skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that was Paris Hilton?

In fact, from Kim Kardashian's wiki page:

> Kardashian first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton...

And from Paris' page:

> Credited with influencing the revival of the famous for being famous phenomenon throughout the 2000s,[6] Hilton was, for a number of years, one of the world's most ubiquitous public figures.
This actually isn't known to be true afaict: https://www.askamathematician.com/2009/11/since-pi-is-infini...
You're right: normal, not transcendental.

IIRC, most real numbers are normal, and many important transcendental numbers are thought to be (but have not been proven to be) normal.

I edited my comment. Thank you for the correction!
Certain performance improvements and mitigations for common performance problems in something like React require bi-directional interaction of state and state-related events with instances of components. Classes/objects are a pretty natural fit for that, obviously. To do the same with functions, you have to... re-create parts of a class or object system, which is what they did with Hooks.

That would be the "all kinds of tricks" the OP referred to. Not that going from one to the other is inherently a win, but that to match the capabilities and ergonomics that classes & objects come with out of the box for addressing state-related performance improvements & state-related features, with "functional" React, you have to resort to "all kinds of tricks", i.e. write your own version of some of the OO things you need to get the job done semi-cleanly (which is exactly what the React team did with Hooks).

The result, to put it in only slightly unfair terms, is that React has enabled their community to use a really bad and half-baked OO system with bizarre syntax & behavior, all so that no-one has to use the "class" keyword sometimes. They didn't do that for funzies, but because some of the things they wanted to do, including things related to performance, required OO-like features to be workable, but for whatever reason they didn't want to rely on built-in language features for that, nor tell their community that sometimes they would have to use those built-in language features. Instead they opted for... Hooks.
I wouldn't say that the distinction is "unbridgeable". Keep in mind that we send packets over plenty of "geometrical" and seemingly infinitely dense analog channels all the time, like electricity over a copper wire or EM waves over the air.

The "mark on a stick" channel has a capacity like any other channel. If you're sending just one symbol, you could easily calculate the information capacity given a desired probability of bit-error.

Assuming you can put the mark in exactly the right spot, you can model the "noise" as a distribution over the values that the reader will measure. If you model this as `mark + zero-mean normal distribution` with a known variance, then your stick is just an AWGN channel.
As a kid I went from NES to N64, not knowing there was a generation in between. That was pretty cool. I think there have still been a handful of "wow" moments in graphics for me still in recent years. It's not so much things looking more detailed, but things looking more alive and fluid. Hair is looking really cool in games these days. Wet things look really wet. Real time global illumination strategies look damn cool, and imo, more impressive in non realistic environments. But I think in general the biggest improvements in graphical immersion yet to come will be less in terms of graphical improvements and more in environmental physics and small details that "happen" when previously they would not have happened.

A lot of high end tech is becoming more accessible, and I think because of this, will also become more modular. I'm excited for it.
Thanks, that makes sense. I don't immediately upgrade so I haven't seen that yet.
I found these by searching for "climate change" on /r/science.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/jseycg/conservativ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/hnlstq/republicans...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/cm0t6c/republicans...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/f9wl7g/individuals...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/km0fzc/a_series_of...

The last looks to be the closest to what you are talking about. But even then, it's not talking about "balanced evidence" in the way you seem to present. Because some people seem to think that to balance the evidence, it's one piece from here, one piece from there, giving them equal consideration.

But it's not, it's considering the evidence without consideration to the other side. We don't give the idea that the moon is made of green cheese the same weight as the idea that it's a big rock. Because the green cheese idea is just stupid. It does not deserve consideration.

And you also have the caveat that it's self-reporting and/or questionnaire driven. I can take someone who doesn't believe in global warming, show them how greenhouse gases cause warming, get them to verbally agree that that's what happening, get them to even agree that the same could apply to the whole world, but then they'll still not believe in global warming. Because they'll have a reason as to why the example doesn't apply. But if I never ask the final question, never ask if I actually changed their mind, I can present the results as if I've converted them.
Very tricky, embedding an assumption - that a particular example conforming to long recognized free-speech exceptions is the same as general suppression of free speech - in your question. Have you stopped beating your wife? Maybe, if you're acting in good faith and really are prepared to consider an answer other than the one you've ordained, you could try phrasing the question in a less prejudicial way.
Should fox news be required to give equal time to liberal opinion hosts? It's the biggest cable news outlet.
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That sounds really nice, I love interesting projects in areas outside of my experience. If you're using Mosquitto I'd love to hear more about it - my contact details are at the bottom of https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/ :)
On the second point, to claim you do not know about this story is... surprising:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388587
Just because you heard about it, doesn't mean there weren't attempts to censor these discussions.
https://archive.is/R4OH7

Archive link
Subject to historical revisionism:

> 2. Air bags are designed to work with seat belts, not replace them

but accurate regarding the effects of not wearing one:

> If you don’t wear your seat belt, you could be thrown into a rapidly opening frontal air bag. Such force could injure or even kill you.

