skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some years ago there was an NPR story on women in academia and how one decided to get together 50 top female academics in their fields and update Wikipedia in their subject matter that they hold PHD's in and work at Universities teaching about. Waste of time, all deleted.

This sounds strange. Few years ago, when I was still in academia, I used to make small contributions to Wikipedia articles in my field (theoretical physics) and even smaller contributions to all sorts or articles (like fixing grammatical errors or adding "source needed" -tags). I checked my Wikipedia history now and none of my edits were ever reverted.

What I sometimes see on Wikipedia is details of some new and obscure, sometimes even controversial research in a general overview article. It's probably the researchers themselves advertising their own research and trying to make it look more important. Sometimes this is probably even done in good faith. I wonder if this is what happened to the women in your story
> Knowing that the average typing speed of adult humans is a measly 40 wpm gives me more faith in the failure of our species.

Uh, that we can even type is in and of itself a wondrous thing. Enjoy your miasma.
Unauthorized iPhone repair company here, We like to test the microphones and any other components that can be disturbed by the repair.
> AI is not detecting any kind of conceptual association. It is merely recording co-occurance.

Can you explain the famous example of “king - man + woman = queen” through this perspective? Naively it does seem to extend beyond statistical representation as it seems some semantic association is preserved through the mapping of language onto a vector space.
If you ever read "Supersize Me", you would know that fast food is designed around very high turnover. Walmart does that as well.

Instead of paying more or providing a better workplace, these companies just figure another sucker will come along.
Thanks, just like I expected. Hopefully every at least remotely modern dependency/package manager has some sort of citeseer equivalent in its ecosystem.

And your last paragraph nicely illustrates the blindness we get from closed projects/products not publishing their dependency metadata. I suppose that for client side js a tiny subset of usage stats could be generated by CDN distribution, but repackaging is a thing (and for good reason, in many cases)
Right, but I think more people have a problem with the passive investors, who have a surplus of capital and then reap the lion's shares of rewards from the businesses they invest in. They are not taking on anything like the risk of the entrepreneur.
And you don't even need to find compromising materials. You can find passwords and other credentials that later on you can use to get access to some service, and then jump higher from there.
That's kinda the point they're trying to make, though: That we had simple stuff that worked fine, now we have complex stuff that often don't.
Which was my point. As long as the outtake is distributed, it would be fine. I think everyone is aware of that..even the landlubbers..

We kind of figured it out 150+ years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
AMD Ryzen 3 5300G overclocks like a champ – but you still can’t buy one
Winamp has tons of really powerful plugins. You can use them to play all kinds of strange file formats. One I really like is SNESAmp [1], a plug-in for playing Super Nintendo game music.

Another Winamp plug-in that’s incredibly useful is the disk-writer, included with the application. With it you can use any of the input plugins to transcode files to uncompressed WAV format.

[1] http://alpha-ii.com/Download/Main.html#SNESamp
Indeed a 0.1% risk is far too high for tourist flights. The FAA doesn't accept the less than 0.0006% incident rate[1] of general aviation as safe enough for paying passengers.

[1] 0.54 fatal incidents per 100,000 flight hours and decreasing year on year: https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=2...
I have the free personal hobbyist license and also love it. Learning how to use it to make my own custom models was one of my most gratifying pandemic personal growth projects. Very empowering.
The only reason most devs I work with don't use a Linux laptop is that our corporate security, vpn, and auditing software isn't available for Linux. We settle for garbage-tier UX from docker + x11.app so we can do our jobs, not because Apple cares about anything.
> Not really, because we have rule of law.

Until we don't.

RIP Jon Lang.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wsFBeetiYMs
Hmm, this is the first time I've heard an explanation for the thick outlines of American cartoons. The visual difference between "Sleeping Beauty" and "101 Dalmatians" is striking. Black-outlines were needed because the cels on 101-Dalmatians were designed to be used in many different scenes.

In contrast, each outline in Sleeping Beauty was specifically designed for its own scene: lighter Yellow outlines on Sleeping Beauty's hair to contrast with the dark castle around her.

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The "Thick lines" is a tell-tale of American cartoon vs Japanese cartoons/anime. I never once imagined that this was because of the technology that American animators used.

