skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, no. Neeraj Chopra trained with Uwe Hohn until 2019, but then (Chopra) asked for a change. His coach over the last 2 years in the run up to the Olympics has been Klaus Bartonietz.

1. https://sportstar.thehindu.com/olympics/tokyo-olympics/neera...

2. https://thebridge.in/athletics/tokyo-olympics-neeraj-chopra-...

3. https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/olympics/2021/aug/08/...
Tolkien won't be out of copyright in the USA, EU and UK until 2043 :(
Homo Sapiens left Africa in several waves after 250,000 BC and every single wave went extinct till about 60,000 years ago. The question isn't "Why did Neanderthals go extinct?" but "Why did every species of human repeatedly go extinct outside of Africa?" And that needs to be balanced against the nuance that Neanderthals survived at least 600,000 years, straight through the period when Sapiens were recuringly going extinct. So this is a very complex story that we're looking at.
Ask HN: Do you often feel like your superiors are not better/smarter than you?
Doesn't really matter if it's just your ego or more or less objective parameters — if you strongly believe it's so, what makes you continue working for/with them? (except money)

I'm really curios about psychological aspect of this phenomenon. Please share your personal thoughts and experiences.
You can get that now with NReal and a few other glasses.

...But you really do want the camera and tracking so you have input and overlays that aren't head locked. Head locked overlays are very hard to read.
Cycling is actually another notorious example of a sport where the rules are holding back significant innovation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recumbent_bicycle
I hear a Siren Outside
Someone has a serious problem.
Don't just shine it on.
Personal pet peeve: Trying to look "old-fashioned" but getting it wrong. "Maketh" is a singular form of the verb; he/she/it maketh, but they... Make. "Habits" is plural; habits make the man.
Because head locked huds are terrible in real life. You really do wanr the camera for motion tracking and world-pinned objects.
> I can't help but think that 2021 is going to be the year a lot of people […]

Let’s hope it’s a critical mass. 2021 is the year I saw a lot of apparent idiots running what looked like trivial errands in their cars in 50°C weather and “beating the heat” by leaving their cars idling while they left and shopped so the A/C would keep their car cool for their return.
It's one thing to promote mediocre pizza with a free dessert.

It's quite another to try to unclog a toilet with a monetary bribe you got to delete a shitpost about a broken plunger.
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https://clinkergram.com/blogs/33556/Quick-Flow-Male-Enhancement-Reviews-Does-It-Work
The article title does not make it clear that The linked YouTube vid is actually specific to the Japanese anime industry, which is famously low paid. The issue goes back to the birth of the industry with Astro boy in 1963. The project was proposed with a certain budget, but ace0ted by the heads of studio on the grounds they cut the budget to 20%. They are a class apart from the rest of the animation industry. It is not helpful to compare this industry to the mainstream animation industry.

There is huge turnover in the mainstream animation Industry. However, One reason is that typically an animation project (for example, an animation feature) have a short production life. Typically two years.

The article also mentions in betweenness (aka tweeners). This is the lowest of the low in the animators world, usually subcontracted to developing countries like Vietnam, the Philippines. From my experience (which is limited) The expectations of these workers generally is very low. They treat it pretty much like a job in a sweatshop. Lowish wages, but low responsibility. Certainly it would not usually attract university graduates, or anyone who has been through an animation school training.
Can you elaborate on:

>enabling TOTP (sharing of code generation) on many sites we use

Are you generating TOTP codes via 1Password or something? That seems like a degradation of security. I did a cursorary search and didn't find mention of 1Password providing such a "service".
Oh I get it, source is from Reddit which unlike HN, votes come from sentiment, not value added to the conversation
Math is useful to be a good "anybody".

Even if you don't apply math knowledge directly in your profession — this is one of the best way known to humanity of teaching your brain abstract thinking, logic and reasoning.

And CS is the field where those 3 things are the core of profession.
> You must be young?

I wish.

> You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly.

No, I don't remember it; I was a long way away and young. I still don't speak French.

Yes, it's a bit sad that we can no longer do what a bunch of French bureaucrats with their 30-hour work weeks and 8-week vacances could do in the 1970s--even when we're desperate.
The only question is: is it user hostile ?
These changes are user hostile.

I don't care about VC's money to be honest. I design IT architectures for big banks, and apparent excessive greed from software companies tend to stress me.
Myths of Human Genetics (2011)
If you assign a lambda to a variable, you might as well use a def. A more typical use of a lambda is as an arguments to a function call. What would be the name of, say, the first argument to map(lambda x: x*2, numbers)?
Australia doesn't even have a bill of rights. Privacy is almost non-existent.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/why-does-austral...

