skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sony messed up a phone update a few years ago and it took them maybe two to issue another update to fix it. i can't remember what it was now but it was annoying enough that i stopped updating until a few other people confirmed it was ok.

ive had the same happen with two android apps as well so i have auto-update turned off now and just go through the list a few times a years. if the changelog just says 'buxfixes' but im not noticing any bugs, then i don't bother updating
Doom Comes to the NRF5340
macOS input source switching unexpected behaviour
I like to use funny job titles similar to the ones the Onion coins in their American Voices: https://www.theonion.com/texas-congressman-suggests-altering...
For historians it matter, which is why the discussion is on AskHistorians.
"Public" web standards my ass. That are only implemented by Chrome, and are at best documenting what Chrome does after the fact. Coming from a self-serving, self-acclaimed "standardization" body (WHATWG) consisting of a bunch of Chrome devs, and having never delivered a single finalized spec. Which is now approaching tens of thousands of pages, with thousands of APIs only ever implemented by Chrome that are never going to be implemented by FF and Safari due to privacy (fingerprinting and other) concerns. And are you seriously calling on W3C to spec out even more absurd CSS complexity split out in tens of fragmented specs piled on top of each other, and superseding one another without explicit reference and lacking any formal semantics? Coming from a pay-as-you-go org? That is responsible for the stagnation of the web when they were busy with redefining the "web stack" in the 2000s (in good faith, but still) and consequently lost to Ian Hickson's WHATWG?

If the EU and/or others are interested in standardization and sustainability, they should begin to demand and stick to standards in public services/tenders, and turn to standardization bodies with proper statue to clean up the mess.
Well I would, but hosting those videos was a bad idea – I am currently at 250GB of free 100GB bandwidth. I'll reupload them to the ad-infested internet TV, YouTube.
Hmmmm. At that point are you not simply beginning to divide by ability? Basketball for short people? Weightlifting for weak people? It would seem to both go against the spirit of sport and be impossible to implement in practice (for e.g how many different ways do you cut it?)

Perhaps the more fundamental question — once again leaning on apparently somewhat flimsy terminology — would be: is biological sex something worthy of celebration and note? Half of our species is born a certain way, whatever we call it. Is that grouping to be given certain opportunities to demonstrate their talents that would not be afforded them on a level playing field?
> I think it's reasonable to assume that homosexuality and asexuality are pretty gender independent factors

Um, no. You should check these things rather than assume. Male homosexuality is much more common than female.
Just suffering from this Home/End issue myself after changing to a new Dell laptop.
I didn't expect a company like Dell to make such a basic mistake.
The web is full of people asking them to fix this in their BIOS, going back for a year now, but it seems Dell is not hearing their customers or has no intention to fix this...
Examples:
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-15-change-Home-and-En...
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Please-re-map-Fn-Left-and...
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-13-9300-Map-fn-left-a...
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Control-Home-Control-End-...
.co.uk or .com? I’m on .co.uk everyday without any issues
What about your choice to use technology that you admit is broken? Or at least imply that Apple will break?
You know the funniest thing? This guy is a member of the "ReFormers Caucus", which is "a group of former members of Congress, Cabinet officials and governors from both parties committed to restoring trust in our democratic institutions" by reducing the significance of money and lobbying in politics. So if you don't like what he's doing, you can write a letter to him complaining about him, and he would surely call himself to behave better next time!
“[…] as Mickey returns to Valhalla to slumber and feed.”
What if the article is written as follows:
"Before Amazon came along, a store of its kind would routinely dispose of 1 million perfectly good products each year. Now thanks to a series of complicated quantum neural artificial inteligence robots, matching an army of bargain hunters with stock destined for landfill an 87% reduction in waste has been achieved this year alone. Thanks Jeff for saving the world, again!"
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> Just like IE was a pain in the ass because it was the default browser, Safari is here to stay.

IE wasn’t a pain because it was the default browser. IE was a pain because it was IE. Edge is the default browser today and I don’t think many people have an issue
People faking vaccination data is no real threat. Only when government has a problem with liberties will we see fakes.
Oil is a fungible market. The Saudis have to sell it to someone, and selling it to someone besides the US just frees up other suppliers to sell to the US.
Similar Bluetooth/Zigbee/Thread chip to the IKEA trådfri hack that was shared earlier (put pulled from the web unfortunately). Maybe not as sexy without the teardown, but now at least the source-code is ready if anyone wants to run Doom on their next Bluetooth headphones/keyboard/mouse/gamepad =)
Unfortunately at Amazon, that is the norm. When the review time comes, 90% of the orgs will use the no. of Code Reviews raised and no. of commits pushed as the first line metric. Impact, customer focus and everything else is secondary.
When I search for “uva”, all the first results point to university of virginia, instead or university of amsterdam, even though the latter has more students, is older and higher ranked. The former does not even contain uva in their URL while the latter is uva.nl. From a neutral, international point of view, why should this Virginia school rank higher in searches than UVA?

