skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not the parent and I don't speak for the parent, but I think I share some of the same sentiment.

I'm not confused about the categorical parts of biology. I don't understand it all, but that's OK, I don't need to. What's irritating is the pedantry that comes from articles like this.

If I wrote an article like, "There's no such thing as a strawberry, cryptographically," I imagine it would be entirely uninteresting.

If I write a tree categorization algorithm that categories what I call a "tree" as something else, my algorithm would be buggy.
Baseball has been grievously harmed by the numbers. Too many strike outs and home runs, and the shift has just become infuriating. Reading a 6-3 in the scorebook, one has no idea what actually happened.
Many of the Ls are metal on the inside. A tough lightweight plastic shell can have major advantages (lighter, impact resistance, etc.)

For a great example of a sharp modern L, check out the 16-35 f/4 IS. I'm not an ultra wide photographer by nature, but that lens impresses me each time it is called-upon.

Choosing lenses, in the long run, is such a personal choice. My favorite first came to market in the early 1990s (and spent this morning with it) -- glad you have found good fits, too :).
Their structures required more planning and delayed gratification.
This is the exact sort of nuance I think belongs in the article
In answer to a sister comment about a location where pairing was only for the underlings (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27103743) I will say that one other thing Menlo does to show they are serious is that the do pairing in other places too. Even their "High Tech Anthropologists" (people who get the specs from the customers), and the project managers work in pairs. I think that helps the culture around pairing significantly.
Yes you are right, I was going to, but I guess I didn't want to drag the subject.

Here is the article I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence

Its talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Turkish_War_of_Independen...

In the introduction, the war was painted as basically an "ethnic cleansing campaign", which nowhere in the article was such words used, and is a gross oversimplification. Although both sides massacred each other (mostly the actions of irregulars), the independence war itself was never defined like that before. Additinally, an odd "Historiography" section was added. To me, it looks pretty clear that these edits were made in bad faith.

I think this comment sums it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/WikipediaVandalism/comments/n4lfcr/...

The "switch" mentioned in the comment is the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey following an agreement between Greek and Turkish governments, which I think shouldn't have happened as both countries would be more diverse.

If only people valued the idea of "world citizenship" and rejected all forms of extreme nationalism...
DNA’s Histone Spools Hint at How Complex Cells Evolved
I mean, let's try to build a von Neumann probe. How? I don't believe that our knowledge will continue to increase exponentially. Hard AI may never be achievable (although von Neumann probes don't necessarily need it). In order to build a von Neumann probe, once you need the very first microchip or anything resembling one, you're screwed. Will the von Neumann probes also be able to build an entire fabrication lab?
There are some limits. For instance your Internet Protocol address(es) are considered to be personal data, yet AFAIK the various routers that have to store them in the normal process of doing Internet connections don't have to comply with the GDPR ?
NFTs – Beyond the hype (Simple explainer)
In the sense of its ecosystem and current usage.
Data on the Dispersion of Staff Productivity
3. Is this behavior going to continue happening?

If YES:

Sooner or later it will happen in a way where the answer to either 1 or 2 is YES. So get your resume together and start looking - not in a panic, because you still have time, but look in a somewhat steady, deliberate fashion.

If NO:

Go to 2b.
> DPreview largely seems to write for the crowd that doesn't even care about the art aspect...

As a hobbyist photographer and a reader of DPReview, I can tell that you can find what you're looking for. There also guys who are in for the art, in for the studio photography or just for gear.

These kind of technical articles makes me happy and piques my interest deeply, because I love to know how things work, and why they're designed this way.

I'm personally aware that better gear makes my photography better, however I love to know theoretical capabilities and limits of my gear. Understanding my gear made my photography better and DPReview's both articles and forums helped me a lot TBH.

For the most light and scenarios, f2.8 is very suitable from my experience, esp. with latest generation of sensors (A7III, Z6/7, etc.), however in extreme dim light (I shoot tango dancing, BTW), f1.8 is really helping. Since you're away from subjects too, DoF becomes very acceptable too.

I agree that unless you've a specific need, f1.4 and f1.2 lenses are halo products. As a Sony shooter, that 2.5/40mm lens [0] is very compelling for street photography from perspective.

At the end of the day, new lenses are giant leaps when compared to older ones in terms of resolution and sharpness. Older lenses indeed have character but, newer ones are not always devoid of it.

[0]: https://www.sony.com/electronics/camera-lenses/sel40f25g
You know most of SV was built on military tech requirements and its not "murder" if its a navy assaulting an enemy ship.
This is the right answer here. Justinguitar has a very structured introduction to guitar, with specific practice exercises. Not sure what else you could want.
Collect data now, profit later
Hacking Equifax[1] makes sense, because it directly useful for intelligence work. Find people of interest who have credit problems, and lean on them. [2]

This isn't even a blip on the radar of global fuel prices. It is completely lost in the noise. [3]

[1] Or the OPM, since it was kind enough to have lists of 'all spies operating abroad' on its intranet. Whoops.