Quite a few injuries in low speed crashes are _caused_ by air bag deployment even when you are wearing your seat belt.[1]

This is not to detract from the fact that in high speed or high force crashes, the airbag may be the thing that lets you survive ... assuming you are wearing a seatbelt.

Also, interesting photo in this article[2].

[1]: https://emj.bmj.com/content/19/6/490

[2]: https://cei.org/news_releases/if-auto-safety-defects-are-cri...
ah no, I'm saying that small co experience leads to visceral fear of tech that is non-mature / difficult to debug / unpredictable

(whether or not you're ex-big-5)

sorry, by 'low TCO' I wasn't just thinking about $/month -- I was thinking of technology that is non-experimental, easy to hire for and manage, that doesn't take one of your senior people a week per quarter to keep alive. TCO is the wrong word for that.
Show HN: Sprout9 – a platform for students to find tutors
I am aged 11 and founder of https://sprout9.net/ a platform for students to find great tutors.

Please forgive me if I get this wrong and post it incorrectly.

I would like fellow hackers to give me some constructive feedback on my MVP please. Ideas and suggestions as how I can improve my version 1.0 and how I can get the word out so I can help many students as possible.

Thanks alot!
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The covid disinformation is like a religion; no amount of researched data is going to change peoples minds. Believe me, I've been patient in explaining facts and referring to data, but people just report fabricated data memes and click the laughing emoji (which in fact should be removed from Facebook...)
> I mean, hooks are totally this. They fundamentally break the concept of a "function" despite calling them "functional components." They use this weird notion of state

State and React have always been fundamentally intertwined, so I'm going to heavily disagree with the claim that hooks are a new magic wrt React. Personally, as someone who has used React for a long time, hooks have been a very intuitive and terse new syntax to use the lifecycle hooks & provides a far superior way to deal with state machine transitions.

> Go look up useRef with useEffect and useCallback

I must say, as a pro web developer who has built loads of applications, including model editors, charts with React views on top of D3 math, interactive 3D renderings, graphs, you name it, I don't know why I would have anything to do with "useRef with useEffect and useCallback". I've never encountered any issue with these things. What use case are you trying to solve that requires those hooks and what issue with those hooks exists that is blocking you?

> I really suspect they mean they like JSX. React, itself, is a mess. Always has been

Oh, you just hated React all along, so you probably never understood it. Easy to see why you don't like it then.
This is such a horseshit argument. If you're at risk, by all means get the vaccine. You're protected. Job done.

"But what about the children?!?!" is the next common refrain. What about them? Look at the numbers. COVID is not a relevant concern for pediatric public health policy.

https://data.cdc.gov/widgets/9bhg-hcku?mobile_redirect=true

COVID deaths account for less than 1% of deaths in children under 15. I think the other 99% of things killing our kids is a bigger concern, don't you?
hey thanks for your question. so transitioning people over to a world of distributed apps is difficult because it essentially asks people to run the distributed apps completely on their own devices. that is a big shift (and responsibility) that we are not used to in the client server reality of today.

so for all the people who might struggle with this (like my mom), but who still want to enjoy these new apps, Holo (again, stupid name, but this time it's the org who stewards the open source holochain library [1]) came up with a strategy that allows people to rent out some spare processing power on their computer/home-server, to host holochain applications for the above-mentioned people (so sort of like an Airbnb for AWS). they even ran a successful crowdfund that sold a million dollars worth of hardware for committed early adopters (plug-and-play home servers) [2].

so essentially the Holo hosting network is IPFS (and Holofuel is like Filecoin), but instead of hosting someone's files, you are running encrypted app code for them so that they can take part in the app/network, without having the required technical chops (the holofuel currency measures/represents processing power). the FAQ does a good job of explaining it a bit more: https://holo.host/faq/

i'm not super interested in the whole holo thing (they did a filecoin-type crowdfund to pre-sell hosting credits), yet i am glad they did it because it meant the team could ramp up development. they are already alpha-testing now.

about marx and engels. i am personally most excited about the potential for http://valueflo.ws on top of holochain (library called hREA) [3], because it will allow us to move away from today's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, into a new paradigm of Network Resource Planning (NRP) software. i hope it will have a big impact and enable the growth of the democratic and transparent supply chains of the next (socialist) economy.

