skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know what "no u argument" means, but that is not the argument.

The argument is that even something as simple as clothing is difficult to have an economically viable business in if not sourcing from places around the world with low wages and lax labor and environmental laws. I would expect Gervais to recognize this, and understand that Tim Cook cannot be expected to have the power to completely rectify the situation regarding the inputs of the most complicated devices every made in history.

>Even more impressive is the snuck premise that, since Gervais is implicitly OK with his clothes (probably) originating in some sweatshop, he should be OK with the state of modern electronics in both their manufacture and their role as panopticon.

I do not agree with this interpretation of my premise due to the ill defined word "OK". It is possible to be realistic and expect solutions to take time, but that does not mean one would be "OK" with labor conditions if they did not have to be.

People like to blame big corporations, politicians, other countries, anyone but themselves. But push comes to shove, where is the political support for higher fossil fuel taxes? Where is the patronizing of local businesses that use local labor to make goods?

What is the purpose of asking Tim Cook about child labor when people in society destroyed every business that did not offer products at the lowest possible prices? I have known about clothing made with child labor since I was in grade school, and I am in my mid 30s, and clothes still come from Bangladesh and we (society as a whole) still buy it from there. Nobody is going to pay the premium required to make an iPhone outside of SE Asia or without the metals from Africa, it is probably not even possible.
He wouldn’t have sold a cake for a gay wedding to a heterosexual couple.

So therefore he is not discriminating against the customer, but rather the stated purpose of using the cake.
By far my fav corporate shill on this forum
> it's hardly a complete object system

While other programming languages became mired in OOP dispute, opinion-battles, and all the ensuing problems[1], Perl 5's built-in OO is easy to learn and understand and makes the difficult things simple. It has been stable and effective for decades.

OO is just a pattern; it can be useful or misused, some aspects are more useful than others. But the defining goalposts are moved all the time. They tend to follow the hype machine.

[1] Members of the Perl community know that OO discussions have become harsh there too.
It's not what i've said, OOP is great for creating APIs like WinUI, not great for writing applications
She's a new kind of popular science presenter, with refreshing depth and command of the subject that's been lacking in this field for ages. She's popular and popular content is getting HN front page often. Add here the dynamics of social media engagement, meaning that more disputed/controversial topics get promoted and shared more.

As a physicist she does have certain opinions (would be strange if she didn't), they make for good material so naturally she brings it up. The disputed subjects however are a fraction of her content, which includes covering the well established basics.
If I were living in Texas and looking for ways to combat this law, I'd look into launching some sort of DDOS on its proponents by suing as many of them as frequently as possible on frivolous grounds, like if they took a teenage child to school in a neighbourhood where there is also an abortion clinic within 2 hours of walking.

Fortunately, I don't live anywhere near Texas...
How can you mock VS having 4e6 different GUI buttons, while Vim technically requires far, far more memorization? (Just logically - a keyboard's 30 or so keys will always be less flexible and require more memorization than a GUI, even if it is faster AFTER you've learned all the combinations).

Also, Command Palette? Heard of it?
Like my children? lol no thanks.
Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history
We were using SCR (silicon controlled rectifier) based motor drives in industrial settings at least 35 years ago. (I graduated as an Electrical Engineer in 1985 and were commonly using them then)
Vaccines aren't free but aren't expensive to produce. If people are just walking in off the street to be vaccinated, with no planning, then it is probably past the point where 3% wastage is material.

Waste not want not, a 3% loss isn't great. But this must be one of the fastest rollouts of a vaccine in human history - it just doesn't matter that much. The 97% that is not wasted is the important part.
When Marge finds out from her friend that nice guy Mike is actually an unstable liar, she starts to question whether the “nice” Jerry might have similar secrets
Do you care so little about personal liberty that you'll allow anyone to erode it as long as they say they're doing it "for the children"?
> it was for personal reasons but I could afford it and it only seemed fair. Generally I like supporting people's hard work

FYI authors of published papers don't see any of this money, it all goes to the journal so there isn't really a case to be made for buying papers to support the researchers. Even the peer-review process is unpaid work.

If you contact the authors they're allowed to send you copies for free and most are happy to do so.
Yup. Immigration was the issue. Bunch of other stuff around the edges like English exceptionalism.

Note that laurent92 talks about "Englishmen" not "British voices". That's incredibly telling.
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Do you seriously think I am going to experiment with kicking my dogs and cats or stepping on their tails, for the sake of science?

