skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, of course, and you're right. It's just so ironic and I think these idealists really never read Lenin or if they did they just ignored the bad parts. It's kinda delusional.

They’d be called consumerist capitalist destabilizers, counterrevolutionaries who are undermining the people's revolution, etc., etc, get their houses marked, harassed and taken to the klink.
Huh, so untrue (or grossly exaggerated) results are more interesting, and that matters more for getting talked about than truth.

Thank goodness our newsmedia business doesn't work that way, or we would be poorly-informed in multiple ways.
I once read a book called "simplicity" by de bono I think it was...

He made the point (I think) that you do want simplicity, you don't want simplistic. That is: it should be able to do all the things you want to, but in an easy to use manner.

Worth striving for I believe.
This is an awesome truck. 100% may very well buy. They need to have the truck tie into some solar and peak shave the power cost and make mega bucks.
Society would be better off glorifying entrepreneurs than instagram celebrities.

Also most founders do not get a multi-hundred X income multiplier. Instead they fail and often go into debt. Yes there are some outsized winners, but the vast majority don’t. That’s why we should be elevating those individuals to promote a culture of risk-taking.
I'm planning to move to SF for a job. A friend told me to sign up for a neighborhood facebook group to one of the nicer neighborhoods in SF, Cole Valley, because I might see a message about a good place to rent. Cole Valley is a small neighborhood on the south east corner of Golden Gate Park.

In the 3 weeks I've been on the list 5 cars have had their windows busted and things stolen, 2 garages have been broken into and things stolen. 2 garages have had their doors damaged from attempted break-ins costing the owners hundreds to get fixed. There's been videos of people staking out places to rob (people walking from house to house inspecting garage door locks and trying to peak inside the garages). And ~10 or so posts about various other thefts or results of thefts.

This sounds more like one of those lawless 3rd world countries than a major city in a first world country. And worse, many people on the list just react as "that's life in a big city", no big deal.

It's not, having lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Singapore were property crime is extremely low. People get defensive whenever I bring this up, making excuses why crime needs to be high where they live. It doesn't.
Yaupon holly, which grows all over the southeastern US from Texas to Florida is the only naturally-caffeinated plant in the US.

https://lostpinesyaupontea.com/pages/yaupon-tea-caffeine-con...

I have several yaupons in my yard's landscape and have dried the leaves as described and made tea. It has a good flavor and is pleasant to drink. I drink so much coffee though that I could not tell whether I was getting any caffeine. I just felt normal.

The bushes grow to small trees that can, over time, completely cover a landscape since the send up sprouts from their shallow roots. This is a sustainable, easy to grow, source of caffeine for areas where it will grow.

The berries are excellent food for birds in winter. Our trees were attacked and stripped by flocks of birds in the last days before the big freeze this February. I thought the trees had frozen out but they are now as bushy and vibrant as ever.

As far as real coffees from their native environments are concerned I would gladly volunteer my place as a test site for growing a drought tolerant, freeze-tolerant variety as long as I get to taste test it.

I drink my coffee New Orleans style with chicory. It is the most delicious morning, noon, evening, and night drink that I have ever had. Smooth, non-acidic, rich, vibrant, fragrant, just plain great liquid energy.
People give twitter mobs too much power.
I think there is certainly a space for picking everything in an app on your phone before you actually go to the shop or pay a bit more for the shop to come to you. Presumably this would be less costly to run than a traditional store.
I mean, both strongly correlate with "surprising finding" so it's no surprise they correlate with each other too.
What's the process of evaluating whether a kid's gender matches their sex. You can easily check their sexual organs and/or measure their hormonal levels (if they differ at all at that age) at least.

Other than the physiology are you going to ask a kid "hey, do you feel like a boy or a girl?" Because it isn't clear to me what that question means exactly and whether a kid can answer that.
> Good memories; deploying a site cheaply by scp/rsync the files.

Well. I have a minio instance running for static small sites, every time I wanted to create a new bucket I had to re-read my own notes and fiddle around for half an hour with s3cmd and mc before getting something live. Today I threw the things out and started using scp again. It's much easier, it's not in the way.
>My own preference order is appropriate discussion of social issues, no discussion, told what the answers are without discussion.

Surely "appropriate discussion" includes a lot of telling people what the answers are without discussion. It's just hidden from your view.

For instance, you would probably agree that your co-worker wearing a swastika, walking around the offices during lunch giving seig heils to his friends, is not "appropriate discussion". Nor would it be "appropriate discussion" for your coworker to wear his klan hood on casual Friday.

