skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because if you say "China is a totalitarian state", is an implicit admission that totalitarian states can be ashtoningly sucessful.

This is exactly right. For the longest time, it was widely-believed that only liberal democracies could be extremely prosperous countries. The fact that 1) this is clearly not true, and 2), it's quite possible that being a liberal democracy may not even be the most efficient way to become a prosperous country, is a very uncomfortable thing to acknowledge.

I think the other piece is that there's a very vocal subset of the western population that is completely uncomfortable criticizing any non-western country, because it doesn't mesh with their worldview.
I was there at the end of 2020. Almost no one wore masks in Stockholm, even coming out of the subway less than 1%.
The idea of using tokens is very clever and I can see how that could really reduce the complexity of getting a charger implemented. I'm curious about the overall business model here, do the sites hosting the chargers make money from this or is it more like an amenity?
Software Engineers Make Up 3.6% of the US Workforce
> the benefits often go to the politically connected who can influence the regulations

The benefits go to a lot of people, or you could say that voting makes you politically connected. Politicians must balance many interests, including those of the politically connected and of the voting public. You don't want to be the politician who failed to protect your constituents.
Sure, BTC exists, and governments have an interest in keeping it going since there is great traceability, but a digital currency that you can use everyday and everywhere to but a Coke is probably still a ways out.
I can't speak for "people" at broad, but improvements have certainly made a difference for my household. Gwern mentions hearing aids. They haven't just gotten smaller, but more capable. My wife couldn't have conversations with people at all in 1991. She can now. Universal subtitling opens up the full catalog of film and television that she couldn't experience. Spinal interbody fusion existed before 1991, but it wasn't very reliable. Procedure quality has improved rapidly, and that is the only reason my life right now isn't hopelessly miserable or possibly over, as the amount of pain I used to be in made death pretty tempting.
> this is a black pattern of going down step-by-step.

This is very hard to argue. Functionality like spying all your files is trivial to add, and technically we haven't really moved anywhere. "Now technology is there", is not valid argument since it has always been there.
Scanning your files and send some metadata is the feature which requires least effort to make from everything that Apple has released.

It might feel bad, when your device scans your to-be-uploaded-cloud images now, but iOS has never been yours. It is very closed system, a part of Apple-ecosystem. Only a guy who as has access for whole iOS source code knows what is actually happening in there. On Apple-ecosystem, only the final result matters in reality and what they say.
Since your device is not really yours, you should think like that you are just using Apple-ecosystem, being part of it. If you don't want that, you should have switched into some Linux phone already.

You can speculate all-day what else it might do in hidden in the future. Speculation about hidden features is as valid now as it was yesterday or will be tomorrow.

In reality, we can only be really worried when they publicly say something, which finally makes the end results worse. This did not happen yet. Actually the opposite happened, but here we go.

We have been trusting Apple for quite some time, and they really haven't got caught on doing something else than they have said, so what has changed?
Knobless induction is a travesty - I’d pay a lot more to have knobs.
I have been working remote for five years. I'm an American but I'm living in SE Asia with my wife and two kids, plus extended family. I work for a publishing company that is transitioning to online and I take care of all that for them.

Most of the time I deal with PHP/Perl and maintaining news sites. Also, AWS EC2, NGINX, Jenkins, and other issues.
Unfortunately I've found there often needs to be separate internal and external version numbers.

An internal rewrite where all the "old bugs" are fixed, but minimal new features are added may feel like a 2.0 for those who worked on it, but for external customers it's the same tool, with the same functionality, just maybe looks a little different.

A 2.0 is often heralded with marketing fanfare, so it needs justification.

I'm not saying it's right, or that one rule fits all; I've seen it first hand and feel your pain.
If you live somewhere that encourages you to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," grab hard and pull.
> Pay in low-COL satellite offices of big companies isn’t massively different from pay in Silicon Valley (averages are more different as more senior people will be in the main office)

Software engineer pay is quite different, between, say, London and Paris, or between Switzerland and any place in Europe... And it has more to do with talent competition than cost of living. France or Germany aren't inexpensive places to live in but there isn't as much software talent competition, so pay is still lower there from what I can tell.

You're right that a bigger pool doesn't necessarily mean more competition or lower wages, just a trend towards equalization: some people's pay could move up from access to a pool with higher competition for talent. But the pay for the people whose location puts them already at the top of the pay ladder has only one way to go relative to others who will WFH in the same timezone.
It's ambiguous in the film. Karen Allen was 30 when Raiders was made so we could be talking college age which still fits with the dialogue for an affair with a 10+ year older man at that age.

