skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have numerous friends who don't drink or eat meat and for different reasons (religious, addiction, medical, health, caste, politics, personal), and they manage because they know how to navigate socially. I can think of more than a few invites I don't get for related reasons.

In the scenario you propose, the disabled person meets us at the bar, the recovering alcoholic drinks cranberry juice, and the pregnant woman buys because she's probably the only one with a job, some chirp back and forth, nobody complains, and we get to be together. It's not hard. The lifestyle vegan isn't there because we have other things to talk about, and we can always see him at crossfit.

If we have something to manage in a social situation, I think it's still on us to show we are capable of enjoying ourselves.
Let’s be honest, we aren’t talking about Olympic swimmers here.
> If the news article was more like a Wiki (with revision history), would that be sufficient for you?

Not the person you were replying to, but I would love this, yeah. That changelog proposal being implemented would be more than enough to resolve most of the issues I have with publications that silently alter contents of their articles after they were originally published (without indicating that an alteration took place).
in a sense, the entire internet is one massive state machine (on the routing level anyway).
> Whole point of hashing algorithms is that they produce unique hashes for different inputs. Wouldn't a larger input value (bits of the image) make it harder to have collisions?

Standard cryptographic hashes should have certain properties like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect

However, a perceptual hash desires the opposite. Due to the pigeonhole principle, a larger space mapping to a smaller space, involves more collisions. In fact, all hashes have infinite collisions, one just tries to design hashes that don't have many collisions on smaller length inputs. Ultimately though, there will be at least 2^n collisions for all inputs n bits long if the hash is n bit output. You can easily calculate this by looking at the excess in size between input space size and output space size.

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

Perceptual hashes are essentially designed to collide on similar data. The fine details are lost. An ideal perceptual hash algorithm would quantize as many alterable properties of an image as possible. Contrast, brightness, edges, hue, fine details, etc. In the end, you have a bunch of splotches in a certain composition that form the low dimensional eigenbasis of the hash.
Well... you might be right. This report does also highlight the widespread recognition that the Taliban are hypocrites who "hid their halekon in their madrasas".

You're also right that the line I quoted pertains only to the early days of the Taliban's rise, and not necessarily to the rest of the conflict.
> Sure, but they need to be clear that they aren’t committed to it being an accurate story at the time of publish (expectation of a newspaper).

You're misreading the situation. The media doesn't have a crystal ball any more than you or I do. They can be "committed to it being an accurate story at the time of publish," but then new stuff happens after that time, or they have the time to go into more depth. The news isn't just about accuracy, it's also about timeliness.
> I had the right assumption about the Afhan army

Who cares?

No, begging the Taliban to spare the embassy, and evacuating in a panic are not hallmarks of good planning. Rushing in troops at the last minute to hold the door for your civilian staff is not planning.
You don't have to memorize compose key combinations unless you use a few strange ones often. "Compose", "t", "m" gives me "™". Your first guess is usually right.
You would get a lot from reading "Strangers in Their Own Land". A sociologist goes to southern Louisiana to talk to people to try to learn why the group of people who is often most directly impacted by pollution is also so often vocally anti-regulation.

I grew up the area, in a place literally referred to as "Cancer Alley", and it's a fascinating mixture of culture, cognitive dissonance, power structures, and limited economic opportunities.

The short answer is that everyone, everyone makes their life choices in the context of a larger culture that they absorb mostly automatically and unconsciously. We like to consider ourselves autonomous actors that make our own choices, but our culture defines the set of choices that are even thinkable, and provides the heuristics we use to rank those choices.

Culture changes slowly, irrationally, and preferentially to the benefit of those in power. The result is that our habits for making decisions are often out of sync with what's materially best for us.

On top of that, we are a tribal primate species. We're hardwired to feel a deep emotional need to be included by and valued by our social group. For almost all of our evolutionary history, abandonment meant death. So we feel an innate pressure to conform to the beliefs of those around us.

Mix that all together, and it's fairly easy to end up with people acting against their self interest or making unthought choices that go against their values.
standard practice "Sentinel value" when I was a student
It's confusing why ml beginners are obsessed over linear algebra. The subject is very hard and need only for advanced ml model. why not just study calculus and understand it?
My worry with jumping straight to questions like that is that it doesn't seem terribly clear to me that this is a case where any hypothetical correlation is due to causation. I'm no doctor, but my vague understanding is that relevant biochemistry is arranged such that it would more likely that they simply share a common cause.