So where's the line between "appropriate discussion" and "told what the answers are"? Are you telling your poor nazi and klansman coworkers what the answers are, without discussion, when you ask them not to do such things?
I see this news as a loss of faith in the police. If the police are not trusted or not helping or making things worse then of course people will form their own gangs for protection. Citizen is trying to profit off that. Businesses and rich people do this all the time, this sounds like a service for less wealthy people of the same nature. It could help tame the police if independent observers with the power to intervene and wearing body cameras streaming to a remote server show up at incidents. In fact some people may specifically want protection from the police in situations where they think the police may react badly (e.g., trying to get help for someone with mental health problems). Goons for rent would be a bad way to implement this service. Observers and defenders and negotiators and de-escalators for hire would make more sense and have less liability for the company offering the service. This is the basic idea behind lawyers, you can not trust government to watch out for your interests so you hire an advocate to represent you and protect you. In fact, temporary legal representation during a sudden crisis is another service Citizen could offer. Calling a lawyer to be present during a crisis is something anyone can already do if they can afford it. Privatized police already exist (campus police, corporate police, security guards, even military mercenaries who do policing work). Hiring an observer/witness for cheap seems like a great new business model!
Wow, I thought the original commenter was exaggerating but nope. He was raised by members of the Weather Underground. Before law school he also worked for the Chavez regime in Venezuela.

I don't know anything about him other than what's in those wiki articles, just crazy how much he sounds like a right wing caricature of a leftist politician, to the extent it's hard to believe at first sight. He's living proof of Poe's Law.
> If I have a private key to my coins, why is someone else allowed to disallow a transfer of them?

They are allowed to try, but no single entity can completely block a valid transaction from being confirmed.

The legitimate reason they may do so is because they believe you are trying to double (or N) spend the transaction, and they have chosen a conflicting transaction instead, likely the first one they saw.

> Why is Bitcoin made up of back-links to previous blocks?

Blocks are a way to get everyone on the same page, when a new block is found everyone is now working on top of the same history. The reason to use ~10 minute blocks of transactions instead of 2 second blocks or even updating on every new transaction is to avoid a constant stream of conflicting states arriving from different parts of the world, which would increase the necessary communication between nodes.

> If at any point they did not have all of the transaction(which means if anyone else has reported a transaction that they have disallowed, easily compared by simply checking every miners head hash), they are considered to be offline and do not receive a mining share.

In that case if I'm a miner I can just create a transaction that I share with no one, include it in my block, broadcast the block and now all other miners are considered offline because their blocks didn't include my transaction and I get 100% of the reward.
No. That would only be potentially true if people were proposing a law to limit the form factor of trucks that are driven in cities (and even if so, it would not be obvious; you'd have to look at the numbers). Since that isn't feasible, and all the proposed laws are about limiting the form factor of all consumer trucks, the average statics are the relevant ones.

You can always find a subpopulation where some effect is large; that can't be good reason to make rules that constrain the entire population.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough, when I'm talking about drugs I'm talking about the illegal kind, which you usually can't get legally (that's the whole point of those market, they wouldn't exist if there was a legal alternative that isn't way more costly). Of course legislation is changing but for most people in the world the only way to get weed, MDMA, amphetamine or psilocybin is through illegal means. I'm taking those four as an example because they're all getting legalised/are already legal in some capacity in the US, but all illegal in France.

A small language point: I'm French and the word for I guess illegal drugs is "drogues", whereas the word for regular medicine (which is also called drug in English) would be "médicament", at least in common speak. Sorry for the confusion, I used "drugs" while thinking about "drogues", and not what "drugs" represents.
They do look at the quality of the citations; even after failing to replicate, most citations did not reference that failure to replicate.
the one that gets me is adding race to emoji. they all used to be 'Simpsons yellow', a skin tone not found in any ethnic or racial group, and as such not representing or excluding any group but now we have black white and other various skin tones for our happy-faces. WHY? Does black happy face mean something different than white happy face isn't happiness universal? why bring race into something that was simply meant to express emotion?
It's not just about the sound but the timing. Valorants sounds hit at precisely the most satisfying moment.
Hey there, this looks great. I was wondering why Deepspeech 0.6? Why not the latest version DeepSpeech 0.9?
> the human body has defense in depth

The complement system[1] is somewhat of an amazing look at how inanimate parts of our immune system are like little circuits and circuit breakers in chain reactions, completely triggered at random (i.e you need to "bump" into it, it is not an active entity).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_system
There are some common features, but also differences that makes them a bit hard to compare directly.