Australia has agreed to abide by these conventions by protecting the human rights of its citizens and other peoples. However, we are unique among democratic nations in not having brought about a national bill of rights to make these obligations part of our domestic law. The best we have are the human rights acts in the ACT, Victoria and now Queensland. As a result, Australians are often left to complain to the UN when their human rights have been breached as they have no remedy at home.
It does mention the ankyle, a leather strap that served a similar purpose by increasing the effective length of the throwing arm. I guess some cavemen used ankyles and others used atlatls?
I don’t get the point of this article. Maybe it’s satire? What else does the author want? Boxing without gloves? Fencing with real swords? Perhaps the ancients won’t be so impressed with the absence of blood drawn? If a caveman is unimpressed by how far the modern javelin travels we could just hand one to him/her see how far they can throw it?
Right, but this applies to big piles of security-critical software in general - a near tautology. It's really an argument in favour of my position that neither open-sourcedness nor hostedness are useful criteria in evaluating the security and fitness-for-purpose of a password manager.
It's not an antenna since it doesn't release the signal, it's a waveguide. Instead of vaccuum propogating EM fields it's metal.
The "precise agreed upon definition" is not mapped to a precise agreed upon sequence of words.

I find it hard to think of any technical terms which have a fixed, well-specified phrase for the definition, much less ones which, if re-used, don't require attribution.

I mean, there are definitional terms like "one meter is the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 of a second" or "the discriminant of the quadratic equation is b^2-4ac". Re-use those quoted definitions and no one will blink.

But, what's "evolution", or "electron spin", or "aromaticity"?

Even something as well-defined and concrete as "cosine similarity" has many different variations:

Wikipedia: a measure of similarity between two non-zero vectors of an inner product space. It is defined to equal the cosine of the angle between them, which is also the same as the inner product of the same vectors normalized to both have length 1

SciKit-learn: the normalized dot product of X and Y: K(X, Y) = <X, Y> / (||X||*||Y||)

towardsdatascience.com: the cosine of the angle between the two non-zero vectors

statology.org: For two vectors, A and B, the Cosine Similarity is calculated as: Cosine Similarity = ΣAiBi / (√ΣAi2√ΣBi2)

uchicago.edu: For vectors, it is the cosine of the angle between those vectors.

datadriveninvestor.com: Cosine similarity of two vectors is just the cosine of the angle between two vectors

While certainly equivalent, these definitions show some creative choice in how they are worded, and thus if copied, should be cited.

(I agree that the creativity level is quite low for some of these, and I believe several people might come up with the same description, but that's a different issue than re-using someone else's definition without attribution.)
Pretty wild that MTV would have been playing someone like Cliff Richard. At a time when MTV considered itself at the cutting edge of cool, he just strikes me as so deeply ... not.
What have the Romans ever given us?
Monty Python to the rescue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Isn't it strange? Naively one might expect that as surveillance capabilities grow, laws that mandate cooperation with state surveillance would be relaxed or removed. "We have cameras on every street corner, location data on every phone, metadata on every phone call, fingerprints and cheap DNA analysis, so we can drop the requirement that ID must be shown when renting a hotel room."

But the opposite happens - the more surveillance we are subjected to, the more laws are introduced to reduce our privacy even further.
It's their operating system! Files are already "scanned" by their processes, how do you think they get from the camera to the hard drive?
Sooner or later you'll be caught out. Reckon it won't be too long before AI - perhaps aided by quantum computers - will be able to disassemble your compiled code in seconds with all symbols, etc., print listings and meaningful comments.

Then we'll see who has egg on their faces! It'll be very interesting to see all the red blushes when the bugs and spaghetti code are exposed for all the world to see.

Rigor will be the order of the day when developers can no longer hide behind the obfuscation of compilation.

;-)
Gnome Shell anybody? I'm surprised nobody brought it up yet.

About 10 years ago I switched from Gnome 2 to 3. Because my distro did. It was a huge drop in features. Over the years I had tuned my desktop experience on Gnome 2 with different panel apps, layouts, some custom hacks. It worked great. Gnome 3 ended all this. It was really simple, so that it was almost dysfunctional. It was new so I thought the community would soon catch up. But it never did. The experience is still much worse that in the Gnome 2 days. Even a few extensions that try to mimic the Gnome 2 experience can't really compensate, and many of them break with every other update. It's such a shame.
Me for sure. My first real job was on a VAXCluster. IIRC there was a PDP-11 sitting in the corner of (the very large) room also.

I even have a nice anecdote from that era:

http://www.mattowen.co.uk/blog/dont-screw-up-a-vaxcluster-ta...
> The issue that I see with all the tie break resolutions is that you end up deciding the outcome of the game, based on something other than playing the game.

I think that’s the point. You had your chance to win the game and it took too long, so now you play a shorter, modified version of the game to determine a winner.

