skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thought about using Fibre at home. Especially when I have CAT6 cable already installed.

How does Pulling Pre-terminated fibre walks? Doing it the same as Copper cables? I thought fibre cable were more brittle which makes home installation a no go?

This is interesting because I guess most are like me, all fixated on Copper Ethernet and never once thought about Fibre!
Yeah, that didn't happen.
Have you ever had to go through an estate sale or something? 80% of "value" is knowing who to sell something to.

It takes far more energy in most cases to sort through, assess items, locate buyers and transport items then you could ever hope they'd be worth.
Two Types of Systems
Except if it’s a black female AI ethicist questioning some choices made by your company I suppose.
> legal status

> Access to information and knowledge is a basic human right. Sci-Hub will fight those laws that make free exchange of infomation impossible. The project will eventually be recognized as legal

I keep thinking about sensible ways of copyright reform. Ones that allow a balance between rewarding creators fairly and allowing use independent of quantity or subject area.

The latest iteration I've arrived on in my head is a land tax at one end and at the other an Elo-like rating system that all the population participates in (but rate limited to some quantity x per year) to determine which works get how much funding, with participation rewarded with a fixed amount from the same pool (and the choices being randomly chosen, possibly with a bias towards interest areas though).

This should make things independent of the wealth of the creator, that of the user, spamming works, encourage shipping, built-in review, minimise externalities, tax undesirable behaviour, make it independent of the government, be something that's implementable incrementally (opt-in at first), encourage broad participation in the creative process, have reliable and predictable funding mechanisms for new interesting science, be a simpler system than the current mess, remove how consuming more creative works is more expensive (which I think is a bad thing because it's regressive, and there's no incremental cost to producing copies of creative works these days, but creators need to be rewarded), etc., etc.

And this would be applicable to all creative works, including open-source projects.
> Have you stopped to think for a sec that some of us like screaming

I don't care if you "like" screaming. There are lots of things I like to do that aren't appropriate in the workplace. If you want to go to a "scream club" and scream your heart out you do you. In the workplace as a corporate executive act like an adult.

> and in some cultures a lot of screaming is common place

By all means enlighten me as to in what cultures it's common place for your boss to scream at you and not considered dysfunctional?

> Perhaps the abuse is the thin skin.

No.

> Perhaps the abuse is the lack of forgiveness. Perhaps the abuse is the failure to recognize we all have flaws.

People have flaws. People can be forgiven for them. "Forgiveness" doesn't mean all consequences go away. If you can't do your job as a executive properly, I can forgive. I can't let you keep abusing employees.
People that received Pfizer algo caught it, so yes, it's not a particularly insightful comment.
Thanks for explaining. Transitives never occur to me.
You need to look a bit more carefully, and ideally at more than just at the one link. The US and gov controlled the country entirely at one point. By 2017 The large swaths of the country are contested.

61% by 2018. The writing was on the wall.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/08/world/asia/us...
I have worked for one, at a time, also. The feedback loop given the lack of pushback from underlings must really foster a condition where such a person thinks that's the only way to be successful, and could even be rewarded for it when they deliver on projects.

I'm glad I don't work in such an abusive environment with my current employment/manager but things change...
>Marijuana is not an effective depression treatment even though it may temporarily dull feelings and emotions.

That describes how my teenage Lithium prescription felt far better than it does marijuana use. Though perhaps they have better pharmaceuticals now than they did 20 years ago.
but that's not what the challenge is. it's more likely the database of training data is wrong. we've seen that to be very true from posts here on HN. some of the data was so horribly mis-identified, it's a wonder it works at all
I was one of those English-speakers clogging the bars in Dec-Jan. I can assure you that on a Friday night at Trova, there was enough people to clog the footpath and part of the road.

However, the supermarkets seemed fine, not too expensive and reasonably well stocked.

