skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how did none of the researchers catch this

That's so, so easy to happen, specially 10 years ago. If they're not already primed to think a dataset might be fraudulent, a researcher might likely just think they've won the statistical signal lottery.
Sweden's neighbours have far less international travel, immigration, and urban population.
What does "PAM" mean?
Startup wants to develop commercial cargo services for Chinese space station
I have no other reply to this essay. I am unmoved by anybody who requires social cues in order to decide how to spend time. When I got heavily into programming, nobody I knew had the faintest idea of what it was or what I was doing. I couldn’t be bothered, because I was too busy programming.
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Actually, I do trade the statistical risk of killing myself for some statistically greater benefit pretty much every single day and every action I take, from driving a car, to traveling for work, to any number of recreational activities like surfing or skiing.

Your argument is the precise fallacy I'm arguing against — risks and benefits should be quantified and weighed. The fact that it takes 50 man-months of quarantine to avoid a single one-month earlier than expected death, to me, is absolutely not worth it.

Perhaps you think locking up 50 innocent people to give someone an extra month is worth it. I don't. But I do understand that it's a subjective assessment.
So we build self driving software by creating one big brain that does gradient descent.

Would we have been more effective if we built other things like this? 400,000 people were involved in the Apollo program. Would it have been better if we had just one person with a really big brain? How about the Linux kernel and Wikipedia?

And why should I figure out a better algorithm? Shouldn't that be the job of the one guy with the biggest brain who comes up with everything?
This data must not show up in geofenced warrants though, the topic of this thread? Otherwise, it clearly isn't anonymized (or it isn't useful to law enforcement requesting the data anyways).
Elsewhere people have already pointed this out: Swedes also have smaller families and a large proportion of people living alone, which (positively) contributed to numbers more than population density.

Which is why Tegnell had the gall to blame immigrants for the spread of Covid-19. Immigrants live in more densely populated areas.

And all this still doesn't explane a significantly larger mortality rate than immediate neighbors that have similar populations.
This is exactly what happens with Office 365 now lol
People believed them enough to vote for Brexit.
No, the long term goal was the same as that in relation to the USSR under Yeltsin.
1) Privatise State assets and
2) Create a billionaire class whose fealty was to Western Capitalism not the Russian state.
The CCP saw this and acted accordingly.
Some "serious" swimmers wear sports watches that collect and show all kinds of information: lap times, strokes per lane etc.

Plenty of opportunity to get distracted.
> We shouldn't be conflating the result from a professional investigation with the prevalent popular opinion.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but professional investigations tend to be politically charged and popular opinion tends to be created by the same interests who create politics.

And it's not that we totally, absolutely wouldn't learn anything that would ever help us. It's just that we likely won't find a magic bullet (which would be worth a lot of trouble), but will probably create conditions where countries will cooperate less and mislead more the next time it happens. I mentioned amnesties previously, and I believe they work in a similar fashion. Hunt down the evil-doers who lost a civil war, if you want to remain in a perpetual state of civil war. Don't do it if you want to return to some kind of normalcy and peace.
I use uBlock to disable the feeds and notification badges for those websites. This means I can still get information from reddit through Google, but can't browse it or read my messages.

I also turned off notifications for emails and other things that can wait. At around 11PM the phone goes silent and most apps are on a timer.

This is ridiculously effective. I had to make an exception for Hacker News because I was running out of offline reading material.
They do different things. Both are useful.

Outlier detection detects data points that look different from your existing data in some way; that "lie outside" what is usual. Sometimes the assumption is that outliers are generated by an entirely different process from the rest of the data. It's important not to conflate "outliers" with legitimate data points that happened to fall at the tail ends of the data distribution.

The techniques I listed attempt to actually compensate for some known or estimable level of badness in the data. For example, gold loss correction (GLC) essentially estimates the probability of misclassifying a data point, and uses that to adjust the output of the model.
I always thought it would be great if Apple allowed a duress iPhone faceid (say, you making a certain face) that could be used to erase the phone.
It could be done with a merger with TSMC (or Samsung), but at this scale these companies are critical for the countries themselves. A merger like this would be extremely political.
Just like how ancient games and screen savers had a “Boss Mode” shortcut that showed a fake screenshot of Excel or whatever, all modern devices should have an “Allow limited or fake access to someone else to avoid the socially awkward situation of saying No” option.

Call it Duress/Panic/Boss/Jealous Boy//Girlfriend/Puritan Family Mode or whatever.

iOS has something called Guided Access which sorta helps a little bit but is very obvious to the other party.
Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents
Self-replying because I thought of something else after thinking about it more (it’s a pretty deep essay):

My thesis advisor once gave me a bad grade on a paper about the Gaia Hypothesis about 15 years ago, and I never really knew why. The answer I get from reading this article is that I wasn’t thinking about the steady state system as an actor in its own right. And that might be because I am inside the system so it just looks chaotic to me.