[2] I mean, you could also just pose as a landlord or employer, and ask for credit checks on them, it costs ~$30 per query, but it is what it is.

[3] If the FSB really wants to increase demand for fuel, they should try stalling a junker or two on an interstate bridge... Imagine the fuel wasted from all the cars idling, or taking detours!
Pairing is optional at my employer.

As a manager, I'm always on the look-out for tasks where I feel pairing may provide value. These are often moderately complicated tasks where I want a more junior team-member involved. Or, doing green-field UI work, I'll suggest one of the more UX-savvy developers pair with a small group of developers.

I have also managed people who just like to work together and they're free to pair and unpair on an ad-hoc basis. I don't care, as long as progress is being made.

Edit - I've never "paired" in the way you suggest in a sibling response (assigning a ticket to 2 developers).
Agreed, but also internet basically gave everyone a megaphone, so that they can shout their mediocre achievements.
Isn’t the mission of the James Webb to study the earliest galaxies in the universe? I’ve never heard of it being used for SETI work.
slight correction:

In good light, great photographs can be taken with any camera.
also memorably enacted in World War Z (the book) https://worldwarz.fandom.com/wiki/Holy_Russian_Empire
Hah. I've had that experience but with sound.

Long time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and AMD K8 was the pinnacle of technology, I invested in a basic home theater setup. A decent AV receiver, a subwoofer, two studio-quality monitor speakers. A friend warned me that the speakers I had picked were "crisp, but unforgiving".

All of a sudden DVDs sounded wonderful. The audio tracks in TV programmes became clear. The warnings made no sense.

Until I watched a classic TV show episode from 1980's. Bad mixing. Flipped stereo channels. Stuffy voiceovers. Everything sounded ... wrong.

Suddenly, it all made sense. I understood.
You could use Materialistic or any other apps that make it easier to view HN.
And people think billionaires don't waste resources :shrug:
Yes. Needs comparison to past years to be useful. Would also be helpful to compare books that came out in past year or few years to see how their sales trends. We also need to know what those books that are tracked are. Are they just in print titles? Or does it count 60 year old used biology textbooks for sale on Amazon no one wants? Or dated romance novels long past their prime? Because if those are included I'm not surprised they are struggling to sell 1000 copies. Even new books in niche academic fields can struggle to sell 1000 copies as the audience is so small.
Main issue with Parquet is actually the metadata. CSV is nice because I can send it to a friend and they can instantly understand it; you can print it and understand it.

In contrast, Parquet is good for systems and I definitely recommend it in programming, but sharing.. not so much.
Slate Star Codex has an article that examines this effect in more detail (although the author doesn't make any conclusions as to the cause): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
Sherlock Holmes started with this model (being published in The Strand Magazine with other stories and articles) and it's still used for manga. It's a little bit different as they were not single-author, but I don't see why it couldn't work again.
This reminds me of an old WWI video where the troops are still coming to grips with the technology. It will be interesting to see how things evolve in the future.
>Did it used to be easier to make a living as an author?

My assumption is almost certainly yes--provided you made it through the big publisher gatekeepers. (And were able to parlay that into shelf space at the store.)

- People probably read more books. There were fewer other demands on attention, whether YouTube, social media, online content generally, etc. I certainly read books far less than I used to.

- There was less competition once you got through the aforementioned gatekeepers.

- There was less discounting. Books used to be sold at list price. And, subsequently, maybe at a small discount in some places.

- Publishers often provided support with marketing activities.
> Pirated e-books probably have chiseled away some of the business.

Not just that but also licensing.

I live in Europe and it happens a LOT that I can't get a book I want here. Either it's not yet released because it's released in phases. I read English only, however publishers tend to wait to release the English version until the local translation is out, so they don't lose potential sales of the translated version.

Also, some books are simply not sold here for some reason. It happens so often that I go through the Kindle app and then end up with the "This item is not available in your region" message.

At that point I go the easy way. I could get a US prepaid card and use a VPN or whatever but I'm not going to go out of my way to throw money at them. If they don't want to take my money, then they won't get it. I know I'm hurting the authors more than the publishers but I'm just not going to wait for it to become available here.
Primera superapp en Bolivia con suscripción go-PRIME, delivery gratis, transporte, envios, servicios
> perhaps it’s time to face the music and realize that writing books—like knitting or playing the harp—is nothing more than a hobby

I've approached every creative endeavor in this way. I see no reason writing should be any different.

I'm not trying to be overly cynical, I'm just not surprised that writing is any different than music, painting, etc.
> But if that fails, it is definitely better to review and catch it after the code is written than to submit badly written code out of fear of wasted effort.

