skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
me too! Vim plus markdown; pandoc to covert the markdown to HTML; plus a Google Chrome extension that overrides the "new tab" page to point at the markdown file (like this one: https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/comm...)
Is that also true of VR games, games in general, multiplayer games, concerts,TV, videos, watching a streamer play games, movies, social media etc. etc.?
> if there was "evidence" that not punishing murderers was the "best thing for society" (in terms of rehabilitation, crime rate, etc) would you support that policy? For most people, a society that doesn't punish criminals is simply uncivilized. I tend to agree.

This is a pretty interesting and concise way to frame this, because I definitely would support such a policy.

Punishments carried out by justice systems are a means to an end. It's sad that even today it's considered the most effective tool for general safety and protection of society.

It strikes me as really strange to consider punishments for crimes as a sort of state-sponsored revenge.
The last I saw inside a Mac was around the time the Lisa was being developed. Did they ever get right click to work?

Textedit would be the Mac version.
> If we change the type of k to size_t, then we no longer observe any slowdown with the workaround options

Basically in that case the benefits of the optimization disappears once you fix the code.
https://archive.ph/e25ud
You would never be able to hire a felon for anything since on that theory, the felon had done something outside of work that being a criminal act, might scare someone at work who had to work around them, even though their behavior at work was perfect.
> If you put ethics aside, then yes there was value. Failed research is most valuable, while successful research is usually quite worthless due to the bias toward finding whatever researchers already believe.

True as far as it goes, but the most valuable failing research is that which fails to produce an expected positive result.

Next most valuable is failing to corroborate a novel hypothesis (which is probably what you meant).

When you get an expected result, you haven't learned much, regardless of whether you were (or should have been) expecting success OR failure (with the exception being getting more, or more accurate, data that narrows error bars).
Screw anecdata. Here are some statistics/resources.

SF Chronicle (an SF based newspaper) tracks break-ins in SF [0]. Here is a more general crime dashboard as well [1]. For reference, here are some statistics in Chicago [2].

YTD, SF has had 8500 property theft cases. Chicago-- 3000. Per crime capita, SF is astronomical.

Many people don't have cars in SF for this exact reason.

Other commenters are right that it varies slightly by neighborhood (e.g. cars in Russian Hill/Cole Valley are by far more touristy than others), but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/sf-car-breakins/

[1] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

[2] https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/1_PDFsam_C...
Replace punishing corporations with rewarding property owners.
The article itself disagrees with this assessment of cause and effect:

> The hearing did not answer a crucial question: Why San Francisco? If the problem stems in part from a change in California law, why aren’t other cities in the state seeing similar spikes in shoplifting?
>I've seen the manager catch somebody stealing, so he made them empty their pockets then kicked them out of the store.

And what if they refuse? From the other comments here it sounds like the manager won't be able to do anything if the thief didn't copmly, continued putting things in his pocket and walked out.
I can see how it could be interpreted that way. My first reaction was (if the claim is true) that must be cultural memes as the cause, as a genetic cause automatically was implausible to me.
I'm curious why it's a binary thing. The debate seems to wage between two camps: OnlyWorkRelated vs BareItAll.

The truth is, I want neither extreme. I want a nice comfortable balance that my peers and can both tolerate. I appreciate being able to "solve the world's problems" with fellow workers, but not all day. And especially when it starts to get emotional. I find that humor and self deprecation are great ingredients to throw in the mix when I think things are spiraling. In either direction.
Arguing for it is extremely necessary, but that doesn't mean it isn't obvious. We have explicit directions to hire and promote more women and executive compensation tied to it. It would be surprising if women weren't favored in the hiring process.
Google's Project Starline: Zoom Meetings in 3D
A cunning entrepreneur should include that their employees vote a certain way on their contracts, or to not vote at all.
Might the current efforts to make it harder for specific demographics to vote be considered a form of canceling?
Is gerrymandering a form of canceling?
Pulling up the actual paper, there is an added part the article doesn't mention.

> Prediction markets, in which experts in the field bet on the replication results before the replication studies, showed that experts could predict well which findings would replicate (11).

So it's even stating that this isn't completely innocent, given different incentives most reviewers identify a suspicious study, but under current incentives it seems letting it through due to the novelty is somehow warranted.
> Every representation of humans is racialized, they exist in a social context where race exists

This is only true as long as we go out of our way to make it true. The concept of “googly eyes” for example, is totally race agnostic. Likewise, emojis represent emotions that don’t inherently need to be coupled to race. Emojis aren’t even a new concept, we had emoticons in the ‘00s in AIM, where 99% of the emotions had nothing to do with race.