I think I got hung up on the animist implications of the theory, rather than ignoring the simple but powerful insight that any complex steady state is in some way analogous to a living organism. As I learned in SSC’s Meditations on Moloch, treating something as an actor can help reveal deeper truths.
I don't think "At first glance I thought the title" comments are very meaningful. You can always wait for the second glance before posting, which takes care of 100% of these.

Thanks for posting it in the right place though :)
There seems to be a lot of trans folks doing crazy tech stuff. Her, the Perl 6 on Haskell woman, the actually portable executable woman, byuu (RIP), etc.
The T1 had zero impact whatsoever on getting Linux running. The T2 did, but only because Apple's NVMe implementation wasn't quite spec compliant. The trouble we've had with Apple hardware other than that is that Apple have made whatever design choices suit them best rather than following any external standards.
Yes, also include the added weight though. The converted bike will take longer to stop at the same speed just because you added a motor and battery.
Pluggable Authentication Module

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_PAM
The last time I went to a restaurant the menu was a QR code linking to a Facebook page. I coulnd.t even use it, had to rely on my wife's which has a FB account to read the menu. Now that you mention analytics I wonder if they get info based on this strategy.
> Forensics agent pulls and mounts hard drive

Is this what the typical airport threat scenario looks like? How do they do this with soldered in drives?

> Agent sees /home/hiddenuser

Or they see nothing, because your drive is encrypted. They come to ask you for the key, you comply they see $blandaccount with some seemingly important company data and a scary corporate message as the desktop background (as justification why there is even encryption). Bonus points if you complain about it yourself ("If you ask me all of this is a bit paranoid"). Afterwards you use the real key and see $realaccount, because you thought about plausible deniability and how to use it propperly – if you still trust the integrity of your device, that is.
There is a hugh market for a reasonably powerful ebike.

The ones I like are $2000 to $12,000.

I'm waiting for a Henry Ford type of guy to bring those costs down. I guess the lithium batteries are a big factor in costs?

In the mean time, I'm sticking with my old Zapp bikes. I need a battery though.
I think the most prominent example of such gesture is the handshake. Or earlier just raising right hand to show you're not holding any weapon and your friendly.

Or am I wrong and there are older gestures still in use?
Reading this article, I think the reason that the author doesn't feel like a hacker is that it's a cultural label and a lifestyle (almost like "goth" or "punk").

The author recounts three or four occasions when they did some programming at school. They're quite right - that isn't being a "hacker". IMO that requires a level of monomania which means that a significant portion of their spare time is spent on computer projects.

I'd agree with them that "hacker" doesn't necessarily imply "good computer employee" though, and this will increasingly be the case as in the industry matures, but it does mean that the person concerned deeply loves the field, and that's someone you probably want to work with, if they're not also a sociopath.

I know a few people from school who weren't remotely interested in computers at the time, but ended up on CS programmes. Typically those are the people who became managers in the end. A lot of the "hackers" are still programming. I don't think this has anything to do with the Dilbert principle. It's more to do with their having developed decent people-skills in their youth, possibly due to their lack of monomania (or reverse causation). But it also speaks to their motivations.

The article suggests that we not focus on the "hacker stereotype", but it's a stereotype because it's a thing. Ignoring it seems silly as well. Deliberately trying to undermine or change it culturally seems like vandalism. The answer is probably to highlight the fact that a team with only "hackers" on it will probably not do quite as well as a more mixed team including a bunch of people from other backgrounds as well.
Did you watch their presentation? They're definitely not trying to solve self-driving with just "more data"
"a lot of people here see him as tony stark in the flesh" is a caricature, not a "fact", and clearly positions you on one side of the $celeb wars.

"They really do love their heroes", "don't let reality get in their way", and "worship" is all just name-calling designed to put down the other side—also not "fact", and definitely more $celeb war. Other than that, there was literally nothing in your comment.
I was in Stockholm last week. My point is that 25/km^2 is an absurd figure to use because northern Sweden has more reindeer than people.
Life expectancy tends to go up as population densities increase. On top of that, people's environmental footprints shrink.

We can talk about all the specific cases where people lost something as the older character of the city made way for the new, but on the balance, there must be more cases of lives improving, than degrading, when we see not only gains in average income and life expectancy, but more people able to live in the cities that provide these superior conditions.

Consider that Hong Kong now has the highest life expectancy in the world:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/health/hong-kong-world-longes...
> Which people, and what speech?

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H2c – Headers to Curl
“Below average at best”?!

