skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The mere fact that someone does not hold with leftist ideology does not imply this criticism is "not in good faith", the opposite is actually true.

fair

>> Yes, the university curriculum - and especially the humanities - is a left-wing echo chamber. If you do not agree I'd like you to show me some proof in the form of neutral or conservative courses in these fields.

you're asserting something, why shouldn't i be asking you for proof?

>> . Why do you even try to deny this fact, seeing as to how this is so obvious? If there were to be a place for a "not in good faith" accusation it would be far more towards your reply than to my original comment.

What's obvious about it?

We can go back and forth just asking open questions with specificity and being unmoved by any answers OR we can discuss what might be the roots of those arguments, e.g., what i brought up in a previous comment about empathy. The former is not in good faith. Like in the original comment:

>> Have a look around the average university campus, look at the curriculum. Is it any surprise that those who went through these institutions come out ideologically lopsided? This is true for most of the countries I have experience with, it even holds true for a large part of pre-university education. Add to this the more recent phenomenon of trying to label all those who do not keep within the (narrow and shifting) window of allowed opinions and the recipe for producing an ideological monoculture is complete. To me this is a sign of these institutions failing in their duties. It this situation does not get remedied it will lead to the creation of new institutions which welcome those who do not wish to align themselves with the current dogma, something akin to the way the Protestant church was founded out of disagreements with Catholic dogma.

my reasoning for assessing the comment isn't in good faith: you're prescribing your assumptions as truth to reach a biased conclusion. Whether or not you're correct is inconsequential, just like with your comment here, you're saying this situation is "obvious" and if not there needs to be proof. The original article actually says that it isn't "obvious", only that there's been some changes occurring over the last 70+ years and they're getting more prevalent (not that they're extreme in one direction or the other, where the 'simplest explanation is due to more access to higher education'). You're not discussing anything with respect to what the numbers are showing, how much 'liberal bias' is actually occurring? Is it 10%, 20%, ...do you know? Instead you're broad-brush approach to saying it's "obvious" that university curriculum is producing an "ideological monoculuture" is purely speculation based on your own bias. Change the words from where anecdote is your defense to a larger discussion on where your perception stems from and we'll have a real discussion about the topic.
I want to convert my bike to electric, so I've been looking into the legal stuff. Doesn't seem like there's any obstacles so far. And there's plenty of electric cars around, I'm thinking a motorcycle would be the same, but I'm not 100% sure.

Also thinking of starting a local business on this, surprisingly no one else is doing it, so there's got to be a catch somewhere.

E-bikes sell for 2400+ Euros, how is that even possible. A good one could be built for ~1000-1500 at most, which still leaves enough room for a lower price and a profit from the (little tbf) research I've done.
It's clear you didn't even try to read the article.

They mapped the distortion effects on visible light thought to be caused by dark matter. They don't know what it is or how it works, but they know _something_ is causing apparent distortion to the light.
The First Amendment protects businesses that won't do business with political opponents?

So if all the banks decided to stop doing business with all Democrats, you'd argue that was protected by the First Amendment?

So if you own a bakery and a Nazi insists you bake them a Nazi cake, you have to bake it I guess?
I mean, I've been working in VR for years and it's really not that hard to stick a Vive tracker on a pair of 3D glasses. But what if you wanted 2 or more people to look at the same screen?

This is why I think things like Looking Glass or Google's Project Starline (probably using something similar to Looking Glass) seem more interesting. Though I haven't gotten to play with one yet and they're much more intensive to run than something like this.
I'm intrigued about which part of that response you thought was angry?

The front elevation of my house is less than 15ft away from a reasonably busy road. I'm no stranger to the perils of noise pollution. In fact, around one week a year, last week in fact, the M25 (the London ring road) is diverted overnight along our road. This means we have heavy trucks passing our home all night long. We also live under the departure route for Heathrow (though that's been relatively quiet this year!).

I think people should live and let live though. Otherwise we end up in a situation where people are constantly trying to ban other people's hobbies. Off-road driving, motorcycles, horse riding, light aircraft, playing the drums, road cycling, caravaning, beer gardens, smoking weed, barbequing, DIY, fixing up old cars etc. They all have something someone else could find objectional if they lack joy enough in their own life to want to cause misery in someone else's.
That sounds like a journalist read a bit about both frame dragging and the Alcubierre metric and had as much wishful thinking as is usually my own personal weakness with all things GR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging
In German there is discussions about it, in Austria they banned all bikes that go above 95db in certain regions.
Not at all.

I suggest you walk past a paper mill sometime to truly understand how environmentally horrific they are. The one up near me finally paid to put scrubber systems on their air exhaust. Before then when the wind was blowing the right direction it made all of north portland smell like rotting cabbage. Even with the scrubbers you still smell it at the airport occasionally.

