skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don’t know what you mean by teaching mastery of ones self control to children.

They are kids not monks. You can teach them all the self control you like, I don’t think there is a serious argument that let’s say for some particularly sadistic reason I wanted to bully them and do real harm. How difficult do you think it would be exactly?

Kids or adults for that matter aren’t failures for feeling hurt. The idea that you can’t hurt someone without physical pain is really not a serious idea.

It’s entirely possible to get overcome that and genuinely not let it impact you, I’m not saying that, I’m saying for a lot of people it’s not a normal reaction. The goal of life isn’t to not feel emotions in response to words. I genuinely am not even sure you would even really want that if you had a choice.
When I was in college, someone did this with my phone. Luckily, they gave it back a minute later - perhaps because I made a ruckus, and perhaps because they felt bad about robbing a student, who knows.

Still, it made me pretty uncomfortable using devices in public after that. For all the effort we put into cybersecurity, our measures are trivially defeated by a common thug. Even YubiKeys securing all your accounts wouldn’t do much to protect you from this.
I think advertising has been crucial to increasing the economic size of the world. It's a valid argument if you think our world is crap, and we should never have switched to bigger civilizations. But the economic growth, driven significantly by increasing the available market for products, has led lots of people out of poverty, spurred innovation, and generally enabled a lot more humans to be born than would have.

Advertising expands markets for goods.
Ah, interesting - quite a few bits I hadn't thought of. What scale of pricing are we talking here? Mine are mostly $5 to $15k USD.
Beautiful, Idiomatic Python (2013)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/25/...

CA climate has been much drier in the past, even before global warming. We seem to have this discussion every few years when there's a drought, but quickly forget. It seems like we do the same thing with wildfires and earthquakes.
Alright, glad I could help!
Astonishing! I love it.
It pushes people into poverty, via unemployment.
exactly the opposite experience here.

the grinding/taste/vibration/experience of a filling is much worse for me than the experience of an extraction.

I don't know if that's rare or not -- but I have a very real aversion to the experience of dental grinding equipment, and that stuff tends not to get used much if at all during extractions.
I was thinking something tied to the accerometer - I know laptops used to have those when they had spinning disk. Sudden movement locks the screen.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see...
> They couldn't be detected by those tests anyway if they don't have symptoms, or at least not until shortly before symptoms become apparent.

Your topmost comment mentioned tests can detect BSE "2-3 months before" symptoms. That'd catch more than waiting for symptoms - especially if done broadly! Waiting for symptoms, when the window-of-detection is so small & so late-in-life, & most cows slaughtered young, seems designed for entities that "would rather not know".

> Most importantly COVID tests can detect if you have COVID even when asymptomatic, but BSE tests cannot detect BSE before it is symptomatic.

This contradicts the explicit 2-3 months before symptoms claim you made previously. Also, being less restrictive about testing could create the necessary market for more sensitive tests. If a cow can have it its full life, but it only reaches detectable levels after years, maybe tests can eventually detect the early presence.

> First, the testing is of symptomatic cows, not asymptomatic cows, and it is deliberately not a random sample, but a sample of the population that is most likely to have it.

Exactly! There's zero testing where it wouldn't already be suspected. So no chance to discover a problem early, or challenge the assumptions limiting testing.

> Second, my point is that the lack of any cases of young people with vCJD in the US, let alone widespread cases, indicates that it simply isn't the case that we have some phantom population of cows with BSE that are being let through by the USDA.

Indeed, but the correlate of that is that the regime you're advocating can thus only detect a problem after a bunch of atypical, or weven "widespread", cases are noticed. That's the signal you're waiting for, before testing more.

That approach sucked for COVID, it'll suck for BSE.
I suspect over the next decade we'll see architectural changes and a whole host of liberating form factors where relatively modest processing power is sufficient to provide huge utility, from eyeglasses to earrings, to implants of various sorts. Also we're already at the point of being able to do some serious processing in a pill that's small enough to digest and excrete safely. Near-real-time chemical assay can't be that far off.
You’re providing very basic critiques of all surveys, not just this. Feel free to critique the methods that BLS (and many other big surveys) and you may be able to improve them.

I think they certainly aren’t perfect and this isn’t meant as an absolute measure, but an estimate. So it’s the best measure we have compared to everything else.

Perhaps we should ignore it because it is worse than nothing. But if you read through the methods you’ll see that they plan for the issues you bring up as they are typical for phone surveys.

