skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>US sanctions exist to compell countries to make steps toward freedom

I think that argument depends on a fairly narrow, and largely private-property-centric model of "freedom".

I don't think it will be elections or free media that would unlock the Cuban embargo, but rather privatization.
Glad to see this comment. I like them both for different reasons, and feel the Clooney one gets trashed on unfairly for not being as art house smart. I thought the score and how it sets a mood was particularly well done.

Note if anyone is curious and goes looking for the trailer, be warned this is one of those movies where the studio edited the trailer to make it look like something totally different than what it is hoping to boost sales.
I think it's good that something is being done. I stopped reading the Launch HNs a while ago because most of them just aren't interesting anymore and they are too long winded.

I think this new idea has a lot of potential, but brevity will be critical. A blunt, 2 paragraph max comment with a tldr on the startup and zero marketing/PR fluff would be awesome and I'd definitely read that thread. Just my two cents of course.
Reading the study it appears they went to some pains in not revealing their intentions:

> The caregiver and child were seated across from one another at a table. The child completed an unrelated experiment with the researcher, while the caregiver completed the Scarcity or Control manipulation survey on a tablet. When the caregiver had finished, the researcher left the room under the guise of loading a second survey onto the iPad, leaving the caregiver and child alone with a toy the experimenter happened to offer as she left. A video camera and/or tape recorder recorded their interactions.

The conclusion could be that being reminded or queried about hardships has a chilling effect
This isn't an inherently male trait, it's something that's done to boys from an early age in some societies. Men are conditioned to behave this way from an early age, and IMO it's a great tragedy.
NSO's zero-click exploits work for previous versions of iOS as well. It's still good you upgraded since the latest update includes many fixes for other known security vulnerabilities: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212528
I enjoyed this, although I don't think the word "thermocline" is really necessary or adds much.

Daniel Kahneman wrote about The Planning Fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy) in 1979 and it's been studied in great detail. My personal cure (YMMV) is the Prediction Market, where people place bets on the final date (of course, you need to remove any temptation to interfere and make your own bet come true!).

Once you realize it's a human failing and we're all subject to it, you get a little more realistic. Maybe.
If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed for breaking cryptography?
Did you send the email to help@checkyourlist.app?
It's because the owner of that company, Dane Scott, was a notable member of the BeOS community. He ran BeOS Radio for years.
Looks like no way to do dynamic boards, and no helpers for doing non-grid-shaped boards?
Upvoted because this is a fantastic talk all by itself, and also highly topical.
Shiey is one of my favorite channel. Cudos to him.
> Targeted attacks against VIP users don't cause significant PR damage, so why go to all that effort?

Because VIP users include people who run big-tech. Ask Bezos if it's worth fixing bugs that only target VIPs.
Comatose patients would be so relieved to be able to communicate with the outside world
You could have also bought/leased a car for the 10k extra for the "capability" to maybe some day have self-driving. Same demographic I'd guess - people with enough money who think it's cool.
<laughs in Windows 3.1>
To this note, I've noticed huge discrepancies in display quality in iPads. They were passed out in my last year of high school, and each one even appeared to have slightly different color grading. The whole thing was pretty funny to me, especially since I have no idea how artists would be able to trust a display like that.
Over the very long term, I see no reason to think that higher CO2 levels are fundamentally worse for life than pre-industrial levels. In general, plants are the foundation of the food chain, and higher CO2 levels are better for them. In addition, life depends on liquid water, and given that surface temperatures are generally closer to the freezing point of water than the boiling point, I could see how higher temperatures might increase the amount of land and ocean surface hospitable to life. The problem is the transition period, during which most things go extinct until evolution can slowly regenerate the lost diversity over 10+ million years.
> a well cooled desktop just doesn't have these issues

Kind of depends on the steady state and your target turbo frequency. I have my fans basically idle when temperatures permit it, but aggressively ramp them to full speed to keep the CPU as cool as possible so as to allow the frequency to scale up beyond spec. This results in a similar effect as a laptop fan -- under heavy load, the machine is loud. I don't really have a problem with this, at idle my computer is using ~100W, at full load, it's nearly 1000W. That's a lot of heat to get rid of, and it has to go somewhere. Having a large water cooling loop can help with the noise, but since I really only use the CPU that heavily for bursts that measure in the minutes at worse, I think it's fine.

