skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously paths out of poverty need to be improved-- and everyone given as much of a hand up as possible.

And, what you're saying is a bit orthogonal to what was discussed here: attaining social mobility for everyone doesn't need to erase familial proclivities towards certain professions. In your eagerness to speak harshly to everyone else here, I think you're missing that what others are discussing is not what you're attacking.

Indeed, uh... I left a tech career where I averaged making 7 figures a year to run youth programs and help kids from non-engineering backgrounds-- including a large share of disadvantaged kids-- into having many of the same kinds of advantages my kids do in being able to imagine an engineering career and learn basic skills and the details of the path at an early age.

So, please don't lecture me about systematic barriers. You don't need to tear down family traditions and passing down of skills to greatly reduce inequity: you just need to ensure that everyone gets a reasonable chance at a path upwards. Some can show up in my programs and become engineers and mathematicians; others can go in someone else's speech program and become marketers and lawyers; other, more fortunate people, can lean on familial upbringing; and yet others can choose something other than the path of least resistance and do something less probable.
That article didn't clear up a whole lot for me personally. Maybe some others are like me. I also read the actual CERN article, which this article copied almost entirely.

But after reading twice, what seems to be going on is that a particle has a slightly different mass from its antiparticle. (That is the most unbelievable sentence I have written so far this year! It's just... wow. I didn't think that was even theoretically possible.)
Risk seems like a game that an alpha-zero-like AI could be trained on. The major differences between Go and Risk seem to be an element of randomness, more than 2 players, and a small amount of hidden state (cards). Perhaps the hidden state would interfere with the ability to train too much?
I stumbled across this image on eBay a few days ago:

http://www.mattowen.co.uk/files/home-computing-weekly-23.jpg

I can't believe how blatant it used to be. At the time it just seemed 'normal'.
I wouldn't vaccinate my children not because i would be afraid of the sort term side effects, but for the long term side effects that nobody knows now.

And why to vaccinate the children since they don't seem to pass it rought, the Convid doesn't leave them scars and they grow better immune by passing the virus instead of the vaccine.

I am 40 so i kinda afraid to pass the real virus, this is why i am thinking of vaccination.
People use the petrodollar because they have no other good choice. The fluff you are trying to sell would not work without the military
Unfortunately that's not possible for receivers barring a break in crypto. Receivers are authenticated by the sending devices:

https://blog.oakbits.com/google-cast-protocol-receiver-authe...

An alternative Chromecast receiver needs cooperation from the sender one way or another.
I think they meant it's realtime (dubbing) rather than faster than realtime copying.
> Renderable to both modern and older browsers

If I disable JS and/or cookies, I should be able to read the content the web page. Just send over the HTML and CSS and let the web browser do its thing.

If I get a blank page when either/both are disabled, but I do a 'view source' and get pages and pages of stuff, IMHO you're doing something wrong. It doesn't have to have all the functionality, just please have some text be thrown onto my screen.
How to Whiten Your Teeth?
How does DoH help you avoid ads?
I missed an emoji picker for Linux. I couldn't find anything that was not integrated into Gnome/KDE or maintained. So I set out to write one myself, just a simple Python script with rofi. I uploaded it to Github, because maybe someone else also wanted that.
That was several years ago, and now [rofimoji] can do all UTF-8 characters (and custom ones), works on Wayland and is packaged for some distros. I'm so happy how my tiny project turned out and how many people helped with PRs and issues.

[rofimoji]: https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji

Professionally, I (and the whole team) lost track of our deployed artifacts, as we're not on a release schedule but also not really on continuous deployment. Mainly, we released when someone noticed that a release has been running stably on staging for a while.
We also needed a way to ensure our configurations were correct and to track API versions. So I started hacking together a small React app (new for me at the time) to collect and display all that information.
It had a good welcome in our team, and so a colleague and I improved it a lot, added an actual backend and, for example, integrated it into our CI so that you can now see which commits happened since the last deployment and deploy through it, with just two clicks.
We also automated a lot of our previously manual checks for larger deployments. It's become the main tool for that stuff, even for our not-so-technical PO.
engineers & companies break the compact, but the truest, most compelling heart of the web is about viewing named things, and those names are urls.

to erode away at the name of things is to erode away the bedrock that holds this all up. it is to make the clear and the district muddled. there's no proposed new abstraction here, no new alternative: to hide the url would be to cloak the truth that makes the web so much better than all other computing: that this is an online space, where things have universal names[1], & that by using the name we can get to that thing.