More concerningly the blue rate went from 60s to 75+ while I was there. And the withrawl taxes added to the atms at the time (2k for 2.3k)
It's also not even clear that a specially tuned chess engine couldn't generate an "optimal" set of deviations from the default engine behaviour such that the person playing those moves would win anyway.
This comment managed to blow my mind. Are we really trying to say the cofounder of DEEPMIND is too stupid / incompetent to have graduated from Oxford and came up with a charity as a front for it?
No, we are still giving it a chance to evolve and we are still able to stop it.
Can you elaborate on this role and why it's important for some research on a rare degenerative illness to be known by people who are suffering said disease? (Genuine question, I don't know editor's role in academia at all)
NIMBY is a term for things that need to exist, but people fight against them existing in their neighborhoods. There is no reason for the vast majority of unvaccinated people to be unvaccinated, so the term makes little sense here.
1. Who puts up with this kind of alleged treatment? Why not strike or quit and work somewhere else?

2. Implying all "white males" are evil patriarchy is prejudicial. There is a cultural-attitude problem in this organization.
And here is a CDC Director on CNN. See for yourself.

"Vaccines CANNOT prevent COVID transmission anymore"

https://rumble.com/vkscco-cdcs-dr.-rochelle-walensky-admits....

Its going to be lonely for Jennifer.
There's a little bit of praxis that I do for these (when I can't just bounce from the site or service requesting it): purposefully get about 25% of it wrong, misidentifying things that aren't traffic lights as traffic lights, or failing to identify all traffic lights, for example. I'll sometimes have to go through a few rounds of captcha but I don't mind that as much when every one is an opportunity to have a tiny corrupting effect on their dataset.

I was fine with Google's captchas when they were designed to help translate scanned printed material into searchable text (providing a social good). I'm not fine with providing free labor for their self driving car project.
I just looked type 2 diabetes up and realized I know nothing about it. Thanks for sharing. This is very insightful. Take care man!
It’s a “witch hunt” when someone doesn’t get a promotion? No one’s calling for his arrest. They’re just saying that someone who abused his power to bully people should not be rewarded with more power over people.
TL;DR: Jobs argues for permission dialog fatigue as a solution to privacy, audience applauds.
One of those lawyerly non-denials:

"A DeepMind representative said, 'Our records do not show settlements based on his behavior.' "

Note that they didn't say there were no settlements; just that they didn't keep a record, or they destroyed them.

In fact, that statement would even allow for a settlement based on something else, where "based on his behavior" is in dispute. Maybe there was a settlement about his speech, and they claim that wasn't "based on his behavior."
I'm trying to understand this comment. But it seems to me it boils down to "spend time to learn how to be depressed by the world around you." That doesn't seem like a skill the average person should want or need. There is something with with society if you have to spend time of hours of practice to get "emotional intelligence" from common place items that have no inherent meaning.
The Way Miami Realtors Close More Deals
This is why 1.5C is such a bad slogan. Here in the media we've heard politicians and environmentalists etc talk about the 1.5C goal all the time.

But it's not like getting a pay rise, with each day getting just a tad warmer. The average tells you nothing about the extremes.
Thanks for the correction, and for citing such a great reference!
Super easy way to convince Apple they might want to re-think things. Buy something other than Apple products, starting with the iPhone.
You know? A long time ago I bicycled far through the forest with a self-built trailer for transporting my 'lil' Newton' in the late evening, especially during winter. Breathing in trough the nose, and exhaling through a few meters of garden hose to avoid condensation. Somewhere near there:

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

Though that was about 1980, not as light-polluted as it is now. I don't do things like that anymore, but I'm still thinking I'm not talking non-sense when it comes to that stuff (magnitudes, etc.)

