skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sound like some sort of privacy purist, and your stance with regards to privacy is extremist. It is not a stance shared by most people, and I think you know that already.

Indeed, most people understand that their iPhones collecting anonymized diagnostic data and sending it to Apple is not some gross violation of privacy, and that it sure as shit doesn't mean Apple does not care about privacy. If that's the hill you want to die on, that's your call, but you should perhaps realize that blaming me of bias towards Apple is not the winning argument you think it is.
I stand corrected - thanks for the clarification.
This ~250 word "article" hardly counts as news, let alone to hn audience. How is this on the fp?

Edit: mea culpa. I was looking at the paywalled version.
Child fights for her life by taking the 'most expensive drug in the world'
Uber's engineering isn't well regarded. They have a reputation for over-engineering everything and having a misogynistic, cowboy culture.
Time and location could certainly be important to the count. Ill try afternoons and different parts of time next.
I think "bully" is actually overblown for someone typing mean words into a comment field.

The tendency for people to get super aggressive over minor divergences from accepted tribal orthodoxies is... baffling and appalling. It should be addressed from within their own in-groups as the rude, antisocial, and, most importantly, ineffective behavior it is.

Partisan duckspeak does not reinforce the ingroup, does not educate or enlighten the outgroup, and ultimately does little but waste time.
That's a hijack, not a diversion ...
I have dreamed of something like this for years. Except I gave it a cutesy name ( Peer Review) and I would have framed it as a combination of GitHub and Stack overflow intended to blow open scientific publishing and replace the journals by doing with simple software and crowdsourcing what they charge an arm, a leg, and a paywall for.

Basically, if you provide a software mediated review system (both pre and post publish) and a reputation system, you can effectively replace most of what the journals provide. The hard part is getting the systematic buy in. If you can get that buy in though, the benefits would be huge.

Imagine being able to solve the file drawer problem by incentivizing all publishing, not just novel publishing. Imagine being able to automate literature reviews with NLP and some machine learning. Imagine wanting to know what the scientific consensus was on any given topic and being able to go to a website where you can ask a question, get the literature review in answer, and then click through to individual papers in order to read the papers, their reviews, and the questions of the public answered by researchers. Imagine what that could do for world wide scientific understanding an acceptance - to have it all happening in the open, no longer mediated by a media incapable of good science reporting.

I really hope this gets traction.
I would say that "inheritance" was much developed in Smalltalk, and there it was not really a tool for improving performance. Rather it is a conceptual tool.

"Inheritance" is really the expression of Abstraction in code. Superclass is more general, and thus the abstraction of its subclasses.

Although Smalltalk did not have a specific keyword for "Abstract Class" it used the convention of calling "subclassResponsibility" on methods defined in abstract subperclasses which had to be implemented in subclasses.

Abstraction, generalization, these are conceptual tools. I'm not sure how "composition" models abstraction if at all. Only OOP does.

And one could think that abstraction is a tool valued by scientists. No?
Is this website primarily polling Americans?

(You’re probably right anyways - there’s a reason I put ‘theoretically’ at the beginning of my first post)
Worth pointing out that there is already a proposal making its way through the process: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension/blob/697ce9c6b1f1...
That has nothing to do with filenames. That is referring to the format of linestring paths; whether each point is specified relative to the last.
If we were just talking mere personal attacks or incivility I'd agree, but we're talking about getting people cut off from their support networks, their livelihoods, etc. That goes a lot farther than reading some unpleasant words on a screen. If you can't escape it by turning the screen off, we're talking about something much more serious and harmful.
He is wrong. Vaccine immunity is usually stronger than natural immunity; that's what "adjuvants" are for.

For COVID, there's multiple vaccines, some of which include the spike and some include the whole thing. The most effective ones only include the spike, although of course that doesn't mean it's ideal.
I wonder if this is mainly the enabling effect of the internet (a lot of people who, in real life, would never dream of abusing another person, feel able to do so on the internet); or its multiplying effect (a few people -- and there are always a few, who in the past would write poison pen letters and the like) are able to spread their bile _everywhere_. I imagine it's a combination.
When life expectancy was 30 years, it was because many children didn't live past the first year; still, 70 year olds were common in hunter-gatherer societies.
> Just because his views and models of the world do not align with the current cultural zeitgeist does not mean that he should be silenced or branded a racist.

I agree. The racist things he's said should be sufficient on their own to illustrate his racism, regardless of any other controversial opinions he may have espoused.

I read lots of stuff on his blog as part of due diligence related to a referral to Urbit. Your claim makes it seem like he's simply misunderstood, or painted with a too-wide brush. I wish that were the case.
I'd guess it's a matter of timescales, & learnable intent.

