skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the Wikipedia editor didn't just Google the person if there were no links why didn't they go to some minor effort rather than just assuming said article is bunk.

It is not their role to do so. Or put another way, it is no more their role to do it than yours.

Furthermore, the admin is likely not a domain expert and it makes sense to send it back to the author who clearly knows more to say "Hey, we need citations." Which is what was done.

> Or again, after a very quick search realise the person is senior and publish asking for more public input on the topic/atricle.

This was more or less done: The rejection notice said more input was needed.

As someone who spent time in academia: I'm definitely against creating pages for researchers who merely have published a lot. Their work has to be significant. While hers clearly was, it was not referenced.

> The fact it was deleted instead shows either a problem with the mods or a bias among the mods

Frankly, the fact is that you are not aware of Wikipedia's AFC submission process. Please take a look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creatio...

And the guidelines for reviewers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles...

Specifically, look at the review flowchart:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Flow_ch...

It very clearly states that if an AFC article is not reliably sourced, it should be rejected.

While I can't speak for the actual biases of the admin, the article would have been rejected by any unbiased admin who follows the process.

> Most conversation on this is around defending a wiki admin from not being capable of determining good from bad which is getting stupid.

I agree it is stupid, but the stupidity arises from the CBC article: They chose to highlight this without doing the appropriate work to understand how Wikipedia works. While the bias they speak of may well be very real, they didn't pick a good example - opting instead for sensationalism.
It can get a little frustrating to hear so much inaccurate FUD being spread around which detracts from a reasoned discussion on the merits.
What kind of skillset do you have? It's not always hard to find a new job. That's not a healthy environment to be working in, imo.
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The brain is still developing at that age and marijuana has well documented effects on brain development.
I'd point out that people without ADHD don't necessarily have much control over what they're relatively good with, either!

In a non-programming context for example, someone who is quite bad and slow with numbers yet good with manual tasks, might prefer to be reassigned from cashier to stock. Even without ADHD being mentioned, there's nothing too odd about that kind of request, though there's no guarantee it could be accommodated. Now, if you mentioned ADHD it might create a legal obligation to accommodate. (Not sure on your laws there.)

If you think they're supportive I don't see the harm in phrasing it in terms of your ADHD to emphasize it's not you being picky, it's a practical way to keep you productive.
It is a dumb thing to do because the FBI (and other in-country equivalents) will be posting their own messages looking for such people. For that matter I expect the big fortune-1000 type companies will troll these as well looking for people to fire for cause.
https://archive.is/i3kER
Temperature and weather conditions do not significantly affect the level of winter cycling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
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That's too little, too late. By the time any human reviewer can evaluate whether the images should have been in the database the encryption on the backups has already been circumvented and other parties have already been given access to your private files.
Now that half the states have already legalized it and reaps a ton in tax revenue, the fed wants their cut at a time when tax revenue is drying up. These states have been ignoring federal law for a very long time now, without consequence, so there might as well not be that law if you're not going to actually enforce it.
This would enable that. Right now, in states that have legalized, retailers and users are still in contravention of federal law.
Sadly Facebook is really a faceless corporation after all.
Indeed, it could very well be physical and, because of that, not be something one will ever be able to fix.
The top of My Todo List (http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html), but more specifically, what Graham linked to: The Regrets of Dying (https://bronnieware.com/regrets-of-the-dying/)

It is a succinct summary of what, with the benefit of hindsight, many people thought was important in their lives and what they should have done better.

Absent is "I should have worked harder" and "I should have spent more time at the office".
FYI: when you wrote this comment, you had posted 5% of all the comments on this thread.
Ask HN: What languages/frameworks do you use for platform operations tasks?
By "platform operations" I'm referring to what some would call DevOps; deployments, database migrations, general automation scripts, etc.

I ask because my new employer uses JavaScript via Gulp, and this caught me by surprise, as I'd never heard of anyone using Gulp like this. It got me to wondering what other patterns are out there that I've never encountered.
all non-leftie viewpoints are banned here, so that point is moot. Also he is right, this is a blatant call for censorship.
One question I have is how does Lex Fridman constantly get such high quality guests for his interviews?
When i think about the work i do as a fairly blue collar front-end engineer writing react and swift code, it's interesting to consider how this could fit in and help.

The problem areas for the examples given here are somewhat self-contained, which is in contrast to the code I write, usually all about integrating multiple systems and bodies of knowledge (user device, network, data schema, industry practices, product requirements etc).

