skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time someone pops up with one of those "Google destroyed my business and won't respond" type problems I'm always reminded of the movie Brazil. Just read the automated messages Google sends out sometime and the callousness of how they can ruin lives by sheer algorithmic accident.

I call this phenomenon: Getting Fucked By Scale. It's the idea that a scaled algorithm (take, for example, YouTube automated copyright filters) have some percentage of false positives. Maybe that percent is only 0.05%. At a scale of millions and billions of people, that's a lot of people getting fucked.

And today, any one of us could end up as Sam Lowry. A fly gets stuck in the Google machine and your life is suddenly going sideways.
Vintage radios have a weird time these days because the people (typically: men) who used to have experienced them as young child's are dying. As a consequence, prices are dropping and massive amounts of radios are trashed. Why? Because their collections are resolved by their heirs.

For instance, rare radios where about 2000€ in the 1980s and are around 200€ nowadays.
Show HN: Jobs prompt: Shell prompt component for displaying background jobs
30% increase in production is a fair bit more than 'slightly better'.
Lumber tariffs between the US and Canada have been a sore spot since Reagan.
SQL Server Foreign Key Locking
> "As if infinitely ranged" (AIIR) is an obvious idea but it has flaws. One is the run-time checking that it requires, which is unattractive in a C-like language.

It seems to be acceptable in Swift so far. (Swift traps on overflow on all expressions though, it doesn't use AIR.)

It is unpleasant if you don't like to distinguish between statements and expressions, but it might be usable. Anything is as long as it's well defined.

The main advantage is that it makes it easier to fold away intermediate steps like (x + 1 - 1). This is the kind of thing that looks pointless, but is needed to remove abstractions like in macros or C++y generic code.

If you'd like your functions total (not trapping), then there could be a set of wrapping/saturating operations to go with the default infinitely-ranged ones. Or you could declare x/y/z to be unsigned.
Does it updates them in the database?
Parental leave in the Netherlands, both for women and man, is the lowest in the EU. By a wide margin. So, while we get some things right, leave and the conseqences that implies for the carreer of the mother is not something we can boast about.
I think you can charge Tesla at any charger (at least in Europe)
It never occurred to me that the "pro" in "program" referred to the future!

So, if "program" (πρόγραμμα) means "pre-written", like a royal edict that is posted publicly before it is to be obeyed, should we rename the field of "programming by demonstration" (for example, editor keyboard macros, spreadsheet formulas, or GeoGebra constructions) to "postgramming" or "epigramming"? (I suppose "epigram" already has a conflicting meaning.)

Because, in programming by example, the "program" is a log of the sequence of operations that were carried out, and perhaps why, so that we can repeat them, rather than being a prospective future plan for a sequence of operations to carry out in the future.
Amazon introduces ZenBooths for warehouse workers
Reading this made me think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if there was an app that just called out people for doing generous/friendly/artistic/impressive things locally?'
Gravitomagnetism is a well-understood and experimentally measured effect. It is also a very small effect, of the order v^2 / c^2 where v is the speed of the sources. In the galaxy, stars move with v/c ~ 1/1000, which means the gravitomagnetic correction is one in a million. So while N-body simulations do sometimes account for general relativistic corrections like these, they're not nearly large enough to remove the requirement for dark matter.

The main thing the paper should do is explain why they think the correction is a million times larger than the back of the envelope estimate. But they don't. Instead, they try to solve everything analytically, never plugging in numbers or reasoning about what's big or small, leading to a forest of long combinations of special functions. That's a reliable recipe for making a mistake.

That is the simple reason the paper has been ignored by everyone in the scientific community and rejected from decent journals. Of course, this hasn't stopped hundreds of fluffy pop articles being written on it, or it getting posted every week on HN. The blind leading the blind.
You learn. Hopefully before someone gets hurt.

I still remember an EE lab professor saying one day "get in the habit of using red wires for Power and black for Ground. That way, when you have your first accident, maybe it won't be too bad."

Or a technician I used to work with who would quote his tech school instructor daily, "NO, no loose conductors on the test bench."

All the nail heads on my work bench are covered with electrical tape. I try to use red wires for + and black or green for - whenever possible. I learned to think about what could happen before I flip the power switch (first power up use the lab supply with current limited to the absolute minimum the circuit needs), or when I hit F5 in the debugger (does anyone have their hands in the machine?).

I've still set things on fire, still broken expensive pieces of equipment because I had the wrong sign on a variable, still made loud banging steel-on-steel noises because I didn't calculate an offset correctly etc.,

At the end of the day, if everyone goes home with all body parts intact, we'll call it good.
No point in bothering with PR when elon still has access to his twitter to post ridiculous things
You're right, inlining by itself doesn't do much. I think inlining + register allocation is the big one, but you might be right about the other optimizations that are enabled (or at least massively boosted) by inlining.