[1] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html
> In the long run it is preferable to lead the world by example, through moral authority,

The world has never been lead by moral authority. It has always been lead by military and economic might, sometimes hidden under the thin velvet glove of “moral authority”.
The Fixed Point: Laziness, Recursion and Fixed Points in Haskell
I guess the CSV files are SQL table dumps
I suppose these are examples of the justice system treating black individuals even more unjustly than the average individual (though obviously anecdotal ones)
„Hammock driven development“
There are no images of that sticker on actual equipment in that search
Need some benchmark numbers after that.

Rust compiled binary FPS vs C code FPS.
That is very interesting, thanks. I will look into a possible migration to Redis, which in any case is so lightweight and simple to run, it seems.
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge
As someone building numerous Spark workloads this is quite concerning.
The actual problem in that case (when you need a closed door for something like this) is that you are part of a team without trust and you senior staff has not yet learned how to make themselves vulnerable.
I built a kanban board with two goals:

1. Dark mode by default

2. Dead simple

I am looking to make a couple of WPF projects over the next couple of years and wanted to track them but found all the online Kanban tools missed the mark by miles in one way or another: in particular, they were all far, far too complicated.

So I built my own: https://allthetasks.com

It's not long up and missing a bunch but it works and scratches my itch :)

Edit: Oh, almost forgot. It was also to use some of the stuff I don't get to use in my day job... we tend to just build something and ship it as fast as possible (development speed, not application speed) so I wanted to make something as small as possible and fast as possible too!
> I prefer it over just giving a card number that a merchant has the ability to store and eventually leak

Even if you know that your card provider will refund you if the card leaks?

In the last decade I've twice had a credit card cloned, and twice I've been pleasantly surprised how quickly the card provider a) detected the issue, b) blocked the old card and re-issued a new card, and c) refunded the fraudent transactions.

Based on that, I'd trust my credit card provider far more than my bank(s).
Sounds cool, but do you use it for anything other than math equations? I am just curious
It is cool, but having fiber optics poking out of your head is pretty conspicuous.

Chemogenetics (RASSLs/DREADDs)[0] and magnetogenetics[1] allow for more subtle activation. The interesting magnetogenetics results from the mid 2010s were not well-reproduced in the late 2010s, but the physical principle seems sound to me. I'm still hopeful that the technique will see successful application in mammals. Being able to turn the effect off quickly by stopping the external stimulation (vs. having to wait for drug metabolism/excretion in the case of chemogenetics) seems very useful.

Edit: the magnetoreceptors I read about in 2018 were naturally occurring in some turbid-water-dwelling fish. If they don't work well outside the chemical environment of the fish brain, it may be a while before a suitable alternative receptor can be discovered/engineered and used effectively in mammals.

Skepticism about the utility of magnetogenetics is definitely warranted, given how much RF pollution there is in our environment. If your patients have to live the rest of their lives in a shielded room (or wearing a helmet) to prevent unintentional stimulation, then it's not a very good therapy. It could still be useful for preclinical research where you have more control over your subjects' environment, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptor_activated_solely_by_a...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetogenetics
A. They tested the suspect's children's DNA and got a positive.

B. It's true sperm doesn't equal murder. But in this case the victim was asexually assaulted and then murdered. The likelihood of both crimes committed by the same person is way higher than two different persons.
I visited Sony Japan in 1999-2000 to give them a demo of the new audio codec my company (AT&T Labs) was co-developing with Fraunhofer. We were trying to convince them to buy into our crazy plan of selling music over the Internet. (Needless to say, neither AT&T nor Sony won that battle, but AAC did.) We spent some time in a studio with some of their top studio engineers playing tracks on AAC and Sony’s proprietary ATRAC3 at different BPS, trying to decide which was better. They agreed that AAC worked better at lower encoding rates, but it didn’t move them —- they were too focused on hardware.

Fun trip though!
tl;dr: Always get into a land war in Asia.

Inconceivable!
For anyone curious:

> Epiousios (ἐπιούσιος) is a Greek adjective used in the Lord's Prayer verse "Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον"[a] 'Give us today our epiousion bread'. Because the word is used nowhere else, its meaning is unclear. It is traditionally translated as "daily", but most modern scholars reject that interpretation.

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon
I agree. I believe this article is to be a “tug your heartstrings” to be against the very logical restriction on forensic DNA analysis by “reconstructing a reverse family tree” which is quite often wrong.
Easy to indentify because it's all of them. Not everyone burns out at every company and some people really do switch for a better opportunity, but burnout is very common and is everywhere.
Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (2017)
We have differing definitions of ”meth-induced psychosis”. The clinical definition of psychosis excludes psychiatric symptoms of intoxication, so your experiences are simply psychiatric effects of meth overdose, not psychosis in the clinical sense.

Now, if those symptoms persist after you (would) pass a piss test, then we are talking about meth-induced psychosis.
Somewhat related, but about academic economics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273346
"Jamming AESA radars is basically impossible."

