skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of but at some point the rubber meets the road. You see a lot of comments on HN that say "Wow, this person came from a top university / FAANG and yet couldn't pass our interview or did badly on the job."
Yes! We will always make huge mistakes.

.. so we need to accept the eventuality that the worst result will eventually occur.
Motor controllers, flying things, looks like now high framerate video capture:

http://scolton.blogspot.com/
The basics work, however for example screen readers do not anounce context menus under Windows, treeviews are not providing all the information they could see (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81874?jql=text%20~%20%...), etc. But in the end, if you need somewhat more advanced widgets (tables etc.) and you do not want to implement the gui on each platform or use Electron or similar, you have no choice.
I find it more surprising that there is a consulting group with that name, and that big name companies and executives would sit through what looks like grade-school level exercises for this superficial amount of understanding.

Why don't these companies just contact major professors who work on this topic, legal scholars, african-american and black history scholars, American-history scholars, etc., and just run a "workshop" in the form of a university class discussion group? Get someone in the room who is an expert and have a conversation as adults, instead of a bizarro "re-education program".
I dont see any single case of that. Rather in every case the goal posts were moved.

Can a computer play chess? No.

They search through many permutation of board states and in a very dumb way merely select the decision path that leads to a winning one.

That was never the challenge. The challenge was having them play chess; ie., no tricks, no shortcuts. Really evaluate the present board state, and actually choose a move.

And likewise everything else. A rock beats a child at finding the path to the bottom of a hill.

A rock "outperforms" the child. The challenge was never, literally, getting to the bottom of the hill: that's dumb. The challenge was matching the child's ability to do that anywhere via exploration, curiosity, planning, coordination, and everything else.

If you reduce intelligence to merely completing a highly specific task then there is always a shortcut, which uses no intelligence, to solving that task. The ability to build tools which use these shortcuts was never in doubt: we have done that for millenia.
> an NFT is an abstract handle to which various rights can optionally be attached

When there are no rights attached, I think of NFTs as a fancy system of provenance.
I second collaborative fund blog, really great stories and reflections
I downloaded a copy the other day. We named our daughter Charlie, and when she's old enough we want her to understand why all the older people she meets think it's hilarious to say her name with a British accent.
I would really not like to see the chrome team spearheading any new technological developments. They are turning the browser landscape into a war of attrition under the guise of improvement.
I still remember the talk he gave where he wants to build self-sustaining (to the extent possible) habitats in space where people can work, live, etc.
imho: correction of the side effects of "evidence-based medicine"

related-satire:

"Satirical paper puts evidence-based medicine in the spotlight"

"A spoof paper about mothers kissing their children’s ‘boo-boos’ draws attention on social media."

https://www.nature.com/news/satirical-paper-puts-evidence-ba...

"The paper’s underlying message is in line with the journal’s philosophy, says Miles, who is also senior vice-president of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare in London and Madrid. In medicine, he notes, scientific research is only one type of knowledge, which must sit alongside other forms, such as professional medical experience, and not above them. “Over-reliance on science is a very dangerous thing,” Miles says. Next month, the journal will publish another article unpacking the lessons contained in the satirical paper, he adds."
"In light of ongoing investigations into Hussein's regime and in consultation with Department of Defense experts, we will no longer remove the claim that Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction."
FreeBSD vs. Unix
some finally serious thorough comparison!
FWIW C# would as well (LINQ)
This is an important question, and something we have considered when building our group.

My background is largely in experimental physical sciences, and one of the vanity metrics in my fields is publication in a Nature- or Science-family journal, or equivalent high-impact journal. In some cases publishing there has led to high-quality peer review and publication, but the pursuit of these papers drives many to over-sell or over-complicate the work. I tend to focus more on smaller studies which can be reasonably completely described, versus anthology publication.

But more directly, we measure output in three categories, in order of importance: people, validated concepts, and publication/dissemination.

For people, we want to develop a sense of integrity and curiosity, which means some mixture of freedom to roam and an ability to focus on defining and answering a concrete question. We want people to leave our group as good citizens and scientists.

Validated concepts take several forms. In the physical sciences it is often expensive to recreate an experiment, so performing and reporting the correct set of controls and validations is critical. A successful experiment is one which does not need to be repeated, because there is sufficient clarity and design to assure the next person that what was found is correct. Often this means obtaining a proper negative result which shuts down entire lines of inquiry. Especially since many projects require months or years of build-up, we must ensure that the foundation is solid.

