skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a robotics expert, and I've always wanted to ask one...

Why do these designs always have the actuators mounted directly at the joints?

Why not have some high modulus yarn transfer the joint loads (ala a bike brake cable, say with high modulus aramid?)? One could keep the actuators near the center of mass (or a trolley that follows it around), and keep the suit fairly minimal.
FaF is great and basically the most modern RTS I regularly play. (Using FAF Forever or something) but technically it’s a buggy and slow mess that performs bad.
Israel is a product of the British Empire and later the American Empire. Judging by the history of the past 100 years, Brits, Americans and Israelis aren't known for getting along well with others either.

It's a failure of human nature, power politics and colonialism, not of one particular culture.
On Medici and Thiel
As someone who shaves... Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how I view it.

I tried growing a beard for a while, but I found that it was itchy, and anything I did to try to alleviate that was as much work as shaving, or even more.

Recently, I switched electric razors again and it's a lot quicker and easier than the ones I'd been using (for like 5-7 years), and it's back to "meh whatever" category again instead of "Ugh, do I have to do this?"f

Someone said it takes less time than brushing their teeth, and that's not quite true for me... But my electric toothbrush says I should brush for 2 minutes, and my electric razor says I should spend less than 3 minutes shaving so I won't irritate my skin, so it's pretty close to that.
There's at least one group that likes drug ads: the advertising industry. High-dollar clients with long commercials (to fit in all their required disclaimers), and they're probably the ones with the connections to the appropriate regulators.

Personally I absolutely despise drug commercials, there's not much that will make me change the channel, mute, or turn off the TV faster. Is there a more blatant display of the faults of capitalism?
Agree, graph makes sense. Ideally, with a finite set of rules, you can traverse the entire graph, generating all possible error messages, and then filter error messages by some heuristic (such as shortest path); displaying only the filtered subset to the end user.
Nigeria’s central bank to launch ‘e-naira’ in Oct, says Emefiele
They could stand up to the strong, but they choose to go along with it for their own personal reasons (ie, make it in Hollywood or become an Olympic athlete). However even after those things happen the abused continue to keep silent.
Making Apache Kafka Serverless: Lessons from Confluent Cloud
Yup, I agree with all of that.

I didn't say anything about behaviors, because it was emotions that were labeled as shitty.

I didn't bother to go into the distinction between emotions and the bad behavior they often give rise to, so thanks for explaining that.
Considering the popularity of Japanese-developed, Polish-developed, German-developed, and other foreign-developed games... I don't think sharing American culture matters much.
It also didn't help that he was a doctor who taught his methods in medical classes and was regarded as a forerunner in the field of sports medicine, especially around gymnastics.

Very few people would've been able to call him out on it because no one had enough experience to call him out on his BS. The only reason he got caught was because he got bold and took it too far.
Is there evidence that the cdc/other testing labs significantly changed their protocols as a result of this new advice?
What is it like to work at a company where you have to think about porn all day long, in your quest to help other people from over-consuming it?

Is it ever harmful for employees, who may be recovering from addiction?
Simply? You lose, most of the time, when you "come forward". There is no parade, there are no articles in the New Yorker about your bravery, you just lose your livelihood, your dreams, and sometimes your life.

It's a sad, often poorly understood reality about whistle blowing, given the heavy survivorship involved. For every success story you hear, there are dozens you don't hear about, because nobody believed them, they were successfully demonized, or because it wasn't "big" enough to really, ultimately matter to American society in a way that could effect change.

That's why it's so impressive when people to come forward anyway, knowing this. It's far from "risk free" to come forward, and usually it's a gigantic negative experience, sometimes rivaling the original abuse itself in negative impact on your life. It's one thing to have the worst day of your life happen, now imagine having to relive it publicly, forever.
Experimenting with Dart and WASM
Facebook recalls 4M Quest 2 VR face masks over “rashes and hives”
Honest question: Guys often "rib" each other, it's part of the culture among males.

When you throw women into the mix and they get "ribbed" (perhaps for being "one of the guys," as it were) does this often become sexual harassment?

Perhaps the culture of "ribbing" needs to go away for everyone, or at least from the workplace, but it has always been the case for me that a close friend or acquaintance typically only "ribs" you when they know you know they're not being serious. (That is why the definition of ribbing is "good-natured teasing".)

Of course, the danger there is misinterpretation (perhaps with self-fulfilling negative expectations primed by media, but I digress)

I may be biased, I spent 4 years in the military where ribbing was literally CONSTANT (it was worse than anyplace else I've worked) and the women there really had to have a thick skin. (I'm also 49 years old and a lot has changed.)

