skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m all for introducing people to knew things, and reading about things I didn’t know about before, but this is just not honest reporting. It’s designed to get passed around on Facebook and if they make it seem ordinary, people won’t pass it around.

They’ve taken a Facebook post, and editorialized it specifically to make it sound very special.

If you wrote the same article about someone catching a salmon would you say “the fish was identified as a salmon”?

They also could have easily said “these fish are common in coastal waters, and caught and eaten all the time” but they purposefully left that out.
...if a human actually gets the file, figures out what type it is, and examines it for themselves, they'd be obligated to report it. With the number of Win10 devices in the world, how big would their security team have to be to hand-groom every automatically submitted "suspicious" sample? (For that matter, why would a vanilla JPG get flagged as "suspicious" in the first place?)
You would think having cold water applied to your underside would be uncomfortable, but it's not really. Sure, its a bit of a shock sometimes but you get used to it. And honestly, not having to wipe (and wipe and wipe) is 100% worth it.
> And Russia would be all too happy to assist them. Think the Donbass conflict in Ukraine, but larger scale.

Don't you think this way it's an even bigger reason for an rapid, overwhelming action to stem any chance of it.

Russia will not be happy at all to start losing more than disposable mercenaries for the first time.

It's by far the surest way to regime change Russia, without an open, direct conflict — to make Putin commit to a big war which he can't win, nor retreat from.

It's very important to make him to activate Russian standing military, so the people can't be made to "unsee" the fact of Russian state involvement.

The easier the victory will look for them, the more they will commit, the harder it will be for them to pull out.
Its at least misleading, if not downright calculated, to switch back and forth between the top 5% of plants and the top 10. The top 5% represents at least an order of magnitude more than that.

Second, CSS has never worked to date and probably won't work for at least the medium term - meaning we cannot solve the current climate crisis with it.

https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-accept-carbon-captur...

Which leads to the conclusion that cutting electrical CO2 emissions which account for about 25% percent of total emissions by 30% won't cut it in the least. Also we'd then have built gas-fired power plants with a lifetime of 30+ years, when really we need carbon neutrality by 2050.
IIRC the spread syntax only works with relatively small arrays, because it's function application at the end of the day.

So worthwhile keeping in mind that the nice JS code falls apart.
Ditching my laptops for desktop workstation.

Got rid of all my USB C dongles, no concerns about heating, amazing performance, and I'm not the type who codes from a cafe.

Work from cafe is for light chats, emails and occasional writing / jotting down of ideas.

It's trivial to keep things synced between devices, even without using proprietory software.
> a. The owner wants to find stolen or lost things

If the item is simply lost, removal of the speaker is not desired, so that should go in (b).

If the item is stolen, how long do you need to track it before you report it to the police? For me it would be less than 3 days, when the alarm starts beeping. So removal isn't helpful there either.

Apple should make it nonremovable.
Xyla channel is definitely worth a look.

But she is somewhat rubbing me the wrong way (no pun intented) ... I am not sure if she had a channel before this one, but she basically appears out of nowhere with a perfect brand image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9XYJJY6IQ

From the get go she is connected into the wider content creation sphere. Appearing in videos from Veritasium, BPS.space, Dolphin Labs, probably some more.

She is every nerds wet dream ... smart, creative and good looking with a overly happy attitude.

I don't want to talk bad about her ... It's just too perfect for me not to be somewhat suspicious.
I always knew intergalactic hydrogen might be a problem but I never considered the effect of travelling really fast on photon absorption.
Aha, but if everyone thinks that way you will actually be the only one daring enough to embark on that journey and have all the space diamonds for yourself!
With due respect to you, and assuming you passed, that's pretty damning of whatever college you went to. I'd want a refund.

The definitions of kinetic energy and momentum and some basic differentiation, that should all be thoroughly covered.
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Interesting, been annoyed about this for years. I'm bookmarking things both in Chrome and on the Samsung internet mobile browser and neither prioritizes my bookmarks when I start typing something in the search bar. It actually seems completely random, sometimes a bookmark shows up, sometimes it shows 5 rows down, often not at all. Weird, bookmarking a site should count as a pretty strong a signal that I might want to see that page again...
These represent classes of problems and the test checks which classes students have covered in their studies and which they slacked on.

