skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant is that it's hard to come up with a set of generic principles that allow people to promote "good raw science" without also allowing "bad crackpot science".

YouTube's current policy isn't an accident or secret: "YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19. ... Don’t post content on YouTube if it includes any of the following: Claims that Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments for COVID-19" https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en (The part about Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine was added in early April.)
Check out https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning
I made the exact same connection as you. I wonder was it PANDAS..?
Yup - as soon as a third party realized they could start making money off of it.
Ask HN: Getting Better at Storytelling?
How did you get better at storytelling? I am curious to know as I like to tell my kids stories. I just don’t think I am that good at it. I definitely want to find a way to improve.
My understanding is ML engineer gets machine learning models running in production. They would own the infrastructure that enables teams to deploy ML models, interface with engineering teams to agree on contracts/endpoints/UI/etc, and work on scaling models when/if that time comes. I would view Data Scientist and ML engineer as distinct sister roles, and not as a subset.

I've worked in environments where ML engineers were "data science plus", and those were really unhealthy work environments - it ended up feeling like a prestige war with lots of cookie licking and turfing. When you're at the point of needing differentiated roles, you really need someone to focus on infrastructure to deploy ML models and someone else to focus on managing stakeholders, wrangling data, and developing proof of concepts.
His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

The family’s smart thermostat was installed a few years ago as part of a new home security package. Many smart thermostats can be enrolled in a program called "Smart Savers Texas." It's operated by a company called EnergyHub.

The agreement states that in exchange for an entry into sweepstakes, electric customers allow them to control their thermostats during periods of high energy demand.

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Calling this "Shock" seems like some serious FUD. They signed up for this program, they got an alert at the time, and they were able to un-enroll after realizing the deal wasn't a good fit for them.

There is absolutely nothing "sinister" about this. They literally enrolled in a program to allow exactly this behavior.
There is a simple fix for WSJ, just append this to the URL: ?mod=djemalertNEWS

I haven't yet seen this with nytimes.
> Is it illegal for a juror...

I imagine this can vary significantly by jurisdiction, no? (Your question doesn't mention one.)
Everything in moderation, especially moderation.
> Is there a shortage of people with CompSci PhDs to staff universities and do research? Is there a shortage of people to present at conferences?

There's a shortage of people doing top-quality work that advances the state of the art.

> Just because you feel like cancel culture is cancelling people who don't deserve it, doesn't mean we need those people to fill open positions. Every time we make excuses for people like Matthias, we're filling a chair that could have someone else who's not toxic in it.

> Not to mention: if we have a shortage of brilliant people, why aren't you asking how many brilliant people are driven out of the community by people like Matthias? What's the opportunity cost in brilliant people that Matthias represents?

I absolutely do ask that. But the disproportionate number of brilliant people we see being cancelled lately makes me think that "toxicity" is practically a requirement for brilliance.
This is exactly the kind of thing that I’ve been planning to make for my own personal use. I’ll definitely check it out!
Bushel Acquires FarmLogs
I know petty much nothing, but I cannot help but feel that knowing the result, any answer is equally explainable. If Greenland ruled the world we would all be discussing some nonsense about how easily sleds glide over ice.

Nevermind that this supposes a geographic explaination--I imagine the author is a geographer. But an economist examines it through economic policy, an anthropologist through culture.. etc. who I am sure all have their own 'obvious and inevitable' justifications.
Breakdown by demographics and shift in "HKer" identity is driven by 30s and below [0], i.e. the generations influenced by reintroduction of political education leading up to handover. Curriculum under colonial rule was much more apolitical. Clear trajectory of influence. Most countries underling decolonization do not promote politics of their colonizers. PRC allowed this arrangement to persist under 1C2S for as long as tenable, but last 10 years demonstrated those who anticipated blowback were prescient.

[0] https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/935/90/sites/default/fi...

>perceived security (of the party)

Hundreds of terrorist's attacks in XinJiang, Tibetans being weaponized by CIA for decades, HK being vulnerable spyhub into PRC activities... none of this is perceived. XJ/Tibet was left relatively alone by old oblast model and sheer inability for poor PRC to project influence, HK had 20+ years to ratify NSL. Doing nothing failed.

>not pose any material threat

It's pretty charitable to assume Apple Daily had no material influence on protests. There is zero reason for HK media tycoon to coordinate with US Secretary of State / ex CIA Head during period of Sino/US tensions and have it quoted on US state department website as discussions that has material impact on PRC foreign policy [1]. Thinking otherwise is naïve. Or assuming CCP merely over reacting when they have credibly demonstrated ability to expose foreign intelligence assets. HK is spy capital of Asia after all, CCP good at catching spies and crushing foreign influence.

