skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In this unhinged rant, I lay out my suspicion that a lot of visualiza- tions are bullshit: charts that do not have even the common decency to intentionally lie but are totally unconcerned about the state of the world or any practical utility. I suspect that bullshit charts take up a large fraction of the time and attention of actual visualization pro- ducers and consumers, and yet are seemingly absent from academic research into visualization design. ... It is my contention that many (most?) visualizations are bullshit in either the Frankfurt sense of attempting to persuade while being totally disconnected from notions of truths about the world, or in the Graeber sense of being created for no readily apparent purpose and to no real useful end. When they inform, these bullshit charts do so in the most superficial and unsatisfying ways— for instance, a bar chart might tell me that so-and-so many widgets were sold during a particular period of time"
> I wish this tired, boring argument didn't derail every conversation that remotely mentions Nim. See: literally every past HN post with "Nim" in the title.

This is a serious design flaw. It absolutely should be front and center when Nim is discussed.

> Nim's underlying, perhaps understated philosophy is that it lets you write code the way you want to write code. If you like snake case, use it. If you want camel case, sure. Write your code base how you want to write it, keep it internally consistent if you want, or don't. Nim doesn't really care.

I want to write code where "myFoo != my_foo". Evidently, nim doesn't allow that, so this argument seems pretty hollow.

> Now you're stuck with screaming linters or random `# noqa` lines stuffed in your code, and that one variable that you're using from a library sticks out like a sore thumb.

This is because we have crappy linters. If a linter can't tell that an identifier is camel case because it is third party, it's a bad linter.

> Could Nim have forced everyone to snake_case naming structures for everything from the start?

This would have been preferable to this madness.
Such an informative input to the thread
That's interesting. +[] is quicker to type than toString(). Wonder if there are any caveats. :D
> The only way to stop cheaters is math, and people.

People are plenty enough. Let them run their own servers with robust moderation tools and custom software and then the community can deal with cheaters effectively. And false positives can simply find another server, since availability in a popular game will be higher than developer provided servers.

Over a decade of locking online gameplay even further behind developer and publisher control has been one of the greatest boons for cheaters.
Time and day of week means ‘it is 8:00pm on a friday so you are stoned?’

Then there is that bob marley song about the guy who ‘smokes two joints in the morning’, ‘smokes two joints at night’, ‘smokes two joints in the afternoon’ and you can assume he is always stoned and get accuracy 1.
> The issue is if you need to add an async call to an existing synchronous code base.

What it seems is needed is a blue function that wraps a red function with (in the simple case, though the actual inplementation needs to be more complicated to identify when thr sinple case applies vs when you have to do something more complicated) a dedicated single-item event loop and returns its result [0] (in async-await, I’d want to have a keyword “sync” used much like “await” but in an otherwise synchronous context to wrap a red function in this blue function.) JS—or at least browsers specifically—might avoid having this, or the tools to do it, to avoid encouraging use of async constructs in a sync context which could kill UI liveness, but for other red/blue async/sync environments it would be useful to have, whether in function or keyword form.

[0] “async_to_sync" in this article is an example (for Python, but the general idea would be the same un any environment): https://www.aeracode.org/2018/02/19/python-async-simplified/
Science, in political hands, has become a religion, a sledge hammer, a means of dividing populations in order to get votes, and more. When I was a kid my late grandfather always said: Never believe politics or religion, at the core, they are the same, dirty, manipulative, dishonest extremes of the human experience.

When politicians use "believe science" there's also the reality that some (most?) don't actually practice what they preach. This weeks our Vice President handed anti-vaxers and vaccine doubters some of the most powerful ammunition they could have ever hoped for.

For those who don't know, Harris was scheduled for an in-person interview at a popular TV show in the US called "The View". Moments before she was to join the hosts live on set, two of the four hosts tested positive for COVID-19.

What did they do? Believe the science?

No, of course not. The two hosts were removed from the set. Harris conducted the interview remotely from another room in the building.

They squandered an opportunity to "believe science". She is vaccinated. Everyone in her circle is vaccinated. Everyone in the TV studio is vaccinated. And yet, she, effectively, ran away and hid.

Believe science? Any doubter watching this can rightly ask: You ask us to believe what you say, get vaccinated, and you don't even trust the vaccine yourself? And masks? You tell us to use masks, you are vaccinated and you didn't even trust the science enough to put on a mask and hold the interview?

My entire family is vaccinated. I have no problem at all walking into a location where someone tests positive. At all. For me it isn't about belief --that's religious-- it's about intellectually understanding what's going on and, yes, trusting the system, methods and scientific process to deliver scientific truth to the extent possible.