Another fun detail is the parking lot workers park in has a drive through car wash/rinse device. The employees use it every shift when they leave... or at least they should if they don't want the acid fumes to eat the paint off their car.

Paper mills cause far more pollution than any potential carbon sequestration benefit, which would be temporary in the long term anyhow. Books will rot unless you put them in a controlled atmosphere.
You're being downvoted because of the misinformation in your post. Facebook isn't a publisher when it comes to user-made posts, so calling them one is misinformation.

> This isn't about Section 230. We need new legislation to reign in the unchecked ability of Silicon Valley to curb speech they disagree with.

Unchecked? What happened to the free market that the GOP constantly talked about, the sacred thing that the government shouldn't interfere with?

Not to mention there's no actual evidence of this:

> systematically denying their political enemies a platform.

What's happened so far is conservatives breaking the rules much more heavily than progressives, and then getting very upset when the consequences kick in (though to be sure, I've seen leftists getting mad about this too).
> He also reported to have grabbed his wife with his left hand and shaken her violently, at which point his right hand came to her aid and grabbed the aggressive left hand.

I see that as evidence of two consciousnesses/personalities sharing one body (i.e. one set of I/O devices), not two personalities sharing qualia.
Amiga Corporation: Statement regarding commercial distribution of AmigaOS 3.2
No. Read the article again with an eye towards enforced structure. A software package may not suitable for a task, despite the efforts of the programmer.
Browser Games: The Future of Gaming?
I wrote a python to rust transpiler (py2many) also as a fun project. I won't be surprised if writing a db in python actually becomes viable some years down the road due to the awesome tooling and the idea -> code uninterrupted flow that's possible.
> So if all the banks decided to stop doing business with all Democrats, you'd argue that was protected by the First Amendment?

Correct, it is. It would be foolish business, but they could do it. At least, that's my understanding.

What would more likely happen is this:

> Business announces no-Democrat policy

> Policy goes viral

> Business cancels policy due to public pressure and other businesses cutting ties due to the bad PR

> Republicans yell about 'cancel culture'

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> So if you own a bakery and a Nazi insists you bake them a Nazi cake, you have to bake it I guess?

The first amendment literally works the opposite of this. That's exactly the kind of thing a business can refuse (though in some cases there are narrow carve-outs for certain types of identity).
But you could've probably taken the local copy and removed the update URL so it doesn't update itself anymore.

Anyway, since you said "Google Play Music" it's no longer relevant is it.
I should also add this, from here [1]:

> Clinical specimens for sequencing should have an RT-PCR Ct value ≤28.

The sequencing you're referring to does not happen on the samples that I'm suggesting are false positives -- at least, it doesn't happen in the US. The CDC does not want those samples.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/Information-...
I'm 100% with you there, but the current ~6 month cycle is ridiculous. And people actually buy a new phone every year, there's no practical reason for that. My 2018 phone is perfect, even my 2014 older phone still keeps up.
I sleep in a tent in the backyard all summer. The cooler temperatures mean I can use heavy blankets, which I find comforting, and the light makes it easy to get up early in the mornings. It's just a Walmart-style tent with a twin mattress inside, the fly usually stays off unless it's rainy, with a sheet, two blankets, and a sleeping bag unzipped on the top. Very comfortable.
New Checkmate A1500 Mini computer case
For everyone that is against this law: If in 2028 Mark Zuckerberg decides to run for President, would you be ok with him banning all other candidates from Facebook. He would be the only Presidential candidate that would be allowed to have a Facebook presence. What if he also blocked all posts that were positive about the other candidates?

Would you defend the right of association of Facebook and that Facebook cannot be compelled to support speech it does not want to?
Be interesting to know the effects upon many species over the past year of reduced human interaction.
Thanks for your feedback. I will touch on all your points.

TricepMail is designed specifically for privacy, and not only privacy for your data on TricepMail’s servers but for preventing others from tracking and selling your information as well. The privacy policy specifically states that there is no collection of your personal information. TricepMail is based out of Colorado, US, but considering moving to another country which might be better for privacy.

The UI is definitely very minimal, but that is on purpose by design. No need for a bunch of visual clutter when reading/sending email. Improvements can and will be made though, of course.
a copy of a daily newspaper from Los Angeles in 1937 is not the same as the Gutenberg Bible.

Newspapers were meant to be disposable, then and now, its good to store the information, but I'm highly skeptical of the need to hold onto the physical copies after scanning.
>So if you own a bakery and a Nazi insists you bake them a Nazi cake, you have to bake it I guess?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court...
TL;DR: Open source software has high costs to adoption. The lack of standardization leads to unnecessary work. Proprietary platforms with stable tool chains are more efficient to use. Therefore, everyone should use proprietary platforms.