Deer have lots of experience with cars & they usually aren't that scary/deadly. Huge whizzing things that seem to, for the most part ignore them. Any given car is around for less than a minute, before it goes it's way. They show little particular fascination with the deer. They don't chase deer into the woods or whatever. Cars are boring, with the exception of their fantastic speed & bright lights.

Wolves, on the other hand, I can imagine as rather somewhat more terrifying hunters. The experience of being hunted is active, meaningful, happens over time. A wolf doesn't just hit you and run off, it attacks a family member & claims the kill. It chases you through the woods once you start to flee. There is intent & method to what happens, there is slowness & deliberation. Nature's dance is on display here, a drama playing out, and that is a learnable experience, for those that survive.
Consumer reports gets its funding from legacy auto, including the Ford and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations. (Alfred P. Sloan ran General Motors for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan) Although they are both charitable organizations, they have deep ties to families that stand to lose massively if Tesla continues to eclipse Ford and GM.

https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...
OP said this may be the best math book they've read, so the best ever isn't necessarily a math book.
But those people are dead. So if you count up all the live legs, which will be slightly less than 2*live people, and then add in the dead legs, this may be somewhat more than 2*live people. And since the humor in GP comment is attributing the "having" of the legs to the owners of the cadavers, the denominator remains 'live people'. Thus the average number of legs to "have" is greater than 2.
Even if it was a lab leak it was still probably of animal origin (the Wuhan lab collected and studied coronaviruses from bats).
Could also be true in an unbiased datasource in a skewed distribution.
If anyone wants to try the as-much-rt-as-possible build in a nice ready package, there's the Xanmod project https://xanmod.org/ which offers it precompiled with a few other tweaks. It's aimed at gamer crowd, but I had a really good experience using it with music processing.
There is a class of programming languages or execution environments that the name escapes me at the moment, where the "time" variable/dimension is explicitly woven into it as a first-class (and _really_ first class, it drives the rest of the system) element.

But I cannot remember what it is, and I'm likely explaining it badly. It had some neat algorithmic or type-level properties too, I believe, and I remember seeing it in context to modelling truly real-time systems.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or is my memory finally deciding to make things up, whole-cloth!

Edit; found it with the help of the commenters below!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_programming_lang...
Often it's explicitly not faster— you intentionally do work in a more interruptible/resumable/chunked way even if it's less efficient to do it that way than to just block the system and do it all in one shot.

These kinds of tradeoffs don't make sense for a lot of common Linux workloads, which is why it isn't the default.
Right, but isn't this dicussion about _other_ viruses, not HIV (due to PrEP)?
It could well be true that 77% of people are smarter than average if intelligence is a heavily skewed distribution.
I haven't upgraded yet, but with 1.0 on macOS, I see a relative path in the sodipodi:docname attribute of the root element (not an absolute path, so either something changed in 1.1 or behavior differs between OSes). This is where you are seeing it correct?

Saving as "Plain SVG" does not include this (or any other sodipodi namespace elements, by design). Not great that the default save format includes this, but FWIW best practice is to save as "Plain SVG" for interoperability.
It's a well-known criticism among archaeologists of our field that we tend to borrow a lot more methodologies than we export to other disciplines, so this case isn't unique. There's been a lot of interest in ML applications, but personally as a former archeologist now working at an ML-heavy company in the bay, I'm a bit more skeptical. Just my 2c though.
> Online terrorist" is too strong, but something closer to that term seems more appropriate.

Activist? Activism is often thought of as "soft" but has a long history of crossing legal boundaries to varying degrees so it seems to fit.
I sure hope science doesn't solely depend on google sign in.... /s
Theft is only the most extreme and one sided example of what I mean by "capture" or "extraction." The best example (and most common) is salaried employment - many people produce far more value than they are able to capture in the form of a salary because they don't have enough leverage. Value is decoupled from currency even though we far too often use the latter to measure the former (IMO, I'm not an economist).
This website breaks my mozilla firefox browser with ublock origin. Do not want. Products will not solve what laws are required to solve. Without state mandate for all scientific literature to be published publicly we will constantly be at war with publishers and other entities who want to be the "modern Pythagoras secret society" or AT&T/IBM/RAND for access to the special sauce.
Excepts bits are fungible, and the NFT bits on the blockchain aren’t even the “original bits”. An original painting isn’t fungible, and was actually painted by the artist. Only the pure speculation angle make sense. NFTs are the best example of greater fool theory in action.
It looks a lot more like "reddit for science." There's voting, comments, subreddits (hubs), and /all.
Heroku can be a hard sell to mgmt because of the cost, but if it's framed in terms of "this means you don't need to pay for two AWS cloud architects to be on call" then it's a much easier pitch.
>I wonder if in the future you could have micro-fluid channels underneath the screen where you can pump fluid to create raised bumps for the buttons.

