skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been my understanding that Fortran is loved by physicists due to it's procedural approach, and doesn't require learning objects and inheritance, etc.

There's a lot to learn in higher level physics, so having the simplest language, without tons of features to fiddle with, while also being very, very performant is preferable.

I have a feeling that much of this work end end up in Julia however.
I do still wonder if there's more than one me inside my brain. Consider the corpus callosotomy where the two hemispheres are now independent conscious agents afterwards, according to split screen experiments. If I had a disorder that inhibited inter-hemispheric communication, I'd imagine I would literally be two separate people without even realizing it.
Just speculation but perhaps the way the installers work makes it appear to Windows that the app was uninstalled first and then a new version is installed. If it looks like it was uninstalled then I can see why Windows might change the default.
I still have my accounts and browse through them once every day or two in order to see what people are up to, but I consciously made a decision to stop posting a few years ago, and then to stop commenting on contentious threads maybe a year or so ago. I agree life has been much better, there's no lingering obligation to respond to someone who disagrees with you N times/hour. I see some of my friends posting things to "make people think" or whatever but somehow the discourse is never constructive.
What's the end game of the Spanish org? What are they trying to achieve with this?
Another horrific failure of reviewers.

6 subjects!? Did anyone actually check the study they registered? https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02790541

Their actual clinical trial had 62 subjects and it had a control arm. The paper has only 6 subjects and no controls.

If I run an experiment with 60 people, I can find evidence for anything (precognition, telekinesis, etc.) if I'm allowed to cherry pick 6 data points and drop any controls.

The authors should be ashamed for polluting the scientific record with this junk.
I do. I was just weeding my yard yesterday. To the same point, we generally don't have reservations about that because we don't ascribe them moral value. As I understand it, even the environmental protections for endangered plants are based in the plant's potential utility for humans, not their inherent moral value.
That's interesting, I've been avoiding .Net for web projects because of the DI. Time to take another look.
Science is just fine. This guy is not. Part of keeping science fine means eliminating those who prioritize politics over the search for the truth.

I've only reviewed Ionnaddis's paper, with a quick literature search, found it to be hilariously fraudulent. I haven't investigated ICL's analysis, but if you can be more specific about what to look for, I might.

For 2., his work was about the supposed "low standards" of others, but IMHO it was always coming from the place that every paper in the literature has to represent pure truth, and every study should have huge numbers before getting published. Though I disagree with that sentiment (I think the literature should publish early and often, like open source), it's a fair enough one to have, which is what garnered him fame and respect. To see his own research have such openly low standards, when trying to contradict consensus, shows an arrogance and lack of self-skepticism of the sort that means I would never be able to trust him as a collaborator, and that I won't trust his judgement and even honesty in the future.
I'm working on it! Essentially a 2d vector drawing program with spreadsheet like reactivity. Completely inspired by http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend..., though I'm taking a different approach.

Should be good for bespoke data visualizations and interactive simulations.

Lil toy animations I made a while back messing with the core engine:

https://imgur.com/a/ELhwWo5

https://imgur.com/a/3ww4ql1
So bassicaly GTA (without the crime) on an Oculus? How is that patentable?
This situation is covered by GDPR. GDPR has a "household activities" exemption, which does not apply here because it's the business activity of your landlord. The data is certainly personal data because it's connected to you (even if indirectly, via your apartment number).

Per GDPR, they have an obligation to inform you what data is being collected and for what purpose (Article 14). If they only mention damage photographs, then any photographs that aren't about damage would have been collected unlawfully and you can request they be deleted (Article 17, in particular part 1-d). You also have the right to receive a copy of all data about you (Article 15), and I doubt that any of the usual exceptions apply to this case.

While you can infer so-called Special Category data (sex, sexuality, health conditions), I'm not sure it technically counts as Special Category data on its own. However the inferability of Special Category data should have been part of the consideration of whether this data collection is acceptable.

If the data is transferred to a cloud service, they are obligated to inform you. If this transfer is international, they are obligated to inform you what is the legal basis for the international transfer (but not the actual destination country). If they have told you neither, they are only compliant if the data is entirely on-device or on-premise.

You can file a complaint with ICO, the regulator for the UK.
I dual boot. Once a year or so, windows update trashes my boot loader and makes me do a grub repair in order be able to boot into ubuntu again. It’s inconvenient for me, but amateur Linux users could really panic and think it was Linux’s fault
> asking about sewer "hook ups" at a campground

No lie, that is dirty talk.
Personally I don’t think it’s bad and allows immigration to happen from more cultures and regions. GP was the one who had an issue with the per country caps.
Everyone here knows the answer; it's barely worth an entire article.