And it never occurred to me that these kinds of thick outlines would be offputting. I've lived with those outlines my whole life in a wide variety of cartoons: but we can see here that Walt Disney himself felt like they were too harsh the first time he saw 101 Dalmatians.
Implementing a forgot password flow (with pseudo code)
I feel like that's the case with most solved crimes, e.g. drug smuggling; they are proud of catching big shipments, but if the shipments are that big already it implies that it's only the tip of the iceberg, as in, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Maybe we can refocus the people boosting proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains onto the "ads aren't green" meme instead.
Kant's Categorical Imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."

What happens if everyone wants a 4-hour work week, from a beach in Thailand?
Trust is key to successful distributed work
That is how the US organizes its two navies, but that doesn't means that all countries need to have two different navies - most don't, they just have a coast guard, with enough ships that could cross the ocean to put on a show of having that ability, but in practice those ships stay in port all the time.
The Mendoza Line is an expression in baseball deriving from the name of shortstop Mario Mendoza, whose poor batting average is taken to define the threshold of incompetent hitting. The cutoff point is most often said to be .200[1] (Mendoza's career average was slightly better than that, at .215)[2] and, when a position player's batting average falls below that level, the player is said to be "below the Mendoza Line".

I was not familiar with the term, but useful concept. Reminds me of something I read recently about the “Goat”, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class.
Hardware requirements/differences mostly.

With the laptop example they can pull the storage medium (2.5" HDD/SSD, or NVMe), service it, and then reinstall. Whereas iOS devices have storage soldered onto the mainboard and there's a cryptographic sync between the T2 chip and OS installation, so you cannot simply swap the storage onto a different phone (this is actually a legitimate security feature that just happens to hurt service-ability also).

I believe there are things they can do (different levels of access, managed by iOS) but the laptop analogy doesn't help here since it is an Apples and Grapefruit kinda comparison.
The book describes its textures as "ready to be used in your designs, presentations, or comps, as backgrounds or for general visual information". The high price from new (https://i.imgur.com/1H2Dp9F.png https://archive.is/5nrKM) and listed target audiences (including "architects", "designers", "graphic desginers", "theatrical and film designers", "illustrators") to me would strongly imply that the statement includes professional use.

I imagine there's fine-print saying otherwise, but I could see how artists would get mislead into thinking the images are fine to use after purchase.
I started using Firefox about two years ago. The only time I ever have to launch Chrome now is to specifically test Chrome compatibility. Other than that, I've never missed Chrome.
I don't know why anyone bothers to buy anything else than WD, seagate is making bad products for at least 10 years if not 15. Barracuda 7200.11 anyone? That was 12 years ago,I got a pair of Ironwolf 10TB, they failed in 6 months. How many seagates I saw failing? All - 30 - 50 God knows how many exactly. I have 10 years old WDs still running, actual powered on 6 years or so. I don't know why people are buying the same bad engineered products over and over again. Seagate should not exist anymore since long time ago.
The reason a clean alternative to radiologists in the form of AI is not available because of the inertia of the medical system. Due to its innate conservative nature, a beta testing in a third country with successful results will only be the pathway for it to be adopted by richer countries with stricter medical systems. I feel AI in medicine is a boon for developing countries if used properly. Especially diagnostics.
The complicated relationship between early career researchers and reproducibilty
iOS Infinite Scrolling Photo Feed
'My foggy glasses solution helped me through Covid'
Three Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes
Windows 10 reportedly getting a new Settings app (Control Panel replacement)
While the other comments are focusing on improvements for browser, v8 is also what powers Node, Deno, and several cloud workers implementations.

While I don’t yet know if this particular change improves server-side work flow, I am hoping it does. I plan to do some tests.

I applaud the work done by v8 team, releasing it as an open source JavaScript executor, and excellent technical articles on the v8 blog [1]

Can we please separate the blaming and shaming of ads-ecosystem for a moment and appreciate the technical achievements this team is creating?

[1]. https://v8.dev/blog
Biology is just carbon based circuitry based on digital base 4 (DNA.) Electronics are just as messy with tin whiskers, fried resistors, capacitors, memory errors, clock mistimings, etc.. Energy itself is miasma. But okay, I'll enjoy my privileged "human" miasma ;-)
To give some timeline perspective, here are the stable launch dates:

- M90 (90.0.4430.66): April 13 2021

- M91 (91.0.4472.77): May 25 2021

- M92 (estimated): July 20, 2021
How easily is that question answered?
Or you could, you know, just stay logged-in

Which avoids pretty much everything the author's complaining about
>She spoke at length about how we should accept that our children won't have regular jobs - they would have a few 'gig' employments: driving a cab a few days each week before stocking shelves in the evening and maybe working part-time at an old-people's home. The obvious implication to me was that it was other people's children she was talking about not her's.

