skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the now vice president of the USA who claimed she wouldn't get a "Trump" vaccine? Repeated ad-nausium on CNN, MSNBC.

You can point to plenty of similar stuff with republican partisans and Fox.

Both should be abhorrent equally to people who lean democrat as republican.

So who do you believe? For any sensible person the answer is obviously neither.

How about Fauci or the CDC?

The Street: So, why weren't we told to wear masks in the beginning?

Fauci: "Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected." [1]

If you believe Fauci, he lied, he said so himself. (For what he thought was the greater good, sure. It's very understandable and human error.) And in so doing undermined the trust there too pretty badly. Which comes at great cost.

Tell the truth people. Warts and all. Even if it provides some small amount of short term ammunition to liars, thieves, confidence tricksters and so on because the truth is the only weapon that works long-term. We see the consequences of not respecting that right now and its very worrying.

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...
Canadian police departments got caught for this also (Ontario iirc)
It comes with lot of libraries and a compiler, not sure if it's the reason
I’d get an electric oven but to run power it would cost a fortune.
I explain my 3-year-old everything. Of course, I leave out details and simplify, but when I take my time and explain it to her, she is satisfied. If I don't, I can see it bothering her.

Just take them seriously and talk to them.
I'd say using a better language is an easy decision to make when you're in a team of one and not depending on any framework-specific features and somewhat harder when you're in a team of more, depending on some framework-specific features, or both.
Tax won't necessarily be an issue, the total net cost of my housing can still be cheaper than if I pay it myself.

>And if they fire you you'll have to deal with two of the top ten most stressful life experiences at once

Of course but few thing could be done by the company to minimize the stress. This cons is not significant enough for me.
Why? Facebook is not a person, it should exist solely at our discretion. "People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people" applies even more strongly to corporations than to governments.
About 15 years ago I had a teacher who remarked that phones are starting to do more and more things. He said that it won't be too long until the calling functionality becomes spotty. I guess we're there now.
these news were originated by WaPo, likely as fake as everything else they spread
I think there are a couple of levels to this. I try to avoid adtech-driven stuff because I prefer other kinds of products which come out of different business incentives. On a practical level, that's what drives my online privacy habits.

On a more sinister level, even though a malicious state seems very distant (Nordics here), given how many such there are in the world, it is definitely not impossible. We must avoid being frog-boiled to accept surveillance. Even if I don't have anything to hide, we must present "herd anonymity" to shield those who really need it when shit hits the fan. This is the much more abstract part of my privacy philosophy.
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for "top 50 schools", what "top 50" are you implying? top 50 worldwide? top 50 us? or top 50 in their own foreign country?

As a sidenote: a lot of CS/Software Engineering graduates with a bachelor in my own country (Italy) can't pass simple programming tests, because most of the education is (too?) focused on theoretical aspects, and most of the time people is tested with non-practical exams.
That isn't true, they already block you from downloading content from private shared folders that they decide to restrict.
The nocoincels are out in full force today...
> During that inital setup, the Mac sends a request to Apple for that Mac’s signed Owner Identity Certificate (OIC).

What happens in the case of offline setup?
It's not a quality guarantee for clients in practice since you can't control Client Side with open source

Regarding Riot, which is called Element by now, you may want to update your knowledge
I am not at my main computer at the moment so I can't confirm yet, but IIRC Racket is available as a much smaller language core set of tools sufficient to run CLI scripts.

I consider Racket to be a "batteries included", curated distribution of the Racket lang CLI tools, plus a lot of libraries, including libraries for GUI development. Lots of documentation and the IDE.

The TeXLive distribution might be somewhat analogous; billions of bytes of fonts and GUI apps, a package manager...

https://www.tug.org/texlive/
Here's a Lisp in Python: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
I don't get why we are still using Integers to do phone calls. We could solve this with either a little bit of cooperation with Google + Apple or government stepping in
Ahhhh, and it brings back memories of the astroturfing of 20 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Earth_Society
It seems kinda weird to build a lot of office space in a city with fantastic views and climate. Most of this square footage is probably just vacant most of the time. Just repurpose office to residential en-masse and build office blocks in eg Oakland or neighboring burbs (which could really use the revenue).
Yes. (I say as someone who mainly listens to vinyl, because I own it.)

Intrinsic limitations of the medium mean that it's more or less impossible to get a signal to noise ratio of more than 75 dB, channel crosstalk under -45 dB, or THD+N under 0.1%, or a frequency response of about 30 Hz to 13 kHz plus or minus 1 dB

Even a mediocre CD player will do 80 dB, -70 dB, 0.01%, and 20 Hz - 20 kHz plus or minus 0.5 dB respectively. Most of them are better than those numbers.