It doesn't make me anxious but I do kind of like the feedback that things are under load. (I have the ramp-up time set pretty long, so something like "go build" that only uses all 32 CPUs for a second doesn't really trigger anything. There's enough inertia to prevent that from raising temps much.)
Wasn’t ‘home computer’ the generally used term before the IBM 5150 ?

"Home computer" was things like the VIC-20 and the TI-99 4/A. "Personal Computer" was machines that you had in your home or office that you didn't have to share, or timeshare with someone else. Think Cromemco, Kaypro, PET, and SuperBrain.
Is the current out-of-the-box multiplayer support[0] missing something?

[0]https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_multipl...
> People

To be specific:

> They recruited 206 volunteers—a mix of psychologists and economists, students and professors, none of whom were involved in the SSRP itself
First link in my "Shared with me" tab in google drive

Falung Gong will never leave me alone !

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FimYh4ES-ZggupJFmjj_Firdkhj...
If the bands were much smaller and on the cable instead of the connector, I think it could work without standing out so obnoxiously.
Yes, many scientists have predicted this, but unfortunately the act of articulating a positive effect of CO2 tends to get you labeled "climate denier" and censored from many parts of the media, and thus we aren't very aware of the bigger picture of climate change. Here's an articulation from one of the Greenpeace Cofounders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWEjSDYfxc

He also notes that increased CO2 can help boost agriculture productivity, making it easier to feed the world's population.
I think you can keep it focused as long as there is good isolation between each startup. So, my thought is this:

- Make each startup have a top level comment.

- In the OP self text, include the company name, tagline, and intro paragraph. Below that, link to their top level comment.

- Each top level comment would have the same name, tagline, paragraph content, so you'd always have it available.

In the end, each startup would have a page laid out very similar to the usual Launch HN posts, but they wouldn't be drowned out by the sheer number of them on the front page.
That's called "sortition" [1], but currently not part of our democratic process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
They are hacking OS. So, WeChat switch would not help
I have permission to publish an ebook edition of an out of print history of Portland, Oregon. I haven’t found the time to work on the project.

One point of friction has been selecting an OCR workflow. Any chance you would share what you’ve been successful with?
> many high schools are changing their team names based on this one study/conclusion which was funded by a tribe.

Let's rephrase this.

Many high schools are changing their team names because the study brought awareness to the generally ill-considered use of ethnic mascots.

The study may have been a catalyst, but the appropriation and the insensitivity to it was always a problem.
I finally figured out how to use the Tesseract CLI utility on macOS today (installed from Homebrew). It's really neat - you can use it to turn a PNG into a PDF with embedded text, which you can then copy-and-paste: https://til.simonwillison.net/tesseract/tesseract-cli

I learned about it from this post: https://alexn.org/blog/2020/11/11/organize-index-screenshots...
Marginal utility of anything decreases as you have more. And it obviously has in computing.

E.g. 20 years ago, you could buy a P3-1GHz for $200 or P3-750MHz for $100. So you'd pay about $100 more (2001) for 850 more Dhrystone MIPS.

Vs. modern processors where for a few hundred bucks you get >500,000 DMIPS in a package. You would not choose to pay $150 (2021) more for 850 more DMIPS (< 0.2% more performance).

I think this is true even if you consider things on a log scale; a doubling is worth less now than it was 20 years ago. Twenty years ago nearly anyone could tell the difference and would pay a bunch more for twice the performance, and now a big subset of the computing market wouldn't.
Nope. But that’s just the way things go. At some point rust will either be boring or gone.