I say this as a brown man; it really doesn’t matter to me if the “thumbs up” I use in a coworker’s merge request is brown or the default yellow. On the flip side, emoji diversity is yet another reminder that I’m different from others, especially in a context where I would rather focus on what makes us the same.
Can you name a single person with a high school or BS degree published in nature or other high impact journals? If not, why is this the case?
The intestinal microbiome of latrine sediments from two medieval cities (2020)
Plastic is a magically useful and durable material with many orders of magnitude more uses than CFC. I hope you’re right but looking around the world, there are very few objects that aren’t at least partially made out of some polymer.

Another question is what to do with all the existing plastic. From what I understand there’s not really anything other than high temperature burning that will safely get rid of it without turning it to micro plastic eventually
But you can hit the door with a sledge hammer and not have any minor dent to repair. (Just a window)
Influential African American Scientists
Could not have some tenets of Scandinavian cultures survived in those regions? If so, would it be racist to study cultural differences and effects of relative monoculture?
In California that doesn’t seem to be the case. I can take you to streets where there a half naked people out of their mind and no cops are coming for them.
This is almost a tautology. Unlikely/unexpected findings are more noteworthy, so they're more likely to be both cited and false, perhaps based on small sample sizes or p-hacking.

People love this stuff. Malcolm Gladwell's made a career on it: half of the stuff he writes about is disproven before he publishes. It's very interesting that facial microexpressions analysis can predict relationship outcome with 90% certainty. Except it's just an overfit model, it can't, and he's no longer my favorite author. [0]

Similarly, Thomas Erikson's "Surrounded by Idiots" also lacks validation. [1]

Both authors have been making top 10 lists for years, and Audible's top selling list just reminded me of them.

Similarly, shocking publications in Nature or Science are to be viewed with skepticism.

I don't know what I can read anymore. It's the same with politics. The truth is morally ambiguous, time consuming, complicated, and doesn't sell. I feel powerless against market forces.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman#Critiques

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Z7JiC...
If you quoted him in context, you'd show that he regarded this particular lady friend of his as a "strong woman" in both body and mind.

Why didn't you do that?
I’m a Subaru driver who wants my next car to be electric or hybrid electric… this appeals to me. I’ve liked trucks before but I have not been able to justify the cost. Pretty much all EVs are in the same ball park now (40K-50k for dual motor), so it’s going into the comparison against a model 3, model y, and others that will be on the market at that time.

The F150 itself has great features (quiet ride), then pile on the new stuff here (a good bed cover is $1k+ and no longer needed with the frunk, the acceleration).
I need money to do research, available grants require achieving specific measurable results during the grant (mostly publications fitting specific criteria e.g. "journal that's rated above 50% of average citation rating in your subfield" or "peer reviewed publication that's indexed in SCOPUS or WebOfScience", definitely not a preprint or blog), and getting one is also conditional on earlier publications like that.

In essence, the evaluators (non-scientific organizations who fund scientific organizations) need some metric to compare and distinguish decent research from weak, one that's (a) comparable across fields of science; (b) verifiable by people outside that field (so you can compare across subfields); (c) not trivially changeable by the funded institutions themselves; (d) describable in an objective manner so that you can write up the exact criteria/metrics in a legal act or contract. There are NO reasonable metrics that fit these criteria; international peer-reviewed-publications fitting certain criteria are bad but perhaps least bad from the (even worse) alternatives like direct evaluation by government committees.
Makes you wonder why all of these fancy tech businesses show up in California, as opposed to Niger.

If all you need is this hard work, surely the wealthy businesses would be distributed all around the world
What case needs to be made exactly? That you useless fucks are busy destroying society while enriching yourselves?
Looks like it has infected the Japanese trucks and the Australian Ute market. Even the latest Hilux is starting to look very American in its girth.
One of the things I need a truck for is to tow a trailer with cows inside to (and back from) a facility that can extract eggs, implant embryos, etc. Unfortunately, that route doesn't follow any interstate highways and is about 180 miles each way. I'd absolutely LOVE to tow them with an electric truck and eliminate emissions from the picture. I've been eagerly awaiting something like the Cybertruck/Lightning, but until they get MUCH more mileage or hot-swap batteries I just can't make the switch. There is one fast-charge station in the middle, but none near the destination--and even if there was, I can't add charging stops with a trailered cow.

