skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never cease to be amazed at the applications of control theory. In an optimal controls class that I took, someone presented a model that they developed to optimize the spread of information in the political space
Are you suggesting that the scientific method is actually a popularity contest? Seems dubious.
A fully split Advantage is a really interesting prospect. I have a Freestyle Edge RGB at home that I really like, and an Advantage at work that I haven't used in over a year.

My biggest complaint about the Advantage is the placement of the arrow keys in the bottom row. I never got used to them (and I sometimes use vi with a Dvorak layout). I hit them by accident far more often than on purpose. From the survey, it appears to me that they are still in approximately the same location.
I knew that all maps are distorted but holy cow.
"Be nice to each other" is preached by every other world religion, as well as being at the center of many non-religious world views. The fact that we can and should be nice to each other to make the world a better place can hardly be what the grandparent meant by "knowledge to humans that is not knowable by any other means", which was what I was really asking about.

Thanks for your perspective. You're certainly selling it better than the Catholic Church is. (You won't be surprised to hear that I'm not buying into the whole thing either way.)
I made a similar comment in another thread here, but the problem is that there will always be non-experts who want to assess the quality of research being done in different fields. These might be deans, department heads, VPs of R+D labs, and so on. Ideally, all research would have clear measurable impact, but a lot of good research doesn't, at least not immediately, so there needs to be some way for non-experts to measure quality. Conference/journal publications and citation counts are highly imperfect solutions, but I'm not sure what the better candidates are.
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I think that does make sense.
You just sent me down a 4 hour clickhole. I both blame and thank you.
As I understand it, Bruno was accused of heresy. The same fate would have awaited Galileo, but the Church stopped one step short of accusing Galileo of heresy. The words that I recall reading was that he was "vehemently suspected of heresy."
That is maybe the key point here. I am the total opposite of you. A friend of mine is like you and he thrives in vim.
The birth rate in transit friendly European cities has collapsed, so I’m not sure what that gets you. You make a good point about older children, but if you have 3 kids (American women in average want closer to 3 than to 2) you’re going to spend 15 years or so with at least one kid below 10.

Of course you can have three kids in the city, but you can also do your laundry by hand. That doesn’t mean people want to go back to that way of living. And birth rates in cities were never particularly high in the modern era. Most people in America at the turn of the 20th century lived in rural areas.

Also, a bunch of other stuff has changed since the pre-suburbanization era. Both parents typically work, and have to reconcile commuting to work with child care drop off and pickup (which isn’t necessarily located near transit).

That said, I know someone with three young kids living in Chicago without a car. But she’s a champion, and most people aren’t as hard as her. Dallas-style cities make a lot of the ancillary aspects of parenting much easier.
buy your cables from reputable manufacturers...
This is why science is not the same as truth. It's a method of obtaining truth, but it has major flaws. That said, it's the best method that exists. That does not mean it is perfect however. There exists, barring relativistic notions of state, a true state of the universe, much of which will never be measured or known by science. This should not be surprising.

> For me, I believe it because the scientific community accepts it.

There should be a much stronger reason: that the evidence is available, and not only has it been analyzed by other people, but it should have been analyzed by you as well. If we just accept that others have done the analysis, this is how major mistakes stay undiscovered for decades. (See the problem of the phantom reference.)

> Who published the textbook? How did they know?

Yes, we have to trust that most people are acting competently and with good intentions, because it's physically and emotionally impossible to investigate everything, but for no other reason. We should do our best to look in to every claim, especially ones that seem suspicious, because that diligence is what keeps science moving forward.

> the process of human evaluation is very slow and very much prone to errors. But it fundamentally works.

I agree, but that only holds true if people are actually doing the work of performing those evaluations.
You are not. That page generated an immediate Back from me. I wouldn't read that site if you paid me to.
> You’re saying that a large city was hit less than other less populated areas?

Can't speak for Israel but I live in London, which is far from the hardest-hit place in the UK. As far as I know, large cities outside Wuhan and maybe NYC haven't been hit especially hard.
Explicit casts are problematic. Here's an example:

int32 a;
int16 b;
//...
b = (int16)a;

Later you decide to change b to int32.

int32 a;
int32 b;
//...
b = (int16)a;

Now you have a bug. If you didn't have that explicit cast the program would have worked as expected.
Issue 1123015: Adhere to Android guidelines, do not implement custom share hub
GraphQL is inherently more complicated. It's one more step at a minimum, and more honestly two or three more steps.

I can build an endpoint and point it straight to a parameterized SQL query.

With GraphQL, I build an endpoint, and point it straight to a GraphQL... schema? And then I have to define where that data comes from, and then how to return it...