And once you get to or above 192 kSa/s MP3, let alone more modern CODECs, you can do better still.

Can you hear the difference? Absolutely. Many people prefer vinyl because it sounds "warmer", or because the hiss and crackle bring on (movie-induced?) nostalgia for their childhoods.
I built a simple pipeline with bash and python. Did it for free for learning, but it has been deployed and used in a professional setting on daily basis for almost a year now. (Use case: fax with headers and tabular data).

Most of time was spent in field parsing and validating ocr output (is it valid date). At one point I realized that playing with tess config was giving marginal improvement, and investment in post-ocr parsing/wrangling was more valuable e.g. in date column, if ocr says b, consider it 6 and flag low confidence record.

One new nice-to-have use case customer asked was varying orientation of pages, that I couldn't hack together quickly.
Cable television.
Yes, I am one of them, which is why I’m so confident they’re a good service.
>If there was a genocide against group A, and another against group B, and we say that it is illegal to deny the genocide against group A, but legal to deny the genocide against group B, that is treating group A and B differently.

That was not the ruling of the court. You are projecting that as the result of the court's decisions, but the court expressly said this was not what their ruling meant. Then you are assuming a motive based off that projection.

You are effectively pointing to one court case in which a woman was found innocent of murder and one in which a man was found guilty of murder and concluding that the system is obviously gender biased against men. My argument is not even necessarily that you are wrong, my argument is that you can't draw this conclusion from these two cases.
>touchscreen

ewww
Depends on a stove. My can only detect proper induction-capable pots, enameled pots don't work, stove shows "F" (like f*ck this?).
Reply to redis_mlc <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878748>, post out of order because of the ban:

Moderation does not care about right or wrong, truthful or fake, moral or immoral.

Moderation cares about harmonic or controversial. There isn't even a "group think", as that would imply direction and consistency.
Don't they? If someone sends me spam/malware I expect gmail to filter that, even if it is from a friend's (hijacked) account.

I think there definitely is a very blurry line between spam/fraud and spam/misinformation.
My friend in DC said her HOA tried to ban her from getting solar panels but she pushed back using a similar law saying they can’t prevent her from getting solar, and the HOA shut up. It’s not just red states, Karens are ubiquitous.
This is really the storage technology I want. It's what CD-R's were promised to be (but came nowhere near delivering - organic dye is, well, organic).

The big question I suppose is whether you can consumerize it. Though I suppose you could imagine the return of something like mall photobooths: you buy an organic dye substrate which something like a CD drive can write to, then drop it off to be "developed" into an impervious substrate by a harsher process (guessing there's an NH4F etch in that process).
So put a tank outside and plumb it to the stove.
Can't read due to the paywall. Can anyone share the tech side of this? Did they get full access to the victims' systems? How much of this was Social Engineering?
> What's the cost of the entire lifecycle? Mining/extraction, carbon emissions, recycling (or not), etc.

It is not very high. Specially now that there is series effort going into lithium production and the whole supply chain of batteries. Much more local production.

In fact, in examples like this lithium production is not harmful at all. At worst its as bad as mining anything else. At best its a totally brine process where you are just extracting a little bit of salt from geological brine and pump it right back.

> worse from a recycling perspective

Worse then gasoline that gets burned up? How? The opposite is true, currently almost all lithium batteries are recycled or are simply going to secondary uses.

Over the long term all major players have recycling efforts going on, because once you have series amounts of batteries reaching end of life, it simply makes sense to recycle as it will be cheaper then mining new.

The air quality around some chemical plant is one thing, even under worse assumptions, its a million times better then driving gasoline cars threw cities where people actually live.

> Is this correct? How (or will?) a switch to electric transportation change the geopolitical world? Substantially?

All the materials needed for batteries exist in pretty much all continents. All the continents have the knowledge to produce all the required materials. Even if now it often happens in China. It will mean a major lost of importance for the big oil states. Other then that not much will change.
I'm not convinced. I don't see that the methodology in any way demonstrates causation between these two variables: they've just jumped to that conclusion pretty quickly.

The only mention in the article is that the results have been "replicated elsewhere", but didn't say what the methodology of those other papers are.
The second link clearly breaks down gun deaths into two separate charts for the leading causes of these deaths, homicide and suicide. Where does it make that mistake and why do you have the word "mistake" quoted?

You should read the last link, it addresses pretty much everything you bring up, including the handicaps placed on research, adjustment for gun suicides, and the conflations that might tilt the arguments either way.