And the reason why that matters is that getting the causality wrong might promote incorrect conclusions about how best to address the problem, and that that in turn might lead to ineffective or even harmful recommendations. Which I don't think is a mere academic concern; it seems that that's a mistake that health researchers (or at least health pundits) just keep making over and over and over again.
UCLA TV Series Looks at Clutter Epidemic in Middle-Class American Homes
Motorola couldn't do software very well. And software became increasingly important in all the fields they competed in.

It turned out to be easier to take a company that was great at software, and turn it into a cellphone company, rather than trying to take a cellphone company and make it great at software.
The Wall Street Journal published a similar article yesterday.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/head-of-who-team-investigating-...
Arch Linux ARM, with Phosh.
>I love how ever single reply to the parent mentions Trump, as if anyone that thinks snopes is full of shit must be a Trump supporter.

Because there was no widespread vocal opposition to Snopes until Trump supporters started calling it "fake news" for debunking his claims about his inauguration turnout. Now they come out of the woodwork with every mention of the site to call it liberal propaganda and whatnot. No one else cares about the site that much - it's entertainment at best.
As a developer, if I untick that checkbox. I expect it not to run on mac M1. I don't want users to be able to run it, from store or otherwise.

I unchecked that box because I haven't developed with mac in mind and don't want to provide bad experience.
The guessability of combos to compose characters with is really key to what makes the compose key a great tool. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft adopts this into their OS someday.
You disagree but then state that Apple did something no one else had ever done?
> You just need biological machinery and computers are not biological machinery capable of producing sensations.

This is a postulate, not an argument. My contention is that qualia are meaningless - like saying that there is such a thing as "feeling like you're computing the number 1000" for a processor, or "feeling like you are a really hard granite" for a piece of granite. Just because we can express it doesn't mean that it makes sense.

All of the conundrums about qualia go away if we just accept this. Alice would not in fact experience anything new when she saw red for the first time, if she knew everything about human cognition and the physical properties of the color red.

I do absolutely agree that we know almost nothing about how these processes actually happen in the brain, and most attempts at AI and bombastic predictions about replacing humans are off the mark by centuries. But that is no reason to assume that there is something completely different going on in animal brains than computation, in the wide sense of the Turing machine model.
HTML5 Canvas Mastery: Rotation, Stars and Polygons [video]
Ask HN: Should I even bother competing for React jobs?
It seems like the state of hiring is getting even more ridiculous, and I've struggled to find anything for over a year. In particular, almost every frontend job runs some homework or hackerrank thing based on React, regardless of whether it's specified as the most important requirement. I don't tend to win these competitions, and I don't tend to use React, and it's an unsustainable way to live. I didn't jump on the bandwagon meanwhile about everyone else in the world did. I could probably refine my knowledge of it a bit, but most 'React devs' have been grinding it out professionally for years. Is it even worth trying to conpete in a massive market like this where the skill is so commonplace? Is there another area I could focus my energy like Vue where maybe there isn't as many people out there? I can only do so many 3-8 hour react based tests that I ultimately miss a test case on or simply don't compare favourably to the 1000 other people who applied.

More broadly, I'm a programmer, I've been doing it for years, and can't make money doing it, so I'm in a manual labour job that ends soon and pays like shit. I know JS quite well, learn quickly, and establish good rapport with colleagues, but that doesn't seem to be effective. Wtf do I do to actually put an ostensibly useful skill to actual use?
Onward and upward... :\
i assure you it was a fully original rant.
"annihilation signals" sounds very troubling
Fritz Haber is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" ... and also created the process to synthesize ammonia which is at the root of an agriculture that supports half the world's population.

Without this guy, half of history wouldn't exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
Someone make a bot to repost this every year
He works with software. He probably also knows that to filter out specific files in a filesystem, it requires “scanning” all files and checking the ones that really represent image and video blobs, presumably for CSMA post processing. For doing so, one really needs to scan everything. The way I see it, there is really no confusion.
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999)
so stop mine your crypto
Presumably she had gestational diabetes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestational_diabetes
here's windows's docs on it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/ctrl-...
I love the tone of this, it’s like the musings of an explorer who discovered a jungle city abandoned by a mysterious civilization.

“there were old wall slogans inside that must have been added to motivate and inspire the employees” … “ the tall building had several brick structures on the lower main level. He suspected that those structures probably had plants and ferns in them so that important business clients and employees would be met with a pleasing sight upon entering.” … “Martin Gonzalez also noticed pictures of people using Motorola products that had been left on the walls of the building.”