The problem with this technology is several-fold:

1) Areas that can be raised are fixed.

2) Liquids.

3) Do you like the feel of squeezing a zit when you press a button in a game?

4) Anything that uses this technology will not have a uniform looking screen, relegating the second screen to a sub-status compared to the first.

5) Microfractures due to repeated flex.

6) Scratches at 1 with deeper grooves at 2.
Captchas need to all be warioware games.
What do you mean by can monogamy survive? Do you mean that in a world without STDs it would be abnormal for someone to expect an intimate relationship to be exclusive?
Evidence is piling up that Netflix wants to be the Netflix of games
Ultima IV - taught that to be truly great you needed to do more than just get strong, you needed to practice being humble, having empathy for the poor - all sorts of things of balance had to be achieved to win.

The Sims - playing after thumbing through the 'pattern language' book .. it's interesting to see things play out - and to watch others play - they learn that things they want are expensive and there's not enough money to do what you want and then you die.

Watch Dogs- being able to peer into the lives of every passerby - seeing just 4 lines from a DB - it's easy to pre-judge people - which people are worth stealing from, which people 'deserve' violent 'justice' - things like that - realizing that there are many that see all the people in a similar way -
- it's play to kill sherelly since he's greedy, and knocking google employees unconscious is okay because they only have 1 black employee. The ends justify the means for all the sub-groups/tribes it seems..

Rainbow six siege - concealment is not cover; not for you, not for them. COD is not great this battlefield 4 was better, Six does it well.

The Three Dwarves - it's possible to make a good game for three people to pay at once with co-op needs.

Civ 6 / Empire Earth - no matter how great you are at X (science, military, whatever) - a few barbarians can ruin you, and some zealots could take you over before you can take them out - be humble and enjoy the build when you can't control the other tribes.

Driving different vehicles in the GTA and similar games is helpful to learn - pity that there is not a non-hooker version for 15 year olds to learn some things with.

Max Payne - you can make a dirty, cussing, killing game ,where the good guy does dope to keep going - and sell a lot of copies.. because a lot of people enjoy it.

Watching younger folks play assasins creed you can see how younger minds are being solidly influenced to fight for racial justice.. things like kill the owner / free the slaves and such.

There are many great lessons in many games - I'll be remembering random ones for days/weeks now.
Ask HN: Is it possible to find blood oxygen level from smartphone camera?
Is the speed of sound relevant in most recording scenarios? Assuming headphones and instrument/vocal mics that are within a few inches, then everything is traveling as electrical signals at the speed of light.

Or is this just meant as a visualization of latency in these scenarios versus what it would be like with musicians playing x ft apart from each other in a room?
Wasn’t Godzilla a metaphor for the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atom bombs?
"I can't do anything to fix it" doesn't have to be depressing. There are plenty of problems in life that nobody can fix yet.

It's pithy, but this quote comes from Viktor Frankl, who knew a thing or two about hopelessness:

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
The first set is all you really need. Answering the second set (if presented) with completely wrong answers will usually cause you to pass. Wild guess -- perhaps ReCAPTCHA is checking for mouse movement and other behavioural heuristics after the initial test.
Ask HN: As small-fry needing custom PCBs, how to deal with Covid part shortage?
I'm in the position of having to order batches of ~50 boards at a time, and since the beginning of this year more and more electronic parts have been out of stock, even though we designed everything for normally in-stock parts.

Crystals, real-time clocks, solid-state sensors, MCUs, amplifiers, a lot of what's in IoT devices, are now up in 30-52 week lead time range. Often there aren't even alternatives that could be used on a redesigned board. STM, NXP, TI, Bosch, almost any brand seems to be affected.

Does anyone have any insight into where everything went? Are the parts being hoarded, or has there been a genuine large slump in part production or assembly going through the roof?

Are there platforms outside of the regular big distributors (eg. digikey/mouser/etc) where the elusive parts are potentially being traded in low volumes?
> The term "bully" just doesn't seem to capture the behavior described in this piece

Harasser?
Is the population that visits your website more biased than average?
Ehhh… I prefer synchronicity to serendipity. Everything happens for a reason. There are forces that we can’t see propel life to happen. Nevertheless, enjoy the ride!
> How is that not a vertical monopoly?

Because vertical integration is neither a necessary or sufficient condition for a monopoly.

It’s a non sequitur.
People have done experiments using high-speed cameras and such.
Plugin API isn't stable yet[0]. After this work is done, plugins will have to be ported to the final API. This will still take some time. I don't it will happen this year.

I'm looking forward to gimp 3.2 which will have non-destructive editing that is one of the last remaining pieces before it will be more acceptable for professional photography.

GIMP has the potential to become even a powerful compositor[1].