Also, if we’re just pitching narrative, I expect job seekers to be more likely to be responding to phone and email since they are waiting on interviews to contact them back.
It's very nice. I wish this was just how the web worked for stuff like this.
But we moved 50 million people there in the past 60 years so clearly nature must stop the mega drought cycle.
Agreed. But some Spanish speakers pronounce t with the tongue quite far forward, between the teeth; that’s what I meant by comparing it to an unaspirated English th. But I think we are getting into regional variations now.

It’s even more crucial with d. An English native speaker who is a beginner in Spanish will pronounce tened in a way that will be interpreted by Spanish speakers as tener.
The latter I think is also what Taleb was referring to when, in the context of criticizing IQ, he remarked that most of Europe was a backwater for most of history
i remember years ago my wife's friend (we're in US, she was in the UK) commented about how crappy US 'vacation' policies were. She'd been at a place for ... several years, and now had seniority for... at the time it was 11 paid weeks off. It seemed a bit excessive, because it didn't include some national holidays as well, so... basically she had > 3 months 'off' every year. The biggest problem she/they had was trying to figure out stuff to 'do' during that time (visited us in the US for a bit). I think another issue was trying to coordinate her 'time off' with her husband (IIRC he 'only' got 8 weeks paid vacation).
> /ʒ/ does not occur in word-initial position in English

I never noticed that until now. While it's obviously not an English word, plenty of English speakers have discussed French explorer Jacques Cousteau. I can't think of any other examples.
Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
Optimal Feature Discovery: Better, Leaner ML Models Through Information Theory
Ask HN: Is AI/ML over-hyped in biology and earth science?
I see a general trend in academia to include machine learning in every proposal and apply it to every problem. I failed yet to see the advantages outside prediction which is some cases are indeed very useful e.g. the protein folding but I don't see how far it can advance science. My question is, do you think ML in academia is currently over-hyped?
Game Therapy Education
> and I have no kids

According to their algorithm, you do now.
I was an early adopter, used it with their Linux client. Then didn't use it for quite a while.

Some time after the "Stellar" drop, I tried to set up their client again, but it now wanted some authorisation from a different of my devices. However, I never registered any other devices to my account, nor did they have paper keys back then. Logging into the website still worked fine, but only gave very limited functionality.

Even after digging out the old config files from back then, the (newer) client gave some obscure error message after semi-logging in. Same for older versions I've tried.

Thus I had to completely reset my account and it seems my Stellar balance is gone, too. That's when I abandoned my account.
User endorsement:

I use this with a lenovo WatchX and it works well. It is pretty basic so you can join the party and hack if you feel it. WatchX is very cheap. ~USD $30 on aliexpress.

I would not ever go near the lenovo watch android app which I consider to be on par with radioactive toxic waste.

Using gadgetbridge & Watch X is superior to the Apple Watch & ecosystem at about 1/10th the cost. Recommended.
This looks very interesting! I only skimmed the abstract now, but I will look more closely tomorrow. Back in 2016-17 I did a master's thesis on a combination of (much simpler) cellular automata and neuroevolution, and had some thoughts about how other neural "paradigms" like backpropagated deep nets and indeed, adversarial training could be used with CAs. It's great to see that it's an ongoing topic of research.
That actually sounds awesome... A bit like the setuid bit on unix for running the ping utility always as root (normal users can't receive ping packets), but with a whole lot more flexibility.

I can see how careless use of it can lead to an unintentionally rather massive security surface area though...
Ideally that would be best but I wasted my time reading the entire paper because I took the initial upvotes it got as a signal that it was worth reading.

I gave two examples above where the authors’ claims are very weak and explained by something that myself and others with an initial reading seems more plausible.

If you want to discuss the merits further that is fine but in my opinion it is a waste of time. I think you should post your opinions on the merits of the paper as well, I think, but I'm not certain and I could be wrong, that you'll wish you hadn't read the paper or taken the author seriously because we all have limited time and competing things that we find interesting.
90% is a lot, but we do plan on having lower fees.
>32 bit color

Terry must be rolling in his grave
I’m sorry, I guess I am just missing the point you are trying to make.
> Here are some companies that did/do this:
coil.com
gatehub.net
forte.io

^ This is a bit silly of a counterexample given that these 3 companies are all able to exist from the significant XRP investments from Ripple.

> You dont need a token. No, really you dont. Your tokens only use case is likely to transfer value

That's rather untrue. Token use cases have proliferated through the advent of DeFi (decentralized finance). This would be a more accurate take during the 2017 ICO bubble but the space has matured a great deal. There are valid use cases now such as governance, fee sharing, derivatives, etc.