I too rarely, to my occasional regret, have a chance to write a more pure function whose function can be explained so concisely as these examples. Helper functions ("count the words" etc) are sprinkled throughout my code for sure but are mostly provided to me by the platforms I inhabit.

Codex's ability to explain a piece of code in plain english seemed exciting at first, but the type of "other people's code" I am usually puzzling over has so many tentacles into the specific "business rules" of the service i'm writing to. How would Codex know about all that?

Of course codex has already blown my mind several times so I am quite open to it someday being able to ingest an entire set of interrelated codebases and break them down for me succinctly. That doesn't even seem far-fetched, based on what we've seen to this point.

The thing that is ringing a bell for me the most is the idea of it being able to understand APIs and generate correct code for them. That could be a neat learning tool and save some boilerplate. Kind of like scaffold-generation code, but on steroids ...

... perhaps it could even learn to simplify APIs, make them friendlier etc. Or translate between them?
> It dawned on me that my attempt at completely controlling my life had, in fact, caused me to lose control over it.

So many enlightened people have quoted this as the one thing that matters most than anything else.

I read this article "This column will change your life"[1] about an Indian philosopher named Jiddu Krishnamurti many many years ago but this passage really stuck with me:

Krishnamurti went on to give countless talks at which he frequently implied that his audience shouldn't be wasting their time listening to spiritual talks. But perhaps the most striking was a 1977 lecture in California.

"Part-way through this particular talk," writes Jim Dreaver, who was present, "Krishnamurti suddenly paused, leaned forward and said, almost conspiratorially, 'Do you want to know what my secret is?' " (There are several accounts of this event; details vary.) Krishnamurti rarely spoke in such personal terms, and the audience was electrified, Dreaver recalls. "Almost as though we were one body we sat up… I could see people all around me lean forward, their ears straining and their mouths slowly opening in hushed anticipation."

Then Krishnamurti, "in a soft, almost shy voice", said: "You see, I don't mind what happens."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/10/stop-mi...
Criminals don't have the same cultural/legal pressure pushing them to scrape every dollar out of a transaction that corporations do. I think you're more likely to get paid generously or even favorably by a criminal enterprise than a 'straight' one.
Could the techie guys become the new owners of capitalism? What can corporate and politicians do to remain the branches of social power?
To me, 30% does absolutely not seem like a large discrepancy if there's push for inclusion of more women in Wikipedia and if these efforts are trying to compensate a 4:1 discrepancy in current articles. At that point you'd need several times more women's articles than you currently have so the idea that slightly more poor quality articles may be being deleted is definitely one of the obvious options.
I say leave the number-choosing to the states.

Regulate medical marijuana like any other non-scheduled drug and leave cultural decisions concerning recreational use to the states, where it belongs. Use federal funding stipulations as leverage when needed.
I always assumed those were dividing lines that let rando citizens do their thing without trouble ... and a way to identify potental illegal traffickers.

Despite being legal, illegal pot I believe is still cheaper / in demand in places.
Weed is still somewhat dangerous to smoke because of lung cancer and we regulate cigarettes so there's some precedent here.

On the other hand, there are methods with which to use weed that confer 0% risk of lung cancer and my anecdotal evidence suggests more and more people are using those methods.
If the task is to answer the question "Does a royal lineage exist between Alfred the Great and Queen Elizabeth?" then this works fine, but the results only show 1 of possibly 100s of such paths. If you're of European descent, it's 100% possible for you to find a similar connection to Alfred the Great as well :)
I hope this means it can be purchased online and mailed easily. Right now municipalities have taken the opportunity to tax it overzealously, and we could use some competition on that front.
The sample set is ImageNet, which is a well-known dataset in Computer Vision and is available for download here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/imagenet-object-localization-challe...

I'd love to see this work extended; if you find additional collisions in the wild please submit a PR to the repo (please do not submit artificially generated adversarial images): https://github.com/roboflow-ai/neuralhash-collisions

For what it's worth, Apple claimed to find a _lower_ incidence of false-positives when it used pornographic images in its test[1] (which makes sense; images containing humans is probably more aligned with what the model was trained on than nematodes)

[1] https://tidbits.com/2021/08/13/new-csam-detection-details-em...