Of course, it's not really remarkable in the film because, in addition to both of them being 10 years older, it's very much a norm in Hollywood to have younger (so long as not too young) women and older men.
In his response, de Grey writes (bizarrely): “They do not write that a single woman has come to them with a ‘me too’ story. [...] Again: as to me, no other accusers, none, zero.”

What Halioua actually writes: “SENS is aware of all of this. The Board was brought testimonies from other women in the beginning of 2021. These testimonies include physical sexual abuse. SENS did not act.” (emphasis on original)

What Deming writes: “In the past few months, in part through conversations with Celine Halioua (who interned at SENS), I’ve learned it’s a serial pattern he’s enacted with women over whom he’s in a position of power.”

He’s, at best, making an intense misleading characterization of both of their claims on an easily verifiable, tangential point.

As for Khaltourina’s defense, well, in every case of serial sexual harassment that becomes public, there's always at least one woman saying “he didn't harass me, and what other people are claiming seems out of character”. (Same often with serial killers, too, though people are less likely to even paint that as a “defense”.)
Thanks, but that's too much waste for my taste.
Remember, these vaccines were developed for the original variant, goal post have not been shifted. Reality is. Nobody imagined that r0 would grow from 2.5 to 6.4 in such short time. Even infection does not give full immunity but so far it appears to be better than vaccines. Besides it comes with very heavy cost without vaccination. With vaccination it might be possible without heavy losses.
Talking about Belgium, 40.000 additional homes are being connected to the gas grid every year (2020/2021). That's astounding.

We stopped mandating new connections. Great. Insidiously, though, Big Gas successfully lobbied for a price cap of 250 EUR for new connections to the gas grid.

So not only are we still allowing new housing to be heated with gas, we're saying that that's a-ok you can do it on the cheap.

It's almost as if politicians actively want their voters to feel disenfranchised. Who's going to tell those households in a few years that, "Whoops we made a mistake--so maybe this natural gas thing for heating wasn't such a good idea after all"?

At the same time, households who are leading the charge in the energy transition with heat pumps pay full cost, get no rebates, and, cherry on top, pay through the nose for per kWh surcharges on electricity that don't exist for natural gas.
I sure am! We have family and friends spread across 2 continents. We can travel freely to spend time near them, take our jobs with us wherever we go, rent a well appointed home with a tap, and when not physically present, have a video chat at a moment's notice and hop into a round of VR golf. In the old world we would have had to choose career or having relationships with our parents and extended families. No more.
If you google what is a git commit, almost nobody points this specialty out. This is also most likely what the above comment got wrong.

So I don't disagree with you; if we're being pedantic, the commit hash never changes for the same commit [0]. I just pointed out that what someone without an in-depth knowledge of git would intuitively consider to be a commit can indeed have changing hashes.

[0] There does not seem to be an authoritative definition for the git-type of commit, so I guess we need to go with "a commit is what git considers a commit".
It's good to reflect on improvement as it's so easy to start taking stuff for granted. The two I often think about are smoking and food.

The smoking ban happened in England in 2007, so I didn't have to put up with smoking for that long. But I can definitely remember the time when going out meant your clothes and hair stunk of smoke. It was disgusting. In Germany it is still legal for smaller establishments to have smoking, and smoking is still very popular in Germany, unlike the UK and US. A few of us were looking for a place to have some drinks one night and found it really difficult because going into a smoking place was out of the question.

Growing up in the UK we always had the cheapest food. In the 90s supermarkets started having value brands and we had a lot of "Tesco Value" stuff. Today you just cannot find food at such low quality. If you buy the cheapest today, you are getting what would have been a premium product back then. The bread was like tough foam, the crisps like burnt potato skins, the beans were mostly watery sauce.
This is fantastic. Thanks for putting a smile on my face today m8
Exciting to hear this! Do you have any references to the type of work (if your own isn’t published) that closely resembles the organoid models you use?

How finicky are these organoids to maintain? It used to be true that organoids are harder to maintain than super large mouse colonies by a long shot!

What validation are you doing on your immune organoid to confirm they work correctly for the assay you’re trying to do?