Yes, without a doubt.

> Having reviews to catch the odd lapse in judgement or logical misstep doesn't usually add a lot of overhead (as opposed to allocating two programmers to every menial task)

Having paired for years, and soloed for years, I have found that the downsides of allocation are overridden by the benefits of pairing, one of which is real-time code review.
Can’t your solidarity just pay him/her (a higher wage) to do nothing instead of working for the bosses? If your own math checks out, that should be a win-win.
so you wouldn't mind if the feds just seized your stored wealth?

note, being a citizen in good standing with the law does not necessarily prevent this from happening.

I don't understand why you would want it to be easy for your property to be seized.

Lastly, the "I got nothing to hide" argument is a fallacy - as Snowden has said, it is analogous to being against freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
Some things at work here:

1. Leisure reading is at an all time low and declining [1]. I think reading books will go the way of live theater and classical music performances. It won't go away, but instead of a common, "every-man/woman" type of outing, it will be more niche/special occasion. I.e. whereas tons of people used to read often for pleasure in the early part of the 20th century, it is heading more towards a "only on vacation" or other special-occasion type activity for most folks.

2. Publishing has always been a hit-driven business, but my thought is that, like many other industries affected by the internet, it has consolidated even more (i.e. it's much easier to search and buy just based on "top" lists than it was previously - a popular book can reach a ton more people, but it's much harder to be popular in the first place).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/29/leisu...
I've had success with B complex vitamins in combination with 3-4x full body cardio workouts per week and chiropractor visits.

The B Complex aids in the reduction of inflammation of the nerve sheaves, the primary cause of carpal tunnel, while the cardio workouts flush your lymphatic system as well as maintain general good health.

Research on B Complex and carpal tunnel:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3603108/
This is almost exactly what a subgenre called LitRPG does. The authors usually run a Patreon where patrons can read chapters in advance. If you look at this [0], there are 4345 patrons and the lowest tier is $1.00, giving a lower bound of $52k per year. Although it's likely to be far more higher than that, if you look at the patron->dollars ratio here [1]. In general, the model seems to function very well in some specific scenarios.

[0]
https://www.patreon.com/pirateaba

[1]
https://www.patreon.com/Zogarth
That's why I don't know what to say to people who ask me why I would write my own date picker control or my own URL parser or (you might want to sit down for this) my own cryptography routines. If you don't already understand why I would want to do that, I don't have an explanation that's going to make sense.
It is conflating dark matter with dark energy, and counting them both together.
The game mentioned in the article, "Overcooked", actually caused my first and so far only visual migraine. It just completely stressed me out, forcing me to focus on an impossible task. Suddenly my vision looked like someone threw a wiimote into a TV.

I think pair programming is nice when cracking a tough nut of a problem or doing something highly safety-critical, but it's very taxing and there's no way I could do it all day long.
>With that continuing to increase, it might actually be statistically safer to keep it under your bed than at the bank's safety deposit.

Whether that's true would depend on the false positive rate of civil forfeitures. Even if it's some absurdly high number (eg. 50%), you'd still need 2x as much civil forfeitures than burglaries for the risk to be equal (presumably nobody "deserves" a burglary). Also in theory civil forfeitures can be recovered, if you can provide documentation that the items aren't ill gotten gains. I'm not sure what the recovery rate for burglary is, but I'd imagine that P(assets recovered from civil forfeiture|you are innocent) is much greater than P(assets recovered from burglary).
> You're trading one threat (negligence on the part of the bank) for another (your home getting robbed/burgled).

Only one of these are you in any control over.

Banks are also bigger targets. Bank robber Willie Sutton was famously asked why he robbed banks. "Because that's where the money is," he said. That's the problem with putting all the valuables together in one place.

Meanwhile you can't so easily get your stuff caught up in some robbery or "investigation" of somebody you have nothing to do with.
How does an open standard remote management card enable genocide or whatever? Non-open standard management chips are cheap and off the shelf and work ok; or you know, just have a tech in the datacenter with a kvm cart; it's not as nice, but not really a big deal.

I also don't see a huge difference in genoicde capability between 2010 servers and 2020 servers, but 2010 servers are eWaste. Restricting genocidal organizations to ten year old technology would raise their power bills, but not diminish genocidal capabilities; and restricting much more would require immense effort on a global scale. (And, of course, you would need to get near-global consensus about the country, which is quite difficult)
NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Er [pdf]
No ads, I think there is a bit of "If you like Facebook for kids, you'll _love_ Facebook for adults"

It has been a lifesaver during covid. It is the way kids text/video chat with each other without a cell plan and with only approved contacts. I don't know what my kid would have done without it, it is a 2-3-4 hour virtual playdate when there are no other ways to connect with their friends.
"Note: The Data Profiler comes with a pre-trained deep learning model, used to efficiently identify sensitive data (PII / NPI). If desired, it's easy to add new entities to the existing pre-trained model or insert an entire new pipeline for entity recognition."