Note: Some of the claims made here go far beyond "ribbing". I'm not talking about those.
The problem is the false positive isn't truly independent of environmental factors.

PCR determines how many exponential amplifications are necessary to get a detectable amount of the target RNA sequences.

The amount of that target RNA floating around in the environment does slightly impact the base amount present in even covid-negative patients.
> I believe that the rhetoric around defunding the police causes crime.

> As an aside, I think this is just another form of gaslighting.

Do you have an explanation for why homicide rates starting trending upwards before George Floyd's death?

I'm not trying to subtly gaslight you, I'm sure your subjective experience is your real subjective experience, but your subjective experience is not the full picture. The perspective you're giving me is that everything was fine until the protests, and the data doesn't hold that out. Portland's murder rate has been rising since at least 2015. Clearly the 2020 protests did not start that trend. And this isn't just Portland, we're talking about areas where police funding increased. We're talking about areas where crime rates spiked before bills were signed into law.

On the subject that rhetoric is the cause, I consider the argument that crime increases are due to "loss of morale/respect" to be even more tenuous than the funding argument, and far less scientific. I have not seen data to back that argument up, and if you believe that social attitudes influence crime rates, then the psychological effects of lockdown are a far more obvious influencer of social attitudes. They also line up far better with the actual recorded crime trends. I think it requires a pretty big jump in logic to argue that a loss of an entire year of schooling, jobs, and a failure of social institutions to protect vulnerable people during a pandemic would have less effect on public morale and respect for institutions and laws than approximately two weeks of protest would.

And again we run into the timing problems. Even when talking about people's subjective experiences, the timing of media campaigns and public outcry against police officers still seems to be offset from we started noticing crime increases. You want to talk about gaslighting, people are out here trying to tell me that the data I'm looking at from early 2020 either doesn't exist or that it's not relevant because they didn't personally notice the trend at that time.

This is a kind of weird shift I've noticed where police-reform critics are jumping away from the mid-2020 argument that BLM is misrepresenting how prevalent police abuse is, over to an argument that unnuanced, reactive reporting about crime stats is good actually and people who are looking at the data just don't understand how everyone on the ground feels. To me, it all just feels like a lot of projection and inconsistent cherry picking. If you really genuinely believe that crime is caused by a lack of trust in social institutions, I can think of a half dozen plausible causes for that mistrust off the top of my head (including the very narratives that cities are lawless and crime isn't being punished) before I ever get to BLM coverage in the media -- and many of those potential causes will line up better with the reported stats we see from cities. But I'm supposed to just take it as a given that none of the other events of 2020/2021 matter and of course this is specifically BLM's fault.
CoH is great, i’ve seen the CoH3 announcement! I’ll definitely give that one a try
If you can find a copy, the first edition of ‘Introduction to Functional Programming’ by Richard Bird covers the concepts of functional programming in a language-agnostic way.
Threads are a universal mistake. I wish I could turn them off of every chat service I've used that implements them.
[OpenBSD Netcat] "In addition to those enhancements it is compiled to remove a feature that is considered a gaping security hole of the application."

I wonder what feature this was? The site doesn't elaborate.

Edit: Ah I saw the thing about the -e later on but I didn't think that was it as indeed it's not really a security hole imo. Rather just a tool.
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I'm sure those children will feel so much better when you explain the difference.
Blizzard hasn't produced a decent game in two decades, all the original talent have long departed, and now it's just a sexist cesspool. How about they quit instead of simply walking out?
I'm running latest Safari and I can definitely play sounds on websites. Is Safari broken, or just your code?
Very intuitive. I wish there was a list of exemplar visualizations for different subject matters. It's 2021, there's still a lot of bad textbooks out there, emphasis on books.
This is a refreshingly wholesome startup. Well done!

I am really interested in the social media blocking. I have been quitting social media for 5 or 6 years now. The hardest for me was Quora, I think. I don't know why, they where like the mafia: "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in"
What worked for me was blocking them on the router and the hosts files[0]. This meant there where two steps to unlocking a blocked site. And for extra friction I used a long router password and don't save it. The longer it takes you to reach the thing, the more opportunity to change your mind.

The good news is that social media addiction is relatively quick and painless to cure. I stopped missing them after about a week.

And there are a lot of positive outcomes from quitting this stuff (especially for doomscrollers and dopamine junkies ;) I have been quitting a lot of stuff recently like sugar, sweeteners, coffee, carbs and processed food! And for a little while it's rough. Quitting anything will be rough for at least a few days. But as you strip away more sources of artificial dopamine stimulation, the body compensates, or maybe you just become more sensitive to it. Real life starts to give you some of that dopamine buzz that you where chasing online (or in a can of diet soda!)