It's just professional negligence to suggest it's not more involved.
The thing that I've kind of settled on with respect to text is that it's actually 2D variable width. The line ends, right? The 1D-ness is an encoding detail. The interface and presentation of an interactive editor is clearly a 2D one, albeit tailored around dealing with the variable-widthness.

What we get from spreadsheets that is quite nice, formatting-wise, is the cell data being of a rich type. A number of larger size doesn't take up more symbolic space, and therefore it remains fungible as a whole, rather than being round-tripped between number, string, number as is often the case.

When we use plaintext, suddenly a need for explicit binding of literals arises, and we become prone to "thinking" in terms of that binding layer and its apparatus, versus, say, something with a spatial analogy like a stack machine. They're Turing-equivalent, but one or the other may solve a problem more adeptly.
The question was about how someone should form their opinions, and whether we can tell others how they ought to do that. Lots of our opinions do affect others (e.g., if they should be hired, if one should help them, how we treat their reputations), so it's appropriate to point out what good and bad criteria are.

If an opinion being held doesn't have any practical ramifications for others, it's not really a big deal to have opinions formed on a questionable basis, except that good judgment tends to be a habitual process, so doing it with bad criteria with low stakes could affect how we form them when the stakes are higher.
This could be useful for many situations,
poked around a bit and left wondering:

what does 12 per user mean exactly? like.. I user can upload and other people can watch saved videos or they need to be paying users?

I saw nothing about exporting for downloading - even did a keyword search for 'export' and 'download' - via the 'help center'

So at the moment I see this losing a lot of potential customers because it's confusing like webflow for the pricing and usage and export options are not understood.

Is encryption a thing or is this open to rewatch bots and staff being able to peer in?

As I think of more use cases for my self- I pop over to the terms page which includes stuff like : no: ...abusive, hateful, inflammatory, vulgar, offensive or otherwise objectionable...

So it suffers from what I call the anchor.fm problem - I kind of want to use this for some things - and I can see how it might become a primary tool - but I surely can not commit time to learning the tooling and having content hostage at a place that is so easy to be used in a cancel culture takedown - especially with no policy on what happens with hosted content should an issue arise.. (do I get a few days to download stuff like wordpress.com or is it a dump like parler got from it's hosting - or is it like a google account ban where access is terminated and support is laughable / basically non existent.

With those issues in mind, I suppose it'd be better to self host some videos and run some kind of open source transcribe and search - or use youtube for the same and export from there.

Makes me want to search for collaborative video/ audio editing solutions to see whats out there.

I'd make the "Watch the video" on the front page a thumbnail with video play overlay so its more similar to a youtube play thumbnail.

I'd try to get a video on https://rewatch.com/design

and if you find a way to let people add annotations like write on the video and sidebar notes with timestamps - well that would be very cool -anyone know a thing that does this kind of this?

/random thoughts - hope they help in some way
it is too late for carbon taxes. Those might have worked 10 to 20 years ago. Carbon taxes could have allowed for a gradual shift away from fossil fuels, but we have about 10 years to cut our emissions by half. Considering most capital equipment (vehicles, power plants, etc...) have a 20-30 operating life a gradual transition is no longer feasible. Measures like banning sales of new gas powered vehicles, and mandating that all new power production equipment be carbon neutral are now table stakes for anyone that is serious about meeting targets.
I don't know if it's CSS or me but I never "got" CSS. I feel like it's more about remembering lots of unrelated things with no real clear logic behind it. An IDE helps a bit. Maybe if it was presented as a series of functions instead of properties, that takes certains types of variables? At least you could group some knowledge this way. Like height would take an union type like Pixels | Rem | Em | Percents | etc

I think JS (ES5+) is mostly fine, a bit of legacy cruft but it's often overstated. I'd like it if we didn't need something as complex as Typescript to fully type it, but that may just be my biais for ML-style languages. Also, Reason/Rescript/Bucklescript/whatever spent its complexity budget on branding, which is a weird choice.

HTML I'm mostly fine with it, but I'd like to see what people could do by starting from the beginning with it.

I don't know anything about GUI programming outside of the web (and Win/Webdev) so my vision is really limited here.
> would e.g. C++24 as a separate language based in C++21 with most of outdated stuff thrown out be as popular?

This seem to be arguing that C++ is accumulating cruft as it grows and it's bad, but I like the fact that C++ tries hard to maintain backward compatibility. The greatest asset of a language is all the stuff that is already written in it.

That said, some outdated stuff do get thrown out, such as trigraphs.
Is Unreal Engine world-class software? I've heard a lot of negative things about it so it's hard to tell if it's just one of those things people complain about because its so popular or if it really does get things wrong
> EDIT: Watching the points on this comment swing from negative to positive in the span of minutes is telling.

