skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory such companies should end up imploding from valuing genital configuration over talent which is why there's so much pressure on the various levels of government to enshrine this type of behavior into law so all competitors will likewise be as hobbled by it.
It looks like this link (to a Seller Central forum thread?) is only viewable if you have an active seller account. I only see an error page telling me my seller account was closed for inactivity.
I know. But it's just one facet of a greater syndrome.
You could just as easily say it’s women’s fault for finding only very highly desirable men attractive. But ultimately this is about biology, there’s no one to blame but Mother Nature. The sooner we can automate away the infrastructure that supports society and disappear into a virtual reality of our design the better - just like every other sentient species that has ever existed.
> There were loads of vendor-neutral identity ideas that all fell flat because nobody wants to sign up just for an identity.

Yep, I agree SSO by itself isn't enough of an incentive to use something. A key part of the thread is that that's not what's happening. People are getting Ethereum accounts and even ENS for other reasons, and the fact that this is being used for SSO is a side-effect.

>This one is hilariously complicated;
Yes, but this is getting simpler over time. Better than it was a few years ago, still clunky, getting better over time. That is what crypto incentives is doing to pub/priv key management and related things. Again, this is a key part of the thread: crypto is incentivizing adoption and improvements in tech that existed previously but people didn't have a strong enough incentive to adopt or improve.
What’s the purpose of your response? It clearly wasn’t meant as a claim that one can decide on matters of internal whale anatomy in a split second.
Thanks; this sounds interesting. Could you please link to any documentation or HOWTO?

Considering I have all my daily use software already installed in Arch, if I attempted to re-install them with Guix in parallel, would that lead to namespace collisions? (i.e. would I have to uninstall currently installed software before I re-install them with Guix?)
You can only believe this if you've fallen for the spin perpetrated by media outlets.

The number of unarmed Black civilians killed by police each year is so small that you can fit the entire list of names and details since 2014 (31 total) on a few pages of generously-spaced HTML table rows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americ.... This is against approximately 10 million arrests per year and some multiple of that in total police encounters. While it's tragic that the count is nonzero, any rational person should be amazed that the incidence is so vanishingly low, given the uncertainty inherent to policing. It's truly remarkable that it isn't much much higher. I couldn't find statistics about police killings of unarmed White people, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number is higher than 31 since 2014.

The only reason you think there is (or was) an epidemic of police shootings of unarmed Black people is because the media has worked very hard to maximally exploit cherrypicked cases to get you to believe that.

Furthermore, Black communities are often strong advocates of retaining or even increasing police presence:

> A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 [2020] surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they'd like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they'd like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area.

The reason for this is obvious. Persistent socioeconomic inequality has had the same devastating impact within Black communities as it has had everywhere else in the world: increased criminality.
Im not sure. Ive switched from nixos to guix, and i think nix's main advantage is just "a **tonne of code" for a wide variety of services, but guix allows new services and things much easier imo
> you will be insta-fired without warning.

And not also sued and reported for criminal prosecution?

Because if someone didn't particular want a job at facebook, but interviewed for the experience and got the job or had been working there and wasn't happy there and was ready to quit-- the threat of instant termination alone may not be that much of a deterrent.
Thanks; great to hear about the 17k packages and the "nonguix" channel!
The Internet Archive may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, remove certain content or disable access to content that appears to infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of others.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360004716091-Wayb...

In practice, IA will unpublish content on request to info@archive.org AFAIU
Most of all your kids are likely to have IQ's close to the median of you and your wife. This is likely the most important factor of all as heart-breaking and unfair as this is.
You are perceiving arrogance where there is none. These are volunteer-driven projects, for better or worse the deal has always been "take it or leave it," or fork it if that's what you prefer. If there is something you want extracted into a library, just go and extract it and make the library. Of course if you choose to abandon it entirely then it's going to be a total crapshoot if it improves the way you want it to.
A decentralized naming system that solves what was previously thought to be an unsolvable computer science problem (Zooko's Triangle) that's open source and self-running, and where funds (that are raised with a minimum fee to prevent name squatting) go to a community multisig, is "rent-seeking" and "pointless cash grab"?
I can't confirm it, but I've studied language and etymology a ton, and I think there is a hidden etymology between "man" (referring to humanity as a whole) and the mama/mom/mammary cluster. Hear me out.

"Ma" is virtually always the first sound a baby makes, and is also reminiscent of breastfeeding, with the lips pursing together. It's widely hypothesized that because of this, the word for "mother" in nearly every language on the planet is some variant of "ma(m)".