But but now I start to feel little dopamine kicks whenever I take some small positive action like doing some exercise or fasting, or walking past the junk food.

[0] crowd sourced hosts files to block ads, social-media and porn: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Find a remote or in-person job at a YC startup from the most recent Winter ’21
Hobbit wrote netcat in 1995:

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Oct/28
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Turkey’s adolescence is full of trials indeed. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to look back at this and call it life experience.
https://youtu.be/pCkgAelO3og
Or it might be the managers of the companies that force people to go back in to offices that lose their jobs due to natural selection...
It's not possible to have a solid regulatory framework from the beginning. You can't predict the advance of cutting edge tech. Sure, you can do it earlier, but never from the start.

Also, billions of dollars of value didn't disappear overnight. No jobs are or will be lost, and very little utility is lost, except being able to sign up for 1-2 weeks.

I'm not absolutely thrilled by the rise of China either, but we gotta stop lying to ourselves. Not every single action by the Chinese government is a stupid and reckless calamity that will cause untold harm. We're often blind to the good and to the utility of these decisions, and on the balance a government that's not scared of the stock market is going to be more effective assuming they're competent to begin with.
You are correct, but if you look at total instead of marginal the picture's not much better. While 80% of brands have negative marginal ROI, 67% (2/3) have negative net ROI, and so would presumably be better off with zero advertising.
It’s hard to imagine there being a higher purpose to the universe than some form of intelligence capable of appreciating it.
Check out Zero-K if you haven't already. Open source RTS and arguably the best, but definitely has that lingering ol' open source taste to it.
Isnt there already issues with modern food becoming less nutrient dense? Would this exasperate the issue?
Or demonstrate that the business is not viable in its current form. Perhaps blizzard should shut down.
> discord is a casual discussion app

One way to keep that reputation is to not deploy features that enable more professional use cases. Perhaps they want to be more than a casual app?

I personally like threads, they are a very minor bump in app complexity that can significantly improve context reassembly - the primary issue with chat apps.
> considering women playing video games only became socially acceptable a few years ago

What?
> We're going to have to agree to disagree there.

Everyone can of course have their own opinions. But they cannot have their own facts, a discussion does not work that way.

Whether one considers some statement as entitled, that is an opinion and we can disagree about this.

But whether a program is open source or not is a fact. It doesn't matter if the source code is going to be released a day or a year after the Signal server has been pushed into production, at that very moment the program is not open source. Your comment about my time-frame is irrelevant. In the github issue 11101 link I posted above is Moxie admitting to running versions of the server that are ahead of the public git repository. These are factually closed source, and you continuing to argue against that fact doesn't reflect well on you, nor the ability to have serious discussions with you.
> Apple are strangling PWAs

Strangling is a funny word to use. They never implemented PWA features in the first place. They're under no obligation to do so, either. You can argue whether PWAs are good or not, but I don't think such an argument can be made objectively.

I.E., there's a prevailing view in this thread that web browsers are evolving in one direction, and Safari is slower than everyone else at getting there. IMO this is wrong. A better way to look at it is that web standards are a big blob of shit, and each browser is implementing the subset of that blob that they think is useful. This is how it's always been.

Mozilla has been neutering PWA recently too. Maybe it's just not a good set of technologies?
Some hull shapes are inherently unstable. The slightest deviation from pristine vertical balance will make the ship flip. However, even hull shapes that are initially stable at some angle reach their limits. All of these examples assume the deck is perfectly sealed and that water doesn’t get into the hull.

Loosely related: here is a video of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) trying to 'sink' one of their (then new) smaller rescue lifeboats which has self-righting capabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_N6MG5tt0

(Ofcourse it was a test if it does have these capabilities, not an attempt at actually sinking it.)
He really isn't.
Threads are great, and I've been working with them in testing for a few months now. One issue is that many major API libraries (such as discord.py) don't support them in a stable version yet. I'm not going to enable Threads fully in my 300k+ member server until our custom moderation bot supports them. This isn't Discord's fault really though, I know library devs have had a lot of heads up too, it just takes time. Apart from that, Threads are great and I use them for so many things, from temporary but long threads for specific members to join for staff training, to busy threads for events like streams. They've been built with community in mind, and feedback from moderators has been gathered every step of the way. If only more companies developed features while in touch with the people they'd affect...
This started in 2018, though paying for books is new this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17188762

I think the real news is that, 3 years later, only 28,000 employees participate.

In HN terms, it doesn’t have product-market fit. If you were Walmart (or one of the schools trying to enroll Walmart employees), how would you market or change this program?