I love the dogs and cats that I have the privilege of living with. So no, I'm not going to do that.

Update: sorry I took some offense at your comment. Basically, I don't think this is a matter of science. Our dogs and cats are living, emotional creatures.

As their human, it is my intuition and interaction with them that best teaches me how to provide them with a loving and happy home.
Nice website! Do you know if there is a place where I could easily calculate how many hours of sunshine do I get at particular location during the year assuming that I have lower x degrees of my horizon are occluded (i.e. I live next to a taller house)?
I wonder what is the time to first byte for a given asset when the page loads for the first time. Establishing a webrtc connection takes several rtts to the tracker/signalling server and will always be longer than a plain CDN request.
I think it's rather useful on subsequent page navigation then, when p2p connections are already established.

What about partnering with browsers like Brave, that would embed it in many pages at once?

Disclaimer: I work at Lumen/Streamroot, we do this for video.
Markets don't need exceptions, they adapt. With property/price/rent controls, it comes down to a committee of "experts" or it becomes effectively closer to community property with the tragedy of the commons. IMO, reduce the restrictions on new development and creative use, e.g., by cutting back on zoning to allow higher density development and reduce the ability of neighbors to stop development of neighbor properties (due to aesthetic or other concerns). Building codes and regulations shouldn't protect the consumer from himself, but rather protect the physical safety of adjacent properties. But it's too often used as an excuse to limit competition and preserve the privilege of the early entrants.

We also need to acknowledge that cities inevitably increase in density, which necessarily means apartments, etc. Protecting single-family residences near city centers is a subsidy to them that we should not pay any longer.
I'm not sure what you imply with the quotes around dedicated servers - this is hardware for rent, not VMs (hetzner has VMs too, starting from about 5usd/month - but that's something else).

You do need to go a bit up in price for proper server hw - although there are a few aging xeon boxes with ecc ram on the low end now.
I think it's probably fair to say most cosmologists would consider her views marginal, but she is certainly not a crank. My (limited) understanding is that ΛCDM fits cosmological observations extremely well; however, neither dark matter nor dark energy has actually been shown unambiguously to exist. 'Mainstream' cosmology invariably also includes inflation, which remains essentially a speculative idea unsupported by any hard observational evidence. Sabine Hossenfelder has become a popular commentator by drawing attention to discussions of these and other issues.
Agile has meant 'bad' for years now ever since Agile processes were formalized and adopted by big orgs. At least that's how I've thought of it: 'Agile' means the worst of all worlds. Run if you can.
Conventional Commits: A specification for commit messages
The massive shortage existed way before that lawsuit was even in the making.
Considering a lot of the reason people use GitLab is to move away from MSFT, I think it's unlikely they'll switch to Code.
Stanislav Lem has a story about the attempts to change the history where the Einstein was never born but his theories were developed but

Unapietra, Odnocamenec, Onestone and so on..
> Generally I like supporting people's hard work even if I can't benefit hugely from it - I bought several books that the authors published for free online, just to support them. Even one I found here on HN.

I don't know how it works in medicine, but, at least in math, I benefit not at all financially if someone buys one of my papers. (Book purchases earn their authors a pittance.)

I would personally way rather someone download one of my papers from the arXiv than that they pay the journal. Journals are parasitic vestiges currently used only for status signalling, and I can't afford not to play that status game as an author, but I don't want you to have to play it as a reader, too. (tempay (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28423848) made the same point slightly earlier, and brought up the important point that, also, most authors are willing to send you a copy for free if you don't otherwise have access to it.)
Anyone find it ironic that this article is apparently under a paywall? Does anyone have a scihub link?
> Really, where is this enthusiasm around ML coming from

Because the ML based approaches to exactly the kind of problem you are describing are the most effective which have appeared for a long time. This isn't just hype (though the hype will paper over the still huge difficulties involved in applying this approach), it's genuinely the only approach which has much hope of working (It's also worth pointing out that these systems are almost universally a collection of subsystems each of which employs neural nets or other ML approaches to varying degrees, not a single black box).
This is called scheefwonen – which roughly translates to "crooked living" – and has been a point of attention for several decades at least, more or less as long as I can remember.

It's a bit of a difficult problem, because you don't really want to kick people out of their house just because they have a better-paying job, and especially in the current climate these people don't really have anywhere to go; €7k people will probably manage, but €4k/month will have a harder time finding something affordable.
Sure, they're an investment too, but properties bought primarily to live in, with investment as a handy side effect, do not have the same effect on housing availability and affordability. Each such purchase reduces supply by 1, but also reduces demand by 1, and gives someone relative stability.