You make a very good point here. All this positive spin on "the gig economy" seems to completely gloss over on who on Earth are supposed to be "the gig customers" in this new paradigm, and where they will source their income. Is it gigs all the way down?

While I am not particularly fond of capitalism as an ownership model (but I am generally in favour of free markets, I'm not anti-capitalist, just capitalism-sceptic), if there is one good thing about a clear dividing line between entrepreneurship and hired labour is a division of risks and rewards. Entrepreneurship is for betting on a big reward, while accepting big risks and taking responsibility for them. Labour on the other hand is for prioritising stability and taking less responsibility, while sacrificing the chance of a big reward. Somehow the gig economy is selling the worst of both worlds: take all the risk and responsibility, but with no chance to make it big.
In the late 1990s there were a slew of Connor hard drives with leaking seals. The outside of the platter would become corrupt and that would proceed inward.

Seagate bought Connor in the middle of this and refused to honor the warranties. From what I recall a lawsuit followed and Seagate eventually capitulated.
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If you get to the point of having a bunch of people working under you and taking on more and more responsibility for the hands on work, you could conceivably have something like a four hour work week?

One of the main take aways from Feriss' book was that he achieved the 4-hour work week by continuing to delegate more and more responsibility to the people working for his business.
Because organization always conflate many ideas and interest together and on top of that organization and their idea changes with time.

For example Props 16 in California wanted to amend the state constitution by removing the article that sated that the state doesn't make any difference between different sexes/colors/sexuality.

Depending on how you place yourself regarding recent identity politics movement, you can be LGBTQI and prefer a state that doesn't discriminate because it's progressive or a state that discriminate because it can enact affirmative action.
[...] companies having to rapidly raise wages in order to attract employees.

Where does this money come from? Increasing prices?

[...] as not working is a viable option.

What kind of life would that be? It can not be too comfortable or everyone might decide not to work which will bring down the entire scheme.
It would be nice to have a similar system to the language metric at the bottom of a repo, have something like a library metric that list what external libraries a project uses and feed those metrics back to the maintainers.
I remember having a conversation with a coworker about the Holocost in the 90's.

We were walking to my truck. He said, "What do you think about the event."

I said something along the lines of, "Well--others have had it worse?".

I blame it on stupidity, a bad American education, and an angry 20 something that was completely lost in every aspect of my life.

I so regret how flipped my response was. I don't think I have ever said anything so stupid. I bet the guy I said it to remembers it too. He went into programming after our stint in the snack bar, and I imagine he's on hn.
Do keep in mind that, beyond a certain point, efficiency is the enemy of resiliency.

Plus, it has tax and regulatory consequences. /s
This is one reason why "knowledge worker" jobs like accounting and legal were the first to be disrupted by automation and AI. It's a heck of a lot cheaper and easier to automate manipulating a spreadsheet than it is to automate manipulating a pickle jar.
Limits to Ad Price Discrimination
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501 is "not implemented". Makes a joke out of the missing limbs.
> I stopped identifying as atheist when I realized most religious people I encountered thought that meant I wanted to outlaw their religion.

After thousands of years of exactly the reverse, that's rather rich, don't you think?

The vast majority of atheists would be perfectly happy to be left alone to their own devices. But in the United States at least, they are considered second-class citizens.

If someone is so biased that they become angry at the simple mention of a very abstract philosophical stance like atheism, is it really a good idea to placate them by pretending you are something else?
So this is like a web version of Filemaker?
Yeah, I agree. Sometimes weird, but the fact remains that with a bit of thought I can design a piece of furniture, and then with parametric measurement make small tweaks at the end so I can easily work off the materials that I have. E.g I can design a part to be .75” thick, but if the finished planed mahogany I have is .747c I just update the piece and my joints still work!

The CAM works, the simulations work, the assemblies work. It’s Cheap for what it is. I don’t even touch the sculpt, electronics, or sheet metal workspaces and those are included!

My personal bugbear is that the rotary 4th axis cam is so expensive.
> If your phone is broken that may not be an option.

Definitely true, this is something that companies responsible for handling private data need to be more vigilant at. Whether that be finding a means to restrict access to that data (which Apple should be doing), training and supervision, restricted access to internet, or whatever, there's definitely more preventative measures that should be taken to ensure that this doesn't happen.

> The victim isn't responsible for the crime committed against them, as shown by this verdict.