Maybe I have owl eyes ;-)
I've read several self-help books, so you don't have to
It's not fallacy. There's huge demand for such monitoring and few countries are as competent as China to do it themselves. Apple already works closely with CCP, so it won't face any moral dilemmas. The only obstacle is damage to reputation in the US and Apple is assessing the scope of this damage right now.
I haven't used a desktop since 2010 and my laptop is old. Building AOSP is the sort of huge compute-task that sticks out with its rarity.
Most papers are from before 02021, and in particular most papers that are old enough to be widely cited. A lot of new papers are open access; sci-hub is most crucial for access to research from 15 or more years ago, and its coverage of that research is still fairly comprehensive.

So "essentially defunct" is far from the truth from my point of view.
Solar geoengineering is unproven technology; is there even any estimate on how much it will cost and how long it may take?

Lots of things can be done. Most of them won't. People prefer denial - not everyone, but enough to sabotage progress. The pandemic has made this abundantly clear.
When I was at (a different) university, I know it was common for the geology 101 courses to have labs that used rock formations on campus to learn about [whatever it is geologists use to identify and classify rock, not pretending to know about the field]. This rock seems a lot cooler geologically than whatever we had on our campus. "Canceling" this rock could have a material impact on the education students receive.
Time to promote The Ebola Challenge, an update to the Tide Pod Challenge.
> HN believes that capabilities tend to be zero-sum, and any character flaws are evidence of genius in other regards. The "brilliant but eccentric scientist" cliché, more or less.

I think "zero sum" is itself rooted in envy and pride. I.e., when people that lack humility know, or at least sense, suspect, or believe, that they lack some quality that someone else has, they are prone to believing the zero-sum distribution of qualities because it gratifies their egos. They also tend to view these qualities as fungible (at least in a manner that benefits their calculus of self-worth), which they are not. Of course, envy, like all vices, warps one's perception of reality. I wish more people understood that unrepented vice leads to rationalization of the vice which leads to the subsequent corruption of knowledge and wisdom. Breaking free of this pathology is difficult.

> There might be hints of what's sometimes referred to as "toxic masculinity" in there, as well.

Sadly, that term is entirely ambiguous, but I would say that both absence of masculinity in men as well as the "the brute" are two extremes that ought to be avoided. Masculinity is neither about domineering behavior nor subservience. Masculinity finds its fulfillment in the readiness for self-sacrifice. Leaderships is service. The difference between leadership and tyranny is that in the second case, the "leader" exploits those he is suppose to be leading in some capacity for the common good of the group. Abusive behavior is especially egregious when done by those in positions of leadership.
"Argentina has been poor since the advent of Peronism"

This argument is quite short-sighted, as it doesn't even try to understand or explain October 17, 1945. It just brushes it away like a nuisance that breaks that idillic Argentina previous to the Great Depression with a wealthy working class that never was.
With corrected formatting, they wrote EXPR = (((((((788.0)*(8.46))))+8342.0*1.803-1.0))*4186.4*(15.0))*(((22.0/((7530.0/((2.0)*(((((25.0))-421))))))*597.0)+7283.8-9.60+167.0))+(8871.0) which is unambiguous.
> stealing computing resources from the device owner.

No, it is opt-in. Nothing is being stolen.
Looking forward, you will see light with wave length contracted or frequency multiplied by factor N+1, e.g. at N=1 front light will have wave length reduced/ frequency increased by 2x.

Looking backward or left/right, you will see nothing (darkness), because these photons have no chance to hit you. It will be more like a Pac-Man game: chose a photon, hit it, consume it, then move forward to a next photon.
+1 for each positive and -1 for each negative, maximum score of 4, minimum score of -4, 0 is sideways, salary must be compared against industry salaries… so if industry average rises and yours didn’t rise as much, that is a demotion

This is kind of in jest and just a rough measure. Like if your salary went up 100x this doesn’t capture that. Positive and negative measures tend to be correlated though (I suspect that this looks more like 3 bell curves instead of one). Would be wonderful there was an industry database of this to invalidate or validate guesses.