As for publication and dissemination, our goal is that someone else would look at the work and consider building on top of it. In order for someone else to accept the work there needs to be a real trust or means for validation. We are open with our data, code, and methods, but much of the challenge lies in ensuring the dataset is valid and complete in the first place.

You are right to note that popularity drives academia, in the same way that charisma and a good pitch can get a startup off the ground. High citation counts, big-name grants, fancy titles, and time spent at big-name institutions are the standard metrics for success. I come from a somewhat outside perspective since I spent some time in start-up prior to this position, where our focus was more on actionable outcomes than positive results. But for the students and postdocs, these pressures for advancement are real and not easy to reckon with. I have no good answer, apart from attempting to impart personal ethics and aligning interests where possible.

The longevity and source of funding is a key factor in fighting the popularity contest. For our institute this is largely solved by solid political capital, which gives us some cover to pursue things without significant concern about short-term popularity. Long-term we want to be known for producing useful research, which others incorporate into their own work and become more productive.

In short, a given researcher is successful if they have identified a self-contained question and answered it sufficiently to be a building block for further work, either as a positive or negative result.
I don't doubt you are technically right.

USB-C is presumably not the final word in USB connectors. Let's hope for both vision and better implementation.

What's wrong with having multiple set voltages? If it's the necessity of semiconductors, is that really so terrible in this day and age?

On a separate note, I hope they'd have properly managed EMI in this standard. USB has so many makers of varying quality, I can imagine cheap, badly-shielded cables and connectors playing merry hell with noise.
Years ago I added varnish in front of a website to cache image requests, not realizing that if the response included 'set-cookie' that was also cached.

We immediately started getting reports of random products appearing in our customers' shopping carts, as people's sessions got merged with random strangers.
Resistance to Vaccine Mandates Is Building. A Powerful Network Is Helping
Great thread, found lots of people to add to my feedly.

Surprised to see no one has yet mentioned https://filfre.net — The Digital Antiquarian — a frequently upvoted domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=filfre.net
Is google's effort at accessibility up to par with apple's?
> Random thought: She could turn down the screen's brightness all the way to save battery and improve privacy... ;-)

She probably turned it up so viewers could follow what was happening.

Otherwise there’s a builtin companion feature to voiceover which disables the display (screen curtain).
Hand-pencilled horror game released on Switch
For me its like a clench at the back of the throat and an emotional response (anger/discomfort)
> The main stream media in the US seem to innately believe certain claims, without evidence, while also portraying other claims as “conspiracy theories.”

You can replace "main stream media" with any other group as well. (for example, the group that think masks and vaccines are part of a "plandemic" to undermine our economy and track everyone via 5g towers controlled by lizard people, while giving credence to medications recommended by politicians rather than medical professionals)
> a white nationalist conspiracy nut (aka: trump)

Sure, Trump seems prone to accepting conspiracy theories (or at least acts like it) - but why "white nationalist"? Seems like people like to sprinkle in these accusations when they thing their audience won't question it - but the evidence is a weak string of unsubstantiated guilt-by-associations.
Honestly the amount of work people have put in over the years to NOT just build an app with the native tooling is staggering. It really is not that expensive to duplicate some code across multiple target platforms, compared to the compatibility, UX and accessibility headaches.

Facebook and Twitter both spend dozens if not hundreds of man-years trying to make HTML lists (tweets, posts) scroll as fast as native. Google is spending IDK how much hours painstakingly redrawing all the native components for both iOS and Android into Flutter, having to catch up every time they make a change.

Just use the platform like it was intended to be used. You're not special. You're not smarter. You're forgetting most of what the authors have already solved.

And, if you're at the scale of the Facebooks and co, you have the engineers to build it. You have the engineers to rebuild your whole app from scratch a dozen times over. And if you don't, it'll be trivial to find and hire them at the rates you're paying.
I never thought I would come to this conclusion but after watching the current shitshow around Social Media and how it is used for nefarious purposes, it is time we introduce KYC laws to Social Media posts as well. The way we use them to track every single dollar in the banking system for Anti-Money Laundering (AML), we should start tracking every single post for Anti-Fake-News (AFN?) purposes.
MOS Technology 6502
I generally tell people that alt text is one of the few places where accessibility can be as much art as it is science. As other commenters noted, context is important. Images will most likely be consumed with its surrounding context. If the image is bringing nothing new, consider marking it as decorative.

But if it isn't, express the intent of the image along with its content. Let's say you're back in the office, and describing a photo to someone sitting at a desk across from you. How would you describe it? It the point of the image that it's art? Is it the structure and layout of the scene? Is the point just to identify what a chrysanthemum looks like?