[1] https://2017-2021.state.gov/secretary-pompeos-meeting-with-h...

There's probably some alternative chain of events where HK met PRC half way by introducing NSL that would have opened up for some political reforms HKers wanted. No sane government would grand _more_ privileges to subjects not beholden to national security, less flaunts against it, which is an absurd arrangement in the first place.
Sweat profusely with a warm breeze.

I grew up in the midwest where it's not as hot but just as humid and A/C was a luxury. I never slept with any covers as a kid and a fan in the room sure felt like it was doing nothing.
I agree and am actually surprised that several years in there is still a bunch of stuff that is not configurable in the new Settings screen. I am obviously speaking without extensive knowledge of the underlying internals but surely it can't be that difficult to wrap some settings in a new UI if you dedicate a team to it?

I actually spent 15 minutes the other day trying to remove an additional keyboard layout that somehow found itself on my machine. I had to give up as I could not find the option in the new Settings screen and it seemed to have disappeared (or moved?) from the usual place in the Control Panel...
The brain is part of the body.
78F, at 80% humidity is above the reccommended safe range for young kids. It's a SIDS risk, and those in the article have a toddler.

The concern is more one of safety than one of comfort.
It’s like when Tesla finally realized their imaging cameras weren’t worth crap during the winter with road crust all over them. Proving the moderately-self driving capabilities moot.

Ideal conditions during development may not replicate real-world use.
Now that is Smart!
Because having it happen all at once would strain many things to the breaking point. If it only extended life by 7 years then we'd have roughly 10% higher population-- on top of normal population growth.

If it became widely available, the second that happened it would be a race to invest in infrastructure and especially higher yield food production-- investments that would need to be measured in large fractions of the world's GDP.

And it wouldn't even add to the viable workforce for a while: this is life extension, not rejuvenation. We're stuck with the working population we have now: People past 65 aren't going to be able to get out there and build infrastructure. Plenty of them wouldn't want to either if they were otherwise near retirement or actually retired: It would require uprooting their entire lives to change tracks.

I'm not saying it's theoretically impossible, just that I see no likely way it would actually happen given the state the world is in right now.
Bluecoat proxies are amazing at creating the wrong user behaviour, since when spegno fails all the ones I've seen fallback to basic auth asking for your company network credentials in a basic auth box on the browser.
Ask HN: What made you join that startup?
What were those one or two major factors that stood out for you when you decided to take on the risk of joining a startup which was yet to gain traction and prove product market fit. I am trying to understand what motivates someone to throw away their stable job with a well defined career and financial path at a big FAANG like company and join a startup as an early employee. Please feel free to share any personal experiences and/or anecdotes.
FarmLogs is a YC company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I've followed their company for some time but I've never met the founders.
> While I understand you're trying to point out hubris, you're swaying the other way and appealing to authority.

I'm appealing to the fact that they sent the thing to Mars and flew it. If you think "any hobbyist" could have trivially done a better job, which seems to be essentially what you're saying, there isn't much for me to say to you other than that I strongly disagree. And if I'm supposed to be the one who's appealing to authority here, I'm not sure what everybody else thinks they're doing.

I expect JPL tends toward having generalists working on projects like this, and I expect they do have things to learn. Nothing in my comment contradicts any of that. But the level of armchair quarterbacking in here is crazy and IMO largely unjustified.
I thought that (Guam) was Gohmert for some reason, but I found it attributed to Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat.

After reading the Snopes page on the comment, clearly it was deadpan humor that for some reason people made way too much of.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tipping-point/

"Only Johnson knows for sure what he was thinking as he questioned Admiral Willard, and he later claimed he was “speaking metaphorically” and “kidding” (although critics noted no trace of humor was apparent in his words, tone, or body language, nor did he react or offer correction when Admiral Willard addressed his concerns about the island’s “tipping over” as if they were meant literally)"
> With internal completion aren’t there internal customers, or even external customers too?

Internal "customers" are generally spending someone else's "money" and their own success or failure is often more dependent on politics than their merits.

Competition works if your success metrics are measuring the right thing. But internal popularity often isn't.
Considering the ecological deficits the world is running, that's going to be true for the vast majority.
For simplicity sake, let’s use federal court.
I read the link you shared. There is something to be said about expressing an idea with sufficient clarity in fewer words, without jargon or “officialise” or more information that’s necessary.

And Amazon doesn’t disagree with that principle. If anything, being clear, crisp, and succinct are the hallmarks of a great document.

>Whatever can be presented using documents can be presented using slides too.

For the kinds of problems that require document writing at Amazon, this statement simply just isn’t true.

