skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to say this. So many good companies doing real work worth way less. Pure insanity.
It's not that I'm conflating them (I completely agree, there is surely some(!) unknown(!) base maximum capability per individual), but I am more so challenging this intuition/"epistemically unsound cultural axiom" that "openness" (or logic, or basically any cognitive ability) "is" essentially/largely immutable.

Most people I encounter find (heuristically) this belief/philosophy to be "wrong"/bizarre if not downright offensive, but I sincerely believe that this type of thinking (a bias towards conclusiveness and away from epistemic soundness and curiosity, and this is but one example among many) is one of the biggest root cause problems of problems on this planet. A prime example of where this is causing serious (life and death) problems is with vaccine hesitancy - people love to hate on anti-vaxxers, asserting that they "are" "stupid", but rarely have I encountered a "smart" critic who has the cognitive ability (openness) to even consider the possibility that their perception of the situation is incorrect (if not downright harmful from a causality perspective).

A (likely offensive, as a demonstration of my point) way to think about my stance/conceptualization that might help communicate my frustration: I feel as frustrated with pro-vaxxers (or, ~neurotypical ~Western human beings in general) as pro-vaxxers feel with anti-vaxxers...and ironically (or not), it seems at least as difficult to reason with them (which I believe well demonstrates the ubiquitous nature of the phenomenon).
Does anyone know any good alternate search keywords when trying to find "Best x under x?" Content marketers already know that people search "Best x" when doing shopping research, so I wonder if there are alternative keywords that have less spammy results.
Sane it for mobile chats would be pretty good startup idea.
Pretty much every position has its own sort of moral defence.

My issue is the conceptual mistake of ignoring the "unknown unknown" risks you impart on others when you accept one set of "unknown unknowns" yourself. It is a sort of hypocrisy that allows you to dodge the shame of a private decision.

In the end, when rejecting this vaccine, you have to fully own the "shameful aspect":

Taking the vaccine is an act many are taking on behalf of others, and in doing so, accept a private risk for a public good. We ought rightly praise this.

Rejecting the vaccine is a rejection of the priority of this public good which many ought regard as shameful.

Personally, were I so inclined to reject it, I'd simply say: "I do not care about society so much" -- and it would be true -- "shame me all you like, who cares". But the latent hypocrisy here and doublethink makes me believe many are unwilling to say this -- because they dont believe it -- and hence my issue.
Google joins growing list of employers mandating Covid-19 vaccines
Funny, if there was a single thing that improved my cooking, it was learning to use high all the time.
but you see people still using Duolingo after 6 months or 1 year. If you saw someone still using training wheels after 1 year, you would tell them to stop because it's handicapping them. Duolingo is the same, it's a terrible investment of time after 1 month.
Learning what? Subways are 160 years old. Trains have been in tunnels for centuries. Car tunnels have been around for a century almost too. This is really embarrassing.
Thought this was satire until I kept reading and realized you were serious...
I don't think so. Companies like to say this, but I don't see it reflected in the salaries. I think part of it is the unrealistic expectations you can see in their job postings.

If there's an actual shortage, it's their own fault. Everyone wants to hire senior developers and nobody wants to train junior people to become seniors.
If AI just churns out a whole bunch of stuff with no known useful application that can be demonstrated in physical reality, it won't be able to patent that.

"[A] patent is not a hunting license. It is not a reward for the search, but compensation for its successful conclusion" - Brenner v. Manson [1]

In the above case, the inventor discovered a whole class of molecules. The Supreme Court said that you can't patent that because you have to show that each thing you patent can be used for something useful. Basically, the inventor couldn't just claim the whole class of molecules to keep anyone from using them and then figure out what they're good for later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_v._Manson
Canada pre-ordered large quantities of vaccines from every credible producer quite early. So we have AZ, Pfizer, and Moderna supplies. Australia was a bit slower off the mark, comfortable with their successful island quarantine.
I guess we know more about ecology and climate change in 2021 than in the 1600s? That's why.
You need to know the Slack workspace URL, looks like the previous method I used to find this for arbitrary domains has been fixed. Workspace URLs aren't secret, though, and can often be guessed. Let's assume finding this for your target isn't an issue.

The most common reflection attack is through support systems, specifics will vary depending on the product used. Not all are vulnerable to this.

Open a support ticket with support@company.com pretending to have a valid complaint. Obtain the unique e-mail address for your ticket such as support+2392@company.com, and use "Sign up" at https://company.slack.com/signup#/domain-signup with the support ticket e-mail address.

The support ticket system can leak the contents of the Slack invitation as a ticket update. Once you know the validation URL Slack allows you to sign up.
Politicians are overwhelmingly from the credentialed class. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/01/08/the-... for US data. I expect the skew towards college to be similar in other Western countries.