Remember when clojure was going to take over the world?
Why the Stable Act undermines innovation in the crypto space (2020)
Blockchain Covid vaccine passports solution
OneLedger team with years of blockchain technology experience that includes Fortune 500 Companies bring an integrated health evidence verification solution to help the world reopen safely from covid 19.

The OneLedger International Health Passport- OnePass harnesses digital technology with the unique characteristics available only on blockchain’s distributed ledger to provide a secure, easy, and scalable solution to authenticate individuals’ entire immunization health records for freedom of movement.
Why is the title here different from the article’s original title (“Can Silicon Valley Find God?”)? The article isn’t solely about what we typically consider to be “ethics” in the field of AI. I would say it is a bit broader since it’s also about how culture and spirituality get injected into what tech companies produce.
> In the past, landlords owned property and rented it out. If there was a mortgage, rent covered the interest payments rather than principal (interest rates were once far higher than today) and rents were generally lower than mortgage costs.

Got a citation for this claim?

During my 32 years living in the USA, and the 25 before that in the UK and elsewhere, I was never aware of rent working this way.

The difference between renting and owning was not so much the monthly payments, but:

* tenant has no financial or labor responsibility for repairs or capital improvements; landlord fully responsible.

* landlord collects all (if any) capital gains

* landlord pays insurance on building; tenant pays insurance on contents

* owner combines all above roles.
Uber but it’s a co-op (there are some of these already)… really any “gig-economy company” but it’s a co-op. Really anything that undermines the status-quo employer/employee, owner/non-owner way of doing things.
The intrinsic problem is you have a finite amount attention and an increasing number of startups. I'm not sure how much aggregated threads actually solve that (not at all IMO).

I think you just let them go at it with Launch HN's and let the upvotes fall where they will.

Re: Writing Launch HNs -- My idea: set a lower character limit on what they're allowed to submit and you'll have less to edit. If there's more information that people want to know, create the expectation that they should just ask in the comments.
How long ago did you try it?

"Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns."
Has anyone else studies this topic?

If not it's kind of a catch 22 for the tribe, isn't it? Nobody wants to fund research on the topic, so when they fund research on it it's presumed invalid because of bias?
Certainly the same here for the past 20 years. Although not the same year to year the plants do seem to be growing more vigorously overall.

So we now have a sample size of two :).
As a YC alum, I would love to see less favoritism to YC companies, including the job posts (with 300+ companies in a batch, YC is becoming less of a signal of quality). I hope your long term intentions pan out.
I personally wouldn't mind seeing two launch HNs per day, it's only a few pixels of my screen and occasionally one of those launch HNs will become a Stripe or an Airbnb so it's interesting to get to know these startups before they start making headlines.
The bots appear to be self-propelled IE lithium-battery-powered, no?

I wonder if it would be feasible to do it bumper-car style, with poles collecting current from the ceiling.
Saving people a click for the abstract:

"Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870 due to a rise in temperature, extended growing seasons, and other components of climate change. Based on wood samples from the oldest existing experimental plots in Central Europe, we show that the dominant tree species Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H.Karst.), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), and sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl.) exhibit a significant decrease in wood density since more than 100 years. While stand and trees grow faster with respect to wood volume, we can show that wood density decreased by 8–12% since 1900. These results object a naïve direct transformation of volume growth trends into an accelerated biomass production. Since 1900, stand biomass increment increased 9–24 percentage points less compared to volume increment (29–100% increase reduces to 20–76%). For a given stem diameter and annual ring width, tree stability against windthrow, wood strength, energy content and C sequestration are even reduced under recent conditions. The generally decreased late wood density, partly going along with an increased early wood fraction, suggests the observed extension of the growing season and fertilization effect of dry deposition as the main causes. Our results indicate that current increased wood volume growth rates must not be straightforwardly converted into sequestrated C and biomass harvest potentials assuming historic values for wood density. This should be taken into account in monitoring, modeling, and utilization of carbon and biomass in forests under global change."
Utopia literally translates to "no place."
> Historically, some of the earliest reports of the refeeding syndrome occurred in starved patients in wartime such as Japanese prisoners and victims of the Leningrad or Netherlands famines. In general, those individuals with marasmus or kwashiorkor are at risk for the refeeding syndrome, particularly if there is greater than 10%
weight loss over a couple of months. Patients are at risk if they have not been fed for 7 to 10 d, with evidence of stress and depletion. However, more specifically, this syndrome also has been described after prolonged fasting, massive weight loss in obese patients including after duodenal-switch operations, chronic alcoholism, prolonged intravenous fluid repletion, and anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is one of the more common modern clinical presentations of the refeeding syndrome, as are oncology
patients undergoing chemotherapy, the refeeding of malnourished elderly individuals, and certain postoperative patients.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gim/_pdf/consult/refeeding_s...
A related tool for token based authorship information:

https://github.com/cregit/cregit
https://lwn.net/Articles/698425/
Here is a crazy idea, kinda like how subreddits on reddit work. Use the separate Launch HN page[0], with just the launch threads (one per company). Put the one that is currently at the top on the main home page (or maybe two, or maybe treat it like a stack and pop the top on a regular basis skipping ones that have already appeared).

That way people who are interested in launches (like me) can check out the launch page, but everyone else will still see the most popular launches. Then you don't have to guess which ones will be popular.

Maybe once a week have an automatic summary thread for all the ones that didn't make the home page similar to what you describe above, with one per comment.

As for you being the editing bottleneck, why not teach the partners how to do the editing so they can be the first step, and then maybe you just do a final pass after the partners have hopefully mostly gotten it good?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/launches
I agree, I'm concerned that this will make the threads a bit of a mess...

As another (unsolicited) idea, how about having them overwhelm the main page and let the voting system sort it out -- but also add a top-level tab for "Meet the Batch" to give a bit more visibility and longevity. This seems like an appropriate use of HN for YC, and if anything increases the value given to the batch companies, rather than (slightly) diluting it.
That's not entirely true: Intel's year-over-year gains weren't particularly great, but that's because they tended to use more refined manufacturing processes on older, cheaper nodes. Lo and behold, when Apple decides to go all-in on the 5nm process, the entire world's semiconductor distribution network screeches to a halt, and we get the worst silicon drought in decades.

It's a bit of a moot-point. I prefer AMD processors where I can get it, but Intel's position in the market is far from as dire as people make it out to be. Until Apple can find a way to challenge their single-core performance, Intel will still be leading a class of their own.
rscheearch is also misspelled.
A nice thought but I feel like this is more likely useful on the paralyzed. Comatose indicates minimal brain activity.
I don't think that's exactly the condition you're looking for here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma
Here is an example using Tcl to create an SQL script using recursive common table expressions:

# createSQL.tcl

set increment 100000

set loop [expr {100000000 / $increment}]

puts {PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF;
PRAGMA synchronous = 0;
PRAGMA cache_size = 1000000;
PRAGMA locking_mode = EXCLUSIVE;
PRAGMA temp_store = MEMORY;

CREATE TABLE user(
pk INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
area INTEGER,
age INTEGER,
active INTEGER
);}

for {set i 0} {$i < $loop} {incr i} {
puts "
WITH RECURSIVE tmp(pk,area,age,active) AS
(
SELECT [expr {$i * $increment}],
500001,
5,
0
UNION ALL
SELECT pk+1,
10000*(abs(random())%9+1)+abs(random())%100000,
5*(abs(random()%3)+1),
abs(random()%2)
FROM tmp
WHERE pk < [expr {($i+1)*$increment-1}]
)
INSERT INTO user
SELECT * FROM tmp;"
}

#EOF

Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz, 4GB RAM, SSD:

$ time -p tclsh createsql.tcl | sqlite3 test.db

off

exclusive

real 213.37

user 208.10

sys 4.58
This is not really true, at least in any sense that really differs from other OSes. And, if you watch closely, you will notice that poorly-behaving apps running in the background can and will introduce jank in the foreground process. Since iOS lacks good performance monitoring, this (along with battery consumption) has historically been the easiest way to figure out if an app is spinning when it shouldn't be.
Ah yes, I think I heard about that one at some point, but then forgot. Sounds promising, thanks for the reminder!
1. Helping people murder journalists is a crime.

