skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholeheartedly agree that the experience of being a Google customer / user has degraded significantly. I'm not sure the omission of the topics you mentioned can be corelated exactly to that degradation, but it's an interesting idea. My assumption is that all the changes do go through proper UX and user testing, but the reason for them is questionable. I certainly haven't asked for hardly any of the changes. I also assume that the book focuses on the purely technical side intentionally.
Not surprised - they have been showing these tendencies for a while now.
Why would you post an article from Jan 2020 as a rebuttal to an article from May 2021?
Do you want Minitrue? This is how you get Minitrue!
More about the dust that is generated when the product is used.
Not surprising. I have type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin dependent).

I added a drop of coke/sugar to my blood drop as a way to get out of school, as the blood sugar result would appear very high!

If I wanted it to appear low, I diluted my blood with an alcohol swab (used when testing your blood) or with a drop of water.
> The hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle (in a standard American examination) is 10 inches, the altitude dropped onto it is 6 inches. Find the area of the triangle. American school students had been coping successfully with this problem over a decade. But then Russian school students arrived from Moscow, and none of them was able to solve it as had their American peers (giving 30 square inches as the answer). Why?

That's a good one. I know the answer but won't reveal it since it's a fun one to discover yourself.
i really dig the art style of your diagrams! playful and clear
Ext3 sucks under BSD's, a lot of them can't write to the volume, doesn't matter either EXT2, 3, or 4.

UDF as I stated works fine with udfclient under OpenBSD and it could be "mountable" even with base tools (read /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/udfclient in order to correctly format it with udfclient).

I copied files back and forth on USB drives written in under OpenBSD and the volumes mounted like magic under Linux. And the performance is not bad at all.
Show HN: uinix-ui – A minimal framework-agnostic UI system to build UI systems
Coffee won't make your heart flutter, study says
Unbounded thread pools are bad, bounded thread pool executors with unbounded work queues are bad, and bounded thread pools with bounded queues, FIFO policies, and silent drops are also bad. There are many bad ways to do this.
Incredible that Samsung never really launched this program. A few highlights:

> “There is another way to create even more value” than recycling, Samsung said in a video at the time. “It’s called upcycling.” With code and creativity, upcycling could turn a Galaxy S5 into a smart fish tank monitor, a controller for all your smart home devices, a weather station, a nanny cam, or lots more. Upcycling not only kept your old phone from being shredded or stuck in junk-drawer purgatory, it could keep you from buying more single-purpose devices. It was a smart way to reduce our collective upgrade guilt.

> The original Upcycling announcement had huge potential. The purpose was twofold: unlock phones’ bootloaders—which would have incidentally assisted other reuse projects like LineageOS—and foster an open source marketplace of applications for makers. You could run any operating system you wanted.

> But sometimes well-intentioned projects get muzzled inside giant companies. But that version of Galaxy Upcycling went nowhere. These days, Samsung is beta-testing an “expansion” of “Upcycling at Home,” despite Upcycling never actually shipping.

> Friends inside the company told us that leadership wasn’t excited about a project that didn’t have a clear product tie-in or revenue plan.

> The world needs fun, exciting, and money-saving ways to reuse older phones, not a second-rate tie-in to yet another branded internet-of-things ecosystem.
UDF if you don't care about printers or Android.
> You can write fast software with R, you just need to know how.

When the trick to writing fast R code is to rely on C as much as possible, that feels less compelling.
I don't know if it's fair to describe cable TV as convenience. Netflix costs about a tenth as much as cable TV (though it does require Internet so if you'd otherwise not have Internet maybe bump it up to half the cost) and provides a generally better service.

People are paying out of laziness.
Attenuation of clinical outcomes during SARS-CoV-2 infection by ivermectin
Biden executive order addresses bank mergers, portability of customer data
Some past related threads, including about this blackest black and the other blackest blacks:

Guy Creates Darkest Room with the Blackest Black Paint - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758913 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

Another Artist Made His Own Superblack–and Now It’s Even Blacker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402799 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

MIT creates blackest black that is darker than Vantablack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21118636 - Sept 2019 (17 comments)

Black Blacker Than Vantablack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21093784 - Sept 2019 (94 comments)

New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20973667 - Sept 2019 (68 comments)

BMW unveils “blackest black” car sprayed with Vantablack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820000 - Aug 2019 (28 comments)

Vantablack, one of the darkest substances known - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106541 - Feb 2019 (4 comments)

BLACK 3.0 BETA blackest black acrylic paint - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19044406 - Jan 2019 (2 comments)

One Artist Has a Monopoly on the World’s Blackest Black Pigment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16873089 - April 2018 (1 comment)

The World’s “Blackest Black” Makes Its Debut–On a Building - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16342651 - Feb 2018 (1 comment)

Anish Kapoor is given exclusive rights to Vantablack, the purest black paint - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209692 - March 2016 (4 comments)

New Super-Black, Light-Absorbing Material Looks Like a Hole in Reality - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058840 - July 2014 (7 comments)

Scientists have developed a material so dark that it can't be seen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030459 - July 2014 (42 comments)

Scientists develop material so dark you can't see it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027446 - July 2014 (7 comments)
>> Absolutely. I've been wondering if noticing that 'something feels wrong' is a deeply ingrained response related perhaps to survival.