Situatiouns like these are what ultimately led me to switch from Duckduckgo back to google, and i test these things everytime I consider a new search. What is the use of privacy if the search results are not relevant to me?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=flatkill.org

I don't expect any interesting conversation around this flame bait of a site this time around either.
People of the Pandemic
Show HN: Yet Another CRUD Generator
Oh no! We need more Javascript, someone add React please and social buttons.
I don't understand. How do Bitcoin transfers happen off-chain? Are those Bitcoin transactions that don't actually use the blockchain?
Transgender inclusion in sport has brought to the front that sports are inherently unfair. Wherever you draw the lines there is someone thats going to be just the other side of that line.

Trans people have been allowed compete in sports for the last 18 years, however this is the first trans athlete to make it to the olympics, this seems to suggest that trans people competing in sports has not pushed IFAB people out of sports to any significant degree, especially not at the highest levels of competition.
Thank you for spotting this. I fixed it to '26min'. Yes, there should be 1:1 mapping from suffix to unit and back.
I think one of the main reasons is that there is no good Python library for doing linear mixed effect models. There is no sklearn implementation. There are some libraries that wrap R's lmer (probably using rpy2 or soemthing). The best native Python library I could find is statsmodels, and it has several shortfalls (saving a model to disk consumes hundreds of megabytes, the predict method is useless, it just predicts using the fixed effects, multi-level beyond just 1 group is not even clearly documented, and the syntax sucks if you really do it, nevermind actually implementing a predict method using those random effects). I think once someone does a decent sklearn implementation, it might take off. I've been thinking of doing an implementation for sklearn as a side project, but I'm not an ML researcher, just a practitioner, so it might suck :)
Makes sense for the Olympics or Worlds, but what about amateur competitions? High school wrestling leagues can't exactly start doing this stuff.
Yes, stop developing for 1.5 billion people. That’ll do it! /s
Really interesting to see hypotheses on historical astronomical events that are depicted as religious or superstitious happenings in ancient texts. This is a great example of that.
Email compatibility releases – Delta Chat
HK pro-democracy paper Apple Daily announces closure
You realise you can just unwrap an optional after checking it’s not nullopt, right?
At some point we need to stop and realise that some problems just don’t have a solution that is going to please everybody. In this case there is an option to annihilate hopes and dreams of either transgender athletes, or women. Both options suck, but the second one affects disproportionately more people.
This has been my experience and every org that I know as well. Blind agrees too. The guy above you seems like an HR plant.
Wav2Vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations
Going through it right now (kid@9mths), my 2 cents:
1. You are sorted money wise, so I would advise you to get paid outside (for baby sitting, house chores) help for your wife

2. Be prepared to have whacked up sleep and day schedule, if you are working from home. Kiss goodbye to deep focused sessions, unless pt.1 and you have some sound proof room and a willing partner to split the time with the baby and work in rotations.

3. Invest in the sleeping coach to normalise baby sleeping patterns, pays off immensely down the road.

4. [Optional] Schedule regular visits to pediatrician or family physician (if it is acceptable practice) to monitor baby development. Not really for the baby, but more for your peace of mind. Each baby development is unique and having a voice of authority saying it's ok to have, say baby roll not in 3, but 6 months is relieving.

5. Be mentally prepared to get fat (both partners).

6. Do not rely on your parents, even though they would want to help, they have their own life/ commitments and do get tired rather quickly. Also, they have their own ideas on how to raise a child, which is guaranteed to clash with yours, potential source of conflict. Be ready.

7. First 3 months, you probably would feel irritated constantly, so plan (if you are a planning guy) in advance the consumables - like diapers, cloths, crib, pram, bath things, lights, white noise and frontload on them in advance, to save the time later. Also, I wish I could tell you to have open and ongoing conversation with your partner in case of conflict. Reality is you would not have time nor right right attitude at that point. So both of you remember, that you have willingly signed up for this so time to sober up and pull through.

After ~6mo, things would get easier, it's actually a joy to watch kids grow. So hope this helps& good luck!
As a child of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, looking at the public shaming campaigns like this:

https://reason.com/2020/12/28/new-york-times-racial-slur-tee...

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

makes me wonder if social networks combined with the spread of recording devices managed to build a new kind of tyranny - a chaotic, distributed, unevenly enforced one. No secret police needed, just a bunch of people who patrol the Internet and look for the next outrage material. And a "Share" button to get the snowball rolling.