Indeed, the ways of the people of the Motorola civilization of around 2011CE are mysterious and strange to us. Perhaps the central atrium served some kind of ritual purpose? Were prisoners perhaps thrown off the upper balconies as a sacrifice to their gods? We will never really know.
the climate change prisoner's dilemma will leave us all screwed.
Fight or flight: How one of the UK’s busiest airports defends against
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

And this is still a thing.
Who still believes global warming does not exist?

I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.

This book is almost quarter of century old.
Grew up in Arlington Heights a few years ahead of you. (RMHS '89). Heady days indeed.
And nobody has done that since. Can it really be an industry revolution if it's still a solo act over a decade later?
What was the previous record?
Trinidad and Tobago's GDP is $24 billion. The top 33 oil companies made more revenue than that in 2018 [1]. Not total. Each. Saudi Aramco's 20218 revenue was $414 billion.

When businesses are more valuable than governments, they are above the law.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_oil_and_gas_co...
It's from BuzzFeed News, which has become a fairly reputable news organization. It even has a Pulitzer prize. It has an avowed left-wing bias, but it's not about listicles. They're doing serious reporting.

It's the same company as BuzzFeed, and the name certainly isn't doing it any favors. But this story isn't BuzzFeed-style junk. It's actually relevant, and most likely factual.

Seems bizarre, but it's true.
> Your private photos will be uploaded encrypted to Apple's servers, so that only you can access them.

This would be a large change from the way it works today, where Apple can view your iCloud photos. They’ve not made any statements indicating that is going to change.
It got tied to another theory, that the virus was engineered.
The non-tech stuff seems to be most important at this level. One thing I notice some senior SWEs lacking is instinctive understanding of how prioritize and which tradeoffs to make to maximize their value. Beyond that it seems to be almost entirely political / luck of the draw. Figure out how to play the game.
> and this database can be audited by 3rd parties

Which 3rd parties and how much auditing was there granted by NCMEC in the past?

I don't see the NCMEC call the CCC or EFF and ask them if they want to audit their database full of CSAM. (Or Apple or the other partners that weren't named.)
Falcons "realistic" flight model had broken physics. The only other game from 386 era would be SimCity where FPU gives negligent speedup.
i'm not one to wish ill will, but that would be a wicked indoor gokart course
I posted an article on HN at the time from a Chinese-born Harvard Public Health PHd who was writing in winter of 2020 he thought it could have come from the lab.

It actually wasn't downvoted too much - plenty of people here found it plausible - but the amount of people saying I was stupid and gullible has really stuck with me.

I was told I had no idea how viruses work (this is true enough - I don't have a degree in biology) but still felt extremely gaslit.
/s dupe, already submitted
> Around the globe: the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago.

If you are curious about where humans were measuring temperatures between 1880 and now, I put together an animation[1] of temperature station locations in GHCNv3 some time ago. With GHCNv4 out, it is due for an update, but still informative.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h95uvT67bNg
I suspect more deniers just think it will be the next generations problem rather than something that entirely doesn't exist, personally
Don't think science will save us this time lads
We create animated product stories
I only run into matching while trying to find more information on a topic only to conclude that all the sources I find are just matching the initial article. Its an unfortunate side effect of the top down view search engines allow us I guess. Unfortunate cause its very frustrating and can waste up to an hour or so of your day if there are a few dozen articles on a subject. I should add that I dont follow any news sites accept aggregators. I can imagine that I would have issues with a local newspaper which I trust not reporting to me that the minister president was shot even though they could not possible have the scoop.
It doesn’t really matter who was president. The whole western world has handled Covid poorly. Including the current administration. The issue is no one has learned to not trust ccp. They lied about sars and tried to cover it up, and they lied about Covid from day 1 trying to cover it up.
If the "groove", "feel", or chord progression of such a song is identical or substantially similar to the song you copied from, you could still be liable for copyright infringement per Williams v. Bridgeport Music (the "Blurred Lines" case).

Before you complain, note well that among black musicians the groove is the song, the melody being something of an afterthought -- the exact opposite of what prevails in the white concept of music and, in particular, historical understanding of copyright law. Black musicians have been trying to get acknowledgement of ownership of their grooves for decades.

In general, it's not a good idea to use someone else's song as a starting point. In most cases, the original composer is going to be able to establish some form of "substantial similarity" to make you liable for infringement; it will take radical transformation to avoid this.
1. There's 0 precedent for taxes that are "only for the rich" being applied to everybody? Seriously? Start with the US income tax.

2. If I understand correctly, this proposal is not an income tax, it is a wealth tax. I know of no European country that has such a thing.

3. See 1.
I'm nearing the end of my 20's and feel the same way.

1. I think it's because of the hard logical core of our jobs. Always thinking of edge-cases etc. It makes this pure logical part overly influencial.