ICs steal a lot of specialization's thunder. (Alternatively, since the point of ICs is specialization, you could say it's the other way around!)
59 Mind-Blowing Math Talks That Can Change Your Perspective on Life
I responded specifically to the claim that "it should be analyzed by you" (which I assume means "regular people" since geoft didn't claim to be a scientist or mathematician or anything). So now you seem to be agreeing with me and disagreeing with what you said before and I quoted.

The article highlights a far more difficult problem, which is to get people who are knowledgeable in area A which happens to interface with area B to trust those who are experts in area B. Which is precisely the opposite of what happens when someone who isn't knowlegeable enough follows your advice and is unable to notice their own errors in interpretation and understanding.

So yeah, I'd rather stick to trusting the experts (in their respective areas) 99% of the time.
Big Man: On Marshall Sahlins
> "Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information"

...literally - my ad blocker prevented 42 ad/tracking objects/sites from loading
> his most compelling argument was "Haha nope."

Pretty sure that was in response to you making assumptions about their experience, not as an answer to the question about what specifically makes them think that, which you only asked afterwards.

This whole chain of comments is a good example of why responding with a dismissive short comment isn't a good idea, even if it feels good to send in the moment.
My early morning workouts are the best part of my day. IMO.
>but about 100 years ago

It wasn't really an issue for the most part until laws were changed in the early 70s - by Nixon.

That was when for profit health care took over here.
I find it hard to get on board with Chia being a better alternative to Bitcoin because it uses less energy when the tradeoff it makes is the manufacturing and waste of millions of terabytes of hard drives. Does not seem very environmentally friendly to me.
I don't think it's failed. It's true that it has been far more successful as a general purpose web backend language, but you still have most of the container ecosystem (Docker, containerd, runc, kubernetes) written in Go. Either way, I don't think Fuchsia's language policy is noteworthy in this context.
Thanks for the comments. Yeah, you’re right. Your posts show up in a stream, or if they are pictures/video, you can see them in a gallery as well.
Ie: https://wndr.xyz/users/NGenius2/images

I built this with the intention of sharing interesting things (links, images, videos, or longer blog posts) so anything you post will show up in your own profile stream and on the public stream. For blog posts, only the title shows up, but after clicking it, the full post can be viewed.
Ie: https://wndr.xyz/posts/9fjM1tOJO7MWX4fYw3AU2Q==/what-s-art-a...

I’m using the current $7 hobby tier from Heroku for hosting, which because of the student plan is free. And since images and videos are links, hosting costs are currently not a problem.

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate your thoughts even though this might not be for you :)
I get that HN is still social media, but the level of sludge here is at least an order of magnitude less than general reddit, and probably way better than twitter (I could never get into twitter despite trying my best).

To me HN is the final hold out of the old social news sphere. Geeky computer nerds with inflated egos having (mostly) geeky computer nerd discussions. That doesn't sound like much, but at least the average IQ is higher than room temperature and knowledgeable discussion is more popular than puns.
Friend of mine did that with his gas furnace after it went out. I think his eyebrows grew back to where you couldn't tell anymore...
Any day now? That seems... optimistic. Are there objective reasons to think that this is true?
Lookbehinds are annoying to implement, because they require driving the character iteration backwards. Now every regex construct has to be parametrized on whether it is tracking forwards or backwards. It is not something which can be easily tacked on to an existing engine.

I will plug my own Rust regex engine "regress", which supports arbitrary lookbehinds. Note fancy-regex only supports fixed-width lookbehinds.

https://crates.io/crates/regress
I am very confused by this article.

When we use the word 'program' in computing, we pretty much always mean 'a program for a (previously or implicitly defined) computational model', I don't see in what sense this is comparable to 'program clocks', which are basically timers/alarm clocks, if I understand that paragraph correctly.

Similarly, when we say 'code' we mean 'textual representation of the concrete syntax', clearly distinct from 'code' as in 'morse code', which we would also call 'encoding'.

> This strengthens a computing discipline where one often cares more about formalism than about actual programming

This is (perhaps) a (somewhat) fair criticism of (parts of) computer science as an academic field of study, but I don't get how the pieces fit toghether.
technologies like kubernetes make repatriation even simple in some cases.
YES we did :)
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> killing your kin just means you're taking initiative

Well, that's a lot less true once you get outside the upper classes where succession based on descent was a way to wealth and power.
Blood clots only affect less than 1 in 200,000 recipients of the Astra Zeneca vaccine, and mortality is low, at around 1 in a million. But even this tiny risk has caused a lot of vaccine hesitancy in Australia, where the government bet big on just that one vaccine manufacturer.