> How does it relate or differentiate with the GNU/Net project? What naming schemes does Holochain support and could it theoretically interop with the GNU Name System? [0]

i'll take a look at it, i'm not too familiar with GNU/Net.

[1] https://github.com/holochain/holochain

[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/holo-take-back-the-intern...

[3] https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea
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I was looking to buy a leather belt about 6 months ago. I found the belt and bought it (am very happy, thank you). Now it appears for the rest of my life I will be getting leather belt advertisements. On Facebook, Youtube, Google, everywhere. The whole reason why I wanted a quality belt was so that it would last me the rest of my life if cared for properly. I intend to never buy another.

And what's worse is that it's the same set of ads. Like before I cancelled Hulu, they would show the exact same ad over and over again, just to make it as irritating as possible.
That's what happened in my case. I signed it regardless because the law in my country makes this worth as much as the paper it's written on but you know... Your options are either to roll with it or move on to the next job.
Oh boy. MSM is going to jam the importance of it down our throats. “Social citizen scores are necessary to save lives. Get your score now! Lottery for people who register early.”
What does that mean?

At no point anywhere in the United States was there a lockdown. We are on day 570 of doing what exactly?

Edit:

If you want the pandemic to end, universal vaccination is the fastest and safest way to do it with the least imposition on everyone's lives.
A quick Google shows 6.25e+34 plank lengths in a meter. So, seems impossible to measure and make the mark.

Edit: As a fraction of appended ascii codes.
Cool stuff and inspiring. Have a website or GitHub about your home automation projects? I checked out your blog, and the raspberry pi microwave was pretty sweet.
Oh no, JSX that compiles down to the exact set of `new Object` calls you would expect in a tree structure, how can I understand such complexity!?

Really, you're kidding yourself if you think React isn't far simpler than Angular or Vue or any of these other frameworks. If you have some different direction in mind, fine, but I doubt it scales
The node-red [0] project is a great complement to MQTT use-cases. [1]

"Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click."

[0]: https://nodered.org/

[1]: https://cookbook.nodered.org/mqtt/connect-to-broker
> Multiple orders of magnitude more people have died or come down with long haul COVID

Yes but a very small part of those are relevant to my personal assessment of risk of bad COVID. The risk depends strongly on age, health status, lifestyle and so on. Absolute numbers of deaths are not that important to personal risk assessment.
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> You have free will until you start killing other people over something

You do a lot of things every day that "have a chance of killing people". You get in a car and send thousands of pounds of metal hurdling down the road, you use your cell phone and drive distractedly in that metal block. Or maybe you visit Home Depot and buy a pack of nails and a few of those drop out in a parking lot and a mother in her van with children run over those nails and later have a blowout. You buy an iPhone made in China or a T-shirt made in Vietnam that employs some child laborer who is exposed to harsh chemicals and they die earlier because you personally wanted some product for your enjoyment... and the list is almost infinite.

At what point do we acknowledge our minimal control over the butterfly effect of causality and cease the woke moralizing?
Yes, back in those days (TASM fanboy here), I had lots of fun doing stuff in Assembly.

Also readonly over here, who can manage the amount of variations on modern ISAs.

Still, even when occasionally debugging JIT code it is helpful to at least being able to read it.
Either way I don't want it spying on me.

Unfortunately iOS is filled with call-homes to apple servers with all sorts of telemetry data. You can "turn off" exact lat/long coordinates (location data), however your cell provider can triangulate your position and apple can triangulate via wifi/other Apple products. Read about how Airtags work.
That figures... nothing that stupid happens without the govt being involved
Home Assistant, Tasmota, MQTT, and NodeRed keeps the snoopers out of my home.
Nephroschlerosis?

If the experience taught me anything: make sure you start doing an annual health checkup with bloodwork every year or two starting in your 20s. It is likely I could have avoided this.
You're assuming reasoning that defies communication.
Even if space and time were continuous (which things like the Planck length would discredit), there are still discrete objects in that continuum.

Elementary particles, for example, are discrete. You could argue that they have continuous effects vis a vis the EM field and spatial positioning, but ensemble effects usually render that irrelevant at large enough scales.
Well...

> Nearly 100 years ago Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., voting to uphold the Espionage Act conviction of a man who wrote and circulated anti-draft pamphlets during World War I, said"[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."