An academic project that takes yet another approach to this design space is:

http://cba.mit.edu/projects/rala/
Has Ford said how many of these they plan to make? It seems like a good step in the right direction, but can they actually source enough batteries to manufacture these in high volume? (They sell about a million F150s a year.)

I wish them luck, but I hope they're fully committed and this isn't just a "let's make a few thousand at a loss for compliance and PR" move. And I hope they have a battery supplier that's prepared to ramp up production fast if they need it.
1. There's nothing particularly innovative about the electronic design in most of these devices. It's just gluing chips together.

2. Screw trade secrets anyway. They should get zero consideration in any matter of law or public policy.
There's not much nuance when a governmental agency puts "Plastic manufactured items" on the same list as "Asbestos", "Lead", and "Mercury".
Price depends on the local market i guess, but if you’re looking at 10+ years cars it shouldn’t be much difference price-wise. Toyotas are reliable indeed, but MB will beat it, older models have amazing reliability.

Some folks like WV, but I personally find it overpriced and uncomfortable. Quite ugly design wise if we look at T4/T5, but that’s speculation of course.
My problem with politics at work isn’t so much that it’s politics but more that it’s always idiotic performative horseshit. Like please stop pretending you want to “help” a group of people who disproportionately hold the jobs you are automating out of existence etc. More often than not it has more to do with a small number of individuals trying to get more power for themselves than a genuine desire to help anyone.
Aged coffee is a thing. I tried something in the 10-15yo range once, and for a dark roast it wasn't bad.
And that makes it ok how, exactly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor

Chemically pure hydrocarbon polymers may be inert and generally nonreactive, however pure polymers like nylon or polyester are virtually useless.

Plastics only become useful when they're mixed with a vast array of plasticizers, conditioners, chain extenders and other industrial chemicals.

And those chemicals absolutely leach out of the materials we laypeople refer to as 'plastics', even before you consider environmental factors that cause the materials to decay.
Are these multi-target antibodies only produced by natural infection, or also by the vaccines? Didn't seem to be mentioned in the article.
> unless the form factor has some very significant upside that I'm not seeing, preventing deaths should be prioritized over people's aesthetic preferences.

Nope. "Deaths should always be prioritized over aesthetics" is a clearly bad rule because it is innumerate. You must always trade off how many deaths for the preferences of how many people. Otherwise all design of everything is dictated solely by safety.

> no, it's clear that consumers in the US don't value the lives of pedestrians, and therefore we cannot trust the free market to determine what types of things get made.

No, you need to read about externalities and Pigovian taxes. The entire point of the proposed tax is that it does not require the car buyer to care about pedestrians whatsoever.
> I think in the context of high performance it is pointless to talk about Rails. Even the memory requirements make it impossible scale above a certain (very low) threshold.

GitHub runs the vast majority of web requests through a giant Rails monolith; and they're not alone. I think calling it "impossible [to] scale above a certain (very low) threshold" is an uninformed opinion (and not supported by the evidence), to say the least.
Instagram celebrities are just entrepreneurs of fame. Many have made entire fortunes by monetizing social media exposure.
>When will we stop fetishizing and lionizing "job creation"?

When it stops getting politicians elected. No one wants to vote for the person who assures them they will do everything in their power to put them out of work and transfer their value directly to shareholders.
More specifically, this paper is focused on the social sciences. That's not to say that this isn't present in the basic sciences either.

But one other thing to note here is that these headlines about a "replication crisis" seems to imply that this is a new phenomenon. Let's not forget the history of the electron charge. As Feynman said:

"We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.
Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan.2...
Yeah, I've seen this before. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the collective wisdom of hn.
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Yes, just not the usual way. People with karma can flag things they don't like regardless of whether it's correct, factual, polite, etc, and there's no feedback mechanism to rein them in. When your post full of correct information is hidden from others, you can't tell who the culprits are. You can't demand that they say why they did what they did.

I think HN is best thought of as a machine for deepening the delusions of the left. Nothing they don't like will reach the front page, first of all, or if it does, it will be flagged. Whatever remains for consideration, in the comment section you are allowed to fiddle around with a few extraneous details about it, but you can't skewer the whole thing. You can't say it's fundamentally invalid. Nor can you question the source. If it's a science article from the Guardian, you can't link to ten false science predictions the Guardian made in the past and ask people not to post fake news; the Guardian is simply blessed. It is Official Information.