So purchasing to live in is not what "property investment" refers to in this context. It has a narrower meaning than "anything you could conceivably think of as an investment".

Aside, houses do in fact wear out, need regular repair, and eventually most get demolished because regular repair isn't good enough.
Before this is loaded and completely ready, you probably load resources with your regular CDN
> People who need those papers for whatever reason and need to use them/cite them will be forced to purchase them regardless

Why?
Israel needs stricter Chekhov's gun control.
it also doesnt help that on page 1 of the most popular religion it basically says that humans have dominion over all the animals on earth, or some sort of slosh to that effect
Vaccines are also in extremely limited supply, globally speaking, and it's not a great look for countries to act is if throwing away millions of doses isn't a big deal while other countries are limited by not getting enough.
Thanks this helps. It seems like it shines when you have a lot of non technical staff requesting the data. At my job, the data analysis folks have to write complex ad-hoc queries all the time. We store the queries for consistency reasons (e.g. to make sure we can be consistent and run the same query each year for the same report) It seems like OLAP wouldn't be a good fit there.
Why Autism Is on the Rise?
Show HN 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394888
The cost of journal access does not in any way pay for the research itself, and neither the researchers nor the peer reviewers ever see a dime. It is money which is stolen from science and from the public.
> Rather than saying that laws of physics are not space-homogeneous.

No one is saying that, and if the cosmological principle falls, it does not imply that in the least. It just means we need to revisit our assumptions about things like hyperinflation, dark matter, etc. Even more exciting, it may mean we need to look for the remnants of a force active during the initial inflation of the universe, that can account for the non-uniformity of matter's distribution.
> and need to use them/cite them will be forced to purchase them regardless

Not at all, but, they will review a lot more of them before deciding which ones to cite if sci-hub is available. BTW arxiv is for physics math and cs, while the closed access problem is mainly affecting life sciences which don't use arxiv, and are only partially using biorxiv / medrxiv. There's still a very archaic culture there, mainly because there's no other easy way to ascertain some scientists' value.
One scenario where you have to do something similar to this is as an extension author, because some websites are hostile to the user. A couple examples from my past:

A non-profit built an extension that would scrape data on advertisements from users' facebook feeds (opt-in). Facebook decided they weren't a fan of this so they introduced some special mouse event handlers designed to identify mouse events generated by extensions (and unfortunately, accessibility tools). I worked with the extension author to introduce a very elaborate set of tricks to forge the 'event not generated from user input' flag so that it would keep working.

Another scenario was that I maintained an accessibility extension (keyboard shortcuts, tooltips, etc) for a browser game. The developers became increasingly hostile to extensions in general because some people used extensions to cheat. Over time I had to do things like forge properties, mask events, hide DOM elements, forge property/method names and toString values, forge stack traces, and automatically shut off functionality in response to anti-cheat code changes (using a custom structural hashing algorithm for JS I created). They still eventually found ways to detect this unfortunately and used that to aggressively harass and then ban users of my extension, but I kept the arms race up for a year or two. Chrome is very bad at protecting extension users from hostile pages - there are various ways to detect whether a user has an extension installed/enabled and it's very difficult to stop that. Most extensions also need to inject scripts into the page to work due to the poor design of WebExtensions and that is also sadly detectable :(

Oddly one far more robust approach to work around these issues is by writing a custom Chrome debugger using their debugging protocol. Custom debuggers can forge real input events, block script execution, filter stack traces, silence exceptions, etc. I eventually prototyped a replacement using this approach and got it working but it really wasn't worth the hassle.
Both are used over the air during the initial attach. If you're trying to hide from (I assume predominantly) the authrities, then it's possible to see that you've switched SIM cards into the same handset.
Also, even if you do have a 1 Gbps uplink, a lot of providers will throttle you if they suspect you're actually hosting a server that tries to utilize most of that bandwidth in anything but bursts.
If the price of properties fall dramatically won't that have an adverse affect on property owners? Imagine shelling out £1M on a house, and spending 20 years paying it off. Now, at the end of that time period the house is worth half of that. I'm not an expert but is closing off an entire section of Capitalism going to work flawlessly?
That's the reason why I think that Tesla's approach to self driving is a dead end.