I thought the latest thinking is that most of what we "see" is really a projection from our own mind (similar to how these images are generated) and our attention is drawn to those areas where our projection and sensory input don't match. So yes, we are evolved to be alerted when "something feels wrong" because it's unexpected and could be a danger.

The mismatch can happen at any level of the hierarchy. One person here said some waves appeared to be moving the wrong way for the rest of a scene. Things like that are at a higher level of abstraction than rock textures or tree trunks with gaps. Some things might seem wrong but take more time to identify or explain what the problem is.
Oh damn. I've been working on a project using very similar tricks for the passed ~3 years.

I'm assuming state is a proxy and you're using the single threaded nature of JS to make render functions dependent on accessed variables?
“Lonesome 8” Math Puzzle (2018)
Thanks for the recommendation - I will check it out.

In "Do Dice Play God", another great book, I learned that the earliest dice (probably used initially for diving the future and only later for gambling) had rectangular sides instead of square ones.

I wonder if (a) that was because their creators didn't understand even the very basics of probability, or (b) if the idea of fairness and each number being rolled with equal frequency just wasn't important to them. Not sure.
Indian Bar Association Sues WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan
I found the following article and associated presentation to be a great overview of the options for this kind of thing: https://anvil.works/blog/python-in-the-browser-talk

Transcrypt's (https://github.com/QQuick/Transcrypt) approach made the most sense for me. The project seems to be a heroic effort by one guy.
Settings -> Apps -> TV, turn off the sports recommendations in there. Those are off by default, so you must have turned them on at some point.
The timeline's definitely not right for that. The British had already joined the war; Kelly died 4 months after the invasion.
Congrats!

I tried Julia for the first time last week and it was great.

I've been playing with the idea of defining a hash function for lists that can be composed with other hashes to find the hash of the concatenation of the lists. I tried to do this with matrix multiplication of the hash of each list item, but with integer mod 256 elements random matrices are very likely to be singular and after enough multiplications degenerates to the zero matrix. However, with finite field (aka Galois fields) elements, such a matrix is much more likely to be invertible and therefore not degenerate. But I don't really know anything about finite fields, so how should I approach it? Here's where Julia comes in: with some help I was able to combine two libraries, LinearAlgebraX.jl which has functions for matrices with exact elements, with GaloisFields.jl which implements many types of GF, and wrote up a working demo implementation of this "list hash" idea in a Pluto.jl [2] notebook and published it [0] (and a question on SO [1]) after a few days without having any Julia experience at all. Julia seems pretty approachable, has great libraries, and is very powerful (I was even able to do a simple multithreaded implementation in 5 lines).

[0]: https://blog.infogulch.com/2021/07/15/Merklist-GF.html

[1]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/92139/using-rando...

[2]: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl
As I explained, if the author wants to make HTML easily offlineable then inline CSS and Base64 images. Or, you know, make your website printable. If authors actually thought about the print to PDF "problem" it could be solved with traditional CSS and HTML. As someone else said, we used to do this. It used to be part of my every day web design job to make sure the page printed nicely.

The idea that the whole web is going to pander to edge case archivers is asinine. This whole conversation is about supporting the needs of the very, very few and romanticizing about the time when only interesting people used the internet. It's kind of elitist and self serving.
It used to be called stumbleupon.
There's increasing evidence that coffee could be healthier:

> In fact, a habitual coffee habit was associated with a lower risk of developing an arrhythmia, such as atrial fibrillation in which the heart races, or flutters in the chest, the study found.

> The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, analyzed coffee consumption by more than 386,000 people over a three-year period and compared that with rates of cardiac arrhythmia, which might include atrial fibrillation.

