skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mention here, because Nano Colors it's not just fork of Colorette. It was created as a mix of Colorette and kleur.

https://twitter.com/sitnikcode/status/1441827379454746637?s=...

Fork button will not work for this case.
From the abstract:

> a major concern for not only the future of this platform but also for several industry-scale information retrieval systems such as Siri, Alexa which depend on Wikipedia as knowledge store.

That doesn't imply that the paper is advocating for it, but given that Apple and Amazon now have built products on top Wikipedia, their bottom line depends on it. It's entirely reasonable to wonder if they would prefer to have more influence and control over it. Whether or not it was ever a good idea for Alexa and Siri to have a dependency on Wikipedia is a moot point. They do now, and it wouldn't surprise me to see them wanting to take an active part in keeping Wikipedia fresh.

Of course, because their revenue depends on it, they probably would want more control. In the same way the Amazon is working to exercise more control over the Rust language, Apple or Amazon could decide that taking over Wikipedia is the right move to protect profits.
I'm a little confused by the conventions of this article (this isn't my field), but I think Table 4 on page 2226 and Figure 4 on page 2228 (and the surrounding text) are in fact looking at the total competence of the group before and after gender quotas.
I mean, I've never seen an English speaker pronounce 'j' as 'dz', but the Armenian letter ձ is pronounced exactly like 'dz' and never like 'j'. So, dare I say, ISO 9985 is wrong?
Can someone explain to me what would change in the GroKo, aside from Scholz becoming Chancellor?

Also, good to know about Scholz: He introduced a finance transaction tax on stocks, which was supposed to prevent speculation and high-frequency trading but in the final drafts, quietly removed companies from being subject to the tax, so only private citizens would have to pay it. Luckily it was rejected on the EU level. My guess is that he will try to push it through again now that he'll become Chancellor.
The False Narrative Around Theranos
Yeah no young men looking to smash stuff and fight police in BLM

https://fukkot.com/riots/all/
Some of the reasons Apple comes up with for rejecting developers’ apps are such bullshit. Like I can understand trying to stop scams, malware etc. but this gatekeeping based on Apple’s subjective evaluation of the quality of your app when you have no other option for shipping on iOS is the reason why I just don’t consider it a serious platform. iPhones and iPads are more like iPods to me at this point; cool toys with overpowered hardware that do a few simple things well.

There’s also a lot of irony in Apple judging whether or not your app is good enough. Like does anyone actually think Apple is cool in 2021? To me they’ve just become another boring, stuffy corporation like Dell and HP. The iPhone 13 is so incredibly uninteresting and inconsequential that I couldn’t even remember what number they were on when I was typing this comment. That whole launch just came and went.
GIMP has a wavelet deconstruction option/plugin which breaks frequency bands into separate layers (like a stereo's multiband equilizer). You simply delete the layer corresponding to the frequency component and bam, visual features at that scale vanish, preserving structure at all other scales.

There's even more sophisticated wavelet denoisers out there that effectively do the black circle over peaks trick, but automatically and more precisely.
> Hegemony is a publicly stated goal of the US.

Where? Stated by whom?

A president? We’ve had 46 with wildly conflicting public statements and goals. A Congress? We’ve had 117 sessions of Congress.

“The US” isn’t a single entity. I don’t think you can make any blanket statements across that much time and that many people much beyond “they are all humans.”
Blind people can also get malware...
You didn’t acknowledge the second part of my question
Meanwhile Python: "Yeah if you could rewrite your entire codebase every few years because of some changes nobody fuckin asked for, yeah that would be great. Oh and by the way, we're dropping support for non-latest versions of the language lmao."
Ultimately, maybe the audience would be interested in becoming framed themselves instead, and ignore the actual outside content.
I can advertise that I sell a lock that hasn’t been picked or bypassed. That doesn’t mean it’ll never be picked.
I don't have a problem with those. If you can only see half the car, hazards that blink normally still look like a turn signal blinking too. Yeah, the motion calls extra attention, but paying extra attention to a car with its hazards on seems fine.
Grain is a fully functional language that exclusively targets WebAssmebly. It isn’t a Scheme though. It’s already a very mature project with some external funding.

https://grain-lang.org/
I just wish Linux booting could be done in a lazy manner, such that stuff is only booted when it is needed.
More women living on tax payer money, as if we need more of that. I will celebrate when women will open more businesses or get involved in more productive endeavours. Not that I think equality in all jobs is something we should strive for. Women and men have different inclinations and in average prefer to do different things. It is pretty clear now that all jobs are open for everyone, especially in the more liberal countries. If we have equal number of men and women in all jobs it means something is very wrong with our society.
> more generally not thinking clearly about what their multithreaded code will actually do when it runs

The whole reason people are trying to build better concurrent/parallel computational abstractions is because they're sick of having to think about that stuff. But to be able to stop thinking about it you need to arrive at abstractions that don't leak: that is, their failure modes should themselves be (non-leaky) abstractions of the lower-level error details. Async/await still forces you to learn about thread-pools and scheduling — while in Erlang one has to learn about scheduling only to optimize performance, and deadlocking requires one to explicitly write a "receive" without a timeout.
Things that get rarely touched but depend on external systems are some of the best candidates for extensive and continuous test suites - as they’re most likely to silently break.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.