This is so incredibly wrong.
Do people actual follow those Legacy game rules that try to trick you into destroying the game?
If your stick uses Google Cast, one app meeting that description is “the Youtube website”.
Whatever environment each user prefers.

Being softlocked into Observable is not a pro.

That's like trying to force every vim user into Jetbrain IDEs (both are great, not trying to start a flamewar here).

Sure an IDE will have more features (like Observable vs simple HTML file), but it's important to understand different people have different ways of doing things.
When the Chinese track down and capture the thousands of Uyghur militants that the US/Turkey helped relocate to the middle east (mainly Syria/Iraq to assist in regime change operations) they are doing the world a favor.

This article is behind a paywall but I expect a significant % of the seized Uyghurs fall into the category "recently trained by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, TIP etc..."

The alternative is for China to let these trained Uyghur fighters/terrorists in the middle east (many with newly issued Turkish passports) eventually flood Europe through various refugee/immigration programs... but I'm quite sure this UK newspaper would be singing another convenient anti-Chinese tune if that were allowed to happen

UYGHUR MILITANCY IN AND BEYOND SOUTHEAST ASIA: AN ASSESSMENT (2017) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26351495
"Do you really need < insert well-tested, verified technology > ? Why not just hand-roll your own in < different technology > ?"

Hopefully the emphasis is clear why this is silly.
My initial read of this was incorrect.

For those who would most benefit by viewing this, the filmmaker takes an interesting and I do sincerely hope effective path through the narrative.
That’s the ultimate problem and why these schools are harmful. Letting in another thousand cognitive elites isn’t going to change anything.
There probably are downsides to this gene later in life. Evolution is always about tradeoffs.
Well we are the same. But our brains and culture let us go beyond that.
Odd. It worked initially.

IA/WBM do sometimes seem to exhibit issues.
Built https://addue.com for conversion tracking and traffic routing purposes for my ad agency. Later decided to make it into a SaaS tool.

Similarly I built https://Classient.com to take class bookings online for some classes my wife was teaching at the time. Made it into a SaaS tool this year.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27479712
Can Crabs Count?
Yes, you can have the charge reversed, but they can still make the charge initially. In that sense it is no different from a credit card: if they have your info, they can charge you again and you can have the charge reversed.
I like it for some things and not for others.

I like choice.
I love cheeses and cheeses loves me.
I understand your point but then password shucking can be problematic: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...
If it’s toggling back and forth and the mass changes, does this mean its momentum should also be changing since mass-energy are conserved?

Seems to me that if a particle is flapping back and forth on mass and it’s energy were not changing this would be extremely weird and maybe even more significant.

They should try to measure this if they haven’t already.
There is a lot of concern that if the FDA had authorized the research and usage of either HCQ or Ivermectin and they'd proven to treat COVID that their bylaws for have forbid them from issuing an EUA for the "vaccines". This raises lots of conspiracy hairs on me; It points to a conflict of interest at the FDA to discredit effective and cheap therapies for COVID to pave the way for a massively profitable "vaccine" therapy.
You say that as if rabbitmq takes more than an 8th grader to set up in a few hours?
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, good name for a band.
When the chips are down: material scarcity in the tech industry [audio]
duplicate, please check before submitting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434009
If you want the polish of d3 and some of its power without all the complexity, try Vega Lite and related tooling: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
Another scenario is a cop who's personal id is revealed via Google, and criminals going after them.
It's trivial to Google and then we are part of today's 10,000.
no. he/she actually has a point. a database is not a queue

https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/04/database-as-queue-an...
It doesn’t help guarantee the email is sent, but it makes it easier to find and handle unhappy edge cases, which is where a lot of time is spent in an early-stage startup.
> There is no theory yet for the origin of Big Bang

There are many.
Sadly, I just updated to 91 today, and just had to re-check location permissions yet again.

I was so hoping you were right! Oh well...
It isn't physically possible to get useful GPS service from a small satellite. This is just basic physics. Calculate the power required to transmit the necessary signals. You need some fairly sizable solar panels. No way to hide those.
I built a program that lets me parse the saved files from my camera (an old Nikon), including the read-only file attribute set using the camera UI, into Darktable. This also lets me assign ratings and manage files accordingly (i.e. 1 = delete both, 2 = keep jpg, 3/4/5 = keep both files and organize into folders according to priority). It's just a simple Python script but it has saved me so much time!
Yes, I'm aware of that, but BuzzFeed started as a company that made dumb viral listicles then turned the brand awareness and money generated by that into an organization that's doing serious, important journalism.
> It's [crypto] the only way you can buy a 4chan pass for example

Sure, I said "It's way, way more likely I can just use another credit card company, a debit card, Venmo/Cash App/PayPal". There are zillions of products, you named one for which there's very little demand, it looks like we agree.