These two are straight-forward problems, both will be allocated some basic nominal time. You either know how to solve them or you don't. Sometimes there'd be problems that are more puzzling, because they'd combine several problem classes and will take time to unfold (this is typical in math olympics). These will be allocated more time as they require thinking and searching for a solution.
~150,000,000 km
Surprise dip in UK Covid cases baffles researchers
The Attraction Game
From Catastrophe to Chaos in Production
The Ballad of St. Coltrane
I discovered that many tabs for me are indicative of my own laziness and lack of discipline and an unhealthy tendency to multitask. Now I pay attention (not just about tabs but also about my desktop files, and the cleanness of my actual desk) and I am happier for it. Optimal number of tabs: < 5, with 1 being Youtube playing some ambient music, 1 being JIRA, one being Github.
I feel like in a better world we could log the bad ones and make paper or something, but everyone knows the logging would be 100% regulatorily-captured and so no one wants to go this route. :/
3 of those 4 still apply to Elasticsearch. Mongo, another example has the same license and loads of docs freely available. You can still hire devs to add any missing features to Mongo (albeit you will have to fork it). You can still view their issues in GitHub too
Try google:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosargus_probatocephalus
Go to your account and tap on "Switch to lifetime".
>That the link between digital tech use and psychological distress is inconclusive would have come as a big surprise to me five years ago.

I think it's not so surprising since everybody "feels" this is true. Making people look where they can confirm their bias.

I'm not saying it's not a thing, but I think this is an issue with a lot of studies that look at something where people either do it and don't want to feel good or bad about it or have some beliefs about it being good or bad, e.g chocolate/wine/eggs are good/bad for you.
A Graphene/Polycrystalline Silicon Photodiode Experiment
If you travel close to C, those photons will be blue-shifted into (depending on velocity) very energetic photons (x-ray, gamma spectrum) that may be rather difficult to shield against.
Let me guess by the title... a super common Sparidae?

Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush.

A much more interesting trivia is that this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish with human teeth and wearing a prison uniform, discovered'.
I really wanna know how many people (somehow)instinctively read it coronavirus?
See the title.
Should and do are 2 completely different things.
I know someone who did and it worked for a while until the provider contacted them to ask about the unusually high activity. They explained the situation, but since their package was a B2C package and they were using it for their company, the provider told them to either stop doing it or switch to a B2B package. There was no unlimited text B2B package available at the time and all of them were quite a bit more expensive than B2C. The latter has changed since, but I'm not sure about the rest.
I have a feeling it was more about the quality of the teachers than anything else.

I moved from “Deep” Russia itself to the periphery of the USSR (Bulgaria) when I was in first grade, and my parents had the foresight to make me repeat that grade so as to help me with learning a new language.

The quality difference was astounding. In 1992 Russia by first grade I was learning english with flash cards technique, drawing human shapes, animation, perspective, and some pretty good maths. The knowledge I gained there allowed me to learn almost nothing but the language up until about 3rd grade. And it was a school in the middle of nowhere.

I think the USSR trained some very good teachers and just sent them around everywhere, places they would not have gone themselves on their own volition kinda thing.

Oh and I remember teachers where highly respected, a thing I saw slowly degrade while the country was going through the 90s reforms.
Oh, replace enemy with "government" and friend with "authoritative leader". I am not US citizen and just observe US politics from the outside, but what seems spot on is the way many republicans choose self-harming options just to "own the libs" or do the opposite of what an authority tells them they should do it (e.g. wear masks, get vaccinated).

Sure they will not always do the opposite of what their opposition party says, but the constructive "we don't care what the libs say, we do it because it is the right thing"-topics are kinda rare these days.
If the EU keeps the current Emission Trading Scheme the European plants will soon be retired. They are already becoming unprofitable due to high prices for certificates. See:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/new-eu-climate-proposal...

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/risi...
By this definition (nutrient uptake from an animal the plant has killed), brambles should be counted as carnivorous.

Their spines all point towards the base of the plant, where, in a mature specimen, there’s usually a hollow without thorns.

Thing is, if you’re a furry or woolly animal, like a sheep, and you get caught in the thorns, your struggles bring you into the centre of the plant, where you’re thoroughly trapped, and you die of exhaustion.

Then you decompose, and the bramble gets fed.

I’ve seen this happen to sheep, and here, while clearing huge swathes of giant brambles, it’s not uncommon to find a skull or a few bits of bone around the bottom of a plant.
>The reason we have not figured out NLP is not because we are incapable, it’s because enough of the right minds have not been looking at it as a puzzle worth solving, possibly because it and other AI related concepts are often introduced at or just before the PhD level and so most minds in science never encounter it (even though they could never encounter any other written concept without it)

Lots of brilliant people have looked, but the issue at the moment is that the last set of questions and challenges was surprisingly blown away by statistical approaches and we are waiting to find the ceiling on those approaches before being able to formulate the right questions for the next round of deep thinking I suppose. The Winnograd schema were kinda meant to prompt that....
Are you talking about vim? I thought this article was about programming languages.
Yes the CEL is worthless, but OBD is very informational and a reader isn't really that expensive. A modern car ECU can tell you things like a specific cylinder misfire, so you can check that spark plug etc. If my motherboard is fucked it's probably just giving some incredibly generic error.
Hey, I am a big fan of HPMOR too, and can absolutely feel your pain of not being able to discuss the book with anyone. Do you have more books that went in a similar direction?