The author has no problem ceding the entire future of computing to a few mega-companies that have the scale the 'lithify' all the components of a platform. I doubt I am the only person who feels that no amount of efficiency gains would justify giving in to that future.

Most open source software never reaches version 1.0. Few projects gain enough support to compete with polished proprietary software. The answer isn't to abandon open source, but to increase support for existing projects. If no good open source software exists then use whatever proprietary software you need to, but also find the best comparable open source project and contribute to it. Paying for proprietary software but not contributing to open source is like paying interest on debt but never paying down the principal balance. That course of action will never lead to the debt going away.

The other problem with the author's take is that he ignores the other solution to high transactions costs, open standards. There is a reason why we can visit any site on the web with zero transaction costs. The web enabled cross-compatibility by creating open standards for sharing and viewing remote content. Open standards like OpenGL, WebGl, ActivityPub, Open Document Format, and RSS do a lot to allow compatibility between different platforms. Standards like these can allow open source software to match the functionality of proprietary platforms.

Open source may lag behind in a few notable areas. Syncing application files between devices is a pain. Discoverability within federated networks is poor. Quality between applications varies a lot. Open source isn't perfect but the goal of public domain software is non-negotiable. As more economic and social processes become automated, the knowledge consumed within these processes will move from the brains of workers and into the software that runs the machines. This is a massive transfer of power from labor to capital. If this software is owned and controlled by a few large corporations, which would be inevitable if all operating systems were proprietary, then these few corporations would wield significant control over all economic and societal processes. This is as dystopian of a future as I can imagine and this seems like the only result that could come about if we followed the advice in this article.
Compile-time pre-calculations in C++
Linux users who install their apps via a package manager (other than, iiuc, AUR) have at least the vetting of a third party. And this is why a lot of work goes into reproduceable builds and minimal bootstraps.

Apps provided on any platform by major, trusted vendors are much more likely to be safe. Apple/Microsoft/Adobe might find themselves compelled to add a government backdoor, but they're probably not going to chuck in code to send your credit card number to the darkweb.

As for install random programs from unknown vendors on the Google Play Store, yeah, I'm a bit nervous about that. It would be nice if we could manage trust on such platforms in some way, but all we can do is hope to be on guard at all times. Google clearly doesn't care if you get hacked by a third party, as long as they don't do it directly.
Hello HN!

I'm a long time reader of HN (since 2018 when I was 19!) but I've never had a chance to show something cool and computer related since my main gig is as a musician and composer.

This is one of my first steps towards making a more universal sonification package to turn data of all sorts into sound. In the code above I run through simple random data sonifications, then to 3D data sonifications, surfaces, and finally the capstone of using some real data from the HJ Andrews Forest in Oregon to compose some symphonies.

The primary difference between this code and much of the sonification work done so far, is that it converts the data into Midi control/notes rather than directly sonifying the data through something like RTCMix. This allows for some greater artistic liberties to made, plus saves some time from coding envelopes, synthesizers, filters etc etc.

My next goal for this project is to make a better interpolation function for "choosing" notes to play based on things happening in the data. For example: having dissonant intervals played only when the slope of the data passes some threshold. I think it would be really cool to have something like - NIGHT AT THE SYMPHONY: THE MUSIC OF EUROPA - where a scientist comes out and explains some phenomena and then David Attenborough explains what instruments are playing what. Then the symphony plays and the music is both aesthetically pleasing but communicative of the processes taking place.

If you have something cool you want to make into music please feel free to email or message me! I'm a student without a job right now and I really want to pursue my musical passions.

With that, Thank you for lending me your ears and I hope it gets you thinking about how music can convey information!
Florida allows for conversion therapy on minors[1], and allows housing discrimination against LGBT people[2], as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Florida#Convers...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Stat...
The point is rather than having 2 parents working 5 days a week between them, it’s 2 parents working 10 days a week (and maybe more)

They need to do this because the house that was affordable on one salary in the 80s now requires 2 salaries and childcare

Not everyone is like that, but I had to explain why we didn’t have childcare costs when we took a mortgage put last week (I work as in the original point - I work from home, I take the kids to school for 0830 and pick them up at 1530, in between I do things like the dishwasher (while boiling the kettle or making lunch) and do what I deem enough hours to fulfil the goals of my department.
Possibly because the ISA memory hole starts at the 15mb mark? So if you want your kernel to be contiguously loaded to real memory, then as soon as it becomes possible for it to be more bloated than 14mb, loading it at the 1mb address becomes less appealing? I'm not sure why it matters though since a kernel can be loaded directly to virtual memory, in which case it doesn't matter how much ram there is, so long as there's enough ram.
> I have claimed that the class of dark matter theories includes those which reject the existence of "dark matter"

And this claim is incorrect. "Dark matter" is a particular hypothesis for explaining the discrepancy in galaxy rotation curves (and other observations as well, such as features of the CMB that cannot be explained with a model that only includes the matter visible to us). It is not just another name for the discrepancy itself, or for any theory that claims to explain the discrepancy by any mechanism whatever.

