the later follow up to say he was referring to the people at Basecamp, not in reference to the whole country.

> To which Singer responded: “I said we have different ways of framing … If you want to debate whether it exists anywhere, then yeah. But not here at this company, not with the people I associate with.”

Edit: to add quote
I always just define a custom comparison operator, which is easy enough in both C++ and PostgreSQL.
1. uninstall all apps that aren't essential

2. turn off all notifications

3. use parental control mode to add all the websites that might create a distraction. (this will create some problems, like not being able to login to an app using Facebook Connect, or not being able to search for "hot tubs" through Google, but it's worth it). Do not ever remove websites from this list once setup, and try to add everything on the first pass so you're not comfortable messing around with parental control configuration.

4. [this step is important] forget how to remove parental control

5. meditate daily
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27033019
90% of the post is a long, emotion-fueled rant with a product announcement at the very end.

Framing matters. We all learned this by high school.

If you're trying to pitch new thing, the form of the article should be inverted. That's the difference between well-intentioned content with a reader in mind and something that's self-serving instead.

Some bloggers need editors.

Worse still, the last section about Séanceur kind of indicates that the author doesn't have a very good understanding of what it is they're building and makes me call into question the entire account.