In the USA there is a poorer segment of society that has much worse healthcare than the equivalent in European countries.

This is because they do not have the good health insurance policies that are needed to have good healthcare; even with insurance they can't afford the deductibles. This is largely because richer Americans get their good health insurance from their good jobs. It is also because poorer people's lives are more chaotic because life is harder.

In Europe those people's lives are similarly chaotic due to the struggle of living on low income in a low income area, but they have access to good free healthcare in many countries, and fairer insurance schemes in others.
+1 on that: It's still manageable to set a default browser which is not Ms Edge, but I found especially dark pattern - that Windows apps do not respect that setting. Take a look on the news feed in the recent Windows 10 release. When you click on a link, it opens Ms Edge regardless what you have set as default browser. I think I've seen also some user guides / support pages opening also in Ms Edge that way. Frankly speaking, even if I found some news feeds interesting, the fact it will be opened in MS Edge made me to disable the feed at all.
It's a dark pattern, it reminds me of the cookie banner opt-out flows where they make it intentionally overly complicated.

I hope the EU sues them again over this. Same with the cookie banner, by law there should be a single click 'no thanks' button.
> India and China could easily become the majority of immigrants due to the population size.

Ok?

What’s your problem with that?
Making it easier for foreign doctors, nurses, etc, to become French, American, English, etc, cannot go together with "helping the southern hemisphere".

The West is often accused of "pillaging" the rest of the planet. Whether it is true or false, what is sure is that this cannot go together with key workers and vital forces, being sucked into western hospitals.
Who is "we" in this situation? For this specific case, it seems different countries have different opinions about what is the right tradeoff between allowing freelancers with leverage to enjoy their situation, and protecting workers with less bargaining power from being locked out of worker protection systems.

It's unavoidable, since different countries have different worker protection systems. For instance, some of these countries have to pick up the tab when employers cheat their way out of paying their dues.
Do we have that collective fiction? I don't personally know anyone who thought that Facebook applied its rules to all equally, and certainly nobody here in the HN comments seems to be surprised.
It's not quite ready for the prime time, but there are some open source phones in the works. The two most notable are the Librem 5 (https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/) and the Pinephone (https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/).
And the "proof" used is an archaic term that means "test". The same word occurs in discussing alcohol strength ("100 proof") and in "proof standard" (the standard[1] that you use to compare against).

The German cognate would be "prüfen", the Swedish probably "pröva".

So, the exception tests the rule.

[1] And the standard is, of course, a reference exemplar of some sort.
Once you get into games, especially beyond monochrome text-based or maybe CGA, you were already pushing the limits. DOS was an OS for essentially text-based office apps in the early 80s and it just got pushed well-beyond that over time. And, yes, it made getting it set up for anything that wasn't a lowest common denominator setup very challenging.
I think this is still science fiction. About ten years ago a lot of the focus was on DNA-centric self-replicating structures but it didn’t go anywhere interesting. More recent attempts (example: https://news.wsu.edu/2018/03/08/self-replicating-materials-2...) are still very much early stage, focusing on exploratory fundamental research.
Yet another thing perfect for the James Webb todo list.
Admiral Hyman Rickover -- one of the most successful engineering managers in history -- had about 40 direct reports: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

> "Some management experts advocate strict limits to the number of people reporting to a common superior—generally five to seven. But if one has capable people who require but a few moments of his time during the day, there is no reason to set such arbitrary constraints. Some forty key people report frequently and directly to me. This enables me to keep up with what is going on and makes it possible for them to get fast action. The latter aspect is particularly important. Capable people will not work for long where they cannot get prompt decisions and actions from their superior."
You are absolutely dead-on with the paragraph about family culture. I will paraphrase a small essay written by a smart friend of mine who was educated at home:

"Children naturally imitate people they respect. If they are raised by a parent who hunts, they will want to hunt. If they are raised by a parent who plays music, they will want to play music. The value system of the parent is thus communicated to the child via the productive interactions they share together.

In a school system, children are hidden away from productive adults who love them and are instead exposed to a rotating cast of absenteeist teachers who cannot hope to give them serious one-on-one attention, which is necessary for personal development. At school, with hundreds of children kept in a holding pen with a total lack of personal role models, they look to the most charismatic children to learn value systems and methods of interaction. This explains the dichotomy between what homeschooled children consider "cool" (i.e. what would impress their family and lead to productive, exciting interactions with them) and what schooled children consider "cool" (i.e. what would impress the most charismatic children and lead to productive, exciting interactions with them.) This is also why homeschooled children tend to have a few close friends, good manners, and close relationships with adults.