2. You say 'adware', while Wikipedia says: "These software items are commonly browser toolbars, adware, browser hijackers, spyware, and malware."

3. I provided two examples of countries that operate like this, not a comprehensive list. I gave the second example to make clear that I was not claiming only one country operates like this. I already clarified this for you.

I don't think you are commenting in good faith. I will not respond to you again, even this response was doubtlessly a waste of my time.
Good luck with that absolutionist agenda.
I like the way CL does things but it makes dealing with JSON occasionally annoying.
I really liked this movie, had a great build up and cool idea/atmosphere.
Five Links for July 2021
Requires brain surgery. But a few more generations of the technology, and people will be texting with it.
Potato Potahto. Sure on offense engineers are tasked with clearing obstacles, that's a given. On defense, the role is reversed.
I think you want both - high fidelity and many copies and diverse storage locations.
Ask HN: ADHD and Aging
I’m close to 40 and I anecdotally seem to be getting far more easily distracted than I remember being years ago. Today I went to the door to walk my dogs, thought I would get a baby wipe to clean off my shoes, saw that my walls needed to get scrubbed, and then spent 2 hours cleaning my walls. Even the slightest distraction can make me completely forget what I was thinking about if I’m not super focused on what I’m doing. It seems to me like becoming a Dad 5 years ago was a big catalyst as it upended all of my coping mechanism. I’m not sure if I haven’t recovered or if age might be a factor here. Anyways, ADHD seems to be a common topic here and I’m curious if other folks have had similar experiences?
Memory management certainly feels pretty sluggish on my similarly configured Air. I'm holding out hope for a 64-gig model if Apple really wants to challenge my desktop.
I would like for each startup to have its own thread, but not for each thread to take up space on the front page. I think this could work if "meet the batch" were a list of titles with a corresponding link to the longer, typical Launch post.
> Viewing YouTube ads supports YouTube more than it does content creators

That's not correct. The YT ad revenue split is 55% to the creator, 45% to YouTube. If it's the case that creators are getting a pittance, it's only because YT is getting even less.

> I make recurring donations to a few different YouTube artists and they get more money from me than they would if I didn't use an adblocker.

And the creators whose YT content you watch, but don't donate to? Would they perhaps be making less money?
Op says the death rate is 0.02%.

We have a whole bunch of figures for the death count, all around or above 112k but let's take the much lower 85k excess deaths for just 2020 [0]

85k / 0.0002 would mean 425 million people had had covid in England. England only has 55 million people.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137

If you don't like my number, please suggest your own. But anyone saying 99.98% survive is being silly.
> How would one detect compromised devices?

monitor the outgoing traffic ?
Knew not liking cats would be good for something someday.

(Most people get toxoplasmosis from their pet cats)
Spilling the Cosmic Beans
Not following why nobody there feels they need vaccines? Is this a particularly rural/uneducated part of the US?
I believe the plan is to make LLVM optional for compiling Zig code, but features that work with C code will still require Clang to be compiled in.

Who knows, though. Someone might end up implementing a C compiler on top of the self-hosted Zig compiler's backend!
Nitpick: Solaris (the story) is by a Polish author (S. Lem).
If the team is using python and they decide they know better and go rogue and use haskell, I'll hope they fail/be punished. Group cooperation is important on big issues.

Nothing against haskell.
They're always the causes that increase profits for their stakeholders.