"Da" and "pa" are the next-easiest sounds to make. Hence, "dada/papa" for father (originally pH₂tér in PIE, where h2 is the "a-colored laryngeal).

Anyway, we have the word "man", related to the Latin "homo", which is suspiciously close to "mama". Nowadays, "man" (and the Italian "uomo") has mostly masculine connotation. But it strikes me as really weird how close it is to such a feminine phoneme. My headcannon is that "mam" is the root of words referring to both "mother" (the first human a baby experiences) and "humanity" as a whole.

It's hard to tease apart the influence of "guma"/dhghem, the PIE for earth. Also related to "Adam" (as in "Adam and Eve") who was famously made from Earth...yes Genesis is essentially based around a giant pun in Hebrew.

Mama/dada/adamah/humana - they all swirl around the same phonetic space, and I don't think this is a coincidence.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/*dhghem-?ref=etymonline_cros...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamah
Ask HN: Can you ID this video?
I likely watched this video right after it came out and that was likely around four to six years ago. I most likely found it via HN, which is why I am asking here.

I believe it was a speech at a convention, possibly PyCon.

The speaker was a man with a long beard that he braided into two braids. This seemed to be kind of a personal "trademark" and he had apparently looked that way for some years already.

As part of his speech, maybe a speech about math and programming or math and Python, he told a personal anecdote that goes roughly like this:

He used to teach on a reservation and he lent a math book of his own to a Native teenage boy and the boy got beat up real bad and quit school, apparently over having accepted the math book from a White man and taken it home to read it. The boy returned the book to him at some point.

Years later, he noticed funny stuff in the margins and was able to identify it as the boy's Native language and found a way to translate it and the boy was grateful for having read the book in spite of the high price he had paid for doing so.

I think the Native boy referred to the speaker telling this story as something like "Two Beards" in his notes in the book.

This may have been a keynote speech.

I spent maybe an hour looking for it last night and I'm stumped. I have no idea how to find this and I would like to rewatch it.

If you can post a link to the video or tell me who the man is or something like that, I would appreciate it.
Men are not doing as well as women in school. If you look in the wrong places on the internet, media, or daily life, all you see is negativity towards masculinity. In addition, there doesn't appear to be any broad social system that is geared towards supporting men. The fact that men don't tend to be a socially adept doesn't help. This all feels like the perfect storm and there are plenty of people who act like "men have had it coming and deserve any ensuing suffering". I don't know how to fix this but I am sure glad I am no longer a young man.
Nitride ferroelectric semiconductors for next-generation electronics
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450099

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453946

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27465690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27446413

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457070
The paper is based on the first 148 days of the game. At that point, gyms were not pokestops. That addition came later.
Introspection about a useless pedantic response that is also mentioned in the article, while the diver still thought he was never getting out
Gyms could not be spun for items when the game first came out, which is the time period covered in this paper. The gym rework about a year later added that ability.
FYI, you can still have that exact kind of service with Ethereum accounts, some wallets offer that. It's improving all the time, but there are already and will continue to be many offerings on how to manage an Ethereum account. But the key thing is that the underlying system is the same.
The Case for Making Artificial Intelligence Conscious
Ah, thanks. I agree, and I think it'd be a good point to raise and consider even if I didn't.
Note that the abstract at https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9205211 is not by Knuth (it says "Abstract added by Greg Kuperberg" in small print).

Anyway, the "two notes" of the title are about:

1. Iverson bracket notation: writing say "[x ≥ 5]" to mean "1 if x ≥ 5, and 0 otherwise" (casting the boolean condition to a 0–1 integer, in programming terms). He has good examples of how it seems unnecessary or innocuous at first (one starts out writing "1" for an indicator function, or putting it in subscripts), but as you do more and more manipulations of sums it grows on you and you realize how useful the convention is. (IMO you can work through the book Concrete Mathematics, to experience this for yourself.) Incidentally, using square brackets seems to be something Knuth introduced; Iverson himself had used regular parentheses.

1a. There's a historical sidenote on the expression 0^0, with an impassioned defence of defining it to be 1. (It's undefined as a limiting form, but for the value itself it makes a lot of sense to define it as 1. Some people don't seem to like this. Boo.)

2. Stirling numbers. Here, Knuth and co-authors did away with the ever-confusing "Stirling numbers of the first kind" and notations like "S(n, k)", and promoted the names "Stirling subset numbers" and "Stirling cycle numbers" (with the interpretation in terms of set partitions and permutation cycles respectively), and the notation that is slowly catching on (thankfully). (See the paper or, again, read Concrete Mathematics for more fun.)