The fact of the matter is that children cannot raise each other. If they could, then school would be a good idea."
Honestly tokio is so complex, and it serves so many use-cases it's hard for me to believe it could ever be truly optimal for any one use-case.
You can include southern and eastern Europe as well, it's just bit different there.
When society was still less mobile and many jobs were meant to be forever(when I started to work, this was coming to an end slowly), workers took their jobs very seriously(none of that we are family messaging on intranets like these days) and everyone knew their place, workers respected a managers authority and I have seen on more than one occasions how attempted manager power play was shut down right on the spot, often with let's say credible promises of sever aggression.
Some parts of Europe have a population that's a bit short tempered, such things like some coked up Uber manager touching someone's gf or wife would be dealt with swiftly and personally.

There are many such social contracts, written, unwritten and I am proud that Europe has them and is keeping them.

Interestingly, having spent plenty of time in LATAM, many people consider themselves leftists, but it's very, very different, the social system is bad due to lack of money, or impractical allocation of funds, but the will and spirit is there.
Is there anyone walking around that actually believes that rules and laws apply to the elite?

Some seem to think that the reason this is excused is because (in the US at least) every poor schmuck seem to think they they will be rich and powerful someday and get to partake. I've never found that very credible, but smarter people than me seem to think so.
Exactly, it's NOT known. ...which is why it's not ethical to require their vaccination in order to work when the benefit to their patients is unknown.

The burden of proof should be on the agency forcing vaccinations upon people to work.
> Why do we even have the collective fiction where corporate messaging around a sore topic is treated as trustworthy? Especially with companies that we know lie all the fucking time?

Yeah I don't get that. PR people are adversaries, not allies
Unreal - I pip-installed the library, ran the demos, and it just worked! After years of mucking about with pyCairo this is a very pleasant surprise!
No I would not make the argument in reverse as you suggested. Not in this context. This is atypical murder. The proliferation of murder is the only metric that matters. This is not your average crime context. It's more or less legitimate businesses/corporations stepping out of legitimate methods. Any murder in this context is noteworthy, an increase points at a catastrophic development of uncontained corporate power. A junkie killig someone in a robbery does not damage the foundations of our current society, where coca cola killing a union worker does. No amount of murder is to be expected, or assumed here, regardless of the activism extend. It's categorically different to "common murder".

Likewise you wouldn't discuss a rise in Al Qaeda terrorist attacks in relation to US population growth, or cartel excutions in relation to Mexico's birth rate. What you are interested in is the number of organized, state-like, violent offenders only, not the pool of their victims.

I hope my point gets across. Not a native speaker.
I’d also add to this that usually if you delete an app that has an active subscription Apple asks you what you want to do with said subscription.

I find that to be a great user experience personally.
I found the article after trying to pick up my DEFLATE project again. I quit 6 months ago after trying endlessly to understand package-merge, so I'm glad this was written in the meantime.

I posted some (slightly mistaken) comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220442
Hello there!
The maker of this project is here!
I made this small tool to create an additional channel of communication with clients, which can be easily used by indie hackers and owners of small online stores.

Using my tool you can create a custom promotions calendar and invite your IOS users to subscribe to it. Thus, we can send push notifications through the default IOS calendar app. The subscription is created using WebCal protocol. Think of it as an alternative to web push on IOS.

Check the demo subscription page from your iPhone to see how it works: https://productstories.pro/demo-calendar-push/
Tips to refactor a complex legacy app without automation tools
I found it: https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a4263/learning-to-s...

Search terms I used were: starting smoking at 40 cigarettes

It was the sixth google result for me.
Did you include solar energy, energy imports or demand shaping in your model?
This is basically how all films are made now, even at the highest levels.

I have worked on $100 million+ budget projects with Netflix and Apple. The amount of buying items to return within 30 days is absurd
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> You have to prove citizenship

What makes you think such a strange thing? It obviously isn’t true. Have you never met a foreign healthcare worker?
I was going to reply but exactly this - I'll add that the proof work in the article is really interesting and I love to see practical work in formal proofs happening as a result of eth in particular. However 100% proven code on eth I just don't believe is 100% trustworthy.