> But you get the point, every DLT that actually works in a useful way should have people building on top - if not its probably garbage tech)

This communicates OP's lack of familiarity with the crypto space. A vast majority of the tokens launched today are launched on top of the Ethereum blockchain. They're not trying to create better tokens for the transfer of value, they're trying to create tokens to help manage decentralized financial services. They're not even DLTs, they're smart contract applications.

It's rather easy to mock the crypto space and have an oversimplified perspective like this, most people will nod along. However, it's a bit sad to see people on a forum like this make such charged statements oversimplifying the work of others as "garbage tech."
It seems pretty common for tech companies/projects touting openness and freedom becoming that which they fight against. Witness all of the issues Firefox have fallen prey over the years. I remember a decade ago when Ubuntu first added Amazon integration into search results. CyanogenMod losing its way, the company behind it commercializing it and signing the partnership with Microsoft. Seems like it happens a lot.
Yeah, agreed. I can see Mighty as perhaps being useful as a band-aid to deal with someone else's poor, resource-hungry design.

But if you're the actual app developer, I'm just not seeing a good reason why you would want to deliberately incorporate this technology into your design. Why farm the sever-side rendering out to a middleman when you could just... do server-side rendering?
Twitter not taking a cut is surprising and welcome.
Exactly my point :) that’s not micropayments that’s full on payments and you subscribe monthly!
As long as they're not doing anything illegal? No.
The compiler doesn't know how the CPU branch predictor works either. It's not especially good at optimizing this, or guessing if a branch is predictable or not, so you might as well do it yourself.
Or simultaneous zero. Both took watches off.
At least 4 different types of hops that can be mixed in different ratios, at different times during brewing, etc.
Do they have a deprecation notice up already?
Sugary drinks linked to increased colorectal cancer risk in women under 50
Except you can't really do this with FB - they serve the ads from the same place they serve the content. AFAIK, ad blocking in FB/IG/WA doesn't work except on Desktop?
This argument have been attempted already, you can also take Juicero, "can you just squeeze the bad yourself?" , and was indeed a dumb idea. This "crazy idea" is not removing any friction to regular people, regular people browse youtube, or instagram, tik tok, etc... this is targeted to techies, look at the homepage, people who are pointing out the "crazy new idea" , is neither crazy, new, or good at all, are the target of this product. Just because some successful companies had bad feedback in the beginning, doesn't imply "you missed it" or their product will become the next thing. The HN crowd of today is also not the same as the crowd back then(dropbox founder comment fiesta...).
Regardless of what this author thinks. Advertising is the bane of our existence. How many hours have we wasted watching advertisements (whether it's in the form of network television, billboards, radio ads, or intermittent ads in VOD sites like YT)?

If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise (take for example, Ferrari or Lamborghini). If companies focused on making their products better rather than spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising a half baked product, it would make the world so much better.
>How physical space emerges from configuration space is a deep mystery.

Exactly, how quantum collapse happens, or what quantum collapse even is, is one of the biggest mysteries of physics.

And I'll argue that as long as we don't have an explanation for that bridge between the "configuration space" and the "physical space" like you call them, the former may as well be magic.

Yes it would make learning and explaining the rules of magic a bit easier if you get into that mindset, but it still doesn't make it intuitive, but just easier to accept.

If anything, it does feel we could very well be living in a simulation governed by arbitrarily defined rules that exist on a different plane than other physical laws. Hmmm maybe we should give non-local hidden variable theories another look...
Please don't be snarky or take HN threads even further in the flamewar direction. No matter how you feel about $person or $subject, it's bad for community to pee in the swimming pool this way. It encourages the more discerning swimmers not to stick around—and we're trying for something else in any case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Bottom line is in the last few sentences (ironically for an article on communicating science):

> But the message isn’t out there. If the response to the pandemic has had one lesson, it’s that people with more information make better decisions. You want to get your normal life back? You have to stop the pandemic for other people. The sin of vaccine statistics is making that simple truth murky instead of clear.
> “We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents,” the proposal states,

Seems blatantly unscientific, and grotesque.
Client A = 100 dollars
client B = 0 dollars
Bank passive = 100 dollars
bank actives = 100
client b makes a loan of 70 dollars
client A = 100 dollars
client B = 70 dollars
Bank passives = 170
bank actives = 170
Now client C needs a 100 dollars loan.
100 < 170.