2a. There's also another sidenote about rising and falling factorial powers; again this notation is also slowly catching on.

There's also a video on YouTube of him giving a talk on notation from October 2003, where covers much of this (and more): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjbuyB4dQa0 (Someone's notes about this video: https://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/misc/notation.html)
This is the first hardware Kickstarter I've backed, and I've been really impressed with the frequency and depth of their updates. Makes me very excited for the final product.
I am thinking along the same lines, but rather than “as little as possible” I’d like to think of it as pull rather than push.

In other words in weeks I’m feeling like it I can take on a lot of work, and other weeks I don’t. The nature of the work has to be not 100% urgent all the time.

It would require a culture I haven’t seen yet. A one that acknowledges that people might take longer on something because they are not robots and are tired or not fully there. If you employ someone for 5 years (or 5 people for 1 year) there will be spell like this.
>How about this: you have a business that sells stuff online and but then a buyer suddenly refuses to give you money in return and says "I don't like money as it has corrupting power. I prefer an alternative means of compensation but can't think of any but it doesn't mean it cannot exist. Since you have a profitable business it's on you to find the alternative payment that I like".

I don't think I understand your complete train of thought here, but...

>then a buyer suddenly refuses to give you money in return [...]

In return? In this scenario does this customer receive your product before paying for it?

If the customer refuses to pay for a thing you sell, they simply do not get that thing.
Interesting if somewhat overblown conceptualization.

One note though... particularly calling out the author's paragraphs about how scarce or hard-to-find information is at our fingertips, and how this supposedly extends our informational capability far beyond our ancestors.

In a way, this has some truth to it. But if we look at historical patterns for memorization, rote knowledge, knowledge allocation and storage (even down to the keeping of commonplace books to write down significant information or quotations for later reference)... the relatively unaided human mind is capable of storing and organizing far more than most of us do. As another commenter put it, a lot of these cognitive tools are leaving our own skills highly atrophied or completely undeveloped.

I'm as guilty of this as anyone, I like my Kindle, browse social media regularly, etc. But my ability to put coherent structured information down in essays is no greater than my ancestors, and in fact likely much shallower. And I just repurchased and reread a favorite book in hard-copy, and I think my recall of this novel will be far better with the spatial cues of physical pages, than it ever was on an infinite Kindle screen.

And while my Evernote has functionally unlimited pages, I'd be proud to have half the usefulness of Milton's commonplace books, now catalogued in the British Library.
Is this the same Eric Schmidt as in "If You Have Something You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It"?

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-ceo-on-privacy-if_n_38...
Theres a ton of housing surplus if you dont want to build equity
> She accompanied him during his training in Toronto, Canada, while his father and older sister, Saya, stayed in Japan.

The exception merely proves the rule. Not sarcasm.

Who paid for their ice time? Who paid for them to live in Canada? Who paid for Brian Orser to be their coach?

The fact that someone somewhere hits the jackpot on their first pull in no way changes the fact that the majority lose.

And how many children as good or better didn't get this kind of support?
Correct. That exemption is for medical equipment.

California's Right to Repair bill, which got very close to passing this year, was solely focused on medical equipment. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xh...
Google, Microsoft, Netflix, probably Amazon
The graphs seem to me like they were selectively showing data which makes europe look bad. E.g. only showing the market cap of big companies or showing the decline of the european share of gdp but not the US one (which I assume was also falling), etc.
Of course they made it to support the argument but to me it made their case much less valid.
It does not cost $120/yr. ENS protocol fees are:
- unlimited subdomains, free
- importing DNS name into ENS, free
- for .eth names, based on length: 3 characters, $640/yr; 4 ch, $160/yr; +5 ch, $5/yr

For .eth names, you can pay ahead as many years as you want, so you can pay once and forget it about it.

The you likely got to $120 is that there is also Ethereum network gas fees to pay to registration a name. That's a one time thing and fluctuates a lot. Since you can register for many years at a time, you can pay the gas fee once and get the name for many years. We're also working on putting parts of ENS on L2s to cut down on gas fees dramatically.
Being anti-MAGA and calling the MAGA crowd genocidal racists are very different things.
Norwegian man dead hangs for 16 minutes to break world record
It's visible if you don't have a seller account at all, at least. Use a private window.
This really misses the point I feel, although I struggle to say why.
I'm surprised Apple didn't put a toggle in the accessibility settings
If there are issues you'd like to see fixed, the best way to get those dealt with would be to contribute.
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/s takes all the fun out of it. If someone initially thinks I'm serious, someone else gets an opportunity to explain a joke, which is a rare pleasure.