This is where these politicians come of as the fake manipulators they actually are, all of them. Every time I hear one of them use "believe the science" as some high and mighty pedestal on which they stand I want to barf.
I don't believe that would've helped in the case of Fukushima because of the hydrogen explosions that would've expelled radioactive dust.

I'm not a nuclear engineer but it seems to me that we should try to find an alternative material to zirconium. It can decompose water into hydrogen gas. It's why hydrogen built up inside Fukushima Daiichi and it's suspected that's why Chernobyl Reactor 4 had two explosions, one of them being hydrogen. Alternatively, we could try to circulate another liquid through reactors which won't decompose into hydrogen, possibly something with a higher thermal capacity too, but that might be expensive.
"lawyers use software dictation all the time"

And they don't check the output? Are you sure about that, because the few I've spoken to say they won't touch it with a barge pole.

If they do check, then they don't trust the system. In driving you don't to hit pause and check the output.
That's exactly it. As someone else in this comment section described, there's "clout" from being the maintainer of a popular library and this particular action could be seen as "clout-chasing".

It's terrible that clout is such a thing in open-source, but there are complex incentive issues that led to this point.
What do you do when something falls on the road? Should everyone walk around with a wireless tag if they don't want to be run over by a car?
The Rand study is not about "certainty", but about determining the safety of self-driving cars and the number of miles needed to do it. Are you confusing the colloquial meaning of "certainty" (as in "I'm sure about it") with the meaning of "certainty", and particulary uncertainty in probabilities and statistics?

Is there some other published work that you prefer over the Rand study?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/the-struggle-t...

The article in question, since the post does not link to it.
> In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine

Warren Buffett

Elon is undoubtedly skilled at driving up hype - the popularity contest part. As for long term - Tesla themselves claim they never plan to pay dividends.
Traitor? Was he ever a US citizen?
Here you go https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x#build-you...
I don't know any couple where husband would do half child caring while woman has no job. Like, not a single one. I do know couples with various splits including husband doing more. But this particular scenario, not really.

> Kids take a huge amount of time, and the pandemic has limited school and daycare choices for many.

I know couples that split it and the ones where it falls on woman. I know couples where women are resentful that work sacrifice is disproportionately on them. Women who would prefer job. And woman being intentionally at home and wanting it so.

But like, only husband being employed and he doing half homeschooling is something I did not seen.
Your own happiness and your significant others' aren't mutually exclusive, or zero-sum. It's a distortion to characterize one as more or less important than the other. It's important to look out for both. You can't just rely on your SO to make you happy.
Designing Low Upkeep Software
FOLLOW-UP:

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

Thank you everyone for chiming in with your high quality comments, I read and re-read them them all three time, and I thought about them as I was falling asleep, and as I woke up this morning.

Observation about the comments: they are all high quality, and well intentioned.

Observations about the discussion: I am not alone. I kind of knew it already. I wonder if the pervasiveness of my experience is actually wider and deeper than I/we though with greater and deeper ripple effects than we believe. A conspiracy theorist would state that it's not a bug in fabric of existence, but a feature in The Matrix, by The Matrix.

Observations about me: WOW! I have been meaning to post something similar for days now, and I procrastinated for about 2 weeks. I am glad I posted it.

I have been meaning to post this unpacking comment since last night, Anxiety got in the way.

I have a personal blog where I write about this stuff, I have an article I me related to this, that wants to come out, but I'm letting Anxiety win and I have been procrastinating for a month or so now.

TL;DR: This discussion added new levels of positive and active perspectives to my worldviews.

My Action Item: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

P.S.: Thank you for everyone who offered to be avail for me to reaching out, I'd love to but I am too chicken to do that, vulnerability scares the bejesus out of me.
The statement that, in America, we wear a dirty rag on our faces until the waiter brings the breadsticks is pretty clear to me.

Apologies if it wasn't clear to you.
I clarified the comment a bit -- I considered that attribution-stripping, but I think you're right that it's more than just that.

Tangentially: it's somewhat interesting that we don't consider the source code history in our OSS licenses...
> This is interesting, it seems like a global mode that kind of turns normal Zig code into Go or Erlang-like non-blocking code

Nope! There's no language magic going on, and the global switch is just a global variable in the root module. It only affects a few functions in the standard library that check that variable.