Please follow the site guidelines. You broke the second-last one: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Btw, it's not "telling" of anything but that the topic is divisive, which we all know already.)
In that they're both implementations of Common Lisp, but is there a deep connection between the two than that? Not that directing more attention to clasp is a bad thing!
The conclusion of the article,

> The most important task before us as a civilization is to find freethinking actors from exoplanets and learn whether they have a better sense of what the play is all about.

Does not at all match the arguments presented.
Yes, but "hack" is so overloaded and has so many definitions that using it as a definition itself is supremely unhelpful.
There are several people who have severely traumatized me by actions they took to harm my body, violate my sexual consent, and/or manipulate my life so that I was under their power in ways I didn’t agree to.

I couldn’t imagine convincing a jury of any of these. If you make saying they happened a criminal exposure for me, I can’t warn others of the danger those people put me in, or even process my pain and grief, without fear of losing a court battle I have no chance of winning.

I’m sensitive to the damage false claims can do, but I think it’s unreasonable to say that people should be liable in a court of law to prove things that are private and unprovable. And it has a chilling effect, where people who’ve experienced similar trauma will be discouraged from sharing their experience because the risk is too high.

It’s already dangerous to accuse anyone with any kind of public presence of anything, people will defend them to the point of harassment, stalking and violence, out of pure loyalty.

Adding legal repercussions for stating that a thing happened where no one could produce conclusive evidence to confirm or deny it just means more people suffer privately without even the recourse of telling anyone what happened.
> Sure but the connection drops a lot if you roam, if you close the app you don't stay connected, etc. Discord does not have this problem.

Yeah that mobile networking is completely broken is a bit unfortunate.
But at least the staying connected in the background part works just fine for me (Also works fine with my jabber client).

Not sure why you still need pushbullet if you are already using weechat-android though (and not saying that I would recommend that for everyone.. something like IRCCloud is more suitable for non-technical people I would say).
Or is it weechat-android specifically that has the problem of not being able to run in the background for you?
I still don’t understand why sometimes I must type “cask” and sometimes I must not type “cask”.

No, I didn’t RTFM; I’m sure that would help, but I mostly just avoid homebrew when I can, and that’s worked out OK.
if reserving slots for republicans == lower standards

to you...
...you're a little prejudicial and ignorant
Mr Rogers visited him once:

https://www.misterrogers.org/videos/eric-carle/
yah, such misdiagnoses are a perversion created by the financial incentives at play in psychosocial disorders. it certainly doesn’t help with treatment, only with getting paid for it, dropping negative externalities on the patient along the way. i have a therapist friend who has said as much using different words.

my main point, which i think coincides with the underlying thread of yours, is that (many/most) named disorders are extremes of the human condition, so instead of looking for “what’s wrong”, let’s look for “what’s too much/too little” about them. and for the non-severe versions, let’s mostly just broaden the definition of “normal” to include them and just collectively get better at cherishing and accommodating the amazing diversity of human experience.
Ask HN: First Year Salary Negotiation Advice
Hi HN,

My first round of performance reviews/salary negotiation in my career is coming up, and I would appreciate any advice from more experienced developers.

Current Salary: $95k/yr
Desired Salary: $120k/yr

Context:
I am coming up on a year at a young but decently funded startup in Silicon Valley in the vertical farming space making $95k/yr. I was hired to do imagery analysis and have implemented and deployed deep learning and traditional computer vision algorithms to do imagery analysis. I have had excellent feedback from senior engineers as well as the CEO. I enjoy the job, team, and company, but feel like I have been somewhat missing out financially.

I would be very happy with $120k/yr, but am unsure of how I can go about negotiating this. When I was first hired, I asked for $120k/yr but they were rigid at $95k/yr and shut down all negotiation. At the time, COVID was new, I was fresh out of my MS program, and had no proven track record. However, I feel that I have proven myself and could reasonably expect $120k/yr or more at other competitors.

How should I go about asking for this raise? I expect that if I ask for $120k/yr, my employer will negotiate me down, which I would not be happy about. On the other hand, I don’t know if starting high at $130k/yr for example would even be seen as a sane ask that would be a $35k/yr increase. However, one senior engineer with 4 years of experience told me they were able to negotiate up from $115k/yr to $135k/yr last year.

Any advice, paradigm shifts, resource reccomendations, or service recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I for one welcome our consolidated vertical overlords
the first program might not have worked as expected though.
Sublime Text 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27230042 - May 2021 (628 comments)
More so, the integer promotion rules of unsigned char and unsigned short are wrong and introduce potential signed integer overflow(in the case of unsigned short). If they were simple, they would have promoted to unsigned
It's a good proxy, but like all metrics, it's only accurate to a degree. There have been perfectly valid statements that were socially rejected, but that did not make them invalid, unless we are using a fun definition of "valid."
But, that's a good example of why implicit casts are bad!

b = (int16)a;

This contains two casts... one explicit cast to int16, and one implicit cast back to int32. In languages without implicit casts, this would be an error.
Sounds like endianness is now a safety issue.