I agree that overselling the importance of uncommon use cases is a hindrance to EV adoption in general, but this is a pickup truck. The purpose of a pickup truck is to handle the uncommon use cases. It's fair to criticize this specific EV for not being good at the things that you must have a pickup truck to do.
Security research fascinated me after reading a number of papers on really cool exploits, but it was quickly evident it wasn't something I'd ever be cut out for. Anyways, do you typically have to be highly credentialed to do it? How many people are getting hired as security researchers without prior [academic] research?
Congrats on the launch!! Love the concept and excited to try it at Clearbit.
Fair, but at the same time we're talking about work trucks a lot in this thread, and I don't think I've ever seen a real "work truck" that was totally unblemished. If it's unblemished you're not working it very hard, in my experience.
There is a really good reason for this. Everyone wants the shock value for the easy publication but no one wants to do the work to validate the original study because that can imply possibly being wrong.

This is a major issue with the current model.
My take is "no" - It looks like it was already trending up prior to Covid-19. I don't think there were any shutdowns until 2020.
Palestinians Have Been Censored on Facebook for Years, but Now It’s Even Worse
It's more generic - basically it's about not judging people's worth or intentions by their bodies. Whether they're unusually obese, unusually sexually attractive, unusually something else...
How do you determine if a dead person is guilty? AFAIK no prosecutor will indict a corpse.
It relates to your explaining the subtext because that subtext is a straw man.

I can’t speak for the GP commenter to whom you responded, but I can speak for myself when I say that I strive to to treat everyone the same regardless of their race (and not make a big deal out of race), while also being well aware of the prejudices and injustices that might affect someone on the basis of race out in the world. If that doesn’t describe “race blindness”, then we probably need to come up with a phrase to represent that person.
That sucks tbh. It should be legal to fire a fascist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfu_WZ6p51U
You're violating site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just sell everything for $951 dollars and offer a discount for actually paying :-)
How often does a single vote decide an election? Never? Therefore your optimal move is not to waste your time voting - you gain nothing. If everyone thought that way it would be bad perhaps? But they don't so it doesn't matter to you.

It might be argued discussing politics contributes to some emergent consensus forming that benefits society, but that consensus will form whether you participate or not and in exactly the same way unless you win the social lottery and have a disproportionate influence. So you are better off not wasting your time on political discussion, just keep track of the political trends the same way you would keep track of the trajectory of a storm heading towards you.

Tragedy of the commons applies to potential just as much as it does to existing resources. The Nash equilibrium is to consume all the resources you can right down to exhaustion because you alone cannot preserve them and others will consume them whether you do or not.

It is also a Nash equilibrium to conserve your time and not spend it on activities that would benefit the collective but not yourself - in the presence of a collective your contribution (and therefore influence and gain) approaches zero.
> claiming sexist views

This is a pretty vague statement especially as OP mentioned fiction. Not some book espousing his political views.

You can pick most of the great authors and find a character or scene that was obscene, but it would be unfair to cherry pick 2-3 sentences, post them on twitter and pretend this represented them.
I don't want to come off as a reactionary. I just want to find the truth and see where it leads, irregardless of political fashion trends.
I think another problem is that communicating by text in twitter posts. Its very hard to tell how serious someone is being. No facial expressions, mannerisms, or hand movements to guide. Like they could be making up the most absurd reactions, typing up a storm, and people will take them seriously more often than not.
> my friends would be pretty rightfully unhappy with me.

most people don’t go to work to recreate, so this is a bad example.
You're like that Chinese sports boss who was arrested for corruption and complained that it would be impossible to do his job without participating in bribery. Just because you stand to personally gain from your corrupt practices doesn't excuse them. If anything, it makes them morally worse!
Do you mean "at will employment"?
That’s fair, but if a character in said movie was making brazenly anti-Semitic views (for instance) I think it would be reasonable to share that it made you uncomfortable and have a discussion about it at some reasonable time shortly thereafter.
Why would FB work on such a tech?
Out of three (generic) medications I have at the moment, they're all made by Indian companies, although one has the name of an American subsidiary on it.

(Aurobindo, Lupin, Heritage/Emcure)

My point is just in a very general way, I think of drugs as coming from India in the way consumer products come from China, and I get cognitive dissonance from people talking as though everyone knows they all come from the US.

There was something in the news not long ago about a covid vaccine related factory in India that had a fire while under construction, so I'm pretty sure they are making vaccines.
Automating “I’ll know it when I see it” is closer to the halting problem. It might even be definable in those terms.
I perceive the cartoon yellow emojis to be white, an alternative interpretation never occurred to me at all.

The first time a black coworker gave a black thumbs-up reaction on slack, I noticed I didn't want to +1 it. I didn't identify with it, it didn't feel like it was coming from me.
This was a strong reaction and totally unexpected, and it was a "holy shit" moment as well, because I suddenly imagined how excluded I would have felt if that had been the only option for years.
I built a simple Go library to access a webcam without OpenCV
Makes sense - transcribing speech from all uploaded video seems like it would be valuable for identifying interests and serving more personalized advertisements.