No one is claiming that a victim is responsible for the crime committed against them, just that there are strategies to mitigate risk. You should prepare yourself for how things are, not how they should be.

> It is common because it is under-prosecuted. Hopefully we can see changes there.

It's hard to say how common it is, but ultimately it's a crime of opportunity. Maybe they need to stick the workers in a faraday cage so they can't connect the phones to the cell network or wifi.
This is where technology comes to the rescue, by de-skilling jobs.
Very interesting and unusual - these normally come down to $$$
A good way to let a lot of spies and sabotagers into your country.
I'm sure there could be some problems with UBI depending on how it's implemented (such as a cash deposit vs stipend vs negative income tax etc.) but "unmitigated disaster" is almost certainly hyperbolic
So, enlighten me, how does another app store increase safety if Apple is writing the APIs used by the other app stores? clearly it doesn’t, it just provides options for more of the same. so then I wonder what the point to all of this is, and the only idea that comes to mind is a bunch of tech savvy android users really want to use iphone but can’t/won’t until there’s additional gatekeepers, err i mean app stores.
That chart doesn't mean it's a low margin business. The manhours needed to produce a bushel/pound/acre of X has plummeted over the past 100 years.
I disagree about the 3% of features. With plugins and the massive amount of extensibility possible in FreeCAD, I think it actually has most of the functionality of AutoCAD, let's say 80%, and a good number of features that AutoCAD is missing. However, discoverability of these features is abysmal (which is why most people think that they don't exist), and it can be VERY hard to use, depending on what you're trying to do.

I definitely couldn't replace Solidworks or Fusion360 with FreeCAD in terms of speed of use, especially if I was sitting down with all 3 for the first time.
Winamp could handle streaming with plugins, hell even the XP era version of Windows Media Player could handle streaming from network sources. Spotify makes it easy to search for music and easy to share playlists with friends, but that's about it for features it has that music player apps from nearly 20 years ago don't. Oh and it has ads too I guess?
Congressional rep takes pic of his computer, reveals Gmail password on postit
UBI is different from enhanced unemployment benefits. People can collect UBI & get paid from a lower income job. With unemployment they give up those benefits if they work which is part of why we have a low-income labor shortage.
When it starts to corrupt the broader society?

Like unpaid internships. This practice can shut off entire industries from people who do not have parents who can support them in expensive cities well through their 20s.
Your source supports everything that I mentioned in my comment:

"As a result of strong job growth in the outer boroughs, Manhattan’s share of private sector employment has declined, from 64 percent in 1990 to 59 percent in 2018. Brooklyn’s share
increased the most, rising from nearly 13 percent to 17 percent. The shares in the other boroughs edged up slightly, with Queens"accounting for more than 15 percent, the Bronx
for less than 7 percent, and Staten Island for
less than 3 percent."

Would be interesting to look
NASA has given seed money and development funding for Dragon, Falcon 9, engines and demonstration launches ($248M at least) https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/453605main_Commercial_Space_Minutes...

I think this is the same way as Boeing and others get their money for development.
I think that the role of radiologists in the medical system is misunderstood. Radiologists are consultants. Yes, in some cases - many cases, even - you just want a result to an answer to a specific, common question from an imaging study. And in those cases, I am sure that deep learning-based readings will do a fine job. But for more diffuse inquiries, or for times when there is disagreement or uncertainty over a reading, radiologists are wonderful colleagues to engage in discussion.

I'm not super interested in predicting employment trends, but it's hard to imagine a world where the radiologist-as-consultant disappears.
Fine advice if you already had your phone entirely backed up before it broke.

But if your phone's broken and you know you don't have complete backups, I can understand being hesitant to hit the remote wipe button.
If I were you (which I'm not), I'd sign-up for a coding boot camp - especially if you used to do it 10-15 years ago, a refresher would be good

But before you sign-up for a boot camp, scope out the types of companies you'd like to work for and what their junior developer jobs list as requirements

Not much point in taking a Python boot camp if the companies you want to work for are using Scala :)

Good luck!
At the same time, you could tell that he deliberately didn't include those moments in The Martian because he's not comfortable writing from that standpoint. In Project Hail Mary, those moments seem shoehorned in and the voice turns back into being aloof and impassionate in the next sentence. Even the end of the book presented two options and he took the less emotional one.
I am afraid that within GitHub I mostly use stars as a bookmark for projects I find interesting and may want to check out in the future.

If I fork a project I am more likely to actually be using it, although in fact I have plenty of forks from simply evaluating or playing with a project