> The notion that coffee causes the heart to flutter was born from older, small studies, including one that focused entirely on male physicians, wrote Marcus and his team from the University of California San Francisco.
Technology has a tendency of merging realms. Whether you compromise a system to get information or to cripple it is pretty much a detail.
I posted a similar article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27883550 but it was flagged as misinformation. The flagger quoted this article which seems to makes the same statement.
Bingo. This is also correct.
We don't even need to look at other industries. It's demonstrably not the case for professional software developers at the moment. The companies are simply doing whatever is in their best interest which is retaining expensive and hard to hire for talent, ergo they'll treat you nicer. The second it's no longer expensive or hard to hire, things will take a turn for the worse (for the candidates).
Exactly, that's the thing about science, nobody believes it until everything that has been tried to show it is wrong fails. I wish this were taught more in schools.
Amazon computing power and F1 got the data crunched for its new race car
Given Wikipedia's definition Solarpunk fits squarely into the punk ethos:

The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-fascism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out".
I don't count on a "truly secure" option existing, I just manage my risk by reducing the amount of Big Tech thumbs in my personal pie. Apple, much like Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, have no right to any of my personal information, end of story.
This is something that I wanted to hear more from people invested in frontend.

I work exclusively as a DevOps/DataOps/Backend engineer and have little contact with stuff running in the browser. I did, however, work with AngularJS back in the day, and although the framework itself didn't lend itself to nicely to productivity and simplicity, I believe that what I found most confusing was how unergonomic the browser environment itself was, from not dealing with a filesystem (and thus having to resort to tricks like transpiling and bundling) to the rather terse API, not having for instance a SQLite natively and not being able to enable something like this without bringing copious amounts of megabytes of extra javascript deps...

Is the browser environment becoming more dev-friendly with the adoption of WebAssembly? I ask that because, in my opinion, if the browser itself doesn't evolve, it doesn't matter which language we use, interacting with it will still be a hassle. All in all, it feels like the browser advanced a lot in technology for optimization and resource management, but not so much in becoming more user-friendly to the developer.
> What about the tax on owning business items in LA? Does that sound fair?

From other comments, it sounds like this only applies to items exceeding some large dollar value. I'm all for increasing the tax base, especially with Prop 13 strangling our budget for things like education.

> Also, don’t you think it is insane that at a time when we are in need of jobs for an increasing population, job creation is stopped due to bureaucracy?

This certainly sucks, especially with how often regulation is abused purely to create barriers to entry and solidify the positions of entrenched players. This is a problem pretty much everywhere but Somalia though, so I'm not hugely moved by one particular instance of it in one county. We certainly have lessons to learn in this regard in California though.
That’s already pretty much the case. Python has been though it’s not fast and the stack size limit is problematic. https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide

Pyodide is used in https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/

Maybe things will improve with web assembly GC, though it will require work to port GC languages to it.
If a seemingly insignificant issue is enough to start a war, perhaps the problems run deeper than the tipping point trigger issue.
I played with Julia a bit in grad school. Although I didn't end up using it much after that I thought it was a lovely language. Forget python, I hope Julia manages to kill off Matlab and its weird stranglehold on various pockets of academia. Congrats to the team here.
Show HN: Primer – Learn Python Conversationally and Generate Personalized Book
The “politics of academics is distasteful” because they too often lack any basis in the lived experience of real people.

You point to Trump, but I’d note that not even Democrats like the academic social engineers. On Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren (a Harvard professor) had an embarrassing performance. Even in NYC, home of the country’s technocratic elite, voters passed over the technocrat in favor of someone who promised to carry a gun to church as mayor.
That was just for sale a few days back on the Kindle store (at least in the US). Not sure if it still is.
Can someone help me with this question.
I tried wolframalpha but the question seem to make no sense.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+for+y%2C+%5By+%3...
Flightcontrol – Next Generation Heroku that runs on your own cloud
I have the highest-end version of the nVidia Shield on my bedroom TV and I bought one for my parent's RV and their apartment, because it was a simple and straightforward device to use streaming services which was more privacy respecting than a smart TV. With this change, I've had my parents return the one I just recently got for their apartment and I've bought them an Apple TV instead.

There is no excuse for this, and the fact nVidia allowed this Google-originating change to be pushed without any concept of Product ownership or focus on the experience tells me that nVidia doesn't care about the Shield brand and it's not even worth trying to keep these around. They'll be slowly phased out in every use case I've recommended them to numerous people by Apple TVs or other devices which respect their users.

Good UX is not a choice, it is mandatory when you design and curate a product, and users will walk away if you screw it up. Showing ads to me on something I paid for with a silent update is atrocious and unethical.
Can anyone read your URL since it's behind a paywall?
and also many resources direct from the source (those that are working on Loom): https://inside.java/tag/loom
Also worth pointing out, EPUBs are (or, at least, can be. I'm not sure how much flexibility is in the specifications) basically just bundled HTML.
I don't know. The amount of people that take one poorly measured data point and use that as a north star seems more troubling to me - than a society with low trust.