> Well right now we have bitcoin where there is high anonymity and the government has no power over.

At least the US government regulates BTC. Lots of people have been arrested for violating finance laws re: BTC. The US could easily outlaw BTC or mandate further regulation. BTC is also not at all anonymous, the only thing that makes it "anonymous" is a tumbler.

> In a government payment system they would have the power to freeze accounts and track transactions. I don't see how that's a worse system in regards to fighting crime.

> You completely misunderstood my original claim...

Yeah, sorry again I wanted to dispute your 1A claims. Insofar as your idea of nationalizing a payment infrastructure and using a blockchain, I guess that's fine. I broadly think most things don't make sense as markets, and in democratic societies people should nationalize almost everything. However, I don't think blockchain should be involved because it's generally junk tech. It's like, yet again a normal database would be just fine.
Not open source at the moment but may do in the future.

That definitely would be useful and something I'll hopefully add.

You can email me at dev [at] dictionary ilmwaa ml
There is absolutely nothing stopping an American, Japanese, Iraqi, Venezuelan, Russian, Chinese, German, or Indonesian company in offering its products for sale to foreign customers in Canadian dollars, yen, renminbi, dinars, rubles, Euros, or bhats. A US carrier isn't going to appear off the shores of your country for doing so.

They don't do so (or, when they do so, they also denominate in US dollars) because customers by and large prefer using US dollars. They also like using Euros, yen, and Swiss francs. (They have no problem with Canadian or Australian dollars, but obtaining it can sometimes be more difficult.) But the US dollar is the one currency that is absolutely, positively, 100% guaranteed to be wanted by both the buyer and seller, no matter where and for what.

Let me repeat: The primacy of the US dollar is driven by demand, not supply.
> But the point of games is to win

Different people, or groups, play games for different reasons:

* Sublimate conflicts (it's probably better than physical fighting)

* Learn / hone skills

* Feel personal challenge, tension, suspense

* Passing the time.

* Experience other players' "game-table-side banter"

* Attention diverter from munching snacks.

* Making a romantic pass at another player (it's been known to happen!)

etc. For some of these, winning is part of how you achieve your objective; for others it doesn't matter; and for others still it's detrimental!
I think any useful definition of millionaire involves either having a million dollars of income over multiple years or being able to spend a million dollars without it affecting your lifestyle.
Even better is explaining it to a computer.
"as well as the parts I don't want (which I indicate in-video)"

How do you indicate that in the video?
I think parent is pointing out that you're being dishonest and therefore your credibility is in question. That does add value.

You have no point if you have to make things up to make it.
At the cost of a few people unable to text on their Uber drive? Maybe you mean millions of people who are using public transport, trains, planes, bicycles?
Real time trading systems can totally get away with only using Redis, outside of historical data (which obviously you'd stick into Postgres or your favorite flavor of DB)
Arguments about matter-antimatter balance are actually per quantum field.

Electrons can't, in any sense, be "antimatter". That's because there antimatter as a concept only applies to a particle's relationship to its antiparticle -- it's not a feature of a single type of particle, only of two types of particle. Which must be variant excitations of the same quantum field.

That's almost irrelevant, however. The big bang should have created roughly equal amounts of matter and antimatter for each quantum field; an excess of protons cannot be balanced by deficit of positrons, as I believe you were suggesting.

Protons and positrons do not annihilate, nor would protons and electrons for that matter. Only protons and anti-protons, or electrons and positrons, have that reaction.

(Though, aside: Protons are composite particles. None of the composites are electrons, though, so this still applies.)
i would ask what is their opinion regarding overtime. it’s a good measure of toxicity if overtime is expected (excluding emergencies), whether it is paid or not.
>GUIs are more productive

From my first hand experience this generalization is wrong as it comes down to each individual developer.

We have highly skilled developers using vim and editing code very fast as well as other skilled developers using VS Code of Eclipse as plain text editors.
Less skilled developers usually think that text editors like vim improve their quality/speed because the very skilled developers use them whereas they‘re usually lacking knowledge for concepts and the language.
This leads to a double slowdown from less skilled developers struggling now with their editor and the work they‘re supposed to do.

It usually comes down to what each individual developer is comfortable with compared to what they think they should be using regardless if text or GUI based.
I used to write Java tests for of asynchronous operations such as sending emails and waiting for them to arrive in a mailbox. In order to poll the mailbox I wrote a small routine that would support retrying actions with configurable intervals. At some point I extracted it into a separate project called retryJ and recently released it as open source on Maven Central [1].

[1] https://github.com/gdiegel/retryJ
Facebook, the product, did not use React until very very recently.

Do you use FB? If Facebook’s interface represents the “UI leaders of the world” we’re in troubled waters!