An interesting question is why do so many noble university liberals turn into icky politicians?
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The IRS tells small business owners that it's a hobby if they aren't profitable by year three.
You need a high birthrate to continue to suppress wages, don't forget about that! Once to population curve starts to flatten out, I do not see private insure prices going down as they will not be able to let go of the profit hence driving prices up higher.
I love my D7s too. These are the only clad pans I’ve found that are almost as good as cast iron when searing or browning. There’s apparently a Demeyere line sold in Europe that’s on par with D7 as well.
There will probably be booster shots later to protect against variants like this. In the meantime, Lambda is not getting a foothold where Delta is common. The more transmissible Delta variant appears to be squeezing it out.
I get this from their perspective. Their goal isn't to work just for people whose work makes them extremely precise in phrasing. I am sure that a lot of the mechanisms that make me bonkers are ones that make search results better for the average user.

But it's still frustrating when my skill in using words to trick machines into doing what I want gradually becomes useless.
> This is a systematic issue though, not an intent problem.

It’s definitely systemic/systematic, but it’s also intent?

The tax system is intentionally designed by the ruling/wealth classes to extract the working classes money. Each individual tax may not have this explicit intent, but the sheer number of loopholes and bypasses are omnipresent.
> Weird-looking constants mean things. The weirder the number, the more meaning it probably carries

Curious what this is suggesting?
Even if a wood chuck could chuck wood, would a wood chuck chuck wood?
Oddly this sounds more like a 40% pulse wave than a 50% square wave. I assume the original was played on a 50% square wave.

EDIT: Upon reading the original code:

int volume = 60;
periodMicros = 1000000/((long)freq);
onMicros = periodMicros * volume/100;
offMicros = periodMicros * (100-volume)/100;

volume doesn't control the volume, but the duty cycle (timbre and harmonic content) of the waveform. And it looks like I guessed the 40% (audibly equivalent to 60%) duty cycle exactly!
That had been the case for long. And google periodically reset their search algorithm purging billions of pages to clean up the junk. After which the results got better.

But sometime back, it stopped doing it. Or can't do it anymore.

Web-search is now up for disruption, when that happens.
> The "hard-right" is normally bored teenage boys that are trolling for laughs and don't actually believe any of this stuff.

Sure, for a while, until they find themselves in the middle of a crowd of short haired guys holding tiki torches, marching through town and shouting <you-know-what>.

"pepe the frog" showing up in weird contexts is part of "the joke". It's funny to them when people misinterpret pepe as something completely different.
Manufacturing chips is an extremely complicated process and requires thousands of specialists from multiple different disciplines to cooperate. Building a new fab costs billions and the buildings are extremely sensitive for damage.

I think one of the reasons why the west wants to block mainland China from manufacturing chips is to prevent them from building a robot army.
Yes it's better to have a hardware fix, like a USB stick that moves the cursor regularly or sends a key press, or even just put your mouse on top of a watch that has hands.
The Wing Commander 1 title theme on MT-32 is absolutely amazing.
That's I guess the main point of the discussion. The terrible news, that usually the winners judge those who lost. And a huge part of war crimes can be left unnoticed. At the same time using AI-ruled machines gives a huge advantage and increases chances to win. That scares.
Forensic scientists can also tell what race you are from your skeleton. It's not necessarily a determining factor.
There are a lot of live sharing/working/... coming out these days.

FYI: Your cursor examples uses x/y explicit coordinates where as people using different screen sizes and resolutions wouldn't see proper mouse cursor location. Rather it should be x/y relative coordinates.

example x: 35%, y:12% (top left corner to bottom right corner)
> I had learned Spanish a decade ago and completely forgotten it.

I would argue this is why it worked well for you. You already knew the language and just needed to revise, which is something I would argue DL does do good at, especially the web version.

> Also, that it has you practice reading, writing, saying, and listening.

The thing is, in most courses (the home-developed ones with stories might be exceptions), you don't practice those skills. You learn to translate stuff from the target language to English; that's not reading. You don't learn to read texts and interpret them in the language. The writing is awful as well, since it's just reverse translation, not actually responding to a prompt or natural conversation.

The speaking leaves a lot to be desired, unless it's massively improved since I last tried it. I once said "blah" on the Spanish course and it was accepted as correct; I've also had it accept background noise before too. And the same with listening -- it's a TTS, you don't actually practice listening to native speakers and understanding what's being said with comprehension questions, etc.

It doesn't really teach the four skills as they would be applied in the real world at all. Not to mention that default on the app has you click words in the proper order instead of actually recalling them. That's another huge negative.
As a European reading this it sounds like the author has some kind of narcissistic take on exactly what kind of immigrants their country has and where they "belong".