I'm often reminded by a colleague that if you get too wordsy with alt text, or it doesn't seem important or valid, a screen reader user can easily skip past the image and move on.

At the end of it all, the two most important bits seem to be: making any effort is better than not trying at all, do your best and you'll get better at it over time; and remember that even though a screen reader (or some other mechanical assistive technology) will parse the text you write, you're doing this for the person on the other side — they love to laugh, smile, have fun, learn, and understand things just like you do. :)
I really wish people had given a brief little snippet for each one rather than just dump their OPML files haha
Usually NFTs embed a canonical link to the media they're supposedly tokenizing. I would be very interested in what URL this NFT points to- if it's not a publicly available version of the video then what's it even an NFT "of"?
If the vaccine manufacturers are so confident in their effectiveness, why didn't they run challenge trials?
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk_Concession

And in Montana it's Triple Divide Peak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Divide_Peak_(Montana)
Indeed, in Spanish we say "lava la ropa" do the laundry. I am pretty sure that is what my brain wants, action object. Once in object-oriented training I was told that In Cantonese the person does not act on objects but the objects act on themselves: "The deck of cards shuffles itself"
In a small consultancy, top performers don't have most commits or pull requests
This looks like a fun tutorial for a weekend project. Thanks for sharing!
I think this project is really cool and am disappointed by so many of the negative sounding comments. They kind of remind me of the infamous Dropbox comment.

I think some healthy skepticism is fine but the mockery and out of hand dismissals seem like they should be beneath this crowd.
Well, they force all data stores that refer to the embassy as well as every person visiting it, and all correspondence to it to mention something they'd rather bury. But you might be right.
+1 Under Bezos, AMZN maintained an average 34% inflation-adjusted annual growth rate for 24 years!

Source: $1.73 in May 1997 would be worth the same as $2.89 in April 2021 (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm), and $2.89 x^(2021 – 1997) = $3,293 implies x = 1.34 (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2.89*+x%5E%282021-1997...).
Personally, i mostly use braille input for longer messages and for shorter ones speech recognition or the standard keyboard.
Yes, anywhere that drains to the Red River, which flows north. The Louisiana Purchase you'll recall only covers land that drains into the Mississippi.
I think the whole rhetoric about C-sections needs to be adjusted for a time where many older women are having babies. There's a kind of narrative about optimal pregnancy/childbirth/early care that seems to make sense for 27-year-olds who will sneeze and squeeze out their baby and shoot milk at the thought of their baby. But that's increasingly not the norm.

More generally: declining birth rates are one of our top-ten societal problems if we think 50-100 years ahead; part of addressing it is changing the conversation around pregnancy in one's late 30s and even early 40s. From watching TV shows it would seem by age 35 your shot is shot.
Show HN: Show off API statistics with this new widget I built
I have seen so much GUI code like this in my career! Real world sophisticated GUIs can have tens or hundreds of attributes to setup. Especially ancient Xlib stuff, this was the norm. You have a few functions with maybe hundreds of lines doing pure GUI setup. No problem -- easy to mentally compartmentalise.

Your deeper point (if I may theorise): Stop following hard-and-fast rules. Instead, do what makes sense and is easy to read and maintain.
I wouldn't use this personally, but to me it's pretty clear that the use of 'quote-unquote' is meant to denote sarcasm more strongly than quotation marks.
I had reservations about J&J and AZ because of their complicated nature. I had more confidence in mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) as simpler and more elegant to produce the desired immune response.

Anytime there are extra steps, there's added risks something can go wrong and cause unknown or horrible side-effects.
Inspired by the book Traction, written by Gabriel Weinberg, I decided to add a widget! This is the announcement blog post with an example of the widget.

What do you think about it? I think I need to improve the design, but I'm not sure how to keep it simple and neutral.
Our approach to advertising on Facebook platforms
Both of those standards would invalidate many of the claims we're discussing as well.
> Would make sense and save some battery.

Privacy as well: a blind user can not notice that someone is looking over their shoulder.

So yes there is a built-in feature called “screen curtain” which turns the display off. By default it’s a triple 3-fingers tap when VoiceOver is active to toggle.
"Came to market" clearly means they were not renting directly.
This doesn't make sense to me. What do you mean?
Kings aren't gods, regardless of how much they claim to be.
Places to get free traffic for your Startup
Show HN: Convect – Instant Serverless Deployment of ML Models
Mortgages are 70% of debt in the US. It is like saying I got perfect on a test except for the 70% I got wrong.
Sooooo much this. I did it once and received multiple spam texts from various campaigns, was just a terrible decision.

