skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the example he uses about correlation isn't true:

> Probably the shortest true statement that can be made about causality and correlation is "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality."

Correlation isn't necessary for causation, so ironically the supposed mutilation used to fit on a PP slide - "Correlation is not causation" - is actually far more correct.

The same mistake is also made in Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein's new book [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/economeager/status/1395791301627596806
now i wonder to what degree apple's public refusal to unlock a particular phone for the FBI was a publicity stunt...
I guess it’s a matter of priorities. The TX legislature seems to be moving with a quickness to get voter suppression bills passed.
I've seen that for small icons. The "off" state is the icon for the thing, and the "on" state is something like two vertical bars, regardless of what was turned on.

He also wrote:

"Lol imagine if files and folders got heavier the bigger they get"

Someone did that in the early Mac days, as the "Sonic Finder". Everything the use did made a sound. Moving files produced a "thump" sound, with a deeper "thump" for larger objects.

Few people left that feature turned on.
These should go well together with accessing them from Wasm with Http Range Requested:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
Worth recommanding too from Howard S Becker : https://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/craft_articles/b...
Over $200 million was spent on Prop 22, making it the most expensive measure in CA history. The idea that the results were based on each voter's personal assessment of the fairness of AB5 sounds pretty generous (or naive) when faced with lobbying like this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-uber-and-doordashs-push-....
Likely, it worked for a couple months until the bad actors found a cheap bypass to your detection method.
I've recently been thinking about this in the context of web technology (revisiting some ideas from the 90s that didn't pan out then, but can be repurposed now).

Your point here about CNC and additive versus subtractive manufacturing is also near to my hobbyist interests.

Extending the idea a bit, I suspect the history of social changes that resulted from the advent of the printing press are an entryway into understanding the public's reaction to social media today.

Aside from living through the history, can you recommend a way to build more of this knowledge? If it's a matter of being widely read do you know of something like a survey introductory text?

I will google more, but thought I'd ask.
Seems like the stores could investigate this on their own by creating fake extensions that appear to have lots of users.
We don't like the term, but that link is actually fake news, and has been refuted before, for example here: https://serpentsec.1337.cx/i-was-asked-to-review-an-article-...
Blocking spam is not hard. It’s something I explain to my parents. It’s not a problem I would expect a person with in-demand tech skills to ask about online. I am in those databases too. My email address has been on my web site for a long time, ready to scrape.

I spend no time at all dealing with unwanted recruiter emails, but I’m not getting them from “every startup in the world,” probably because I don’t apply for jobs online or send resumes into automated systems in the first place.

Assuming you sincerely want advice:

1. Use a secondary email address on your resume.

2. Set up filters or use an email client that sorts your mail for you.

3. Reply to the unwanted emails asking to get off the list, if there’s no unsubscribe button.

4. Get an agent or assistant to handle your emails.

I work through an agency that handles the front-line stuff. I mark as spam any automated emails, and respond politely to recruiters who took the time to write a personal email. You never know when you might need that lead.
Oh but it is used a lot, just not out in the open. We use it to bridge millions of lines of C and C++ with millions of lines of Perl and Python. It is quirky but really stable once you get it going.
> I'm not certain whether they intend to allow users to upload their own content, or if UGC actually just means "build structures in game out of built-in assets". I suspect it's actually the latter.

The Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playdreamworld/dreamwor...) says (emphasis mine, also highlighted in the article): "Creator centric crafting economy : Using simple tools and guided by quick tutorials, you can learn how to create your own 3D models for items that you and others might need or want in your builds and adventures. Imbue them with useful function like lighting, extra damage, low weight, knockback, and a plethora of exciting magical properties! Not artistically inclined? Import 3D models from anywhere online, and DreamWorld will help you turn them into exactly what you were looking for."

We'll see how much of this actually ships.

Thanks for the Second Life information.
Authoritarian is as authoritarian does.

The government of Florida — comprised of the politicians of Floria — just passed a law dictating to a private company what is and isn’t allowed on their platform, specifically requiring that platforms publish the speech of government politicians.

Authority: you must broadcast our messages.

Sounds pretty damn authoritarian to me.
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I don't believe it. Most of the most complex code I have found, when I needle the author about it, it turns out they don't really understand it either.

It genuinely seems to me that the Feynman Hypothesis holds true: If you can't explain it simply, then we don't really understand it.

And for certain if you can't explain the code simply, there's no way to make the code simple.
Thanks for the link. I can't believe that it hasn't been touched for a long time, it's almost way to clean.