The same criticism could be leveled at 8v8 soccer that “it’s not soccer”. Your team depth matters less and your stars matter more.

It would create injuries to “extend play”, not to mention creating boring 2 or 3 hour long 1-0 matches.
Snoopers Charter in the UK springs to mind.
I once negatively reviewed a drone on Amazon. Their EMEA boss emailed me out of the blue wanting to set up a phone conversation to convince me otherwise. Really needy and gross! I reported this to Amazon who said that wasn’t “meant to happen”, but I doubt any sanction came from that.
> remove them from the ISS

Space Station Freedom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Station_Freedom
My comment is not about HN, its about India
This exact process has been used by spammers for a long time now. It's called spinning, and it is basically the kind of thesaurus replacement you're describing here. When I read the OP, my impression was that these authors were running plagiarized portions of their articles through a similar kind of spinner.
Haute couture runway isn’t intended to be worn. It generally shows a concept of the general theme for the season as well as ability. It’s not the same as UI/UX whose entire purpose is to be used, that’s more like the prêt-a-porter lines for fashion (which are also on runways)

Female jean pockets being small is entirely a driver for handbags and the like. It’s a poor decision for practicality but entirely a business decision — it’s sorta a dark design pattern I guess similar to how amazon buries privacy settings
Do you mean, we won't have another situation, if FB continues its hard stance towards unauthorized data collection?

Cause otherwise, I don't see how they could have another Cambridge Analytica situation if what they're doing is sharing _less information_.
I agree that our current legal and law enforcement system isn't up to speed with 21st century internet. And it has to be updated, because this kind of makes the internet a de-facto law less space, covering everything from stalking, harassment over fraud to contraband trafficking and CSAM.

I don't think full scale surveillance is the way to go in free, democratic societies. It is the easiest one, so. Even more if surveillance can be outsourced to private, global tech companies. It saves the pain of passing laws.

Talking about laws, those along with legal proceedings should be brought up to speed. If investigators, based on existing and potential new laws, convince a court to issue a warrant to surveil or search any of my devices, fine. Because then I have legal options to react to that. Having that surveillance incorporated into some opaque EULA from a company in US, a company that now can enforce its standards on stuff I do, is nothing I would have thought would be acceptable. Not that I am shocked it is, I just wonder why that stuff still surprises me when it happens.

Going one step forward, if FANG manages to block right to repair laws it would be easy to block running non-approved OS on their devices. Which would than be possible to enforce by law. Welcome to STASI's wet dream.
A brief history of computing in Formula 1
I suspect they will replace monitors first. You can still use keyboard and mouse for input, get a lot of screen real estate without clunky monitors or being tied to a desk / chair, and have to worry less about portability and battery life.
Mac OS X is now older than Mac OS “Classic” was when OS X was first released.

Must be a nightmare to maintain.
Full ACK esp. for the part about promotion.

David Pogue delivered a nice TED Talk 2006 [1], when he's enthusiastic about a new version of a program that didn't change a thing but just made it more robust.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_simplicity_sells
Sure, “torque” wasn't appropriate terminology.

EVs, as a rule of thumb, accelerate more quickly, because it's so easy. Just press the pedal. No noise, no fuss, no revving the engine, it just goes.

Acceleration is pretty much the equivalent of tire wear. That's what I was thinking about.
I surrendered and bought the app Outcast. With it you can directly download podcasts on the Apple Watch. You have to disable Bluethooth on your iPhone, though, otherwise the downloads will be slow as hell.
At that point, it's time to think very seriously about finding a different hardware provider.
ImmersedVR on Oculus Quest 2. That's how I work everyday.
And this isn't even limited to the hypothetical. Just in the last year we've had completely egregious examples of abuse of misinformation classifications. An article about Hunter Biden's laptop, posted by the oldest newspaper in the country, the New York Post, weeks before the election, got them banned from Twitter and Facebook. Any mention of Hunter Biden's laptop would get the post flagged as misinformation and banned.

Now, I don't care about Hunter Biden's laptop. What I do care about is that this was absolutely not misinformation. And then the same happened again for the lab-leak hypothesis. Given pants-on-fire dismissal and declared "debunked," when it wasn't then, and has been shown to very clearly not be now.

So, yes, the abuse of the authority is obvious in the hypothetical, but the relegation to the abstract isn't even necessary to condemn the legitimacy of these self-proclaimed institutions.
> What's broken in node.js's design?

A lot.
A Tour of 6502 Cross-Assemblers
> But dumbness alone is rarely the driving threat: at the head of almost every dumb movement, you will find the stupid in charge.