Some of the largest economies on this planet have poured massive resources into fission for literally decades. Whatever we might discover/improve, we already did, anything past that seems to have quite diminishing returns.

Particularly compared to other technological fields that didn't even get remotely the same levels of funding and time investment.

Which means there's much more potential there for actually innovative breakthroughs.

Case in point: Grid-scale storage was for the longest time a field that saw barely any attention, it's quite underdeveloped. As the common consensus was that fission will deliver all the electricity we would ever need.

Now we have plenty of renewables, but we lack the storage to fully utilize them. Which means if we get grid-storage right, we have already solved a very big part of the problem.
it's working fine for the bottom line and stock price so why should they care more?
Project has been renamed and Show HN is a more appropriate category for this kind of post I'think
This is not about bugs, there will always be bugs. These are security HOLES.
People at a showroom might not be considered actual customers. We would need to get actual customer who have purchased the car to contact Mini, publically via Twitter, so they could no longer hide behind this statement.
1. Most technology companies do not lie about their product or service: Hmmmmmmmmm, Facebook, Google Oracle, Microsoft, etc.
Actually, the "background check shows they are not a terrorist" is the step that hasn't been done yet. That happens during the final step prior to receiving the green card.
> That imposes a pretty big risk on any such strategy.

Surely long term haulage contracts would deal with that?
Sure. The first note was added 5 days ago
https://www.npmjs.com/package/nanocolors/v/0.1.2

Seems like people are confused by git rebase which change commit time in GitHub.
Seems like you have to adapt that threat model for your actual coworkers though? If they weren’t jerks beforehand, the physical separation and privacy of remote work only makes them marginally more likely to behave like jerks now. If they were jerks beforehand … my sympathies, maybe the mother-in-law has some helpful design advice?
I get the use case, but I just can’t get behind using software like this for security reasons. It’s too easy to add users to slack, leading to accidentally exposing secrets.
In the entire history of mankind, has there ever been a case where the good guys have tried to cut off civilians' ability to communicate?
Its the same problem just at a different point in time. The latest code introduces the latest bugs and security vulnerabilities too.
That case doesn't apply because it's not love and that partner is not committed to the relationship. In fact I would go so far to say it's pathological.

I think GP would agree that this type of self help book is not a Rosetta Stone and its core truth may be somewhat banal ie think about what makes your partner feel special not only what makes you feel special. Maybe part of the success formula for these pop psyc books is that we need these truths to be wrapped in a story and labeled so we can remember them more easily.
Unlike a public highway, you can't actually harm anyone by publishing to a public repository. The code is just there; you can ignore if you prefer (you can't ignore a swerving car in a highway).

What's actually harmful is the blind trust most developers have on adding dependencies without proper vetting. But if someone publishes a package they are not responsible for vetting it for inclusion in your project. So shifting blame to the library author gets responsibilities backwards.

Perhaps you would prefer a curated package registry, but in this case you would need actual curators. Something like Debian has maintainers, but doesn't have every library in existence (and what it has is often outdated anyway). Npm and other language registries aren't curated, by design. You could create a curated registry on top of npm but, again, you need curators.
Not anymore unfortunately [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisians-protest-again...
Here is the curve for Sweden, didn't look unthinkable in 1975 there, pretty stable increase since then:

https://www.scb.se/contentassets/e2d35a542c554e308ae8a11909c...

Politicians doesn't change overnight as barriers are removed. A man who entered the field in his 20's 1975 got retired just about now, that is how long it takes for change to fully propagate throughout society. So if 1975 was the year that it got equally acceptable for men and women to enter the field now is about the time you'd expect men and women to have equal seats in politics.

And that graph lacks the last election result, Sweden currently has 47% female parliament members, so about even by now.

Edit: Looks like USA is about where Sweden was 35 years ago on this. Reminds me how different cultures can be, and why the American gender discussions are so different from what I'm used to. So I guess USA might see a gender equal parliament in about 35-40 years.
Yes thank you so much for that good catch. Much obliged!
With a reputation system you'd still want to do your due diligence and manually check things. Even the most trustworthy people make honest mistakes sometimes.
I was wondering if just my MacBook had an issue since Safari just goes to a blank white when opening New Relic, but I guess Safari is having this strange problem a lot more than that.
There is plenty of room for more content but deletion focused contributors remove whole classes of articles and tend to turn off whole groups of contributors in the process. The biggest challenge for Wikipedia now is to find some way to tame the rise of deletion as a form of contribution.
> We need to be able to see each other in the eye.