Extremely bad indicators

- Having no reports

- No longer presenting in company meetings

- No longer being invited to meetings where decisions are made

- Bad seating location

Extremely positive indicators

- In regular staff meetings

- Introduced to VIP guests

- Sit near CEO

Against, this is partly in jest, Dilbert style
Just some things I have noticed…
Password complexity tends to more harm than good. Users aren't that creative and nearly every password falls into the pattern (A-Z)\w\d!. If we assume that users pad out to the bare minimum length then mandatory complexity actually reduces entropy because we know more specifically what characters are at the beginning and end.
Almost all Latin American countries are presidential republics. This is a system of government that basically guarantees instability. The separation of the executive and the legislature is supposed to provide greater accountability, but eventually leads to populist presidents quarrelling with intransigent representatives. The result is political logjam and either the president finally disposes of the legislature, or the military gets rid of both.

In contrast, Australia and Canada both have Westminster parliamentary systems, where the executive is drawn from the legislature. Thus, the prime minister is guaranteed a base of support there and populist candidates cannot entirely circumvent it. The system has its flaws, but it does seem to be more stable in the long run.
Footage from a ferry escaping the fires https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1423916668116418560?s=1...
Yeah. I grew up in Seattle. The thought that it was 108F there this summer is just horrifying.
Niggerhead Rock is a island off Tasmania - https://au.geoview.info/niggerhead_rock,8179399 (And many other places)

Article: This rock was called that once in 1920 when it was common and had nothing to do with the KKK, but we'll mention them anyway.

"It was referred to as a derogatory name in a Wisconsin State Journal story in the 1920s, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus"
Since they are the only ones legally allowed to possess the images, one can surmise that they must be the ones to create the hashes.
I'm not sure how that would work with time dilation.
Please don't. The article is pedantic silliness that can be, will be, and has been interpreted to mean "vaccination increases your risk of dying from COVID". Far from decreasing vaccine stupidity, it's increasing it. The article has negative value.
You mean you want journals to exist only for peer review, but that's not their actual function today. They actually exist today to prop up an academic research industry driven by cash and reputation. If they disappeared tomorrow, there would be a breakdown in institutional funding, there would be chaos in editing, publishing, discovering and vetting information, and it would actually be harder to access information.

Sci-Hub distributes information that paid journals have already done the work to curate. Once paid journals go away, Sci-Hub will end up like GitHub: a million random repositories maintained by random people with no index. Only there's a whole host of new problems that scientific research needs to solve that is more complicated than some poorly written lines of code. The stakes are different; the errors lead to worse outcomes, rigor is much more important, and finding relevant information in the vast array of available research is much more important.

I'm not saying publishing today is great. It very much isn't. But throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't a better solution. It's like saying, this government is corrupt, let's throw out the government! Look how well that works for countries that don't have a new government prepared to replace the old one.
I really like this analysis because it's so conservative. Even among regular pot smokers, 1g/day is extremely high! (No pun intended.)

Not to mention weed is fairly easy to grow at home; I've had a few friends do it, and they always end up with truly ludicrous amounts that they end up just giving away for free. I don't think the same is true of tobacco, or even alcohol — homebrewing good beer is harder than growing good pot (at least, in my relatively meager homebrewing experience), and making distilled spirits at home is a recipe for blindness and death. I don't know a lot about tobacco curing, but a little online research seems to confirm what the sibling commenter posted: it's a difficult art, takes a very long time (up to a year?), and doing it yourself usually ends in poor quality tobacco. Weed you just... leave out to dry for a week, and then stick in a glass jar for a few more weeks.

As a vice product, weed just isn't going to be that expensive absent high regulatory pressure. It's a weed, it's easy to grow.

Edit: that being said, edibles are a different story. Making those at home often results in disaster, since controlling the THC levels is fairly difficult. There could be good margins there, as well as for all-in-one vaporizers, where making hash oil is quite difficult and potentially dangerous. Flower, though, seems hard to make profitable as a consumer product.
That would make a clickable article
I see! Thanks for the analysis. Appreciate it.