Zig relies heavily on compile time code executing for metaprogramming, and your code can read symbols from the root source file via @import("root"). All that

pub const io_mode = .evented;

does is set a variable that the standard library then checks. When io_mode is set to .evented, the library sets up an event loop and makes async calls internally. When it isn't, it makes blocking calls as you would expect. Unless you explicitly use 'async' to call functions, then they're going to act as if they block as they will be immediately await-ed upon, so there's no change.
https://archive.is/fcPAJ
… because no one would use it, so the modem can stay in standby all the time?

(The difference in power consumption for HTTP will be utterly negligible, and the addition of TLS very slight, amounting to no more than a couple of percent in the most extreme and pessimistic cases, according to my vague recollection of TLS CPU usage from some years ago.)
I don’t really even trust the method used by scientists. What I trust is the method used by engineers. When I get on an airplane I’m not trusting science, I’m trusting over a century of rigorous engineering that took planes from being death traps to being almost absurdly safe.
You're probably right but does that mean it can't also contain some useful truths? Personally, these types of frameworks do help me break out of my own self centered paradigm and appreciate differences in friends, coworkers and partners. For work teams I highly recommend the DISC survey.

I do agree with the part about not touching though. It seems like a lot of problems are invented in marriages because people are unwilling or unable to say or even think the ugly truth that they simply don't want to have sex with their partner anymore.
Entrepreneur Raised $100M to Cure the US Healthcare System
I was at college during this time. My roommate was downloading various Linux distributions and the campus IT department came to our room asking why we were using so much bandwidth and to please stop.

I don’t recall Napster.com being an issue but P2P sharing sites (limewire etc) was definitely huge. And even bigger, was people setting up local file shares to allow fellow classmates to download files off your desktop.

I think our entire campus ran off of a T3 line (45 Mbps) which was stupid fast back in the day to connect to public internet.

Off topic: what ever happened to “Internet2”. There was a ton of talk about this back around this time.
Not quite the same as the now usual coursera and edx(short videos quizzes and exams), but Open Yale Courses are fascinating (lecture based). I've finished and I recommend early middle ages. And these days I'm watching ancient Greek civilization also recommend.
https://oyc.yale.edu/courses
> the U.K. is a little unusual for Europe in that most of our store, regardless of size, are open late, with a substantial number being 24/7

I think this is a very important point.

In Paris proper, only stores in "tourist areas" (as defined by the local authority — that's basically in the heart of Paris, and around the Eiffel Tower) may stay open late. It's fairly easy to find supermarkets open until 10 PM. After that, not so much. But "regular stores" (say clothing) usually close at 7-8 PM.

Outside Paris proper, the situation isn't as good. Stores usually close around 7 PM and even supermarkets rarely close after 8 PM.

I think the issue is mostly political, there have been attempts to keep stores open later as well as on Sundays, but they have been shot down by local unions.
Exactly, it's an unrealistic depiction. And it's not a zero sum game. You can care about your spouse's happiness as well as your own, and can't rely on someone else entirely to make you happy.
Alexa... well you paid for this device to spy on you so that definitely should not surprise anyone.

I think it's bizarre that people are not only OK with having their house bugged with a device that listens to their every conversation - but they're happy to pay for the privilege.

Do you know that when you have an argument with your partner, Alexa is listening to the whole thing? Sensitive business meetings... etc... very strange!
What both exclusion zones show us is how much nature benefits from small unmanaged areas.

One complaint here in Denmark is that we can't really set aside any meaningful areas to unmanaged nature, because we don't have the space. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima indicates that we might not need as much spaces as we think, but it does need to be one large chunk of land. Sure a Chernobyl size area might be a bit much, but half the size would still go a long way.
Price indicates class of the vehicle (premium in Tesla’s case), so they can be compared with cars in the same class that have similar safety features.
A 3D Printed Vaccine Patch Offers Vaccination Without a Shot
If you are willing to pay, Great Courses https://www.thegreatcourses.com/category/history has many courses authored by history professors.
Minorities will be targeted with this en mass. Rutgers is a racist school?
Honestly, if you learn hlsl or glsl it's not much work to learn the other.

I originally learned opengl in school and after a few years of working with it I transitioned to a job where we primarily used Direct3D. I guess I had passively picked up enough bits and pieces along the way because I never really thought about the shift.

I briefly looked at Vulkan when it first came out, but I haven't had the time to get into it. That's a whole different beast.
It's difficult to be sure. The original study was posted a few days ago, and my impression is that it was over hyped, more overhyped than the usual level. The article claims:

> The paper is extensive, with dozens of experiments replicated at multiple sites around the world.

but it has not been reproduced by independent groups and IIUC it's just a preprint that has not been officially accepted by a serious peer review journal.