> under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that the historical term "dark matter theory" refers to any theory that explains galactic rotation curves

And this is an incorrect assumption. That's what I've been saying all along. See above.
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>For everyone that is against this law: If in 2028 Mark Zuckerberg decides to run for President, would you be ok with him banning all other candidates from Facebook.

I'd be okay with it.

>What if he also blocked all posts that were positive about the other candidates?

I'd be okay with it.
Joseph Weizenbaum's Original ELIZA
It doesn't count as authoritarianism when they're my restrictive laws.
Universal Studios is owned by Comcast, not MGM/Amazon.
The framework is open source, so if you don't want to pay, you can self host! You can use the dev environment for free, then deploy on your own hardware:

https://anvil.works/open-source

(Founder here, confirming that this is a Supported Use Case :-P)
There are a bunch of partially completed stations (or expansion provisions for future stations) which were intended for the "IND Second System" -- a massive set of projects that got killed off by the Great Depression.

(The beginning of one of those lines actually got built and put into service, in the form of a one-station spur line branching off Hoyt-Schermerhorn in Brooklyn, and going to Court Street, where the line now stops. It was originally intended to continue into Manhattan and become the Second Avenue Line. Instead, it was operated for a time as a shuttle, then discontinued. Court St. Station is now the main site of the Transit Museum, which may reopen one of these days. There's now a rump Second Avenue Line recently put into service on the Upper East Side -- three stops of it -- but construction of the rest isn't fully funded, it's not planned to reach lower Manhattan for a few more decades, and there are no active plans to continue it into Brooklyn.)
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Visual debuggers also let you click to where you want to skip through but I agree step over with a hotkey is faster.

Letting the debugger skip over it can be done with with the immediately called lambda approach.
> the light makes it easy to get up early in the mornings

I guess it’s safe to assume you don’t live in Scandinavia or northern Canada where it can be 18-20 hours of daylight in summer.
People write raft papers with pseudo code or some hard to comprehend systems language. I've always wondered why there isn't a Jepsen tested python implementation with lots of github stars.

Here is mine:

https://github.com/adsharma/raft

Waiting for a python correctness prover and a transpiler.
Same here. I setup a new email server last month and most every big email service made it pretty easy to get whitelisted, but not Microsoft. They're a total pita to deal with. Google made it very easy.

My server is a "Mail-in-a-Box" running on a DigitalOcean VPS.
It's neat to have all those powered degrees of freedom, but what problem does it solve?

The BPG transforming bike [1] was a more promising direction. It could transform from a self-balancing Segway form for indoor and sidewalk use to a motorcycle form for roads. It looks like something from Transformers or the RideBack anime, but they got a prototype on the road. Now that had real potential. BPG never got that to to work well enough, and pivoted to another product, an off-road thing that runs on dual caterpillar tracks. Yamaha could probably make the BPG concept work. That would be a boon to delivery drivers everywhere.

The proposed animal-like haptic interface is interesting. But what do you do with it on a two-wheeler? On a horse trained for it, you can do quite a few useful moves - turn on the forehand, turn on the hindquarters, full pass (sideways), half pass (moving partly sideways while facing forward). I've owned several horses, all of whom could do those things. One was an ex-police horse who had all that manuverability and more, and could work in tight spaces when necessary.

Now, that's just listening to the rider. Cutting cows out of a herd (which I don't do) has the horse doing much of the driving. Watch [2]. The rider is in control in the early stages, getting the desired cow partially separated from the herd. But watch the part where the cow is trying to get past the horse. The horse is clearly in charge then.

That cooperative giving control back and forth is common in riding. It takes quite a bit of training and practice for both horse and rider. Miscommunication can result in injuries. It's possible to build all that into a vehicle; the control system for the F-15 fighter-bomber is notable for doing quite a bit by itself, with the pilot indicating what they want to happen and the control system figuring out how to do it, using the aircraft's many control surfaces. That takes a lot of pilot training to use properly.

Maybe if both wheels of the bike were steerable, it could do more. The new electric Hummer has four-wheel steering and can crab at low speeds.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odI4WaYEcCU

[2] https://youtu.be/nCRzUjn4I7I
Being a teacher is a career. Being a doctor. Being a lawyer.

Going into management and other paper pushing is pointless work sure, but many careers are very valuable and build upon skills and experience in that job with profession in that job as much as you want.