As for me... I've certainly made it so things that shouldn't be hot to the touch are hot to the touch.
If the default dev experience was along the same lines as Flutter, I'd be happy. Same language, same tooling, etc. It's such a nice experience.
I think the bug here is arguably also an implicit cast, from int16 back to int32. Languages that don't allow implicit casts at won't compile that last line.
I interpreted "our society" as "US" and meant inside/outside relative to that. Sorry for the lack of clarity.
That's a good story. Yeah I feel like there must be soo many more opportunities to physically damage/harm something from robotics than software alone.
> the per-tent cost covers services, meals, sanitation and staffing

OK, so $2600 gets a fair bit.

Also looking at the report [1] this rate is calculated by dividing the total cost of the pilot by the duration and number of clients. So that is including one-time set up, planning and evaluation in the cost, which is probably a decent fraction of the cost as it's only an 8 month pilot. The recurring cost for extending may be lower.

I think it's misleading to compare that dollar amount to the monthly cost of an apartment.

[1] https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2020/20-0841_rpt_cao_03...
Reading PMS5003 Air Quality Sensors with Windows and Free Pascal
Maybe it’s MacOS or just working in generally larger files but for me vim seems to be lagging more recently… I think it might just my computer but I really find it annoying when typing on my local machine can sometimes lag as if I’m sshed into a remote machine… anyways still way faster editing in vim then not… neovim sounds neat and worth trying
Arguably the best view of the blood supermoon was on this flight
I rarely get sick, but getting a cold a couple times a year wasn't unusual. I haven't had a cold since mid 2019.
Wouldn't the compiler stop your second example? You're trying to assign an int16 value to b, which is now an int32.
How would that have worked out in the example you have given, prior to a successful delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment? Would Bell's theorem have been consigned to the scrap heap? Would delayed-choice quantum eraser experiments then have been performed when they were?

By these standards, Darwin should have been rejected on the grounds of his faulty model of biological inheritance.

There needs to be some slack, because sometimes critics are more convincing than they are right.
> Now you have a bug.

Weeell, maybe not. I agree that whenever I see a cast, I think "WTF?", but maybe you want what the cast does?
>in the community

Which community?

There is an irreconcilable conflict between AI safety and AI openness. If you create a dangerous program, and you know it's dangerous, then it would be insane to release it.

This was widely pointed out when OpenAI was announced. They would need to pick one or the other, and they've picked safety.

I think it was the correct decision, though it does make their name sound rather stupid now.
Waymo is Google's big, speculative in-house R&D project. It's pretty big. They're in for $20-$25bn so far, and it'll require that much again before viability^. That's over a decade, and it is pretty risky.

Meanwhile, besides search, most of their big successes were acquisitions: adwords, youtube, android, docs... all acquisitions at core. All extremely cheap, in retrospect.

Tesla joining the elite "tech company" ranks has made for some good juxtaposition. They are a "textbook" company, because the textbook more or less assumes that firm = manufacturing. The way they were financed (pre-insanity equity markets), the way they consume capital, etc. Apple, Alphabet, FB, etc aren't like this.

^if
Not in C.
It hurts my eyes to see the author consistently misspell "automaton" as "automation".
Not if they're all getting a key component from the same supplier. Every niche brand and even someone like CVS isn't going to run it's own chemical refineries for each ingredient in the sunscreen. They're going to use a relatively small group of suppliers. It only takes one of them selling to dozens of manufacturers to taint both mainstream and obscure brands.
First time seeing this and I'm completely obsessed now.
Fascinating—thank you!

Someone should try running the OP through machine translation into some other language and then back into English. I wonder if that would produce the effect you're describing. I might try this later if I remember!

Edit: I tried running the first few paragraphs through Google translate into German and back into English. I'll post the two version as replies to this comment. I also did this via Dutch (which unsurprisingly came back closer to English), Italian, and Russian.

It seems clear that you are right. The translations are good enough for blogspam and can be used to evade detection. For example,

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9C%5BMercury+concentr...

doesn't find the original. Other sentences I tried do get picked up by Google as references to the OP, but this can be circumvented. For example, this sentence from the English->German->English text gets picked up correctly:

https://www.google.com/search?q=The+discovery+is+worrying+si...

But the corresponding sentence from the English->Russian->English text does not:

https://www.google.com/search?q=This+finding+is+worrying+bec...
C is one of those languages that consistently looks fast, but often is slower than other languages. Without generics, it's difficult to have complex data structures for each type, so you end up with lots of pointer chasing and less than optimal data structures.