How do you emulate the various ailments in these organoids? You mentioned MS, are you able to emulate MS like conditions (or even EAE) in these systems?
> Post modernist retort kudos

That's not what post modernism is
That trick won't work too often though.
Elixir Trickery: Using Macros and Metaprogramming Without Superpowers
There's hardly any more misunderstood element of Elixir than its metaprogramming power. The way to understand it is actually not to try too hard to wrap your head around it.
Our society is not structured in a way to value or measure this, our society is optimized for wealth generation and extraction. If a human activity can't be bought or sold, we don't value or measure it. For example, stay-at-home parents aren't accounted for in GDP calculations, but outside daycare providers are, so we structure society to encourage parents to work and pay for daycare instead of staying home.
> When I have to use a 0.x-versioned package because it's a (hard or soft) dependency of some popular framework/platform/tool that "everyone" is using... I feel personally insulted. Like they're saying "no, we're not willing to say this is production-ready, we're not willing to say that we're not going to break backwards compatibility every month or so in a way you can't predict from the version number so can't do automated dependency updates ever, but, hey, everyone else is using it, what's your problem?"

Wait, insulted by whom? The package developers are surely not obliged to develop their package to a standard that satisfies you, and it's hardly their fault if someone else feels that their package is useful enough to integrate it into something popular. Insulted by the popular framework that uses it … maybe, but you are not willing to forgo the use of 0.x-versioned packages even when it is a point of principle for you, so why should the developers of those frameworks forgo it when it is not a point of principle for them?
> When someone needs a lawyer or software developer, they are very unlikely to hire the best in the world.

Certainly not the absolute best in the world, but they are still unlikely to hire a thoroughly mediocre worker who in a past world devoid of easy global communication and travel would have only been hired into a high-paying role by virtue of the fact that they were the only available worker with the necessary skills, since sourcing better talent from a global pool was much harder.
Last time I checked, your race riots were not caused by software, but by gun violence of untrained police officers. I think it is quite clear, what needs to be banned in the US.
How would we fix it without building nuclear plants? I don't think building a bunch of fossil fuel plants is going to go over well. Even Texas hasn't built anything other than wind and solar in years.

Maybe we tolerate it because fixing it is politically impossible.
I do think that the biggest life improvement of this decade is the smartphone. To think that we have so much computing power and limitless things to do on a very small device makes this improvement the most revolutionary one.
The political dangers are orders of magnitude worse now, plus there is climate change (a product of the same political problems). I'll take 1991, but without this future.

Also, IME, the culture has become hateful, poisonous, and based on trauma, despair, and survival rather than hope and dreams, freedom and self-actualization.
Thank you for mentioning this paper, I've been trying to find it unsuccessfully for too long!

Yes, we establish a theory of the problem and a theory of the solution. Coherent updates relate to these both.
The narrative you're outlining was known as "the big lie" before Trump came up with an even bigger lie in 2020.

> Wall Street has its own version: Its Big Lie is that banks and investment houses are merely victims of the crash. You see, the entire boom and bust was caused by misguided government policies. It was not irresponsible lending or derivative or excess leverage or misguided compensation packages, but rather long-standing housing policies that were at fault.

> Indeed, the arguments these folks make fail to withstand even casual scrutiny. But that has not stopped people who should know better from repeating them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-caused-the-fina...
Heh, I don't understand why you are getting downvoted (well I do, but it's not a charitable interpretation). Yep, totally agree - people are not entitled to buy a house wherever they want. At least before the money printer went brrrrr, housing prices as compared to income in the US (median) were one of the lowest among the developed countries. Even now, median house is $375k [1]. Get out of your bubble.

And I say it from the position of someone who actually made this mistake - I bought in Seattle and regret it. A much better decision would have been to buy a cheaper, better house somewhere else. Still, I'm not going to be mad at people telling me this truth :)

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
I'm usually not a "you have to go the hard way before going the easy way"-guy, and I started the easy way actually, but using CLI every definitely changes the way you name your files.
And I can't see (and don't want to) how you would manage files through CLI that contains emojis in their name...
Thanks for the feedback, I absolutely agree about the need for easy-to-use tools for dealing with time series. This is exactly the motivation that prompted us to work on Darts initially.

I like your suggestions of adding comparison to the few other libraries out there, as well as explaining the need for having our own TimeSeries data structure. We should try to do that sometime soon.

Concerning dependencies, we already have some dependencies as extras. "pip install darts" will install everything, but "pip install u8darts" will install only the core (without Prophet and pmdarima), or "pip install u8darts[torch]" only the core+pytorch models.
This fact is well known and changes nothing. The problem is that the system exists at all. The fine print WILL change - it always does, and that's also a well known fact.
For me: The auto spooling weed eater. The hinges hedge trimmer than means I don’t need a ladder and can just walk along with it and cut the top. And to go with the tools, decent and readily available safety equipment. Not really a tool - home automation via ESP chips to water the garden.
Is there anyway to put this technology on my wrist on into a t-shirt, or even implant? I like the idea I have higher risk factors for stroke, but I'm not too keen on wearing a headband nightly.
There are many factory jobs today and companies have a difficult time filling them. They are not the monotonous, repetitive jobs of assembly line work (that has been outsourced) but rather involve some skill that you'll be taught. But it's hard to find people to fill these roles as qualified candidates in many cases think the jobs are below them (college educated but can't find work in their field) or they simply don't want to show up every day and work.