2. There's absolutely no need for much social interaction to do your job well. This gets you rusty at a common skill, small talk and finding commonalities. Since you're rusty, even doing it is a bit exhausting.

I def feel like I've gotten too hard logical and it's taken away from what should be very relaxed, festive, and straightforward interactions.

It's very tough to throw away a job where you're making good money in an efficient amount of hours.

I would say the solution is to put yourself in hobbies where you have to converse. Language meetups, running meetups, friend group outtings, etc. Also get into a side-project where you have to converse a lot - building stuff together quickly with friends on the weekend in person. Look at copywriting and maybe even just post random Youtube videos describing what you're doing in your life.
That you haven't read the story but you feel manipulated says a lot more about you than the story. The story is fine, and it doesn't even make a value judgment about what the father is doing. It documents why he started making these things and why he claims that he is continuing to make them... so unless you have a problem with documenting the motivation of the subject of a story, I have no idea why you would feel manipulated unless you're just looking for a grievance.
FTA:

> the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago. It was 0.02 of a degree F (0.01 of a degree C) higher than the previous record set in July 2016, which was then tied in 2019 and 2020
Posted a number of times in the past but only two with comments:

August 16, 2018 (12 comments) by pjc50: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17764576

March 26, 2017 (11 comments) by openfuture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959999
Archaeologists have found inscriptions referring to the cult of "Six Sigma", which is hypothesized to be a primitive form of ritual statistical magic.
>Yes, kids do mostly OK with covid, but their parents and other close contacts may not.

Kids will do mostly OK, as well as their parents and other close contacts.

Yes some people will die, yes some will severely sick but that is a risk I'm willing to accept for normal life.

No, I wouldn't wear mask nor would I force my kids to wear one.

I'll do as much as I can to re-normalize no mask.
> See for yourself on the link to a google search below, results are filtered between 2018 and January 2021, but every single article for the first five pages is about the incident that occurred two weeks ago, mistakenly backdated years.

Is that the news website's fault, or Google's fault?

The first two links are to what look like keyword/topic pages with many articles, and it wouldn't be surprising of Google pulled a different date than what you're looking for out of such a page. Some of the other hits appear to be old articles with a "new stories" bar (not sure exactly what you call it, here's an example: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/15/trump-admits-biden-won-ele...).

Personally, I don't consider Google date searching to be very reliable, IMHO. They're making a promise with it they can't really keep.
Something interesting to think about:

- This has a framework "eframe" which lets you write generic apps which can be rendered and run either natively on on the web with WASM:

- https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/eframe

This has me thinking -- there's an existing standard "Web Audio Modules (WAM)" which never really went anywhere:

https://www.webaudiomodules.org/

I'm imagining some way of bridging the VST3 API's and the WAM API's, so that you could write code using "eframe" that would run either as a natively compiled VST plugin, or in a browser and using the DOM audio API's as a Web Audio Module.

native -- glium (OpenGL) -- --- VST3/LV2 API "Adapters"
/ \ /
eframe --- Generic Audio/Synth/FX API's
\ / \
web ----- WASM (WebGL)----- --- Web Audio Modules API "Adapter"

Wouldn't something like that just be really friggin cool?

I'm not big-brain enough to figure out the details or if it's even viable, but damn it would be revolutionary.
I am the author of a CSS 2.1 rasterizer, as well as the author of GUI software for game engines. They have different ways they draw user-interfaces.

CSS 2.1 and the associated modules and extensions to it that you would use today to build UIs are much more complicated to implement than game engine UI.

If the opposite were true, you'd see more web browsers that weren't KHTML derivatives, but that's not the case.
That makes the media look worse, not better. Their true inclination is to think one thing but they self censored so they wouldn't be seen as agreeing with the bad orange man?
I have seen some entries on snopes that seem to be trying very hard to be technically correct even though the story is substantially correct. I think the Rosenberg one is one example. I would say it was "mostly true" but I think they are trying to parse the meaning of words overly closely. Yes, technically she wasn't convicted of terrorism and the definition of terrorist is vague.

I would be interested if there are examples of conservative topics where they have either been as hair-splitting as in this example or if they were not as hair-splitting.
I'm not skilled enough in the biomedical background to evaluate the various genetics-based articles written for or against natural-origin and lab-origin hypotheses. As a layman, however, I find the degree to which the Chinese government has stomped all over foreign-led investigations into the origin of SARS-Cov-2 to be highly, highly suspicious.
They should invent mask with flexible displays on the outside and sensors on the inside.
If you entertain the idea, what has that thing got that the iPhone could be accused of copying?