I started reading the Eternal Golden Braid after, which was really good but dense, and for some light fantasy The Name of the Wind was an overall impressive book.
A massive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28118350 seems to imply that Apple have been told/have decided that they are not doing enough to protect their ecosystem from child sexual abuse pictures (and possibly other crimnal exploits).

Instead of scanning their iCloud storage, which would imply that it isn't encrypted, which would be PR disaster, they have decided it would be better to do it on the devices themselves at origin when the content is already unencrypted.

Of course, the issue there, is that they are forcing anti-privacy systems onto your handset which you might assume is your property and not something you want a non-accountable system to be running on.
oh c'mon now! Your insult is just outrageous. You're insulting a person who had the guts to make very valid questions and observations. Since when is questioning incompetence? Are you a man whose intuition is always right?
Ask HN: Disprove my idea to travel to the nearest star within a lifetime
Proxima Centauri nearest star.
Distance 40,208,000,000,00km = 0.425 light years.
Rocket which uses 200 nukes to propel itself ( i believe this was based on an old research paper from ages ago - anyone know which one I am referring to?)
Design ( Simple rocket + shield + nuke layout )
Speed is around 95% speed of light = roughly 1 light year.

Interesting note: Time dilation from earth for observers = 365 * 2 = 730 years.

Now I realise there is a big mistake somewhere, but I cant remember what it is, if someone smarter could tell me that will be great thank you. Please excuse the rudimentary math - thank you.
The Case Against Immutable Objects in Swift
Can you receive SMS from apps that aren't the default SMS handler on modern versions of Android? I seem to recall Google putting a bunch of silly restrictions on it to the point where there wasn't even a permission you could grant if you wanted to.
True. There's lots of parallels between those two things and relational databases, too.

In the end it seems that the "web app with a database" is becoming the template for other types of apps.
The implications of time dilation when moving near c are also explored in the Three Body Problem trilogy, and pushed to the extreme as well. It’s quite a mindfuck if you still have ties to the place you’re leaving, but interesting if you don’t.

There’s all the interesting idea of just accelerating forever, till the end of the universe (which comes faster than you think if you’re going that fast).
It depends on the company, if it’s a Databricks or highly coveted unicorn, then 1% is more than enough. It ids a struggling startup or no-name, then 5% might be fair
The time dilation aspect in space travel is the most neglected in popular sci-fi. In many of these, there are intricate installations of some sort cryogenic sleep devices because the script authors assume that it takes you 150 years of travel at light speed to get to a place that is 150 light years away.
Most terrifying fish to catch, because bites fingers off. But edible.
The title of the article is "The social network for doctors is full of vaccine disinformation".

Given examples of such "disinformation" in my opinion are valid concerns:

"Covid-19 vaccines have already killed over 4,000 adults who’ve received the vaccine" - there is a strong signal that it might be true.

"Articles about vaccines or masks have hundreds of comments, many that are factually inaccurate and often based on conspiracy theories" - lab leak conspiracy has been considered a conspiracy theory for a year or more so I am not sure what they call conspiracy theory now.

So instead of talking about risk analysis, mainstream media just proclaims all negative vaccine comments to be "disinformation".

This is another illustration of loss of trust to important institutions in our society - I hope we are hitting the bottom and will rebound, but not so sure.
> what Canadian grain imports have anything to do with glyphosate?

You want wheat (and other grains) to be dry before harvest. Harvesting when wet increases losses due mold growth. Wet stems cause sticking and blocking in the harvest machinery. In many countries it's common to apply a defoliant: You kill or half-kill the foliage of the crop plants, and wait a small number of days, so grains and stems get drier before the harvest.

This use of glyphosate has nothing to do GMOs (there is no GMO wheat in markets anywhere). In a small number of countries, it's forbidden to use chemicals (plant poisons) to force desiccation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation

https://saifood.ca/crop-desiccation/
Turn Neovim into a Book Reader
If you like to read books in text/md format, pushing 'next page' is annoying. This Neovim's Lua plugin adds autoscrolling, and controls to slow-down/speed=up the scroll rate.
I must admit the log + fire approach sounds tempting: sequestering the carbon (in buildings or, hell, buried logs) sounds too good to pass up.