> In Apple’s tests against 100 million non-CSAM images, it encountered 3 false positives when compared against NCMEC’s database. In a separate test of 500,000 adult pornography images matched against NCMEC’s database, it found no false positives.
uh.. I actually worked at intel in these times... and I used to have a cube adjacent to Andy Grove (for some reason, we were on the same bathroom schedule, and peed quite a bunch next to eachother)

Anyway, my best friend and I ran the DRG game lab (developer relations group) - where we (intel) paid millions to gaming companies to optimize their games to the intel arch and things like SIMD instruction sets... we game tested (subjectively) games running on intel vs AMD machines... it was also the lab where we were able to prove that a subjectively performant PC could cost less than $1,000 === The Celeron Processor

I was even the person who first sent an email (1997) to engineering asking why we couldnt stack multiple processors on top of one another....

I later learned on a hike with a head of marketing that in the proc labs Intel had a 64-core test fab. (This was fucking 1998 when that was revealed to me under NDA etc...)

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I love the mosquito story, your equivalent of Newton’s apple i guess!

Will this tell you what type of bacteria it is? Will it tell you for example if you have Limes disease? I think the current tests for that (at least available to me) aren’t too accurate.
Why? Some ransomware gangs put great value in their reputation, as this isn't a one-time game for them. This is only becoming more so these days as the level of professionalism increases.

You might as well ask why the group would bother providing the decryption key once the ransom is paid. It's a little trickier here - do you want to be in a position to call them out publicly afterwards if you were complicit in sabotaging your employer? - but the criminals arguably have more to lose.
I am not an expert but I understand merchants here in the US pay about 2.5-3% in fees. Of these, they are split between the merchant's bank (called the acquirer), the merchant's service provider (if any, like Square or Whatever), the network (Mastercard, etc.), and the cardholders bank (called the issuer). Note that sometimes the issuer and network are the same (e.g., for AmEx and Discover).

I am curious how 3% is "absolutely insane"? I pay almost 9% in sales tax. Apple store takes 15-30% cut of apps. Parking tax in NYC is almost 19%. I tip 20+% regularly at restaurants and usually much more for home delivery people. Some Banks charge $25+ For a wire transfer, sometimes even to receive one. I do not "feel" like 3% is a lot. Could it be less? Sure - give up your rewards cards though because your issuer may not be able to afford it.

Now that some merchants charge a few percent for using cards, the cost is not even borne by them.
Wasn't there a larger change to the privacy policy of WhatsApp that stated otherwise?
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I can't find the link/specific site but before 2013 I was not into web development/didn't really use computers other than minor gaming. I was failing out of school and was trying to find an escape. I then stumbled on this figure of getting 100K page impressions a day adsense would equal $100K/yr. It's a little off now (less) but still. It drove me to make a lot of random crappy websites and I learned how websites work/LAMP stack. I didn't succeed in the goal of high traffic sites but I got into this field/ended up working out for me.

I did fail out of school twice (as in 2.23 GPA) and never finished my phys-eng degree and at that time I was so stressed out like school was everything/I had debt piling up from loans, didn't know what I was going to do. Then this field pays you so much if you know what you're doing. Also lead me to the idea of entrepreneurship/trying to make some business like the stuff you'd see on Indie Hackers, this has not happened yet, I'm still an hourly Joe currently.

Actually I remember one site in particular: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ where a guy made a million dollars by selling a million pixels of adspace.

Similarly Peter Levels making $70K/month on his stuff... just things like this gave me the realization of an alternative life than what I thought to be "the way to success" at the time.

I had some really stupid ideas though, like BeforeYouDoIdo or dn2d8 which was a dating site. Anyway also learned about external validation vs. self delusion regarding what some idea is actually worth.
Nice strawman. Either way, you need new physics (to build a structure that large), so why not have a little more creativity while you're in the process of blatant speculation?
> Nothing other than instability should have been expected.

Genuine, general question: we in the west are very keen on multiculturalism and many of the most ardent multiculturalists blame European powers (as you do) for carving up the Middle East into culturally heterogeneous regions which "inevitably lean toward instability". To me, these things feel in conflict; am I wrong for feeling that way? If you're a multiculturalist, how do you reconcile these things?

To be clear, I'm not sure whether or not I'm a multiculturalist. On the one hand I like being around culturally diverse people; on the other, it seems hard to work out a society in which we may not be able to agree on the basic ground rules.
we should be increasing some of those numbers to 21 too
The US government subsidized the vaccines, effectively pre-purchasing enough so that manufacturing could be ramped up faster than normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
I don't know much about that, but a quick Google/Duckduckgo search reveals that over 1 million people have the certification, meaning it must be important in some way.

Honestly, I see "old guard" companies be the strictest about certs/formal education. If you are going to work at a startup or newer company they might care less about these things
Yeah I don't really see any error in the logic of making it safe but also wanting studies on it.