> ...highly controversial

Yeah I was thinking how things would likely be less straight-forward in that regard
> And if you say just use GitHub user names

use domains? like java does for over 20 years?
Lack of ad-hoc polymorphism in OCaml really puts a damper on using it for research/scientific computing. However for large production systems, the simplicity and straightforwardness of the language is definitely a plus: engineers and even researchers of all experience levels can be productive pretty quickly.

I wanted to write a new low latency HFT system in OCaml at my firm, but we eventually decided to go with Rust. No real regrets there though, Rust feels a lot like a ML language, albeit a little more finicky and lower level. The fact that Rust seems blazing fast by default is a big advantage over OCaml imo, which in contrast can be slow (relatively) if you aren't thinking carefully about your memory allocations.
That's a lot of work, for what goal?
Young adult (20-49) mortality in Israel during time of Covid-19 crisis
To "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" sounds like a great mission to me.

Unfortunately the "universally accessible" part seems to be incompatible with current copyright law, so amazing resources like the Google Library Project are reduced to a glorified card catalog/search index rather than an actual online library.

Unlike Google, Sci-hub has so far managed to evade copyright law, so it can fulfill more of the "universal access" part.
It's generally agreed to be highly cost effective. Via Wikipedia:

> The annual cost of delivering 5 million tons of an albedo enhancing aerosol (sufficient to offset the expected warming over the next century) to an altitude of 20 to 30 km is estimated at US$2 billion to 8 billion. In comparison, the annual cost estimates for climate damage or emission mitigation range from US$200 billion to 2 trillion.
I think people have an urge to defend him because they know they have done the same. There is a crisis right now when it comes to managers of people. They either haven’t been trained to see people that they supervise as equals or have been explicitly told or learned that it is ok to be a shitty person while being a manager.
If anyone asked me something so ridiculous at my job they would get a copy and paste from wikipedia.
More beholden to your programme. With a degree from Oxford, world is your oyster. Earlier also means younger and easier to mould.
You are totally in your rights to fire your dog walker if they refuse to write you an essay about Russian political history.
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But people on Hacker News keep telling me Bitcoin has no genuine use cases? I'm confused.
Solar panels are quite useful, and they are essentially just beamed power receivers. And if you focus the beam instead of just using a glowing ball of hydrogen, go with a more efficient wavelength and remove all the atmospheric losses, it actually becomes quite efficient.
94 in the forecast for Seattle this week ~Friday, again. Forecast was 90 earlier, now 94, been rising for the past few days. (99 forecast in Tacoma)
What's your evidence for that statement?

I worked there 11 1/2 years, and by the way was not fired. However, I saw many people fired. There were probably many more placed on a Performance Improvement Plan who subsequently quit rather than get fired.
Why is cheating reportedly such a big problem in chess?

I have a guess about it in online shooter video games: I've been thinking it might be mostly adolescents and teens who are still developing a sense of character, and who enjoy the "winning" part and/or the god-mode griefing of others.
Serious question: why would management be too cowardly to get rid of someone being an asshole?
It's not called weed because it's hard to grow.

If you're not a weed snob and just trying to save a few bucks anything that the plant makes will be fine.
There’s no place for screaming at someone in the workplace or even in the home unless someone’s life is in danger and you’re trying to save them.

It’s low EQ.
The BTC address on the /donate page appears to be semi-random.

This is the address I see on the main page of the .do and .st domains: 12PCbUDS4ho7vgSccmixKTHmq9qL2mdSns
You'd think they couldn't possibly mimic human mouse movement too, and yet I find taking a stupidly exaggerated wavy line between squares helps. Any attempt to get through quickly and efficiently seems to be deemed robotic in my experience.

Reminds me of a bug I found at (with) work last week: typing too quickly (sending auto-completion requests too quickly) locks up the entire page, nothing for it but to refresh. (It's intended to cancel previous requests since only the latest one is needed, but obviously not supposed to freeze.)