Even though the risk is small, it was scary because they didn't know the mechanism causing the clots, so it was possible that worse problems would become apparent later on.

If this scientist has identified the mechanism, and a fix is implemented, it would remove the uncertainty about the Astra
Zeneca vaccine.

Or would it?

Once something like this is out, and vaccine hesitancy gains a following, reversing its momentum might not be as easy is publishing science.
Self driving is really hard, but don't confuse Tesla's failings for the state of the art. Waymo's Driver is both much more advanced and much more cautious.
I think people should be very careful with the meaning of accredited investor. The author says that raising at a $5M cap and owning 30%+ makes you an accredited investor. You could easily get into trouble with the SEC if someone claims to be an accredited investor because they raised $5,000 at a $5M cap and then decide to give you $1,000. Depending on the exemption, you can still get 35 sophisticated but not accredited investors. I don't recommend playing games with the SEC though because you want to be technically "accredited" and I wouldn't take $1 from someone comfortable playing this game.
This doesn't feel like an answer. This feels like annoying grant-writing fluff talk.

"Some of the value statement around community impact is done in person or through community outreach..."?

How do you do a value statement in person? What could that possibly mean?

The project desperately needs a clear summary of purpose. You have like forty contributors, five Portuguese translators, fifteen coders, and I have no idea what this tool is for.

I can put the street in a location, on a map, and that does... what?

I even started in reading your blog and it still doesn't make any sense. Nobody involved in the project is saying what the thing is for. The guidebook doesn't say what it's for, it just lists the specifications of a bunch of streets and conventions for contributing and how you do dependency pinning and...

It's like an exercise in deliberate madness. Like a fake open source project.
The answer is quite simple in all these cases - it doesn't. A self driving car shouldn't be operating on some mysterious black-box AI interpretation of the intention of (often ambiguous) hand signals from drivers and police officers.

Any situation with hand-waving should be passed back to a human driver until the hand-waving can be eliminated with future laws and road rules. We aren't going to have full level-5 autonomy that's reliant on cameras interpreting people waggling their hands around.

The solution is that you architect a full system to allow for self driving, which will inevitably include changing how people interact with cars.
Why is the infrastructure cost constant? I would have thought that for gaming, at least compute and transit would scale linearly with traffic. If games have a boom bust cycle, aren't they the perfect use case for public clouds?
A checklist for professionalizing machine learning models
I was just thinking/hoping that it would connect with Wordpress DBs. I use an app to do it now (WP Sheet Editor) and yet imagine NocoDB could be much more powerful.

Any ideas about if it would be possible to connect it and if so, how?
Check out Fig 10 in https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...
If this wasn't Mozilla I would agree with your post. However I believe Mozilla killing support for the webRequest API without a suitable replacement would be suicide with its core user base. I know for me the moment uBlock Origin is crippled on Chrome is the moment I go Firefox full time. Browsing the internet without it is simply a non-starter
I love laser cutters but all the videos of cheap open frame cutters on YouTube scare the shit out of me. I never want to be around one with an open frame.
I use it all day every day, and I really like it for the workflows I have, which are basically contributing to open source projects that use the "send patches by email for review, features should be sent as patch series with each commit doing one thing for ease of code review" workflow. If the thing you want to send off for code review is not "a commit" but "a series of maybe 10 to 30 carefully crafted commits", stgit just makes it very easy to create that series of commits and work with it, putting code changes into the right patches, reshuffling the patch order, etc, as you go along. It's possible to do all that with interactive rebase, but I never got the hang of that and find the stgit interface much more intuitive. In particular, the 'git rebase' manual suggests that the typical rebase workflow is "create a lot of commits, and some fixup commits, and then occasionally tidy up with interactive rebase". The stgit workflow is much more "keep your patchseries tidy as you go along" because it's trivially easy to say "actually this little change should go in the patch 15 commits before the one I'm currently at", or "actually let me unstack these last 5 commits and spend the next day creating patches that logically belong before them, and then tomorrow push those last 5 commits back on again". I use separate branches for different topics/features, but basically every branch is an stgit patchseries.
Why didn't you say so! I mean, if your psychologists said so then it must be
> and I don't think the answer is beefing up local law enforcement.

Yes, I think the number of police and the funding police receive is definitely not the problem here. It doesn't matter how many cops you have or how many expensive toys those cops have. If the DA refuses to charge the people the police arrest, then the police will stop arresting people because they know it's a waste of their time. The root of the problem is with the priorities of the electorate and the people they choose to elect (DA is elected in Seattle.)
Tesla valve could have modern uses
Was the US complicit in China’s Covid research?
That would be fair. However, from what I've read MOND is relatively unlikely. If its proponents can address the biggest difficulties (e.g. not every galaxy appears to have "dark matter") and make it somewhat more feasible, then I'd agree the name is insufficiently broad.
Apple removes app that requires a 3 star review to function
Industry groups sue to stop Florida’s new social media law
Would love to see some charts of their page views with this impenetrable pay wall (register wall?)
See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/neu.10160

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/

* https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S183242741...