No, we don't, why would you think that?

We never have camera on and work is going smoothly. Nobody ever suggested using it. I don't even know how the new hires look like, but it doesn't matter, because I can treat them like humans without attaching a mental representation of their physical form. I got this skill from an experience called 'phone call'.

I wonder if it is a culture difference. I'm from eastern Europe and no one I have asked uses camera, outside those forced due to working directly with the US. People who can't stand not being able to judge their coworkers faces, where are you from?

Anyway, put your camera on if you want to, I can get used to ignoring it. Please don't force your preferences on others.
Interesting approach with Slack. This works differently and without Slack:

https://blog.saaspass.com/sharing-authenticator-codes-with-t...
Apple's acting more and more like a government, also with their regulated app market.
How could Debian be the security gate for literally 1000s of packages?

Chromium is a huge beast of code, should Debian maintainers be debugging and coding patches to various packages?

I think we can't expect the distro to fix the security issues in everything. It's upstream responsibility to handle their own CVE.
The use case seems to be to bypass any value provided in using 2FA in the first place...
Gotta love the warning KEEP BACK 343 FEET in the "correct" photo. Where in the world did they get 343 feet? That doesn't correspond to a round number in meters, an integer fraction of a mile, or anything else.
I've changed the title above to reflect what the article now says.

Submitted title was "Iceland elects its first female-majority parliament", which I assume is what it originally said.
Or when it's dark. I'm imagining a cyclist or pedestrian seeing only the blinking light and maybe a vague outline of the vehicle at best, seeing the <- blinking and thinking, "that car is turning left". Then the cyclist wakes up in the hospital after being flattened by a right hook[1]

1 https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2019/04/08/whats-a-right-...
Yes! I was shocked when i learned this.

I'm currently working on a Neo Latin translation from Marsilio Ficino. He is famous for catalyzing the Italian Renaissance by translating Plato (and many other Greek works) into Latin, making it available in the west after about 1000 years. He also restarted "the Academy." He was a prolific philosopher himself.

The book I'm helping to translate is "De Voluptate", or "On Pleasure." In it, he integrates Epicurean hedonism and Platonic virtue. I mean, after translating all those works himself, I feel like Ficino deserves having his works available to scholars today.
"which uses internal APIs to access private information outside of its sandbox"

Isn't this being possible a security issue with iOS?
Iceland's current parliament has an average age of 49. https://data.ipu.org/content/iceland?chamber_id=13425

The average age of childbirth in Iceland is 31.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tps00017/defa...

So I think there is plenty of time for women to get pregnant and then get elected.
No, software developers and package maintainers do. A distro is where it goes all together and normally under a license.

Even licenses are different across packages in a repo, they normally all have a pretty clear wording how much you can hold responsible them for that (hint: no warranty, no fitness for a particular purpose).

Read it before use and think first, e.g. how that software comes to life and is managed / maintained. Debian =/= Apple.
there's not much co2 on Mars
Maybe someone on HN knows the answer to this question, which I've wondered for a while. Are there other civilizations of similar cultural sophistication to the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese whose writings have just not been passed down and so we aren't as familiar with them? Or are the ones whose work survived roughly it, even if much of their works are lost. E.g. there doesn't seem to be much surviving Persian literature, but I'm not sure if this is because it wasn't preserved well or if it's because there wasn't much of it to begin with.
I'm on Gentoo 15+ years, am familiar with this theory and process.
> sent PRs to replace the original package in other libraries

Would you mind sharing a link to such PR?
Those are historically validated [1], [2], [3]

Matrilineality has a great amount of power assocation/inheritance, since it if the men die off, and inheritance goes to a wife, there is little disincentive for war from a female perspective, and, potential more incentive. Imagine a warlike society with a divorce court where you know you will get 100%. If women control the assets, and inheritance flows through them, that is a great deal of power.

Furthermore, the ability to raise the future ruler is also the ability to influence that future rule, and comes with it frequently regency.

The idea of a powerless female nobility I do not find to be compatible with history.

After everything is said, we speak English.

[1] https://www.worldhistory.org/lycia/

[2] http://www.carlanayland.org/essays/picts_matrilineal_success...

[3] https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/601092/jewish...
Why do you think May and Johnson are incredibly bad at this?

Their party's ideology?

And that those folks usually can't relate to the normal person on the street?