> That flourish — now usually shortened to "shout fire in a crowded theater" — is the media's go-to trope to support the proposition that some speech is illegal. But it's empty rhetoric. I previously explained at length how Holmes said it in the context of the Supreme Court's strong wartime pro-censorship push and subsequently retreated from it. That history illustrates its insidious nature. Holmes cynically used the phrase as a rhetorical device to justify jailing people for anti-war advocacy, an activity that is now (and was soon thereafter) unquestionably protected by the First Amendment. It's an old tool, but still useful, versatile enough to be invoked as a generic argument for censorship whenever one is needed. But it's null-content, because all it says is some speech can be banned — which, as we'll see in the next trope, is not controversial. The phrase does not advance a discussion of which speech falls outside of the protection of the First Amendment.

From [1] by Ken White, a lawyer. As I am not a lawyer so I can't really comment on the nuance here. But it doesn't seem as simple as "Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not protected free speech".

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
I amplified >500 links, am a huge fun. An undocumented use case is keeping up with that posobin is reading by following https://ampie.app/posobin :P
I don't see where we disagree at all. I suggested 100x and at the same time didn't try to measure or spec it in any concrete way, which seems meaningless but have had enough interactions to say it has merit. I have no interest in why, unless it's something I can use to hire or train.
I'm under the assumption that we've all read the HN guidelines before commenting and as the discussion or topic gets more divisive, even as the guidelines suggests: '...comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less...' [0]. That means these comments must be supported with evidence, which is what I have asked for from the start. So I ask once again:

Where exactly is the evidence or citations in the aforementioned comment that I have highlighted? [1]

Since the start of my replies, it has still not been substantiated and no evidence has been presented to support it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693548
A foreign material which when inhaled damages the lungs, you say?
Patrick and John - you solved a real pain point for our community. Thank you.

https://twitter.com/xsc/status/106149101720186880
This assumes that disinformation can't be identified objectively. Claiming that COVID vaccines implant a microchip is simply false. There's no good reason to allow that sort of claim to spread on social media in the midst of a pandemic where people can die because they believe blatantly false conspiracy theories.

You're committing the slippery slope fallacy. That any kind of censorship leads to the bad kind of censorship, instead of there being a reasonable standard for banning harmful disinformation, and not just differences in political, religious or whatever views. Societies always have to maintain some kind of balance between individual rights and the collective good.
I feel like there is a parallel between this and NFTs to be made but I don't think I understand enough about either to phrase it adequately. Superficially though, I believe the price paid for those specific canvases make them "non-fungible" (I don't think the museum would just throw them away now) and I guess one could argue that they qualify as tokens, too.
> That doesn't seem high to me for surviving one of the deadliest diseases known to mankind which historically has been almost 100% fatal.

Hm. I don't know about that. Rabipur is about $75 per dose in my country, so depending on the treatment plan (5-6 doses total) $375 to $450 for the vaccines. Add ~$70 per doctor visit and you get $725 to $800 for the treatment. Immunoglobulin is ~$1200 for a typical person (exact dose depends on weight) making for a total treatment cost of ~$2000 in a country with a reasonable medical system.

Granted this estimate doesn't include initial diagnosis and only includes the treatment itself, but still. A far cry from $17k and also included with insurance (no co-pay).

Deadliness of the disease shouldn't factor into the price of the treatment - that'd just be extortion.
I agree. Open core is the least objectionable way to deal with the fact that properly developing most open source projects costs money.

Obviously there are exceptions (Firefox, popular programming languages, etc.).

I especially like that you can often put enterprisey features like LDAP integration and auditing into the "paid" bit which gives a nice way to encourage companies to pay without affecting hobbyists.
No, if I use your product it's because I'm in your audience. If I'm merely in your target audience then there's no guarantee that your shots will hit the target.
We had AMOS instead. :)
A disease that spreads like Covid but basically destroys your kidneys would probably lead to greater funding for kidney research. True.
I suggest just asking such a person about their principles. You’ll probably get a more helpful response if you refrain from characterizing their opinions as “rabid”. If you bring curiosity, you will disarm them, and perhaps learn something or effect a change in their thinking.

Big govt/regulation vs. small govt/freedom is just one axis. People’s viewpoints on specific issues are based on more than just this axis.
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You're right. I edited my comment. Thank you for pointing it out!
That’s irrelevant to the posed question.
I like the way they describe SSRs , then talk about hydration - which of course has to lead into interesting videos on compressed towels , and peat pellets!