The leftists on HN can throw bricks at your head all day long. But if you pick up any of those bricks and start throwing them back, you'll be downvoted or even banned for being inflammatory.
For grants and tenure, 100 tiny increments over 10 years are much better for your research career then 1 major paper in 5 years that is better than all of them put together.

If you want to write a pop book and on TV and sell classes, you need one interesting bit of pseudoscience and a dozen followup papers using the same bad methodology.
It isn’t illegal to side load another OS with another App Store onto your phone. But Apple is also well within their rights to design their phones to brick if they detect something they deem a security risk being loaded onto a device they sold. They tell you up front, before you buy it, what the device is designed for and what it isn’t. Xbox doesn’t let you run Word and won’t support it if you somehow figure out a way to. Is that not the same thing?
Twitch's TOS bans 'solicitation' of sexually explicit content, and from a quick anecdotal sampling of streamers in this category 8/10 of them have direct links to or aggregate link pages to OnlyFans profiles where they do sell explicit content. Guess it depends on your definition of 'solicitation'?
probably would yeah
> Splits have happened and do happen, there's about 3 or 4 direct Bitcoin forks but they have little use. Social consensus is what ultimately controls which blockchain is viewed as the legitimate one.

If you had a node running since 2016 and didn't touch it at all, right not it would still be following the Bitcoin blockchain and not any of the splits that were created since via hard-forks.
As a potted experiment, it really doesn’t generalize well. Weighting identical candidates except for race/gender/etc. may help uncover obvious forms of discrimination, but doesn’t address the path dependency aspects. For example, in the life sciences, women get less funding and fewer staff when founding research groups, while “elite” male researchers train 10-40% fewer women than other labs; as a result, women tend to have “worse” CVs later in their career due to earlier discrimination.
Why nitpick over what is clearly an example? But to indulge, prior to the Obergefell ruling, 31 U.S. states held statues banning same-sex unions. That was just 5 years ago.
I'm not sure it's intentional
I tried using “Citizen” a few years back. You can only use it if you’re willing to share location data either whenever you’re using the app or all the time.

No. Maybe that’s fine by others but any app I can’t put a zip code into is deleted now.

It’s creepy and weird to ask for location data. Where are the apps that default to zip code and offer me the option to have myself tracked everywhere I go for more personalized output?
Actually you can. And it has been done successfully for decades. Proselytizing has no place in the workplace.
The ambiguity and difficulty of agreeing on drawing a line is a good argument to just rule out political discussion entirely.
Reading the articles, suppliers are simply delivering the doses in the order they were bought. There's no "evil export restrictions".

Other countries simply had to invest earlier, when it was more risky to do so, if they wanted to be the first to get doses.
That's informative. In fact I bet physiology plays a strong role in our preferences whether or not we consciously realize it.

I was watching a documentary lately where some group of fish spent days climbing up the rock behind a waterfall with very low rates of success to lay their eggs. It felt incredible some code in their genes affects them at a point in their life where their utmost goal becomes swimming upstream no matter the dangers and they prefer doing that to, well, enjoying life in the sea.
They aren’t stealing food or clothes. They are stealing gobs and gobs of makeup - you could argue maybe one or two sets, but it’s like 100. That’s not desperate, that’s just a “&@@$ you I do what I want.”
Hey now, those Instagram celebrities are "influencers". They're entrepreneurs too.

I don't think either is particularly worthy of "glorification". I'd reserve glory purely for people who help other people without much monetary reward.
I'm no expert, but I found myself wondering, "isn't that what's supposed to happen? Is their point that it was only 11 of the 13 people?"

Perhaps it's just one of those "just checking" kinds of findings?
Do you use Sublime Text for development?
What we need is an electric Subaru Brat.
Great I can't wait to sideload the Epic Game store on my PS5 and Xbox series X. I also look forward to the outlawing of buying exclusive rights and laws that force developers to release their games on every platform in existence. Anything less is AnTi CoNsUmEr..

Some of us prefer to sit down and use a device without having to worry about installing an app or game store just to use/play one app...
Because the problem with McCarthyism was the government infringing on freedom of association.

On the other hand, the kind of cancelling that gets talked about today is simply people independently exercising their freedom of association, and it's being made into a boogie man to take those choices away from people.

I don't have a problem with conservatives doing it either as long as they don't enforce it on others, and don't do it for the protected classes. Everything else is fair game for both sides.
Yup, this is also why the Cybertruck (probably) won't be road legal in Europe. Too many sharp edges that would seriously hurt a pedestrian on collision.