Apple is famously a forerunner of personal computing. They invented most of the mobile UI design language used today. Every OS they’ve built is extremely premium. Their natural language processing is best-in-class.

How are they possibly “below average at best”
> Was it worse than millenia of unchallengable state-sanctioned bullshit?

Before the advent of mass media there was no "unchallengeable state-sanctioned" anything. The was a mix of local news and gossip, word-of-mouth, announcements from the local aristocrat or landlord, and more or less accurate rumours arriving from travellers.
From reading some links from here, I don't think so. Despite the breathless amazement of the writers, it doesn't seem to really be an innovation in heat pumps itself, it's just doing things in a way that's much more efficient than Tesla's previous heating/cooling systems...
> comparing with high population countries with lots of neighbors / travel links, then they did great.

Sweden _is_ one of those countries when compared to its neighbours though.

Denmark, Finland and Norway have nowhere near the same levels of international travel, immigration and urban population.
I'm aware of the requirements. I think it would be completely reasonable that you should be required to not be on the verge of going into a diabetic coma and not have BAC of .07 while driving an F-450.
Yes, that's what I think too. I just don't see a reason why driving skills should not be largely transferable.

Being able to drive in California doesn't include all the skills needed for e.g. winter driving in Norway, or for driving in an Indian city, or (list goes on), but I fail to see that it's just 1% (as an upstream poster claimed) or even close to 1%. I fail to see that driving skills are 99% intransferable.

I also fail to see that while the skills are transferable for humans, they are intransferable for computers. Various people in the thread assert so, but argument by repeated assertion is meh.
While you can produce unreadable sphagetti in any language, powershell is just a poor mans Python without any real language features. I'd much rather use csharp(script) if I have a need to interface with some ms stuff (.net system libraries or whatever), powershell is just underwhelming and bloated without any real performance or productivity gains.

Unix shells, for all their idiosynchronacies, tend to focus on small bits of functionality directly composed from common shell or system utilities. The complexities lie in outdated design, not in the language or form.

We could definitely do with an upgrade to the underlying tooling, I don't find anything otherwise lacking in shell scripting otherwise. I don't agree with the OP that we need a web readable data format - perhaps the jq syntax could be useful but the best part of shell scripting is it is approachable by humans - if it is not you are doing too much and should be writing your missile control program in python or c, or similar. I dont think it should be easier to produce functioning junk nor should it be a requirement to master a data syntax in order to print a formated date. Maybe you need a different date program if you need to do something special.
Under normal circumstances, I might agree with you. But these are not normal circumstances.

Thalidomide was never involved as a treatment for a pandemic level situation. The rules outside of a pandemic are different from the rules when you are in the middle of a pandemic.
..and by then, the web bloat will make it a requirement in order to render a product webpage that still doesn't show you the price.
It's time to cosmopolitan libc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27180182
I would add that 911 is a "queer" choice (for rotary phones), in other countries the emergency numbers are lowish numbers, in Italy 112 or 113 (or 115), and there are several records in the past of people managing to "dial" them by quickly pushing and releasing the hook switch.

There was another reason for this as it was common, many, many years ago, to restrict the possibility to make phone calls by using a little lock on the dial, like this:

https://www.ebay.it/itm/402554995319?hash=item5dba25c277:g:~...

it was placed on the #3 hole, so that you could dial 112 or 113 even when the lock was on.
Access to medicine is pretty terrible in Sweden for less critical issues.

You have to pay for doctor's visits between $30-60 and often have to wait 4-8 weeks even with the fee. Almost everything requires a prescription compared to other countries, so the delays are problematic as there is no opportunity for self-medication at all.

But there's definitely something to be said for the overall health of the population like obesity rates, smoking rates, etc.
Don't forget that Sonos seems to be fond of forced obsolescence, though they backtracked on that one:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/sonos_bricking_laudio...

IIRC, Sonos also has a mandatory requirement to set up an account in order to install the speakers.

IKEA should really look to cooperate with a company that is more interested in sustainability - but that's maybe a bit much to ask?
I heard a very interesting explanation (on BBC R4) of the reason for choosing 9 (one of the slowest numbers to dial), rather than 1 (the quickest).

The old overhead telephone lines could knock against each other in the wind, producing a pulse which (to the system) appeared to be a 1. This could easily happen three times in a row, resulting in an unwanted call to the emergency services.
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Well yea people who feel part of that community would. I don't call myself a hacker either but I was modifying hardware and software in my teens for fun so I probably counted as one. I didn't know of any hacker community. It was just a fascinating thing to do. However, I also don't blame anyone for not supporting me, despite the fact that they didn't. No adults around me even understood what I was doing. One teacher told me off for programming in the computer room instead of sitting quietly or whatever dumb time-killer she had planned. But that was no obstacle whatsoever. The fact that this author was put off by a grade in a school project shows how un-self-motivated she was.
I've been barely outside at all over the past 18 months because the risk of infection has been too high. I would rather have a short, strict lockdown (followed by a period of being open with extremely low infection risk) than the long, drawn-out yo-yo lockdowns (where we lock down too late and open up too early - meaning community transmission remains high) we've been having. Better to rip the band-aid off quickly than slowly.
"Finally, we test these automatically generated LEGO sets by constructing physical builds using real LEGO bricks."