To be clear the idea isn't logging > fire, but logging just to undue the past mismanagement such that a very loosely controlled burn would be mild and as if the extra stuff hadn't accumulated the past 100 years in the first place. Definitely still need the fire.
By that reasoning, no-one ever leaves. If no-one had ever left, you may as well have left and be there already.

I think the reason to leave will have to be something other than space-diamonds, or other monetary needs. More like planetary conquest and scientific advancement.
For such a long trip, the only logical ship type would be a self-sustaining generational colony ship full of hundreds of people. The concept of 'home' would quickly shift from being the Earth to being your ship, so staying in contact with your origin planet would become irrelevant.
Yes, use a cloth so you don't infect them with anything
And Medium now asks me to upgrade to read??
I don't like the second question. Probably the kid is supposed to see the 'trick' :he drank a full cup of coffee since he didn't refill coffee and drank all. He added 1/2, 1/3 and 1/6 of a cup of milk and drank it all, so (3+2+1)/6=1. He drank the same amount of coffee and milk.

I think it is ok as a brain teaser, but there will probably be one kid in the class to see it and all the other kids feel dumb or whatever. But I don't think it teaches you anything (maybe it does, didn't study pedagogy, and while I was good at such fun questions I preferred the more structured approach in university mathematics)

Edit: this might make the kids think you need some 'magical' insights to do math and if they don't see it they are not apt for it, while the opposite might be true.

For the other questions: 2 also seems to rely on a trick, 3 looks ok, 4 is ok, 5a looks dodgy (probably just trying out numbers), 6 looks ok

About the K1 question:these are for 3 year olds? I only met one 3 year old in my life who could read, probably I am missing something here.
I wonder if the US will just buy Mexico to keep this from happening?
There is no such thing as simple and sensible when it comes to climate change. Let's say meat and soy farming gets banned. Lots of jobs lost. Economic recession incoming. Politicians lose voters.

Changes in liberal democracy happen very slowly as it takes time for information and belief to propagate to all voters and decision makers. Take for example marijuana legalization. It took it decades of lobbying.

The timescale of such a change in policy is also reflected in the markets as well. Consider money printinting, inflation, interest rates, etc. All these rarely make huge differences over night.

Psychology of the masses is hard to predict and influence as the timescale gets smaller. It took Hitler around 15 years to become a chancellor of Germany after joining the DAP after WW1.

Nothing happens overnight and nothing is simple and sensible.

I personally don't see any fast way except ecodictatorship. The urge to take the path of least resistance and most short term joy is just too strong when there is no overseer to punish us for it. But who will control the controller? The core issue of all forms of autocracy. Perhaps AGI, if reached, would also be our saviour here.
That's actually how you got into this mess. Lots of nuclear power plants were built so long ago that all the people involved have retired.

How is the next generation of nuclear power supposed to avoid that problem if people build everything at once and then stop again for 50 years?
Apple is not a USA Fact Check authority, thus cannot provide information on facts.
They call it "journalism". Has nothing to do with reality. It is really sad to see a lot of journalism being replaced by such stuff.
China is incredibly strong, but in the last century it suffered from terrible invasions. Yes, it probably can overcome any attack but it makes sense for a strategic thinker to worry that another power would try to attack it again.

Think about the US.. Is the US really under threat of invasion? No. But there is a realistic historical concern about a surprise attack that animates US defense policy.

Getting attacked and winning is not that great if the attack has terrible costs. China suffered incredibly in the twentieth century.

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It makes you understand the world. It can help you appreciate the beauty of nature and the universe. Probability and statistics makes you understand science and helps you make better decisions (see pandemic and vaccinations). Understanding Finance can help you be more wealthy. Chaos theory can help you be more relaxed about certain things.
Not having access to GPT-3, can you prompt "Is a wug a cat?"
> "In fact, so long as you kept adhering to this plan, you could choose any destination at all that’s presently within 18 billion light-years of us, and reach it after merely 45 years, max, had passed. That ~18 billion light-year figure is the limit of the reachable Universe, set by the expansion of the Universe and the effects of dark energy. Everything beyond that point is currently unreachable with our present understanding of physics"

What happens if I just keep going?
Doesn't apply in our case. We're only interested in freeing the belarusian people, our friends and family from the grips of this maniac Lukashenko. We don't even have any professional hackers (refused to work against the regime), we had to learn by a lot of trial and error.
Unity is communist tyranny.
My solution is basically $1. $50 is more than my bicycles are worth.