No, they seem to use the ML model for identifying data that typically may be considered private, sensitive, or PII, which can be very difficult to define depending on your data and your organization. For example, identifying phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, etc. All of those things can take a variety of formats and writing a regex or something to identify them feels a bit silly when you can easily train a decent classification model to do this mostly automatically and then catch this kind of data in new use cases where the recognition pattern you may have written before doesn't necessarily work.
Site is broken for me. Loads text wider than iPhone screen size and zoom out is disabled
Fix jest mock 'cannot access before initialization' error
Short, fast primes are rarely optically stabilized. That Tamron series (35-45-85/1.8 VC) is the only exception I know.

While these can be stabilized using IBIS on mirrorless cameras, I have just that combination (Nikon Z6 + 50/1.8G) and the VR is less useful than you'd think, because being around f/2.0 already gets you to shutter-speeds where it's not really necessary, and a 50 mm can go pretty slow without stabilization anyway.
CNCF: Third Party Dependencies that have been Relicensed to AGPL
"false political news" and "fact checking websites" are small band aids over large areas of contention that could alter the conclusions here.

Who decides which politics are wrong? If that isn't "every individual who is faced with the choice, on their own" then is it still politics, or is it more herd management?
Martha Wells does this with her Murderbot Diaries books [1].

The series is fantastic and the latest book was great, but £8 for something that I finished in less than an hour felt a bit steep. Especially for an ebook with literally 0 marginal cost.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Martha-Wells/e/B000APZA1O?ref=sr_nt...
Yes, I also have great experiences with this type of approach.
It’s not completely off-base to compare these “for kids” branded apps to candy cigarettes and big league chew.

Not to mention the data collection.
https://www.epi.org/publication/retirement-in-america/

> Nearly half of families have no retirement account savings at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/upshot/stocks-pandemic-in...

> Families grouped by percentiles of net worth:

> Bottom 50: 50% of Families | 1% of Equities | 0% of Stock

I'm not sure why you think the poor have investment portfolios. They don't.
Lol how? It's the main thrust of the question and the answer as well???
English intuition tells me I would use 'Cacti' when talking about cactus in general terms. 'Cactuses' would be appropriate when referring to a specific instance of multiple cactuses.
Only if we construct that AI. Nothing says we have to.
Serialized fiction is basically how many many classics came to us. Today, lots of online fiction, like Andy Weir's The Martian or Scott Alexander's Unsong, starts out as serialized fiction that comes out in sections. The episodic model for books isn't novel.
PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0656/
> Am I missing something?

Clearly.
Django SQL Dashboard
My eyes getting so bad. I read the title as top investor instead top inventor.
Most of what I read is serial fiction, and it has been for years. The most popular site these days is Royal Road, with authors offering a Patreon subscription for early access to chapters. It has the same lopsided power law distribution of funding as any platform for paying artists, but there are plenty of authors making a living of it.

It's strange to see people speculating about whether this is possible, since it's already here.
If intelligent life were common then the Great Filter would likely be ahead of us, not behind us. Finding that ETI would be the worst news humanity ever receives.
By response theory do you mean behavior research by Skinner, Panksepp, etc? Yes, basically everything in personality psychology barely even registers compared to that, I agree that my comparison was too broad. A more reasonable statement might have been that Big 5 is wildly successful compared to other personality models.

Thank you for the correction.
Yes. Code "is" design, unless you're working with machine code. Code is a blueprint, not the building. We sometimes tend to take high level languages for granted and forget that.

Sometimes, of course, you need to go up a few notches on the abstraction level and you do some diagram or even a few lines of English prose. But, still, code IS design.
> I don't think this'll work. Authors tend to have phases of inspiration, and lulls in between. The pressure of the next episode would lead to 'phoned in' chapters.

Not just from the author's side. From a reader's perspective this would also not work. I don't want to start reading a book a chapter at a time. I don't even like reading books that are part of an unfinished series.

For me, as someone who reads quite a lot of books, there is nothing more satisfying than finding a new series that you are interested in and discovering the entire series is already finished. You can then just binge through the whole thing.

The worst is when a series is 5-6 books in, you binge through them in a couple of days and when the next part is released you can't be bothered because you have forgotten what it was about.

I wish authors would take the Netflix approach and just finish the entire series before releasing it.
Super yachts seem like a win-win. Parts billionaires with their money. Limits consumption of a finite asset (like land). Employees many highly skilled workers to build. Only big downside is how much fuel/energy they consume and possibly waste produced at sea (but I don't know much about that).

More power to they yachting industry!
Sounds like the 40mm f/2.8 might resonate for you :).