Of course what the author wrote, and what I understood needn't align, we're different, with different cultural references, but this stood out to me enough that I stopped reading to revisit HN to find out if anyone else observed the same casual use of what seems like inappropriately dismissive language.
Congratulations to the founders for the launch, but unfortunately I had the same response.

In situations like these - intrigued but with no real understanding of what the product is - I want the video to show me a real-world example in about ten seconds flat. A more glitzy promo video has its place, but not in a post to Hacker News.
>So there is no way to get affordable insurance to cover the gap in employment in a way that preserves cash reserves.

I fail to see how it's any different than "there is no way to get affordable housing/food to cover the gap in employment in a way that preserves cash reserves". I suppose you could argue that with housing/food your costs stay the same regardless of your employment status, but from a finance perspective it's still the same. There's no difference between losing a $6000/month paycheck and losing a $5500/month paycheck and $500/month in insurance subsidies.
When you say "most useful", I have to ask, most useful to whom?
So here's a side-question. The original key idea behind Google's approach to search was page rank : how many, and what kinds, of other sites linked to this one (and potentially, in what context).

Does anyone think that this can possibly be at the core of Google's page rank anymore? Most pages don't have any significant number of links any more, and if they do, they are presumably garbage most of the time. Who is out there writing articles called "How to find the best bicycle for under $500" and providing links to excellent, current reviews of bicycles under $500? The answer might not be "nobody", but my instinct is that it's so small that it's effectively the same thing.

Consequently, at some point, Google switched from trying to leverage human judgement (i.e. how many other people link to a page), and have been forced (?) to replace that with their own assessment of a page based largely on its own content, metadata and outbound links.

Whereas in the 2000's, you could blame people for crappy results from a Google search ("why do people keep linking to that stupid article"), at this point it seems to me that everything, absolutely everything about Google results can be laid at Google's feet.
Exactly my point, really. There's something different about the Government employees, that isn't happening to the (millions of) civilians around them, in the middle of cities which are as likely to be those of 'friendly' nations as those of 'adversary' nations.
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Cause and effect is the other way around. UK had one of the strictest lockdowns because UK was extremely unwilling to lock down last autumn.

UK actually had coronavirus under control in summer 2020. Cases started rising again in September after the school holidays but the govt didn't close schools until January 4 months later, by which time the cases had ballooned to gargantuan levels, necessitating a gargantuan lockdown when the shit hit the fan.
I use a similar tool called reflex: https://github.com/cespare/reflex
1. For those over 50 due to blood clotting side effects.

The government recently palmed off the decision for those under that age to GPs to approve to try to mask their incompetence..

A diversion tactic at best. Useful for those with comorbidities to get AZ I suppose. Those more likely to die of covid than any clot.

2. Depends on the state. I'm in Melbourne, so five.

3. Not widespread, no. I am sure some people feel very strongly about it though.
The NYTimes article (and thus the HN thread) gets distracted by the Incel connection, but the reporter ends up agreeing with Mew:

But in the weeks that followed, I experienced a swift, overwhelming change in vision — the kind the Mews’ patients and viewers described undergoing. Suddenly, all around me, people with tiny jaws appeared, their chins merging with their necks, their lips hanging open unconsciously as they read a book in a cafe or stared out the window on the bus. Long faces, tired eyes, crooked smiles. It began to feel as if the Mews might be right on this single but essential point, if on nothing else.

I had heard of Mew through the 2018 book "Jaws", which I recommend (I never heard of the incel thing before this article, and it seems irrelevant). Other orthodontists and anthropologists agree with him -- our jaws are in fact weak and underdeveloped compared to pre-agricultural humans, and animals like wolves and dogs (why do you think dogs need chew toys?). This is one reason I eat more whole foods (and believe in particular that children should be). I never tried chewing gum for it, but the mechanism is pretty obvious. It may or may not help a lot but will probably do something.

I experienced the same thing as the NYTimes reporter. Once you start learning about this area, you can spot people in public with underdeveloped jaws and breathing problems. If you look at a class of 20 kids you can also see it on several of them. You can read their diet off their faces! Good dentists and orthodontists do this very easily so it's not an amazing thing, just something that's there once you know what to look for and pay attention.
Original title Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, founder of electric carmaker Nikola, on three counts of fraud

Suggested title which does fit : Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola, on three counts of fraud
Don't know what he means, but there were a couple of security vulnerabilities in the past. The German gvt. didn't really address how it was improved, but gave a security certification award to it.

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2010/sicherheitsprobleme-bei-s...
it's so bad these days. If you are on mobile good luck finding anything of use if it doesn't involve ads somehow....non affiliated content, useful personal blogs - high quality ad free pages....good luck!

it's to the point where I find what I want when I search torrent search engines.....and not via any search engines on the web.....
And now Python seems to be following their footsteps: https://twitter.com/pyblogsal/status/1416034899639750659
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> For Solaris 11 and for Illumos based distros, snapshotting the entire root is normal.