And the document review is NOT a presentation. Let me say that again - It is not a presentation. Presentations are about the presenter, often presenting as if they are the authority figure on a topic. Written document reviews are about the reader — giving the reader the opportunity to understand how a problem has or hasn’t been evaluated. The document reader is not the authority. As a matter of fact, they share documents to get feedback and find gaps in their thinking, or seek feedback on how they evaluated alternatives, and so on.

Presentations and Amazon document reviews are fundamentally two different things. There is absolutely zero similarity between the two.

The document should focus on the immediate topic, trade offs, solutions while supporting evidence or technical details, design artifacts, and FAQs etc are provided in appendices. This manner of information sharing is simply not possible in any PowerPoint or presentation slide format. And the simple proof to back my statements — Amazon and everything it has accomplished at what people now call “Amazon scale”. This is literally the secret sauce.
"Imagine coding a software patch to fix a bug introduced by another patch"

As a support engineer.... Is this not common? Cause dear lord does my (large corporate entity that shall not be named) do this ALL THE TIME.

Most recent was a set of about 5 consecutive patches for shitty patches.

Send help.
Rapamycin has some significant bad side effects. It's hard to see how the net effect would be positive for most patients.

https://www.pfizermedicalinformation.com/en-us/rapamune/dosa...
All the ways Amazon tracks you and how to stop it
I have so many irritants in the experience of using windows professionally, that I’m not going to waste time discussing it.

I will leave you with one observation though.

For any given text box in Windows, I have found that CTRL-A may or may not Select All.
Note that,

> 80% of organizations that paid the ransom were hit by a second attack, and almost half were hit by the same threat group

Why would victims pay them? Why would the attackers bother to reinfect? Just up the price on the original infection, after the first payment.
> Net 5 isn't even finished and they are already previewing 6

net5 was never an LTS release, so they are moving as fast as they can to net6. I do believe 6 will be much more stable.
Were your assertion true, there would be millions of Americans lining up to be burger flippers and welders-- the market is showing that isn't happening.

Morgan hasn't been hurting for the last 16 months-- maybe the CEO was on the office fun planning committee.
arcing involves ionizing air, right? I would have expected that the breakdown voltage of air increases with altitude, due to decreasing density of air.
Did you keep in touch with any of the other students? I can't imagine that anyone came away thinking it was pleasant, but I'm curious how their thoughts on the experience compared to yours.
There are ACs which have a dehumidifier mode, which according to the manual had less energy consumption.
This sounds like a byproduct of your natural-language rather than a fact about the universe per se. Native American languages rather famously define things by function rather than by state (Eg names like "runs with wolves"). In a different timeline where North America was never settled by Europeans, perhaps functional programming would be the default and Von Neumann style would be the weird thing nerds think about.
My favorite tutorial in a game is in BABA IS YOU. The (puzzle) game continually teaches you new mechanics/things by having them be integral to the unique solution to the current stage.

But the best part is that many of the things it teaches you, rather than game mechanics or buttons or rules, are assumptions that you may have been making that were unfounded.

Saying more would honestly spoil the game if you haven't played it, so I'll just say it was an amazing experience and so brilliantly designed that even when I figured out solutions quickly I was still left in awe.
Yup, it's great, I used it as well. Just used the routing for jeep touring (using the mountain bike profile) and specifically routing through some places. It works great with offline maps. Also one could just download parts of a jurisdiction if it's bigger, like Northern Greece. The maps are bigger but also contain more information than Here which seems dated, lacks some newly built highway segments in Eastern Europe and will route you on national roads instead.

I read a story about some people who used Google Maps for routing in the far Eastern part of Russia, got routed through a disused road and froze to death. My in-laws were also using Google Maps when they were routed to a different place than the hotel we were supposed to stay in in Serbia, but the locals were kind enough to guide them.
> Seriously, if you're that brilliant you can develop some basic social skills.

I'm not entirely sure that this is always possible, since some of those people could possibly be on the autism spectrum, have Asperger's or perhaps other pathologies, that would impede their emotional intelligence. Obviously that's not always the case, but the assumption that it's always possible doesn't seem to be true.

> It's ok not to be great at everything, but it's not acceptable to be toxic on the basis of your other skills.

With this, however, i fully agree. I do find myself wishing that there was some socially acceptable way to call people out when their behaviour is not appropriate, without antagonizing them. For example, it would have probably been better to inform RMS in that way, rather than resorting to mob justice and "cancelling" him.
Unrelated but: what VPS hosts are reliable for email? I've had trouble with Linode being blocked in the past. I'm aware Google Cloud blocks port 25. I haven't tried EC2 but I assume the worst.
Not the big ones. The first slap stuns them at best, sometimes not even that.
VLC can, for some specific models of Dell laptop:

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/02/09/1828229/custome...