This distinction is such a perfect distillation of something i've struggled to articulate for a long time.
Doesn't even have to change a great deal. Been watching real estate in regional towns where I live in Australia and places that are somewhat dry now but at risk of getting drier/hotter are full of cheap houses struggling to sell. Everyone's thinking the same thing about the prospects of that town in 10-20 years, and it's on top of the usual plight of small country towns.
They could just cite someone else with proper references.
Thanks for writing the blog post -- loved the deep dive and investigation bits.

> (CouchDB, it seemed awful).

Yeah I just... am not sure about picking document stores these days! I was the biggest fan of RethinkDB (over Mongo) and I always get CouchDB and CouchBase mixed up. At the end of the day, I almost always just choose to store some JSONB in Postgres.

> For messaging, the Commit Log and Log-Structured Merge Tree storage in Cassandra should have been near ideal. Commit Log gives durability, LSMT gives automatic compaction -- important for the pending work store, where you delete entries once work is completed.

> The domain here is healthcare; due to legal requirements & existing product architecture, deployments and databases are usually per-customer rather than trying to scale the world on a single cluster. For these scenarios Postgres and Cassandra should both be (have been) highly suitable.

Ahhh this makes a lot more sense now. So hard multi-tenancy + needs to be pre-approved.

> The Postgres ecosystem is very active these days, and offer options for further scaling. Aligning with Postgres already looks like a 5x scalability improvement over the prior datastore, and AWS Aurora and Citus Data both offer avenues for further performance if we ever needed.

I'm an unabashed Postgres shill I agree -- Postgres is the absolutely the most flexible database to build on, you can do OLAP, OLTP, partitioning and sharding (Partman/Timescale/Citus), and zheap is in the pipe (so MySQL's usual raison d'être is gone).

Enough shilling though, one thing I wonder about in this space -- are you planning on using ZFS at the bottom of any of these systems? With the recent spate of data ransoming attacks and hacks I wonder why people "don't just" (famous first words) put ZFS down there, add some replication + offsite incremental backups and sleep a bit easier at night?
I don't think so. I've read it is removed from app stores in Iran and China. A few other countries like Egypt try to block it.
Fortran 90 introduced 'free form', a more modern syntax compared to ye olde FORTRAN. Typically free form source code is denoted by a '.f90' extension whereas '.f' is for the old style fixed form.
I think its' about time to go back to blackberry messaging days with person level invitations & complete P2P networking. Heck security by having every device be encrypted with a different scheme/similar
They grow like weeds in most places I've seen!
Only for now.
>Asking an iOS developer to work on Objective-C is asking them to sacrifice their future prospects.

This just sounds insane to me being a non-programmer. Literally nothing in my job requires me to be up to date on technologies that are less than 10 years old to be considered for a job.
> It is just so common that there has to be some reason for it.

One reason is that UI is a fashion-driven space so as the fashion changes there is increasing pressure to rewrite everything to look like all recent apps look, even if it breaks functionality.

Another reason is that if an application has a well-polished UI that all users love.. what's the UI team going to do? How does that newly hired UI PM get to make a big impact so they get a promotion? So there's also a lot of resume-driven UI change for the sake of change.

For the second problem, a partial solution is to have shared UI teams so they can keep busy improving the products which need the most improvement and leave alone the ones that are already good. Of course, hard to do in a smaller company that might only have one product.

For the fashion problem, no good solution. Ignoring fashion entirely works for software that targets technical people but for mass-market applications, no good solution.
>> Tastes change.

They do, but do they change as quickly as every season?...or sometimes people do those who make money off changing tastes tell you that tastes change that often?
There's a more iconic "video" than Subterranean Homesick Blues?
Huge move for the Scylla team, what a good enterprise client. Would have loved to see some perf numbers but them moving says something (and lets me know that chat apps 100% are a reasonable fit for Cassandra-style databases).
This limited catalogue did lead to an interesting opportunity though - if you were competent enough and could produce an interesting video you could get a bit more exposure than you could otherwise expect. So things like "Mexican Radio"[0] by Wall of Voodoo emerged, not to mention "Dog Police"[1] by Dog Police.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Y-1plYJuQ
Common Sensing: Building Climate Resilience with Small Island Nations
20 years ago a device 24*7 inspecting personal data of 60% citizens for samples remotely provided by government was sci-fi dystopia.
I’ve engaged in a discussion recently where a guy told me:

- Climate modeling doesn’t make sense since science can’t even predict next-day weather

- More CO2 is good for plants

- He doesn’t care about scientific papers on climate change because he can’t comprehend them. But he thinks they’re wrong anyway.

- There’s a guy on YouTube who says climate change isn’t real

What grinds my gears is that so many people think they can reason about complex systems based on their gut feeling. And their gut tells them: “If it’s getting warmer, why is it snowing in Texas?!”