This new chaotic evil is neither as powerful as the Communist party was, nor as systematic in its activity. Its legal options are fairly limited. But it wields an absolutely terrifying power over reputations, whose value has grown with the connected age, and does not have even a travesty of a trial, it just crushes the victim.

Our civilization will have to develop a thick skin, unless we want to teach our young that they better be silent at all times - because who knows what ordinary remarks of 2021 will be beyond the pale in 2025 or 2030.
The very nature of HTML and CSS which are designed to display some text and maybe a few images make them ridiculously unsuited for literally anything else.

You as much as glance at a web page, and it causes a repaint and reflow of the page.

Everything else stems from that.
> Perhaps you can name some people who fell victim to "cancel culture" who weren't utterly despicable people.

Off the top of my head: Scott Aaronson, Scott Alexander, Richard Stallman, Eric S Raymond. I could list more if I could be bothered to research it.
> You might never even have been seen by the people you're interested in.

If I were developing an app like Tinder, I would introduce a small number of totally random shows besides those algorithm-driven.
At least in school of Americas, they did
Some people have tried to study this phenomenon but have been shut down by accusations that such research would be transphobic.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/16/academics-ar...
Many sports have many categories. Boxers and wrestlers are separated based on weight
Note that the people in r/AskHistorians are actual historians, or people knowledgeable enough of the subject to source their claims.
The problem with "yet", in security, is that by the time you realize that "yet" is here, it's already too late.
Here's a good example! Open up this page in your web browser; not the site the thread is linking to, just the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576937

Opening it up, fresh, it's taking 49.9MB of memory for me. For a tab I've had open for a while, of the same page, it's doing 60MB. And that's despite it not being a "web application": it's barely a web page! So here I am, doing exactly what everyone claims I should be doing, and using a web browser for my web content. And one of the most spartan sites on the internet, Hacker News, has mildly-active threads that take up 60MB of memory. For the tab. Not for the browser, for the individual tab.

The best Electron application I've ever came across launched with 100MB of memory consumption and pegs a CPU core. That's not even getting into how nearly every single Electron application puts 150MB+ on your hard disk, because that in particular isn't incredibly relevant.
Hi all,

After a year or so working on it as a side hustle, I've released a service which converts UML-like class diagram to an app with CRUD functionality + relatively decent admin panel.

This idea occurred to me during collage, and was sure something of similar type already exists, but wasn't able to find it, so I've decided to take a dive into it. Motivation being that all other generator tools are generally based either on existing database or already defined model. At this moment, the service is bound to "starting" stage, where project prototyping is extremely fast (no need for code editor to get a fully functioning app), without having to install additional packages or use specific commands.

Currently, only Django is supported, but the plan is adding React, Angular and Vue in the near future. I've experimented with them a bit, but Django was by far most simple to implement and seemed like way to go, given that I need some feedback on the concept before continuing to invest time in it.

If you'd like to checkout the panel: https://github.com/crudgenerator-io/django-admin-panel (note that it's not prod-ready version and has few missing features).

Let me know what you guys think. Does this seem like a legit tool you'd use in your projects or nah ? Would really appreciate the feedback. Thanks.
Not if they double each failed time. eg the claim they lodged was thrown out because it was fair use.
In general it's better to use the same standard library everywhere - discrepancies like that occur for almost every type so if you care about having the same performance on every platform... Either use libc++ or boost
That it's possible, does not mean that this solutions were used in this case. In the first place the FDA did not test here, just unamend labs. And it should also be noted that it seeme that there are other means of processing besides cooking which can make the meat harder to identify.

The Article reads as if they tested against a preselected choice of possible results, not the full FDA-database. The only result here is that they were unable to identify the origin of this food. But we don't know whether this happend because they were lacking data, or the processing made it not possible to identify it, or whether it really is not tuna. We only know they could not identify it as tuna.
Apple Daily: Hong Kong pro-democracy paper announces closure
They don't claim an insulting letter never happened, just that the quoted text is not authentic.
I recently learned that the Navajo historically recognized more than two genders. This article says at least 6 but initially I heard 4. It's not something I've looked into much so I can't really say.

"In the Diné language, there are at least six genders: Asdzáán (woman), Hastiin (male), Náhleeh (feminine-man), Dilbaa (masculine-woman), Nádleeh Asdzaa (lesbian), ‘Nádleeh Hastii (gay man). All come from the Diné creation story, in which asdzáán and hastiin, a cisgender married couple, were not getting along and separated. When that happened, dilbaa and náhleeh emerged from hiding and were seen as a special group that could perform the duties of both women and men, stepping into the vacated partner roles. They were accepted by asdzáán and hastiin, who realized their survival depended on them."

https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.2/indigenous-affairs-why-are-d...
Google has taught people to ask full questions (without question marks strangely), and knows how to treat those requests (Who is the mayor of Palo Alto; What's the weather in X"...). DDG is a little worse at that.