That reads to me like: "I'm not playing honey, this is work!" I sure hope the team doing this had a lot of fun :)

The algorithm itself is OK but doesn't appear all that novel to me. It looks like they're using ShapeNet (or similar dataset) to train a 3D voxel autoencoder which can predict geometry from an image. And then they convert those voxels to LEGO instructions.

For the first part, I've seen equally good papers before, for example by the ShapeNet team. For the second part, there's working explicit algorithms. So their main contribution appears to be to combine two working things into a (somewhat) useful whole.
Why oh why didn't the military destroy equipment left behind in the wind-down? At least at the bases... where they keep heaps of explosives for the purpose of destroying things?
This is a fun idea, but it generates comments that are typically the ones which should not exists in actual code, because they do not add any useful information. Thinking about it I'm not sure it is possible to do better. If the comment can be automatically generated from the source code, then the source code itself will necessarily a be more precise version, making the comment useless. The benefit here is that at least the comments are automatically updated at the same time as the code…
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that’s the stupidest request to make of a customer service rep. good lord.
> Historically, however, walking has been the privilege of white men. Black men were likely to be arrested, or worse. Women just out for a walk were harassed, or worse.

Holy shit, so true, let me give you some internet points for being a good dog.
Feeling the need to pass because of speed plus the ability to pass because it's a bike, is pretty different from feeling the need to pass because it's a bike. At the speed limit both of those things will happen. At 5 over the former will be much less common.
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There's no salaries breakdown by country, which makes the data useless for finding out how my they pay in the Netherlands.
I think the proliferation of it made people aware and learn quickly to proceed with caution on many fronts.
During COVID, I think the pulse ox sensors have been a very unexpected and extremely positive bonus. Worth the money, for that feature alone.

Prior to COVID, I would have said that it was just a nice-to-have.
I think all of that could be easily implemented by logging into different accounts by entering a different password/passcode.

So UserA:regularPassword would be one’s usual account, but UserA:obviousToGuess123 would actually log into UserB, and UserA:ohshithelp would log into UserC which has a startup script to secretly call police or whatever.
From what I've read and seen in videos about it, that seems to be the case in much of the US as well.

In Australia you can get ducted systems, but at the residential scale it's both more expensive and less efficient than split systems. So houses will often have larger split units (5 - 10kW heat/cool capacity) in the main living areas and then smaller ones (2.5 - 3.5kW capacity) in all the bedrooms. Sometimes you have a multi-head system with one outdoor compressor unit and two or three indoor units.

This is even the case for large apartment buildings (often have a separate AC compressor for each unit), but most office and commercial buildings have central AC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

Yes, IP regimes are definitely hamstringing operating system progress. https://en.swpat.org/wiki/NetApp%27s_filesystem_patents goes into some details about why Linux doesn't have automatic transparent instantaneous backups like the NetApp fileserver I was using a quarter century ago.
Yes, a daily meeting every morning to tell people what you did the day before feels like baby sitting.
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I read HN on Kindle[1], So low bloat websites like these are always a pleasure to read on Kindle's forever experimental browser.

The websites needn't be text only, Reducing useless elements like Techcrunch's content wrap can go a long way to improve readability and accessibility.

[1] https://hntokindle.com/ (Disclaimer: I built this)
> On desktop systems where the option is available to me, I use ... though the uBlock Origin elements remover can also be used for this.)

After getting really annoyed with some unpleasant thumbnails that just kept showing up, I came up with the following ublock origin rule:

www.youtube.com##div.ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(ytd-channel-name a[href="/c/<channel-name>"])

to exclude things from the recommendations lists. Not sure how well it'll scale if I had a large number to exclude though.
It's almost as if the bugs purposely placed there are too easy to find.
There's headphones for swimmers :)
If a girl is beautiful and has already boyfriend/relationship then she doesn't want to hang out with other people and wait till clock hits 5 PM. Same can be said about married people but at least they will hang out sometimes. Single people especially guys want to hangout but as soon as all girls are gone, it becomes useless to stay. Personally I prefer we just stay stickily professional. But people do otherwise more often than not
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Aren't they system integrator and get their supplies from thousands of vendors worldwide. That actually makes them disaster proof.