FreeBSD stole this feature from Solaris as well:

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootEnvironments
Google is garbage. I once complained a website stealing my contents and other people's contents was ranking very highly in Google. I was told I'd better fixed my website before looking at "competitors". Part of that was true, but at the time the person did not seem to care at all of spammy content delivered by Google.
Isn't it already clever since programmers frequently hear "cast to an array"?
Do a Google image search on white families and witness how white men, and white families in particular, are memory holed.
I use Reddit a lot for this.

But this is an arms race with SEOs and bots. Eventually Reddit will probably be worthless for this.
Time so see what Dutchsinse, the earthquake maverick says about this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hhfLTDA8I9g
Yes! I hate the move to information sparsity and hiding functionality to make things look “cleaner”
Because the current government would use that money to accelerate the destruction instead. Bolsonaro and future are incompatible terms.

Brazilians received lots of money since 80's at least to help them to conserve the rainforests. It has not worked.

Maybe is time to start using the money in environmental projects in Europe or US instead. A couple of new national parks maybe?. Those would increase greatly the chance of success.
This is extremely shady.

I'm in complete favour of vaccination, but I'm amazed that it's even legal for an employer in the US to ask such specific details about one's medical history.

My employer doesn't need to know what vaccines I've taken, or anything else from my medical record, unless I decide to share it.

Mind you, I'll still tell my team "I'll be about this morning for vaccination". But there's a difference between me willing to share information and the company demanding it.
Is it not a consequence of deliberate choices made by Google?
Perhaps another piece of advice to consider: If you are a CEO, just get off Twitter permanently. I don’t see where it offers any value for the C suite, let the media department use it with customers, branding, marketing, and so forth, but executive should probably steer clear of all social media.
> condemn a 24 weeks old fetus

diagnosed at 21 weeks, in fact. important because the difference between 21 and 24 weeks crosses the boundary of legality in many states. furthermore, right wing activists are constantly agitating to lower the threshold even further. had that been the case here, this family would have discovered the congenital defect at the anatomy scan only afterwards.

> listened to their medical professionals

it's highly unlikely that their care team would have actively recommended termination. standard is to explain the diagnosis, the prognosis, and the options to continue the pregnancy or terminate. then leave it to the family to decide.
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
I have known this for many years but found it difficult to explain to others. Backends are so much easier to build compared to frontends, and I mean decent and reliable ones. The attitude of the backend people of looking down upon frontend people is really stupid and unsubstantiated. Though scalable backends are increasingly getting their own layers of complexity these days, but still, on the backend you will never deal with frameworks with millions of entry points. If you don't believe me, UIKit alone exposes I think about half a million public symbols.

Nevertheless, I chose the path of the frontend (specifically mobile) because it fascinates me when a lot of people see on their screens something that you have built. A lot more than building a system that only the internal frontend devs are going to appreciate (or not).
In secret garden
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The Second Amendment was rendered obsolete once the US had a standing army and militias were no longer needed as the primary means of defending the country. FUD about the creeping authoritarian (probably leftist) menace coming to take your guns is great for scaring up NRA donations and Republican votes, but the only real utility the 2A itself has anymore is in allowing gun owners legal access to firearms for self defense, hunting or other non-militant activities.
It's a joke that probably made a lot more sense in the 90s. Back then people would use ™ everywhere, in logos, whenever certain brands were mentioned, etc.

In my opinion it fits the general humor of the game perfectly, but I can definitely see how it would could be annoying.
If you could do step one that wasn't based entirely on anime I'd love it. That's always been my biggest hurdle with the Japanese learning community -- almost all recommendations seem to be anime, and I'm just not that interested.
I did say "read". Clearly anyone can do that if you put it on github.

I also think that if you put your code publicly on github you shouldn't be surprised if people copy snippets from it. But I really have much less faith in lawyers than people like you do. I find conversations about software licences intensely dull. I code because I love it. And yes, I do have open source projects, including one with many users. I chose MIT licence FWIW although i was certainly very tempted by the Do What The Fuck You Like licence and its ilk.
M4 syntax looks that way because it has to work for arbitrary text files.

Quotes can be redefined to an arbitrary string

changequote(`[[[', `]]]')

And some editor give you syntax highlighting.
I don’t understand why Google doesn’t make Google shopping not terrible. Big potential business value for them if people actually used it.
I've experienced this as well. I figured Google detuned their algorithms to prep us for a paid feature, as an enticement to upgrade to paid accounts, or Google is giving less effort to blocking spam in general.