They are trying to copy the way humans drive, using vision and pattern recognition, but without real, high level intelligence behind it. The problem described in the article is just one aspect of it: a human will know that a bicycle is hidden behind the van, and he know how bicycles tend to behave and be ready when it pops out. An AI, most likely not, it means the reasoning of "if humans don't need X to drive, then neither does a self-riving car" is flawed, X can be lidar, annotated maps, machine-to-machine communication, etc....

I personally think that self-driving cars need every help they can get in order to make up for their lack of intelligence. They already have 100% awareness and superhuman reflexes, but if they can get things like extra sensors, that's even better. It may not get the bicycle behind the van, but it can somewhat compensate by catching it a fraction of a second earlier as it pops out, or maybe by knowing though prerecorded maps that it is a place where bikes are expected.
> Writing them off as collateral damage isn't acceptable public policy.

It was for the flu. Of course from what I understand Covid is worse than the flu. But in most western countries, during the flu season, it is (or at least was) acceptable to not get the vaccine, not wear masks, etc. Old people were expected to get vaccinated since they were the most vulnerable, but even that was on a voluntary basis. So there are some cases where writing off people as collateral damage is an acceptable public policy.
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The game engine, server and client code are all in an embarrassingly early stage. The plan is to flesh these out with prototype implementations of spatial reference frames, Orbital / Newtonian mechanics and collision detection / resolution. All game states and state transitions will be wrapped in a cryptographic layer to support verification of the current game world, its history and replays of partial world states. Deterministic randomness (not a contradiction; see BLS crypto) will drive the procedural world generation. Players interact with the server exclusively through secure cryptographic signatures - enabling the game and all its interaction to form a secure protocol. But don't worry, we're not building a blockchain nor shilling any tokens :)

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I’m trying to remember my science accurately. Won’t the sun _never_ be north for the large amounts of people living above the Tropic of Cancer?
No if they oppose this and succeed many children will be abused as a direct consequence, it’s obvious causality so don’t shy away from what is a clear material choice - make a decision and accept responsibility for that, because it says plenty about where your values are at. And the idea that this will progress into a generalized surveillance tool is wild speculation. It might.

Yes I do believe this illustrates a similar social dynamic. People here could care less about the extreme suffering these children stand to experience.

Email privacy is more important than preventing child rape. Does that sound right to you?
I've noticed a lot more grayed out comments in general, including my own.

Sometimes it's obvious: they (or I) posted on the political/politicized intersections of a subject. Downvotes are likely a mix of people who are aggressively opposed to the apparent tilt of the comment and people who are ideologically opposed to anything they see as politics.

Most times, it's no different from any comment I've made that merely sat at 1.

I think there must have been an influx of people in the last half year or so who are more prone to downvote or flag something they disagree with or just don't like. Only someone with access to the vote database could run a more objective analysis, but my anecdotal impression is that HN is getting more downvotey.
This kind of system was sustained for thousands of years in many different cultures, so I wouldn't exactly call it unsustainable. I would very much call it ugly and undesirable though.

My point here is that there is no guarantee that this will be solved just because it's "unsustainable". I don't understand why people aren't literally protesting on the street; we did so in the 70s and 80s ("geen woning geen kroning") and the situation was a lot less bad back then.
What part of the scientific method would you have them invoke to start from the assertion that the natural world is very intelligent while crafting experiments?

When I accidentally stepped on my dogs paw as a teen, the dog looked hurt and disappointed. The same dog barked at my sister when she tried to stick a pencil up his nose.

Did the dog differentiate the scenarios based on intent or did it recognize my apologetic behaviour as non threatening? Or was it because my interactions with the dog were almost always positive while my sisters were not? Or simply because a pencil up the nose might have hurt a lot? Or because it was a hunting dog and we had hunted together multiple times? Was the dog actually disappointed in me or had they evolved to fake that by adjusting their eyebrows to this situation? Or did I project that emotion?
Median post-tax household income in the UK is £30k. So, £25k each is roughly £20k post-tax, so you're looking at the top 30% of households.

Admittedly this includes households including people who are "retired" but I think that's reasonable as plenty of people have to keep working even though they're receiving a pension.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...
I think that's an overly pessimistic view.

For one, those are all situations people get wrong all of the time. FSD doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than humans.

Two, once FSD is better than humans in most conditions, we can build infrastructure around it. Things like FSD only lanes to reduce erratic human driving etc.

The way I see it - solving FSD on highways seems like a very solvable and economically valuable thing to solve, even in limited ways (i.e. dedicated lanes).

Time will tell.