For example, in a video taken at the beach where someone says “wow that looks fun” (in any language) and there is a boat in the frame, you could serve them boat ads.
> My experience is that ORMs often discourage (or at least lessen the need for) getting a good grasp on databases and SQL

I agree knowing SQL is very important, even if you use an ORM, sometimes you might need to roll up your sleeves and write some SQL (not to even mention knowing how to EXPLAIN queries, use indexes, etc).

Nowadays most things are abstracted away. A similar thing happens with IDEs, if your IDE takes care of compiling and building everything for you, then you don't understand how everything works under the hood. Is that a bad thing? It depends.

If you show HTML to a junior JS dev he'll say it's React, lol. I think there's no way escaping the abstractions in modern times.
Polymers make up about 50% of textile fibers globally. They’re light, cheap, durable.
NYC is strict, if you see tents or mattresses you ring the city and they'll take it away within a few hours. https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02253
What countries? China is only the second country ever to land anything at all, let alone a rover, on Mars.
> Coinbase and Basecamp, which each lost 60 employees after their bosses changed the rules, have apparently been inundated with applications from people wanting to work for politics-free firms.

Basecamp lost 20 employees. 60 would be nearly their entire workforce.

Coinbase did indeed lose 60 people out of around 1200 at the time.[0]

[0]https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-10-08...
> as a genetic cause automatically was implausible to me.

I agree. Given that Scandinavia was the homeland of the Vikings, I think arguing that they have a genetic predisposition away from crime would seem rather absurd.
Don't want to repeat a comment, so I'll link it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236880
I haven't paid for anything at a gas station, Walmart, CVS, etc. in well over a year. Same as normal but you skip the part with the cashier. "Cashless" I believe the term is.

"You're a bad person"- Correct. "I don't need laws in order to not do bad things"- Sure, I do. There is no incentive to pay for an item at a retail store.
How I made 1M on YouTube
The most widely used plastic, polyethylene, does not require plasticisers at all; indeed it is in (soft) PVC that plasticisers are used the most:

https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/multimedia/multimedia_pub/mul...
Yep, preventing the mergers first is part of the solution too.

Unfortunately, we’ve allowed too many, and need to break up companies across industries.

edit: and figure out a way to tell future generations not to give up on these laws next time? To your point, they may find themselves in this same place again.
No, political beliefs are a protected class in practically every first world country, but excluding the US; in most states (excluding, IIRC, California - which matters a lot here) it would be legal for a private employer to fire an employee for being a member of the Democrat or Republican party.

The key employee anti-discrimination law is the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin - but not political affiliation.
Said no fascist ever.
The existence of management consulting seems to point to the idea that you can, as long as you pay enough.
Ex-Felons have paid their debt to society, or at least get should be considered as such. And still, it's harder for them to get jobs.
Haven't you ever wondered if some mobile apps listen to you? And then you get accurate targeted ads...
Your opinion is not valid. Guns aren't necessarily political. Should I refrain from asking work colleagues who they think is likely to medal in the 2021 Olympics women's skeet shooting event?
> It's also not surprising, considering the gender balance of HR departments [2], and women tend to hold gender biased beliefs (female teachers in the UK mark boys worse for identical work, for example [3]).

I agree it's not surprising, but you're making it sound a lot more dramatic than it is. Employers are getting raked over the coals by activists and the press for not being "diverse enough". Of course when all else is equal (and maybe not so equal), they'll prefer to hire women/minorities. They'll be willing to go higher in bidding wars with other employers over female/minority applicants. It's not a conspiracy by female HR departments. I've never worked anywhere that HR decided who to hire anyways.
I think it’s too soon to say, but there seems to be substantial evidence against what you’re claiming. In fact, it may be the opposite entirely:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v2....

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2032195

To be clear: I’m not arguing your later point. The questions of oversight and liability are very important and under-discussed.
Why would a genetic cause be implausible? Genetics guide human behavior. It seems very unlikely that behavior doesn’t vary among ethnic groups, but many other phenotypic factors do.
> this childish rejection

Insults don't get anyone far.
specific antibodies are.

The article tells about three different specific antibodies, targeting RBD, N-terminal domain, and S2 part of spike.

T-cells are even more amazing in the way they target portions of proteins that are vaguely similar. So you could be exposed to some pathogen A, and have T-cell immunity and recognition against some pathogen B (which is quite distinct and different from A).

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/02/immune-system...
New f-150 hybrid has (up to) a 7.2kW generator with 120/240 outlets in the bed. This would probably be a better option for most commercial applications than the electric.
What's the solution? I have no intention of giving Medium my details.
Same, I've been android for 10 years but no other noise cancelling airbuds compare in size and performances.

All the android ones look massive in your ears.