Another way of phrasing it is that the law of leaky abstractions means that though the code itself might be 100% correct, lower levels can puncture the assumptions and make that correctness moot - IE, unsinkable titanic vibes
Am I right to think of it more as a partnership? It does take at least one person with insider knowledge and access. Otherwise, the reporting would lack the backing documents that brings it credibility. And companies seem to be rather opaque to purely outside sources.
This is particularly frustrating, yes. I think I'd actually prefer it if applications could not make arbitrary changes to system/user defaults on their own. I've had problems with this on Windows, when I've needed to use it, but also on Android, and even desktop Linux (Chromium in Debian sid currently, rather bafflingly, seems to make itself the xdg-open default even with $BROWSER, Gnome's default browser setting, and x-www-browser all set to Firefox).

But to ostensibly create central, user-controlled methods and restrictions for setting defaults to prevent unwanted default changes and hijacking, and then actually use that space as an advertisement for your own products (Are you sure you want to change away from Edge? Have you tried Edge? Do you want to switch back to Edge? Microsoft recommends Edge!), while exempting your products from the restrictions, completely destroys the point of those controls, and any respect people would have for it.
I wonder how many perfectly usable/recyclable chips are abandoned in landfills worldwide.
> Taxi drivers are not knowledge workers, or artists and clearly not entrepreneurs.

Of course they're entrepreneurs. They have to own or finance a car. They choose when and where to work and for what company to drive for. They can also work for black car in addition to ride share and can even manage private rides. They have some ability to accept or reject fares.

> There's a reason why humanity introduced protections for vulnerable workers in almost every society.

No one is restricting "knowledge workers" from being able to strike a contract. Why can't we afford the same dignity and respect to "cogs in the machine"? You ever thing these "protections" that "humanity" places on "cogs" can end up hurting them? Like how immigrant taxi drivers in NYC were encouraged to rack up 100k debt to buy medallions
I suspect there's a lot of survivor bias in your informal survey. Across all brands, tens of millions of 8-bit systems were sold in the early 80s. The number of users who became engineers is maybe 10% of that - at most.

I think it's impossible to reproduce that experience exactly today, because any modern attempt has to compete with many other sources of digital distraction.

Minecraft and Roblox probably come closest. (And do a decent job in modern terms.)

I suspect psychological, emotional, and digital content literacy - understanding how games and media manipulate beliefs and influence behaviour - is much more important than coding skill today.
Social Security is, more or less, tied to residency for EU-citizen across the board anyway. France has a long standing tradition of granting citizenship for service to state, nation or society (he right of spilled blood, bad translation).

And I think we highly over estimate the value of citizenships, after all they can be literally bought in some places.
> 1. A method for personalizing a virtual reality session, the method comprising: [...]

Pretty sure they just described VRChat's feature of inviting a friend to join your room.
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Are you saying if I hire a contractor with a price set by me and I would "punish" (i.e. never hire them again) when they don't agree, they are suddenly my employee?
> There are monks that would say that with some practice, you would realize it's not. And they call that direct experience too.

I am aware, and I do happen to maintain a practice of that nature. My question to these monks: who is this "you" that realizes it is not? (I don't fear so much offending the monks, my understanding is that many actually enjoy this sort of question :)

> Something you can't measure objectively cannot be so easily hand waved.

Everything that I can measure objectively, including the act of measuring and the concepts of "measure" and "objectivity" happen within the theater of my consciousness (the only thing I have direct experience of is my consciousness, everything else is relative to it).

So I say:
Something you experience directly cannot be so easily hand waved.
In the spirit of the open source movement, the PostgreSQL community has always tried to operate transparently and fairly, and provide resources for people to adopt, use, and promote PostgreSQL. We continuously look to improve and are very much open to feedback (look no further than the discussions on our mailing lists)!

Perhaps I am just a little too young but I do find the use of mailing lists in some of the older open source projects to be a bit cumbersome in 2021. I know there are advantages to them and their semi decentralized nature is a feature but I sure do find them difficult to interact with.

Regardless of the above I do hope they come to a amicable solution and it is interesting to me to find that Postgres trade marks are held by a Canadian entity.
This is the culture Tech VC encourages so this is the culture we all get. SSND no?
>In the UK, the Knowledge [1] is a notoriously arduous exam which certainly makes cab drivers anything but "replaceable 'cogs in the machine'".

>In fact, I think the fact that people view these jobs as being replaceable is what leads to their deterioration.

Uber and the online routing within the app made this obsolete. The jobs that gig economy jobs may be skilled, but these gigs now aren't. The platform took the skill away from the job. The workers are just drones now.
I mean I do keep them but they get too old eventually and then they won’t mount the pool, or will only mount it read-only.
I think those terms are related— first entries for those terms in Oxford Languages:

method: "a particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one."

class: "a set or category of things having some property or attribute in common and differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality."

I agree that virtual is a little shakier, but: "almost or nearly as described, but not completely or according to strict definition."