And the site itself, wow.

http://ninjito.com/2020-02-05-Baikonour
https://pile.eleuther.ai/
Looks like a great vacation rental opportunity.
Abolish High School (2015)
This would probably sound laughable for anybody who has basic idea of extrasensory practice. Even assuming ghosts exist, you really can't contact them directly as if they were on a telephone/fax. That only works this way in cartoons. The only slightly realistic scenario is them channeling pure meanings/thoughts into a medium's mind. The medium then interprets them and turns them into words/drawings in accordance with habits of his own mind.

For example some times I (not a medium, I mean in ordinary life) really know what do I want to say and that is a simple one-word concept but I have hard time recalling the word in ANY of the languages I speak, I only have a pure meaning experience without a verbal representation to express. If I somehow could pass this sense to someone else telepathically they would still probably misinterpret it, e.g. because they have a different context in their minds.

And I would hardly waste time/traffic mentioning my birthday if I were talking to my son through an unreliable inter-dimensional telepathical connection.
Ugh, this has gotten so bad lately. The most recent trend is for them to send 5 or 6 followup emails.
I think its pretty straight forward that privacy protection for Google means protecting the data it has collected from their users. Not refraining or preventing itself from collecting user data. Google protects the privacy of your information from outsiders (and insiders) not from its own apps and services. That is what's meant when Google says they "take their user's privacy very seriously". And its obvious that this is true because this practice is effectively just protecting their business model.
it is just a preview of what swimming pool would look and feel like in an in-orbit hotel.
I think at this point Tesla's camera-only system is an issue of pride for Elon Musk more than anything. He makes declarations and then refuses to backtrack on them ever unless he is literally forced to do so.

In theory a camera-only autonomous system can work effectively but in practice there's innumerable edge cases where it doesn't work well and edge cases are where catastrophic failures happen. If you had infinite processing power and error free AI you might be able to cover many edge cases but Teslas have neither.
This depends on the exact definition of causation.

Arguably, causation is merely a human word for "A always happens when B happens."

A causes B or vice versa is one of those things where it's true until it isn't.

Causation is frequently used to mean that B will always occur when A occurs. The problem is that no probability is truly 100%.
Why do you want a watch to tell you the time? The time is literally everywhere you look - from you laptop to your phone to your oven and even microwave.
Is the use of leaded gas just because most small planes are old? Do new planes still require leaded gas? It seems absurd that avaiation gas is still leaded when it was phases out decades ago everywhere else.
Thank you for checking it out! The app is free and completely client side right now, there is no tracking code or login required to use it.

I do plan to monetize the app with a pro subscription, by adding premium features such as converting video formats, sharing links of the video, hiding the control bar and more.

The current feature set will remain free and free users can continue to benefit from bug fixes and improvements.
But to what benefit? I use a discount card at my local supermarket. It also saves me anywhere from $0.10 - $0.40/gallon on gasoline. Beyond getting lower prices, I don't see any personalized marketing tied to my use of the card.
I went through this and then realized that apple hardware is not meant for people who like to actually do things with their computers
They have competing products, they don’t have competitive products. There’s an important difference.
> Ninja Edit: I didn't downvote you by the way.

No worries. It's interesting that some people have, because I haven't expressed an opinion in favour or against billionaires. I've just asked for opinions and thoughts.

Disclosure: I am not a billionaire.
Note that contextual ads still perform better than personalized ads on search results, given how you still don’t see eg. Spotify ads on search results for anything other than music.
Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications (2016)
Do they collect this information somehow? I mean by wearing this device and using e.g. a timer, do Apple employees can find out for example how often did particular person use the timer and for how long?
A startup launched here a few days ago that does autocomplete for the terminal. Not even all low-hanging fruit has been picked, let alone software for managing intricate processes deep within the economy or software catering to most niche interests.

The global SaaS market is growing at something like 10-20% year-on-year. Developer salaries have been rising steeply pretty much across the board. When the exponential growth ends, the steady state will likely be quite comfortable as well. You can pick whichever area you have an interest in and be safe for the foreseeable future.

BTW forget PHP systems, all the web and mobile apps built on top of 100s random NPM packages will require a tremendous manpower to deal with for decades.
I actually thing Google maps (Inc live congestion) is well worth the loss of privacy.
How would it profit Google?
I agree, but you need to give this person the benefit of the doubt. They haven't yet "not finished" since this just came out yesterday. This "unfinished" issue is also a problem with regards to tutorials for writing emulators. It's amazing, given how popular writing NES emulators is, that there is not yet a great step-by-step written tutorial for writing one (there IS great documentation and some great video tutorials (see One Lone Coder for example)). This is why one of the big projects in my next book will be a detailed tutorial showing how a simple NES emulator is built.
Lose 5 kgs and you'll have gained more performance without annoying other people.
Recent and related:

Florida will fine social media companies that bar candidates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268418 - May 2021 (169 comments)

The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27064221 - May 2021 (37 comments)

Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010054 - May 2021 (5 comments)

Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006912 - May 2021 (11 comments)

Disney gets special “theme park” exception to Florida’s anti-tech bill - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27002543 - May 2021 (23 comments)

Florida bill to fine social media for banning politicians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001610 - May 2021 (51 comments)

Others?
I have placed 15kg worth of dumbbell weight plates under each bed post in hope this might reduce meditation of sound vibrations due to neighbors walking and running and doing whatever else to cause them. It works a bit but not as much as I'd like.
"There must be a dominance factor at play."

It is fine to speculate, but "must" is a strong assumption. Your analogy is also based on flawed data. Yes, when riding on streets there is a chance of getting killed, but getting regular exercise reduces your chance of dying for other reasons. There are many studies that demonstrate this. Here is one:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237214-why-the-health-...

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1456

Tell me what you think the benefit:risk ratio is of doing jumping jacks at a gun range.

I have worked from home for a long time, but 15+ years ago I commuted by bike about 12 miles each way three times a week when the weather was good. Dominance had nothing to do with my choice to bike there.

I could ride there by bike in 45 minutes, or I could drive there in 25 minutes (lots of stop and go). Same on the return trip. My mental calculus was I got 90 minutes of exercise for an incremental time expense of 40 minutes. That I was also not polluting was a bonus.

The nearest accident I had ever was one day when I was on connector road that had recently been widened and hadn't yet picked up a lot of use. Despite there being no traffic at that moment, I've always 100% obeyed traffic laws, so I stood over my bike waiting for the red light to change. About 20 seconds into it a pickup truck came screeching to a stop just about five feet behind me - he literally locked the tires and left skid marks. Guess what his reaction was: to shout and scream to the point of spitting that I was lucky to be alive and that I wan an asshole for biking on the road. I still don't know if he saw me all along and it was a calculated dominance display, or if he was daydreaming and really did nearly cream me.
The phrase “manufactured pandemic” fits with all the conspiracy talk I have seen. Help me understand how I can interpret this differently.
> iMessage still feels leagues above how SMS and texting works on andriod

iMessage is a messaging app that uses internet. It should be compared to WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, WeChat, FB Messenger.

It doesn't make sense to compare iMessage to SMS. Because nobody uses SMS as their main communication method. The only people who ever use SMS are iPhone users when they text Android users.

All this confusion comes from the fact that Apple merged their messaging app with the SMS app. This creates the illusion that iMessaging isn't just a messaging app but it is actually something built on top of SMS. It's just a messaging app that is not cross-platform.

> I don't want to go through other means to simply shoot my friend a quick video of something.

By "other means", do you mean installing a new messaging app? I'm guessing this isn't about the effort of downloading an app but rather it's about getting used to a new app and convincing your friends to switch to it.
The suggestion is to require either a phone number or a cryptocurrency fee, at the user's discretion.
I second this demand. It is obvious that Protesants carry out more abuse.
Would be unwise to do, if you depend on other deliveries from *.cn which maybe withold then, in the usual tit for tat deals of the so called 'free markets'.
Difficult Questions About Freemasonry (2001)
microG (a replacement for Google Play Services) includes a free and open source network location provider called UnifiedNlp:

https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp

UnifiedNlp allows you to choose the backends your Android device uses to determine the location, without providing any data to Google. Options include:

- Mozilla Location Services: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.microg.nlp.backend.ichna...

- Apple Location Services: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.microg.nlp.backend.apple...

- OpenCellID (offline): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gfd.gsmlocation/

- Radiocells.org (optionally offline): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.openbmap.unifiedNlp/

- Déjà Vu (offline cache using Wi-Fi and cellular data): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fitchfamily.android.deja...

The easiest way to use microG is to switch to an Android distribution that has it preinstalled:

- CalyxOS (supports Google Pixel 2 and later): https://calyxos.org

- LineageOS for microG (supports all devices supported by LineageOS): https://lineage.microg.org

- /e/ (some overlap with LineageOS, but also supports different devices): https://e.foundation
Quite literally. Except that the government is often the fucking government.
The only other country that taxes like the US (citizenship based rather than residency) is Eritrea and… wait for it… the US has the gall to criticize Eritrea for doing it.