I expect search engines to search for every words in my request, and I prefer shorter requests. DDG gives pertinent instant answers for "weather Paris", "3.5mi in km" and correct results for NBA schedule.
> I simply don't get why the person preferring A doesn't rank A first.

Well, that's kind of the point of the example. A normal person who wants A to win would put A as their first choice. But doing that can actually cause their preferred candidate to lose, which is exactly the opposite of the voter's intent. FPTP has a different set of problems that one could argue are worse, but one of the few good things about FPTP is that you can't say about some election result "that candidate lost because I voted for him/her".

Non-monotonic results don't happen in every election, but they're something that can happen.
The average income for teachers seems to be $67k in California? That doesn't really sound eye-watering.
That's actually a great idea.

I used to use an iPad for email, calendar and Jira. Maybe I should go back to it!
CDC shaped the computing landscape in Minneapolis and St. Paul for many many years. Too bad Mr. Cray isn’t still with us; he could probably answer a lot of these sorts of questions.
Link to a post in this thread that I wrote partially as a response to yours but don't want to duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27601802

On a whim, I also opened the front page of reddit (again, in my web browser that's already opened) and the tab is taking 140MB fresh.
Safari is the new IE. We have to live with it.
I often wonder why Sequel, Roda and Rodauth never got more attention.
Flagging should be banned at HN
> Self-censorship means reading your own text with the eyes of another person, a situation where you become your own judge, stricter and more suspicious than anyone else.

That's how many people write novels!

All humor aside, Snowden has once again managed to convince me that he is one of the most articulate--yet horror-inducing--thinkers of our age. The fact that, were he to talk to a podcast, the discussion's transcript would be close to pure text quality is what I love about the guy.

BTW Freud goes pretty deep on the matter of internalized surveillance in his book 'Civilization & its Discontents', written in 1929. It's supposedly one of the mechanisms that keep society functioning: you don't need cops if citizens are copping themselves.
Fulcro is the successor of OM, a full-stack framework, with some very interesting characteristics and features.
Imagine a giant athlete the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger at his peak decides to transition and has to match a testosterone level to compete. Lol. It’s ridiculous.
Very simple, men are biologically different than women. Anything else is subjective. When did we stop using science to protect women?. This is nuts. Hope they ban this guy, that's cheating
If you use a proper C++ compiler, the debug builds throw a runtime exception or abort on invalidation misuse, and it can be enabled for release build as well.
Some media outlets have even removed the [erroneous] previous newsstories (not edit and say "whoops, now we know better", but remove completely), and everybody acts as if that didn't happen.

Well, yes. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Sure, but in the end everyone codes against implementations, not the standard - the standard does not even know/care about dynamic libraries
‘Negotiating sausages while the world burns’: Brussels can’t move on from Brexit
What makes 'woman' a special class in this regard? We wouldn't accept the same kind of self definition elsewhere. I couldn't decide to be a Native American without meeting some external criteria around my birth and life. Nor can I decide to be 6 foot 4 or thin even if I sincerely believed it. Someone who did self define like that would be regarded as delusional.

Is there some principled way to decide what things one can self define as and which one can't?
I do this on the iPad. And it works way better than on the video (latency, hand-resting, ...).
Yes, but as mentioned elsewhere weight alone would do little to solve this issue. Males would still dominate.

So presumably you include other factors — but then you are simply dividing by ability. You could conceivably attempt to divide by innate ability (theoretically allowing competitors to compete against one another based on nurture, not nature) but that would be impossible to do fairly or in a way that would make sense to audiences.
Making Artificial Earthquakes with a Four-Tonne Steel Ball
Same - recognised the domain instantly! Used it to teach my son as well.
Same reason that Congress has not said to ex-congress members “you can't use your influence to help train up lobbyists and if we find out about it, that's your ass.” That reason would be … money and power for their “retirement” years.
The $40-50k is based on current salaries in the US. If you're looking at different country or different time then you obviously have to tweak those numbers based on median income. Exactly what median to use is an interesting problem.

However setting the levels of UBI is probably not hard part, agreeing how to raise it every year to adjust for inflation and other cost of living increases is where all the problems will come from. I fear the UBI will also require a more dynamic tax code (to control inflation, as postulated by MMM) that will be very tricky to implement politically.

As to the two level society, I think that is inevitable with UBI. Hopefully it won't be as bad as what we're seeing in some oil states, but it will be similar.

Personally I don't think UBI is good idea, but do think it's doable. It will however permanently change the country, possibly for the worse.