From that wiki article:

Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73% with the most recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%. IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults. The heritability of IQ increases with age and reaches an asymptote at 18–20 years of age and continues at that level well into adulthood.
FYI: On Safari, the main web site (nocodb.com) content bounces up and down, apparently because of the bouncing logos near the top of the page.
Naive question but is it ok to put dashes in between the text of alt tags or write it as a regular sentence?
I've never started a research institute, but I've wanted to for a while. I figure if I were to ever win the lottery I'd start a research institute with the proceeds. Good luck!
> This is being shown in Southern California lol and they are reporting on minor weather risks a thousand miles away.

Well, yeah. The Weather Channel is nationwide. ???
struct utsname is what it is. For me the appeal for something like cling would be doing quick experiments without any boilerplate.
And of course it got flagged. What guidelines did it break? Didn't seem like the conversation was getting out of hand.
There is quite a bit of evidence suggesting genetic inheritability of intelligence. For a very simple example, we have twin studies that show a greater correlation in the intelligence of identical twins than fraternal twins. (The correlations of identical twins still aren't 100%, though - intelligence seems to include a random or "non-shared environment" component) Here's Wikipedia's take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
If they had time to sit in a phone booth and do mindfulness meditations they probably wouldn't be peeing in bottles.
Facebook employees: accusing their own company of bias against arabs and muslims
Lawsuit overview from the plaintiffs: https://netchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SB-7072-One...

USA Today's coverage: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/05/27/facebook-yout...

TD analysis: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210527/11424046888/first...
Yeah except that is a really bad analysis:

- There's still no evidence that WIV was doing GOF research there. The SARS-1 GOF research was done in the USA.

- There are horseshoe bats with sarbecoviruses in Hubei province, their range is large.

- Similar to this virus, for SARS-1 there closest known virus in bats is in Yunnan, but SARS-1 emerged in Guangdong, about the same distance away from Yunnan as Wuhan is.

- Calling it a "Chimera" is not accurate and is a loaded term. It is not a Chimera of RaTG13. You can't get from RaTG13 to SARS-2 by splicing some other backbone and then shipping it through a couple dozen generations of mice. RatG13 is also a few decades of evolution away from SARS-2.

- A furin cleavage site has emerged spontaneously in coronaviruses at least 6 times now (not including SARS-2) in both circulating human coronaviruses and in MERS. It has also now been found in sarbecoviruses in Thailand, so we know that nature produces furin cleavage sites in this kind of virus.

- Efforts by China to suppress information sound like an authoritarian government acting like an authoritarian government. This is completely unsurprising.

- Efforts by WIV to do political damage control after the pandemic broke also sound like a lab under an authoritarian government reacting to protect itself and by its people reacting to protect themselves (there may have been relatively banal stuff like financial embezzlement going on in the lab which is being suppressed). This is also completely unsurprising.
You should check out Stacker [0] and see if it works for your usecase - we let you build apps without code using Airtable or Google Sheets as a backend. Might be what you need if time is of the essence and you don't want to worry about hosting either. I work at Stacker, my email's in my profile if you have any questions.

[0] https://stackerhq.com
> It's merely a matter of time that you will not only see hatred from anti-Communist side disappearing but also pro-Communist side triumphs.

As a Vietnamese I don't see this happening, if you think because it happened in China then it'll happen in Vietnam too, there are a couple of differences:

1) Vietnam doesn't have a "middle kingdom" mentality, we've always been and always will be a small country navigating our success with bigger powers around, so less of that blind nationalism bs, eventhough it's there

2) More importantly, we don't have a great firewall, so people are only going to be more disillussioned about the regime as more of them learn about the outside world.

I am pro socialism btw but of course it's a different thing. Socialism is a growing mindset in the west for sure.
This is a ridiculous defeatist attitude. What is the point of living in a hellscape like the one you seem to desire (celebrating vigilantism or desiring punishment)? A civilization that focuses on punishing criminals is just a sad place to be in. Crime falls when you work to prevent it and rehabilitate, not when you punish it after the fact. Look at all the countries that have learnt that lesson, that do not punish but rehabilitate and how they did not have a societal collapse or rise in vigilantism, rather they are some of the best places to live in. Sure, there are growing pains when you switch from a medieval attitude of punishment to something more civilized, but your scaremongering is in direct contradiction to the successes of civilizations that embrace rehabilitation and justice (which has nothing to do with punishment).