Many people today choose lifestyle centered work (gig economy, part time roles for short term, etc) rather than work that lets them build a life. I have multiple friends that have gone this route out of high school with no college and started at the bottom and have over the years acquired more skills and knowledge and some have moved into supervisory and management roles after their companies financed some additional skills like using spreadsheets, basic management, etc.

The endless stories of people that start, work a week and get a check, don't show for 2 weeks and then come back thinking they are still employed is amazing. The jobs exist and they pay well, but not enough people want them.
Now you just need to set up your email server so you can be jinseo.kim@jinseo.kim. That's pretty cool. Or for a less professional version, you could anagram it to mik.oesnij@jinseo.kim.
> Opening up this side channel isn't undone by trusting some "icloud deactivation".

If you can't trust that, then you can't trust the whole OS and all this speculation has been as valid as any given time.
This is basically a book length topic to cover so you’re going to need to supply more detail. What kind of game, what kind of bots?
A big part of it ia genetically being predisposed to it. I read a few horror stories of people that get them every 6 months, or people that get surgeries and the surgeries fail to fix issues,

But glad to hear you havnt had issues since 30 years!
The disappearance of Dolores Wulff – A family's suspicions and 41-year search
Eh, don't blame the platform's power for IAPs.
On behalf of all the mice, thank you very much for doing this. I'm all for modern medicine but the number of mice, primates and other mammals that we kill in the name of science every year does not sit right with me.
To address (1), I think shopping in what may end up being the "metaverse" will look somewhere in-between a current 2D lists with pictures and current aisle based stores. They don't need to be exact replicas of current stores, and the geometry doesn't even need to be Euclidean. There are a few things that we can take from real stores to possibly make metaverse shopping more enjoyable and efficient.

Think of some of the reasons people still shop in stores:

* They can interact with products and see their true size.
* Our brains are great at memorising and imagining 3D spaces. We can remember where in the store certain products are located, and so shopping can be more efficient than searching for every item. Of course, search could still work in the metaverse, but is not necessary.
* I feel like its easier for me to know if I've seen everything in a real store, because I know I have walked down each and every aisle.
* 3D spaces seem more natural to navigate with other people - they can move around the same space, pointing at and grabbing hold of products

More generally, I think your point:

> It's also more efficient for the vendor to provide the list than pay people to model the interior of their 3D store, scan all their products in, etc

could also have been made 20 years ago when physical stores were hesitant about moving online; it cost money to build a website and take photos of all of their products.
I think part of this is just time to get used to something new? You might notice some improvements too, for instance only after I started using Fastmail I realized the Gmail UI can be pretty slow and heavyweight although I never noticed this before.
How really bad. And what do they say in the police about that? Actually it would be better in addition to overall IT security and firewalls, of couse, to use an article about how to claim surfshark free trial https://vpncoffee.com/surfshark-free-trial/ and to learn when and how to use VPN. I think for such data inputs it's essential as it will be an extra chance for additional internet security and your data privacy.
WD40 formula is famously still secret.
One of the claims in the parent comment was "HN repeating it is also a probable libel", which... no.
> Also, recent history shows that Apple is willing to fight government demands to invade user privacy in court.

I can only think of one instance where they did that (the San Bernardino shooter case), and the request was hugely overreaching (the FBI wanted them to compromise their software update signing services), and also they actually DID comply with giving the FBI access to their iCloud data -- just not the software update service.

In fact this report suggests that Apple cooperating with the FBI when it comes to subpoenaing iCloud data is nothing new: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Volume is a good reason, all told. Same for capability of action.

That is, I doubt anyone cares how you train any models personally. Not much you can personally do with said models, and you are unlikely to be collecting a ton of data in a fancy way.

Though, that last sentence does bring to mind that you are limited in where/how you can collect data. So it isn't that different, all told.
Because trust Is the base of a society. Why wouldnt You trust a bunch of whitcollar excon? Have Faith!
Spoken like someone who didn't die.

Also ghoulish beyond belief.
Induction stoves are good for boiling water and nothing else. And I mean boiling, not simmering. I'm going back to gas very soon and can't wait to start cooking properly again.
Any tutorials/software you can recommend for this?
It might go a little something like this: https://sfdebris.com/videos/special/timewalker2020.php