I'm not convinced a low-trust society is inherently bad. I am convinced that a society that has high trust in garbage data is bad.
This is what I do. Many streaming services artificially degrade the quality and sometimes refuse to work at all when I do this.
This is in the feature list of the OP too:

• Not available to Kapoor
> 1. GST (Goods and Services Tax)

Commonly cited as the reason for Indias economic decline along with demonetization.

> 2. Revamp of Farm and agricultural laws

There is no consensus that this is a good thing. Certainly not any good for farmers. Certainly very good for corporate farming, namely Ambani and Adani. Will the customers benefit? No idea!

> 3. Revamp of the Education policies in favour of a more progressive policy

??? Academic independence has been compromised. A 2000 crore pseudoscience ministry has been set up. Pseudoscience practitioners will now perform surgery. Indias top level research institutes are being granted generous funding for performing cow research. Texts praising Indian cows over Jersey cows are being distributed amongst school children, with claims of gold in Indian cows.

> 4. Promise of reforms of Land policies and of that ilk.

??
A recent kickstarter, no idea how they compare:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/311352786/horizon-black
#18 is impossible. This margin is too small to provide the proof.
This project is just starting, so I have hardware sitting on my desk and have used it a bit, but other than that not much.
> Nobody is going to pay for a premium device that shoves ads in your face.

I have a Sony Bravia TV and it uses Android TV as well. It's had the homescreen ads for a while now and I really dislike it.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00225587

The funny thing about that page is that the image used to be animated. The first ad is for some crime show and has blood splatter in the background (you can still see it if you look closely) and the next ad is for Elmo. If you look, you can see the word Elmo where the next ad was fading in.

Who thought it was a good idea to advertise a bloody crime show on the same screen that you are going to target the Elmo audience and then use that for promotion?
Earnings Fever
What is your objection to question #13?

I suppose the question doesn’t mention that volume 1 is on the left and volume 2 is on the right but I guess that would be assumed by any speakers of left to right languages.
> 3. A brick weighs one pound and half the brick. How many pounds does
the brick weigh?

huh? Good luck 5 year old. This is how you get kids to hate math.
Another interesting book in this vein if these problems tickle your fancy: https://www.amazon.ca/Math-Three-Seven-Mathematical-Preschoo...

Working on math problems together with your kids is a fun way to learn how they think and reason. It has led me to have a deeper emotional connection with my kids as I learn what they struggle with in school. I have slowly learned that some times framing the problem a certain way helps them to grasp what is being taught better than brute-forcing them through exercises and homework.
...and both are relevant.

China probably is "hacking us." US/NATO credibility is suspect.
You could also use Dangerzone [0]. It opens a document in two docker containers and converts it into a safe version. It was created by the director of infosec at The Intercept.

[0] https://dangerzone.rocks/
Just bought "It's All a Game" - looking forward to reading it!
Some highlights to show how health research is published:

> Mol, like Roberts, has conducted systematic reviews only to realise that most of the trials included either were zombie trials that were fatally flawed or were untrustworthy.

> But the anaesthetist John Carlisle analysed 526 trials submitted to Anaesthesia and found that 73 (14%) had false data, and 43 (8%) he categorised as zombie. When he was able to examine individual patient data in 153 studies, 67 (44%) had untrustworthy data and 40 (26%) were zombie trials.

> Others have found similar results, and Mol’s best guess is that about 20% of trials are false. Very few of these papers are retracted.
A manifesto for PLG (product-led-growth)
the ads don't seem to be global. I get ads when I VPN into the US on my shield and sony tv, but ads disappear soon after I stop using the vpn.
I personally like and get value out of stubs and mocks in my unit tests, but I think they suffer some of the same issues as code without tests - it's hard to know the original intent and it's hard to constrain later contributors into doing the correct thing. I can mock up an external part of the system for my unit tests and be confident I'm only testing the behavior in my module, but someone who comes along later won't have the same picture in their head and will come to different assumptions. Integration tests are definitely the way to go here, when you are wanting to ensure your unit works correctly in conjunction with external systems. But that doesn't make the unit tests bad, just insufficient.

I'd probably phrase it as "Stubs and Mocks do not make sufficient tests", not that they necessarily make bad tests.
40% slower in groupbys and 4x slower in joins isn’t convincing.
Yeah, I’ve done that plus one other remotely related setting. Doesn’t help.

E.g. “Show sports scores” is off, “Games in Up Next” is off, and “Exciting Games” is off.
Depends on your leaning. Modi is moving India away from the Socialist Democracy it used to be. And a lot of policies such as Land Acquisition act, Labour codes, Farm laws etc are progressive if you're capitalist leaning but probably retrograde if you're socialist.