While politicians in a few states have cracked down a bit on data brokers recently, I don't think there's too much danger that they're going to strongly regulate ones that service political campaigns....
I am way outside my domain here, but the key thing I didn't quite get is why, since 20%+ of the mRNA in the mRNA vaccines is truncated sequences (https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627), some of those sequences don't similarly get translated into soluble proteins with similar bad effects.

But I guess it has something to do with particular splice sites causing particular irregular proteins that cause the issue — and since the mechanism of mRNA truncation in the mRNA vaccines is not splicing, I guess there may be a much wider array of random truncated sequences, most of which are harmless?
The Evolution and Redefinition of the Jamstack
Very true, Bitcoin is not fit to be an actual currency in any way. I prefer earning old trusted dollars when I win a bet on a soccer match. Even resources like https://soccerwagerz.com/football-predictions/ that post free predictions on football matches warn bettors to stay away from Bitcoin betting. Definitely follow this advice and don't risk your earnings.
Unreal Engine 5 Early Access
A Number Theorist Who Connects Math to Other Creative Pursuits
Summarizing NLP Research Papers
Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Uruguay

I could name 5 more too
Constructive Instability – The Art of Lucas Aguirre
Probably just for the Prime subscription revenue though.
Best Practices for Remote Workers in Leadership
imagine getting downvoted for saying this...
that sounds more like a beginner to mid level stack
Software Bugs Turning Deadly in Complex Era (1986)
I don't see any gaps in their story, to be honest.

A supervisor can easily not have "enough clout in the field to deter blatant research theft". If you're a tenured professor from a random university in a random country and are not among the top few names in your field, you probably can and will supervise theses, but good luck convincing an editor from an elite institution to care about you.

And in your last two paragraphs, I think you're being a bit naive... what if the editor in chief is directly involved, or is a friend of the plagiarizer? Whom do you turn to? How do you prove that you did the experiment first if there is no proof but the submission, which is in control of the editor in chief?

I fortunately have never been the victim of such a despicable ploy, but I have seen all sorts of malpractice in journals, including editors that didn't care about blatant plagiarism. I don't think it's a predominant thing, fortunately there are plenty of honest journals and honest editors. But it happens. I'm quite familiar with scientific publishing, having authored a good number of papers, and I find the story perfectly believable.
That's correct, but the data still stays with Klarna. I interpreted the OP as wanting to remove the data Klarna stores, or remove the 'account' pages. Neither of these are completely possible.
I meant in terms of return.
Fair enough, I agree w/ most of that.

> I'm fine if people don't think it's effective, but what's going to happen is a bunch of people are going to get triggered and then entirely overestimate the possibility that this will be dangerous.

This will definitely happen, more divisiveness = more clicks.
Court rules encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor messages
it's interesting where this is going especially after the layoffs a few months ago. The old HN discussion can be found here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132494
There isn't an assumption that all white men are racist here. Instead, I think the reasoning is that the vast majority of white men have benefited (probably unknowingly) from structural racism to the detriment of other groups. The training is intended to make these men aware of that in an effort to chip away at structural racism and its harmful effects.
This is new (within the last 10-15 years). When I graduated in 2006, there was only 1 test and it was 95% Civil Engineering, mostly intended for signing off on electrical and structural plans.
To highlight how easily this clumsy, "fact checker" based censorship regime can be manipulated, look at this article, which essentially lays out how the initial "debunking" was spearheaded by scientists with direct conflicts of interest:

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
Home birth, natural, c-sect, whatever works for you to have a happy healthy baby.

We had c-sect under GA, as my wife was scared of birth and c-sect, so we opted for GA. So there wasn’t even an option for skin to skin, or me to even be in the room during the procedure.

But our daughter came out happy and healthy. Wouldn’t change a thing.
I strongly disagree. Singletons are most of the time a code smell. They hide dependencies, make testing hard, and enforce tight coupling.

Singletons are easy to understand, as long as they contain of one simple class. But after a few iterations of development, they tend to "capture" a lot of dependencies, which practically become singletons too. A lot of mistakes happen. And most of the time, there was no good reason to create a singleton in the first place.

see also those posts:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/138012/4249619
https://stackoverflow.com/a/142450/4249619
https://ma.tt
I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.
Think of it from the opposite direction -

If you take only the people who can pass the interview and do well on the job, the ones from top universities/FAANG get more opportunities to interview in the first place.

It's much easier to be a capable person who is associated with a prestigious institution than to be a capable person who isn't.