About grey box, they are using a high pass filter, and put the zero in grey, something like #808080. With a high pass filter you should be able to see all the borders of the parts of the body, but sometimes the constant is low. So for a person it looks like grey, but a computer can adjust the contrast and see it.

For example, you can go to https://david.li/filtering/ and click the "Edge detection" filter. Now imagine reducing the contrast of it, and using grey instead of black for 0.
Also filters iodine.

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1224/ML12248A021.pdf
it wasn’t necessary, but as a bystander I enjoyed it :)
yes this is a very important point, in a marriage, a partner does not need to fill every need you have to have a good marriage.
I haven't watched either (though was intrigued by the new release), and I have the same sort of feeling about modern romance-focused media. It all seems to revolve around management and coordination rather than the deep existential well that I feel is the basis for all such relationships. Though I do think that the individuals' capacity for introspection leads to two fundamentally different kinds of relationship ills: ones that stem from an externalization of the "problems" to the other person or the relationship itself, and ones that come out of the internal, existential "lightness of being".
Vaccine mandates: A new form of 'institutional segregation'
In addition to what others have pointed out:

https://twitter.com/jorgebucaran/status/1441886210998239238

The commits in nanocolor's git history also don't include Jorge's verified signature, which would come with the fork.
But there isn't any support on the "community" price tier. The linked page makes that very clear. (And it's hardly suprising, providing support to non-paying users would make no business sense.)
Rachel Thomas: "Medicine is Political". This is a very dangerous slogan that blurs the lines between descriptive and prescriptive. Naked politics is dysfunctional, to say nothing of partisan politics, which is basically the kiss of death.
There used to be even weaker versions of us that never propagated.
From that same article, it says that it's a communication technique/framework that is used in therapy. That it's a useful tool. I don't consider useful tools to be "BS".

Also, just because something only works within specific parameters (spouses with self-regulating behaviors), doesn't mean it doesn't work. It just isn't a cure-all. It would be like saying antibiotics are BS just because they only work on a subset of bacterial infections.

https://www.jhseonline.com/article/view/788
The centralized approach you describe would work over less than a few percent of the land area of the USA, namely big city cores.
Sure, but that's one distro.
AI doesn't exist so they're kind of jumping the gun here.
True. My son is on the waiting list several week now. But honestly traditional coding is the past. Soon they might be asking for someone with 12 months copilot experience. I don't mind the negative downvotes from luddites. Copilot is smarter and faster than you. Accept it and learn to use it.
I did the early middle ages one and you're right, it was great! Very deep. It was hard to find some of the associated resources that the professor mentioned though.
Yep, not much had changed over the last few years on that regard. Well, except running complex 3d scenes in a modern browser is mostly fine these days. Plenty of performance

I still remember Macromedia/Adobe showing off their flash 3d engine. Nothing was accelerated, just software rendering. Ugly and slow but there wasn't anything better at the time. It went nowhere I think
I have to imagine that "nomadic in tribes" is different than "I live alone in a string of airbnbs."
The MIT license still requires attribution, so no this isn't ok.
It seems questionable for rigorous, repeated studies of “long” covid to have even taken place less than 2 years after Covid was discovered.
How was this project writeup found? I'd love more info on the author/woodworker, or about online communities that discuss work like this.
How did this repost survive even though the author had already posted it a few minutes before?

Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28660131
What Is a Fragment Shader?
Your argument in non-sensical - how are retail investors are good judge of character or safety when they can't even judge financial performance?

80% to 95% of retails traders/investors lose money in the stock market.

When Elon tweeted 'use Signal' (the app) they bought shares of 'Signal Advance' and it soared 400%, a totally wrong organisation. Then there is GME and many other stories. Obviously they are free to do what they want with their money, but are these the people you would trust with, well, anything?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/signal-advance-jumps-another...
> They found that time of day and day of week had 60 percent accuracy in detecting self-reporting of cannabis intoxication and the combination of time features and smartphone sensor data had 90 percent accuracy in detecting cannabis intoxication.

Forgoing my usual sarcasm: wtf? Is there an actual point to the emission of this pile of verbiage? I can't see it. How is this advancing someones career?
So? There's no fundamental problem with identifying static 3D objects with vision. If anything it will be one of the things that become more consistent than humans sooner than later. I think the control/planning part is probably much harder than vision/perception (maybe except "soft" perception).
Humans likely weren't nomadic by choice, and most societies settled down the second they had the ability to do so. Even among nomadic groups, most ventured to and from the same places and would stay settled for large portions of the year.
lol no, Its that we have different road conditions and unique circumstances in different parts of the country.