Citizenship based taxation has been said by many think tanks to cause a drag on US GDP as there are relatively disproportionately fewer Americans working abroad than Brits, Aussies, etc etc. and people tend to work with companies they are familiar with back home. Go to Hong Kong, Dubai, etc and there are so many more citizens of non-US countries it is shocking.
Many tools used in chip design are controlled with Tcl. It provides a stable repl for these heavy, multi-threaded, efficient, C++ programs.
I do plan to monetize with a pro monthly subscription by adding premium features and keeping the app free for the current feature set. The email capture serves as a way for me to get feedback - not to spam you. Otherwise it's hard to engage with users.
How do you measure output?

I can spend a day fixing other people's problems and my output looks poor. But if I weren't there things would get stuck.
It's hard to call SIASL late-career unless you basically consider anything post YA as late career. Heinlein would basically be hardly remembered today had he stopped writing before Starship Troopers.
Also, TFA is often 90% fluff and reading a few insightful commends is much more efficient.
It also reduces public health problems related to the illicit sale of cannabis products.

Counterfeit vape carts and shady cannabis flower is the only way many folks can access the substance. These products can easily come with terrible chemicals — a couple of years ago a string of incidents occurred over street carts containing vitamin E and other substances that caused lung damage.

People want cannabis and they're not going to stop over its illegality. Legalize it, regulate its production.
Sand casting
Why do you believe there were less interaction over the past year? Here in CH they reported the change in wild life behavior due to increased interaction with people. Basically the cities were on lock-down so the crowd just went to the mountains.
You can't use that sort of username on HN—see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... I've banned the account for now, but if you want to use it with a different name, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll get you fixed up.

(btw, the GP mentions hcaptcha)
If you are a citizen it doesn’t matter where your stint is - you pay tax on worldwide income. I think you are referring to non-citizens + non-residents that physically work in the US for a few months?
Student pilot in the Bay Area here.

I completely agree. My CFI has spent time making sure I understand how to reduce noise impacts of my flying. I live out in the hills which means planes and motorcycles are the only noise intrusions I get on a consistent basis. I wish I could do more for the noise issue as a pilot.

As for the lead issue, I had a small crush on an experimental that is being developed. The company is using a brand-new engine that can technically burn mogas (Motor Vehicle Gas) but the wings are constructed such that putting any ethanol in the tank is a severe safety issue. This combined with the fact that 100LL and Jet Fuel (diesel) are usually the only two fuels available, it seems like a lock-in for more lead consumption.

While there is some good news in the lead/noise department, it's not taking hold as much as I think it aught to: there are electric trainer aircraft produced now that provide very low operating costs, much less noise and release no lead. Unfortunately, I was reading that the performance characteristics make them a less desirable training aircraft than a Cessna 172 so adoption is slow.

Question for parent: I know the FAA's avgas initiative has been around for a while, do you know of any significant progress they have made in the area?
iMessage is not a protocol, it's an app. Nobody uses SMS because everybody uses a messaging app. It comes down to whether you choose to use a cross-platform one or an iOS-exclusive one.
Seems like a design flaw. You don't want the frames the glass are in to flex when the bridge flexes, so they should be isolated to a degree via the mounting hardware.

That said, I can't see how you would accomplish that and make waterproof seals between the sections, so whatever solves the bridge problem does not solve the floating pool problem.

If you're in this pool in an earthquake, aren't you fully fucked, regardless of whether the glass breaks? Getting sloshed right out of the pool, baby with the bathwater-style, seems like a distinct possibility.
As many Heinlein fans may recall, one working title for the book was "A Martian Named Smith".

Your comment echoes that of Orville Prescott ("disastrous mishmash of science fiction, laborious humor, dreary social satire and cheap eroticism.") , mentioned both in Vonnegut's review and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Rec... .

"Memorable" to you now is certainly different than 1990, when Vonnegut wrote, or 1961 when it was first released.

It was released at the start of the sexual revolution. American views on sex were already in flux - look at the reaction to the Kinsey Reports around 1950. Moreover, Heinlein timed the publication because "I had been in no hurry to finish it, as that story could not be published commercially until the public mores changed. I could see them changing and it turned out that I had timed it right." (Quote from that Wikipedia page.)

"The kidz" turning 20 now were born 40 years after the book came out, over a decade after the AIDS crisis, in a world where discussions about sex are much more common. Heinlein wrote Stranger "to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines" (Quote from that Wikipedia page.)

I think few kidz now consider mid-20th century ideas to be new and fresh. For that matter, how many young Asimov fans are there these days?

I don't much like Dune. However, I recognize the impact it had for its era, like its treatment of planetary ecology, written in the new Silent Spring era.

I think the same applies to Stranger. And I totally get not wanting to try to understand that era in order grok its context. ("Sure, you don't get it now, but after you watch the next five seasons it will totally make sense!")