Which results in them not really giving a toss about them or not caring about what it means to cut £20 weekly for people already struggling while we are going into winter with higher energy prices.
The "allowance" to work started long before COVID-19. Zoning, licensing, etc.
If only someone had predicted this.
Look at charts of road haulage. The drop and rebound due to lockdowns was far larger and more sudden than the 2008 financial crash. There are disruptions and
shortages in the USA too. There's definitely been a huge surge in demand (back to normal levels).

As for the rest of Europe, I don't know but I suspect they didn't shut down HGV driver approvals in the same way or didn't do so everywhere. The British government got led into very hard and long lockdowns compared to many countries and did a lot of stupid things. NHS has massive unfixable backlogs too, same cause. You can't shut down "non essential" business for long periods and not have big problems as a consequence.

Edit: why panic fuel buying. Political game playing by lorry bosses, apparently:

"The Road Haulage Association (RHA), which attended a Zoom call hosted by the Cabinet Office to discuss driver shortages, has been accused of prompting the weekend’s panic-buying in order to further its own political agenda.

The RHA has been campaigning for months for cheap foreign labour to be allowed back into the country to make up a shortfall of lorry drivers which it has “massively exaggerated”, sources say.

One senior Government source said that the RHA “owes an apology to the British people” for the weekend chaos."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/26/haulage-body...

i.e. the idea Brexit is to blame is sort of half inverted truth: lots of powerful people stand to lose out from increasing wages for the working class and aren't above manipulating the public to try and stop that happening. And it works. Bojo just approved 5000 visas.
I nominated you for IgNobel 2022
It's cute if it's just mini who does such things (union jack taillights), but it gets tiresome when every single marque feels the need to splatter design elements all over the place in the name of product differentiation. Even the super expensive ones. Like anyone cares less.
Nobody cared enough to say something.

When that happens in the aircraft industry, there are consequences, but the car business is different, I guess.
Teams is burning trash
A few related threads from the past year or so:

Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28208859 - Aug 2021 (71 comments)

Guide to Software Project Estimation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047973 - Aug 2021 (40 comments)

Software estimation is hard – do it anyway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687265 - June 2021 (230 comments)

How I started believing in Cycle Time over Estimation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165779 - Feb 2021 (34 comments)

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825244 - Jan 2021 (308 comments)

Back of the envelope estimation hacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278405 - May 2020 (77 comments)

(obviously there have been many more, going back further)
> Why does the size of the work that needs to get done matter? If you need it you need it.

Generally, I would agree, but I've seen cases where it mattered, because the value of a feature would become 0 after a set date. For instance, we needed a specific feature to fulfill the requirements for a (massive) contract, and you could only apply for the contract until a specific date. The value of this feature outside this scope was pretty much zero.
The thing about America is that if you don't like it, you can move to the US and promote political ideas to change what you don't like.

It doesn't always succeed, but it's non-violent and it works.

It's why so many people move to America.
Yet, they are not as successful as the secret Platonic influence underlying Christianity, Islam and the secular Academy. There are many mysteries about the past still to be discovered in the future.
Upstream has done that already. Google patched those bugs months ago.
The whole maintainer model exists in Debian because Debian tries to do its own maintenance on packages, even if the original developers are unwilling to accept the fix back.

Chromium and Firefox are sort of monster code bases, though, it’s not surprising to me that distros are reluctant to change it in key ways.
The reason for indexing in Windows was so that searching NTFS volumes using Windows NTx.x didn't seem that much slower than searching FAT32 volumes when using W9x where there was no need for indexing.

And that was on hardware which was orders of magnitude slower, both processor and HDD.

People probably haven't benchmarked this on 21st century hardware in a while.

It can be amazing what a single 2GHz core can do when you give it a chance.
The proposal is predicated on existing haulage users not having such contracts, otherwise they couldn't easily switch to the new firms.
"Authors did note, however, that all children in the counties were included in the data and not just those who are school-age. They also noted that teacher vaccinate rates and school testing data were not controlled in the analyses, and that the sample size of counties is small."

This is not going to be a popular insight on HN but regardless of the caveats, this is still - statistically speaking - correlation.

For example, where is socioeconomic analysis? Less financially able patents are more likely to have to got to work, and thus send a perhaps exposed child to school. That is, it's not the lack of a mandate, but of financial status.

Futhermore, it also makes no mention of percentage of mask wearing or not. That is, lack of a mandate makes it a choice. That does not necessarily mean everyone chooses "no thanks."

I'm not pushing back against masks, mandates, etc. on way or another. I'm simply pointing out some quirks in the data collection and analysis, and how those can be used to influence the conclusion; possibly for political purposes. That is, for example, "we're hurting the poor" isn't going to go over well.
> I would personally choose to still get vaccinated in your situation.

Why, if I may ask?
They look terrible IMO.
The UK version is doing all these things correctly (by the authors definition), and its digital contact tracing is a total failure.