Studies on it were very hard to do for years because it was a controlled substance. I do enjoy edibles (probably do them once a month) and in my case I am 100% sure it has changed my memory somewhat. I'm ok with that risk because I do enjoy it but I would like to know more about people who have been doing this for decades.
But did the birthday paradox inform his procedure in any way? I guess he wouldn't have even attempted to do this at all if he didn't think it was likely to find collisions.
In regards to legal medications, how would the information those "patches" convey be useful without any context?
>But even going against big players like Amazon, why can't they say - hey, you are selling products with totally false descriptions, refund everyone who but the fake "apple certified" device, or the "UL listed" device. Just do mass refunds across 10's of thousands of customers.

Do we know for a fact that there is no activity here, that the FTC (or other bodies) aren't currently building cases or performing investigations?
I don't disagree but I do think if we're talking about smoking something we do want to find out if it has any of the associated risks smoking tobacco does. There are similarities and differences and as far as I know not a good conclusion on that topic.
OP was correctly refuting the prior post which claimed "US govt" (that means federal) is "mostly in the business of insurance (welfare, healthcare) and 'education'. Defense and infrastructure come some time after those."

It's just not true that the federal government spends more on education than defense, in fact it's very lopsided in the other direction.

The context is a thread on the federal income tax specifically, and someone said the federal govt used to be not very technologically ambitious, and someone else says, essentially, it still isn't technologically ambitious, it spends most of its money on education and social welfare. OP corrected that. The social welfare part has some validity but federal education spending is quite minor.

Yes the total spending by all govts in the US including state + local has a lot more education spending but the thread and the whole article are focused on federal taxes.
The US does produce ~10% of the global chip supply today, and much of the equipment used in the world's factories, and a very significant portion of the software needed, is made in the U.S.A. This is an economic issue. Not a knowledge gap.
Sure, but you need to ask for at least some things that you will likely not get. That give you some wiggle room while negotiating. If you start with compromise position you will get very little of what you want and mostly what the other party prefers.
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If you have a point which you feel rebuts a common argument, it seems reasonable to leave that comment in places you see that argument. The alternative is "minority positions should be drowned out", no?
Except he won't have the same penalty as a bank that did effectively the same thing. HSBC got a slap on the wrist.
12 states have completely legalized recreational cannabis use (like alcohol - 21yrs and over), and 36 for medical use, so they have been.
That's what this does:

> States will control the possession, production, or distribution of cannabis, the draft says, while shipping marijuana into states that have not legalized it will be prohibited.

As opposed to the status quo where in principle the federal government could decide to prosecute... shall we say "marijuana market participants"? in states where it is legal.
I wouldn't really call it discrimination if the dude on the phone has a hard time deciphering what type of sandwich you are trying to order, or talking to a stranger in a loud bar who needs you to keep repeating yourself.

I think the need for this stems from a desire to be understood. Though I understand why the OP would list discrimination in their sales pitch.
I'm not familiar with GH, but gitlab is definitely focused on building/running things from a commit in a repo to the point of making it awkward to do ad hoc actions or tasks not clearly tied to one repo. You can do it, but it's harder and has weird restrictions.
Keep in mind that your storage requirements are also dependent on other supplementation.

Ready.gov suggests one gallon (4 litres) per person per day (https://www.ready.gov/water)

It's helpful to look at actual empirical usage. Van Lifers often give their own usage statistics. This article gives a 6.15 gal/day (23 litre/day) figure: https://musingsonentropy.com/2014/10/07/motorhome-living-one...

Household-level usage might be closer to 60 gal/day (225 litre/day) (1996 New Mexico water usage report, table of estimated usage).

Keep in mind that individual usage varies, emergencies (heat, illness, freezing) may change patterns, and that there is discretionary and nondiscretionary usage.

Don't undercount sanitation requirements -- regular bathing and flushing toilets will keep you healthy. It's possible to reduce those demands, but entirely eliminating them (unless methods are changed) is likely a bad idea.
Voting, moving out, getting medical care, and marriage generally don't negatively impact your body and brain.

Alcohol, weed, cigarettes, etc. all do some kind of damage to your body. If anything we should raise cigarettes to 21. And yes, even weed, especially smoking weed, does damage to your body, even if it's massively less than the other two I said.

(And getting drafted... well that should just go away all together).
I guess I think the analogy would be more complete if nobody liked working cashier and most would rather be in stock. I'm claiming to be more productive at things that most people want to be doing anyway, so I could imagine there being an assumption that I'm just saying that