One idea: incorporate a list of approachable open-enrollment classes into the standard new hire forms. If someone takes one class on a whim, that might lead to taking more.

Imagine an “Enroll me in:” question that lists 20-30 accredited online classes as checkboxes - no other application or enrollment required. These could include some fun classes, like drawing or graphic design/desktop publishing, so new hires wouldn't need to approach it as a degree.
The limitations are more on the under-the-hood side of things, e.g. you can't link any compiled code after you submit the app to the App Store — which means no way of letting the user install arbitrary packages (something a Python IDE could definitely use!). Also very aggressive OS behaviour when it comes to handling computational resources wrt 3rd party apps, it's things like that.
Oh, really?

What about plantations? Who worked there?
Sigh, under each stone of European squares you can find 1kg of gold that came from the "third world".
Are you saying they don't have the right to have a twitter account?

So much news today is actually prompted or pulled from twitter/social media.

When the vast majority of media is left biased [0] it would be hard to have a decent amount of the population hear what you are finding.

[0] https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444
> That was in 2018... That's the _average_ person who is making a video game.

The average person who was making a video game was upset at themselves for putting non-conventionally attractive females in the games they were making?
Bug fixes and performance improvements is often code for "frequent releases help us on the app store". The Apple App Store also lets you clear out past reviews with new releases. You'll notice that some super popular apps have a relatively low number of reviews for this reason.

Any data is better than no data though, if some products use this to provide accurate change log information then I'm in favor.
After reading a little more about the CCO, her response does not surprise me in the slightest...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Townsend
This is interesting, given that Activision itself was founded by disgruntled Atari developers who'd walked out...whereupon the then-CEO of Atari, a former textile company executive who'd referred to the developers as "towel designers", discovered that he couldn't just call up a temp agency and have them send over a bunch of people who could cram a fun, playable game into 4K of memory.
I think it’s just important for everyone to recognize the new paradigm: make no comments about your coworkers whatsoever, do not complement, do not ask about their personal life, do not talk about politics, because the only safe thing to do is to be as robotic as possible.
> The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor. The employee had been subjected to intense sexual harassment prior to her death, including having nude photos passed around at a company holiday party, the complaint says.

Wild
Sydney Covid lockdown could last months as daily cases reach record high
I'd argue that isn't a problem with the feature, but a thoughtless implementation.

A good implementation will weigh verbatim results highest before considering the stop-word stripped or stemmed version. Configuring to_tsvector() to not strip stop words or using a stemming dictionary is, in my opinion, a little clunky in Postgres: You'll want to make a new [language] dictionary and then call to_tsvector() using your new dictionary as the first parameter.

After you've set up the dictionary globally, this would look something like:

setweight(to_tsvector('english_no_stem_stop', col), 'A') ||
setweight(to_tsvector('english', col), 'B'))

I think blaming Postgres for adding stemming/stop-word support because it can be [ab]used for a poor search user experience is like blaming a hammer for a poorly built home. It is just a tool, it can be used for good or evil.

PS - You can do a verbatim search without using to_tsvector(), but that cannot be easily passed into setweight() and you cannot use features like ts_rank().
Two countries show the difference, Tunisia and Senegal.

Both have a muslim majority but only Senegal is able to uphold democracy.

But you are welcome to present counter-claims.
Well, yes and no. Go to reddit for example, you can find endless amounts of people explaining the Chinese perspective and getting voted down and accused of being wumaos, and you'll get banned for it in many places too. At some point I imagine it gets tiring.
> That's debatable. CS was overwhelmingly male and wasn't prestigious until recently.

We're talking about the same career that's been known as a money-printing machine for the past 25 years?
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It's difficult to understand how bloody stupid mass-firing of employees is, in order to protect a culture where a small minority harass and abuse others.

It's also difficult to understand how a billion-dollar business gets to this point, with what seems like zero adult oversight, but it is what it is.
A misinformation campaign is a campaign (=concerted communication effort) to spread misinformation.

Whether the people who spread it know it is in fact misinformation is a different discussion. Whether someone just fed into existing grievances in a clever way another one altogether.
I feel that there is different types of advertisement. Brand advertising isn't so much about acquiring new customers but about reassuring existing ones. Like I honestly feel car makers don't need to advertise on the web or TV, yet they do it anyway. I have the car I have and I'm not looking to buy another for 5-7 years, yet Toyota and Ford will advertise to me as if to say "I'm still here in case you change your mind." I can't imagine the ROI is particularly high, yet not doing would be worse since competitors would silence you out. At the same time M-B isn't advertising to sell you a car but to sell you the exciting lifestyle you're going to have in their car. You already bought or planned to buy their car they are only reassuring your decision.