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205759

In short, Dell sold laptops a few years ago where the included speakers weren't specc-ed out right.

So, Dell was blaming VLC and other applications for destroying the speakers, when it was just Dell's bad choice of shitty components.
How to Build for Large Enterprises
AllRGB
I highly doubt an air-conditioned space would be above 80% RH.
They probably weren't aware of what they signed up for -- someone hid the details in the terms and conditions, which no one read. Because no one ever does.
This inventor is probably joined by many others before him that had the same idea, were shrugged off and did not have the tenacity to follow up despite that. Another example for what is common wisdom: Execution is everything.

The myth of the inventor-founder is something from the industrual age. Interesting how it still persists.
> Using a .NET Standard 2.0 project in .NET Framework sometimes works, and sometimes results in obscure build errors -- where you then are diagnosing why you are getting the wrong versions or errors loading packages System.Net.Http.Formatting or System.Buffers. I think there's also a bunch of hacks underlying a bunch of this stuff -- for example there will be a nuget package with version 4.3.0 that contains a .NET assembly with version 4.1.1.3 in a .dll with file version 4.0.0.0 -- and it's absolutely frustrating and infuriating.

I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one with this problem. For me, removing assemblies from csproj ended up being the solution to many of these problems (let them load implicitly).
OMG, if he wasnt born, no one could have discovered that
IO solves the "time problem" by just encoding a von Neumann machine in the functional language, which is less like a liberation than a peace treaty.
I don't know much about how A/C works, whether the dehumidifier mechanism can be decoupled from the cooling mechanism. If it can't, then shouldn't the thermostat be coupled to a hygrostat so that that A/C runs when it is humid enough despite being cool in terms of temperature?

On the other hand, today I learned that there's something called heat index and humidex.
Not many. There was a Facebook group where people kept in touch which I disconnected with because it was pretty toxic. Most of the people in there seemed like they never got over it and were sort of still reliving it 10 years later and still held a lot of anger about it.

To be fair a lot of them had pretty deep substance abuse issues and probably needed some kind of organized help although I doubt very many got any of that at this program.
What's all this nonsense then about 68-72 being "room temperature"?
I totally agree Bitcoin is oriented towards fundamentals and value preservation.

I don't find that interesting and I think the dominate force in the 21st century will be change and innovation.

It's great that bitcoin locked in taproot & that LN is functioning, those are small technical accomplishments compared to what Etherum, mina, zksync and many others have accomplished in that time (in terms of technical achievements).

Obviously bitcoin continues to dominate in terms of value, it's just not something that I find interesting anymore.

I've found the community get increasingly toxic. I don't believe it's skepticism because I've held bitcoin through much greater skepticism than what is happening now. I've held it through mtgox, before the IRS made any statement about it, through the split, through china banning it countless times, through 4 major crashes, through the 2013 unintended fork.

I followed bitcoin during the blocksize wars (I immediately sold all of my bch).

It's just not a community interested in growth, it seems like it's only interested in increased adoption & the idea of bitcoin as a global reserve currency.
They didn't wait. That's why it shuts itself down.
correction: I said "clear" and meant "free"
1. There is a connection between physical and mental health and one can ruin the other, but they are not identical. Even a physically healthy person may have mental trouble.

2. If you want to start blogging, the bar today is lower than ever. Choose a name that resonates, and at the lowest and easiest level just get a WordPress blog with a domain. If things go well you can always upgrade to something else.

3. Try rereading your own post and think whether that's something others would want to read. E.g. each (!) of your paragraphs starts with I/my and the entire post is rambling with little coherence. Cut down to what is essential, focus on a single thought and develop it - few authors can pull of an interesting 'stream of consciousness' text.

4. Consider working on your voice and style, e.g. buy the cheap, tiny, excellent & fun Strunk & White book for a great starting point.
The worst part about the new gnome not only we don't have the global menu bar, the default top bar is basically a waste of space with barely any useful content in it.
I see Evergreen College has ancestry
First patient dosed in BioNTech Phase II trial of mRNA cancer vaccine
To be fair, we’re all environmental parasites no matter where we are on this heckin planet.
I have one of these at home, made sometime during WW2--there's a metal label on it indicating that it is (or was) the property of the Defense Plant Corporation. Good chair.
Boomer's as an entire generation are addicted to the idea that all problems are solved by just yelling at people or committing violence against them.

Not to say humanity has collectively improved, but the age group which tends to "wonder" if corporal punishment should be brought back has always been very specific when I encounter it.