Maybe some people performing these studies are doing so for ideological reasons, but there's a clear reason why the pro-gun lobby has made it increasingly difficult to do good research and have clear-minded debates over the topic and it is not ideological, or even logical, unless you understand they're only doing it to maximize their sales and de-regulate their industry.

Gun ownership, and use, just like your arguments, tend to center around emotions and compensating for insecurities than around science and research (and common sense imo). They also tend toward low empathy justifications, like writing off gun suicides as not real gun violence.
Being really honest, I'm not sure if I mind that normies are on their own platforms since we don't have much in common. And they are free to develop their things how they like. Yeah it's sad that there is not more people like me doing things how i like but it is what it is. Just please don't ban p2p and stuff like that thx.
Maybe the use of that kind of hardware also makes it easier for them to develop software-only cheats that are sellable?
Makes me wonder if it will work for someone that doesn't speak english or they will have to recreate a vocabulary ?
>I don't understand why the burners and parts the pan sits on don't screw together, rather than just being placed together.

Nobody wants to bust out a screwdriver just to clean the stove.
Because no one can fake a phone call? Just get the offer in writing.
You can also compare total time between two options:
1. Do it on phone
2. Upload image to a powerful server and get results faster (more accuracy controls available too)
So this is a CP system?
One need not waste electricity to have a reliable consensus network. When you don't use Proof of Waste, you don't worry about the government seizing your ASICS. caveat:crypto founder.
The same kind of statistical models used for voice recognition and autocorrect on touch keyboards are also used for these electrode-in-cortex interfaces, so you can expect the same limitations in accuracy. I don’t think we appreciate how good our hands and fingers are, not just in terms of dexterity, but also on the information-theoretic level as a decoding system.
Thanks for the data point. Then there is a boom, good to know.
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2G is sufficient for things like remote sensors that send a few kB every hour, and probably has enough customers willing to pay for the service to continue a little longer.
Nice, very responsive.
I am on mobile and: when I click on synonyms I lose the products button. Also when I click on products a better formatting of the list, had a hard time on when a oroduct ended and another one started.
i've been in buildings in manhattan that were previously office space. i had no idea until people living there told me. specifically downtown/fidi.

although i guess floor plate size has grown... either way, convert the skinny buildings to residential and use the big floor plates for biotech/coworking/office space.

there's a lot of free square feet and it's easy to shuffle modern offices around.
They should just place the tabs vertically, like a middle school bind
Cooking accounts for less than a percent of total natural gas. So, no, we don't need to start here. We need to start where it makes a difference.

60% of US electricity is generated from fossil fuels (1). 40% of that is from Natural Gas. 20% from Coal which produces almost twice the carbon as Natural Gas.

60% of that energy is lost in conversion (2). So, converting from natural gas to electricity would actually increase carbon emissions in many parts of the US.

So, where should we start? I'm not an expert, but just this quick analysis says decreasing the amount of fossil fuels used for US generation would be a much better choice.

1. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427

2. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44436
Wonder if their Google Vision OCR offering lead to that
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One tiny correction that we do support seamless C/C++ cross-compilation to macOS now with the advent of our own in-house linker `zig ld`. :-)
would definitely have to do something about unopenable windows though.
Hm, there are drinks that make "more sense" through straws.

I am somewhat entangled in Tiki culture, and (mostly-)rum-based mixology. Drinking through straws changes drinking speeds and makes the whole experience slower and arguably better.

I switched to stainless steel straws. Those are way better than paper straws which start to disintegrate after 10 minutes, and probably last for a lifetime.
Oh, I know all that --- it's just funny to me.
This is why biofuels are evil.
Bro what the hell are you on about? Have you read anything on Left v Right wing ideologies? What?

Left v Right is about proletariat vs bourgeoise and it originates from French politic during the revolution where the left side of the assembly favored moving power towards the people and the right were Monarchists that wanted King Louis' continued reign.

To equate this to gender is unbelievably ignorant bordering on intellectual dishonesty.
Because VoLTE stacks on phones are a heap of junk, and there are Core Network / Phone model interop bugs all of the time.
With the introduction of M1, it's hard to find any use of paper magazines these days.
We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartphones: let’s discuss
Let’s start to discuss where we stand with open source smartphones, both in terms of software and hardware. Really worried about privacy and human rights. We cannot trust Apple and Google on this..
This was all standardized correctly in IR.92, but a bunch of software was essentially baked prior to standardization, which means you need a bunch of config to say "do the standards defined thing".
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FYI, the one M1 MacBook which throttles under heavy load is the MacBook Air, which is actually a 1k laptop ($999).