Bank actives 270
bank passives 270
…
clang also has `__builtin_unpredictable` which is at least as useful as likely/unlikely.
During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. (East of Eden)
I don't know if I would call it "pornography for women" but in my experience women tend to be more interested in social dynamics. e.g. Who said what to whom and why, X is fighting with Y because of Z and J is siding X instead of K, and so on.

These shows tend to be about groups of characters engaging in what you might call social or political struggles. Tensions, drama, conflict, emotions, and so on. Reality shows like the Kardashians are a distillation of these aspects and create something that is sweet like sugar to people who are disposed to enjoy that flavor.

I think a lot of people judge reality TV shows without watching them and kind of look down on them. If you don't have the taste for something it's easy to look down on it. For example, lots of people look down on Star Trek, which I loved when I was younger and still do. If I had to answer why I liked Star Trek, it's because I like to imagine myself as Captain Picard and figure out what I would do if I were faced with the given moral dilemma of the week. If my fantasy preferences tended towards "How would I handle the handsome jerk my sister is dating while I myself am a beautiful billionaire?" then I would watch different shows.
I took it as a given that we could agree that there was an explicit system of racial hierarchy in the United States.

Call that social justice dogma if you want, but I’d consider it an objective fact.

Edit: because it seems to be unclear. The word “was” was in reference to the past. It’s an objective fact that there _was_ an explicit system of racial hierarchy in the United States.
I’m so tired of these pseudo science modelers. We have seen where it leads us with covid. Humans tend to overestimate their importance.
Yes, we can "circle back" in a few years and "touch base" with him to see if he still feels the same.
Except for children, who often ask the best questions.
Python: Modern Dictionaries (2016)
The big mac index was created to compare relative currency strengths, but if you can use it to get a view into the price of big macs internationally. A big mac costs €4.25 in the euro area and US$5.66 as of Dec 2020. So in nations that have better minimum wages, and much more complete safety nets (and more taxes), the big mac is actually cheaper. (maybe that reflects the lower cost of universal healthcare)

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index

Note there are high safety net nations both above and below the US cost of Big mac, which signals that maybe something else is afoot there. But certainly there is enough variation to dispel that unemployment benefits are correlated the cost of the big mac.
Here's documentation of all of the stuff it talks to, if anyone's curious:

https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/

(pcaps linked in the post, too.)
More recently:

Seeing small things is difficult. Instead of making microscopes better, what if we made the samples bigger?

(Expansion microscopy)
I hate that one too. I think it's meant to imply a sort of pioneering by making something usable which previously wasn't, rather than merely employing it like some plebe. I've noticed an inverse correlationation between pomposity and substantiveness.
Everytime I see that gofundme posted to the front page, it seemed to go down awfully fast.
> But we legislated and plumbed this state for a different climate pattern, when annual winter rains reliably fell on Sonoma and points north, and a full Sierra snowpack reliably melted through the spring and summer to feed streams and irrigate orchards and farm fields. That era is long gone. The snowpack comes unpredictably, because a warmer climate means water that formerly stayed in the mountains as snow through the summer now melts sooner, or falls as rain and rushes westward to the sea in the winter, when we need it the least. A quick look at any satellite photo from a heavy-snow year reveals that no number of new dams could ever replace the snowpack’s formerly reliable volume.

The headline is the epitome of burying the lede. If you read to the bottom, the writer clearly lays out the actual thesis: rainfall is the same - the problem is that snowpack is seriously declining. Which is kind of like a moisture battery. This is why climate change can counterintuitively cause both "droughts" and floods.

I'll admit that it took the longest time for me to understand the concept myself.
There are tools to automatically generate "safe" C++-Rust bindings (the intent being to restrict unsafety to trusting C++ code to be sound, without the risk of screwing up the bindings): https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx and https://cxx.rs/.

However, creating bindings without typing out `unsafe` was a controversial issue, discussed at https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ielvxu/the_cxx_debate... .

Also there are tools to automatically parse C++ headers and turn them into cxx bindings: https://github.com/google/autocxx and https://docs.rs/autocxx/
Sorry for the confusion what I meant was this is achievable today, but instead people opt to avoid micropayments and instead want to watch ads + get the content free, or pay for an all you can eat model. Everyone’s thought about micropayments. For decades. They’ve tried it many times. There’s no technological reason today that micropayments couldn’t be adopted overnight. They reason they aren’t is because people don’t want them.

There’s a mass grave of micropayments startups, and I bet you anything it’s not because they couldn’t figure out how to debit and credit fractions of a unit.

People don’t want to continuously make judgements about whether they’re getting good value for money in their content - especially their entertainment content.
The OS is extremely chatty even without OCSP.