[0] https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/

[1] https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/
How do you brace for turnover in your dev team?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I work for a company where we have no senior engineers left. They never could fill all positions and the last few just spontaneously quit/were fired last week. I was informed today that one of the remaining devs is planning to quit as there is no more senior mentorship.

A team of what should be 8 is going down to two in a few weeks. Not really sure what kind of plans I should be making as a relatively junior engineer.
We would love to discuss your use case. Please drop me a mail at Nafey at spanrr.com.
Chicago predictive policing program tells man he would be involved in shooting
Heavy development processes don't scale when it comes to volume of projects.
"Whenever someone like me gets called a "white supremacist" for defending someone's right to post a job opportunity without being subject to attack, it devalues a term whose meaning is indispensable to retain so that genuine instances of racism can be identified and rightfully addressed."

Wow, this is basically what all us "crazy alt-right" people have been worried was going to happen since day 1.

Second and third order consequences are not always that hard to foresee.
A crackdown on miners in China would radically reduce the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining, increase the profitability of all the remaining #Bitcoin miners, reduce nagging China FUD, support progress toward our ESG goals, & drive up the value of $BTC. We should be so lucky...

https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/139579494229595341...
AIs are the best at exploting unexpected perverse incentives.

You will see this whenever you train an AI to play a video game. It will eventually find a glitch and exploit it endlessly in the weirdest of ways.

If you poorly design an AI to lower crime rate in a given population, it can come up with a solution where population = 0 and therefore crime rate is 0.
I can't speak to rats specifically, but in my state feral hogs are a problem. The state wildlife office doesn't let hunters take them on public land, because it makes them skittish and they stay spread out (you can take them on private land with a landowner's okay, though).

They set up baited traps where a giant cage is suspended, which then falls onto the whole...team. (I looked up the word for a group of hogs)

Anyway the relevant bit is that supposedly, each year you have to kill/remove 60% of the existing hogs just to maintain the current population

Needless to say, doesn't seem like it's working.
Such clarity in life is a rare an sacred thing.
Have you guys ever wondered that if the core fundamental definition of life just starts off as some molecule that self replicates. And that the resulting complexity of life is just errors that happen during replication that are naturally selected to reverse entropy, then could there be other forms of life that are not based on water or carbon?

I get that the carbon atom and water facilitates organic chemistry which results in tons and tons of complicated permutations and configurations of molecules necessary for life but are there other atoms in other conditions that allow permutations that that are equal in complexity? Could some form of life be non-carbon based life be able to exist say in the middle of the sun?

I heard deep in Jupiter's atmosphere is a sea of liquid metal hydrogen. Could a different form of life exist as non-organic chemistry with high pressure liquid hydrogen as an integral part of the self replicating machinery?

Any experts on bio molecular stuff care to weigh in? I'm positive this stuff has been speculated on, but I've also heard that a lot of experts don't consider non-carbon based life without water to be viable or likely simply because organic chemistry facilitates so many complex chemical permutations necessary for life.
I don’t consider culture == politics
You have the right to be heard, not an entitlement.
In Dr Who there were green dudes who lived underground on Earth, but they originally came from another planet.
I've always wanted a tool that finds duplicate code (with minor variable name differences) so I can factor it out. Often when prototyping I'll copy a function thinking it will change a lot or maybe just not knowing what will change. As the application matures I'll go back and clean these up but it shouldn't be too hard for a tool to identify.
Yeah but a DMCA takedown is focused on the content, not on deleting a user's account. Not after one "strike", anyway.
To risk dropping my objective ideological stance in this thread, you allude to an important point. Public fora belong to their participants as a society, not as individuals. It is reasonable and required for societies to define taboos and proscribed opinions. It is inherent. That is why speech free from government interference is a powerful idea: it avoids the tendency of societies to perform a sort of regulatory capture and enforce their taboos with ultimate power.

Here on Hacker News there are complex taboos around how we may express our opinions and the type of posting that is deemed detrimental.

While it is important that the government not enforce these taboos, it is neither wrong nor necessarily evil for a society to enforce them through its use of free association - and exclusion.
I've started reading him from the timer of his old blog (UR) and I've never encountered anything racist in his writing. Even the bits taken out of context in Wikipedia, are not by any stretch racist. Believing that IQ has a genetic component (I know this is anathema in USA but it's widely accepted in Europe and dominant in other parts of the world) and that blacks score lower than whites (as whites score lower than asians) does not make someone a racist.
Cool article, but it's clear from the numbers that the author was starting with metric measurements, translating them to imperial units, and dropping the originals, because almost every quantity reported would be a rounder number in metric units. I wish they wouldn't do that; to make things clear to Americans and elderly Brits they could put the imperial units in parentheses.
That sounds like a way to change the owner of a star, not sell it in exchange for eth

What is obvious to some can be obscure for others, “metamask” is hardly a household name