But of course we all know confronting someone directly about their opinion always works.
> Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.

DJI stands as a very notable exception. They are frequently Apple-level good on both hardware and device firmwares. It's a different style, but similar levels of polish.
I find it so odd how society gets obsessed with boogeyman examples of people taking advantage of the system. There will always be some people who take advantage of the system. Accept that, keep it reasonable, but optimize the system for those who will improve it.

The flip side is this person is hurting society significantly less than some committing crimes - even worse crimes that are sentenced to jail time (which is very expensive).
> These internal barriers mean Europe has many smaller firms operating at national, not continental, scale. Each country tends to have its own banks, utilities, airlines and supermarkets. (Europe has over 100 mobile operators, compared with a handful in America or China.)

But all of that is a tremendous bonus for Europeans, not a penalty.
It is dangerous if you give the technology to only the oppressors. If you release it to the world open source, you will better the free world and scientific community.
Oh good proprietary traffic signs
FORTH is a fun little class of languages. These are easy to implement; in a few KB you can have a working development environment, with a screen editor, debugger and whatnot.

In my experience, FORTH doesn't really scale to big projects, or things that need a lot of dynamic allocation. It's great at low-level stuff like hardware bringup (we used it on the Atari ST, back in the day, and even the hardware engineers were writing code to exercise their designs), but doing anything at scale is going to be tough. You probably don't want to write a modern web server platform in it, for instance. But it's probably great on an Arduino with a serial port.

There were a lot of games started at Atari in FORTH ("Hey, this is simple! Who needs to hire expensive assembly language programmers?") but the only project that shipped was the pinball machine "Four by Four". I saw a bunch of expensive disasters and mostly steered away from it.
> So the fact that wages adjusted to inflation are staying constant indicates that there is downward pressure on wages of a similar rate to the rate at which general market costs are decreasing.

Isn't that a simplistic point of view that assumed the U.S. is either a closed system or the rest of the world as progressed at the same rate we have?

There's more global competition now, both for customers and for jobs. That wages have stayed inline with inflation in spite of the fact that America has shifted quite a bit to a services economy and those services have competition from other countries (the classic example is India), may actually point to the monetary policy preventing what would be a much worse problem, and for nothing to do with inflation.

It's easy to pick one metric and paint a picture that supports a story. It's much harder to account for many important factors, which is also why it's not done as frequently.

Anyone's theory that one specific thing is the result of many major worldwide changes is going to have an uphill battle with me. The time frame we're talking about includes the popularization of the internet, increased globalization, the recent aftermath of the civil rights movement, an over 100% increase of global population compared to a ~60% increase in United States population, and mode than halving the number of people in the world that live in extreme poverty.

Every single one of those would have massive effects on the economy, production and wages of the United States. I'm not sure how anyone could credibly make claims about how monetary policy in the U.S. was the reason for effect over the last 50 years without accounting for these and other things. It's easy to point at two things that seem to correlate over time. It's much harder to prove causation.
Go on a nice vacation with friends once the pandemic winds down.
Yes, public key cryptography is not new. What's new is that crypto incentives has spurred the creation of a highly competitive industry to improve private key management, and incentives people to get and manage one.

ENS isn't needed strictly speaking, but highly useful to make everything human-friendly. It's like saying DNS isn't useful because you can just input a website's IP address.
I haven't found one specifically on autism. Most of the mothers' risk in offspring seems to be gestational factors during brain development stages, and later on impacts on milk.

This gets close
"Epigenetics in Families: Covariance between Mother and Child Methylation Patterns" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913850/
REVIEW MANIPULATION!

Amazon Echo Dot listing Hijacked - OMG!!!

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FY Posture Brand is taking Amazons Echo Dot listing, Apple Watch listing, JBL speakers listing to the cleaners LOL

Check out these listings!!

All the reviews of these mega brands are being rerouted and connected to the FY Posture Brand posture listings

The listing is for a posture corrector However all reviews are for Amazon Echo Dot! (76,785 five star reviews)

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The listing is for a posture corrector However all reviews are for Apple Watch (134,392 five star reviews)

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The listing is for a posture corrector However all reviews are for JBL speakers (76,785 five star reviews)

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Who would believe this can happen on Amazon.com in 2021!!
Comments from the last time it was discussed on HN, ten years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312240

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426655
anyone has a guess on how those who sell EA slack cookies for $10 got them in the first place?