The MacBook Pro has fans and basically never throttles as I understand from others.
That's a case of the "marketplace of ideas" routing around the attempted suppression by the large media organizations and government. I don't think you would have read any mention of it (besides condemnation) from any of them, until the last few months.

Geez, I think that paragraph is completely true, but it sure sounds like conspiratorial nonsense. The state we're in...
I'm going off the argument chain that grilling produces CO and CO2, which are greenhouse gasses, which melt sea ice, which raise sea levels.

And FWIW I usually use charcoal/wood.
Gas is problematic for insurance on rental properties so landlords avoid it.
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I upvote for the comments, not tesseract
Growing up in an area that commonly has power outages a gas range is a must for me for all of those reasons. But, they are secondary to how much nicer gas is to cook on than any electric range I have tried.
While physically based rendering is a very nice idea, one has to be careful not to turn it into an ideology.

Specifically, in production, you very often have a situation where the artists wants to produce a specific effect and are simply prevented to do so by the rendering system because it strictly adheres to how light would behave in the real world.

This very severely constricts creative freedom and is one of the reason why these types of renders are used sparingly in actual VFX production.

The luxcore PB render, which someone mentioned in another comment, is a very good example of what I'm talking about: produces really nice realistic images, but it is darn near impossible to get it to do what you want when tweaking a shot.
Alright. I'll bite.

Why is it so important to you to continue to use caricature mascots that other people would find offensive over something benign like animals?
When did you do this comparison? A couple years ago I did a comparison and found Google the best and Amazon to be not very good.

Agree it’s best to skip tesseract unless the free cost is important. We spent a lot of time trying to preprocess and tune tesseract before realizing cloud OCR solutions are much better and fairly cheap.
Directly from the article, some business owners are doing better than others because they house [some to a majority of] their workforce.

Sure, you're missing the company owning the church, but fewer Americans are religious now. The employer also doesn't own all the local stores, but "It's not a company town because the stores are owned by people that all know each other (due to it being a small town), instead of one individual" is a little too close to be comfortable to me.
You are saying it as if "in bands of no more than 300 people" there was no hierarchy. It starts appearing at few dozens, let alone few hundreds.

Proof of it being biological? Look at other primates. They form groups of way less than few hundreds and still maintain (strict) hierarchy.
A few years some ATT 911 calls failed due to VoLTE issues. The FCC punished them. So now they refuse to enable VoLTE except on blessed phones.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/final-report-march-8-2017-att-m...

The US cellular market still involves bundling handset and service, sold in physical stores. Bringing your own phone is deviating from the happy path. Carriers are not motivated to fix interoperability bugs because it increases customer churn.
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One big reason I prefer gas over electric for the stove top at least, is that all modern electric hobs have these awful unresponsive touch controls, to give the overall stove that totally flat look. Tap tap tap to go from 1-9, where every 2nd or 3rd tap doesn't register. It drives me nuts. Gas always has a nice big knob for you to turn, even if the settings are not very precise, being pretty much full blast or low.

However the writing is on the wall for gas in domestic use. At least where I live it's more of a pain to install - requiring the specialist gas guy to do it rather than an electric stove that anyone can just plug in. Then the gas fixtures require regular safety review every couple of years. Between moving/renovating houses and helping family replace stoves over the last 10 years or so I've seen that stores have gradually stopped selling gas units. You have to order them specially and the selection gets smaller each time. They only sell electric by default now. Eventually I can see there being a kind of de facto ban just from you not being able to get gas anywhere, or it being so much hassle that you really, really have to want to get it. It's pretty much the situation now. And if you are renting the place is almost guaranteed to be electric because gas requires more effort to fit, and has more that can go wrong.
What is wrong with Linux and/or FreeBSD?

I’m not saying there isn’t room for something else. More that the premise that money is required before progress can be made might not be sound.

Sometimes a bit of execution of a good idea sparks volunteers to step up.

Good luck.
pretty much all public mask wearing was performative rather than effective. even indoors, besides care settings (hospitals, nursing homes) and social-focused venues (bars, clubs), most of the work was being implicitly done by distancing. almost no public venue was dense enough that casual proximity was more than an exceedingly remote risk (lightning strike level). most risk was with friends & family in private spaces, and those are overwhelmingly the least likely around whom you’d mask, but where it would have had real mitigative effect. instead, we masked outdoors and at the grocery store because of a wrongheaded focus on strangers in public spaces rather than familiars in private spaces, resulting in 99% useless safety theater.
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I was skeptic due to the title at first, expecting generic (yet meaningless) "habits" like "reply emails as soon as they read them" but was positively surprised. Great article.